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The Aryan Nations’ two-day summer congress, according to # source at the B'nai _ Berith’s Anti-Defamation League (ADL), igniting gssoline in city sewer systems. Gordon (Jack) Mohr, the 69- P brigadier general in Harreil’s mili- tia who gave the lessons in sabotage, says The ADL, however, is skeptical. “If they’re ronning a course on 2 state of war against the ” says David Lehbrer, adopt violent, tactics. FBI's Revell would say only that “we are aware of such a meeting.“ Pingie: “This is the start of another witch hust,” argues Robert Miles, a former KKK grand dragon and now pastor of the pretty Coboctah, Mich. Mountais Church 2 Miles, who served six years in federal pri fee, however, LRM Ngni-wing vans ill escalate. “There are young, very intelli t white Aryan people who are starting ee forth i ° ° ae that it és right is recruiting in the nation’s jails. George Scout, a Texas Aryan Nations and Klan leader, says the prison network is ex- tensive; in one Texas prison alone, more than img Est. Aryan Nations supporter Donny Harvey, who is serving 34 years in a Texas maximum-security prison, has filed a free- dom-of-religion lawsuit alleging denied the right to ice Identity doc- trine of to bave visits from an Identi- ty minister. “Can you imagine?” says Gil- bert. “We've got a guy on death row in Ohio and they won't even let him have a copy of ‘Mein Kampf.” Authorities in many states argue for bot pursuit of the radical rig een osse Comitatus’s two most prominent leaders were jailed for impersonating public ofScials. As s result, Posse beadquarters Harrell there—“Constitution Township of Tiger- ton Dells”—has evolved from a vigilante . stronghold into something of a ghost town. “Whenever we siood up to Posse people and brought the forces of law to bear, 9 times out of 10 they backed off,” said Wisconsin At- torney General Bronson La Follette. Posse recruitment among Kansas farmers was hampered by a very visible police presence at farm sales. Kansas Attorney General Rob- ert Stephan says be confronted the group Pty to er ao a cagect and anti-American their message of hate was.” Headds, “History has shown that those who preach hate and violence don't survive well in the sunlight.” Bard Cere: But Posse leader Donald Min- iecheske, recently released after 1] months ina Wisconsin prison, insists the Posse is still ishi . And bate ated and desperate than ever. “The hardcore much wind up out there by them- acives,” says Vincent Ryan, managing edi- Seal, government of Hayden Lake, Idaho”) K cannot be measured by numbers alone. the past couple of decades the ue JZ. Le mlm ao pe we” is the Weather Underground, the S eration Army—have proved capable of ofall proportion to their size or real power in Adeho, JOHN hicCORMICK and PA KING FET oath ce Moonen end BURGOWER ia Houmas ond ELAINE SHANNON is Woshingoen