Nation IN BRIEF : GEORGIA : 2 Klansmen Indicted in Cross Burnings

Two leaders of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of burning crosses in front of the homes of white women they believe associated with black men, the Justice Department said. A third Klansman, Eddie Pratt, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of interfering with housing rights. In U.S. District Court in Albany, Ga., he promised to cooperate in the government’s case against Charles Weatherford and Franklin Dale Brown, officials said. The indictments were returned sealed in Macon, Ga. Since then, the Supreme Court has struck down a 1989 St. Paul, Minn., “hate crime” law that made it a misdemeanor there to engage in bias-motivated disorderly conduct by speech or action.