The camp � at the site of the
former fortress set up by the group BI
Consqo de la Tierra Amarilla.
The camp was a joint effort of
BI Consejo, the Tierra Amarilla
Youth Brigade from Denver and the
New Afrikan People's Organization,
a Black nationalist group.
GOAL OF the New Afri­
kan Peo 's Organization i to -
tablish the Republic of New Afrika
"by any means necessary."
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HOUSTON (AP) -Willie Le­
wis is an African American floating
in a ea of whi te Louisiana delegates
at the Republican Convention. Char­
les Evers admits color, not his pest
efforts to break down racial barriers
in Mississippi, marks him �ong
Mississippi representatives.
Only about ix African Ameri­
cans hold delegate or alternate
status on the two delegations, a real-
Four
business.
Later, Harry Bullard Bruces
brother and Daniel Anderson joined
the group.
CDSS offers mo t everything in
the line of Computers. Some of the
services being offered include
resume's, faxing and in home classes
for those who want to' learn basic
computer skills.
BRUCE BULLARD, electronic
engineer, was named president ofthe
company. He said, "Most people that
buy computers have no knowledge
of what they are buying. 1 will not use
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TIBRRA AMARIIJ..A, N.M. (AP)­
Black and Hispanic young people
gathered for weeklong camp here
to learn each other' history, get fit
am learn about a coming revolution.
Camp organizers said the revo­
lution will reunite the American
Southwest uBier a socialist Mexico
and cede the southeastern part of the
United States to a Blac -run nation
called the Republic of New Afrika.
1be campers, from ages 6 to 19,
came from Denver, Atlanta, Lo An­
geles, Manhattan and Birmingham,
Ala
. uThia a struggle for UlYival,"
sakl Pedro Arechuleta, an organizer
of c:amp, bleh ended the fimt
of Au
t" ., bctotd
que Joumal.
Arecbuleta, 46, pent 10 months
infederalj Is in New York and Chi-
lD ,1m and 1978 for musing
10 tify before grand juries investi­
pting the FALN --a militant pro­
Puel10 Rican independeDCC group.
Arechuleta alao is a member Qf
a land activist group made up of
some Tierra Amarilla .. area families
that establisbed an armed mrtress
four yeam ago to win bee a piece of .
tbe TIerra Amarilla land grant Mex­
leo deeded the 6OO,()()()..acre grant in
1832 to Manuel Martinez, a deseen­
dant of Spanish ettlers.
By PATRICIA COLBERT
IMchlq'" Cltlpn
. Fed up with a down economy and
finally realizing that they had to cre­
ate their own ladders to success, four
former Wayne Stat� University stu­
dents decided to take matters into
their own hands and formed a com­
pany known as Comprehensive
Data Systems Service CDSS lo­
cated at 18256 Grand River.
It was during their senior year,
while working on a project that
Bruce Bullard approached Kofi
Adumata with the idea of starting a
Q.
·Didy
watch
Republican
cony -on?
d
fty tcparty offici 8cknowledge.
But they ay they !lave DO magic
cure.
Loui iana has about 20,CXX1 Re­
publicans among its 616,600 Afri­
can Americars registered voters aD!
roughly 22 million total voters. In
the last presidential race, only a tiny
percentage of minority voters picked
.George Bush among t 399,262
Blac who voted.
In Mississippi, African Ameri­
cans � up 365 percent of the '2.6
mJlIJoD pojNIatiOn, aDd aD .Ul."�
80 pe.roent 0 tbem voted Demo-
cradc in the I t p daitial race.
"When people look for Willie
Lewis, I tell them I'm not .bald to
spot," said Lewis, one of three
Blacks, appointed not elected, in tbe
Loui iana delegation. "In a ay
that's kiM of amusing, but in reality
it kind of.bo you that we've got
our woIk cut out for ."
OOP,P.geA-10
Judg uphold
Alabam 0
high pres ure elling, in order to ell
a computer. Different people buy
computers for different reasons, I am
here to work with them in order to
find out what they need at a price that
they can afford." He aid:
Kofi Admata is electrical and
electronic engineer. Prior to becom-
ing part of CDSS, he worked at �
Mobil Gas Station. He said, "I k.new
it wasn't going to be easy finding a
job. But I knew tha� we had the
potential of creating our own jobs.
We have the education and we are
going to use it.
BIRMIN3HAM, Ala. (AP) -A fed­
eral judg has rqected claims by
white firefighters t their rights
were violated by a 1981 city agree­
ment to hilC-apd promote more Afri­
can Am�rican Bteflgbters.
U.S. District Jud Sam Pointer
Jr., in a ruling released AugtBt 14
said the city w justified in adoptin8
the affirmative action pI The
ruling came 10 years after white fire­
fighters began a reverse- discrimina-
tioncballeng� ,
"The plan did not unnecessarily
trammel the righ of whites, nor did
it create an absolute bar to their op­
portunity for advanccment," Pointer
A·10
said.
Ina 1985 trial aD11991 retrial.
of·the reveme-discrimiuation claim, .
tbe court found igDficant evidence
of put discrimination againlt
Blacb, Pointer said.
He said the plan does DOt require
the Fire Department to promote un­
qualified African AmeriC8Dl. Tbe_
department bas 675 employees, 28 .
percent of them Black. 1be city is �
lightly more than 50 percent Black.
Rather, he aid,., it requirea
when qualified Blacks and whi
come up for promotion, "the depart- .
DETROITER. Be
GREG BOWARD: " o. '1
don't like Republi . I'm trictly
Demoaat"
"£AJ�.I.L BRO "No. I
have no respect for � Republican
Party period."
_1"111,. .... YOUNG: "Yes. I .
good specda. I want to see w t
tllerhave 10 otIcr far heJping
the ecooomy."
