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...Duke is also an ambitious politician who is a candidate for Governor of Louisiana, a state with a large black vote. At the rally at a downtown convention center he delivered a typically bombastic Save Our Nation spiel, including his usual appeal to overhaul welfare and do away with quotas and set-aside programs for minority businessmen. The rally drew a meager audience of 30 people and was pitiful as a fund raiser. Duke, however, profited handsomely: he got a chance to soften his racist image without saying anything...
...partially successful at best and, U.S. officials fear, might lead Saddam to retaliate against Israel or the Kurds. As Bush admitted, it's hard to "certify" the locations "when you're burying component parts off in the desert somewhere, in somebody's attic or somebody's basement in downtown Baghdad...
Atlanta is promoting itself as the vanguard of the New South and the site of the 1996 Summer Olympics. One flaw in its progressive image, however, is the thousands of homeless beggars in its downtown area. Last week Mayor Maynard Jackson proposed an ordinance to ban aggressive panhandling, sleeping in vacant buildings and hanging out in parking lots. Violators could get 60 days in prison, a $1,000 fine, or both...
Critics blasted the measure as an attempt to "sanitize" Atlanta's downtown for the benefit of business and in anticipation of the Olympics. "We believe this law will be selectively enforced to restrict certain people's movements, and we will fight it," said Anita Beaty, co-director of the Task Force for the Homeless. But police chief Eldrin Bell argued that the ordinance would, in fact, protect the homeless from criminals...
...says. "If there is a huge Methodist church, you know there is a large middle class. And if you go to the main square and the streets are deserted, you know there is a discount store somewhere in the area that has sucked the life out of the downtown...