Word: klux
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...leader of the Aryan Nations has the grim demeanor of a man under siege. Richard Butler growls that "Jews run the government" and that "Jewish conspirators" are intent on destroying him. A portrait of Butler's hero, Adolf Hitler, hangs on the wall, and white-robed figurines of Ku Klux Klansmen decorate a shelf. He fiddles with a booklet of Nazi war art and clicks his teeth as he talks. At 82, he has failed in his goal of founding a whites-only homeland, and now he faces the prospect of being driven from his last redoubt...
While no-mask laws exist in at least 18 states, most were designed to deal with secret societies like the Ku Klux Klan, whose intimidation factor was heightened by members' concealed identities. Philadelphia's law, in language derived from hate-crime legislation, signals a new target: political activists, particularly self-described or suspected anarchists. Ironically, the people protected by the first laws--religious, racial, sexual and political minorities--are potentially the focus of the second wave...
...that propaganda can also carry a nasty edge. Flyers circulated in Douglas by an "R.U.A. Freeman" offer volunteers a chance to join in "ole western individualism" and help ranchers nab aliens. Envoys from the Ku Klux Klan put in an appearance last month at a town meeting in Sierra Vista, Ariz., hoping to offer solidarity but were chased off by locals who don't want their cause, which they see as a pragmatic one, tainted by zealots and adventurers who seem to want to hunt down poor Mexican families for sport. "I get three or four calls a week from...
...Dukakis wings the Massachusetts gubernatorial race, leading a Democratic sweep of statewide posts. 15 - Birth of a Nation is shown in Science Center A after its initial October 5 screening was cancelled. Fifty students had protested showing the film, citing its portrayal of blacks and glorification of the Ku Klux Klan. 20 - Harvard Medical School professor Dr. Dana L. Farnworth, Oliver Professor of Hygiene Emeritus and former Vice Chairman of the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse, criticizes current drug laws making marijuana users liable for punishment and recommends that possessing less than one ounce of marijuana no longer...
...Cherrys, it appears, pulled up dirt with their roots. Last week it was old mud when Bobby Frank Cherry, 69, and Thomas E. Blanton Jr., 61, both former Ku Klux Klansmen, were indicted by an Alabama grand jury on murder charges stemming from the 1963 bombing of a church in Birmingham that killed four black girls at Sunday school. Both men maintain their innocence. The attack was one of the most horrific crimes of the civil rights era, but only one suspect in the case, Robert E. Chambliss--who was convicted of murder in 1977 and died in jail...