"Let's Get Together,"
Gold, Victor
"Let's Get Togedder" New Orleans Mayor-for-as-long-as-he-wants Marc Morial is giving new meaning to his city's long reform-resistant history. Selling out to casino interests is allowing...
...but the mayor, it's said, breathed new LIFE into her opponent's campaign...
...At age 35, backed by an uptown housewives' "broomstick brigade," de Lesseps S. ("Chep") Morrison was elected mayor in 1946 on a pledge to "sweep the city clean...
...But first, a try at doing the single thing his father, for all his political skills and muscle, couldn't achieve: Repeal the charter, win a third term...
...Certainly not in the eyes of a Morial, either Dutch or his son Marc, the incumbent mayor...
...The original proposals for riverboat gambling and a riverfront casino were floated during the Barthelemy years...
...The problem is that they do...
...By a six-to-one vote, Councilwoman Wilson was put on notice that form, on any given council day, was whatever the keepers of the System said it was...
...She was considered, from the beginning, an overwhelming favorite for re-election...
...The Palestinian people is faithful to its oath, the one which we swore upon the first day when the initial shot was fired and the first of our martyrs fell...We are marching together with the blessing of Allah, my brothers, we are marching together to Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Jerusalem...
...All of these quotations are only a minute fraction of the inflammatory statements with which Palestinian leaders whip up their followers to a frenzy of hatred and violence against Israel...
...Nixon resigned, that something was being overlooked...
...That said, I am surprised that he made no mention of Dwight Yoakam, who through pure force of talent has managed to make quite a name for himself without betraying the tradition that nurtured him...
...How do people expect Israel to bring further "sacrifices for peace" to appease these fanatics and why, in the face of daily evidence of Palestinian intransigence and murderous hatred, should Israel even consider turning over vital strategic assets to those who are openly committed to its destruction...
...Hemmeter-Caesar's knew the bon temps taste of New Orleans City Hall —both Barthelemy's and, as of 1994, Marc Mori-al's...
...Chep Morrison was anything but a political amateur...
...Without so much as a smile or a wink...
...PA MINISTER FOR JERUSALEM AFFAIRS FEISAL HussEnvi (May 18, 1997): Israelis attempting to obstruct peace...The only option remaining for us will be an alternative option...
...There is constant incitement to violence and frank declaration of the ultimate goal—namely the destruction of the State of Israel and its replacement by "Palestine," an Arab state...
...Martin Behrman, who served as mayor in the 1910's and Roaring Twenties, set the theme for holding public office in the Crescent City with his oft-quoted dictum, "Let's get togedder...
...Even in times and cultures far less free than our current (admittedly lamentable) state, artists have found ways to alternately acknowledge, bemoan, and celebrate the darker side of human nature, and audiences have always sought out and embraced whatever reflects the actual realities of their lives...
...His philosophy was 'What's the point in being mayor if you can't stomp your old enemies...
...ABC says Douglass informed network executives about her Hubbell connection...
...It went to his head...
...In past elections, she'd carried 15 percent of the black vote...
...Tourists would flock, business would boom...
...Actually, Nixon had accepted large spending increases for clean water, but had argued that only about half of what Congress appropriated could be spent productively, i.e., without sharply inflating the cost of scarce construction resources...
...On July 31, 1997—the very day her husband was giving his deposition to the Burton committee — she was on the other side of Capitol Hill giving a thumbs-down assessment of the Thompson hearings for ABC's "Nightline...
...It occurred to me, long after Mr...
...When the council president seized that moment to make committee assignments for the next four years, Wilson objected...
...Upon leaming that, the Senate unanimously returned the resolution to the Committee...
...YASSER ARAFAT (Addressing a crowd in Tulkarem, April 28, 1997): "I now see the walls of Jerusalem, the mosques of Jerusalem, the churches of Jerusalem...
...It is in line with all the other acts of defiance and non-compliance on the part of the Palestinians...
...Of Peggy Wilson's successful opponent Eddie Sapir, one story tells it all: An original investor in Chris Hemmeter's operation, New Orleans' new councilman-at-large — a lawyer and former judge—still holds a financial stake in casino gambling...
...He also cited legislation directing him to refrain from any wasteful spending...
...Stay tuned, fellas...
