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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
American Airlines Strike
Continues Without Talks
FORT WORTH, Texas The chair
man of American Airlines dug his heels in
Sunday, turning down a call from striking
flight attendants for a presidential media
tion board while announcing that up to
two-thirds of this week’s flights would be
canceled.
Speaking on the fourth day of the
planned 11-day strike by the Association
of Professional Flight Attendants, airline
Chairman Robert Crandall acknowledged
that American fell short in notifying pas
sengers about canceled flights, but said it
had been impossible to know which flight
attendants would report for work and thus
which flights would be affected.
In hopes of placating thousands of in
convenienced travelers, Crandall said hold
ers of nonrefundable tickets could get then
money back. In addition, displaced pas
sengers will get a SIOO voucher toward an
American ticket in the coming year.
The strike by the union representing
21,000 flight attendants has cost the airline
at least $ 10 million per day, Crandall said.
The airline plans to concentrate on flights
at its main hubs at Dallas, Miami and San
Juan, Puerto Rico. The airline also will
focus on flights from New York and Los
Angeles. American will put passengers on
12 percent of its flights from Chicago, ex
ecutive vice president Bob Baker said.
Earlier Sunday, union President Denise
Hedges said she wrote Crandall, asking
him to join her in asking the National
Mediation Board to request the emergency
panel. Crandall rejected the offer, saying
an emergency mediation board would put
the airline’s future in the hands of people
under political pressure who had no long
term interest in the company.
Clinton Shifts Focus From
Pacific Summit to Europe
SEATTLE The Clinton administra
tion is claiming a huge psychological boost
as it turns its attention from Asia-Pacific
summitry to winning completion in Gene va
of a stalled set of new global-trading rules.
Leaders who participated in the three
day conference of Pacific Rim nations said
the meetings in Seattle would help bring
pressure to bear on reluctant Europeans to
complete a round of trade liberalization
moves by a Dec. 15 deadline.
“The president has had a terrific week, ”
Secretary of State Wanen Christopher said
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week with David
Brinkley. ” “He has completed two parts of
this triple play” with the successful Asian
summit and the passage this week of the
North American Free Trade Agreement,
he said.
Plane Crash in Macedonia
Leaves Only One Survivor
OHRID, Macedonia Rescue work
ers struggled Sunday to recover the charred
remains of 115 people killed when their
plane crashed in the rugged, snowy moun
tains of southwestern Macedonia.
Only one person aboard the Avioimpex
charter flight survived the crash late Satur
day night, officials said.
The Soviet-made Yak-42 went down at
11:45 p.m. Saturday in a mountainous
area about four miles east of the Ohrid
airport, where it was trying to land.
Officials said some 80 percent of the 108
passengers were Yugoslav citizens, most
of them ethnic Albanians. The rest were
believed to be Macedonian.
Lawyers Issue Subpoena
For Packwood Diaries
WASHINGTON Sen. Bob
Packwood had decided to resign, but
changed his mind after congressional staff
ers leaked his intentions to the Justice De
partment, prompting a subpoena for his
diaries, a leading Republican lawmaker
said. Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., accused
staffers of the Senate Ethics Committee of
thwarting the resignation by leaking word
of it to Justice Department lawyers.
When informed of Packwood’s plans,
Justice Department lawyers issued a for
mal request for the Oregon Republican’s
diaries, guarding against their possible de
struction once Packwood left the Senate.
Simpson, a friend of Packwood’s, said
that after Packwood was served with the
subpoena Friday, he “had no choice but to
stay in the Senate” where he could better
defend himself against possible charges.
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BOT Revokes 24-Hour Visitation Program
BYPHUONGLY
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
The hotly debated 24-hour visitation
pilot program no longer will be in effect as
of 5 p.m. today.
The UNC Board of Trustees rescinded
the program at its meeting Friday, saying
that administrators should have told them
about the program before it was imple
mented.
In a 9-2 vote, the board revoked the pilot
program and voted to form a committee of
trustees, administrators and students to
discuss the policy and make a presentation
at the board’s January meeting.
Residence Hall Association officials
called the vote a violation of students’
rights and said the group would hold a rally
in the Pit Tuesday to protest the BOT
decision.
“We’re going to push a little harder and
make sure it doesn’t get put on the back
burner,” RHA President Jan Davis said.
“Three years in making this pilot program
should not go out the window.”
AtFriday’smeeting, BOT members said
public perception of the policy as immoral
Great Eight
Women’s Soccer Tops Mason to Win
12th National Crown in 13 Seasons
BY JILL WEST
STAFF WRITER
It’s great. It’s fate.
And now it’s eight.
In one of the most dominant perfor
mances by college sport’s most dominant
program, the UNC women’s soccer team
won its eighth consecutive national cham
pionship with a 6-0 defeat of George Ma
son University in front of a record crowd of
5,721 at Fetzer Field Sunday afternoon.
“We didn’t really win this game with
any sort of tactical game plan, as much as
we won it with emotion,” said head coach
Anson Dorrance. “They won it with their
hearts, their intensity, and their relentless
ness.”
The Tar Heels ended the season with a
remarkable 23-0 record, continuing an 81-
game winning streak and an 85-game streak
without a loss. Runners-up George Mason
finished its season at 18-3-1.
North Carolina jumped out to an early
lead when junior Keri Sanchez found a
hole in the Patriot defense only 1:49 into
the game. The Tar Heel defender used her
speed to run through GMU’s defense and
Carrboro Police Arrest Man for Slaying of 24-Year-Old
BYKELLYRYAN
CITY EDITOR
A Chatham County man was arrested
Friday and charged with killing a 24-year
old Carrboro resident after becoming en
raged by the victim’s sexual advances,
Carrboro police Chief Ben Callahan said
Sunday.
Carlos Ivan Rubino, 26, of Route 7 in
Chapel Hill was arrested Friday night at
the Carrboro Police Department and
charged with first-degree murder for fa
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Student Union Great Hall. The celebration also featured performers from Duke and N.C. State universities.
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22,1993
would hurt donations from alumni, par
ents, legislators and other citizens.
BOT members said they were bearing
the brunt of the criticism for a policy they
didn’t set.
The pilot program— which students
overwhelmingly voted for in September—
allows 24-hour visitation of opposite-sex
guests in six of the 29 campus residence
halls.
The old policy, which still is in effect in
the rest of the dorms, allows opposite-sex
guests in dorm rooms from 9 a.m. to 1 a.m.
Sunday through Thursday, and from 9
a.m. to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday.
At the meeting, some trustees said they
were concerned about roommates’ rights
and the comfort of residents when mem
bers of the opposite sex are allowed to visit
any time.
But trustees said the main problem they
had with the pilot program was that they
learned about it from media reports or calls
from irate citizens, rather than University
administrators.
“Ifit’samajorpolicy, we need to know
about it,” trustee Walter Davis said.
“ You’re making a terrible mistake to say it
fire a left-footed shot past Patriot goal
keeper Skye Eddy.
Several UNC defenders made offensive
runs in Sunday’s game. The defense was
responsible for taking four shots on the
GMU goal, twice as many as the entire
George Mason team. An unusual statistic,
yes, but it is not uncommon for UNC
defenders to play a part in the team’s offen
sive success.
“If you see an open space, Anson al
ways says you should go forward,” Sanchez
said. “Tisha (Venturini) and everybody
gets you the ball, so you just feel confident
that you can go forward.”
Although the Tar Heels would only
need the first goal to claim the victory, the
scoring did not end there.
Midway through the first half, senior
Mia Hamm took a pass from midfielder
Angela Kelly, and made an end line run up
the right side of the field. Hamm beat the
defense with a burst of speed and served a
cross into the goal box where freshman
Debbie Keller fired into an open goal.
With only 2:25 remaining in the first
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tally stabbing Troy Joseph Dison. Rubino
is an employee of Simply Super Car Wash
in Carrboro.
“He came in to talk to us and while he
was there, he made a statement, ” Callahan
said.
Dison was pronounced dead in his home
when police arrived Wednesday afternoon.
A friend of Dison’s, who was scheduled to
meet with him that day, discovered the
body lying face-down on the floor and
notified Carrboro police at about noon.
Dison, who was unemployed at the
is a disrespect for you for us to change the
policy, when we have to go out and face the
public.”
Chancellor Paul Hardin and other ad
ministrators apologized to trustees, saying
they didn’t know the round-the-clock visi
tation would be such a hot topic.
But Hardin said rescinding the policy
would give the impression that the Univer
sity was bowing to “real or imagined diffi
culties” in public opinion.
