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...week trial-the longest in North Carolina's history-of four Ku Klux Klansmen and two members of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Party. The charges: killing five members, four white and one black, of the Communist Workers Party at a C.W.P.-sponsored "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro in November 1979. The outcome drew predictably inflammatory responses from both extremist camps. Calling the verdict "a great victory for white America," North Carolina Nazi Leader Harold Covington maintained that it proved "we can beat the system on their own ground." Signe Waller, a C.W.P. member and the widow...
...told the police shortly after the event that he had shot at least three people, testified that he grabbed his shotgun when he saw "niggers" with guns. "One of them looked up and hollered, 'I'm gonna kill you, you son of a bitch, kill the Klan,' and I took my gun up and shot at him." In fact, the prosecution established that the only people on the scene with guns that day were white...
...gunman in a speeding car fired shots at acquitted Klansman Smith as he drove along a deserted Lincoln County road. Smith, who was not hit, managed to fire back before his car crashed into a tree. Meanwhile, the C.W.P. and other organizations announced plans to hold an anti-Klan, anti-Nazi, anti-government rally in Greensboro in early December. Clearly, the city will not be allowed to forget the tragedy that took place in its streets last year...
...Cudjoe's piece, is no mere bourgeois "ideological apparatus" seeking "to make the natives fight among themselves," unlike the New York Times and the rest of "The Press." Mr. Cudjoe claims that Gershman and Klitgaard simply perpetrate "another ideological onslaught ... against Black America, the activities of the Ku Klux Klan being the more vulgar manifestation of the same phenomenon." He further accuses them of "pseudo-intellectualism and militant racist assumptions." But where is the Klan-like racism in the Klitgaard report? In pointing out test score discrepancies? If there were no such discrepancies in Black and white scores (and other...
Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology, said the verdict signifies a conservative swing across the nation. "With Reagan's election, the new 'moral majority,' the rise in racial incidents, and particularly the rise of the Klan, we seem to be entering a new dark age," he said adding that "We are living through a revival of atavistic racism--it's all very depressing...