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Wednesday, November 29,1995
IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, natron and world
Clinton Lobbies Congress
For Troops in Bosnia
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Determined
to press ahead with the deployment ofU.S.
troops in Bosnia, President Clinton lob
bied members of Congress Tuesday on
Capitol Hill and then at the White House.
“He's hell-bent to do it, so we’re going to
have to support him,” said a Republican
critic.
Clinton had more persuading to do out
side Washington as well. Thousands of
U.S. DICK
ARMEY, R-Texas, said
he was skeptical of the
mission to Bosnia.
Americans called
the White House
after his televised
speech the night be
fore, and “there was
a great deal of skep
ticism,” conceded
spokesman Mike
McCurry. “The
American people
clearly want to
know more,” he
said.
Clinton spoke at
the start of a meet
ing with Republican
and Democratic members of House and
Senate committees that will examine the
Bosnian peace agreement reached last week
in Dayton, Ohio.
Earlier, the president met with congres
sional leaders of both parties. After the
session, House Republican Leader Dick
Armey of Texas said he told Clinton that if
members of Congress were “getting the
kind of phone calls from their districts that
I’m getting from my district, that getting a
winning vote on this matter would be like
pulling teeth through the back of your
head. lam extremely skeptical ofthiswhole
operation. I am not at all convinced,”
Armey said.
Egyptian Government
Targets Islamic Group
CAIRO, Egypt—Tuesday’sparliamen
tary elections were expected to be a largely
routine affair until the government
turned them into an all-out offensive to
keep the Muslim Brotherhood at bay.
State security forces that once targeted
violent Islamic groups have turned against
the Brotherhood, which wants a state ruled
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Egyptian President
HOSNI MUBARAK
said he wants to stop a
Muslim fundamentalist
election victory.
by Muslim law, but
insists it will achieve
this by peaceful po
litical change.
Many of the
group’sleadershave
been hauled before
military courts and
accused of collabo
rating with extrem
ists. Campaign ral
lies were broken up.
The Brotherhood
says that since Sun
day, police have ar
rested more than
600 supporters and
people who were to serve as poll watchers.
The government is cracking down even
though it was expected to win a majority.
But President Hosni Mubarak is bent on
avoiding the type of insurrection that
erupted in Algeria when the government
tried too late to stop a Muslim fundamen
talist election victory.
Mubarak’s government denies that its
actions against the Brotherhood are politi
cally motivated. “We just applied the law
because what they have been doing was
illegal,” Interior Minister Hassan el-Alfy
insisted Tuesday in the government-run
Al-Ahram newspaper.
Police Asking How Child
Got Mother's Methadone
DURHAM This much is known: A
toddler died after swallowing her mother’s
methadone, a synthetic narcotic given to
heroin addicts.
But authorities investigating the Nov. 5
death of Margherita Chiaudano are still
trying to determine how the 18-month-old
got the drug and how much she consumed.
Maria Chiaudano, 37, told police her
daughter might have consumed a few drops
of her methadone. But an autopsy showed
the amount of methadone in the girl’s body
was enough to kill a novice adult user.
Durham Police Department Detective
Wallace Early could not say exactly what
happened Nov. 5. “Right now I see no
indication that anyone intentionally
harmed the child, but it’s pending investi
gation,” Early told The News & Observer
of Raleigh.
Chiaudano could not be reached for
comment Tuesday. A neighbor said Mon
day that she hadn’t seen Chiaudano’s car
all weekend and that she had been plan
ning a trip to Italy, where her family lives.
Medical examiners said the mother had
reported that the girl drank a few drops of
methadone mixed with orange juice. But
Chiaudano told police that she drank her
daily dose of methadone straight from the
bottle on Nov. 5, replaced the child-proof
cap on the bottle and set it on a 5-foot tall
dresser.
FROM WIRE REPORTS
STATE & NATIONAL
Growth in Foreign Student Population Lagging
■ Officials say competition
from foreign schools is
causing growth to decline.
