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► Beauty of the Week
MS. YVONNE M. PIGLER
is the reigning Miss Augusta
Black Festival.
A 1975 graduate of Ohio
State University, she holds a
B.A. degree in broadcast
communication, and is
presently employed as
operations traffic manager at
Herman Harris joins
Medical College faculty
Herman Harris
A.C. President
to be honored
Augusta College President
George A. Christenberry is one
of two higher education
presidents to receive
meritorious service award*
from the American Association
of State Colleges and
Universities (AASCU). The
awards will be given at the
AASCU national meeting in
Orlando, Fla., Dec. 6.
The other recipient is
Dominic J- Guzzetta, president
of the University of Akron,
Ohio. Both presidents will
complete their terms on the
AASCU board, having served
since 1974.
AASCU is an association of
325 state universities and
colleges enrolling a quarter of
the nation’s four-year college
students. It is often referred to
as an “activist” organization
because of the level of activity
which the board and the
members maintain in program
development and educational
policy areas. During the past
year AASCU has received
national attention for the
Augusta Nriim-Keiijcui
WRDW TV, Channel 12.
Yvonne is a member of
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority,
and enjoys photography, art,
jazz and needle craft.
She is the daughter of Lt.
Col. (Ret.) and Mrs. James E.
Pigler, and the grand-daughter
of the late Mrs. Marie B.
Hatcher.
Herman F. Harris,
administrative officer and chief
of Social Work Services of the
Comphrensive Sickle Cell
Center here, lias been
appointed to the faculty of the
Medical College of Georgia.
lie will assume the position
as research social scientist in
the Department of Cell and
Molecular Biology .
Harris has been extensively
involved with the Sickle Cell
Anemia Program and recently
served as National Program
Conference chairman. He will
continue to serve the Center in
the same administrative
capacity.
...
George A. Christenberry
public stands it has taken in
maintaining low tuition levels
and preserving educational
opportunity for lower and
middle income students.
More than 250 college and
university presidents and guests
are expected to attend the
awards banquet.
P.O. Box 953
Medical use of heroin
may lead to legalization
By Mark Shwartz
Pacific News Service
WASHINGTON, DC. ■
Advocates of decriminalizing
heroin received a powerful shot
in the arm from the White
House this month when
President Carter authorized a
federal panel to oversee
research into the medicinal
uses of heroin and marijuana.
Such studies have been
stifled in the U.S. for over half
a century because of the
political controversy
surrounding these drugs, says
Dr. Peter Bourne, President
18-year-old woman
kidnapped, raped
An 18-year-old Augusta
woman was kidnapped at
gunpoint and raped last week
by two unidentified men.
While waiting at a bus stop
on the 1500 block of Twiggs
Street, the woman told
investigating officers a car
Why Egypt needs peace
By lan Lustick
Pacific News Service
CAIRO - Why has Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat risked
his standing in the entire Arab
world to visit Israel?
While the historic visit itself
was conceived only recently, it
in fact climaxed a five-year-old
policy to turn Egypt away
from an unending military
build-up for a new Mideast war
and towards massive economic
development of one of the
poorest nations in the world.
Closely linked to this shift
was Sadat’s policy to decouple
Egypt from the Soviet Union,
once its chief arms supplier,
and link up with the United
States, Israel’s chief ally.
Today, as a result of this
two-pronged campaign, Egypt
has three inescapable vested
interests in lasting peace:
♦Thanks to its rupture with
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Carter’s special assistant on
health issues.
But now Bourne has
received the full backing of the
President to loosen federal
restrictions on researchers
wanting to explore (he
potential use of the two drags
- heroin to kill pain and
marijuana to reduce nausea --
in treating terminally ill cancer
patients.
Considered one of the most
powerful analgesics known to
science, heroin is used in Great
Britain and other countries to
help dying patients alleviate
pain. British physicians also
pulled up and a man got out.
He pulled a .38 caliber pistol
and forced her into the car.
She told the officers the
men drove her to Alabama
Road under the Gordon
Highway overpass where she
was beaten and raped by both
the Soviet Union, Egypt is too
weak militarily to wage a new
war with Israel.
♦The area where Egypt has
made its biggest economic
effort - the the Suez Canal and
its surrounding cities - would
be the prime target in any new
war.
♦The Egyptian public for
months has been exposed to an
intensive media campaign that
has transformed the rhetoric of
internal and foreign policies
from themes of war to themes
of economic progress and
peace with Israel.
The most indicative fact,
Egypt’s present military
weakness, is a direct result of
President Sadat’s 1972 decision
to expel Soviet advisers and -
just last year - to cancel
Egypt’s “Treaty of Friendship”
with the USSR. The move was
recently characterized by one
high-ranking Egyptian official
Olive Road.
The agency, operated by Jacob
Crawford and Augustus Miller, is
intended to provide a wide range of
services to the residents and businesses of
the CSRA. Services include photography,
consulting, and business liaison services
for churches.
administer it as a cough
suppressor for people with
incurable lung cancer.
Some British hospitals give
heroin orally to the terminally
ill in the form of “Brompton’s
cocktail” -a mixture of
heroin, cocaine, syrup flavoring
and other ingredients. The
“cocktail” is also gaining
popularity in U.S. hospitals,
but in this country morphine is
used in the drink instead of
heroin.
Although morphine, codeine
and other narcotics are widely
used as pain, killers in the
U.S., diacetyl-morphine - the
men.
After being thrown from the
car at Sullivan and Nellieville
roads, the woman said she
went to 2211 Sullivan Road
and called the Richmond
County Sheriffs Department.
She was taken to University
Hospital and treated for head,
face and other body injuries.
as a calculated attempt to
prove to the U.S. and Israel
that Egypt is not
contemplating war and does
not threaten Israeli security.
By so doing, this official
added, Sadat hopes to mobilize
American support for a peace
agreement with Israel that
would include return of the
territories occupied in June
1967.
“Sadat has burned his
bridged to the Soviet Union,
but is it not correct to say that
he is stuck with the Americans.
He has stuck himself to the
United States,” the official
said.
Indeed, Egypt receives
virtually no arms or spare parts
from the Russians at present.
Soviet advisers, technicians and
See “EGYPT”
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chemical name for heroin - is
deemed unsafe even under
medical supervision.
“Heroin is believed to be
two to five times more
powerful than morphine,” says
Professor Arnold Trebach, who
heads the Committee on
Treatment of Intractable Pain,
a recently formed group that
has lobbied for the patient’s
right to receive heroin if
suffering from a painful
disease, injury or burn. “And,”
Trebach adds, “there seems to
be no doubt that heroin
induces less nausea and allows
more freedom of mobility than
morphine.”
Among the committee’s
advisers is the widow of
conservative columnist Stewart
Alsop, who died recently of
cancer.
Trebach - professor of
justice at the American
University in Washington, D.C.
- is quick to point out that his
organization has nothing to do
with the movement to legalize
laetrile.
“Our committee deals with
the issue of care, not cure,” he
says.
“Pain is an obscenity,”
contends Trebach, who lost his
wife to cancer a year ago. “I
honestly believe there is no
need for a person to be in
severe pain when terminally
ill.”
Although he praised the
Carter Administration as “the
most enlightened on this issue
in history,” Trebach said his
committee plans to bring suit
against the federal government
to make heroin immediately
available for medicinal use.
“The only people who can’t
get heroin are people who are
dying,” charges the Rt. Rev. C.
Edward Crowther, assistant
bishop for the Episcopal
diocese of California and
another adviser to the
Committee on Treatment.
“1 am not suggesting that
heroin be legalized for
everybody; only for people
with terminal illnesses,” he
adds. “The question of
addiction is irrelevant when
you are dealing with dying
patients.”
Other committee members,
however, are hopeful that
President Carter’s decision will
open the door to research on
the decriminalization of heroin
for the care of drug addicts.
