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I«* icasd araiKtil akevj tarapj dav, Leader offers friendship Africans cheer Zulu THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, MAR. 24, 1976 Page 7B -■4 inngi ■l) 2>i cnnialJ mm Care for a Bath? s coming of spring has once again brought Aggies looking ways to relax. tar is born ii crowded club Britii calw ‘i 1 . Ad )r. Lei ring I bilis.il edlbi ibly id- in vein dsopb saga, snts ndc nncfd rsialS yean ect'l irs (i in u ; Nafe Associated Press NEW YORK — Her voice filled the small West Side night club, piercing the air with a dramatic shrill and then falling to an incredibly husky whisper, as she sang the Quincey Jones song, “Everything Must Change.” The audience responded in kind, thumping feet, clapping hands and shouting “yes, yes.” They loved her. They stood by the square wooden cocktail tables applauding even louder as she left the platform stage to chat with a few friends in the crowded, standing-room-only club. Her name is Phyllis Hyman. She’s a 26-year-old Pittsburgh, Pa., native who was virtually unknown in New York until her first club appearance in December. Since then, she has at tracted as avid and loyal a following among patrons of Manhat tan’s West Side night clubs as some of the nation’s top recording stars. Many musical observers say Miss Hyman’s fame will go a bit further than 96th Street. , “She has all the ingredients of becoming a star,” said Barbara Harris at Atlantic Records. “There’s good stage presence and an excellent singing range.” Her style is diversified. Jazz. Bossa nova. Soul. Pop. She can wail with a romantic ballad or skat-sing a Duke Ellington classic. Like many talented new artists, Phyllis is attracting interest and gliding toward recognition partially on the strength of word-of-mouth and also through the support of other artists, such as singers Roberta Flack and John Lucien. Phyllis also sings with Lucien on his latest, but not yet re leased, album. She has not yet been signed by a record com pany. Miss Hyman spoke of her fledgling career one recent after noon after rehearsing a new pianist and drummer in her brother-in-law’s tiny midtown apartment. Already a star “It really hasn’t been hard, because I work all the time,” she said about her stab at success. “I don’t know what it is I’m supposed to be looking for. People tell me: You’re going to be a star in two or three years,’ ” she continued. “Well, I’m already a star — I have a job and a husband who has helped mold my career. What I have now is enough to sustain myself . What else comes, will be added on. ” Phyllis spent her childhood in an integrated Pittsburgh neighborhood as the oldest of seven children. “We were poor, but I don’t remember being poor because we always ate, we always had shoes and my family was very close.” She sang in grade school with the All-City Choir and eventu ally won the first voice scholarship to Robert Morse Junior College, a business school. “I didn’t really think about being a singer, ” she said. “I knew I could sing, but I didn’t seriously think about it.” After touring the country for six months with New Direction, she returned to Pittsburgh in 1972, out of work and unsure of her future. “I was in limbo. The city needed registrars for a voting drive, so I joined up.” At the end of the year, she started singing with a group called “All the People” and headed south for Miami. Last year, she started her own act and played many of the clubs and hotels in that Florida resort city. She married songwriter Larry Alexander two years ago. He also is her manager. “My career, since I first started, is at the right speed. I’m not rushing,” Phyllis said, leaping to her feet in a grand gesture and twirling around barefoot before answering the ringing tele phone by singing “hello into the mouthpiece. “I’ve always been a woman first,” she said, returning to the sofa. “My career, femininity, independence and self-worth are very important to me, and I guess this shows on stage because women relate to me very well.” # Did you bother vour bike this will it be there when REELOCK is the lirst bicycle locking system to offer convenience and absolute safety. The system attaches to the frame crossmember, and cannot be removed in lock position. Chain retracts into tamper proof case when not in use. Locks and unlocks in seconds! L. 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He called for moves towards “majority” rule in this nation of 18 million blacks governed by a minor ity of 4 million whites, declaring, “I am a kaffir nigger who has forgotten his place.” The Zulu prince, leader of the Kwa Zulu homeland or tribal re serve, also called on blacks of all tribes in South Africa to join his In- katha National Cultural Liberation Movement. While the Inkatha movement is essentially of Zulu origin it appears that Buthelezi was seeking to speak for all black South Africans. There has been widespread specu lation he is attempting to create a of separate racial development, as “Balkanisation which can only give white domination a breathing space and further prolong our peoples’ suf fering.” There were loud cheers as Buthelezi, his fist clenched in a black power salute, said: “In spite of these words, I repeat that I still believe that it is still not too late to call for a white change of “We want to be free from the stigma of being unworthy of full citizenship . . . and unworthy of having a real vote in the country of our birth.” heart. I believe this not because I think that whites are going to have a sudden spasm of benevolence to wards blacks. “I believe that now the whites can see the writing on the wall and that surely they can now realize that the country must move towards majority rule.” He said those trying to divide South Africa into white areas and black tribal homelands are “mistaken men” who are “fighting against the force of history.” Buthelezi called for all Africans to join his movement to “produce a groundswell which will bring about change in South Africa. ” There has been no official com ment from the government, but Dieburger of Cape Town, official organ of the ruling National Party in the Cape Province, castigated Buthelezi sharply in an editorial last week. It accused him of mobilizing and working up “radical expectations and feelings” among blacks. ^Ihfquoise^Stipp MANOR EAST MALL PRICES FROM $6.00 — UP “WE RE THE PROFESSIONALS Congress supports farm competition AGGIE DISCOUNT WITH I.D. 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We want to be free to participate in majority decisions about the future our country and our common destiny with other South Africans. “We disdain the political role into which the white minority has rele gated us. The white minority has foisted on us political circumstances which make a mockery of our dignity and our responsibility.” South Africa, he said, must move towards majority rule. “It is this single principle that is central to any question to do with Southern Africa’s politics. This is the “. . . 1 still believe that it is still not too late to call for a white change of heart.” Associated Press The American farmer has often been the subject of praise and prom ises of support on the floor of Con gress. But Congress has done more than just talk about supporting farmers: federal law allows price-fixing and strict limits on competition in the production and sale of many agricul-- tural products, mainly milk, fruit, nuts and vegetables. In the harsh years of the Dust Bowl and the Depression, when farmers were at the mercy of plung- ingpricesand middlemen. Congress opened loopholes in federal antitrust laws to allow farmers to ban together in cooperatives. Without the exemp tion, such co-ops would be illegal. But now many co-ops are big businesses that work closely with arms of government called “market ing orders,” which commonly con trol production, quality, the flow of produce to the market and some times even prices. Associate Milk Producers Inc., which controls up to 90 per cent of the market in some Midwestern areas, is a $1.4-billion-a-year giant that ranks 141st on the Fortune 50 list of industrial corporations. Ocean Spray controls 85 per cent of the nation’s cranberry sales. Sun- kist Growers Inc. controls 75 per cent of the oranges and 88 per cent of the fresh lemons grown in California and Arizona. (Shala’s Shoes has moved to 707 TEXAS Across from Charli’s burning question in Namibia South-West Africa. 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