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Staff Writer of The Dallas Morning NewsSTE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. - For
hundreds of miles, the upper Missis-
sippi River rolls over farmlands
and living rooms, proving what the
towboat captains never forget: Old
Man River still has a wild heart.
"The Mississippi was never a
tame river," said Buddy Crawford,
whose life on the Mississippi started
24 years ago as a deckhand.
Although floods are an accepted,
Associated Press if unwelcome, fact of life for many
tl t the on the river, this flood of the upper
e to the Mississippi and Missouri rivers is
iear the an eye-opener.
"I've never seen anything like* Flood impact statistics. 26A
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this before," said Mr. Crawford, a
towboat captain who heads a river
commerce industry group. "I've
never heard of anything like this
before."
The waters of the upper Missis-
sippi and parts of the Missouri are
expected to drown records set in
1973 - that were supposed to stand
for a century. They have poked
holes in the vast water-control sys-
tem engineers spent decades build-
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Heavy costs
Both the accuser and the
accused face high stakes when
sexual harassment suits go to
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Viewpoints . 5-7JBUILDING A POWERHOUSE
Fund-raising prowess, experienced leadership earn Dallas gays national cloutBy Delia M. Rios
Staff Writer of The Dallas Morning News
he Dallas-Fort Worth Federal
Club will gather on the 27th
floor of the Loews Anatole
hotel this month for a quarterly
meeting.
It will be a typical Dallas affair
with a morning issues program and a
nationally prominent luncheon
speaker.
The club conducts its business
the way most Dallas civic
organizations do. Its 170 members,
savvy and sophisticated, wear
business suits and dresses.
Membership costs $1,200 a year. It is
the major dclor club for a nationalGay, lesbian voices in Dallas
A look at Dallas' gay and lesbian community through some of its leading
voices. Today, Page 1F.political organization, whose various
Dallas fund-raising activities last
year raised $300,000 for different
causes and charities.
The club is nearly as social as it is
political. The members, mostly from
Dallas, are Republicans and
Democrats. There are more men
than women. Most members are in
their 30s and 40s. There are doctors,
lawyers, accountants, Realtors and
entrepreneurs among them.
They are a virtual Who's Who ofgay Dallas.
The men and women who will
meet at the Anatole have played a
significant part in earning gay
Dallas a national reputation. It is a
reputation built on more than a
decade of skillful organizing,
leadership and fond raising that has
produced one of the most vibrant
gay communities in the country.
Gay Dallas boasts its own
community center, credit union,
counseling service, AIDS ResourceCenter, business district, newspaper
and the nation's largest gay and
lesbian church. Gay leaders from
San Francisco to New York look to
Dallas as a model.
But it is the gay community's
money that has bought it influence,
and with influence, power.
When David Mixner, a senior
adviser to Bill Clinton's campaign on
gay and lesbian issues, needed a
receptive audience for a speech
orchestrated to take the heat off the
White House for appearing to waver
on the gay military ban, it was set up
in Dallas.
When William Waybourn, a
Please see FUND-RAISING on Page 18A,I
billions in damage cited; more rain likely
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