“Although the treatment of
intractable pain is a completely
different issue,” says
committee director Trebach, “1
am personally in favor of
making heroin available to
doctors who then may make
the choice to use it for
addicts.”
Trebach has conducted
extensive studies of Britain’s
liberal narcotics policy that
allows government-run clinics
to provide low-cost heroin to
several dozen registered
addicts. He describes the
British program as a “damn
good system.”
But some U.S. opponents of
heroin maintenance claim the
British have failed to stem the
tide of heroin addiction now
sweeping Western Europe.
Others argue that the U.S.
government should not adopt
the role of the pusher.
Those favoring a British-type
heroin policy predict that
legalization would actually
reduce America’s spiraling
crime rate. If the drug were
passed out free, they contend,
addicts would not have to steal
or engage in illicit activities to
pay for their SIOO-a-day
habits.
The surprise announcement
by the White House to
promote heroin research came
on the heels of mounting
pressure from some drug abuse
workers and civic leaders who
believe heroin maintenance
could help cure this country’s
addict population, now
estimated at well over 500,000.
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Mclntyre on
African tour
County Commissioner
Edward M. Mclntyre left
Friday on a 10-nation African
tour.
He was one of 10 elected
officials to visit Africa, and
other countries. The trip is
being paid for by the U.S.
Department of State and will
include the following
countries: Casablanca, Kenya,
Gambia, Zambia, Liberia,
Botswana, Ghana,
Johannesburg, Nigeria and
Brazil.
The primary purpose of this
trip is to foster good-will for
the U.S. and to gather
information.
The trip is being arranged
through the African-American
institute.
Paineite’s son
is U.S. Attorney
John W. Laymon, 32, of
Holliston, Mass., has been
sworn in as assistant United
States attorney for
Massachusetts. He is the son of
Mrs. Costella Burton Laymon,
a 1938 graduate of Paine
College.
Laymon was formerly an
assistant district attorney for
Suffolk County and prior to
that was chief defender in
Dorchester Municipal Court.
Laymon is a graduate of
Coretta King: Women’s
conference ‘turning point’
ATLANTA - Coretta Scott
King recently called the
National Women’s Conference
in Houston “a major turning
point in the long struggle to
give all women, and
particularly Black women, and
other minorities, equal
protection and opportunity
under the law.”
Mrs. King, who was an
International Women’s Year
Commissioner and one of the
organizers of the Houston
meeting, was the principal
author of a special “affirmative
action” resolution that was
enthusiastically approved by
the delegates.
The resolution, Mrs. King
explained, “is a solid blueprint
for action by our government
in all areas to remove the scars
of two hundred years of racism
and sexism in our society.”
Mrs. King, who is president
of The Martin Luther King Jr.
A former Playboy bunny is
suing Flip Wilson for divorce,
although they were never
legally married.
Rosylin Taylor is suing the
famed comic based on a
California court decision which
ruled that former girlfriends
and mistresses of Californians
are provided with alimony and
property rights.
According to the Miami
Times, Ms. Taylor is seeking
support totaling 512,000 a
month and half of Wilson’s
property.
A
Edward M. Mclntyre
Howard University and
H o ward University Law
School
He is chairman of the
administrative board of the
Union Methodist Church,
Boston, and a member of the
Massachusetts Black Lawyers
Assn. He formerly was an
assistant professor at Roxbury
Community College.
He and his wife, Heather,
are the parents of two children.
Center for Social Change, said
the Houston meeting was “the
most democratic and well
organized and spiritually
uplifting political meeting I
have ever attended.”
The affirmative action
resolution, she said, calls on
the President and Congress to
take sweeping action to aid
Black women and other
minorities in the areas of
education, unemployment,
child placement, housing,
health care, criminal justice,
maternity benefits, child care,
labor standards, and care for
the aged.
The resolution affects not
only Black women, but also
American Indians, Alaska
native women,
Asian-Americans, Hispanic and
disabled women, “all of whom
have too long been denied their
full human rights,” Mrs. King
said.
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