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CONSPIRACY AGAINST BLACKS CHARGED

ROCHESTER, N.Y.--Officers of the National Black Lay Catholic

Caucus (NBLCC) confer with local leaders during an executive board

meeting in Rochester, N.Y. From left are: John Holmes, New York State

chairman; Bob Pitts, national vice-president; Viola Brown, chairman

of the Rochester caucus, and Joseph Dulin, national president.

Following a two-day meeting, the NBLCC board issued a statement

charging a conspiracy of Church and state against black people. In

commenting on the charge, Mr. Dulin alluded to what he called coopera-

tion between several prelates in large U.S. cities and the mayors

and police officials in those cities.

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