APF Reporter Vol. 15 #3

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	How David Duke and the Born-Agains Wrecked Louisiana's GOP Jason Berry Louisiana has a spectacular history of corruption, most of it by Democrats. Disgust with that legacy animated Republican leaders, who took party organization as seriously as their rock ribbed conservatism. They had to. Outnumbered 3-to-1 by Democrats, Republicans held few offices until the 1980s, when a succession of Louisiana legislators began switching parties.
	A Gay Family Frank Browning Derek grew up in Washington, D.C. in a strong, stable dual income family with a number of brothers and sisters. He was trained as an accountant and made rapid progress; by his late twenties he was named head of payroll operations at a bank. Nights and weekends he took classes and worked part-time as a massage therapist. Derek's lover, Gunther, a Swiss national, was a highly paid professional whose family he had visited in Zurich. One day, more than four years after the two had been coupled, Derek's mother spoke to him about his future. "Why don't you and your sister buy a house together?" she asked. "You've both got good jobs, you're single, it's a good investment, and your father and I could help with the down payment."
	Happiness and Despair in Guatemala All photographs by APF Fellow Vince Heptig The village of Todos Santos celebrates its name-sake holiday, All Saints Day, with an action-packed fiesta. As many as 50 riders run a quarter-mile course repeatedly throughout the day, stopping at intervals for rounds of drinks. Participants spend months of wages to rent horses and costumes for the race as a way of gaining Prestige in the village.
	“Rent-to-Own”: The Slick Cousin of Paying on Time Mike Hudson Some people call Larry Sutton “The Reverend of Rent To-Own.” Sutton preaches the blessings of the rent-to-own business with the enthusiasm of a true believer.
	How a Campaign for Racial Trust Turned Sour Tamar Jacoby Glamorous young mayor John Lindsay had been in office all of two months when he threw down the gauntlet on the issue of civilian police review. The occasion, in February 1966, was the inauguration of a new police chief, a man known to be committed to civilian review. “I intend to offer new solutions,” Lindsay declared over the airwaves, “and every one is going to disturb the tired, self-perpetuating bureaucratic ways of the past. Jobs will change. Deals will be canceled. Fat and easy lives will be disrupted.”
	Children of Rescue Alissa Rubin BATON ROUGE-Brent Cadle, 16, drops onto all fours and looks up at his even younger audience. “First, we never walk; we crawl,” be says. The 40 children and a few parents sitting on the floor around him hug their knees and watch, rapt. No crankiness or yawning although it is 10:20 at night and some have been traveling for several days.
	Chaos Unlimited: The Gap Between Theory and Practice in the New Hungary Marianne Szegedy-Maszak Most of the workers at the Videoton television factory in Székesfehérvár, Hungary were under no illusions about the reliability of the Ukrainian market, the destination for 5,000 television sets that had rolled past their assembly line. It was nice to have the work, and maybe this transaction would even go through (as so many others had not). But after all the deals and the lies and the false promises of the last three years, 5,000 television sets ordered by the Ukraine with its promise of substantive work, and even a small profit, seemed just a bit too good to be true.