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Klan still strong
in some states
United Press International
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Al
though Ku Klux Klan ranks have
been declining overall for several
years, factions in Georgia and North
Carolina seem to be bucking the
trend, according to a report by an
anti-defamation group.
The Birmingham News Sunday
said a special report by the Anti-Def
amation League of B’nai B’rith
claims Klan membership peaked in
1981 and since then has shown a
steady decline.
The report says Klan membership
in 1973 was about 5,000 nationwide
and in 1981 peaked at about 11,500.
But in 1982, the membership
dropped to 10,000 and to less than
6,500 as of Nov. 1.
The report, however, notes that
the Klan has had fluctuations in
membership before and has “shown
an uncanny capacity to rise from the
ashes.”
The report says the exceptions to
the rule of declining membership
are in North Carolina and Georgia.
A group in western Georgia has
grown from 100 to 300 in two years,
while a North Carolina faction has
about 125 members the report calls
hard-core.
“There are some small trouble
spots that pop up now and then
along the Afabama-Georgia border,”
said Randall Williams, head of Klan-
watch, an arm of the Southern Pov
erty Law Center in Montgomery.
The report, which notes there are
three main Klan groups, attributes
the decline to financial and lead
ership problems arising from the
jailing of one leader, Don Black of
Birmingham, and the resignation of
another, Bill Wilkinson, of Denham
Springs, La.
Black was released Nov. 15 from a
Texas prison after serving two years
for violating the Neutrality Act.
Black and 10 others were arrested in
New Orleans before they could
launch a planned invasion of the Ca
ribbean island nation of Dominica.
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United Press International
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Ju-
lilant Uruguayans, alerted by the
Sarasou- test of a foghorn sounding the
g of polls, voted Sunday in
national elections to choose a civilian
overnment and end more than 11
S ears of hard-fisted military rule.
I Electoral coordinator Carlos Per-
irasaid more than 90 percent of the
Jountry’s 2,197,503 voters cast bal
ks at the nation’s 7,872 polling sta
tions.
Official results based on 3.4 per-
ent of the national turnout — esti-
nated at more than 2 million —
howed the centrist Colorado party
that has ruled Uruguay for all but
eight years this century was ahead
with 38 percent of the vote.
The center-left Blanco party fol
lowed with 34.6 percent of the vote,
and the leftist Broad Front coalition,
which includes Communists, Social
ists, Christian Democrats and inde
pendents, had 15.8 percent.
In Montevideo, where half the
country’s voters live and where the
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Broad Front was running a close sec
ond to the Colorado party.
They voted to elect a president,
vice president, 129 members of Par
liament, 19 provincial mayors and
hundreds of provincial council
members. Voting is mandatory and
the new government takes office in
March.
Interior Minister Julio Rapela, an
army general, called the high turn
out “very important” because it
“confirms what the armed forces set
out to do — to give voters the chance
to freely choose their leaders.”
When radio loudspeakers set up
on Montevideo’s main avenue an
nounced polls had closed, a mile-
long parade of gaily decorated cars
streamed through the city, their
horns honking, to celebrate the first
democratic elections in 13 years.
Children set off firecrackers and
schoolgirls danced in the street, wav
ing colorful flags from the six politi
cal parties that participated in the
elections.
“This is the most beautiful thing
I’ve ever seen in my life,” said 22-
year-old student Ramon Alfredo
Perez. “This is the first time I’ve
voted, and I don’t care who wins, as
long as the military stays out of the
government palace for a long, long
time.”
“I can’t believe it — democracy is
here at last,” said one 35-year-old
voter in the capital. “They’re actually
going to let us vote.”
The military government led by
army Gen. Gregorio Alvarez agreed
to hold elections after voters in 1980
rejected a new constitution that
would have given the armed forces a
permanent voice in a civilian govern
ment.
The newspaper El Dia sounded a
foghorn used only to mark extraor
dinary events, announcing the open
ing of the polls. Jubilant voters burst
into applause and bus and car driv
ers leaned on their horns in a noisy
celebration.
On to the fish pond
Photo by PETER ROCHA
Head yell leader Kelly Joseph is carried off
the field by freshmen cadets following the
Aggies’ win over TCU. The yell leaders are
thrown in the fish pond after each victory.
U.S. Embassy in Lisbon attacked
United Press International
LISBON, Portugiil — Assailants
fired four mortar shells at the U.S.
Embassy compound in Lisbon Sun
day, damaging three parked cars in
side the walled complex but causing
no injuries, an embassy spokesman
said.
The leftist Peoples Forces guer
rilla group claimed responsibility for
the predawn attack, saying it was
mounted to protest “the imperialistic
U.S. interference in Portugal.”
The barrage, apparently timed to
mark the ninth anniversary of an
aborted rebellion bv leftist military
officers, came a month after a
loaded double-barreled grenade
launcher was found 100 yards away
from the embassy and dismantled by
security forces.
Only U.S. Marines and Portu
guese guards were on duty at the
embassy when “four 60mm mortar
rounds impacted in and around” the
modernistic compound, which was
opened in July 1983, U.S. Embassy
spokesman Steven Chaplin said.
Chaplin said three of the mortars
exploded inside the compound, fall
ing “considerably short of the em
bassy building.”
A fourth shell exploded outside
the walled complex, Chaplin said.
“Nobody was hurt and there was
no structural damage to embassy
buildings,” he said.
The FP-25 claimed responsibility
for the attack in statements found in
garbage cans around the city. Anon
ymous telephone call directed re
porters to the statements.
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