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Louisiana's Bayou Bodcau. An $18 million project largely intended to control flooding in 20,000 acres of the state's northwestern bayou country would only benefit about 150 landowners now living there. The cost would be $100,000 per family...
...Nominee Richard Celeste, 40, a Rhodes scholar and father of six who has been Lieutenant Governor since 1974. Celeste favors cutting property taxes and making up the school budget gaps from corporate and personal income taxes. He has carefully refused to provide any estimates of what his proposal would cost and avoids mentioning that it would probably require an income tax increase. Claims Rhodes: "He doesn't have any education program...
...have become law -and negative in his approach to legislation. Says Ravenel: "The pattern of Thurmond's positions has been to resist things like integration, things like Social Security, things like Medicaid. This is a pattern I think the state of South Carolina has outgrown." Even at the cost of votes, Ravenel has come out in favor of the Panama Canal treaties and the Senate version of the Labor Law Reform bill, which is highly unpopular among most South Carolina voters because they believe it would promote unionization of the state's textile and other industries...
Miami's black community, which makes up 16% of the local population, is particularly resentful. Garth Reeves, publisher of the black Miami Times, warns of black hostility because of competition with Hispanics for low-cost public housing and lower-level service jobs that formerly were a black preserve. Says Reeves: "Before the Cuban influx, blacks had most of the hotel jobs, now they have less than 2%." One reason for this decline is that many jobs now require both English and Spanish, and most blacks do not speak the latter...
...Ariz., and being apprehended each time, Jos?aid a "coyote" (smuggler) $200 to ferry him across. After a year in Los Angeles, he paid another coyote $400 to smuggle in his wife and three of their six children. Eight months later he sent for the other three, at a cost of $250. Now the family?including two children born in the U.S.?occupies a sweltering one-bedroom barrio apartment, in which every available piece of furniture doubles as a bed. Even such cramped quarters are an improvement over what would be available in Mexico. Pointing at his twelve-year...