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Fantasy artist Bill Baker presents “Battlefield of Tomorrow” a poster which steps from fantasy to Reality Available at Hastings & Bobbie’s Books (Limited to 200 numbered and signed prints) national Battalion/Page I April 22, If ■ GNP, inflation rate fall for first Cool Comfortable Shorts You’ll find them in our sportswear department. Ours are available in a variety of cottons & polycottons, solids, prints & madras. quarter; officials still optimistic — St st Ur WAS United Press International WASHINGTON — The na tion’s recession-bound gross na tional product declined 3.9 per cent during this year’s first three months, largely the result of auto industry troubles, the gov ernment said Wednesday. But progress against inflation was dramatic, with price hikes throughout the economy drop ping to a rate of only 3.6 per cent, a six-year low. The drop in the GNP from January through March, adding to a 4.5 percent drop from Octo ber through December, kept the U.S. economy at an annual level of $2.96 trillion —just below the $3 trillion level in current dol lars that many economists had expected by now, the Commerce Department reported. At the White House, the reac tion to the GNP figures was guarded. Deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said the inflation factor in the figures was “another con firmation of our substantial progress on this front.” Overall, “These results are generally consistent with the E attern of activity that we’ve een expecting,” Speakes said. And Speakes repeated the administration’s position that there are indicators the reces sion is at the bottom. The overall GNP total was pulled down by a sharp sell-off of inventories, almost half of which were automobiles that were sold and not replaced by new production, the govern ment said. 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In determining the GNP, the government conibinesi ments and estimates of [ tribution of all the services that are productt three-month period, and multiplies the figure by It show what an annual raid he. The slowdown in pnca accounted for primarii prices of gasoline, consume vices other than natural^ electricity and motor vi the department said. Jackson attacks ‘boycott’ of blacks by white America sive stai the Mil signs it an exp would seen in Dr. 1 versity Nation; port re lar exp time years fr soon by The largest one of in the u que bl more tl United Press international HOUSTON — The Voting Rights Act of 1965 has been re duced to an unenforced law and blacks still are t>eing denied the right to vote in the jurisdictions it covers, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said. The civil rights activitist said Tuesday that as a result of the unenforced law, less than 1 per cent of all elected officials in America are black, although the black population accounts for 10 to 12 percent of the nation’s population. “The most fundamental right of a democracy is the right to vote, and that right is non- negotiable,” Jackson said. The Voting Rights Act will expire in August if Congress does not re new it. Jackson, on a five-state march to urge the Senate to goa with a House-passed ver» an extension of the act, American blacks should urge their young mentofij foreign lands unless tbeii to vote is assured. "They give us the rij vote, and then they deny power of that vote," he sal Jackson said a blad bureau will be opened lo towards establishing “ecu recriprocity” betweenblac corporate America. 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