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...Klan Confrontation. "I very soon realized my preaching wasn't doing any good because the society was so rigidly separated, so oppressive of my church members," he recalls. "I saw almost from the beginning that you had to get people involved politically...
...racial troubles are by no means caused only by black soldiers, who account for about 12% of the U.S. troops in West Germany. The blacks complain of harassment by white MPs and taunting by NCOs who threaten to "get me a nigger." Last week a Ku Klux Klan-style cross was found burning outside a Mannheim barracks: there have been at least two similar incidents at other Seventh Army bases. The Communist East German daily Neues Deutschland has seized on the cross burnings to portray the U.S. Army in Europe as a sort of K.K.K. expeditionary force...
...Club Klan. Few of the segregation academies charge less than $40 a month tuition, and only a handful of blue-collar whites can afford such fees. As a result they feel that they are being deserted by their wealthier neighbors. Greenville Lawyer J. Wesley Watkins III believes that their resentment is justified. "The poor white people have been listening to the leadership all these years, and were told to cool it," he says. "Now the 'country-club klan,' as we call them, have pulled out on the poor whites and run for the private schools...
...material being gathered to a proper police function. Thus, civil-liberties groups still hope to narrow the scope of intelligence activities. The police now compile their data on two forms. One classifies demonstrations as pacifist, religious, right-wing, leftwing, civil rights, militant, nationalistic, black power, Ku Klux Klan and extremist. The second form is less vague, potentially more dangerous. It covers the people attending or taking part in demonstrations and calls for information on their families, employers, finances, personal habits and past activities...
...Constitution and Journal reacted indulgently. A front-page editorial in the papers' combined Sunday issue recently noted that they were old hands at being picketed: "The Ku Klux Klan has been here any number of times; and a scrofulous bunch of youthful toughs the FBI later picked...