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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, January 9, 1993                   TAG: 9301270324
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 3   EDITION: METRO  
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

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RELIGION BRIEFS

Logo use causes flap

In response to a report last week that the United Methodist Church might sue the Ku Klux Klan for the KKK's use of the church's cross and flame logo on klan materials klansman Ronald Mason has announced that the material "was printed by someone without clearance from our imperial office." Mason, who identified himself to United Methodist Communications of Nashville as a clergyman and the imperial klaliff of the KKK, said the regional klan office in Kansas City, Mo., is being investigated for its use of the logo and "Klan groups will be encouraged to go back to our usual symbol of the machine gun."

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