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Thursday, November 16, 1995
IN THE NEWS
Top stones from the state, nation and world
Marion Barry Diagnosed
With Prostate Cancer
WASHINGTON, D.C. Mayor
Marion Barry has prostate cancer and is
deciding whether to fight it with radiation
or surgery. Either way, the mayor said he
was confident of a speedy recovery.
Barry, 59, said Wednesday the cancer
was diagnosed during his annual physical
exam Oct. 13 at George Washington Uni
versity Hospital. He said he would decide
on a treatment after more tests next week.
“It will not impair his ability to perform
his job and functions as the mayor,” said
Dr. Albert Goldson of Howard University
Hospital, one of the mayor’s doctors and a
specialist in prostate cancer.
“The good news is, I’m looking for a
speedy recovery,” a robust-looking Barry
said at a news conference, accompanied by
his wife, Cora; his mother, Mattie
Cummings; and his minister, the Rev.
Willie Wilson.
Gingrich Accused of
Second Ethics Violation
WASHINGTON, D.C. House
Speaker Newt Gingrich was accused in a
new ethics complaint Wednesday of im
properly letting a Wisconsin businessman
use his congressional office to influence
telecommunications legislation.
Gingrich said last week that business
man Donald Jones did “nothing inappro
priate nor unethical” while serving as an
unpaid volunteer earlier this year.
The complaint was filed by the Con-
ACTIVISM
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with phone calls and new memberships
after Nation of Islam Minister Louis
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involved in a political organization and
take an active role in community building.
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ability Project, affili
ated with consumer
advocate Ralph
Nader, and by Rep.
George Miller, D-
Calif. The House
ethics committee
already is investigat
ing Gingrich’s col
lege course, his
book deal and other Speaker of the House
matters. NEWT GINGRICH
Miller served no- says the charges
tice last week that against him are invalid,
he would file the
complaint after news stories appeared about
Jones’ advisoryrole. The businessman had
owned extensive telecommunications hold
ings, but sold most of them before volun
teering as a Gingrich adviser.
Shutdown Continues;
Quick End Not Expected
WASHINGTON, D.C. Hundreds
of thousands of government workers got
another day off Wednesday as President
Clinton and the Republican-controlled
Congress remained at an impasse over the
budget. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin
dipped into two government trust funds to
avoid default.
Chances were slim that the partial gov
ernment shutdown that began Tuesday
would end soon.
Wednesday’schapterofthe warofwords
opened with House SpeakerNewt Gingrich
saying Republican negotiators were ready
to renew talks but warning reporters the
crisis “could well last 90 days.” If that
happens, he said, Congress would remain
in session through Thanksgiving and
Christmas.
Gingrich said the House might act by
tonight on a short-term measure to end the
shutdown, along with a provision commit
ting Clinton to a seven-year balanced bud
get. The measure would be stripped of a
Medicare premium increase that was in
the bill Clinton vetoed, Gingrich indicated.
But Majority Leader Richard Armey, R-
pus organizers for the march, also said the
level of consciousness had been raised, due
in part to the information brought forth
during the march.’T think there has been
more respect on campus, and more black
males and females are trying to gain knowl
edge and information,” Eatmon said.
One other group that has become more
visible in the last few months is the Black
STATE & NATIONAL
Texas, said no decision on timing had been
made.
Commission Says Hooters
Needs to Hire Men Too
WASHINGTON, D.C. The Hoot
ers restaurant chain said Wednesday it
would refuse a federal commission’s rec
ommendation that the company hire men
to work alongside its Hooters Girls wait
resses.
“Hooters is fighting back,” Mike
McNeil, a vice president of Hooters, said
at a news conference that was attended by
20 of the chain’s young female waitresses.
“... A lot of places serve good burgers. The
Hooters Girls, with their charm and all-
American sex appeal, are what our cus
tomers come for.”
The Atlanta-based Hooters of America
Inc. called the news conference to protest a
decision by the Equal Employment Op
portunity Commission, which has been
investigating the 170-restaurant chain for
the past four years.
Court Orders Winnie
Mandela to Pay Debts
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
President Nelson Mandela’s estranged
wife, Winnie, lost a court battle Wednes
day over who should pay for chartering a
jet to Angola two
years ago.
A Supreme
Court justice ruled
Mrs. Mandela
should pay the char
ter fee, along with
interest and legal
costs expected to top
$27,800.
Foster Webb Air
Charter sued Mrs.
Mandela for the cost
WINNIE MANDELA
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of a jet it said she $27,800 debt to an air
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tion to Angola in
June 1993. Mrs. Mandela did not accom
pany the group.
Man's Council, which was founded by
Tyson King-Meadows, a graduate teach
ing assistant in the political science depart
ment. King-Meadows was not available to
comment about the group’s activities.
Robbins said the march helped revive a
sense of community activism and renewed
people’s sense of service and their willing
ness to get involved. He said, “Something
touched them that hadn’t been touched in
a long time.”
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Peres Chosen Premier as Israel Works
To Recover From National Tragedy
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TEL AVTV, Israel Uniting to prove
that ballots, not bullets, must determine
the government oflsrael, lawmakers across
the political spectrum backed Shimon Peres
as premier on Wednesday.
