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A-4 THE SUN Friday, Dec. 10, 1971 Rights Unit Claims U.S. Subsidizing Discrimination the Attica State Prison upris It gave the District of Colum Included Is a regulation that requires any recipient of federal funds who has discriminated on the basis of race, color or national origin to take affirmative action to correct the effects of such discrimination. Another provides that no recipient of federal funds may select a site for a new facility with the purpose or effect of excluding anyone on the grounds of race, color or national origin. said, "What this amounts to is a glaring and blatant disregard for the laws of this land." He said the Justice Department's Law Enforcement Ass istance Administration (LEAA) was spending more than $250,000 in grants to the Mississippi Highway Tatrol "when its first black patrolman has yet to be hired?" The Justice Department, meanwhile, said the list of more than 100 proposals made matters.

"It's not true," said Leonard. "Civil rights priority is not the lowest it's one of the highest." Leonard accused Wilkins of "blatant exaggeration" and said LEAA had been used as a "whipping boy" by critics of President Nixon's revenue-sharing program. Wilkins said there can be no hope of fair treatment of blacks, Mexican Americans ruerto Ricans and Indians "at the hands of the law" unless Acting under an obscure provision of the U.S. Code, the conference of 127 national civil rights, labor, religious and civic! organizations petitioned Attorney General John N. Mitchell and LEAA Administrator Jerris toonard for hearings on making the agency's rules conform with federal nondiscrimination requirements.

Later in the afternoon, Leonard called in reporters to deny that the LEAA placed a "low priority" on civil rights they are employed in law forcement agencies. "There can be no hope nf establishing rquality before the law when the peuple who run the system and make the critical decisions are almost exclusively white," he said. The conference said the LEAA had given Mississippi $2 million despite a federal court suit challenging as racially discriminatory the makeup of state agencies established to handle LEAA grants. ing, recommending that prison guard staffs integrate to match largely nonwhile inmate populations. Studio Buys Hold LOS ANGELES (UPI) -Metro Goldwyn Mayer studios bought the Bonanza Hotel in las Vegas, yesterday and announced a resort complex to be called "MGM's Grand Hotel" would be built on the site.

bia police department $1 million despite a suit charging it with discrimination in promotion of blacks, the petition said, and has taken no action against some police department's insistence on a certain height for police applicants, a requirement the conference said discriminated against nonwhites or Negroes. The LEAA also was charged with failure to follow up on reports, some stemming from By ISABELLE HALL WASHINGTON (UPI) -The ration's largest civil rights coalition accused the government yesterday of subsidizing racial discrimination banding millions of dollars to state and local law enforcement agencies without assurance of equal hiring and promotion practices for minorities. But in what a spokesman said was "sheer coincidence," Attorney General John N. Mitchell almost simultaneously announced that 21 federal agencies have proposed regulations to strengthen federal prohibitions against racial discrimination in federally assisted programs. Shortly before Mitchell's announcement.

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