Word: klux
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cultivated anything but a pinko image. He placed a photo of Ronald Reagan on his desk and talked, said an associate, "like a real patriot." One day in 1979 he persuaded Debbie Aiken, then a talk-show host for a Norfolk radio station, into letting him discuss the Ku Klux Klan on her program. He claimed to be the Klan's state organizer. "He drove up to the station in a pickup truck with bodyguards," she recalls. One carried a shotgun. "Walker told me he had to be protected, that he feared for his life at all times...
...could deliver it. Says FBI Spokesman Bill Baker: "We don't see ideological motives. All we see is cash." John Walker's ideology, if he has one, was further muddled by a revelation by the Anti-Defamation League that he apparently recruited on behalf of the Ku Klux Klan...
...Shang's lady friend Glory (Amy Madigan), who finds her loyalties stretched tight. There is no easy, noble way out of this dilemma. No one can win. No one is wrong until things turn violent, when the good ole boys put on T shirts reading SECRET MEMBER, KU KLUX KLAN and try to blow these new boat people out of the water. It is as if both sides were waging a stupid, losing war all over again...
...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...
...illusion of 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...