Pa je A2-The Chronicle, Thursday, June 28 1984 B - x>BB(Bi ih itf AWflSk AaAm**- j ' H "2?^ tvji ^B w>.. LfliB jI^BBU I NEWS DIGEST National, state and loci NAACP buys stock to h NEW YORK ? NAACP Executive Director Benjamin L. Elooks announced recently that he is purchasing stock in 50 corporations to provide the association with a voice for challenging the private sector's racial policies in stockholder meetings. "We will have a voice at some of these places where decisions about our lives are made," said Elooks. "We will be present at stockholders meetings to raise these issues and demand responsive, positive answers." Eldoks made the announcement during a recent college commencement exercise. A primary thrust of the NAACP is to build linkages through its Fair Share program between black firms and Soviets say Michael Jac MOSCOW -- The Soviet Union has denounced pop star Michael Jackson as a singer who has sold his soul for & white profit and has become a servant of the Reagan administration by keeping the American public's mind off the country's problems. "This great show biz swindle known as 'The Thriller' has given rise to a kind of euphoria," the official Sovyetskaya Kuhura (Soviet Culture) newspaper said last week. "The attention of Americans today is riveted to that 'long-awaited wonder.' Millions of teen-agers talk only about Jackson, about his songs, his income, his clothes." Jackson's music is banned in Russia. The article charged Jackson with mesmerizing Americans and keeping them from thinking aboui political topics that would make the Reagan administra tion uncomfortable. The paper also accused Jackson of ignoring racism anc Court upholds discrimin 11 ' a r v v i v t -r /a ki a r i i ? w ^ni invj i urs -- /\ leaerai appeals court upneia i lower court ruling last week that the Drug Enforcemen Agency has discriminated against its black agents. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District o Columbia ruled 3-0 that statistical analyses and persona experiences show that the agency illegally discriminatee against its black agents. When the class-action suit wa fileW in 1977, 7 percent of the DEA's 2,000 agents wer< black. 4 The three judge panel said the DEAf which is responsi chscniillnalecTTh recruit!ng, hiring,"salaries, assignments evaluations, discipline and promotions. At the lower court trial, black agents presente( Open Line Migraine headact Q: My mother and father-in-law suffer from migrain headaches and so do my husband and I. Are migraine hereditary, and if so, what are the chances that m children will suffer from them? O.E A: A migraine, which is from a Latin word meanin "pain in half of the head," is an excruciatingly painfi type of headache that does tend to run in families. If bot parents have them, chances afe~that most of the children will have them. Actually, migraine is the name for several types of ver painful headaches, but the one that most often runs i families is called the classic migraine. In childhood, sue problems as car sickness or a periodic Munder-th weather" feeling may be indicators of future migraine a tacks, according Dr. Russell Salton, a Charlotte fami physician. Attacks may start early in life and continue i ti|he goes on. ^ jf " H aL~ fcfcAt ii a Hft jijn SSHwwWrWitWm iHyff I 'il/i/i/irc *V^rT^?:1-^' ^S,t'ji' ^'J^v-^^biB ^ r?i4a2aBPMWif|nBaWy ^?_> K, ?' .3^ ;'*.^'^if' - :'\ n? A -^r^mMHBBB -"i?^; * #.V JCJ f"'5$' agTO ^ ' yTtiBN v i T [>" * ^Ssfl r*~ I f it news briefs compiled by John Slade ave power from 'within' major non-black corporations, said Hooks. He said the. NAACP seeks to encourage major corporations to use black business resources, talent and professionals. The NAACP will also take vigorous stands on environmental issues and questions of corporate social responsibility, technology transfers and workforce displacements due to technological factors, said Hooks. "We are graduating from the college of survival," he said of the NAACP's new thrust. "Our graduation ... is not the result of easy living, but of struggle and perseverance and necessity." Compainies in whose policies Hooks intends to have a voice include the major oil concerns, banks, automobile manufacturers and others on the Fortune 500 list. kson sold soul for bucks having plastic surgery to make himself look more like "white men who are his true masters and in order to make a profit and be a full member of the consumer society." "Only poor negroes rebel," said the paper. Unlike jazz, blues punk or new wave, said the article, Jackson's music is unoriginal and characteristic of an ill famed lifestyle the United States is trying to throw on the rest of the world. A Soviet official who saw "Thriller" in a foreigner's apartment called the video fascist and said he was hor\ rified. t "This film is really fascist because it forces you to ap preciate it like a drug," he said. "You were all sitting around obsessed with it -- you couldn't even talk to each i other." iation ruling against DEA i evidence showing that they were paid on the average t $3,000 a year less than white agents with similar positions. The court also found that the agency had perf vasively discriminated against the black agents in all areas 1 listed in the lawsuit. i Judge Aubrey E. Robinson Jr. of U.S. District Court s ordered back pay for all black agents, imposed promoe tion goals and a timetable for meeting those goals and ordered "front pay" awards for agents awaiting promo tions under the court-established plan. with recalculating the amount of front pay for black i agents awaiting promotion. les can be hereditary e Getting The Blood Out :s y Q: I've tried every home remedy in the book to get the blood stains out of my husband's hunting clothes, but I. nothing seems to work. Do you have any suggestions? I.M, 8 ' \ jl A: The following is ~ what Linda Dixon, a home h economics extension agent with the county, suggests: ir Pre-soak the soiled fabric in cold or warm water for at tpQCf t n minntac T f tV-to ctun ramiirtr r?U>U IVUJI jv 11 11 uuiv-t . 11 lilt 3 l CI l I I 1 111 Idl 113 , 3UdK lilt I dUI It II lukewarm ammonia water (three tablespoons of ammonia per gallon of water). Then rinse. 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