
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, June 18, 1990                   TAG: 9006180094
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
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IN THE NATION- BRIEFLY . . .

Hundreds of black college students marched to a rally at a park across from the White House on Sunday to bolster their call for better education opportunities. A handful of civil rights leaders and musicians joined the rally in Lafayette Square. Organizers said the rally day also was designed to kick off a week of black activism.

\ The Public Broadcasting Service is looking at ways to provide 1992 presidential candidates and the major political parties free air time beyond the normal news coverage to present their views. In the plan under consideration, regularly scheduled one-hour programs would be broadcast during September and October 1992, with half-hour programs airing daily the week before the November general election.

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