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Anniversary Of Soweto Riots Prompts Call To Free Mandela •SEE? f*t "***'nhES!SJ“ •” Since that day In 197C the tragedy of Soweto haa olaved out .<r.in a.nd “*“ln’” *a,d the 8ute Department. “The United States deplores the continuing resort to violence by all parties In South Africa " The statement renewed the U.8. call for the release of Mamfoia the 70-year-old leader of the banned AfrtclnN&CteS±1 Se'taeWMt*0 “!* l"pr,8on ,n 19<M ,or sabatoge and con£iracy to JSSJS'ff government. At that Ume he had already zzassff. ‘re*ye,r*,or tac,te,nen‘ *nd ,e*vta* *• dep"rt“*"t a!*° ur*ed freedom for “other poUUcal prisoners” right* ofnd8^th,eA^,*rW,h*tate °f emer«ency under which legal NAACP Files Lawsuits Against 5 Municipalities Dr. William F. Gibson, president of the South Carolina Conference of Branches and chairman of the Na tional Board of Directors, NAACP, announced the filing of five voting rights lawsuits simultaneously against five different municipalities in federal district courts in Columbia and Greenville, S.C. on Friday, June 30. The cases were filed against the ci ty councils of Bennettsville, Gaffney, Kingstree, Saluda and Union for their use of at-large elections. The lawsuits represent the most cases filed in one day in the South Carolina Conference of Branches’ statewide effort to con vert all discriminatory at-large elec tion schemes. Plaintiffs in the cases include the Marlboro, Cherokee, Williamsburg, Saluda and Union NAACP branches as well as black citizens of the respec tive jurisdictions that are being sued. The lawsuits were filed after the leadership of the defendant jurisdic tions failed to call or successfully pass a referendum changing their election systems to single-member districts. The cities of Kingstree, Saluda, and Union had referendums that failed, while Bennettsville and Gaffney flat ly rejected the NAACP’s efforts to have their respective systems chang ed voluntarily. Nelson B. Rivers, III, executive secretary, S.C. Conference, NAACP, said, “The attorneys filing the cases are John R. Harper, II, general counsel for the South Carolina Con ference NAACP, and Fletcher Smith of Greenville. They are being assisted by four attorneys from the NAACP national fcgal department: Willie Abrams, Brian Carter, Dennis C. Hayes and Samuel Walters." Dr. Gibsnn said, “The South r Carolina Conference of Branches . NAACP hopes that the filing of these cases sends a clear message to other jurisdictions that insist on retaining . discriminatory at-large election : methods. The NAACP will not * hesitate to bring legal action when ' necessary,” : These cases are part of an ongoing r effort by the South Carolina Con- | ference of Branches to eliminate at large voting systems in the state of < South Carolina. Since November 1968, < the NAACP has filed lawsuits against Charleston County School Board and County Council and Lancaster City . Council. ; In the past three years, through the ( efforts of the NAACP, the following jurisdictions have changed from at- , large to single-member districts: Ab- . beville City and County Schools, . Aiken City Council, Cheraw City * Council, Easley City Council, Green wood City and County Councils, Greer City Council, Horry County , School Board, Kershaw Town Coun cil, Laurens City and County Coun cils, Laurens School Districts 55 and , 56, Ninety-Six Town Council, North Charleston City Council, Orangeburg City Council, Richland County Coun cil, Rock Hill City Council, Saint ' George City Council, Spartanburg Ci- . ty Council, Summerville City Council ! and Sumter City Council. Presently, the NAACP is engaged r in various stages of negotiations with . several city and county councils and 1 school boards to voluntarily change to single-member districts. , Rivers recently reminded NAACP branches in South Carolina that at- . large elections must be challenged. He said, “We cannot have 1 discriminatory at-large election systems and NAACP branches coex isting in the same place—one must go.” 1 Repair Your Credit Rating Pius fill your bank account with CASH. For FREE. For details... 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This position will act as the on-site representative for the Environmental Safety Office to ensure compliance with federal, stale, local and company safety and environmental regulations Background must Include a High School Diploma and 6 yean related experience to Include technical knowledge of hazardous waste ■ regulations and use of monitoring Instrumentation equipment, ora B.S. Degree In a Physical Science with I - 2 yean experience At Glaxo, we reward talent and creativity with excellent salaries, comprehensive benefits program (including a completely equipped, on-site athletic facility) and rapid recognition, candidates interested in this positioq, please tend resume Including salary history to: Human Resources Department Job #29708908 Glaxo RO. Box 19998 Research Triangle Park, N.C. 27709 (No Phone Colls Please) No Private Agency Keprralt. Please l Equal Opportunity Employer M/P/H/ V Paving (be' healthier toe Dorothy Willis Launches Own Hair Care Line Here WINDSOR, Conn. (AP)— Dorothy Willis Is all cool confidence when she explains how she’s launching her own hair-care line and preparing to enter a fierce marketing battle. Willis, 49, of Windsor, knows the odds may appear daunting in an in dustry dominated by multinational giants that gross about $3.9 billion an nually, but from her years as a top in ternational hair designer, she also knows how to stand out in a crowd. “It’s quite a challenge to go up against the big guys," Willis says with a serene smile. “But I believe I can make a little niche." She has a perspective on what is needed, particularly in the black hair-care field, thanks to a career that has lasted nearly 20 years. “Credibility helps when you’re go ing out there, standing on the band box. Being able to show a track record is