Word: ku
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...People, Nation and Society sections. Approaching her assignments as a terrier does a trouser cuff, she hustled an exclusive interview with University of Michigan cyberpornographer Jake Baker days before his arrest by the FBI. She also uncovered a potentially dangerous internal revolt by a breakaway militant faction of the Ku Klux Klan...
...membership in a white supremacist group. One Marine testified that he had supplied the White Patriot Party, a white supremacist group, with explosives and weapons. In 1991 an Army Green Beret sergeant pleaded guilty to stockpiling weapons and explosives and funneling them to white supremacist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan. Pentagon officials admit they are troubled by the existence of two underground newsletters circulated in military bases, the Resister and the Groundhog, which espouse some of the same radical antigovernment beliefs as the controversial militias linked to the Nichols brothers...
...claims that the gunman, Michael Griffin, was influenced by the group's violent rhetoric. "We don't have to show that anyone else pulled the trigger but that the shooting was encouraged to stop abortions," explains Dees, who has won two similar "wrongful death'' cases, against the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama and a white supremacist group in Oregon...
...year-old Liberty Counsel in Orlando, Florida. "In the '80s we discovered we must enter the mainstream to assert those liberties." Along with a number of school-prayer cases, the Liberty Counsel has advocated free speech in an amicus Supreme Court brief on behalf of the Ku Klux Klan, which wants to erect a cross on the Ohio statehouse grounds. Other legal groups focus on defending antiabortion activists, while the Rutherford Institute, established in 1982, concentrates on what founder John Whitehead calls "legitimate civil liberties cases," such as school prayer and home schooling...
...years as the nation's premier civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has faced snarling police dogs, cross-burning Ku Klux Klansmen and murderous assaults on its members. But none of these posed as dangerous a threat to the N-Double-A's continued survival as the group's own recent leadership. Under the feckless sway of William F. Gibson, an inarticulate but wily South Carolina dentist who has chaired the group since 1985, the organization has sunk into near bankruptcy--both financially and intellectually. Says Michael Meyers, a former n.a.a.c.p. staff member...