DUKE RE-EMERGES IN SENATE RACE.Byline: Kevin McGill Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. David Duke is back, fussing about forced integration, fuming fuming /fum·ing/ (fum´ing) emitting a visible vapor. fum·ing adj. Producing or emitting smoke or vapor, as for certain concentrated nitric, sulfuric, and hydrochloric acids. over the destruction of the nation's white Christian heritage and even linking airline disasters to affirmative action affirmative action, in the United States, programs to overcome the effects of past societal discrimination by allocating jobs and resources to members of specific groups, such as minorities and women. . Once an avowed a·vow tr.v. a·vowed, a·vow·ing, a·vows 1. To acknowledge openly, boldly, and unashamedly; confess: avow guilt. See Synonyms at acknowledge. 2. To state positively. Nazi sympathizer and Ku Klux Klan Ku Klux Klan (k  ' klŭks klăn), designation mainly given to two distinct secret societies that played a part in American history, although other less important groups have also used leader, Duke is a candidate for U.S. Senate. In 1996 he hopes to reclaim the political legitimacy he was briefly accorded in 1989, when he won a seat in the Legislature, and in 1990 when he took 44 percent of the vote in losing to Democratic Sen. J. Bennett Johnston. A Republican, Duke faces 14 other candidates Sept. 21 in Louisiana's open primary for Johnston's vacated seat. If no candidate wins outright, the two top vote-getters, regardless of party, will compete in a runoff on Nov. 5. Duke rattled the political establishment in 1990 when he won 44 percent of the vote in the Senate contest. In 1991, he made the runoff for governor, placing second with almost one-third of the vote. |
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