Word: klan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were a few incidents of unexpected?and largely unwanted?excitement. Star Richard Dreyfuss, after criticizing the Ku Klux Klan in an Alabama newspaper interview, received a death threat and had to be whisked away for two weeks. Dillon's son received a kidnaping threat that brought in the FBI. Then, late one night, shooting halted abruptly so that everyone could observe what Spielberg believed to be a UFO cruising the sky. "Everyone was lying there on their backs with binoculars," says Dillon. "I remember thinking that if there were extraterrestrial beings up there observing us, they would think that...
...past; his wife, a religious fanatic; one son who schemes ruthlessly; another who whines and steals; and a daughter who compares unfavorably with Scarlett O'Hara. While Alabama in 1880 isn't a Danish castle, at least it provides a set of usefully poor neighbors and the Ku Klux Klan...
Behind that statement is the fear that things could go poorly for feminists in Houston. Antiabortionists, members of the Total Woman movement and other conservatives have elected between 15% and 20% of the state delegates to the meeting. The Ku Klux Klan claims to control at least one official state delegation-Mississippi's-and has threatened to disrupt the meeting. Summed up one delegate: "It's kind of a reverse '60s, with the regressive forces threatening to disrupt us." But Liz Carpenter, Lady Bird Johnson's former press secretary and now a top leader...
...theater, then certainly Nazi goons have no right to march in Skokie, Ill. If freedom of speech and of the press does not apply to Deep Throat or Larry Flynt's Hustler, then it should not apply to the hate-mongering literature and rabble of the Ku Klux Klan or their Nazi comrades...
...been sworn in when he said that Fidel Castro's Cuban mercenaries "bring a certain stability to Angola." That was only a warmup. There were bloopers about sending U.S. troops to Rhodesia, about Britain having almost "invented racism," about Arab attitudes toward Israelis being akin to Ku Klux Klan attitudes toward blacks. Soon the State Department found itself working almost full time to clarify, correct or apologize for Young's remarks...