Show Page 10 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday 5 ‘ April 28 1996 Turner Diaries5 set for mainstream release NEW YORK (AP) — Lyle Smart calls “The Turner Diaries" an ignorant book a nauseating hook a bigoted book But he wants you to read it With a history of publishing such works as “The Anarchist Cookbook" “Jackie Oh!" and “The Sensuous is accustomed to profiting from controversy Now human-right- s groups arc protesting plans by Stuart’s company New York-base- d Barricade Bixiks to publish the underground 1978 novel about race war and the armed overthrow of the US Woman” Stuart government Stuart said Wednesday he hopes to on the nature of survivalist shed light and white supremacist groups by bringmarket ing the hook to a broader “I felt it was important the average American sec how sick these minds are and how dreadful and perverted arc their thinking processes" Stuart said He compares its publication to the US release of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein be Kampf" saying the public should able to judge for itselt To discourage its distribution he argues amounts to censorship The novel written under the pen name Andrew Macdonald by West Virginia while supremacist William Pierce has long been standard reading among sur- vivalist and supremacist groups It favored by gained notoriety as a book Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh Set at the end of the 20th century it describes a fictional truck bombing of FBI headquarters in Washington — a scene that roughly prefigures the Oklahoma City bombing On Tuesday the American Jewish Committee sent letters to Barnes & Noble Crown Books and several other major chains saying royalties from thei” book would go to “an unrepentant neo-Naz- whose group the National Alliance is “one of the main organiza- tions promoting hatred and violence against innocent Americans” Pierce is chairman of the alliance The Southern Poverty Law Center has asked top bookstore chains to make “an informed decision” about selling the book and consider “not only the message of ‘The Turner Diaries' but also where the profits are likely to go" Earlier this month St Martin s Press canceled plans to publish a biography of Nazi leader Joseph Goebbeis following criticism of the author David Irving An estimated 185IXJ0 copies of “The the Turner Diaries” have been soUiwer Stuart onler mail years mostly through to be said his version a paperback is month released within a The first printing will be about 50WJJ1 books which will sell for Sl hesitatAlthough some booksellers have said ed about carrying the book Stuart down him none had turned Stuart is known for publishing unco- “The Anarchist s contains recipes for homeCookbook" made bombs and the unauthorized “Jackie Jacqueline Onassis biography nventional books Oh’7 titillated the public while angering the Kennedvs Women prisoners on chain gangs MONTGOMERY Ala (AP) — The Alabama prison system is preparing to snap shackles around the ankles of women prisoners creating female chain gangs inn the stale that revived male crews last year Alabama Prison officials said the women chain gangs would help resolve lawsuits from male leg-iro- inmates challenging the ACCORDD IMG TO exclu- sively mule work units "There's no real defense for not doing the females” said State Corrections Commissioner Ron Jones Stephen Dees the warden at Julia Tutwiler State Prison for Women near Montgomery is policy developing the chain-gan- g Women could be working in leg irons as early as June Jones said “We have done a lot of histori- cal research and have never come across a female chain 1 gang” said Rhonda Brownstein a lawyer with the Southern Poverty Law Center “They have previously said it's not practical or feasible to have chain gangs for women” The civil rights watchdog group is representing inmates in i lawsuit contending that chain gangs represent unconstijfqtippal-- : ly cruel and unusual punishment “They said the number of women (who would qualify) is so small it makes no practical sense to put them out on the highway So why are they doing it now? 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