Media Contact: Ralph E. Gonzales (202) 219-4150
For Immediate Release: September 16, 1996

Ada E. Deer, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, will appear on ABC's Unity '99 hosted program which is a nationally televised electronic town hall meeting on Affirmative Action. The program is scheduled to be aired on Wednesday, June 12, 1996 which is telecasted from Chicago, on channel 7. This program is replacing ABC's Nightline on the 12th.

The broadcast will take place on WLS-TV (ABC), Channel 7, at 11:30 EDT; 10:30 CDT.

Featured panelists include Jesse Jackson, President, Operation PUSH; Deval Patrick, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division; Antonio Monroig; Chair, Republican National Hispanic Assembly; Susan Au Allen, President, Pan Asian Chamber of Commerce; and Karen Narasaki, Executive Director, National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium; Ada E. Deer, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs (Menominee)