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Klansmen and Nazis go on trial for murder in Greensboro...
That angry cry came from a victim of one of the South's bloodiest clashes in years, a fight on Nov. 3, 1979, that pitted one extremist group against another and deeply disturbed the town of Greensboro, N.C. Bermanzohn is a member of a leftist group called the Communist Workers Party, which until late last year had been known as the Workers Viewpoint Organization. Though W.V.O. members had been trying to organize textile workers, most of whom are black, in and around Greensboro, the first stir of trouble came last July in China Grove, N.C., when two W.V.O. workers...
...well-publicized rally, but a U.S. Justice Department study cleared the force of any laxity. Nevertheless, a city ordinance now prohibits firearms within 500 ft. of a parade, and more officers are regularly assigned to cover public demonstrations. "Police are going to be seen at practically every event in Greensboro," says Chief W.E. Swing. "Low visibility worked for a number of years, but Nov. 3 changed all that...
William R. Rogers Jr., Parkman Professor of Divinity and professor of Psychology, will leave Harvard next month to become president of Guilford College in Greensboro...
DIED. Gerald White Johnson, 89, reporter, columnist and author of more than 30 books on Americans and U.S. history; in Baltimore. Johnson was on the Greensboro, N.C., Daily News when Critic H.L. Mencken spotted him as "the best editorial writer in the South." After joining the Baltimore Sun in 1926, Johnson spent 17 years as a liberal, optimistic foil to Mencken's contemptuous conservatism. It was often said that Johnson wrote some of his best editorials in less than ten minutes; he completed books with no less facility. Among them were This American People (1951) and the series America...