Word: klux
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White supremacists may have been angered at rulings by Vance in highly publicized federal court cases. He had joined in decisions that upheld the murder conviction of a member of the Aryan Brotherhood and allowed the prosecution to present evidence that led to the convictions of Ku Klux Klansmen involved in a bloody 1979 confrontation with blacks in Decatur, Ala. In September Vance wrote a bluntly worded reversal of a lower-court ruling that had lifted an 18-year-old desegregation order from the Duval County, Fla., schools. The plaintiff in that case was the Jacksonville branch of the N.A.A.C.P...