American Notes UTAH

The program hosts who pay for airtime on radio station KZZI are an eclectic bunch: a self-proclaimed prophet and polygamist, a psychic and a weekly Iranian news and music show broadcast in Farsi. But many people were outraged by a program that premiered last month on the 10,000-watt radio station located some 15 miles southwest of Salt Lake City. The Aryan Nations Hour, whose host was White Supremacist Dwight McCarthy, is a Saturday-morning call- in show for bigots who believe a race war is inevitable.

Furious listeners have mounted a campaign urging advertisers to boycott the station; to date only two have complied, and the station has added several more. KZZI Station Manager John Hinton is unapologetic. Says he: "If I say I believe in free speech, but not in the case of the Aryan nations, then I am violating my own principles."