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VOL. VIII NO.42 SEPTEMBER 14 - 20, 1986
NEWS BRIEFS
ngre sm n fr m Geor ia's 5th
ivil rights veteran J hn Lewi .
hite uprem y
acti ns a in t
ashington . ssistant Attorney General illiam
Br dford Reyn ld la t ee denied charge that the J usti e
Department was dopting new rules whi h would allow it to
ignore ele tion bi ag inst minorities. Critic were respond­
in to a department plan to clear election law change without
fir determining if the changes will result in discrimination.
Currently, under the V ting Rights Act, nine outhern states
and part of eight other rates msut get approval from the
Justice Department before making election law changes. The
regulation was imposed becau those states had histories of
di riminating g in Blacks and other minoritie. However
Reynold id the department will go to court to chang any
plan which it think di riminates.
Jac SO CO
trip; e sa
By Rhoda E. cKinney
IV. PA 'ational Correspondent
W ASHI GTO - The Rev.
Je se L. Jack n, accompani d
by a ational Rainbow Coalit­
ion delegation returned from an
eight nation fa t-finding mission
to the Southern region of Afri a
ith a message to the Reagan
dministration and the State
Department urging them to
change America' current foreign
policy, ever economic ties with
S uth Africa and increa aid
diplomacy, military defen and
trade with neighborin u­
them African state .:
Only f cusin . n uth
A rica ithout fo using on
uthern Africa the region'
is a fundemental mistake" said
POVERTY
D CHILDBIRTH DEATHS LINKED
Chicago, ill. - Black women are three time more likely
to die during childbirth than hite women. The reason says
new tudy, is verty. Th study was c nducted by the
niversity of i higan in the urb n are s of Chic go and
Detroit. It found that nati nally there were 5.9 maternal
de th for every 100000 births. But among Bla k w men the
matern I death rate wa 18.3 per 100 000 birth .
e
o topus legs e tend t all th
frontline states.
Jack n a used the nired
States of supporting the
ith a Tarzan poli y
p Ii y f If-
and
rule. •
Hit is inc
not to impo sancti ns n
South Africa, a it b mbs
maims, denies free pre per-
cutes truist leader nd yet
imp on Zimbab-
ea
a
and sh re it find in with
Pre ident Re an and the tate
D partment.
Th dele ation travelled t
ongo , n ila B It ana,
zambiqu . lam ia. Tanzania
nd limba with
the head
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