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: r ''M % < Leader offers friendship THE BATTALION MC0NE3OAY mar M. 1«l» Pag* 78 . I? L Ili» •• •TTt* *- * •!> I r — DW ycxi bother your bike this WUOO n MM hril kKTOt IkW<( to lltai «■< ibiUmi ««M> Tkt vn«w> Mtackn n—»»« ■ (Kk | omen now BEHflCK to lock morning? youratum? aaty fef M4 few* Tla VMkMM CWIPMT JWlMt llttAnMl Ohmot OMm* Hm y Africans cheer Zulu rr Johannt'shurK — to form » >wd of some 10.000 cheering JOHANNESBURG. South Africa — They defied the sticky heat of a Sunday afternoon to jam Jabulani Stadium in the sprawling African township of Soweto, roaring "power is ours." They came on foot, in cars, buses and trucks. Black Africans from all over cron people. They came to cheer Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, leader of South Africa's 4 million Zulus, who spoke of oppres sion. racial discrimination and black liberation of white governed South Africa. He called for moves towards "majority " rule in this nation of 18 million blacks governed by a minor ity of 4 million whites, declaring. "1 am a kaffir nigger who has forgotten hisplace.** 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. "Bakmisafion which can only give white domfoation a breathing space and fort her prolong our peoples' suf fering.” There fc’ere 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 £all for a white change of “We icant to be free from the stigma of being unirorthif of full citizenehip ... and unu'orthy of harm& a reed vote in the country of our birth. ” Care for a Bath? The coming of spring has once again brought Aggies looking for ways to relax. Star is born in crowded club Anoriatcd Pre»» NEW y<)HK — Her voice filled the small West Side night dub, piercing the air with a dramatic shrill and then tailing to an incredibly husky whisper, as she sang the (Quinces 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 coektuil tables applauding even louder as she left the platform stage to chat with a few friends in the crowded, standing-room-only eluh. Her name is Phyllis Hymuli. She s a 2#i-year-old Pittsburgh, Pa., native who was virtually unknown in New York until her first dub appearance in December. Since then, she has at tracted as avid and loy al a follow ing among patrons of Manhat- ^ tan s W'est Side night clubs as some of the nation s top recording stars. Many musical observers say Miss Hyman's fame will go a hit further than 9fith Street. She has all the ingredients ofhecoming a star,’’ said Bar!>ara 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 liallad or skat-sing a Duke Ellington classic. lake many taientJU new artists. Phyllis is attracting interest and gliding toward recognition partially cm the strength of word-of-mouth and also through the* snpimrt of other artists, such as singers Roberta Flack and John Lucien. Phyllis also sings \vith Lucien on his latest, but not yet re leased. album. She has not yet been signed by a record com pany. M iss Hyman spoke other 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 1 work all the time.” she said about her stah at success. “I don't know what it is I'm supposed to lx* looking for. People tell me: 'You’re going to Ik* 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 hav e now is enough to sustain myself. What else comes, will lx* added on.” Phyllis spent her childhcxxl in an integrated Pittsburgh neighborhood as the oldest of seven children. "We were poor, but I don't remember lx*ing jxx>r Ix-cause we always ate. we always had shoes and my family was very dose.” She sang in grade schcxd with the All-City Choir and eventu ally won the first voice scholarship to Rolx’rt Morse* Junior College, a business school I dkln t really think about lx*inga singer,” she* said. T knew I could sing, but I didn't seriously think alxnit it.” .After touring the country for six months with New Direction, she returned to Pittsburgh in 1972. out ofwork and unsure of her future. I was in limlx>. The city needed re*gistrars for a voting drive, sej I joined up. At the e*nd of the* year, six* started singing w ith a gnxip called "All the Pe*ople* anti headed south for Miami. Last year, she started her tmn act and played many of the clubs and hotels in that Florida resort city. She married songwriter Larry Alexander two >ears 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 harefexit lx*fore answering the ringing tele phone ny singing "hello" into the mouthpiece. "I ve always ht*en a woman first." she* saitl. returning to the sofa. “My career, femininity. indepe>ndene-e and self-worth are very important to me, and I guess this shows on stage he*cause women relate* to me verv w’elt.” I bilieve this not because I bat Mutes are going to have a heart, think that' sudden spasm of benevolence to wards b lacks. I believe that now the whites can see the writing on the wail 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 grounds well which will bring about change in South Africa." Hiere 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. c Iuiquoise Q §tipp MANOR EAST MALL PRICES FROM SS.00 — UP SS 1*% MOC DISCOUNT WITH I.D. CARO BB OPEN 11:CS A.M. DAILY ress supports farm competition WFRE THE PROFESSIONALS I CALL 822-6618 2206 PINFEATHER RD A NEW CONCEPT IN STUDENT STORAGE SAFE • CONVENIENT • INEXPENSIVE 50 CUBIC FT PLYWOOD VAULTS FOR: BOOKS REPORTS PROJECTS STEREOS OR JUST PLAIN JUNK oo PER MONTH jfimiated Prvsi The American farmer has often been the subject of praise and prom ises of support on the floor of Con- “I am a kaffir nigger tcho has for gotten his place." national black political movement to replace the long banned African Na tional Congress led by the late Albert Luthuli in the 1950s. Buthelezi said he was offering a black hand of friendship to South Af rica's whites, but he added: “In this eleventh hour, in this last hour, some things need to be said in this country . They need to he said by blacks and they need to be said very clearly and in unequivocal terms. “We blacks are concerned first and foremost with liberation. We want to lx* free from the stigma of being un worthy of foil citizenship or of being only worthy of fourth class citizen ship and unworthy of having a real vote in the country of our birth. "We want to he free tp be equal to all other men. We want to be free to participate in majority decisions alxnit 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 "... f still believe that it ie still not too late to call for a white change of heart." gress. But Congrt ahot *ess has done more than just talk about supporting farmers: federal la\$ 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 w$re at the mercy of plung ing prices and middlemen. Congress opened Uxfoholes in federal antitrust laws to allow farmers to ban together in coopera Jives. 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 tq the market and some times even" prices. Associate Milk Producers Inc., which controls up to 90 per cent of the market in soiqe 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. Battalion Classified Call 845-2611 has moved to 707 TEXAS Across from Charrll’s burning question in Namibia South-West Africa. This is the burn ing question in Zimbabwe Rhodesia as much as it has been the burning question in Mozambique and An gola," he declared. Buthelezi, long one of the most vocal black politicians in South Af rica. also flatly rejected the govern ment’s policy of granting indepen dence to African homelands or re serves carved out of South African territory. 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