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By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited By Linda Feldmann

July 5, 1983

Benjamin Hooks says he opposes having a black enter the Democratic presidential primaries. He fears such a candidacy would fail and alienate the party's eventual 1984 candidate. The head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said in a CBS interview that blacks' first priority should be to vote President Reagan out of the White House.