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...sounded like a sitcom version of The Dogs of War, after rewrites by V.S. Naipaul and Woody Allen. Even the feds joked about a "Bayou of Pigs." Ten men, mostly Southerners and mostly Ku Klux Klan members, were arrested last week by federal agents at a marina near New Orleans and charged with organizing an expedition against a friendly nation...
Speakers representing Black and gaylesbian groups praised their followers' courage for joining the anti-war movement and compared the Reagan administration to the Ku Klux Klan, the Nazi Party and the Moral Majority...
...profound psychological density brought to America by its communications works in sometimes contradictory ways. The images of blacks on network TV, for example, can encourage tolerance by overriding local or regional bigotries; for all the talk of a resurrected Ku Klux Klan, it is only a vestige and parody of the huge, white-sheeted army that once lynched with impunity over much of the South. The more profound bigotries, of course, easily manage to survive the weak civilizing influences of an interracial sitcom. At the same tune, the new, closely worked symbolism of American nationality raises expectations, sharpening all social...
...president's failure to take even a cosmetic, symbolic stand. After national circulation of the Klitgaard study, Bok vigorously apologized for any hurt caused by its disclosure, but issued no disclaimer of the report's findings. And these local events took place against a national backdrop of a Ku Klux Klan revival, an increase in racial tension in the South, and the election of a president who stands as a potential threat to affirmative action and civil rights...
Among the crowd were several Harvard students and recent alumni, including Dayna L. Cunningham '81, who said she came because the American people cannot afford to be intimidated by the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the New Right...