International Hearld Tribune

NEW ORLEANS In a blunt admission that New Orleans can no longer control its growing crime problem, Mayor C. Ray Nagin asked the state of Louisiana to send National Guard troops to help patrol the city streets.

Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco said that 100 troops, joined by 60 state police, would be in place as early as Tuesday morning. More are likely to arrive later in the week.

- mark 6-20-2006 9:52 pm





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