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FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY IS, 1991 THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS S-A Proposal for black militia wins backing Associated Press A black activist's move to organize a black militia in Dallas won the backing of a city councilman and county commissioner, who said a "blood bath" will erupt unless minorities are included in the political and economic mainstream. The activist, M.T. AV'ant of suburban Garland, said he is encouraging physically fit black men and women to help improve conditions for blacks by joining his paramilitary group. "We are forming in response to the institutional A 3M violence the city of Dallas continues to perpetuate against African-Americans," AV'ant told The Dallas Morning News. Some community leaders and officials have expressed reservations about the group, including William Rathburn, who takes over as Dallas Police Chief on March 4.

Rathburn referred to such armed citizen groups as "urban terrorists." But Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price and City Council member Al Lipscomb said they support AV'ant. Lipscpmb said AV'ant's tactics don't concern him nearly as much as the things that make peaceful people frustrated enough to resort to violence. "The institution of racism is one of the most violent acts there is," Lipscomb said. "There is going to be a blood bath in this city. "When you've got a spike boot on your neck, how can I say any measure is too extreme?" Price, who has encouraged listeners of his nightly radio talk show to send contributions to a similar militia in Milwaukee, said AV'ant has his backing.

"I understand the brother's frustration," Price said Thursday. "I think everybody has their own timetable, or at least they should, by which they say to everything 'enough is Price said he introduced AV'ant to Michael McGee, the Milwaukee Alderman who started the Black Panther Militia in that city last year. McGee created the organization after telling city officials there could be violent street demonstrations unless the community responds by 1995 to unemployment, crime and other problems affecting his inner- city black constituents. Price said AV'ant and McGee have been corresponding for several weeks. "I feel comfortable with him (AV'ant), and he is very sincere," Price said.

"The word 'militia' seems to disturb everybody, but it's about teaching discipline and working in the community." Price said he doesn't believe Dallas residents will be intimidated by AV'ant's approach. "I don't think anybody who's been out there working with him will be frightened off," Price said. "We all are going to be part of the group that says we're going to move this city forward." AV'ant said he will ask members seeking to join the core group to cut off the first joint of their little finger. Members such as Lipscomb who have already proven themselves will be exempt from the initiation, AV'ant said. "If he (a new member) is willing to give that joint, then we know he is willing to shed blood for what he believes in," AV'ant said.

"We have so many Uncle Toms and handkerchief-heads in Dallas. This is a way to weed them out." AV'ant would not reveal how many people have joined the group. But he said recruiting has been slow because some prospects have criminal records and, therefore, are ineligible to carry a weapon. When formed, the militia will have a nonviolent segment, which will focus on projects such as voter registration drives and anti-drug patrols, and a "hidden agenda," AV'ant said. The organization will demand that $450 million be spent to rebuild inner-city neighborhoods in Dallas before 1996.

AV'ant promises to create chaos if his demands are not met. Man arrested in connection with cult slay ings A A n.A.. jr Associated Press MATAMOROS, Mexico A nearly 2-year search has ended with the arrest of a man who used to work at a ranch where a group of drug traffickers in 1989 killed at least 13 people, some of them in occult rituals, Mexican authorities said. Baudelio Chavez Lopez, 49, was arrested on suspicion of complicity in the murders and drug trafficking allegedly committed at the ranch, Mexican authorities confirmed Thursday. Police say the late Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo headed the ring.

Chavez told authorities it has been several years since he worked at the Rancho Santa Elena owned by the Hernandez family, said Jose Elias Gallegos Benitez, secretary for the Fourth Federal District Court in Matamoros. Some members of the Hernandez family are charged in the case, and accused of being principal figures in the drug ring. Authorities allege that he worked as an employee of the drug ring at the ranch just south of the Rio Grande until bodies discovered there in April 1989. "He has been a fugitive since said Jose Gabriel Andrino Hernandez, commander of the Mexican Federal Judicial Police in Matamoros. After a Tamaulipas State Judicial Police officer spotted him, police based in Reynosa arrested Texas report Chavez last Saturday in the border town of Rio Bravo, between Matamoros and Reynosa.

Andrino said Chavez was working in an automobile body repair shop when police arrested him Saturday. Among the 13 bodies authorities unearthed at the Rancho Santa Elena was the mutilated corpse of 21-year-old University of Texas student Mark Kilroy. Two other bodies discovered at a nearby farm also are believed to be victims of the same drug ring. Constanzo and his accomplices killed rival drug dealers and innocent victims, police say. Some of the victims allegedly were sacrificed in rituals designed to protect their smuggling operation with spirits invoked through the Afro- Caribbean religion Palo Mayombe.

Constanzo and an associate were killed by another member of the ring, purportedly at Constanzo's orders, while police were closing in on their Mexico City hideout in May 1989. Chavez, whose nickname is "el Lelo" or the silly one, remained in the CERESO state prison in Matamoros Thursday. His attorney, Cesar Ceballos Blanco, declined comment. Chavez was formally charged before Fourth Federal District Judge Francisco Salvador Perez on Tuesday nigltt. Charges include drug trafficking, violation of federal burial and exhumation laws, homicide, kidnapping, carrying weapons reserved for the military, carrying weapons without a license, carrying more than five military weapons, criminal association, impersonating a police officer and Attacks against the general lines of communication," such as telephone lines.

Alleged members of the same drug ring held in the Matamoros prison include Serafin Hernandez Garcia, Helio Hernandez Rivera, David Serna Valdez and Sergio Martinez Salinas. They were charged with the same offenses as Chavez, and have testified against Chavez at previous hearings, court secretary Gallegos said. Judge Perez said Thursday that it could be months before he reaches verdicts in their cases. The judge said numerous defense motions and appeals have delayed the proceedings, stretching the case files to about 4,000 pages. Ranch caretaker Domingo Reyes Bustamante was charged with coverup, but was released Dec.

11 after posting a bond of about $500. Still jailed in Mexico City awaiting verdicts jn the case are Sara Maria Aldrete Villarreal and Alvaro De Leon Valdez. Another sus- pect in the case died of AIDS white jailed in Mexico City, officials said. Remaining fugitives are Ovidio Hernandez Rivera, Malio Fabio Ponce Torres and Brigido Hernandez Rivera, authorities said. Individual Tax Preparation Form 1040 EZ $14 Form 1040 A $28 Form 1040,..

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