Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1986
Nation/World
University Daily Kansan
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Town doesn't want KKK to march
The Associated Press
PULASKI, Tenn. — Many whites in this southern Tennessee town of 7,500 are proud their forefathers organized the Ku Klux Klan 120 years ago to stop blacks and Northerners from seizing political power after the Civil War.
But those were different times and a different Klan, and residents say they are not enthusiastic about plans by the Klan to parade this weekend in protest of the first national observance of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.
Stacy Aymett 'Garner, who has served as major for 21 years, said, "I think the general reaction is that (residents) would prefer it not to happen. But I don't think anybody is real, excited about the thing."
Mitchell Birdsong Jr., who two years ago became the first black alderman in the city, which is about 20 percent black, said the main worry was about the town's image.
"Everybody's concerned and they'd rather for them not to come," said Birdsong. "If they (townpeople) had a choice in the matter, they (Klansmen) wouldn't be here. But this is something, unfortunately, we don't have a choice about."
The six-block march by the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is set for Saturday, two days before the national holiday in honor of King, the black civil rights leader who was assassinated April 4, 1968, while visiting Memphis to assist striking sanitation workers.
A man identified by officials as Grand Wizard Stanley McCulom applied for the parade permit Dec. 17. City Attorney Jack Henry said the Klan had a right to march as long as members wore no hoods and did not litter or obstruct traffic.
City Recorder Bob Abernathy said that McCullom lived in Tucumbia, Ala., although initial news reports listed his home as Tuscaloosa. McCullom is not listed in telephone directories for either town and could not be reached for comment.
The original Ku Klux Klan, whose name stems from the Greek word for circle, was formed by community leaders concerned about lawlessness and the rise to power of northern whites and former slaves in the Reconstructionist South.
It developed into a vigilante group that used disguises, such as colorful hoods and robes, and midnight rides
to play on the fears and superstitions of those former slaves.
The Klan spread and in 1867 former Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest became Grand Wizard. The Tennessee Legislature passed an anti-Klan law in 1869, and Forrest ordered the group disbanded, saying it had accomplished its goal by protecting the lifetimes of southern whites.
In 1915, a second Ku Klux Klan was formed in Georgia by ex-missioner William J. Simmons, incorporating anti-Semitism and anti-Catholicism. The Klan experienced another revival in the 1906 when it was linked to attacks on blacks and civil rights workers.
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Testing increased, group says
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The United States conducted between 12 and 19 unannounced underground nuclear weapons tests from 1980 to 1984, an environmental group said yesterday. Citing research based on public sources of information, the Natural Resources Defense Council said the tests indicated that the Reagan administration had stepped up the pace of nuclear weapons research, despite government figures indicating a rate of testing stable since the Carter administration.
Eight of the unannounced tests could be confirmed based on information obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey or the Hagfors Observatory in Sweden, which detected them in 1983 and 1984, the report said.
Robert Norris, a political scientist and one of four researchers who collaborated on the study, said, "This is indicative of an accelerated pattern
"At least four — and possibly as many as 11 — (other) tests apparently escaped detection," suggesting experiments with very small nuclear devices, the report said.
that goes directly contrary to many of the things that Mr. Reagan and (Defense Secretary Caspar) Weinberger publicly state.
While no concrete evidence was available, Norris suggested the smallest tests could be related to Reagan's Star Wars research effort.
"They speak of their desire to get rid of nuclear weapons, but they're building more of them and they are spending more on nuclear testing. And they are operating under a policy of keeping some tests secret on a theory, I believe, that announcing all tests would draw attention.
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