...politicians like City Councilman Sidney Barthelemy and his friends, who felt that Dutch had had his eight years and now it was their turn...
...But heard with the practiced ear of a downtown Crescent City entrepreneur, the answer translates, even today, "Greek...
...They didn't...
...You fill the kitty, we'll name the contractor...
...And there will likely be more...
...Most egregiously perhaps, that famous Covenant that unequivocally calls for the destruction of Israel has never been rescinded...
...JACK MANN San Antonio, Texas Tell Dave Shiflett not to worry...
...Two weeks of listening to and reading popular sources gained me no further details...
...She had run research on Hemmeter's background as an economic rainmaker, as well as the success/failure rate of legalized gambling ventures in other cities...
...Incitement to Violence Do the Palestinians Live up to Their Oslo Commitments...
...Meanwhile, the shootings at Kent State occurred...
...TIMOTHY P. O'NEILL Marco Island, Florida John H. Taylor's article is worth saving, in case I feel a need to look again at Watergate...
...as indeed, in terms of defining Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian, he probably was...
...In New Orleans, as in other Southern cities where black power had moved from slogan to reality, it was payback time...
...The day will come when the insights contained in the zo hours of Monica-Linda phone tapes will be sought by presidential probers...
...And to those wide-eyed reformists who might say, "But you told us you'd be different," Morial the Elder would reply, in effect, that equal opportunity governance meant that blacks had the same right to political gravy as whites had had over the years...
...In addition, Murphy says, "she's not covering the White House [and] she's not covering Ken Starr's investigation...
...Staff members, over whom Fulbright acknowledged responsibility, had surreptitiously added the denunciation to a resolution which Fulbright assured senators had been changed in only one technical detail...
...A snicker from the council president...
...So there are a lot of interesting things going on in Washington today that are off-limits to Linda Douglass...
...Then, of course, there's the airport...
...but a movement different from those that had come-and-gone before...
...But this wasn't pragmatic Las Vegas...
...police force, which was fixed by Oslo at a maximum of 24,000, but which is now estimated at over 50,000 members, many of them former terrorists...
...Dutch' changed overnight," recalls one New Orleans lawyer who knew him well...
...But New Orleans is, after all, best known as a city of masks, and though the old Ring had been thrown out, the new man at city hall wasn't quite ready to evict the System...
...The reality, regrettably, has not at all lived up to the agreement made...
...As she later told the Times-Picayune: "I would walk to Audubon Park with my babies every day, and the streets were a disgrace, littered with purple trash blown over from a K&B drugstore parking lot...
...Gone too were the porcine relics of the diamond-tiepin-and-spats school of urban American politics, the civic embarrassments who, when Time magazine came down to visit, did not give the city the right "image...
...A family affair...
...Cases in point: Atlantic City, New Jersey...
...This isn't going to stop simply because a few folks in Nashville have chanced to discover modem marketing techniques...
...It's in my son's name...
...Commission on Human Rights, Reported March 1Z 1997): Israeli authorities...
...Peggy Wilson thought otherwise...
...Mark your "X," pull the lever...
...Young, handsome, energetic, with all the dazzling ingredients that spelled "enlightened Southern progressive" for visiting journalists, Morrison seemed everything the uptown ladies with brooms could ask for in a modern mayor...
...Diminishing wealth at that, considering the impact of twentieth century technology on a local economy geared to nineteenth century riverboats and cotton crops...
...Between songs, he delivered a few soft tongue-in-cheek pokes at the new country singers, but his anger obviously runs deeper, and understandably so...
...My officemate, who like myself was aware of the size and partisan diversity of that committee, had heard the story and was also skeptical of its accuracy...
...The American Spectator • May 1998 from the mayor to the lowliest tax collector, are expected to work in tandem, the better to scratch each others' backs...
...His real ambition," according to one observer at the time, "is to be mayor-for-life...
...More official trips, more turns-of-thewheel...
...We cling to the oath and the promise...
...infected by injection 30o Palestinian children with the HIV virus during the years of the intifada...
...A few years later, abuse of power was one impeachment charge against President Nixon...
...After all, her close friend Mickey Kantor has re-emerged as a private lawyer for the president, helping fashion Clinton's response to Starr's Monica Lewin-sky investigation...
...They are afraid, but we are not...
