By 0 • Yay r :
WASHINGTO, D.C.
Bl ck male ged 25 to 34
re nearly eight time more
li ely to be murdered than
hite male in the e e
group.
Th t fact among th
finding of an I8-month udy
of minority groups' health con-
dition . e u� n-
duct d by a force he ded
by Dr. Thorn one of the
ational In itutes of Health
and re e d by Secretary of
Health and Human Service
g ret Heckler.
The study sho ed a wide
gap bet een the health con-
ditio of c d white
in America. Heckler labeled the
g p 'distre' ng disparity."
Among the report findin :
-The Blac infant mortality
rate i nearly twice the rate
for bite.
Gov't
Finds
-Blacks live an average of
5.6 fewer years than white.
The life expectancy for Ameri­
can Blacks i 69.6 year .
-Blac re more likely than
hites to die from heart dise ,
homicides, cancer, 10 birth-
eight, cirrhosis and diabetes.
-Bl ck are also more likely
to ,di ult of ccident
th
- omicid i the leading
cau of death among Black
males aged 15 to 44. Other
government studies have own
that the overwhelming m �ority
of Bl c homicide victims.are
killed by other Blacks.
-The Black-white di parity
only reverses it If in the c
of icide. White are nearly
twioe likely as Bl cks to take
their own live .
The report covered a period
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EW YORK-A $51 million
dollar law uit a filed again t
ation of I lam leader Louis
Farrakan and veral of hi
bodyguard over an aIled d
attack on a M dison Squar
Garden ta e hand, it wa
announced 1 t Thursday.
The uit, fil d in U.S. Di
trict Court in Brookl n by
Keith DeVer� 31 ofMa p
qua Park, .Y., claim mem­
ber of Farrakhan' ecurity
entourage attacked him a he
as cleaning after a rally Oct.
9.
Accordin to court paper ,
De Verna and other tage hands
ere removing chair from the
p r' platform after th
ation of I lam rally hich
dre appro imately 25,000
people, hen the orkers er
.. udd nly and without pro-
vocation" attacked by
numero bodyguard and
other member of Farra han'
ecurity force.
But Abdul ali
mad, a Farralchan id
receiv d repor that f m I
follo er of the Muslim le d r
er till on ta h n th