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...Against Israel. Scooping all other Swedish papers as well as the police, the exposé revealed that Lundahl, who also belongs to the U.S. Ku Klux Klan, had been negotiating for some time with the United Arab Republic. He had asked for Egyptian arms, with which a prospective 1,000 Nazi followers would seize Stockholm. In return, Lundahl promised to confiscate all Jewish property in Sweden, execute important Jews, and provide the U.A.R. with 5,000 troops in a war against Israel...
...storm was almost as violent. The man responsible was Tariq Ali, 21, a publicity-happy Pakistani studying at Oxford's Exeter College, who as president of the Union selects the topic of its weekly debates. His choice won him threats from Britain's fledgling Ku Klux Klan ("Watch out, you dirty wog"), four television appearances (worth $56), and 18 newspaper interviews. Letters poured in to editors, who responded with crisp editorials, and the BBC said it would televise the debate. Ali's cup ranneth over when two trustees of the Union resigned and a third, Sir David...
...SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.).*A profile of Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard Robert M. Shelton, presiding over two Klan rallies and discussing the history and objectives of the Klan...
...transplanted Floridian; Circuit Judge Thomas Werth Thagard, 63, a gently humorous man with a long and respected record of public service; the soft-spoken prosecutor, Circuit Solicitor Arthur E. Gamble Jr., 45; the melodramatic defense attorney, Matt H. Murphy Jr., 51, self-described "Imperial Klonsel" of the Ku Klux Klan; the defendant himself, a bored auto mechanic, potbellied despite his youth; Robert Shelton, Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, who sat at the defense table providing moral support and advice until the judge requested him to take a seat elsewhere; and the two key prosecution witnesses-Negro Leroy...
...boys" who conquered the frontier. Having met few Negroes in his own travels out West, Wister could see no reason to sully the racial purity of his novel. Other writers were not so passive in their bigotry; Thomas Dixon wrote a popular novel singing the praises of the Ku Klux Klan upon which "Birth of a Nation" was based...