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...Enid News & Eagle and the Moscow Idahonian-Daily News, but no papers based in New York City or Los Angeles. The U.P.I. board comprises 50 college coaches, but its membership also borders on the capricious. Tim Rose of minor Miami (Ohio) is a voter; Dennis Erickson of major Miami (Fla...
Recently admitted high school seniors HeidiSiedlecki of Boca Raton, Fla., and Daniel J.Sharfstein of Potomac, Md., both said a Januaryweekend would help convince unsure students toattend Harvard...
...Klux Klan's quest for respectability has taken a new turn in Lakeland, Fla. Since last spring, members of local klaverns have been on a "Krush Krack Kokaine" campaign, patrolling the streets for evidence against suspected drug dealers. Though authorities say they welcome all tips, the Klan angered blacks by posing as police officers when they detained two black women, one of whom turned out to be a cop impersonating a hooker. Says Earl Shinhoster, southern regional director of the N.A.A.C.P.: "Any way you look at it, it still spells K.K.K...
...days later two more parcel bombs appeared. One detonated in Savannah, killing Robert E. Robinson, an attorney and alderman. In Atlanta, police disarmed another lethal package; it was addressed to the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, on which Vance served. In Jacksonville, Fla., local N.A.A.C.P. president Willye Dennis was in such a hurry to leave the office that she did not have time to unwrap a package that had just been delivered. Hearing the next morning of Robinson's death, she remembered the unopened box and called the sheriff's office, which discovered inside it a bomb made...
...present evidence that led to the convictions of Ku Klux Klansmen involved in a bloody 1979 confrontation with blacks in Decatur, Ala. In September Vance wrote a bluntly worded reversal of a lower-court ruling that had lifted an 18-year-old desegregation order from the Duval County, Fla., schools. The plaintiff in that case was the Jacksonville branch of the N.A.A.C.P. Robinson had played a part in a failed N.A.A.C.P. challenge to a school desegregation plan for Savannah...