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- Services of Mead Data Central © © PAGE. g. 7OTH .ORY of Level 1 printed in FULL. format. Proprietary to the United Press International 1987 April 7, 1987, Tuesday, PM cycie SECTION: Reqional News DISTRIBUTION: Mississippi LENGTH: 454 wards HEADLINE: Alliance begins Southern tour for black president BYLINE: By RAY DEAN MIZE DATELINE: JACKSON, Miss. KEYWORD: Fulani BODY: Lenora Fulani, one of the national leaders of the New Alliance Party, began on Monday the Southern leg of a national tour to promote independent black candidate for president of the U.S. in 1988. ''When the Democratic Party talks about choosing a Southerner as its presidential candidate, you know they're not talking about Rev. Jesse Jackson,'! she said. ‘'They're talking about a white Democrat, a moderate Deeocrat, perhaps, a neo-reactionary Demacrat.’’ Fulani said the New Alliance will back Jackson as a Democratic candidate, but | a if he fails to get the nomination would like him to run as an independent. ‘*If we can end with a atllion votes or two million votes for a black candidate, then we can sit down with the Democratic Party and ask for the kinds of concessions that we did not get in 1984,'' she said. But Fulani insisted that the Alliance campaign, and the Rainbow Coalition that it belongs to, are not merely bargaining positions from which ta re-enter the Democratic Party, but valid campaigns in themselves. Fulani, a developmental ‘psychologist, is a member of the national board of New Alliance and chairs the party's Women of Color Caucus. She is leading a national petition drive to collect a million signatures to convince Jackson to run as an independent if his Democratic bid fails. ye ''Given that the obvious intent of the Democratic Party is to select not only a white candidate, but a moderate white candidate, Jesse's chances of getting the nomination are very slim,'' she said. ‘'I have suggested that Jesse instruct the voters of the Rainbow movement to vote their conscience and not the party - Jine2in- the generaYMl@ction in 1988, and give theirActe to the black» | independent.'' began in 1979 mith a handful gf qqummity activists “Mew Alijance is seeking to run an iadependent nt in #12 SO states “in ‘Tt. tamer’ @escribe the party as ‘'the only black-18d, multi-racial independent political sarty in the IS’ NEXIS’ LEXIS' NEXIS nee <—~ - -_ peg smenre— os nenewe wert