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Zimbabwean police charge 19 clergy*** HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Twenty church pastors marching to protest what they called state-orchestrated political violence were arrested yesterday and held for eight hours, witnesses and protest organizers said. The pastors, who were wearing clerical garb, marched to police headquarters in Harare to submit a petition protesting the violence and Zimbabwe's strict security laws, which prohibit political protests.

The representatives of the multidenominational National Pastors Conference were waiting to hand in their petition when riot police arrested them, said Brian Kagoro, an official with the reform group Crisis in Zimbabwe. They were accused of holding an illegal protest under the Public Order and Security Act, the legislation they were protesting, and taken to Harare's Central Police Station, Kagoro said. ***

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U.S. Sanctions Are Racist Attack-Zimbabwe Official*** HARARE (Reuters) - A senior Zimbabwean official condemned on Saturday a U.S. decision to impose sanctions on the leadership as part of a "white racist" attack on a government he said was fighting for the interests of its black majority.

President Bush on Friday imposed economic sanctions on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and 76 other high-ranking government officials, accusing them of undermining democracy in the impoverished southern African country. Bush, following the lead of the European Union, issued an executive order freezing their assets and barring Americans from engaging in any transactions or dealings with them.

The Zimbabwean official said the new sanctions were part of a well-coordinated attack on Mugabe by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who he said was angry over Mugabe's seizures of white-owned farms in Zimbabwe, a former British colony. "All these sanctions being imposed on us are unjustified because they are part of a racist campaign against our land reform program," said the official, who declined to be named.***