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...setting is a 1944 Louisiana army base where Master Sergeant Vernon Waters, leader of an all Black company, is murdered one dark night outside of the camp. The white base commander seeks to quiet a potentially explosive situation, quickly blaming the shooting on the local Klu Klux Klan. But his efforts are undone when the Army sends a Negro military attorney, a polished, Howard University-trained officer, to investigate. Instead of accepting two seemingly culpable white officers as scapegoats, Captain Richard Davenport pushes on with his search. And with integrity and tenacity, he uncovers the true, frightening nature...
...black vote. A University of Alabama poll found that Reagan is leading in the state just 46% to 40%. If the party is able to generate huge black turnouts in Alabama (where 23% of the electorate is black), South Carolina (28% black), Georgia (22%), Mississippi (26%) and Louisiana (25%), and capture at least a third of the white vote in each state...
...outset of the tournament, the U.S. basketball women forced themselves into a habit of rising at 5:30. Pat Head Summitt, their quieter coach from Tennessee, complained drowsily, "I keep pouring coffee into my cereal." But the players, notably U.S.C. Star Cheryl Miller (6 ft. 3 in.) and Louisiana Tech Guard Kim Mulkey (5 ft. 4 in.), have looked more than alert. In the view of Australian Coach Brandan Flynn, the U.S. women's team is "by far the greatest ever." The Aussies were beaten...
...Chef Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen, Prudhomme...
Georgia is not the first state to turn to foreign aid for teaching talent. In the past 14 years, Louisiana has hired as many as 300 French teachers a year from Belgium, Quebec and France to teach in Cajun classrooms. Although the state has been trying to train Louisiana natives to teach French, the supply of teachers continues to lag behind demand. Furthermore, in the 1985-86 school year, all public schools in Louisiana will be required to teach a second language in grades 4 through 8, which will create the need for about 360 new French teachers...