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Louisiana never has been too fussy about politicians not showing up for work. Huey Long missed U.S. Senate sessions for almost a year because he was home serving simultaneously as Governor. Earl Long took leaves as Governor when his wife had him committed to mental institutions. But few public servants can match State Senator Gaston Gerald, who kept drawing salary and expenses while in federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas. He also put a former fellow inmate on the senate payroll, with no specified duties, at a salary of $919 a month...
...Villa el Rosario (pop. 2,000) for two weeks until a large government force moved in and surrounded it early this month. Then the guerrillas slipped away in the dark, avoiding a fight. Early last week guerrilla ground fire for the first time forced down a U.S.-made Huey helicopter carrying troops over the battle area. A Salvadoran Green Beret commander, who is in charge of all army operations in Morazan, admits that the guerrillas set up operations on major roadways until his troops are sent to chase them away...
DIED. Oetje John Rogge, 77, former Assistant U.S. Attorney General who in 1940 won convictions that helped break up the political machine of former Louisiana Governor Huey Long, and who three years later unsuccessfully sought to convict 33 pro-Nazi Americans of sedition; of cancer; in New York City. Rogge was dismissed by Attorney General Tom Clark in 1946 for making public a report that accused 24 Congressmen of collaborating with a Nazi agent...
...something that's latent in the unconscious.... There's an immediacy that comes straight out of the unconscious." In stripping away our lies and hypocrisies with the gentle lash of a Number Two brush, Doug Marlette reveals the better nature inside us all. There's more than one way, Huey Long, for every man to be a king...
Jimmy Carter also boarded a Marine Corps Huey, but on the lawn of the White House. He too took off for a mountain-top retreat, and for his last Thanksgiving as President. Rosalynn, Amy, Jeff and his wife Annette, and Annette's parents, Mr. and Mrs. G.C. Davis Jr., joined the President at Camp David. He had taken along his cross-country skis in case there was snow, but he was disappointed. He made a few phone calls, one to his mother, still recuperating in Georgia from a broken hip, and another to Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso...