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6 Wednesday, November 10,1993 N.C. Music Minister Arraigned on Heroin Charges THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GREENVILLE Michael W. Garrett’s arrest in New York on heroin charges has stunned friends who know him for his work at a Greenville hospital and as music minister at a Winterville church. Garrett is “a fine person, as far as I know,” said Bishop W.H. Mitchell, pastor of Good Hope Free Will Baptist Church. Early Monday, New York police an swered a call about an armed robbery and found Garrett on the ground with a man standing over him and a second man with a revolver in Garrett’s car. The two men were arrested. Later, officers checking Garrett’s car found 400 packs of heroin. Garrett, 43, was arraigned Tuesday on one count of first degree criminal posses DMV Requests $3.3 Million For Rest Stops THE ASSOCIATED PreSS RALEIGH Safety at North Carolina’s interstate highway rest stops won’t be free. It’s going to take money and more authority for Division of Motor Ve hicles officers, DMV officials say. “This is a critical issue, ” DMV commis sioner Alexander Killens told a legislative panel. But the legislative Transportation Over sight Committee refused to endorse his requests, saying more study was needed. DMV wantss3.3 million forthe project. Killens said his 515 officers would need $556,200ju5t to cover the additional travel needed for them to patrol the state’s 58 rest areas, the Winston-Salem Journal reported. The state Transportation Board agreed last week to provide $321,000 to Killens to buy bulletproof vests, walkie-talkies and flashlights for his rest-area patrols. DMV officers also need expanded ar rest power, said Col. AlFelton,theagency’s senior officer. Current law restricts die power of motor-vehicle inspectors to en force transportation-related laws and regu lations and generally only within the right of-way of public roads, he said. “Our personnel are more visible and they’re in areas off the highway,” Felton told the committee. “Citizens don’t know that we’re limited to the highway. We ask you to approve (full) arrest authority.” Rep. Dan DeVane, D-Hoke, agreed that motor-vehicle inspectors needed more au thority if they are to deter violence and crime along the state’s highway system. Killens said the added costs would be more than made upbvprejervipg thwafety ■- of motorists aidlha stae’sl s7mlfion-' travel industry. He said that publicity over travel-re lated violence cost the state of Florida millions of dollars this summer in canceled vacations and prompted the state to spend $6.8 million in security contracts. The DMV package called for ■ 121 new law-enforcement cars at a cost of $801,500. ■ $1.6 million in other new equipment, including $1.35 million for computerized mobile scales to check for overloaded trucks. ■ Three trained dog units, housing and supplies and a canine trainer for drug in vestigations at a cost of $41,700. ■ More than $750,000 in overtime, ad ditional training and travel reimbursement. ■ $40,636 for an investigator to con duct background checks on motor-vehicle personnel and others who would patrol rest areas. • Healthy Individuals 18 years & older • Approx. I hour per visit • S2B per week (based on 2 visits) • Ask about our Buddy Plan • Call or stop by Sera-Tec Biologicals 109 1 /*E. 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He has worked there since 1985, but the hospital declined comment beyond disclosing his job description. Garrett is the son of D.D. Garrett, a former member of the Pitt County Board of Commissioners and an officer of the Pitt County branch of the National Associa Study: Canadian Health Care Not Working Researcher Says Problems In Canada Foreshadow U.S. Health-Care Obstacles THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA Canadians under uni versal health care get less treatment for heart attacks and suffer more pain and disability than Americans, offering a pre view of what reforms could bring to the United States, a researcher said. Dr. Robert Califf said his study was the largest to compare Canadian and Ameri can heart attack treatment. He said it showed that efforts to reduce health-care costs in Canada might have gone too far, resulting in less care than is desirable. “This is the first study to show in detail that less is not as good,” the Duke Univer sity researcher said. Canada’s health-care system differs in important respects from President Clinton’s proposed reforms, but the two systems are similar in their efforts to control costs. That is why the study offers an important lesson in this country, Califf said. “If pressure is applied to reduce costs, there will be a reduction in services,” he said. Americans might experience poorer outcomes, he said. Rappers Challenge Copyrights THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON—Copyright holders cannot ban song parodies such as rap group 2 Live Crew’s raunchy takeoff of the roci ’n’ roll classic “Oh, Pretty Woman,” the rappers’ lawyer told the Supreme Court today. “A parody imitates and ridicules; it pokes fun at the original,” said attorney Bruce Rogow. is a fair use, unless it pateHaUy , impairs the market for the original.” But the song’s copyright owner main tains the group is only trying to cash in on the enduring popularity of Roy Orbison’s 1964 hit. “You have to have a right to say no,” said Sidney Rosdeitcher, representing Acuff-Rose Music ofNashville, Term., the copyright owner. “They have exploited our work for a profit. They are free-riding on our music.” Comedy groups and satirists are lining up against songwriters and copyright own ers in the dispute over when a parody of a song is a “fairuse” that does not require the owner’s permission. The high court is expected to rule in the case by July. Luther Campbell, lead rapper for 2 Live Crew, sat on the front row of the court’s public section as the lawyers outlined their theories on rock and roll, rap music and STATE & NATIONAL tion for the Advancement of Colored People. Garrett lives in a modest brick house in Greenville. One neighbor said he noticed Garrett had a nice car, but there was noth ing unusual about his activities at home. “I can’t hardly believe it because they are good people," Julia Adams, who lived across the street from Garrett, told The News & Observer. “They are good neigh bors.” The arrest soured a goodwill gesture by New Yoik City police, who even bought Garrett breakfast so he would have a good impression of the city. “The cops were really trying to be help ful, trying to get him bad: on the road, trying not to give him a bad impression of the city,” a police spokesman said. The study, to be presented Wednesday at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association, found that the rate of bypass surgery and other treatments in Canada is about half that of the United States. The study 0f2,400 Americans and 400 Canadians didn’t find an increase in deaths, but it was too small to prove that there was no increase, Califf said. He added, however, that he was certain many treatments were overused in the United States, and it should be possible to reduce costs without harming patients by eliminating unnecessary procedures. The study showed no increase in the death rate under the Canadian system. A separate study evaluating the widespread Canadian practice of delaying heart sur gery in some patients to help save money also found that the delays produced no apparent increase in deaths. Canada’s so-called single-payer system in which coverage is provided for all, and the government picks up the tab —has been suggested as a model for American health-care reform. It has attracted some support in Congress. The Clinton adminis tration favors a managed-care plan, in which costs are paid primarily through private insurance. The new studies do not suggest that the musical parodies. “In order to evoke the original, one must take a substantial part,” Rogow said. “The originator does not hold the absolute right to preclude any other use of that original.” But Rosdeitcher said some parodies took too much. The 2 Live Crew version repeatedly used the “jolting guitar riff” from the origi nal Oibistih song, he said. “They played it because it was one of the most wonderful, danceable, dynamic musical rife of rock ‘n’ roll,” Rosdeitcher said. Rap music often relies on well-known rock and roll riffs to appeal to mainstream listeners, he said. Justice John Paul Stevens said the feet that 2 Live Crew offered to pay copyright royalties to Acuff-Rose and were refused “tends to cut in their favor.” However, Justice Antonin Scalia said that if Rosdeitcher was correct that people bought the 2 Live Crew recording mainly because of the music from the original song, “you’re making money from their music.” If copyright owners can prohibit paro dies of their work, “the world of both political discourse and musical fun may be impoverished,” political satirist Mark Russell and the Capitol Steps comedy group said in a friend-of-the-court brief. But lawyers for singer-songwriters Michael Jackson and Dolly Parton main tain copyright owners have the right to control fundamental changes in their songs. Fair use does not allow someone to “take the heart or essence of a copyrighted song, to substitute ... coarse or vulgar lyr- . 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The packs were marked with a stamp identifying them as “Raising Hell” brand, a type of heroin that police have recovered in North Carolina. Such brand markings are not unusual, said C.E. Weatherington, an investigator with the Greenville Police Department. Some drag dealers identify their contra band with a stamp for their customers’ convenience, he said. “If it’s good dope, everybody wants that brand,” he said. He said public attention had focused on cocaine in recent years, but police still find plenty of heroin on the street. Canadian system isn’t working, or that it should be discarded as a model for the United States, researchers said. The stud ies show, instead, that in the area of heart attack treatment the Canadian system may need adjustment. “On occasion, the capped budgets in Canada can lead to restraint of some worth while technology,” said one of the Duke study’s