Word: klux
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their use of informers-ranging from undercover officers to turncoats and professional finks. "Liberals are as much at fault as conservatives," says Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. In the '60s, informers by the hundreds infiltrated not only radical movements but also Southern racist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. Sara Jane Moore's lurch into the limelight has only renewed the debate about law enforcement's almost unchecked reliance on the breed...
...Boston's white, working-class Charlestown neighborhood, hundreds of mothers, many with small children, chanted: "Over there, over there, the kids aren't going over there." Just outside Louisville, 1,500 people attended a Ku Klux Klan cross burning one night, and 6,000 shouted "Boycott! Boycott! Boycott!" at a protest rally...
Fearing further violence, Kentucky Governor Julian Carroll at 4 a.m. ordered 800 armed National Guardsmen into the Louisville area. Later on Saturday morning police in Louisville arrested 75 sign-carrying people (including the Grand Dragon of Kentucky's Ku Klux Klan) who were assembling in the downtown area despite a ban ordered by Mayor Sloane on parades and demonstrations. Soon after ward, several truckloads of armed Guardsmen were moved into the business district. Declared the National Guard commander: "They will be used when and where needed until order is restored...
...Last week's rehearsal was marred by a false bomb threat and an orderly protest by 40 white parents. Furthermore, union members at a 17,000-employee General Electric plant in the county have threatened a walkout on the opening day of school to protest busing. Several Ku Klux Klan meetings have been held to denounce desegregation, and a cross was burned in a field near Fairdale. The Klan also plans a demonstration in downtown Louisville on the first day of school...
...blood pressure and visceral reactions, then they begin showing him a movie. The film--brilliantly done--is like the inside of George Rockwall's (former head of American Nazi Party) mind. Quick-cutting from the flag to a domineering father to bullets, to a penis, to Klu Klux Kian cross-burning, back to a church, to big artillery, back to mother, now crying, to the president, and so on... The Wind and the Lion is a stop away from this, with its approval of Teddy Rooseveit's lingoistic Wipe-am-out mentality, people going around constantly warning the going around...