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...elective positions held by Southern blacks are mostly at low levels. Only three?Georgia's Andrew Young, Tennessee's Harold E. Ford and Texas' Barbara Jordan???hold seats in the House. There are 99 black state legislators, ranging from Georgia's 22 to Virginia's two, out of a total of 1,782 seats available. Only one Southern black has been elected to office by statewide vote: he is Joseph Hatchett, 44, a fruit picker's son who won a place on the Florida Supreme Court. Last week Howard Lee, a black former mayor of Chapel Hill...
...emphasize their hard front against Israel, delegates to the summit agreed on an annual military subsidy for Egypt, Syria and Jordan???the so-called Arab confrontation countries?as well as for the P.L.O. Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich nations will give Syria and Egypt $1 billion a year to spend on arms, while Hussein will get $300 million annually. The P.L.O. will receive $50 million a year?considerably more money for arms than most revolutionary organizations in recent times have had. Said...
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