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Moral ambiguities abounded. In Janesville, Wis., Riley watched as anti-Klan demonstrators violently battled police while Klan members stood peacefully on a hill. "The protesters hit me in the stomach with a can of Coke hurled from 100 ft. away," recalls Mike. "Klan leader Thom Robb is a friendly soul who welcomed us into his home for a spaghetti dinner. He loves his family, but he's looked at the world from upside down for so long that hate has become love and evil has become good...
...repulsed by chilly blasts from a fire hose. Eventually the frustrated crowd began to pelt the cops with mud, rocks, bottles and obscenities. The police made eight arrests. For the man whose presence triggered the violence, no outcome could have been better. "Oh, yeah," said Grand Wizard Thom Robb of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. "I couldn't have bought this advertising for a million bucks...
...life -- the first step in the repatriation of some 375,000 people driven from their country by a 13-year civil war. But the homecoming cannot go much further until U.N. peacekeeping troops, who will soon number 16,000, are able to defuse a battle in Kompong Thom province between ^ government forces and heavily armed Khmer Rouge units...
...reign of terror resulted in more than 1 million deaths, spurned repeated U.N. mediation efforts, as did the Phnom Penh regime. A midweek parley seemed to break the ice -- for now -- and a U.N. squad was dispatched to the disputed turf. But the U.N. cannot impose peace in Kompong Thom -- or anyplace else in Cambodia. It can only make it possible for the Cambodians to do so themselves...
Catch a Rising Star--presents Gary Lazer, Thom Brown, Janine Di Tullio. 30 JFK St., Cambridge...