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...Moon Landrieu, LL.D., mayor of New Orleans. He took the cause of the city and cities across the land to the seats of power...
...sandwich, "Pig in a Poke"-a sobriquet that many seem to think fits the Superdome itself. Others, like Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards, prefer to think of it as "the greatest structure of its kind ever envisioned by mankind." One of its throatiest boosters has been New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu, a canny politician who calls the edifice "an exercise in optimism," and doubtless would like to see it called the Moondome...
...Moon Landrieu, 43, mayor of New Orleans since 1970, governs with the help of a coalition of blacks, white liberals and blue-collar workers. A keenly instinctual politician, Landrieu was elected to the Louisiana legislature at 29 and won notoriety by standing almost alone against a bundle of bills that sought to prevent compliance with federal desegregation orders. As chairman of the legislative action committee of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, he helped to negotiate federal revenue-sharing money for cities...
...dirty, crime-ridden and crowded as any black ghetto in the North. Of its 10,500 residents, 61% belong to families that earn less than $3,000 a year. Alarmed by the report of one of his black appointees, who described the area as "potentially explosive," Mayor Moon Landrieu was scheduled to make a tour of it last week. The slum erupted before he got there...
...elected with more than 90% of the black vote last fall-fully half of his overall total. Much of the rest of his support came from labor unions, attracted by the promises of economic progress held out by the liberal Massell. In New Orleans last April, Mayor Moon Landrieu was elected on a similar black-labor-liberal coalition, picking up fully 92% of the black vote in the Democratic primary and 99% in the general election...