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          OObituary: Samuel F. Yette, influential           newsman, first black Washington correspondent for Newsweek

          In a career spanning six decades, Mr.

          Yette (pronounced "Yet") worked for many news organizations and government agencies and held positions in academia, including as a journalism professor at Howard University.

          As a young reporter, he covered the civil rights movement for black publications including the Afro-American newspaper and Ebony magazine.

          In the mid-1960s, he served as executive secretary of the Peace Corps and special assistant for civil rights to the director of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity, which administered anti-poverty programs.

          In 1968, Mr.

          Yette became the first black Washington correspondent for Newsweek. He said his three years at the magazine were rocky and blamed his firing in 1971 on the publication of his book "The Choice: The Issue of Black Survival in America."

          The book asserted that the federal government showed a pattern of repre