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...rose's supporters sowed the seeds of victory with tributes to the flower's beauty and longevity. "The rose has had a long and proud American history," noted the House sponsor of the bill, Lindy Boggs of Louisiana. "Its fossils date back 35 million years in Colorado." Senate Sponsor J. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana (the American Rose Society is headquartered in the state) pointed out that the "rose is grown in every state of the union, including Alaska...
This afternoon in Williamsburg, Va., Harvard plays the Indians of William & Mary, otherwise known as the Tribe. And elsewhere across the nation, Division I teams like Northeastern Louisiana and Arkansas State will proudly bear the Indian name as they do battle...
Enter W. Henson Moore, a six-term Republican Congressman from Baton Rouge who is running for the Senate with a stern message for voters: "It's morning in Louisiana. The party's over. It's time to put our people back to work." Moore, 46, could become Louisiana's first Republican Senator in this century. In Saturday's "open" primary, a nonpartisan melee in which any candidate who gets more than 50% of the vote is automatically elected, he has a fair shot at winning outright the seat being vacated by the wily Russell Long after 38 years...
...party's mismanagement of state affairs. "The people in this state know that the rest of the country is seeing boom times," says Moore. "They are not blaming Reagan. They are blaming the local political system for not preparing the state." He has attacked Breaux for his ties to Louisiana's Democratic elite and for missing 1,083 House votes during his Capitol Hill career. In an effort to cut into his rival's support among blacks, he ran a commercial declaring Breaux had voted against legislation to make Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday. Actually, Breaux...
...Ronald Reagan is back on the campaign trail this fall, urging voters to choose Republicans in November's Senate races lest his conservative revolution be stymied by a Democratic majority. "I can't have my hands tied by a totally hostile Congress," Reagan has told audiences in California, Colorado, Louisiana and Alabama...