NATION IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : Klansman Held in Synagogue Attack
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The head of the Tennessee Ku Klux Klan was arrested on charges he fired a gun at a Nashville synagogue in 1990, the Justice Department reported in Washington. Leonard W. Armstrong, identified as the Grand Dragon of the Tennessee klan, was arrested along with Jonathan D. Brown, associated with the klan and the white-supremacist Aryan Nation. Their conspiracy and weapons charges carry possible 15-year prison terms. Ray Eganey, head of the FBI’s Nashville office, said the shooting occurred between midnight and 1 a.m. when the West End Synagogue was empty.
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