A homeless dvocacy group
under the � tional Housing
Law Project iD W shiagto
o.c, alo. ·th 1)e UBi d
Community H . Coa ·lion
(UCHC) nd COTS Tem­
porary shelter of Detro· ob-
o taioed a temporary restrai .
order to pro . the sale of all
propertCs . de d bY
the u.s. Departme of Ho -
ing and Urban DeYelopment
(RUD).
e groups h ve accused
HUD of be" . direct .
tioD of the Stewart B c:KiDDey
Ho ele s A istaece Act:
, primary cam-
10 k fo the
t
pa�"
Bernard Par r ed that at
the Democratic Convention,
D is promised to win °th a
unified campaign of both Jack-
son and D "forces, but that I
J aclcso leader haw: been
inclutied or su ported in get "
AI the Detroi Board
of Educat o� had p s ed a
reso utio to cease doing busi-
"th Uni ys and other com­
panies afrdi ed 't the South
African government; it h s
recently entered into a oontract
to purch compute from a
company called F�al nata .
S e (FOS), ntracto
of Uai
On July 1 1
called S' e Based at
(SBM) as pproved and
authorized by the Board. .
project of co puten
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out the vote for Du in the Dear future, Parker tated. :
Some Jack on supporters Parker DO ed that Jackson
claim�d t�y lac nece� ry ·.b d carr' d M'chigaD and th
�m�caal ance for their ac- predominantly Black rU'St d
tMlICS. Thirteenth Congressional D' -
A Joel Ferguson, tri cts to I
cad � the Mar Fo Deputy Director
CampalgJl of the Mi . an Dub' or-
for no addr �cerns of gapizatio tatcd, 'We've -tr" d
focal Jackson supporters, to bring �'erybody in
Parker states th t Fergu 0 paign wan to
himself has bee ignored by ticket. "
Du 'organiza . He notes hi oWn deputy,
A meeting with Fetguson Camille B n J ckso
and local leader 'thin the supporter in th
Ja . be held CODtlI •• �
to compile rudent data.
The S B M Comm ittee
received several pr of' -
tent from vari computer
far 'ch re evaluated .
o der to id�the vi-
able,"
After observing pilot
progr� in Detroi area higb
schoo t DO cost to the Board.
e SBM committee decided
that best equiptment came
from e foDowing �mpaaies: .
AT itT, Conte porary Educa-
tic> S em, Pi cial D ta S
tem (FDS), G diaD Educa-
tiona I Sy tem and National
Computer System (N�).
Becau e of a stipulation
c use in the ctio resolu­
tion which allows the Board to
do busin with Uni and/o
its u "diaries if they had no al-
o teraative, th board determined
. ere no alternative, It '
AT&T equip nt m-
ferio to FDS.
T e 80 rd a al 0 in­
fluenced by t f ct that FOS '
a minority-owned, Detroit
based farm run by form r board
employees, I
Board members Alonzo
Bates, George Bell, Edna BeD
and Claire Rutherford voted
aga' 1 tb reoommedation to
go with FOS,
B eld farm hi belief and
spo out in U' . ying.
"Of course I voted ag in 1
U nisys, and they will ae r get
my vote until th y decide to
ove out nd tran fer their
(South Afri ) h di to th
8 M' ority rule and put the
co trol in Black African han ,
Edna Bell sad, "The board
p
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