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African-American genealogy group meets The Indiana African-American Genealogy Group met last Saturday evening with Andrew Bowman, active local hiatorian, as their guest speaker. His discussion covered his research efforts to obtain a Medal of Honor for his grandfather who fought in the 55th Mass. U.S. Colored Troop. (Recorder*

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study covered 13 large urban counties in California. Thirteen Black doctors at thp news conference acknowledge^ they have little more than anedfc dotal evidence of any widespread move by HMOs to keep them out But they said they hope great^p public awareness will Kiel furthqy research and documentation of whM they see as a dearth of Black pnf> fessionals in the health maintenance,

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Dr. Walter Shervington, chief executive officer at the New Or-! leans Adolescent Hospital and cur-1 rent president of the National Medical Association, compared the situ-' ation to that of activists who in-; sisted for decades that police offic-; ers pulled over Black drivers at; disproportionately high rates. Those complaints led to studies! by the Justice Department and other government agencies that con-i firmed in some jurisdictions the! practice of police harassment of; Black drivers. HMO spokesman Cutler said problems of a racial nature may exist, but if so, they don’t stem! from discrimination by HMOs. Cutler said the percentage of Black doctors in America is dwarfed by the percentage of Blacks; in the general population. That dis-: parity, he said, might give the im-! pression that HMOs exclude!

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About 4 percent of the nation’s; 700,000 practicing physicians are; Black, according to figures from; the American Medical Associatic and the National Medical Associq tion. Blacks comprise about 1J percent of the U.S. population. “Frankly we were taken by the news conference.... because * we don’t understand why anyone; would think managed care organi-: zations would do this,” Cutler said..' “We need a diverse network of; providers because people want c tors who can relate well to them.! He said he’d be happy to with the National Medical As I ciation about the matter but < I “Itdoesnotseemtobeaj substance. It’s more a i perception.” An official of the health care organization said her group wafc preparing a letter to the National Medical Association to meet and discuss the issue. > KEYES -

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Continued from A1 about abortion and moral values, according to interviews conducted at caucus sites by Voter News Service, a consortium of the Associated Press, ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN. . * Keyes was shut out of some debates during the 1996 Republic can nomination battle, leading him to threaten a hunger strike and td get briefly arrested when he tried to crash a forum in Atlanta. ^ This time, Keyes’ support moved up into the double digits? roughly doubling his showing in Iowa from four years ago when he came in sixth in an eight-man fieldi Keyes faded in New Hampshire in 1996 and his campaign nevef caught on. ’ This time he got off to a better start. “When we get down to the general election, we’re not just going to have somebody out there taking a stand,” Keyes said. “It’s going to have to be someone who can defend that stand and who can persuade the American people to support it.”

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