...repeal the obnoxious term-limit law for council members—Peggy Wilson's work, single-handed: the one reform they couldn't deal away during her dozen years in office...
...In fairness, as John M. Barry points out in Rising Tide, his history of the Great Flood of 1927, the decline of New Orleans can be traced to a clubbiness that pervades not only its political but its social and economic culture...
...senator Mary Landrieu—the System endured: After a blood-oath campaign pledge to take cronyism out of the operation of New Orleans' Moisant Airport, one of "Moon's" first official acts on taking over was—what else?—granting exclusive airport limousine rights to an ad hoc company formed by friends and contributors...
...Mindful of her relationship with Webb Hubbell, a decision was made that she would not cover Whitewater," spokeswoman Eileen Murphy says...
...The American Spectator • May 1998 Or, as Dutch's friend Marion Barry once put it, "Now it's our turn...
...0/4 Correspondence (Continued frompagen) wonders where he would be if it weren't for his "made for TNN" face), or a three-minute "tribute" to a classic artist...
...A second wave of reform, this one led by a returning World War II veteran, swept over New Orleans and the Ring—by then called "the Old Regulars" — a quarter-century later...
...Pascagoula, Mississippi...
...It would crash in flames four years later...
...The cashiers would see me coming and start screaming, 'The crazy lady, oh my God, the crazy lady's here!' "After a week, the manager showed his face, and the next day there were wastebaskets outside the store...
...And when that didn't get their attention, I did it the next day, and the day after that...
...Beyond Las Vegas, the embrace of legalized gambling—or as its supporters prefer, "gaming"—is properly recognized as the Hail Mary pass of cities either dying or economically comatose...
...KAMEL HAMID, HEAD OF FATAH (A FACTION OF THE PLO) (At a Rally, August 10, 1997): ". .. all means are legitimate to uproot the despicable occupation...
...And that day seems to be a long way off...
...But more: Where a Schiro or a Landrieu, caught in an act of flagrant favoritism, might have been shamed, Dutch would instead go livid at any racist suggestion, advanced by any racist journalist or racist critic, that he and his friends were getting anything more than their due, i.e., implicitly, reparations for three centuries of slayery...
...NABIL RAMLAWI (At a session of the U.N...
...On this the President was taken to court, and defeated in the Supreme Court...
...40 May 1998 • The American Spectator in flight to the Jefferson parish suburbs began in serious numbers during the Vic Schiro years...
...From the Statistical Abstract I learned that actual expenditures for clean water during the years 84 May 1998 • The American Spectator...
...That he did, though not quite in the pristine way reform purists had in mind...
...Peggy Wilson would serve a dozen years fighting the System at city hall, through two mayoralties—Barthelemy's and, after his turn at the table, Marc Morial's...
...I think the recent changes in Country Music are one reason for the expanding popularity of talk radio, that is the same conservative group that used to listen to George Jones now listen to Rush Limbaugh...
...And if Starr sends an impeachment report to Congress, ABC's senior congressional correspondent might have to stay away from that, too...
...The fact was that there were other blacks waiting to move up the ladder, working politicians no more willing to defer their ambitions for the sake of a black incumbent than they would have been for a white...
...The casino, Hemmeter told the mayor and city council, would not only put 25,000 good, honest Orleanians back to work but breathe new life into the city's tourist industry...
...For what...
...A single powerful organization has controlled it for more than four decades...
...The social conservatism intertwined with the financial conservatism...
...Let's get togedder: Meanwhile, despite the still-glittering facade of Canal Street and its annual Mardi Gras ritual, New Orleans in the 1960's and 70's was a city in decline...
...Instead of combating terrorist activity, the Palestinian Authority (P.A...
...Politics is their business...
...His pitch: to construct a casino on the site, in partnership with Caesar's Palace of Las Vegas and a small but influential group of New Orleans investors...
...It rested partly upon his attempt to impound funds which had been appropriated by Congress, mainly funds for Senator Muskie's Clean Water Act...
...Now, given voter approval, it would reorganize under Chapter Eleven and —spin the wheel —do it right...
...The first such movement, under the leadership of Mayor Andrew McShane, rose to power in 1920...
...VICTOR GOLD The story of New Orleans, politically, is synonymous with boss rule...
...That was the System...
...Another blatant violation is the size and the weaponry of the so-called P.A...
