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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 1, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                So Uno of him by Dudley Clendinen new York times beyond the sheer size of Iho Jan 24 civil rights March thai fixed the Fown of gumming. A. Or the armed Force necessary to guard it it was the violence of feeling awaiting if that stays in the memory of those who witnessed in. Ii was the sound of Hale thai is so indelible Lorene and James lord heard in a week earlier when a first interracial group of about 60 people Gol off a bus and attempted to walk Lor brotherhood Down a county Road into town. The curses and angry screams that greeted hem had a distinctive Lores of their own. At is House two Miles away through the Fields and Woods the Way the wind was blowing i could hear the Racket lord said come Oul Here and listen to his mess he remembers calling to Lorene. You can hear thai Bunch Way Over  mama gof scared and locked the door mrs. Lord said. The lords Are farm bom country people. Like most people in Forsyth county they stayed away from both saturday demonstrations because they fear the racist feeling that a Black presence stirs in some circles. Ii was a feeling that spread from Forsyth to new York. I was  said rabbi James Rudin of the american jewish Commilles. Who first marched for Black civil rights in Halli Osburg miss., in 1964. I Vegol to left you when we came in there was a real sense of  Rudin Speaks from the perspective of Middle age but on both sides this March was primarily a phenomenon of the younger generation Black and White from their place on the Road squeezed in by protective flanks of armoured lawmen the Young faces looked up in silent incredulity Al the invective pouring Down on them from he crowd of Whites of the same age atop a Rise. While rash while rash Nigger lovers the whiles above shouted at the whiles below. You re worse Nan a trigger a and to the upturned Black faces in was go Home Nigger go  and Ihen from the Mouths of Young women and men some of them carrying babies and children on their shoulders Here was worse. A Hundred Community leaders ministers businessmen Public officials and the like had formed up to Welcome the marchers to show them that Forsyth county has a decent spirit and a Friendly face to invite them for Coffee As one said. But they were promptly locked up in the courthouse for their own Protection by the Georgia Bureau of investigation. The crowd thai massed along the March route was a different one. Young bearded or stringy haired dressed in work Caps and boots plaid flannel shirts and jeans military fatigues or bib overalls festooned with Confederate emblems they in gumming a. Had the unmistakable look of the poor White Rural underclass. Like Mike Turpin unemployed at 23, and his Friend David Cunningham 1 a who said he was a plumber they share an alienation from the interracial Urban South symbolized by Atlanta. Instead they find Pride in whiteness and in the past. I was born in Atlanta but we moved up Here to get away from at the trash in Atlanta Turpin said. But now Atlanta is pushing North spreading the characterless affluence of the new South across the Hills and fake sides of Forsyth county changing its society they might gel away with marching Cunningham said in a voice grim but Boyish Asha watched tha Low of the March behind the National guardsmen facing him but g in they re going to move in Herel Larry g. Wright 30, is a machinist who lives in neighbouring Cherokee county. A lot of it has to do with being bom and raised right Here in he Southern society he said standing in dark glasses and a Confederate Cap. Ii b inbred in me and if s going to be inbred in my kids. Loo. Trial s just the Way it is we re White and we re  like his Friend John Fowler lean and red haired and vibrant with what May have been Pride and Ike the great majority of the 56 Whites arrested Jan. 24, Wright is Loo Young to have watched or fell the effect of the civil rights movement of the 19509 and 19609. And living As the did in the culture where they were it never touched them. We Don t want it to Fowler said. My family goes Back in this part of the country for 200 years. We Don t want it to  Fowler and Wright say they Are klan sympathizers not klansmen. And David Parroff an Amateur photographer and klan Hanger on who took pictures that first saturday Jan. 17, said klan activity is nol limited to Rural southerners payroll who was arrested of impersonating a Law enforcement officer after events began to Lurn ugly Jan. 24, said he has been to meetings of the Stone Mountain Lavern outside Atlanta. It seems to me that there Are More klansmen from the Worth now than if Ere Are from the South he said. And they come Down with More haired. Basically they re from Illinois and Michigan the Northern Industrial states. Most of them have lost their jobs. They blame in on the Blacks. I Don l know How they tie it  the Friend he went Wilh that first saturday is a card carrying Klansman originally from Ohio Parrot said he s die hard As far As racism  but in what May be a testament to the change in territorial scale wrought in the apartment spaces of the new South the Friend lives in almost entirely Black apartment Complex in metropolitan Atlanta because its rents Are so Low he would t move for anything Par Rolf said. He s got his Lilette Confederate Flag inside and everything s  Deputy sheriff Holdt Back Kun Tux klan member not of., which was halted at the Halfway paint the Cash aft Page 14 the stars and stripes Mississippi by Gerald m. Boyd new York times Arry 3peakes has been the main press voice of the while House since the press Secretary James s. Brady was wounded in the assassination attempt on president Reagan in March 1981. This week Speaks will leave the White House to become a vice pre elder for communications Al the investment concern Merrill Lynch & co. As one of the longest survivors among Reagan a senior White House aides speaker 47, has Ama Stet reputation As Crafty and combative much in the a at his Mississippi Catfish nickname. Warmed by it blazing lire in his spacious West Wing Ollice and sipping a diet cola he relaxed a bit the other Day and reminisced about his years in Washington and about his Job. 0. Of tha press doing Good Job of covering flu White House a. The press does a Good Job and has for the six i period i be been Here. They have covered us fairly to toe covered us in depth. They have held our feet to the fire. That s their role i do question the press preoccupation with Mimi la there was a. Time in shia business that tha Lead Story was determined by the number of people it affect. Now it seems that the key ingredient end the no. T determinant of news is controversy and even mores it s personal conflict. The budget tha basis for everything we do in government in a no hum item on not a news Story until you Gal the conflict Between the Secretary of defense and bomb. Should a Whit Home try to Stop or control Preis reports we decide policies that we think Are Good policem and we try to explain them As Good policies. But Bier no Way that you can pull the Wool Over he eyes of the press and control the news. We try to be More action sunday  
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