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FBI investigating threat
Jackson cal
By The Associated Press
ATLANTA ? Citing a death threat from the Ku Klux
Klan and menace from other right-wing militants, Jesse
Jackson's Democratic presidential campaign Monday
renewed a call for early Secrct Service protection.
But the Treasury Department, of which the Secret Service
is a part, said no decision on early protection for candidates
had been made.
Frank Watkins, Jackson's press secretary, said the
latest threat was relayed by the FBI on Friday.
"We were notified that leaders of a small Ku Klux Klan
Rroup in South Carolina had made threats to kill the Rev.
Jackson during 'Black November,'" Watkins said.
Deborah Wade, a spokeswoman for the Civil Rights
Division of the Justicc Department, confirmed that the
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Both sides have reported progress sources in Kabul as
on completing the treaty. President bachev hopes t<
Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail withdrawal before
Gorbachev hope to sign such as an year.
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be postponed unless some problems to withdraw its troo
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straining U.S.-Soviet relations. government.
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FBI was investigating the report. ^
"We take any threat very seriously," she said. i
Watkins said the alleged Klan plot and an earlier, mail- s
ed threat from Baton Rouge, La., which was reported to
the Secret Service, warranted immediate protection for 1
larkson. I
The alleged Klan plot was unearthed this past week by I
the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala. |
Morris Dees, executive director of the SPLC, said his |
civil rights law firm had notified the Justice Department
this past Thursday after getting sworn affadavits from
two members of the South Carolina Klan group. 5
"Our investigators took these threats- seriously," he ?
said. "The Klan is getting smaller and smaller these days, 1
and we think its leaders want to do something spectacular.
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efforts to restore that "outside interference," meaning
n, where Moslem support of the rebels, must end first,
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We've heard from some Klan sources that its leaders think
t would be great if Jesse Jackson were killed in the South,
iparking an eruption of violence between the races."
Vice President George Bush, a candidate for the
Republican presidential nomination, is the only candidate
protected by the Secret Service. Jackson and former
elevision evangelist Pat Robertson, a Republican
presidential hopeful, have been asking for Secret Service
protection since early October.
In his campaign for the Democratic nomination four
/ears ago, Jackson reported 314 death threats and was
issigned Secret Service agents at the beginning of
November instead of January, the usual starting date.
T his time, he submitted his request for Secret Service proBlood
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"We were told that thev would set ud the criteria in 1
about three weeks, but wc still haven't heard anything
back," Watkins said.
Watkins said the government would have to answer for 1 -;r
any harm that came to Jackson, the only black seeking a
major party nomination. ' L"
Richard Adams, spokesman for the Secret Service in \
Washington, noted that the decision on when protection }
begins and who gets is made on the basis of guidelines set ! ^
by a five-member advisory panel composed of the speaker
and minority leader of the House, the majority and
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