...Gadflies and those imbued with an urge to "reform" need not apply...
...Of course not, he says, why should I? The stock's been placed in trust...
...Over time she would be called by her colleagues an obstructionist, a reactionary, a zealot, a royal pain-in-the-ass and, whenever the heat picked up on Morial the Younger, a racist...
...From time to time, dating back even to Behrman's era of good feeling, reform movements take shape in New Orleans, pledged to break up the "unholy alliance" between those who operate the city and those who do business with it...
...Harnett T. Kane, Louisiana Hayride,1941 S econd only to corruption, collegiality has been the hallmark of New Orleans city government for the better part of the passing century...
...He would be succeeded at city hall by Vic Schiro, a file gumbo Babbitt whose reputation as the Master of Malaprop ("Don't believe any false rumors unless you hear them from me") belied a shrewd political mind...
...It would open that fall, in temporary quarters at a renovated Municipal Auditorium...
...She had nothing against the appointments, she said, but form was form...
...But again, the mask...
...They just won't vote for a black candidate...
...Image: Chep Morrison had it...
...The Ring, the Regular Democratic organization, has been called the Tammany of the South...
...Honest Andy McShane never had a chance...
...An outland observer from, say, Nashville, Tennessee, or even New Orleans' sister city, Mobile, Alabama, might hear the mayor's reply as that of some cultural cretin...
...And why not...
...sufficient promise to gain the support of the sons and daughters of the white uptown broom-wielders who'd clean-swept "the Old Regulars" in Chep Morrison's day...
...She was not impressed, and said so repeatedly, much to the choler of her city hall colleagues traveling on Hemmeter-Caesar's dollar (for "research") to Honolulu and Las Vegas...
...Then one day I decided the only way to get anything done was to do it myself, so I gathered up the trash in a grocery bag, marched it into the store, and emptied the contents, all the litter, onto their nice clean terrazzo floor...
...But the "crazy lady" would give as good as she got and, as New Orleans reform movements go, fare longer and better than most...
...Beneath the veneer of a polished, urban reformer [however], Morrison proved to be as much a political manipulator as Bob Maestri...
...By the mid-seventies it was apparent that, given the changed demographics of the inner city, in "Moon" Landrieu New Orleans had elected its last white mayor...
...Thus, when a group of high-minded uptown women asked McShane's successor to build 39 is properly recognized as the Hail Mary pass of cities either dying or economically comatose...
...That New Orleans, once the most robust commercial center in the South, should have fallen to that level belies the claim of mayors from Morrison to Morial the Elder that the city was on the economic rebound...
...the new Municipal Auditorium "in the form of a Greek theater," the ladies were told, without so much as an "I'll think about it," that there weren't enough Greeks in the city to support such a venture...
...SHEIKH HAMED RITAWI, CHAIRMAN OF THE PALESTINE RELIGIOUS SCHOLARS ASSOCIATION (July 27, 1997): "That which befell the infidel nations will also occur to the State of Israel...
...The Ring was dead, long live the Ring...
...Elected councilwoman for New Orleans District A, Peggy Wilson let it be known from the moment she was sworn in that collegiality was not high on her list of political priorities...
...They came, primarily as families, to take in its history, its culture, its crawfish etou ffee and joie de vivre...
...No problem...
...We must confront them in every sense of the word...
...Taylor, and his predecessor Don Wilson, will experience deja vu watching the attempt to suppress...
...By the book the council was entitled to prior notice...
...Deep, irreversible, pathetic decline...
...An oath is an oath and a promise is a promise...
...The referendum passed overwhelmingly, with voters—most of whom will never see the faux-gilded inside of Harrah's Grand Palais— bused in from the city's ubiquitous projects by the organization known as LIFE ("Louisiana Independent Federation of Electors...
...He had the machine, Harrah's had the lubricant...
...Keep the faith, though...
...he talk around city hall these days is of Marc Morial's future...
...the wicked alliance, for example, between Mayor Robert S. Maestri and the New York Syndicate —Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky — that allowed, in return for campaign funds and suitable lagniappe, the disposition of slot machines and other gambling devices in friendly neighborhood drug stores...
...What are the facts...
...Within a year of taking office, he launched a program of modernizing city services...and revitalizing the Port of New Orleans...
