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ft-" . J' Clef Hangers Plan to spend lunchtime in the Pit today because the Clef. Hangers, a local ensemble of students, will sing barbershop and other four-part harmonies beginning at noon. Serving the students and the University community since 18V J Volume 85, Issue No. 111 ' Wednesday, March 29, 1978, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Please call us: 933-0245 Sunny skies Today witt be -sunny- and mild with temperatures reaching the low 70s. The mercury will dip into the 30s tonight but Thursday will continue the mild and sunny trend. mh Ml tit tor ill nw Lacrosse players state gripes against coach By FRANK SNYDER Staff Writer The UNC lacrosse team is expecting an answer early this afternoon from head coach Paul Doty to a list of grievances which challenge Doty's ability to lead, motivate and instruct the team. At least 23 of the 35 members of the team, including some seniors and starters, signed a petition citing the grievances. Five delegates chosen in an impromptu team meeting held Monday night presented the petition to UNC Athletic Director Bill Cobey Tuesday afternoon. Doty and Cobey met Tuesday night to discuss the grievances. Doty plans to meet with the team at I p.m. today before its 3 p.m. game with Air Force in Kenan Stadium. t " - .','mvW:, .au ... . vWv.-B- if--'- - .Nv. Coach Paul Doty Seventeen team members met informally Monday afternoon and most of them told the Daily Tar Heel they were dissatisfied with the coaching performance this season. Several of them feel that the Tar Heels have the potential to become national champions, but that their talents were being inadequately utilized by Doty and his assistants. "He does not demand our respect on the field and he does not motivate the team," said one Tar Heel starter. "We're the most undisciplined team in the country. Doty doesn't get all the potential out of the players that he can get. He doesn't utilize their (the team's) potential." Doty said early Tuesday night following a team meeting that he felt the problems were the result of two losses in Carolina's opening three games. UNC lost a 9-8 overtime game to Virginia to open the season, downed Princeton 12-8 and lost to Washington and Lee 6-4 Saturday. "A great many of the lacrosse players are expressing their frustrations from the two losses," Doty said, "and at this point they are looking to put the blame for those losses on some person or thing supposedly the coaching staff. What appeared to be a smooth-running situation is not. I believe overwhelmingly that if we had won those games this frustration would not be surfacing." Cobey would not elaborate on the grievances or Doty's status Tuesday night. Earlier in the afternoon he said that Doty had his full support. "Coach Doty is our lacrosse coach." he said. "As long as he is our coach he has my support 100 percent." One of the team representatives who met with Cobey said three options for the remainder of the season were discussed. They are: The team can forfeit the remainder of its season; The team can continue its season under Doty; An interim coach can be selected to replace Doty for the remainder of the season. There is a chance, according to team members, that the game today with Air Force might be cancelled. Several team members claimed that Doty's biggest problem is his inability to teach them lacrosse fundamentals. Some said their individual abilities as lacrosse players have diminished since they have been playing for Doty. See LACROSSE on page 2. Trouble at home Begin letter to Sadat asks new peace talks Spring fever and Stall photo by Billy Newman spring flowers abound at UNC. B) I iiitod Press lnltrimtionul JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Mcnachcm Begin I uesday sent a letter to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat calling lor the resumption of direct peace talks. Meanwhile, the Israeli leader's problems grew at home Tuesday when the opposition Labor Party and members of his own coalition attacked the government's hardline policies. At the United Nations. