In Big Easy, Unease ; the African-American Community Fears, Not to Put Too Fine a Point On It, That Whites Will Return to Power in the City Government.

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WHAT IS HAPPENING in New Orleans is surreal. , , , , , , , On one hand are planners and economists who say, reasonably, that it would be impractical to rebuild the devastated city as it was, with hundreds of thousands of people returning to home sites that were flooded for weeks with 10 feet or more of brackish water.

For one thing, the experts say, most of those people, now living as evacuees in places from Texas to Cape Cod, are not going to come back. Not anytime soon. Not only do they lack livable residences to which to return, there are no jobs for them. Even before the hurricane, many struggled to eke out a living, and a large number were unemployed.

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In Big Easy, Unease ; the African-American Community Fears, Not to Put Too Fine a Point On It, That Whites Will Return to Power in the City Government.

The planners and economists say the city should seize the day, should recognize that the catastrophe is also an opportunity, that the worst-hit parts of New Orleans should be allowed to revert to marshland, that the city shoul...

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