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...last time we saw Paris, we saw Sam Thomas, who is as native to Louisiana as a muskrat, dancing at Regine's, whither he had ventured from the George V, where he had a suite that he used as an office to organize a dinner at Versailles for 300 Cajuns, to make reservations at the Lido and the Crazy Horse, and to book the whole mob on planes and buses for a gambling sortie to Monte Carlo (he could have been doing all this at once; it is hard to say with Sam). When we caught up with him again...
Since that trip to France, three years ago this past winter, a degree of change has visited Louisiana as well as Sam. The oil and gas economy, crumbling badly then, is all but bust now. The man in whose name the fund- raising Parisian expedition had been made, Edwin Edwards, the Governor, has suffered two bruising trials on charges of making a small fortune through influence peddling, basically, and has been acquitted. Nonetheless, when looking at a possible fourth term, Edwards told Sam that maybe he should sit this one out. Sam agreed, thinking, "Ever since we carried...
Last week it was Rault's turn. Just past midnight last Monday, the former accountant, now 36, took the short walk from his cell to the small green death room in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. He moved onto a podium and read a onepage statement proclaiming his innocence and his love for all. As guards fastened him to the chair with eight leather straps and draped his head with a green canvas hood, Rault managed a final thumbs-up sign...
...were greeted with relief by school officials and disappointment by Fundamentalists. "If we continue pursuing change," said Alabama Plaintiff Douglas Smith, undaunted, "things may swing back the other way." Appeals to the Supreme Court are planned. But only two months ago the high court ruled 7 to 2 that Louisiana could not require public schools to teach "creation science." With last week's two new losses, the Fundamentalist strategy of using constitutional cases to restore religion to the school curriculum looks to be in tatters. "These two are the last of the coordinated and systematic attacks by a politicized Fundamentalist...
...arms deal get a boost from offers by the U. S. and West Germany. -- He may be worth $7 million, but g. o. p. Candidate Pierre Samuel du Pont IV says he is a self- made man. -- Three federal agencies are investigating Panamanian Despot Manuel Noriega. -- In Louisiana, an accountant is executed for a brutal murder...