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim said the Palestine Liberation Organization has agreed to accept a cease-lire with Israel in south Lebanon. The announcement followed a meeting Tuesday morning between PLC) leader Yassar Arafat and Maj. Gen. Emmanuel Erskine. commander of the U.N. peacekeeping forces sent to the area by the Security Council. Begin disclosed his letter to Sadat at a closed-door meeting of the Israeli parliament's foreign affairs and defense committee, w here his policies were attacked by Labor Party leader Shimon Peres. "We can't go along with your program." Peres said. "It's a dangerous line and we'll fight it." "Come on. let's fight." Begin was said to have replied. "You tried to reach peace through territorial compromise before Begin took oil ice last year, and w hat did you achieve?" Deputies from the Democratic Movement for Change a taction in Begin's own coalition also joined in the criticism. The l abor Party is preparing a resolution calling for territorial compromises on all fronts, including the West Bank, hoping to pick up votes from the centrist elements in Begin's coalition and outvote the government. Reports from the cabinet meeting said Begin described his tough talks with President Jimmy Carter in Washington, but found a ray of light in the absence of a U.S. demand lor Israel to withdraw its forces from the West Bank of the Jordan. This means the Carter Administration understands a military presence is essential for Israeli security. Begin said. He also said Defense Minister Eer Weiman may go to Cairo and Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan may go to Washington in an effort to get the peace talks moving. Begin was scheduled to address the parliament on his U.S. talks Wednesday. Government officials said Begin's letter to Sadat calls for renewal of the parallel talks of foreign and defense ministers that broke down early in the year. O.A. counsels Fat? Try Overeaters Anonymous Funds for Campus Chest ZBT might make cents Zeta Beta Tau's eighth annual Mile of Pennies charity project will be held from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. this Saturday on the south sidewalk of Franklin Street. All proceeds will be donated to the APO Campus Chest, which helps fund more than a dozen local organizations including the North Carolina Heart Association and the Student General Assistance Fund. Donations of any denomination will be collected by members and pledges of ZBT fraternity. Contributions then will be converted into pennies and laid three abreast on a strip of tape laid along the one-third of a mile between Morehead Planetarium and University Square. A mile of pennies has been calculated as being worth $844.80. The goal this year is to reach the two-mile mark, surpassing the net profit of more than $1,500 collected last year. Honorary chairperson for the drive this year is Phil Ford, All-America basketball player. APO service fraternity will distribute thousands of balloons to donators and ZBT will have a booth and play disco music beside the University Methodist Church. I n case of rain, the event will be held April 8. APO auctions artifacts Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity will hold its annual Campus Chest auction at 8:30 p.m., April 6, in Great Hall. Broadcast announcer Woody Durham will be the auctioneer. Items for the auction have been contributed by national celebrities, sports personalities, local merchants, fraternities, sororities and residence halls. Some of the most sought-after items are a basketball autographed by each member of the UNC basketball team; a book signed by Carroll O'Connor, Archie of All in the Family; a commemorative plate given to Margaret Mead on her 75th birthday by the United Nations; and a pennant autographed by Roger Staubach, quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys. Local merchants have donated items including a banjo, record album certificates and dinners for two. Date packages and surprise packages also will be auctioned. Proceeds from the APO auction will go to Campus Chest charities including the campus YMCA-YWCA, Janus House, Student Aid and the Camp Committee of the Association for Children with Learning Disabilities. By CAROL HANNER Staff Writer Do you eat when you aren't hungry or think about food too much? Do you eat to escape your troubles? Does your weight affect the way you live your life? If you answered yes to these questions, your eating may be out of control. If so. Overeaters Anonymous could be the answer to your problem. "A desire to stop eating compulsively is the only membership requirement for O.A.." said Mary (not her real name), a U NC student who started the Chapel H ill chapter of O.A. and acts as coordinator. "We offer the compulsive overeater a fellowship of men and women who share their experiences, strength and hope with each other to. try to recover from the need to overeat." Mary said. Being overweight isn't a criterion for membership in O.A. although several members topple the 300-pound mark. "We concentrate not only on the physical aspects of overeating, but the spiritual and emotional levels as well," Mary adds. O.A. is a national non-profit group that supports itself by members' contributions. There are no dues or fees, Mary said. The structure of O.A. comes directly