AGENCY CHIEF ACCUSED OF RACIST REMARK QUITS

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, February 28, 1992                   TAG: 9202280294
SECTION: NATL/INTL                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short
AGENCY CHIEF ACCUSED OF RACIST REMARK QUITS
Frederick G. Goodwin resigned Thursday as head of the government's Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration after a furor over his comparing inner-city youth to male monkeys in the jungle.
In a letter to President Bush, Goodwin, 55, said his remarks at a meeting of an advisory panel Feb. 11 had been distorted and that he had no intention of making a racially disparaging remark.
At an advisory board meeting, Goodwin spoke of violent and "hypersexual" behavior of male monkeys and added: "Maybe it isn't just the careless use of the word when people call certain areas of certain cities jungles."
- Associated Press

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB