Word: klan
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Students, however, continue to take offense atthe ad. In a letter to the editor of The Owl,Westfield student Owen Broadhurt compared thedecision to run the ad for female dancers toprinting an ad for "the Ku Klux Klan, AmericanNazi Party, D'Aubisson death squads, or similarhideous miscreants...
...have taken 22 victims in the past three years; in 1992 they were responsible for seven deaths, almost a quarter of all bias-related murders in the U.S. The ADL concluded that the punks, who number about 3,500, are now a bigger racist threat than the Ku Klux Klan. The relatively small death toll, points out Portland, Oregon, police officer Loren Christensen, is misleading. "What makes them real dangerous," he says, "is that it doesn't take many to terrorize a community." Or even a metropolis. Three days after the ADL report, the FBI announced that a group called...
...young skins awakened a homeless black man named Benny Rembert and knifed him to death. It was the killers' idea of celebration; they had been drinking in honor of Hitler's birthday. Says Sergeant W.D. McAnally of the Birmingham police department, who helped arrest several local skins: "Hell, the Klan is a bunch of old farts who ride around shooting and cussing, burn a cross and then go home. These little kids will get worked up and go out and kill somebody...
...Miss faculty in Oxford, Mississippi, passed a resolution seeking to end the playing of Dixie at school events. In Memphis, Tennessee, black activists may soon try to remove from a city park the bronze statue of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan...
...states; today there are about 3,500 in 40 states, and they are responsible for at least 22 killings over the past three years. "The skinheads are today the most violent of all white-supremacy groups," the B'nai B'rith report concluded. "Not even the Ku Klux Klan, so notorious for their use of the rope and the gun, comes close." An FBI source has told TIME that one of the juvenile members of the Fourth Reich Skinheads arrested last week is being charged with a pipe-bomb attack against a member of the "Spur Posse," the gang...