BY GREG KAHN
STAFF WRITER
While the total number of foreign stu
dents enrolled in U.S. colleges and univer
sities for the 1994 school year increased by
0.6 percent, some international education
experts said they were concerned about the
small size of the increase in comparison to
the increases of previous years.
A press release from the Institute of
International Education previewed the
findings of its most recent Open Doors
Report on International Education Ex
change, which will be published in early
December.
Lebanese Guerrillas Fire
Rockets on North Israel;
Peres Blames Syria
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KIRYAT SHMONA, Israel Tens of
thousands of Israelis retreated to bomb
shelters Tuesday after Lebanese guerrillas
fired rockets on northern Israel in the fierc
est cross-border assault in two years.
Israeli warplanes retaliated by pound
ing guerrilla strongholds, and the prime
minister blamed Syria for the renewed vio
lence, saying it could have stopped the
Hezbollah attack.
No one was killed,
but six people were
injured, and there
was extensive prop
erty damage.
The first of five
volleys ofKatyusha
rockets hit this bor
der town and else
where in Galilee just
before 8 a.m. Tues
day. TV reports
showed bloodied
residents being
taken to hospitals
Prime Minister
SHIMON PERES said
Syria could have
stopped the attack.
and wailing children on their way to school.
Some people fled the area for central Israel.
“It’s enough. We’re leaving,” one man
said.
Israel’s army chief, Lt. Gen. Amnon
Shahak, said that by allowing Hezbollah to
attack Israel from its territory, the Leba
nese government was “endangering the
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According to the press release, the total
number of foreign students attending U.S.
colleges and universities during the 1994
academic year was 452,635, or 3.1 percent
of total enrollment.
UNC numbers were slightly higher; the
University enrolled 935 foreign students
last year, making up 4.1 percent of the
student body.
While the number of foreign students in
U.S. institutions is at an all-time high, the
Institute’s press release stated that, “this
year’s increase of 0.6 percent is the smallest
increase in 10 years, and continues a five
year trend of slower growth in foreign
student enrollments.”
Institute of International Education re
searcher Todd Davis said the increase was
the result of three main factors the
development of higher education infra
structures by previously underdeveloped
countries, the growth of regionalism that
safety of many thousands of residents in
southern Lebanon.”
The tough talk sparked fears of a wider
flare-up that could sink Israel-Syria peace
efforts. Syria controls much of Lebanon,
and Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres
said he held Damascus responsible for the
fifth attack on northern Israel this year and
the first since June.
On a tour of this bombarded town, Peres
told reporters that Israel had “warned the
Syrians about ... what may happen ...
There is a Syrian military presence in Leba
non ... Whether it wants to or not Syria
must bear responsibility for these actions
by Hezbollah.”
Six Hezbollah fighters were killed in
clashes with Israeli troops in recent days,
and the group said the rockets were in
retaliation for Israeli artillery attacks on
southern Lebanese villages.
Hostilities on the last active Arab-Is
raeli war front have escalated just as Israel
and Syria Lebanon's main power bro
ker are putting out feelers about resum
ing stalled peace talks. Hezbollah opposes
peace with Israel and has been fighting to
drive Israel from the enclave it has occu
pied in southern Lebanon since 1985 to
curb cross-border raids.
Israel retaliated with heavy artillery fire
and raids by warplanes and helicopter gun
ships on suspected strongholds of the Ira
nian-backed guerrilla group.
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has manifested itself in the sharing of both
students and curriculum standards from
neighboring countries, and what Davis
called “the out-and-out international com
petition for qualified students.”
Pointing to improved higher education
opportunities in China and Japan, ex
change programs between Japan and Ko
rea, and Australia’s heavy foreign student
recruiting in Asia as factors in the changing
demographics of foreign students who
choose to study in the United States, Davis
said, “We should not be surprised that the
number of Asian students who chose to
study in the U.S. dropped for the first time
in 20 years.”
