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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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 »

...shorts of scum floated to the top of the meeting's pond. A family of career criminals who'd started out 10 years ago by robbing the houses around them every other week had prostitutes and drug dealers hanging around. A crack house was four blocks north. A local grocery was selling drug paraphenalia as more prostitutes had been pling their trade in a nearby park. Many people began to talk about moving out. Everyone felt frustrated. Where were the police...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: In the Name of Justice | 10/4/1990 | See Source »

...about the nation's current crisis in the pages of nothing less than Komsomolskaya Pravda (circ. 22 million), the mouthpiece of the Young Communist League. The 16,000-word text was also printed in Literaturnaya Gazeta (4.5 million), which only five years ago berated its author as "that vile scum of a traitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tolling The Death Knell: Solzhenitsyn urges the swift breakup of the union | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...first-year student again--the scum at the bottom of the academic pond...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Separate And Unequal Academies | 9/22/1990 | See Source »

...Take two scum of the earth," he said."Reverend [Louis] Farrakhan and Rabbi [Meir]Kahane. Both have the right to speak. If Farrakhancame he'd be allowed to speak; if Kahane camethey'd break up the meeting," said Koch, referringrespectively to the Muslim nationalist accused ofanti-semitism and the Israeli Knesset member whohas taken strong anti-Palestinian positions...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: Koch Draws Audience Fire | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

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