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...Senate, Baker has aimed with a Tennessee marksman's instinct for the middle of most domestic political issues. He favors a constitutional amendment to achieve a balanced budget, but he also wants a provision to authorize deficit spending by a two-thirds vote of Congress. He backs the Equal Rights Amendment, but he voted against extending the deadline for ratification. He supported most civil rights legislation and sponsored clean air and water bills that created extensive new Government regulations. Today he is a staunch opponent of Big Government and excessive regulation. In foreign policy issues, Baker has taken independent...
...aggressive activity by the Klan. The racist organization has recently been challenged by a dogmatic Maoist group, the Workers Viewpoint Organization. It has perhaps 200 members, most of them in Los Angeles and New York City but a dozen or so in the Greensboro and Durham areas. In July two of the leftists showed up at a Klan rally in tiny China Grove, N.C., where they banged on doors, burned a Confederate flag, and got into fistfights with Klansmen...
Last month Viewpoint members passed out handbills inviting people to a "Death to the Klan" protest march on Saturday, Nov. 3, in a mostly black section of the city. The Maoist group urged the Klansmen to attend. Taunted March Organizer Paul Bermanzohn: "We invite you and your two-bit punks to come out and face the wrath of the people." The handbill described the Klan as "the most treacherous scum element produced by the dying system of capitalism...
...seat of the lead car. He had a pistol. We shouted, 'He's got a gun!' Then I heard the firing start." Said Truck Driver Jeff Rackley: "It was just like a war movie, with everybody shooting all over the place and people screaming. I saw two people go down, a man and a woman." Added Photographer Don Davis: "One guy laid across the back end of the car and blew the side of a guy's head off." Clair Burton, her face caked with blood, told how a woman died in her arms. Said Burton...
...soon as we could," insisted Police Chief William Swing in response to mounting criticism. "Until we saw weapons, no laws had been violated." All of the dead were anti-Klan demonstrators: Sandra Smith of Piedmont, S.C., and Caesar Cauce, William Samson and Jim Waller, residents of Greensboro. Wounded were two Klansmen and eight demonstrators, including Bermanzohn. Police arrested 14 people, including two marchers and twelve Klansmen. The Klan members were charged with murder. One demonstrator was charged with inciting to riot, the other with interfering with an officer...