
DATE: Monday, July 21, 1997                 TAG: 9707210029

SECTION: FRONT                   PAGE: A4   EDITION: FINAL 

TYPE: Focus 

SOURCE: BY WES SMITH, CHICAGO TRIBUNE 

DATELINE: CENTRALIA, ILL.                   LENGTH:   25 lines

FOCUS: THE KKK COMES APART WITH ANTI-GOVERNMENT AND MILITIA GROUPS CLAIMING THE SPOTLIGHT IN RECENT YEARS, THE ONCE-POWERFUL KU KLUX KLAN HAS FALLEN ON HARD TIMES, WEAKENED BY SPLINTERING WITHIN AND LAWSUITS WITHOUT.

MEMO: [Complete text of this story can be found on the microfilm for

this date.] ILLUSTRATION: Associated Press

President Clinton...

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Norman Olson...

Knight-Ridder Tribune KEYWORDS: KKK KU KLUX KLAN

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