authors, Dr. David Naylor of the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto. In contrast, the American system, with no cap on expenditures, “relies excessively on technology, is a lawyer’s delight and probably causes damage to patients through the zeal for intervention,” he said. “You take your pick,” he said. “I think the best solution for America is some where in the middle.” The other study, by Dr. David Johnstone and Dr. Jafha Cox of Victoria General Hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia, found that waits of weeks or months for bypass surgery were a safe and effective means of making the best use of surgeons and oper ating rooms thereby saving money. The study of a series of 423 surgical patients ranked to determine who would, go first suggested that expanding operating rooms and hospital capacity to avoid de lays wouldn’t reduce deaths. in High Court ics, and to justify the distortion by calling it parody,” added papers filed by the estates of Cole Porter and George and Ira Gershwin. The 2 Live Crew parody uses much of the Orbison song’s music and the first line of lyrics: “Pretty woman, walking down the street.” Then it deviates to “big hairy woman,” “bald-headed woman”and “two timin’ woman.” > . . The group told Acuff-Rose Music thki it planned to use the song and pay a copy right fee. Acuff-Rose said it would not allow use of the song, but 2 Live Crew released the recording on its 1989 album “As Clean As They Wanna Be.” Acuff-Rose sued, claiming copyright infringement. A federal judge in Nashville ruled for 2 Live Crew, saying its version was intended to poke fun at the original song. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed, saying the parody’s “blatantly commercial purpose” prevented it from being a fair use of the Orbison song. lie rap group’s Supreme Court appeal said its parody did not harm the value of the original song. “The purpose of the parody was to mock the banality of white centered rock ‘n’ roll music by attacking one of its time-honored ballads,” 2 Live Crew’s lawyers said in court papers. Copyright owners should not be alio wed to censor commentary on their songs by approving only parodies they like, the group’s lawyers said. But Acuff-Rose’s lawyers said that was not censorship, noting that authors of nov els could refiise to license movie adapta tions of their work. Germany Remembers 4 Night of Broken Glass’ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BONN, Germany On a gray Tues day loaded with memories both harsh and hopeful, German leaders implored a strag gling nation not to allow rising national ism and anti-foreigner violence to weaken democracy. Marking the fourth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 55th year since Kristallnacht, “nightofbrokenglass,” which launched the Nazi pogrom against the Jews, Germans were urged not to blame others for their economic troubles. “Democracy isn’t a fair-weather way of life,” said parliament speaker Rita Suessmuth. “Scapegoat logic leads to vio lence and won’t solve any of our prob lems.” The ghosts of the Nazi era began men acing the new German state soon after its 1990 creation. Fueled by a mixture of ha tred and booze, German rightists have since committed more than 4,800 attacks, injuring 1,800 people and killing 26. While it would be “absurd to say that Germany is burning,” the violent right wing must be taken seriously at a time when Germans often blame foreigners for crime and unemployment, said Ignatz Bubis, a spokesman for Germany’s4o,ooo - Jewish community. The first racist attack on an American has focused criticism on the frequently lenient treatment of young right-wing as sailants. Of 12 youths suspected in the Oct. 29 attack on a U.S. luge athlete in Oberhof, the late East German regime’s winter capi tal, only two are in jail, one of them on a separate charge. Critics accuse the courts ofbeing “blind in the right eye”—treating rightist thugs as wayward youth while sentencing some left ists to 1 5-year prison terms just for belong ing to terrorist groups. “When it comes to punishing young arsonists, the sentences have been too mild and often probationary,” Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, 84, said in a speech read for him at a Berlin observance. A cold had kept him home in Vienna. Justice Department to Look Into Case Involving Clintons THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON The Justice De partment will take over a probe into a failed Arkansas thrift with ties to the first family after a prosecutor appointed by the presi dent asked to be removed from the case, it was announced Tuesday. In place of Clinton appointee Paula Casey, the Justice Department said, Donald B. Mackay, a veteran of the fraud division, has been dispatched to Little Rock to handle the matter along with two associates. In a statement, the Justice Department said Casey, the U.S. Attorney for Little Rock, Ark., informed her superiors last week that she and her aides wanted to excuse themselves from the matter “be cause of their familiarity with some of the parties and the need to ensure that there be no misperceptions