and
Black ·
v-p
W ASHINGTO , D.C. -
The JDO\4e to put Jesse J ckson
on the ballot picked up momen­
tum Wednesday, J 15 en
, members of the Congressional
B Ca aDDOWlced at a
pr here that be .
the t i number
Demoa . bal-
eBC: - Reagan
yTedJ
WasbJ�on - In what might
have been it re I for oext
oath's Democratic tiona I
Conw:atio the Co I
B Ca cus held an one-day DYMALLY, ,0 presided
earing I t ee on issues _ over the beariD& asserted in his
facing B c Americans and opening statement that "the ex­
determiDed that the domes!" plo ion of hopelessnes the
erosi of our respoasi>ility to
community, and the sfMDation
aesoennlon of pirit mong our young
demand that we in the CoDgres­
si al Black Causus tablisb
that tbere i '. floor oJ desper -
Congressman alter
Fauntroy (D-D.C.) oonde d
the blic po.. .. t have
shac d til· co try for the
eight yurs.. He observed
t at 0 m prosra had
beea by 10 pe1CCD t
today t ere ere 3 illioD'
ourna-
. policies of the Re gan Ad-
ministr· had put the •
at .
Tbe.,._.·l .... .,
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WASHINGTON, D.C.
Returning from a week long
fact-flDding mission in Haiti,
Congre ional aides reported
tha CWTen situa . n in the
couatry i "desper eW and that
"the lion has been hijacked by 0
thugs.
Speaking 0 behalf of the
.:
ut
natio
too little , d there �
urgent need to ina-ease our
military pen •
He warned that unleSs some-
th· dooe bout the bug
Irade inb,aJ.oce the nation's
growiag de·" are
. to be .. on one vast
plaDlatioa, 0WDed by foreign· -
\4eStorl aad foreign corpora-
. .
on h executive director of
TransAfrica. He observed that it
essential that the Congress
pass Dell -Cranston bill
th t ould impo weeping
new nomic tio against
South Africa. He alsd said "th
high t priority" (or the next
pr . dent would be t go to th
United Nations to ush for
global sanctio . t South
Africa.
RaQdaU Iso dep ed what
h describedas th inequity in
the lOcation of American foreign
aid. If id American assi -
lance to the African n tio
south of the Salwa been
red this year by Iy S200
milli that region had
been 0Dly "to uffer an
absolute cu in forei
