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...Louisiana should be looked in on periodically, like the kid in the upstairs bedroom who's been known to tie the sheets together and split. Any piece of the personality is at any given time substance enough for enlightenment, to say nothing of entertainment...
...guides the boat across Lake Charles, Captain Cretini, a powerful man, as thick in the thighs as some simps are in the chest, gives freely of his Louisiana past. Born less than five miles from where he lives today with his wife, a school teacher, and two children. Army service, 1965 to 1968. Flight school on the G.I. Bill. Joined the San Antonio police department and stayed four years. Missed home. "It's mostly the people here. It's more relaxed." Took a job as a longshoreman on the dock at Lake Charles. Then the work, much of it loading...
Through the summer the Louisiana law forbids shrimping in "inside" waters. This is to protect the breeding grounds in the marshes and lakes, to assure there will be something to harvest each year when open season comes round. The shrimpers in these parts run out into the gulf at night, turn their bows inshore just at the designated line that divides "outside" and "inside" water, drop their nets and wait for the outgoing tide to bring the shrimp into their pockets. Here the line is just outside the entrance to the Calcasieu Ship Channel. It is called...
...Louisiana should be looked in on periodically...
...cases will be closely watched because the high bench has yet to define completely its views on affirmative action. "The permissible scope is unclear," says Yale Law Professor Paul Gewirtz. "The cases are being decided one by one." In a major church-state dispute, the court will decide whether Louisiana violated the bar on establishment of religion by requiring the presentation of creationism in schools teaching evolution. And in a case that could have major implications for AIDS victims, the court will determine if a federal law banning discrimination against the handicapped protects people with contagious diseases...