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...Crimson won two of four matches to place 11th in the U.C.-Irvine Tournament. It blanked Claremont-Mudd, 9-0, and pulled out a close win over Northwest Louisiana, 5-4. The two losses came at the hands of Nebraska and Utah by identical 6-3 scores...
...Louisiana fiddler Dewey Balfa takes the stage at Paine Hall tomorrow night for an fun-filled evening of good Cajun music. Balfa is well-known throughout the South for his mastery of the art of the violin...
Lloyd Bentsen of Texas became the third Democrat to endorse Tower's confirmation, but his speech was followed by a declaration of opposition from Bennett Johnston of Louisiana, who had been lobbied hard by the Bush administration as a potential pro-Tower vote...
...suburb where conservatives vastly outnumber liberals and the lush estates of the wealthy border the trim wood-and-stucco bungalows of the middle class. But there was a deeper shade of red last week on the faces of national Republican leaders over what the residents of Metairie, who populate Louisiana's 81st legislative district, had wrought. Some 78% of the district's 21,464 registered voters, only 52 of whom are black, had turned out to give a vacant statehouse seat to David Duke, 38, a former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan who recently converted...
...Ever since the 1960s, strategists have lured white Southerners to the G.O.P. with thinly disguised racial appeals. The Reagan Administration opposed extension of the Voting Rights Act, affirmative-action programs and busing to achieve school integration. In 1986 the Republican National Committee supported the purging of voting lists in Louisiana, ostensibly to eliminate residents who had moved or died but actually, as it conceded in an internal memo, to reduce black turnouts. Only recently, Reagan contended that some black civil rights leaders cling to profitable posts by claiming falsely that blacks are victims of discrimination...