Word: alabamas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alabama GOP Gov. Guy Hunt won a close race for re-election...
Bozzotto derided the Democratic candidate for governor, John R. Silber, saying his comments indicated he was anti-immigrant and anti woman. He labeled Silber, "George Wallace with a brain," referring to the former Alabama governor who was an ardent segregationist...
Victorious lawyer Morris Dees, whose Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center specializes in suing hate groups, vows to try to collect every penny in order to close down WAR, its newspaper, cable TV show, and 23 telephone hot lines. In a similar $7 million lawsuit in Alabama three years ago, Dees managed to bankrupt the United Klans of America for its role in instigating the shooting and hanging of a black youth. Said Dees of his latest victory: "The jury has spoken loud and clear that in this country the First Amendment guarantees the right to hate people...
...were drawn by the prospect that Saturn could compete on an equal footing. "The thing that most interested me was the idea that we could beat the Japanese. That's why I came here," says James Archibald, 34, a line worker in body fabrication, who pulled up stakes in Alabama to take his chances at Saturn. Archibald and his fellow workers share an almost religious zeal for their mission and habitually refer to traditional GM methods as "Old World," as if they were talking about the Middle Ages...
...invoked against employers for their workers' negligence. Simply put, Dees and his fellow lawyers sue national racist organizations on behalf of the families of victims of violent acts, charging that the organizations should incur heavy civil penalties for their indirect role in the violence. In 1987 Dees bankrupted the Alabama-based United Klans of America with a $7 million judgment for the family of Michael Donald, 19, who was shot and hanged by U.K.A. thugs in 1981 in Mobile...