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...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...
...sent to hundreds of city leaders, stating that "Booker himself hates Newark...He is a mere publicity-stunt hound dog who is against everything and for nothing." Over the past three years, Booker's opponents have anonymously accused him of being white, gay, a tool of the Ku Klux Klan and a lover of Jews who lives in a mansion...
...profit centers. It has launched a $100 million-a-year campaign to reshape its image by backing the environment, the arts and summer camps for children with HIV or AIDS. Is it right, one asks, to discount such deeds because one condemns the source? What if the Ku Klux Klan were to institute a $1 million campaign for universal literacy, with a K.K.K. mom appearing on TV and asking, "Won't you join us in making good readers a clan we can all be proud of? Thank...