Word: klux
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...Officers' Training Corps is a complex one. The debate centers around the military's policy of barring gays and lesbians from service--a practice which some say conflicts with Harvard's own policy of non-discrimination. Anti-ROTC forces question whether Harvard would accept scholarships from, say, the Ku Klux Klan, which also discriminates. Pro-ROTC forces say that if scholarships are cut, ROTC students will themselves become victims of economic discrimination...
Strychnine or arsenic, Louisiana? Pick your poison. That's about the only way to look at the state's gubernatorial race, which took on a noxious taint last week when former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke began battling roguish ex-Governor Edwin Edwards for the keys to the executive mansion. The campaign threatens to bare the cantankerous soul of a state that is often derided as America's banana republic, a Third World realm of corrupt and crazy politicians, wild parties and bizarre customs. Yet even Louisiana has never seen anything this weird. Says John Maginnis, publisher...
Duke's approach has an enormous appeal -- despite an unsavory past that he now writes off as a "wrong attitude." A swastika-brandishing neo-Nazi in college, he joined the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in high school and worked himself up to the exalted rank of grand wizard before leaving the organization in 1979. Soon after, he founded a white supremacist group called the National Association for the Advancement of White People. The divorced father of two teenage daughters, Duke held no regular job before his election to the state legislature. He has supported himself as a seller...
...says Dan T. Carter, a history professor at Emory University. In an op-ed page piece in the New York Times last week, Carter charged that the late Forrest Carter was not a Cherokee at all. Instead, he was Asa Earl Carter, whom the professor describes as a "Ku Klux Klan terrorist, right-wing radio announcer, home-grown American fascist and anti-Semite...
DUKE, you may remember, is the former Ku Klux Klan "Imperial Wizard" who sparked a national firestorm two years ago when he won a seat in the Louisiana House of Representatives. He "shocked" Americans and received hate mail from the Bush White House and Ronald Reagan for running as a Republican...