from Alcoholics Anonymous. Members meet weekly to discuss problems such as how to make it through weekends and restaurant visits. The meetings also provide members with inspiration from those who have successfully abstained, or recovered from compulsive overeating. O.A . uses Alcoholics Anonymous' twelve steps to recovery as the basic guidelines. With these steps, the member must accept that he is powerless to control his eating, and must trust a greater power to help him solve the problem. Each member has a sponsor, usually an older member, who calls every night to offer emotional support and to discuss the overeater's progress. "There are suggested food plans, but basically wejust help each other in trying to reach individual goals." said Kathy (not her real name), another UNC student in O.A. The national Overeaters Anonymous began in 1960 when a woman known as Rozanne S.. with the help of Gamblers Anonymous, applied the principles of Alcoholics Anonymous to compulsive overeaters. Rozanne and another overeater were interviewed on a syndicated television show in Southern California. The interview brought in 500 letters, and O.A. started to spread eastward. The organization grew from 10 chapters in 1961 to more than 1.700 chapters today. Structurally, the local groups are autonomous, but the national O.A. office in Torrance, Calif., sends literature and suggestions for program formats to groups. "O.A. is really just starting in North Carolina." Mary said. "Some groups are listed in the phone book, but many, like Chapel H ill's, can't afford to do that since we're a small group and we support ourselves. "Most of our members find out about O.A. through our notice in the newspapers or through friends." she added. O.A. holds an open meeting for newcomers at 7 p.m. every Monday in the kindergarten room of University Baptist Church. The group also meets every Friday afternoon in a closed session for members. Mary said the group has averaged from two to eight persons at each meeting, although there have been as many as 15 persons. The group tends to be mostly women, probably because they are more weight conscious. Mary said, but men do come and are welcome. "Anonymity is one of the most important of our principles." Mary said. "We want to be able to assure every member that he won't be embarrassed or humiliated, so we never publicly use full names or pictures, and we don't require full names within the group." O.A.'s members vary in weight and in the degree to which tool , rrn they compulsively overeat, Mary said. She is of normal weight. "There are some people in O.A. who weigh as much as 300 pounds. Often they are desperate, and O.A. is the last thing they try. "They may have tried diets, pills, even having their jaws surgically closed with wire to try to stop overeating," Mary said. "I guess I'd like to lose the 10 pounds that most people say they want to lose, but I'm not obese," Kathy said. "Eating doesn't always consume my life; I just feel that sometimes I get in periods where I eat too much, and I don't feel in control. Reston two-cents worth of research for Nixon-Frost interviews By ELLIOTT POTTER Staff Writer James Reston Jr. left his job as a UNC English instructor and joined the prosecution's research team for the Nixon Frost interviews in June 1976, leaving academia in Chapel Hill and carrying the big stick into the nation's capital. He was unsure whether the project to be undertaken by David Frost, a noted British entertainer and entrepreneur, would go down in the history books or down into the doldrums. He just wanted to contribute his two-cents worth. The months ahead would prove that two cents has never been worth so much as the Reston contribution, at least to David Frost. After the former president had agreed to the interviews for a lucrative sum, Frost focused his attention on preparation for the one-on-one sessions. The interviews were to cover foreign and domestic policy, Nixon's personal life and, most important of all, Watergate. The responsibility for researching presidential involvement in the infamous break-in and the subsequent cover-up fell into the hands of Reston. Frost hired the 37-year-old Reston, son of the vice president of The New York Times, at the suggestion of Washington columnist Joe Kraft. Reston had co-authored two books on Nixon with Frank Mankiewicz, including the best-selling Perfectly Clear: From H'hittier to Watergate. The Englishman was looking to his researchers for an avenue to credibility for his project. The interviews had to be more than entertaining to be a success they had to be hard-hitting. Many observers doubted that Frost was up to the task of conducting an interrogation of Nixon the only such inquiry before the American people the former . 