Word: klan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Training Corps is a complex one. The debate centers around the military's policy of barring gays and lesbians from service--a practice which some say conflicts with Harvard's own policy of non-discrimination. Anti-ROTC forces question whether Harvard would accept scholarships from, say, the Ku Klux Klan, which also discriminates. Pro-ROTC forces say that if scholarships are cut, ROTC students will themselves become victims of economic discrimination...
Strychnine or arsenic, Louisiana? Pick your poison. That's about the only way to look at the state's gubernatorial race, which took on a noxious taint last week when former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke began battling roguish ex-Governor Edwin Edwards for the keys to the executive mansion. The campaign threatens to bare the cantankerous soul of a state that is often derided as America's banana republic, a Third World realm of corrupt and crazy politicians, wild parties and bizarre customs. Yet even Louisiana has never seen anything this weird. Says John Maginnis, publisher...
Though Duke has formally repudiated his Klan past, an undercurrent of racism lurks beneath his reasoned arguments. When he talks about welfare, crime, drugs or affirmative action, he is talking about race. "I believe in equal rights for all, special privilege for none," says Duke. That seemingly laudable concept is a thinly veiled appeal to frustrated whites who feel they are victims of reverse discrimination. It is a clever ploy, and one whose attraction stretches far beyond the racist vote. A master at driving wedges through the electorate by exploiting race-linked issues, Duke is moving these once taboo topics...
...Carter, a history professor at Emory University. In an op-ed page piece in the New York Times last week, Carter charged that the late Forrest Carter was not a Cherokee at all. Instead, he was Asa Earl Carter, whom the professor describes as a "Ku Klux Klan terrorist, right-wing radio announcer, home-grown American fascist and anti-Semite...
DUKE, you may remember, is the former Ku Klux Klan "Imperial Wizard" who sparked a national firestorm two years ago when he won a seat in the Louisiana House of Representatives. He "shocked" Americans and received hate mail from the Bush White House and Ronald Reagan for running as a Republican...