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...road to Marion, there are posters trumpeting the Louisiana Senate candidacy of David Duke, the ex-Klansman who lost last October's nonpartisan primary but won an estimated 60% of the white vote. Joseph Hampton sees nothing alarming in this. From his post-emigre perspective, he feels Louisianians have taken down their COLOREDS ONLY signs and muffled their racial prejudice under thick, soothing layers of courtesy. When he visits Wal- Mart, the discount chain store, there are professional "greeters" at the door. The auto dealer in nearby Monroe made a toll call to find out if he was satisfied with...
...make a comfortable living -- Hampton pulled in $50,000 a year with overtime making parts for Northrop Aircraft -- but its residents kept a businesslike distance. "Neighbors are very hard to find in California unless there's money behind it," he says. He would trade California's officious tolerance for Louisiana's sweet hypocrisy any day. "As long as you make me feel as though I've got as much right as you've got, fine. If you've got borderlines, let them be in your mind." For some blacks resettled in the South, the Northern cities they left behind have...
...Conoco, Occidental, Texaco and Shell, every major international oil company has joined the hunt, which has turned the blue-green waters off the coast of Louisiana and Texas into one of the busiest exploration areas in North America. Even Petrobras, the national oil company of Brazil and a deep- drilling pioneer, has established a Houston-based subsidiary to get in on the action. The lure of the Gulf is irresistible: estimated oil reserves of up to 36 billion bbl., nearly four times as much as in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay. Companies have snapped up nearly 1,700 federal drilling leases...
...equally huge project is Shell's $500 million Bullwinkle platform, 130 km (80 miles) off the Louisiana coast. Standing 162 stories high -- taller by 49 m (161 ft.) than Chicago's Sears Tower -- it looms like a gigantic iceberg in 412 m (1,353 ft.) of water, only its top-deck production facilities visible above the water. Chevron is planning a big project nearby. Southeast of New Orleans, Exxon is operating a 110-story platform, and a few miles away British Petroleum is erecting its own 100-story behemoth...
...country, inmates find ways, big and small, to escape the moral insulation of prison life. The scale of the effort varies from jail to jail: throughout Pennsylvania, prisoners sponsor statewide run-a-thons that through the years have collected nearly $89,000 for various youth programs. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary, inmates sell pizza in the visiting room to raise $2,500 a year for residents of a juvenile home. At Soledad and San Quentin in California, inmates sort discarded eyeglasses to give to the poor. Female minimum-security inmates at the the D.C. Correctional Complex make heavy gray- green...