1.   But beyond vowing to enforce existing civil rights laws, Bush did not specify to the NAACP how he would combat racism in America.

2.   Clinton made the announcement during the second meeting of his Race Advisory Panel -- a group he pulled together to discuss how to combat racism in the United States.

3.   Conference participants will have to appoint officials whose job is to monitor and enforce national progress on combating racism.

4.   The ceremony took place beneath an array of pictures from the early days of the civil rights movement, when the civil rights division was formed to combat racism.

5.   Working within the predominantly white denomination, the group had dual goals of combating racism within the church and strengthening the black community.

6.   It also violates two international treaties the American government signed to combat racism and to protect civil and political rights, the group said.

7.   Mugabe, at a church assembly last week, praised Banana for his political role combating racism in the church before independence.

8.   Observers in Africa said an absence of senior U.S. officials at the conference would signal a lack of interest in combatting racism.

9.   The reported closures were made at a time when the UN was calling for a more concerted effort to combat racism, the newspaper added.