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- NATION, Page 41American NotesELECTIONSKu Klux Klandidate
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- David Duke claims to have abdicated the title of imperial
- wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Now he wants a new
- one: Louisiana state legislator. Last month Duke, 38, finished
- first with 33% of the vote in a nonpartisan election for
- representative from Metairie, a white suburb of New Orleans. In a
- runoff this week he faces runner-up John Treen, 63, a local
- builder and the brother of former Governor David Treen. Duke
- denies he is a racist and says coyly that he supports "civil
- rights for all people." Duke, who says he heads an outfit
- called the National Association for the Advancement of White
- People, still has the same address and phone number as the local
- Ku Klux Klan headquarters.
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