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Talk about strange bedfellows. Even David Duke, the blow-dried Louisiana legislator and former Ku Klux Klansman, must have been taken aback when a black Pentecostal church in Memphis invited him to speak at a rally to raise money for a gymnasium to serve inner-city black youths. "Duke draws a crowd, he has a message and he says he's a Christian," explained Jimmy Boyd, the owner of a local gospel radio station, who arranged the event...
...road to Marion, there are posters trumpeting the Louisiana Senate candidacy of David Duke, the ex-Klansman who lost last October's nonpartisan primary but won an estimated 60% of the white vote. Joseph Hampton sees nothing alarming in this. From his post-emigre perspective, he feels Louisianians have taken down their COLOREDS ONLY signs and muffled their racial prejudice under thick, soothing layers of courtesy. When he visits Wal- Mart, the discount chain store, there are professional "greeters" at the door. The auto dealer in nearby Monroe made a toll call to find out if he was satisfied with...
...last item: Watson should choose sides in this war on AIDS, this war on women's rights, this war on gays and lesbians. Can one really be a gay Catholic? Well, I guess you could be a Jewish Nazi or an African-American Klansman. The juxtaposition seems unproductive and impractical to say the least, sadomasochistic and and schizophrenic perhaps come closer to the point. Gregg Gonsalves Staff, Harvard Law School Member...
...Bull Moose challenge to fellow Republican William Howard Taft, which resulted in a Democratic victory, and suggests such an outcome might be preferable to the "betrayals of the Bush Administration." G.O.P. hard-liners say they fear that if one of their own does not challenge Bush, former Klansman David Duke will try to become the right-wing standard-bearer...
...resentment over affirmative action and welfare. Though polls gave Johnston about half the vote in the Oct. 6 primary, they also showed Bagert, a state senator, badly trailing Duke. That opened up the possibility of a Nov. 6 runoff between the two front runners. The prospect of the former Klansman becoming the G.O.P.'s standard-bearer made state and national party leaders so unhappy that eight Republican Senators declared their support for Johnston. Then Bagert made the ultimate sacrifice: he withdrew from the race. The bipartisan blocking maneuver seemed to be paying off. Early returns gave Johnston...