But Davis was quick to defend the higher
education system in the United States.
“U.S. universities are still considered to be
world class —these changes are the result
of new educational opportunities, not a
tarnished international reputation, ” he said.
Republican Leaders Ready
For Budget Talks With Clinton
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON, D.C. Capping a
yearlong feud, the Clinton administration
and Republican lawmakers prepared to
begin budget talks Tuesday, expressing
hope that a deal could be struck but warn
ing of tough bargaining ahead.
Facing a possible Dec. 16 replay of this
month’s six-day partial federal shutdown,
negotiators were to gather in a wood-pan
eled Capitol room and seek a pact for
balancing the budget by 2002. President
Clinton’s goal was to temper GOP plans to
extract savings from Medicare, Medicaid,
welfare, education and environmental pro
grams and to shrink the Republican $245
billion tax cut for many families and busi
nesses.
Clinton lunched with Democratic sena
tors in the Capitol and told them he wanted
to strike a deal, participants said.
“He said he owes the American people
his best efforts to do everything he can to
bridge the gaps,” said Sen. Harry Reid, D-
Nev.
But Clinton also promised to fend off
proposed savings from Medicare and other
social programs, saying, “People will fall
through the safety net in droves” under
Republican plans, according to Reid.
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-
Kan., called the chances of reaching an
agreement by Dec. 15 “at least 50-50. I’m
JJR
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The importance of the new figures and
what could be done to offset the five year
decline in the growth rate are topics of
interest to the HE, he said. Davis explained
what the new data meant. “Changes in
numbers at this point are not catastrophic,
buttheyareastrongsignal,”hesaid. “Ifwe
in the educational community value all
that foreign students bring to our system,
we must be more deliberate about recruit
ing and retaining these very important
members of our universities.”
Davis said the benefits of an interna
tional student population depended on how
well a campus is internationalized. “We
(the academic community) will not realize
our full potential if we use international
students as cash cows. Real benefit occurs
when professors and the curriculum reflect
an international perspective, bringing a bit
of the variety, complexity and diversity of
our world to our doorstep.”
hopeful.”
Tuesday’sopeningsessionwasexpected
to focus on the structure and timetable for
the talks. Until the last minute, even the
number of bargainers was unsettled; Re
publicans wanted four on each side, Demo
crats wanted more.
Asa prelude, Clinton invited leaders of
both parties to the White House to discuss
the budget and Bosnia before he flew to
Europe. Prior to that, White House aides
sounded notes of caution over the budget
bargaining.
“It’s not going to be easy. There are
large differences here,” acknowledged
Chief of Staff Leon Panetta.
And on Fox Television’s “Morning
News,” White House spokesman Mike
McCurry cited philosophical differences
over the government’s role in American
life and its price tag and said, “I suspect
that those lands of issues will have to be
settled in November of 1996,” when presi
dential and congressional elections will be
held.
That prompted Senate Budget Commit
tee Chairman Pete Domenici, R-N.M., to
say in that event, “It’s the White House
that’s destroying the opportunity to get a
balanced budget.”
“The price of not getting a deal is higher
than the price ofgetting a deal, ’’ said House
Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.
but traveling back and forth from the main
campus to this area would be difficult,
Clegg said.
“The bottom line is, we had to be cogni
zant of transportation problems," he said.
“The University doesn’t want to do things
that are going to cause a transportation
nightmare, especially at Horace Williams. ”
The committees suggested that under
graduate programs and activities related to
UNC Hospitals, including sick-care re
search, remain located on the central cam
pus, Hoskins said.
“There were a lot of things we told them
not to touch," he said.
The land might be used for administra
tive support, activities that do not need to
be located on the main campus and for
married student housing in addition to
Odum Village, Clegg said. Another possi
bility might be inexpensive, short-term
housing for visitors, such as researchers
and families of hospital patients.
After JJR presents its recommendations
Thursday, the University’s advisory groups
will think them over. JJR will return in
mid-December to hear the groups’ reac
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