Word: klux
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could pressure students into conforming to practices that violate their consciences and could open a back door to school-sponsored prayer. Some fear the bill could turn classrooms into forums for fringe cults, such as the Moonies, and a variety of political and cultural groups, ranging from the Ku Klux Klan to gay rights organizations. A crush of meetings could strain budgets for maintenance and supervision. "The tragedy is that the President has been able to direct attention away from the real problems facing education to the non-issue of prayer in schools," says San Francisco School Superintendent Robert Alioto...
...letters are so venomous that they seem too extreme for even the Ku Klux Klan. "African Monkeys!" says one. "In Los Angeles our own Olympic flames are waiting to incinerate you." The shocking notes arrived at the Olympic Committee offices of at least five countries-Zimbabwe, China, Malaysia, South Korea and Sri Lanka. Although the letters, one postmarked in Maryland, are on paper with a Ku Klux Klan logo, the State Department suspects that Moscow was their real source. Said Secretary of State George Shultz, who was in Asia last week: "It makes you wonder if it is a disinformation...
...letters' stilted syntax and the use of words like "curs" seem caricatures of American polemics. The letterheads include hyphens between "Ku" and "Klux," a style rarely used by the myriad of self-proclaimed K.K.K. groups in the U.S., which also tend to refer to their organizations by fuller names. State Department experts were analyzing copies of the letters for further evidence that they were a shoddy attempt to reinforce Soviet claims that Los Angeles presents a security risk to foreign athletes. Said Samuel Royer, Maryland Grand Dragon of the Invisible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan...
...groups will not cross. Police have set aside four acres of a parking lot across the street from the main entrance to the center, and 25 groups, ranging from the Marijuana Initiative to anti-Reagan rock musicians, have filed to use it more or less continuously. Even the Ku Klux Klan is said to be planning a demonstration...
...called himself "the man that Denver loves to hate" and delighted in insulting his listeners. He liked to boast that his enemies included the Ku Klux Klan, the Palestine Liberation Organization, the American Nazi party and a legion of crank callers. His Denver radio station, KOA, even kept a list of people who had threatened his life. Thus when combative Radio Talk-Show Host Alan Berg, 50, was gunned down in his driveway late one night last week, many wondered at first which of his listeners was the killer...