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...outburst of violence was the most recent indication that right-wing fringe groups, though they may be tiny in number and even dwindling, are heavily armed and well versed in paramilitary tactics. Although they encompass a variety of organizations--white supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan and militant tax resisters--the groups share an ideology and seem in some instances to be cooperating. Says FBI Spokesman William Baker of those recently arrested: "We are finding that they belong to other right-wing groups like the Ku Klux Klan. It adds to our concern about violence." According to Lyn Wells, director...
...Hollywood is thoroughly tangible." Anything is possible with the Old World in ruins, and Pyat will try anything. He buys a 13-year-old prostitute and reinvents her as a lost soul mate from his Russian childhood; he tours the U.S. as a lecturer for the Ku Klux Klan...
...while he supported himself. A Columbia recruiter convinced him to apply to Eastern colleges. He had never heard of Harvard before. In his small town of Parker, "counselors discourage you from applying to college," he says, "and Anglos tell you you're stupid." He adds that the Klu Klux Klan counts 200 members in his town. Now, whites at home hate him even more, because no one in town has ever been to Harvard, he says. And stereotypes stick: he is called "Mr. Harvard Accent...
Several dozen students rallied yesterday afternoon in front of University Hall, draping a Ku Klux Klan mask on the statue of John Harvard, to call attention to what they called the lack of tenured minority faculty members at Harvard...
...setting is a 1944 Louisiana army base where Master Sergeant Vernon Waters, leader of an all Black company, is murdered one dark night outside of the camp. The white base commander seeks to quiet a potentially explosive situation, quickly blaming the shooting on the local Klu Klux Klan. But his efforts are undone when the Army sends a Negro military attorney, a polished, Howard University-trained officer, to investigate. Instead of accepting two seemingly culpable white officers as scapegoats, Captain Richard Davenport pushes on with his search. And with integrity and tenacity, he uncovers the true, frightening nature...