Word: klan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Town officials are hunkering down for a long court fight against what they call forced housing." Rumor has it that a few hotheads are forming a violent, Klan-like squad. But even residents bitter about the prospect of black neighbors are, for the most part, unhysterical. "We don't want them living here," a Western Electric worker says, "but I don't think we'd have shooting or anything like that." A Polish-American welder is similarly resigned: "I'll stand it as long as I can, and then leave Cicero if I have...
...Klan group goes bankrupt
...university and a faculty member who had been the fraternity's adviser had been named in the original suit but were not involved in the settlement. They had been accused of failing to enforce proper standards of conduct at the off-campus fraternity, a local organization called Klan Alpine, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported this week...
...that Republican Governor Richard Thornburgh bore part of the blame for a shooting spree by a deranged prison guard who killed 13 last month in Wilkes-Barre. In retaliation, Thornburgh put ads on television charging that his challenger was "silent" when white policemen in Harrisburg began selling Ku Klux Klan pins. Republican Congressman Cooper Evans of Iowa has been running commercials charging that Opponent Lynn Cutler was absent from 25% of her meetings of the Black Hawk County board of supervisors. Democrat Cutler responded by attacking Evans for missing 40% of the meetings of the House Agriculture Committee. Says Cutler...
...publishing a faked composite picture supposedly representing a Black lynched on the Dartmouth campus, accompanying an otherwise fine interview exposing a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan...