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- GRAPEVINE, Page 31Suits Against White Sheets
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- Morris Dees, the Alabama civil rights lawyer who bankrupted
- a major national office of the Ku Klux Klan, is planning to
- bust another hate group: WAR, the White Aryan Resistance. Dees
- will soon go to court in Portland in a personal-damage suit
- against WAR leader Tom Metzger, charging that he and his
- organization provoked a group of local neo-Nazi skinheads into
- beating an Ethiopian immigrant to death in November 1988. Dees,
- director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, says he will prove
- that Metzger's "agents" met with the Portland thugs a day
- before the killing and urged them on to violence. Dees
- pioneered his anti-hate group strategy in 1987, when he helped
- the family of a man lynched by racists to sue the United Klans
- of America office of the K.K.K. rather than the individual
- murderers. The $7 million judgment shut down the organization.
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