Word: aryanization
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...greatest track athlete of all time, of course, was Jesse Owens. The son of Alabama sharecroppers, Owens said his secret was, "I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible." In Berlin in '36 he began his assault on Hitler's Aryan-superiority theory with his victory in the 100, the first of his four gold medals. African Americans would in fact win all but three Olympic 100s from 1932 to 1968. The blessing of modern professionalism is that runners can keep running; Owens had to resort to racing thoroughbreds in exhibitions...
...that the cement of a conspiracy case? Well, says Jones, Strassmeir also knows Dennis Mahon, late of the Ku Klux Klan, now a leader of the White Aryan Resistance. Mahon sometimes spent weekends at Elohim City in a trailer he kept there, and Strassmeir sometimes stayed at Mahon's home in Tulsa. Jones says he has turned over to the prosecution statements that Mahon has made "to people assisting the defense" in which Mahon linked himself to the bombing. What were those statements? Jones won't say, claiming that as potential trial evidence they must remain confidential. Jones also says...
...true conviction. Some proved too zealous even for Buchanan. On Thursday he was forced to suspend his campaign co-chairman Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, when it was revealed that Pratt had spoken to a 1992 gathering in Colorado that included a speaker from Aryan Nations. Buchanan argued that the Republican establishment was trying to destroy him, but the next day, he had to remove his Duval County, Florida, acting chairman, Susan Lamb, a part-time organizer for the National Association for the Advancement of White People...
...events. The thorniest issue was an allegation that Pratt spoke at a 1992 meeting in Estes Park, Colorado that was headlined by Pete Peters, leader of a group that its critics say supports violence to promote white supremacy. Others on the bill included former Ku Klux Klan leader and Aryan Nation official Louis Bream and Aryan Nations Founder Richard Butler. Buchanan stood by his manager, quickly calling a press conference where he relayed Pratt's denial of the allegations, and said he believed Pratt. "Buchanan will try to keep attention away from Pratt and focused on his themes of national...
...contrast, Hasselbach manages to come across as clean-cut, if a bit excessive. One reason is that nature has constructed him media-ready. Six feet six inches tall, blond hair, blue eyes, He was promoted by colleagues as an "Aryan poster boy," though a hipper, less political audience might conclude that he resembles a hardbitten David Bowie. That star quality was recognized early, in the communist German Democratic Republic where Hasselbach was born. In 1987 and 1988 he was twice jailed by the G.D.R. for publicly insulting the government. Pumped up in prison with the Nazi ideology and war stories...