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- <text id=91TT0612>
- <title>
- Mar. 25, 1991: American Notes:Louisiana
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Mar. 25, 1991 Boris Yeltsin:Russia's Maverick
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 25
- American Notes
- LOUISIANA
- Party Pooper
- </hdr><body>
- <p> "The most important things in life have nothing to do with
- party," said Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer last week after
- abandoning the Democrats for the G.O.P. The move could save his
- political neck in a three-way re-election race next fall
- against Republican State Representative David Duke, an ex-Ku
- Klux Klan leader, and former Governor Edwin Edwards.
- </p>
- <p> The White House encouraged the switch of the
- Harvard-educated Roemer, 48, who was known as a fiscal
- conservative and social moderate while serving in Congress from
- 1980 to 1988. But the change by no means assures his victory,
- even though white supremacist Duke has been disavowed by the
- Republican leadership and the flamboyant Edwards was paraded
- before the public in the course of two corruption trials that
- ended in acquittal. In Louisiana politics, being a scoundrel is
- not necessarily a liability.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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