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WASHINGTON ( NPA)
- The U. S. Department of
Labor's, rosy report for the
month of April, detailing a 1.1
percent drop in the bon's UD­
employJnent rate to 5.4 percent,
the lowest Yet in 14 years, .
omleading as reported in the
media, said Rep. Aqgustus F.
Hawkins (D-CA).
The report does DO repre­
sent the true. widespread un­
employment in the African
American colDmunities across
the nation, Rep. Hawkins said
By p cing empbas· on the
macro ceo omic picture, and ig­
noring the micro which reflects
the true situation of Black and
Hispanic joblessness, the media
does the pub lie a disservice,
Hawkins said
"If you red the Labor
Department's. fIgUres, it is all
there eYen thOugh you have to
dig for it, " he continued, "but the
emphasi there and in the media
is on the overall p. cture," he told
NNPA, while the real picture is
one of almost two economies,
one Black; the other white.
Further; the Labor Dept.
figures do' not "look deeper at
that growing group of un­
employed who are no longer.
counted because they are no
longer looking for jobs," Haw­
kins said
The 11 teran Congre m n
and chair of powerful House
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WASHINGTON (NlS) - Is
D mocratic presidential can­
didate Michael Dukakis oft on
Pretoria'!
Although Archbi hop Des­
mond Tutu last week applauded
the Massachusetts governor (or
his stand on sanctio against
South Africa, other leading anti­
apartheid dvocates have ex­
pressed reservations about
Du akis' apparent d' tancing
from southern.African i u .
.Such igns emerged during
the recent visit here of Presi t
C , A. H' .. ,Sr. the contrary, he. pointed out, "
Washingtont D.C. are admired We ha a naiYe
( NPA) - Because of seven faith in u",
year f playing footsie through . In a tough, impassio ed d-
. i long di credited "construe- dre before an overflow lunch­
ti engagement- policy with the eon gathering t the National
terrorist Botha regime of South Press b, Tutu urged Con-
I Africa, America is "the pits" in gre to pa new and more
the eyes of t Black South tringent economic actions
Afric n, Sout African again t South Africa, despite
Anglian Archbishop Desma d Pre ident Reagan's opposition.
D. Tutu id bere. I "Nothing changes in South
But th A rican people, OIl . Africa," he said, - I ithout
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coutinued eco omic pressures."
Obvi usly angered over th
governments of Amer ica's
R naJd Reagan, Britain's Mar­
g ret Thatcher, West
Germany's Helmut Kohl and
that ofth Japan "aiding and
abetting" the South African
minority terrorist regime, h
cried, "While they per onally
may n be r cist, for the victims
of ra . m (t . ) makes dif-
am Nujoma of the South West
Africa Peoples Organizatirn
(SWAPO) of Nama,ia.
Nujoma had requested a
meeting with Dukakis to discuss
the Namibian independence
plan dopted during the Carter
Administrati n. Other SW APO
officials had ttempted to gain
an audience with Dukakis
paigrl top foreign policy ai - .
Both the candidate and high
level taff were inaccessib .
enior foreign policy dvisor
Madeleine A right failed to at-
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(erence. I think President
Reagan, Mrs. Thatch r, Chan­
cell r Kohl nd the J pane
government have made moral
decision. They have decided
that outhi African Bla are
expendab ; that profits matter
more than the liv of Blac
children. an you ima in a
policy of co tructive engage­
ment with Nazism? They are the
t recruiters 0 Communism."
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