“If this motion passes, rather than reas
suring the legislators and the general pub
lic that we have responsible, mature young
adults working with caring administrators,
I’m afraid we’ll reinforce the public per
ception that this is some kind of moral
cataclysm out here,” Hardin said.
Hardin said he didn’t approve of 24-
hour visitation, but he urged the trustees to
respect the students’ decision and the trial
period. He said that giving the go-ahead to
the pilot program was a chancellor-del
egated action, rather than the responsibil
ity of the trustees.
Trustee Angela Bryant said she also was
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The UNC women's soccer team celebrates its eighth consecutive NCAA championship after defeating
George Mason University 6-0 at Fetzer Field on Sunday. More on page 10.
time of his death, lived in a four-unit apart
ment building at 114-B Estes Drive Exten
sion, which is located near North Greens
boro Street and downtown Canboro.
Dison moved to Carrboro about one
month ago and was formerly employed at
Willow Springs Rest Home on Jones Ferry
Road.
An autopsy by the state’s medical ex
aminer showed that Dison died of multiple
stab wounds to the neck. The autopsy also
revealed that Dison had been hit on the
back of his neck with a blunt instrument.
Students to Protest Trustees’ Decision
With Rally, Night Coed Study Session
BY MARISSA JONES
STAFF WRITER
Students angered by the UNC Board
of Trustees’ decision to revoke the 24-
hour visitation pilot program said they
would protest with a rally in the Pit and
a coed study session in the Upper Quad.
The study session, sponsored by the
Mangum Residence Hall government,
will be held at midnight Monday. The
rally, sponsored by the Residence Hall
Association, will be held at noon Tues
day in the Pit.
The BOT voted Friday to rescind the
visitation pilot program, which allows
opposite-sex guests in six residence halls.
Die board also decided to form a com
mittee to review the policy and make a
presentation at its January meeting.
Carrboro police and officials from the
State Bureau of Investigation questioned
three or four of Dison’s acquaintances to
put the pieces together surrounding his
death. The SBI was called in to help police
perform lab tests and now will help follow
up on the case.
During an SBI interview Friday night in
Raleigh, Rubino told police he saw Dison
late last Monday night, Callahan said. He
later was transported to Carrboro and ar
rested.
“According to Rubino’s statement, he
Local NAACP President
Dies of Heart Attack at 48
BYKELLYRYAN
CITY EDITOR
Chapel Hill native James Brittian, presi
dent of the local chapter of the NAACP,
died Sunday afternoon at his home, leav
ing behind a career of civil-rights activism.
Brittian, 48, was hosting a barbecue at
his Taylor Street home in Carrboro on
Sunday when he collapsed and died of a
massive heart attack at about 4 p.m.
A spokeswoman from UNC Hospitals
could not confirm the cause of death, but
only could say that Brittian was admitted
to ffie hospital Sunday.
Brittian had served as president of the
Chapel HiU-Carrboro chapter of the Na
tional Association for the Advancement of
Colored People since December 1990.
Longtime friends of Brittian’s heralded
his commitment to equal opportunities for
all people.
Fred Battle attended Lincoln High
School and played football with Brittian.
Their friendship had continued since then.
“I’m grieving. It’s just hard to accept,”
Battle said Sunday night. “He had a deep
commitment to the community. He was
try ing to stamp out racism and inequality. ”
Battle said that Brittian was instrumen-
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Students had voted overwhelmingly
in September for the new policy, which
no longer will be in effect as of 5 p.m.
today.
Adam Craven, Mangum governor,
said he hoped the study session would
show the BOT that students were un
happy with Friday’s decision and that
they could protest responsibly. Mangum
was one of the dorms participating in
the pilot program.
"We’re having a coed study session/
get-together to get across the point that
males and females can get together late
at night without sex being involved,” he
said.
Craven said organizers decided
against an earlier plan of having a sleep-
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was picked up by the victim and then taken
to his home,” Callahan said. “The victim
made sexual advances, which led to a fight.
During the fight, the victim was hit over
the head and the suspect also stabbed him. ”
Police found the knife used in the slay
ing taken from Dison’s home in a
storm drain up the street after Rubino told
officers where it was. Callahan said the
blunt object used in the assault was a vase.
Rubino did not sustain any major inju-
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Local activist JAMES BRITTIAN
was born and raised in Chapel Hill.
tal in working with the UNC housekeepers
and with coordinating the Midway Project,
a plan to revitalize the areas bordering
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