important," she says. Willis has worked nationally and in ternationally as a platform artist, teaching styling techniques to other professionals. She competes in hair design shows in Europe, where she has won numerous trophies that crowd the wails and mantel of her home. She has traveled to Egypt and Senegal to demonstrate hair design. She is a contributing editor for Black Tress and Black Hair Care magazines and has written articles For Essence, Vogue and Black Enter prise. Willis began her career in Hartford at the Soul Scissors salon at the G. Fox and Co. department store, became national stylist director for the Soul Scissors chain and later an educational consultant for Revlon. The black or “ethnic” hair-care market represents about 13 percent of the total market—worth about $500 million a year. Her hair-care line, called Basic Black, consists of 22 products—from shampoo and conditioner to a relaxer and curly perm—used by black women to achieve a variety of looks. “A person is judged by their hair; it’s an identity," Willis says. “Nine times out of 10, a person will describe you by your hair; they’ll say ‘that blonde that was here,’ or ‘the one with the curly hair.’” For that reason, she says, good hair care comes first, which is why “basic” is part of her products' names. “I think of it the way a basic black dress is the foundation of a war drobe,” Willis says. Basic Black products were in troduced in March and are for profes r U •' '• * ~V 1 ■ »'• I ■■ t *ti r sional use only. They are available through area salons, including Jhuraab Total Salon in West Hartford and the Hair Place in Hartford. The products are also available in Massachusetts, and Willis says she hopes rto spread'‘information about , her product through educational seminars with professionals. Willis has been working with a Dallas chemist to formulate her line, which has a concept she says is dif ferent from many products designed for black hair care. “It’s not a me-too product; it’s a different approach,” she says. Hair-care product formulas are closely guarded secrets, and hers is no exception. Several companies have tried to get the formula for some of her products, she says, explaining that other black hair-care products tend to rely on grease or oil that coats the outside of the hair shaft. But “if it doesn’t penetrate, it doesn’t do any good," Willis says, ex plaining that a treatment must go beyond the cuticle layer to change the condition of the hair. “Millions are spent, yet the hair is still breaking and dry. We have to moisturize,” she says. Using heavy oils and grease does not moisturize and “is just a bad habit that started a long time ago. And for a long time, a lot of manufac turers were supporting it. Hut today, people of color deserve healthy, glow ing, natural-looking hair, and they can achieve it,” says Willis, as she demonstrates that a dab of a Basic Black hair and skin liquid moisturizer disappears into the skin quickly without leaving any residue. Launching the hair-care line has been “exciting and aggravating get ting all the T’s crossed and the I’s dot ted.” The most frustrating part, Willis says, “is just like for all en trepreneurs getting all the money you need.” Starting a hair-care line takes a minimum investment of $50,000, she says. Willis’ friends and colleagues are also excited about her efforts. “She’s probably one of the most understated and underrated hair designers in the world," says Carol McSheffrey, a hair designer at Jhuraab Total Salon. ‘ ‘She doesn’ t act like a superstar—she’s a real person, and her outlook is Very innovative:" Another friend, Dick Wood, owner of the Total Look Salon in Waterbury, says, “Her talent is one of those rare 1 things to come along only once in a while.” * Authors Argue, Survey On AIDS Virus Delayed NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP)—A Kinsey Institute sex survey that could help researchers understand how AIDS spreads was delayed for almost a decade because two of its authors fought over whose name should appear on the title page. The survey of more than 3,000 adults, which was published last Thursday, suggests that if there was a sexual revolution in the 1960s, most Americans missed it. "A majority disapproved of homosexuality, prostitution, ex tramarital sex and most forms of premarital sex,” the authors of the survey wrote. Furthermmore, they said a majority of Ameriacns are ‘moral absolutists' in that th'-y see these behaviors as always wrong.” "The number of women jumping in and out of bed at random is exaggerated, I think, just as the number of homosexuals in the population has been exaggerated,” one of the study’s authors, Eugene F. Levitt, a psychologist at the Indiana University School of Medicine, said in a telephone interview. The survey’s other authors were Albert D. Klasses of the Univer sity of North Dakota and Colin Williams of Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis. The survey, titled, “Sex and Morality in the U.S.,’” and conducted in 1970, is the only survey of sex and morality in a representative sample of the U.S. population before AIDS, said Charles Turner, a ' sociologist and director of the committee on AIDS research at the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers can use the study as a benchmark when evaluating new surveys of sexual behavior, Turner said, to try to determine how sexual practices have changed. Among the survey's findings: 'Extramarital sex was described as "always wrong” or “almost always wrong” by 87 percent of the respondents. 'Homosexual relations among people who don’t love each other were described the same way by 88 percent of the respondents. Even among individuals who love each other, homosexual sex was disap proved of by 79 percent'of the respondents. '88 percent disapproved of teenage girls having premarital sex, and 65 percent disapproved of adult premarital sex by men. 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