about the impartiality of the investigation.” Casey wasavolunteer on Clinton’spresi dential campaign and a student of Clinton’s when Clinton taught at the University of Arkansas law school. In addition, Casey’s husband once was appointed to a state agency job by then-Gov. Clinton. Meanwhile, Republicans in the House said the Banking Committee should probe the failed savings and loan. Federal investigators are looking into the 1989 failure ofMadison Guaranty Sav ings and Loan and its dealings with Whitewater Development Corp., a real estate development company in which President Clinton and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, had invested. Hillary Rodham Clinton also did legal work on behalf ofMadison for the Rose Law Firm in the mid-1980s. Thrift regulators referred a case involv ing the Clintons’ associate James McDougal’s Madison Guaranty S&L for possible criminal prosecution to Casey’s office after an investigation into a variety of civil matteis, according to federal offi cials familiar with the matter. Among otherthings, investigators want to learn whether funds that were over drawn from Madison’s ledgers helped re tire President Clinton’s 1984 gubernatorial campaign debt. While some $12,000 drawn on Madi son accounts found their way into the campaign’s coffers, Clinton aides have said that they have had no way of knowing where the money came from. In addition, Hillary Rodham Clinton was paid $2,000 per month through her [TAR HEEL SPORTS SHORTS Volleyball Action (|S| Beat State! 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Haifa million Germans have lost jobs in the last 12 months, and another half mil lion are expected to go jobless before next October’s national elections, raising the specter of a Weimar-era depression. “Was Bonn a fair-weather democracy?” the Leipziger Volkszeitung newspaper asked in a commentary Tuesday. “Will we be able to stand fast despite the storms and economic hardship of the en larged country?” Suessmuth’s speech in parliament highlighted remembrances across Germany for Kristallnacht. More than 90 Jews were killed and 20,000 arrested on the evening named for the litter of shattered glass from synagogue windows and Jewish-owned shops. In the eastern city of Leipzig, Jewish survivors laid wreaths at the site of the Great Synagogue, burned by the Nazis and at the Parthen River shore where Nazis threw Jews into the water in a night of shocking brutality. They also visited the Jewish Cemetery, where Jack Green, 74, ofWappingerFalls, N.Y., visited a gravestone to the memory of his father, beaten to death in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. “I’m glad I survived to be able to bring my sons back,” said the retired IBM tool maker, who came with two grown sons. Green had fled Germany a month be fore Kristallnacht. law firm to do work for Madison. Neither thrift officials nor the Clintons ever have explained the scope of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s duties, although she did help the ailing thrift win a last-gasp capital reinvest ment bid with state hapking regulators in 1985. 1 Another name connected to the case is that of Webb Hubbell, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s law partner who is now the num ber-three official at the Justice Department. The Associated Press reported last week that when Hubbell helped federal regula tors sue the accounting firm that handled Madison’s affairs, he failed to disclose that the Rose firm had previously advised the thrift. Thrift regulation rales require that at torneys and accountants who are seeking government thrift cleanup work reveal all prior relationships with thrifts and other financial institutions. The probe also focuses on how funds from a Small Business Administration backed grant to McDougal’s wife, Susan, ended up in the accounts of a real estate venture in which the McDougals and the Clintons were co-investois. President Clinton appointed Casey to her post at the U.S. Attorney’s office ear lier this year, her first day on the job was Aug. 16. On Capitol Hill, Rep. Jim Leach, R lowa, said in a letter to banking committee chairman Henry Gonzalez, D-Texas, that the panel should “not refiise to address issues that may embarrass the current ad ministrations in Washington and Little Rock.” The president has told reporters, “We did nothing improper.” But Leach wants the banking panel to invite federal regulators to testify and sub poena state regulators, Madison’s top of ficers and representatives of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s former law firm. In a reply, Gonzalez said the committee had a legitimate interest in looking at Madi son but said it “must tread carefully around ongoing criminal referrals and professional liability cases.” He said he would direct his staff to begin collecting information on the S&L. Gonzalez has a record of going after alleged S&L wrongdoers linked to politi cians of both parties. He conducted high profile hearings on Lincoln Savings and Loan of Irvine, Calif., making its owner, Charles Keating, a household name.
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