Word: virginia
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...life of a Jewish klansman is not chopped liver. Jordan Gollub, who was born of Jewish parents in Philadelphia, managed despite that fact to become Grand Dragon of the Virginia chapter of the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. In 1985 he was dismissed by Virgil Griffin, the self-proclaimed national leader of the anti-black, anti-Semitic hate group. Gollub contends that it was not his Jewish origins that led to his ouster, but an intra-Klan factional dispute. Undeterred, Gollub moved on to Mississippi and snaked his way back into becoming that state's Klan leader. Last...
Other states are scrambling to enter the video age. Last January the Kentucky Education Network began beaming probability-and-statistics classes into 65 far-flung high schools. By September Virginia expects to have earth stations at every one of its 289 high schools. Private networks, such as the Texas-based TI-IN Network, go even further, sending instruction to more than 750 school districts in 29 states...
...Panama Canal was the centerpiece of relations between the U.S. and Panama. Yet in 1984 the Reagan Administration did not regard U.S. interests as threatened by the challenge to Panamanian democracy. So why is Washington so obsessed now about democracy in a country barely larger than West Virginia? And why is it apoplectic about the ouster of a dictator whom it comfortably did business with for many years? The answers rest less with quantifiable strategic and economic interests than with U.S. credibility and prestige...
...chief intermediary in selling weapons to Iran and diverting the profits to the contras; on nine counts of lying to and obstructing congressional investigating committees; in Washington. Each charge upon conviction carries a maximum sentence of five years' imprisonment and $250,000 in fines. Secord was convicted in a Virginia court of drunk driving. He was given a suspended 30-day jail sentence and ordered to pay a $200 fine...
...West Virginia's spectacular landscape belies the conditions facing its inhabitants: dying coal towns and widespread rural poverty and illiteracy. When a coal-company manager was hustled off to prison last month in Huntington for his role in a vote-buying scheme, it seemed simply more of the same: a handful of predators picking over the ruins of a once booming coal economy, and a stagnant, wasteful government...