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...they actually declined .2%) has had uneven regional effects. % Overall stability has masked what a Reagan Administration official calls a "worldwide deflation" in commodity prices that has struck hard at farmers. More recently, the collapse of oil prices has depressed states in the energy belt from Colorado to Louisiana...
What is one of the ten most beautiful women in America doing in the middle of a Louisiana cornfield? Patience, all will be explained. Actress Lisa Bonet is best known as the spunky, spaniel-eyed daughter Denise on The Cosby Show. But this summer Bonet, 18, wanted a change of image. So she made Angel Heart, with Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro. In the movie, due for release next March, she plays a bayou-country fieldworker who has an infant son -- and incidentally is a voodoo priestess. "Not a conventional teenager," allows Bonet, who drew on her Creole roots...
Lucas is the second black to win a major party's gubernatorial nomination; Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, a Democrat, lost in California four years ago, but is trying again this year. (The nation's only black Governor: Pinckney % Pinchback, who was Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana and served for a month when the incumbent was impeached in 1872.) Lucas, an outspoken and articulate conservative, will face a tough race this November against Democratic Governor James Blanchard...
Overcrowded prisons and the high cost of housing inmates are prompting more states to consider alternative types of sentencing like boot-camp prisons. Louisiana, South Carolina and possibly Michigan are planning similar programs. Oklahoma and Georgia within the past three years have opened camps as successful as the one in Parchman. Says David Jordan of the Georgia department of corrections: "We tear them down, then build them up, we hope, with a sense of responsibility, respect for others and a work ethic--things most of them have never had in their lives...
...well after the Civil War and the l3th, l4th and l5th Amendments had guaranteed the long-denied citizenship and rights within all the United States, the court did it again. Seizing on the 14th Amendment's phrase "equal protection under the law," it upheld, in Plessy vs. Ferguson, a Louisiana statute mandating separate but "equal" public facilities for blacks. Indeed, those challenging Rehnquist's nomination cite a memorandum he once wrote stating, "I think Plessy vs. Ferguson was right and should be reaffirmed...