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- <text id=91TT2831>
- <title>
- Dec. 23, 1991: American Notes:Houston
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Dec. 23, 1991 Gorbachev:A Man Without A Country
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 42
- American Notes
- HOUSTON
- Nasty, Brutish--And Effective
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Houston's mayoral race started with a debate over crime and
- a proposed monorail but ended in the gutter. After voters ousted
- incumbent Kathy Whitmire in last month's primary, the runoff
- between developer Bob Lanier, 66, and state legislator
- Sylvester Turner, 37, turned squalid. Lanier ads portrayed
- Turner, trying to become the city's first black mayor, as soft
- on crime and entangled in insurance fraud.
- </p>
- <p> Turner denied the charges, accusing Lanier of "trying to
- tell Houston that a black man just isn't good enough!" But his
- delinquent loans and unpaid debts repelled voters. Lanier won
- the Dec. 7 election with 54% of the vote. Now he must get back
- to the crime and transportation issues he addressed before he
- hit the low road.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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