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Duke, 41, faces Democratic former Gov. Edwin Edwards, in a runoff election November 16. He gained notoriety as a Klan leader in the 1970s and neo-Nazi sympathizer in the 1980s, but says time has softened his racist views...
Strychnine or arsenic, Louisiana? Pick your poison. That's about the only way to look at the state's gubernatorial race, which took on a noxious taint last week when former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke began battling roguish ex-Governor Edwin Edwards for the keys to the executive mansion. The campaign threatens to bare the cantankerous soul of a state that is often derided as America's banana republic, a Third World realm of corrupt and crazy politicians, wild parties and bizarre customs. Yet even Louisiana has never seen anything this weird. Says John Maginnis, publisher...
Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, Mary Cronin, Hays Gorey, Lee Griggs, Joseph J. Kane, J. Madeleine Nash, Edwin M. Reingold, Gavin Scott, Bruce van Voorst, James Wilde...
...Swaggart?) tend to predominate in the Protestant north. Former Governor Earl K. Long managed to touch most of those bases: he loved nothing better than boar hunting and horse racing, and he ended his life in a steamy affair with a New Orleans stripper named Blaze Starr. Ex-Governor Edwin Edwards, who revels in his image as a womanizer and gambler, once boasted that the only thing that could lose him an election was being caught in bed "with a dead girl or a live boy." One Governor who definitely did not embody the state's hog-stomping, hell-raising...
Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, Mary Cronin, Hays Gorey, Lee Griggs, Joseph J. Kane, J. Madeleine Nash, Edwin M. Reingold, Gavin Scott, Bruce van Voorst, James Wilde...