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Peace in the Middle East and Bosnia may be elusive, but the Clinton Administration has brokered a sensitive cease-fire in Louisiana. Vice President Al Gore flew to Baton Rouge last Friday to preside over the reconciliation of two Democrats: Senate candidate Mary Landrieu and Congressman Cleo Fields, the state's leading black politician. The Gore intervention might seem like an awful lot of White House muscle to settle a neighborhood brawl. But the stakes are high in Louisiana's closely contested Senate race, which pits Landrieu against conservative Republican Louis ("Woody") Jenkins. When Fields finally endorsed Landrieu last week...
Equally important, the race tests the party's ability to bridge its racial divisions in the South. Louisiana Democrats, like others in the region, have split into two camps: Landrieu's largely white moderate wing and Fields' predominantly black liberals. Landrieu, a former state treasurer and political moderate--pro-choice but, like Bob Dole, in favor of a capital-gains tax cut--ran afoul of her party's liberals last year when she and Fields were locked in a bitter gubernatorial primary. Fields backers say it was racially insensitive of her to run ads saying she was more electable than...
...using his new clout to dismantle the pattern of extravagant patronage and spending programs that made Louisiana seem as profligate as a Cajun on an old-time oil-patch payday. The Roemer Revolution is a drastic effort to restore solvency to a state that is, in Treasurer Mary Landrieu's words, "flat broke." In fact, it is worse than broke: it faces a deficit of $1.3 billion. Roemer proposes to reduce the state's historic dependence on oil and energy revenues. Already, the tax-shy legislature has earmarked a 1 cents sales-tax increase, and may consider changing the sacred...
...Carter Presidency: Some Early Perspectives" will feature talks from Jack H. Watson, former chief of staff, Moon Landrieu, former secretary of housing and urban development; Patrick Caddell, pollster for the Carter-Mondale campaign; and Jody Powell, former White House press secretary...
...Manatt, head of the D.N.C. finance committee for the past two years. Robert Strauss, Carter's campaign chief and a former D.N.C. chairman, is said to be touting his own candidate: Lee Kling, finance chairman for the Carter-Mondale campaign. Other names bandied about include HUD Secretary Moon Landrieu, White House Aide Anne Wexler, and defeated Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas...