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Political skullduggeries are as much at home in Louisiana as crawfish or beignets. Few people in New Orleans believe the November contest in which Democrat Mary Landrieu defeated Jenkins by 5,788 votes was, in its execution, a model of civic propriety. But Jenkins' cause was dealt a serious blow last week when Democrats on the Senate Rules Committee walked away from the investigation he demanded after the election. They had learned that Jenkins hired a two-bit gumshoe named Thomas ("Papa Bear") Miller--a New Orleans operative with a long, sometimes violent criminal record. Papa Bear...
...were raided. Venezia was convicted of racketeering and sentenced to 15 years in prison; as he went down, he took with him the mayor of nearby Washington Park, who pleaded guilty to taking bribes. In addition, a prominent attorney was convicted of obstruction of justice, and the local Congressman, Democrat Jerry Costello, was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the cover...
...compulsion destroyed a life of on-time mortgage payments and perfect work attendance. Two of the three started behind the video-poker machines; all three ended up contemplating suicide. But Belleville remains oddly immune to the cost of its new pastime. In May a reporter from the Belleville News-Democrat found video-poker machines at 11 local fraternal clubs. A VFW post commander even admitted to paying out. Otherwise, said he, "nobody would play...
Pessimists say don't believe it. The liberty-loving democrats of Hong Kong are doomed to fall victim to China's power-mad communists. Even if Beijing's intentions were good--and they're not--its authoritarian habits and dictatorial rule will not tolerate Hong Kong's freedoms for long. Hong Kong's leading democrat, Martin Lee, predicts that a free press, rule of law, the right of assembly and of political demonstrations will disappear if the people of Hong Kong and the international community fail to fight Beijing for them. Tiananmen was the "real face" of the communists, says...
...hurdles for the FDA, some impossible burdens," Kessler said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." "This seems to be a step backward." Congressmen, who have to pass legislation to make the proposed settlement law, are also picking at the terms. "We need to toughen this deal," said Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden Monday on ABC's Good Morning America. "There's going to be some major rewriting on this agreement...