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...link between the Metzgers and the Portland murder, Dees alleges, was WAR national vice president David Mazzella, 20. The senior Metzger sent Mazzella to Portland in September 1988, the civil rights advocate charges, to organize East Side White Pride into a more militant street-fighting group. Dees' evidence includes a letter from John Metzger to Portland members that says Mazzella is coming "to show you how we operate." Dees charges that Mazzella promptly led the local racists out to beat up black and Hispanic victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Making War on WAR | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...kinds of liability: that WAR and the Metzgers "through their agents" encouraged the killing; that the Metzgers and the Oregon skinheads formed a "civil conspiracy" leading to murder; that Seraw's death was caused by the Metzgers' "reckless" and "negligent" selection of a violence-prone agent to organize the Portland group. "This is a plain old wrongful-death suit in a state court," explained co-counsel Rosenthal. "It is a common-law course of action that doesn't bother with fancy federal or state civil rights laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Making War on WAR | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...lawyer, WAR leader Metzger is casting himself as a beleaguered populist, but not an instigator of violence. "I'm a white racial separatist," Tom Metzger says, "and I can sit down with any person, white, black or Oriental, and talk about it." Metzger's easygoing cracker-barrel manner in Portland is belied by the angry messages he tapes for WAR telephone lines. There he calls nonwhites "mud people" and "assorted scum"; attorney Dees is "Morris the pervert"; trial judge Ancer L. Haggerty, who is black, is an "Uncle Tom"; and the trial, says Metzger, is a "legal lynching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Making War on WAR | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

Prehistory is not only Auel's passion: it has proved improbably profitable. A former credit manager at a Portland electronics firm, the mother of five, then 40, had never written a word of fiction when the idea for an Ice Age epic popped into her head in 1977. From an outline scribbled at the kitchen table grew a publishing phenomenon. The first three books have sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 18 languages. The Plains of Passage, Auel's first book since 1985, has a 1.4 million-copy advance sale. Crown Publishers has reportedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Queen of The Ice Age Romance | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

Public school makes no sense to Bo Yoder, a strapping young native of Portland, Me. "You get interested in something, and then the bell rings, and you have to go somewhere else," he says. "It sounds horrible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schooling Kids at Home | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

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