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...comfortable, prosperous life, largely through Sam's property dealings, and to have four children. One of them, Patti Harper, picked us up at the Shreveport airport with her own two offspring corralled in the back of her car, snarling for soft drinks. "We just had to do something about Edwin," Patti said, speaking of the incumbent Governor. "We were all tired of the jokes." Edwards' flamboyance, his taste for shooting craps and kissing pretty women, are legend. "There is such a thing as too much flair," Patti went on. "Anyway, Billy Tauzin is a solid family...
Since that trip to France, three years ago this past winter, a degree of change has visited Louisiana as well as Sam. The oil and gas economy, crumbling badly then, is all but bust now. The man in whose name the fund- raising Parisian expedition had been made, Edwin Edwards, the Governor, has suffered two bruising trials on charges of making a small fortune through influence peddling, basically, and has been acquitted. Nonetheless, when looking at a possible fourth term, Edwards told Sam that maybe he should sit this one out. Sam agreed, thinking, "Ever since we carried...
Senior Correspondents: Edwin M. Reingold, Frederick Ungeheuer...
Senior Correspondents: Edwin M. Reingold, Frederick Ungeheuer...
Attorney General Edwin Meese and Assistant Attorney General Stephen Trott have been among Noriega's staunchest supporters. They cite his willingness this year to have Panama's bank-secrecy laws amended to allow U.S. investigators limited access to drug-money accounts. In an effort to scuttle a resolution critical of Panama's drug enforcement policies last March, Trott told a Senate committee, "The Panamanians have given ((the DEA)) 100% of its requests in terms of drug traffickers." An unlikely coalition led by North Carolina Republican Jesse Helms and Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry was nevertheless able to push the resolution through...