President Ezer Weizman gave the La
bor Party leader 21 days to form anew
Cabinet after parties representing 111 out
of the 120 Knesset members including
most of the right-wing opposition rec
ommended him.
Many Israelis are deeply repentant for
the poisonous political atmosphere that
cost Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin his life.
Peres accepted Wednesday’s offer “with a
heavy heart, in light ofthe circumstances.”
“The death of a great prime minister,
the late Yitzhak Rabin, has left the nation
shocked and pained,” he said. “I will make
every effort to form a government that will
broaden peace with our neighbors and
within us.”
Meanwhile, police arrested an eighth
student suspected of aiding Rabin’s assas
sination and charged two others with at
tempting to desecrate the slain prime
minister’s grave.
Peres, 72, has been a fixture of Israeli
politics since the 19505. He now plans to
surround himself with younger lieutenants
and try to tap the surprising new support
from young people, who have turned out
by the hundreds of thousands to mourn
Rabin.
He is expected to present his Cabinet to
the Knesset by next week.
Despite the initial support, Peres’
Knesset coalition will likely remain fragile:
It has only 63 ofthe body’s 120 members,
and his plans to accelerate the peace pro-
SCHOOLS
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TheChapelHillT own Council has allo
cated $21,000 to the program, which will
be used for the participants’ salaries.
“Everyone says schoolwork comes
first,” Chapel Hill High School senior Jeff
Barms said. “But, quite frankly, that pay
check has to come in. This way, I get to
work in an area I’m interested in, draw a
paycheck and eventually get school credit
for my efforts.”
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cess are already rankling right-wingers.
Opposition leaders say Peres’ slim ma
jority is inappropriate for making deci
sions as critical as giving up strategic and
historically significant land.
Those expecting to be promoted in the
new Cabinet include Economics Minister
Yossi Beilin, 47, Peres’ closest aide, and
Interior Minister Ehud Barak, 53, a popu
lar former army chief. Haim Ramon, 47, a
leading Labor Party member, is also ex
pected to get a post.
Peres also met Wednesday with Rabbi
Yehuda Amital, who heads a moderate
religious movement but is not a Knesset
member, and Israel Radio said Amital may
be offered a Cabinet position.
Beilin indicated the new government
will continue and even accelerate the peace
process in the 12 months remaining before
scheduled Israeli elections.
“It’s a whole year. It should not be just
an electoral year,” he said. Israel must “go
on with the peace process with the Pales
tinians and the Syrians and not neglect the
right wing in Israel.”
Israel this week pulled out of the West
Bank town of Jenin —a week ahead of
schedule —as part ofßabin’s agreement to
transfer most Palestinian areas in the West
Bank to the Palestinian authority.
Peres has also hinted he would try to
broaden the stalled peace talks with Syria
beyond the security arrangements that were
the focus under Rabin. But he will face
serious opposition to returning the strate
gic Golan Heights, which Israel captured
from Syria in 1967.
In the Tuesday night broadcast of ABC
TV’s Nightline, Peres defended his
government’s right to make tough deci-
Chapel Hill Director of Building In
spections John Davis said he was very
excited about his department’s involve
ment in the program as well as with its
potential success.
“It’s going to be thrilling to see young
men and women come through the pro
gram and, in four years, be able to earn a
living,” Davis said. “The program will
definitely be a success once students get
involved and get excited.”
Barrus said more and more of his fellow
students would become involved as the
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sions and said Israel will use all its means
againstright-wingextremistgroups, whose
incitement is widely blamed for Rabin’s
Nov. 4 assassination by a religious radical.
“It’s not ignoring the other half when
you use the right of the majority,” Peres
said. “I am for unity around democracy,
but not for democracy that cannot make up
its mind.”
Despite participants’ calls for a more
civil tone in political discourse, Nightline’s
broadcast from the Jerusalem Theater re
vealed how deeply Israelis remain divided
over trading war-won land for peace with
the Arabs.
Government officials, opposition lead
ers, peace activists and West Bank settlers
all traded blame for undermining democ
racy. Leah Rabin, the latepremier’swidow,
said she preferred shaking Yasser Arafat’s
hand to that of Israeli opposition leader
Benjamin Netanyahu.
Meanwhile, an eighth suspect in Rabin’s
killing was ordered held by a magistrate’s
court in the Tel Aviv suburb of Petah
Tikva.
Police said Margalit Harshefi, a 20-year
old law student from the Beit El settle
ment, was a key figure among conspirators
who allegedly aided Rabin’s confessed
killer, Yigal Amir.
Walking into court carrying a small
blue prayer book, Harshefi told the judge
she was not guilty. Her lawyer said she had
a close relationship with Amir, but not a
criminal one.
In Jerusalem, police arrested two ultra-
Orthodox seminary students on Wednes
day for desecrating Rabin’s grave. Both
confessed to spitting on the site, and one
allegedly tried to urinate on it.
program ’ s reputation for allowing students
to get paid for learning while working on a
job that interested them spread.
By no means would the program be
come an easy way for students to shirk
their academic responsibilities, Davis said.
“There is going to be a lot of hard work
involved,” he said. “We will keep a close
eye on participants to make sure they
progress toward graduation with excellent
grades; then we will guide them through
the next four years of earning their appren
ticeship certificate.”