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Military adds 6 000 Negroes
Washington AP The National Guard and reserves added more than 6 000 blacks to their rosters in the past year, boosting black membership to 23 213 as of June 30. Blacks were about 1.7 percent of guardsmen and reservists. latest figures show 2.5 percent of the one million man reserves. Pentagon officials say progress is encouraging.
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