Word: neos
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...blood bank area, the Brigham and Women's and the Children's Hospitals are already looking to consolidate these functions into one," he said, adding that the two hospitals also already have a joint program in neo-natology...
Poinsett and Ta-Har represent the lunatic fringe of the talk-show spectrum. But they are far from lonely voices. White supremacists, neo-Nazis and other extremists have found a comfortable, if not quite welcoming, home on cable's public-access channels. In 1991 the Anti-Defamation League counted 57 different "hate shows" across the country. The audience for these crudely produced and crudely reasoned programs is relatively tiny. But the virulence of their message has roused protests from New York City to Pocatello, Idaho, and launched a classic battle between community standards and First Amendment rights...
...Poinsett's show, inspired by Metzger's and also called Race and Reason, is even more extreme. An unabashed neo-Nazi, Poinsett asserts that "America is becoming darker and dumber every day" and considers Rudolf Hess and Adolf Hitler "the greatest white men who ever lived." When his show began running in New York City in January, viewer protests forced the program's local sponsor to withdraw it. Poinsett was appalled. "I am a political dissident," he says. "The First Amendment was meant for people like...
...somewhat more sedate fashion. "We don't use four-letter words, and there's no hollering or yelling," says Richard Barrett, 49, a New York-born lawyer who heads the right-wing Nationalist Movement and is Airlink's producer and host. There are, however, plenty of approving words for neo-Nazi groups and whites who arm themselves against violent minorities. Barrett, who says his show airs in 60 markets, is the most litigious of the hate-TV crowd. He | has sued the city of Houston over a $100 fee it charges to non-locally produced access programs, and is waging...
...hopes of defusing neo-Nazi violence, Germany's parliament voted overwhelmingly to tighten the country's liberal immigration laws, which had allowed about 1,000 foreigners to enter Germany each day. Despite the vote, suspicious fires broke out in several buildings housing refugees. One blaze killed five Turks, including two young girls, and injured...