...He had made his way to the top on his own, no thanks to the affable whites he now kept waiting in his outer office...
...The whole world stands by us, while they are alone...
...D utch Morial would serve eight years as mayor of New Orleans, though he twice tried to change the city charter that limits a mayor to two terms...
...Peggy Wilson, now councilwoman-at-large, was there to remind voters of the company's malodorous record of promises made-and-broken...
...As historians Michael L. Kurtz and Morgan D. Peoples write: As mayor of New Orleans, Chep Morrison quickly earned a national reputation as an effective, progressive urban leader...
...But they were novices to the Levantine ways of Louisiana politics: They had their charter to build the casino...
...A fount of political entrepreneurship grown gusher-sized since "Moon" Landrieu's day: Last year some $4.8 million was expended at New Orleans International for non-bid professional services from Marc Morial's cronies...
...She understood her city, both its charms and its drawbacks...
...Senate...
...In other Southern communities—Memphis, Dallas, Charlotte—city leaders were adjusting to change...
...After the flood the city grew ever more insular...
...SCOTT HIESTAND Ellington, Connecticut As a former Nashville resident, Bluebird Cafe veteran, and Life Member of the Country Music Association, I think that more people than you think share Shiflett's views...
...on that day, she carried only eight...
...New Orleans, as A. J. Liebling observed, is essentially Levantine in its approach to governance...
...Unlike me, he would have liked to believe it was true...
...Responding to an April 1992 advertisement in the Wall Street Journal for proposals on what to do with New Orleans' six-and-a-half-acre Rivergate convention site, Hemmeter, a Honolulu-based "gaming" promoter, hit the ground running...
...Gee, I wonder why...
...I was recently fortunate enough to see George Jones in concert...
...Peggy Wilson, a 47-year-old mother of four and wife of a prominent local attorney, had first gained a reputation as a civic reformer by literally cleaning up her uptown neighborhood...
...He's as genuine an article as they come, still touring and producing records the quality of which most new hopefuls can't begin to match...
...Ditto for Haggard, Jennings, Nelson, et al...
...Slicker, quicker, less obvious than his father — Dutch's bile laced with artificial sweetener—Morial the Younger, at age 39, is known to harbor huge ambitions...
...State of the art, the Morial update on Martin Behrman's "Old Regulars...
...Of the many points of contention between Councilwoman Wilson and her colleagues in the past twelve years, none has been more publicized or acrimonious than her stubborn opposition to legalized, organized gambling in Orleans parish...
...Barthelemy, a man so affable as to be criticized as a weak mayor, easily manipulated, took over from Morial in 1986, in a city election that featured the arrival of yet another New Orleans reform movement...
...Or, if they did, then like Morial the Younger—who, as a state legislator, had opposed gambling—they'd been given reason to un-learn it...
...Writes Barry: Before the flood New Orleans had at least accepted transfusions of fresh blood...
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...By all Las Vegas odds, the vote would be a resounding "no...
...The Congressional Record for May 5 provided an explanation...
...When in 1982 Dutch ran for re-election against a white challenger and captured 98 percent of the black vote and 12 percent of the white, Morial the Elder saw those numbers as clear evidence of voter bias...
...Without so much as a smile or a wink...
...To all the hoary loopholes in the city's low-bid and merit laws were now added the federally-sanctioned requirements for minority set-asides and affirmative action...
...Cairo, Illinois...
...Morrison would run New Orleans through the 1950's, then move his polished urban image to Washington, to serve as the Kennedy administration's ambassador to the Organization of American States...
...Under Schiro, as under his successor Maurice ("Moon") Landrieu—father of the current U.S...
...Alone among her colleagues, Peggy Wilson doubted it...
...Under New Orleans' first black mayor, the System not only endured, it flourished...
...Certainly there would be concern about her covering Hubbell or Whitewater— not that she wouldn't do a good job, but that it would create an appearance of conflict...
...Israel requested very little in return—primarily that the Palestinians would abstain from violence and from incitement to violence...
...PA CHAIRMAN YASSER ARAFAT (Palestinian Television, August 9, 1997): "We must confront them, we must confront them...
...They could reach a meeting of the minds with any reasonable business man...
...Payoffs, kickbacks, and extras —what the locals know as lagniappe—are all part of the process...
