Old View: Syndicated columnist James Kilpatrick’s racist...

Old View: Syndicated columnist James Kilpatrick’s racist views of decades ago have come back to haunt him. He will forgo his commencement address at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., after students and faculty uncovered some of his 1962 opinions, including: “The Negro race . . . has not earned equality.” “Commencement ought to be a happy occasion,” Kilpatrick said recently. “I’m not going to be a party to spoiling that.”

New Challenge: In the wake of the Persian Gulf War, those who believe in the nonviolence movement “have to redouble their efforts. Our job is even greater than ever before,” said civil rights leader Coretta Scott King in Santa Fe, N.M., last week. She was “deeply pained” by the war: “I think temporarily it seemed that violence and war had won a victory. But I don’t believe that is the case in the long run.”

It’s Just Beginning: The split between fashion designer Mary McFadden, 51, and Kohle Yohannan, 22, promises to be a scorcher. Yohannan, a former fashion student at Columbia University, filed for divorce last week and called McFadden an “older, selfish, willful, alcoholic woman” who wanted group sex and “rough sexual treatment.” McFadden’s retort was just as nasty: He was “a cheap toy boy” who never made love to her in 22 months of marriage. Yohannan hired big-time divorce lawyer Raoul Felder and wants $7,651 in temporary alimony, $995 a month in rent and $50,000 for Felder.

It’s Over: After a year of separation, media mogul John Kluge, 75, and his wife, Pat, 41, a former model, have divorced. No details have been released, but he reportedly gave her the interest from $1 billion, or about $85 million a year. Kluge is listed as the richest man in the United States with $5.2 billion.