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...former Nazi and Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard ran for Governor of Louisiana in a campaign based on an open appeal to white people who feel they are being cheated of their American birthright by blacks, immigrants, liberals, New Yorkers and similar bogeys...
Throughout the campaign, Edwards supporters warned that if Louisiana elected a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan as Governor, a wave of revulsion would sweep business, tourism, conventions and jobs out of the state. Duke skillfully manipulated the politics of discontent, playing on resentment of quotas, welfare and Big Government. He railed against Edwards' liberalism and his penchant for gambling and womanizing and trading government jobs for campaign contributions. But in the end, the bumper sticker won the day: VOTE FOR THE CROOK: IT'S IMPORTANT. Concluding that electing a bigot would be too costly to a state...
...buzzing about Peninsula's long-awaited, 56-page special issue on homosexuality. Alejandro E. Reuss '93 called it "bigoted." Adam D. Feldman '95 decried its "hate and innuendo." An outraged Sandi L. Dubowski '92, co-chair of the Bisexual Gay and Lesbian Students Association compared Peninsula to the Klu Klux Klan...
Harvard students interviewed yesterday expressed relief that former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke lost in his bid for the governorship of Louisiana Saturday...
...Republican glass that was half full contained muddy water. In Mississippi businessman Kirk Fordice ousted Governor Ray Mabus, a progressive Democrat. But Fordice's anti-liberal, antiquota, anti-welfare campaign had a strong racial undercurrent that could prove embarrassing to the national G.O.P. -- especially since ex-Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, running as a Republican, may well ride the same themes into the Louisiana Governor's mansion in this week's runoff...