...Outside those running hotels for tourists, the only entrepreneurs we have here now are political entrepreneurs," says Gordon (Tad) Wilson, the councilwoman's husband and a lifelong student of the city's history and culture...
...and after that, the vice presidency...
...Without a rereading the committee approved...
...It is unremarkable, of course, that unregenerate Nixon-haters Kutler, Scheer, and Lardner oppose returning the 264 (if my math adds up) hours of tapes to the Yorba Linda Presidential Library...
...Bused in, then handed sample ballots...
...finally in July 1994, Marc Morial beaming, that most-prized of collegial undertakings, a deal: Harrah's and Hem-meter would, in tandem, operate the casino, which would be known as Harrah's Jazz...
...Or more likely, was already in his head, waiting for Retribution Day...
...It was also good to know that someone else has heard of Iris Dement, Jimmy Dale Gilmore, Lucinda Williams, and Gillian Welch...
...The Ring may have suffered a temporary setback, but like any sound business organization, it simply retrenched and waited for the reformers' act to wear thin with the customers...
...A Cabinet post in a Gore administration, perhaps...
...But it remained for the coming of Dutch's heir Marc to seal the—as New South political hustlers put itpublic/private-sector partnership...
...it was Morial's New Orleans, and Dutch's son Marc could work the System like no mayor before him...
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...And, needless to add, take care of your friends...
...Morial, after all, had spent more than half his life drinking from "Colored Only" water fountains, eating at segregated lunch counters, seething inwardly at his status as a second-class citizen...
...We are certain that Allah will destroy the State of Israel either through natural disasters, such as an earthquake, or at the hands of the Moslems, or both...
...I think that was the day I decided to get into politics...
...continues to release well-known members of terrorist groups...
...Gold/New Orleans (Continued rompage4r) dumps trash onto the spotless terrazzo floor of her neighborhood Katz & Besthoff, a shot not likely to be heeded...
...It was a signal, a warning shot, but for an uptown reformer who (Continued on page 82) 41 group and other Clinton campaign contributors who came to Hubbell's financial rescue when he faced the clutches of Kenneth Starr...
...It just shows that sometimes, even in connection-crazy Washington, you can be too connected...
...He constructed a personal political machine, the Crescent City Democratic Association (CCDA), which he employed with ruthless efficiency, purging the city payroll of Old Regulars and replacing them with CCDA people...
...The Morial mind-set...
...Still, his air play is, for all practical purposes, non-existent...
...New Orleans local campaigns, even before Huey Long arrived to toxify Louisiana politics, have variously ranged from the churlish to the vicious...
...Selling out to casino interests is allowing seediness to displace the city's irreplaceable charm...
...Allah shall take revenge on behalf of his prophet against the colonialist settlers who are sons of monkeys and pigs...
...PA Mum IKRAMA SABRI (In a sermon at Al-Alcsa Mosque, July 11, 1997): "Oh Allah, destroy America for she is ruled by Zionist Jews...
...As one New Orleans business leader, a former Morial supporter, saw it, "To Dutch every issue was black-and-white...
...Not that getting togedder, by Behrman's lights, had anything to do with civility in the pursuit of public office...
...Let me just project another president's future taping problem in balancing his legacy...
...Reverse racism...
...In the Iwo's, a local economic study concluded: "[The] social system excludes executives recently transferred to New Orleans and discourages their participation in community issues ...A narrow circle of wealth-holders...
...So when votes come up on casino matters, will he recuse himself to avoid a conflict of interest...
...0 n November 5, 1996—exactly four years to the day that Chris Hemmeter had sold his master plan to city hall — New Orleanians went to the polls to vote yes-orno on a "revised" casino deal...
...Despite tax breaks, rollovers, and other dispensations 82 May 1998 • The American Spectator from their friend the mayor, Harrah's Jazz, after less than two years in business, had gone belly-up...
...Elected in 1978, Morial was a charismatic figure who, based on his record, held promise to become the city's first authentic "reform" mayor in half-a-century...
...Enter Ernest N. "Dutch" Morial, a Creole black appellate-court judge with a list of firsts attached to his resume—first black graduate of Louisiana State University law school, first black in the Louisiana legislature in modern times—the model candidate to become New Orleans' first black mayor...
