The Nation : Klan Must Pay $7 Million

An all-white federal jury in Mobile, Ala., awarded $7 million in damages against the United Klans of America and six past and present klansmen in the 1981 slaying of a black teen-ager whose body was left hanging in a tree. The verdict was awarded in the slaying of Michael Donald, 19, who was beaten and strangled before the hanging. U.S. District Judge Alex Howard said he would hold a hearing within 90 days to determine the klan’s assets and what action was needed to turn them over to Donald’s family and the Alabama arm of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, the plaintiffs. No decision has been made on whether to appeal, klan attorney John Mays said.