'president has faced since his resignation. In an unpublished manuscript about the interviews entitled, Netting Proteus, Reston says Frost joined the fascination with investigation inspired by Woodward and Bernstein. The interviewer developed an appetite for a scoop. It was Reston who fed his hunger. Capitalizing on a hint dropped by former White . House "hatchet man" Charles Colson, Reston began searching for the between Nixon and Colson which were misplaced with the exhibits entered in the Watergate - cover-up trial. He found transcripts of the June 20 conversation in an interrogation document prepared by the Watergate special prosecutor's office which Reston discreetly acquired. The material was new evidence of N ixon's involvement in the cover-up. More importantly, it provided Frost with a few secret weapons for his arsenal against N ixon. It kept Nixon guessing. The former president would have to deviate from his traditional line of defense. Highlights of interviews shown today in Union The Carolina Symposium will sponsor a 78-minute video-tape of highlights of the Nixon-Frost interviews at 2 p.m. today in the Carolina Union Music Gallery. James Reston Jr., a researcher for Frost, will comment briefly on the sessions before the presentation and during breaks in the showing. He will lead a discussion of the interviews at the conclusion of the program. "The N ixon-Frost interviews are an epic in the history of American television." Reston said. transcripts of a Colson-Nixon conversation on June 20, 1972 the same day of the Haldeman conversation that produced the famed 18'2-minute gap on the Watergate tapes. Colson himself provided Reston with a sanitized transcript of the June 20 conversation and several others. Only with more digging would Reston get the real story of the Colson conversation proof that the president knew a great deal about the break-in only three days alter it occurred. He found undoctored versions of previously unpuhlicied transcripts minus the June 20 Colson-Nixon conversation of lehruarv 13 and 14 conversations Despite his impressive ledger of contributions, things were not all that peachy for Reston during his stint with the Frost troupe. In fact, he was almost shown the door. Reston says "valid intellectual differences" with co-producer John Bin caused his near ouster. (It was such a close brush that Reston's lawyer-wife prepared a stern warning to Frost concerning breach of contract, in case Reston w as given the heave ho.) Birt objected to the Chapel Hillian's emphasis on psychohistory. Reston wanted to abandon the hard-facts approach to the sessions and develop an overall strategy. "Nobody remembered the important dates of Watergate. I asserted emphatically." Reston writes. "We must come up with a thematic approach, defining large philosophical themes to be explored in detail." Reston's approach was encouraged by a session he had with several members of the UNC faculty before he left Chapel Hill. All of the academiansfelt Frost would come out on the short end of a fact-for-fact exchange with the former president. Frost gently portrays the internal strife on the staff in his behind-the-scenes account of the interviews. 7 Gave Them a Sword', according to Reston. "I could not accept Reston's approach to the interviews, yet I knew his position was well thought out. articulately expressed and representative of a considerable body of opinion in both academic and journalistic communities." Frost writes. In addition. Frost liked Reston's "dimension of passion and creativity." So Reston stayed. But the English instructor's approach went and he still argues that the interviews consequently suffered. Frost might not have been so understanding if he knew that Reston broke the curtain of secrecy surrounding the tapings near San Clemente. Reston became concerned that Nixon was establishing a dominance ov er Frost in the early sessions so he sent out transcripts to biographer-friend Fawn Brodie to doublecheck his instincts. "Had the suspicious Mr. Birt found out, vigilant as he always wa to catch me in some mischief. I would have been drummed out ol the Beverlv II illon." Reston writesin Sennit; :' ; If 5 : ; - fa .J" : r w Nixon and Reston discuss the Frost interviews. 'The transcripts were guarded, to of paranoia, in the sates in our Proh'Lis. ' the point motel rooms." Reston si litis hii'Ji praises tor 1 tost m his manuscript. But what is lnj;h pi.iisc for I rost is scathing criticism for American journalists. He says Frost's abandonment of objectivity in the interrogation of Nixon during the Watergate session would terrify most American journalists.
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