...To accomplish this, Marc Morial will need some collegial help from the city council: They help raise the ceiling for him, he'll help rhe American Spectator May 1998 You deserve a factual look at...
...but in Baton Rouge a newly formed state casino board would vote to give the license to operate it to another Las Vegas bidder, Harrah's...
...Now enter, via the airport, Christopher Hemmeter, the Chevalier de la Table Ronde with a plan to rescue the city once called "the Paris of America...
...But once ensconced in city hall, public servants, VICTOR GOLD, TAS's national correspondent, is a native New Orleanian...
...Raised eyebrows all around...
...Douglass can't cover that, either...
...The polls had hardly closed on his recent race for re-election—a record-breaking, 8o-percent win—than letters went out for a fundraiser, $5,000 a pop "to join us at this exclusive and elegant gathering...
...At least once, Douglass found herself connected to both investigations on the same day...
...the one magnified the effect of the other...
...Some say Morial plans to run for governor and, from there, move on to the national scene...
...Not so in New Orleans...
...Responding to the protest of a member of the committee that he had neither discussed nor voted upon such a denunciation, Chairman Fulbright apologized...
...One can only hope that movements such as the one Nola Reeves is spearheading can have some type of impact...
...Two non-stories, one before and one since Watergate, have contributed to my belief that the impeachment move was precipitated more by President Nixon's strengths than by his weaknesses...
...The statements that follow were made by Palestinian leaders within the last twelve months...
...except, of course, to such change as might affect voter profiles and the matter of who handles limousine service to the airport...
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...Oh yes, "the crazy lady...
...a woman who, as the New Orleans Times-Picayune noted, was a "dyed-in-the-wool conservative Republican in a city with few conservative politicians...
...Those usually run something like this: "Although Merle couldn't be with us tonight...
...Gone, it was true, were the worst excesses of the old machine...
...The vote, as always, was six-to-one...
...Tourists didn't come to New Orleans to spend time at roulette wheels and slot-machines...
...My brothers...
...They are representative of many others in the same vein...
...On May 4, 1970, as I drove to work, I heard mention on radio news that the president had been unanimously denounced by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations...
...The same day Morial was re-elected, Councilwoman Wilson, his and Harrah's one-and-only council pain, was upset in her bid for a second term...
...That he failed in this was due as much to a split in the city's black constituency as to the opposition of Dutch's white establishment opponents— "those people," as Morial called them...
...With blood and with spirit we will redeem you, Palestine...
...Whites, he said, are obviously racists...
...I wouldn't say he had ever been affable, but you never felt the sort of hostility—the arrogance—he took on from the day he became mayor...
...YASSER ARAFAT (Palestinian Television, August 6, 1997): "...let us commit ourselves before Allah and the Palestinian people that we shall lead the coming battle as we have led previous battles...
...Hamilton Basso, a local chronicler of that era, viewed McShane's failure as the predictable outcome of a woeful mismatch between well-meaning amateurs and well-focused professionals...
...You say `growth business' in New Orleans, you must mean paving city streets, operating parking lots, or installing wires for [city-licensed] cable stations...
...Voter education on-the-job: Here, right here—"Yes" on the casino, and over here, for lagniappe, one for the mayor's friend, Mary Landrieu for U.S...
...While Arafat and other Palestinian leaders proclaim their peaceful intentions in English before Western audiences, they are brutally frank when they address their own people in Arabic and away from Western television cameras...
...represent[s] a closed society whose aims are to preserve their wealth...
...In the so-called "Oslo Agreement", Israel undertook unilaterally to make valuable concessions to the Palestinians, concessions that would eventually enable them to form an autonomous entity...
...Peace will not come to this part of the world until the Palestinians and the Arab nations commit themselves to full acceptance of Israel and are willing to live with it in peace...
...There would be, in short, no repeat of the Andrew McShanefiasco...
...Surely her colleagues knew that...
...I complained to the store's employees, and asked them to install outdoor garbage cans, but I didn't get the time of day...
...TODD CLARK New York, New York Taylor Made I wish to salute the efforts of John H. Taylor ("Cutting the Nixon Tapes," TAS, March 1998) to attempt a more balanced review of President Nixon...
...Now it's our turn...
...It was, for starters, a one-woman show...
Vol. 31 • May 1998 • No. 5
