Word: klan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Veteran leftists assume as a matter of course that their public meetings are penetrated by informers. This assumption is most likely true: the groups which informers have been sent into range from The Klan to the Weathermen to almost every Black student group to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom...
...avoid antagonizing Byrd, who is the Senate majority whip, the Administration added his name to the list submitted to the American Bar Association for prior consultation. The gesture considerably heated up the outcry against the entire slate, since Byrd was once an active organizer for the Ku Klux Klan, had only earned his law degree?from night school?in 1963, and had never been admitted...
...Crow. An organizer for the Ku Klux Klan in the '40s, an affiliation he has since recanted, Byrd, 53, has a less than statesmanlike record in the Senate. There he has consistently sided with Southern conservatives on civil rights issues and is noted for his "industry" rather than his legal erudition or constitutional insight. Indeed, he has never practiced law. He earned his law degree in 1963 by studying at night, and has yet to pass a bar examination. Even Attorney General John Mitchell demurred when Byrd's name was raised. But one account has it that Treasury...
Although long a favorite of Hoover's, Sullivan quarreled with his boss a decade ago over his non-Hooverian contention that the Ku Klux Klan represented a greater threat than the U.S. Communist Party. Since 1967, they have been at odds about espionage restrictions, ordered by Hoover, that severely limited FBI investigations of spies. Alarmed at rising criticism of such practices, Hoover curtailed the use of wiretaps and electronic eavesdropping in espionage cases. He also banned what intelligence called "surreptitious entry"-meaning burglary -and a companion tactic, the "bag job," in which agents enter a home or office...
...Conditions in the schools have deteriorated so alarmingly that a new integration plan will not be easy to put into effect. While black militants terrorize the remaining whites in the Detroit schools, the Ku Klux Klan has been gathering recruits in the suburbs. Last spring a suburban high school principal was tarred and feathered by hooded Klansmen after he organized a two-day human relations program for blacks and whites. Yet any integration plan, if it is to succeed, must include the suburbs, as both the N.A.A.C.P. and the Citizens' Committee have emphasized. If full-scale integration is ordered...