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...Widow and the Wizard" brought back vivid memories of my experience in Laurel, Miss., in early 1966 [LAW, May 18]. I was an FBI special agent who had been sent to Laurel along with numerous other agents. We were involved in the investigation of the fire-bombing murder of Vernon Dahmer by the Ku Klux Klan. Klan leader Sam Bowers would often sit across the street from the Laurel FBI office in his souped-up 1940 black Ford. He usually was with another Klansman. They were "surveilling" us, the FBI. Bowers' Klan organization was known as the White Knights...
...primary would be a shootout between Harman, an astute but little-known politician whose campaign is based on equal parts of gender (57% of California Democrats are women) and wealth (her husband, audio-component magnate Sidney Harman, has given millions to her cause), and Checchi, a leveraged-buyout wizard who has already spent $30 million on the primary, a record for a statewide campaign. Checchi's commercials have been blitzing viewers since November; he hired Bill Clinton's pollster, Ted Kennedy's media man, a cadre of 29 policy wonks and even a platoon of temps to cheer...
...local lawmen winked and looked the other way. Forrest County, named after Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Confederate general and patron saint of the K.K.K., charged 14 Klansmen with murder and arson. Five were convicted or pleaded guilty and received life sentences. But not Sam Bowers, the Klan's Imperial Wizard for Mississippi, whom prosecutors accused of ordering and planning the murder--and whom Klan experts describe as the most dangerous man ever to don a white hood...
Samuel Holloway Bowers is a Klan leader right out of central casting. One of his grandfathers was a wealthy Louisiana planter; another was Eaton J. Bowers, a Mississippi Congressman from 1903 to 1911. But as Imperial Wizard of the Klan in Mississippi, Bowers compiled an unequaled record of murder and mayhem. Klan experts suspect him of orchestrating more than 300 bombings, assaults and arsons, plus nine murders. He served six years in prison for conspiracy in connection with the deaths of Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney, the civil rights workers whose killings were depicted in the movie Mississippi...
...company, owned by Houston-based junk bond wizard Charles Hurwitz, would just as soon swat this photogenic Butterfly off her tree. It has disrupted her sleep with air horns and floodlights, placed 24-hour guards around the tree in an aborted effort to cut off supplies from her support team, and sent in chain saws and helicopters to harvest around her. On a video distributed by Earth First, helicopter blades are shown churning the branches of Butterfly's aerie, as a hard hat shouts from below, "Get ready for a bad hair...