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...cited not just Pat Buchanan, not just George Bush, but also the Arkansas governor. "Clinton's talking about workfare instead of welfare," said the former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard...
...become a familiar figure on Oscar night, both because this was his seventh Academy Award and because he is a towering gent with lank white hair and a serene face. That picture -- of a modern Merlin holding a gold totem -- is appropriate, for Muren, 45, is a wizard in the movie craft of computer graphics. In the bland ILM barracks in San Rafael, Calif., he and his merry alchemists wave a little wand over their Silicon Graphics VGX 340 terminals, and out comes the magic...
...when he arrived at Chrysler from Ford following his own bitter ouster by Henry Ford II. The first heir apparent was Harold Sperlich, who preceded Iacocca from Ford and developed the K-car line of compact autos that kept Chrysler alive in the early 1980s. Then came financial wizard Gerald Greenwald, also from Ford, in 1979. As Sperlich faded, Greenwald rose to become vice chairman. Just as he was approaching the throne, however, Iacocca plucked another Ford star in 1986, when he hired Lutz as executive vice president...
...William F. Buckley (whose opinions you seem to respect) wrote in the December 30 issue of National Review, "The linkage [of Duke and Buchanan] is morally irresponsible....Duke the sometime KKK wizard and Nazi enthusiast is as reasonably linked with Buchanan as Norman Thomas is with Stalin." That is to say, not very...
CAREER: Joined Ku Klux Klan in 1973 and in 1975 became leader or Grand Wizard. In 1980, left Klan amid charges he tried to sell secret membership rolls. Same year founded the National Association for the Advancement of White People. Louisiana state representative, 1989-91. Unsuccessfully sought Democratic nomination for President for U. S. Senate in 1990 and Louisiana governor...