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Show The Salt Lake Tribune, T ridav, January 24, A7 1966 GRAmirr Hands Off Affirmative Action, Group Warns Reagan 4 rrnii it WASHINGTON The (AIN Na- tional Urban League on Thursday called the Reagan administration "a Hambo-likdestroyer of gains" and said its economic policies have left black Americans struggling to survive The chasm between blacks and whites widened even more in 1985. as most whites enjoyed economic recovery while blacks "slipped further and further to the rear of the parade," league President John E. Jacob said in issuing the organizations 11th annual assessment of black America "The signs of a nation moving toward a state of being permanently and the divided between the hav-.have-not- s were plain to see over the past months," he said civil-right- e s s "If there is any single message we want to send the president todjy it is this Hands off affirmative action If the administration wants to be a Hambo-likdestroyer of gains, it should not pretend that Us efforts are good for black citizens or that they reflect the colorblind soci" ety we have yet to become Rambo is a muscular movie character who uses heavy-handetactics to deal with adversaries Economically, blacks are still reeling from the recession of 1981-8while most whites have recovered. Jacob said The report said median family income for blacks in 1984, the most recent figure available, was $15,432 In constant dollars, that was $540 less Jacob noted that unemployment among whites was 5 9 percent at the end of last year, while 14 9 percent of the nation s 27 9 million blacks were out of a job "If w hues had such a high unemployment rate, it would be called a depression," he said Jacob was particularly harsh on the Justice Departments efforts to revise a presidential executive order signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 which authorized the government to set numerical hiring goals and timetables for firms holding government contracts. , e "Black people today have jobs and opportunities they would not have had without the executive order," said Jacob AIDS Risk Was civil-right- than in 1980 and almost $1,500 less than in 1970, according to an economic summary by David Swmton, director of public policy studies at Clark College He said that in 1984 the median black family had about 56 cents to spend for every $1 available to white families - 2 cents less than in 1980 and almost 6 cents less than in 1970 Bernard Anderson, a fellow at Princeton Universitys Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, who contributed to the league report, said. "There is something happening in the economy that apparently makes it more difficult for black people to move ahead Its sort of like Alice in Wonderland vou have to run faster to stand still " Jacob said budget cuts during the Reagan years have seriously hurt federal programs for children, young adults and the unemployed He said "the most tragic aspect of all" is the staggering number of black children 51 1 percent in living in poverty 1985 He said more than 40 percent of black families are now headed by single females, a group he called "the " poorest of the poor Unemployment among black teenagers stood at 416 percent, he said, leading to "rejection by a frightening s number of black of the American dream of getting ahead by an education and working securing hard " teen-ager- SKI & WINTER SPORTS Worth It, Maddox Says CHICAGO (UPD - Former Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox says he does not regret receiving alternative can-co- r treatment at a jBahamian clinic, (despite reports IThursday he could (have been injected I with blood. AIDS-tainte- d "They said there Iwas some danger I in it," Maddox said in a telephone this week, Lester Maddox but I dont know if there was or not. I took over 6,000 injections and nothing ever did go wrong with me." More than 3.000 patients received treatment for cancer and acquired immune deficiency syndrome at the Immunology Researching Center in Freeport between 1977 and 1985. Maddox, 69. sought treatment for prostate cancer in May 1983 at the urging of the late Rep. Larry McDonald, a urologist. He was given injections of four types of blood serums, intended to bolster his immune system. "The United States itself, even the American Cancer Society, is working on how to strengthen the immune system now and thats what the Freeport treatment is all about, Maddox said. In July, 1985, the Bahamian government closed the clinic following the first reports of AIDS- - and serums. Maddox, who had been at the clinic up until the month before, underwent tests for the AIDS virus, which proved to be negative. But in the heat of moment, he called Lawrence Burton, the clinics founder, "no better than a murderer for failing to ensure the purity of his treatments. Maddox now says he does not regret having received the treatments. No sir. I do not," he said. I could always fall back on the conventional therapy. But if I could avoid the radical surgery, the radiation, the chemotherapy, then Id be a fool not to. Maddox said he is feeling better and is not undergoing any treatment currently. The treatment may have even helped, he said, since his cancer stopped spreading. "1 didn't see any of it get worse, he said. "None of it got into my bone or organs at that time as far as anyone could tell. 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