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Moslem leaders denounce Soviet troops
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) The Soviet military intervention in
Afghanistan threatens world peace and the security of small nations
everywhere, Pakistan's president warned Sunday at the start of an emergency
three-day meeting of Islamic foreign ministers. Afghanistan boycotted the
session.
Conference sources said the options reportedly being considered were a call
for Islamic nations to break relations with the Soviet Union, economic
sanctions, and a resolution to boycott the 1980 Olympic Games unless they are
moved from Moscow.
Bani-Sadar: Iranian solution may be near
Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, whose apparent victory in Iran's first presidential
election has been taken as an encouraging sign for the American hostages, said
Sunday a solution to the crisis becomes attainable if the United States does not
meddle in Iranian affairs.
At a news conference at his campaign headquarters in Tehran, the finance
minister, a close associate of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, also
said foreign reporters should be allowed unrestricted access to Iran even if false
and distorted reports are sent to the rest of the world.
Unofficial returns reported Bani-Sadr had received a whopping 75 percent of
votes cast in Iran's first presidential election. Official returns were expected
Monday. Iran has 22 million eligible voters. .
Ninth earthquake shakes San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The ninth sizable earthquake in four days rattled
the Livermore Valley of Northern California on Sunday, causing widespread
minor damage but no serious injuries, authorities said.
Scientists warned more quakes can be expected in the area, about 30 miles
southeast of San Francisco.
Sunday's tremor registered 4.0 on the Richter scale, not so violent as the 5.6
quake that shook the area at 6:33 p.m. Saturday night.
Amtrak Crescent fastest growing train
ATLANTA (AP) The Amtrak Crescent, marked for extinction a year ago,
is picking new riders at a faster rate than any other passenger train in the nation,
an Amtrak spokesman says.
1 he Crescent, which stops in Greensboro, Salisbury and Charlotte, drew
216,761 riders in February through October 1979, compared to 144,761 riders
in the same period of 1978, when the train was operated by Southern Railway.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) The United
States Olympic Committee, after agreeing to support
President Carter's demands on the Olympics, laid the
groundwork Sunday for games of its own if there is a
boycott of the Summer Games in Moscow.
The USOC Executive Board voted to continue
training an Olympic team even if a decision is later made
that no American athletes should be sent to Moscow
because of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. Those
athletes could then participate in a sports festival
sometime this year if they did not go to the Olympics this
summer.
Sources said the Americans also would consider
inviting athletes from any country that boycotted
Moscow to attend the alternative festival, a suggestion
that was made by Carter.
The USOC Executive Board voted unanimously
Saturday to support Carter's request to seek a transfer,
postponement or cancellation of the Moscow Games
unless the Soviets withdraw their troops from
Afghanistan by Feb. 20.
If the International Olympic Committee, which has
sole responsibility for the Games, refuses the request
an action USOC President Robert J. Kane has said he
considers likely the USOC will meet to decide if
American athletes will enter the competition.
The executive board vote 68 of the board's 86
members were present came after a 2'2-hour plea from
the Carter administration. Carter's request has been
backed by some U.S. allies, including Canada.
F. Don Miller, USOC executive director, said Sunday
he believed a sports festival would be feasible but would
not specify particular dates the event could be held. He
did say the event might be staged at the same time as the
Olympics were going on in Moscow.
No site for the sports festival was named although
Colorado Springs, which was host of two previous
summer events and is the home of an Olympic training
center, was the strongest possibility. It was also
understood that Montreal, scene of the 1976 Olympic
Games would also be considered as well as Philadelphia.
A national sports festival would not require any
sanction from the IOC, however, if athletes from other
countries were to participate in it or if it were held
outside the United States, there would be a requirement
for approval from an international governing body.
A member of the executive board said Sunday that
Carter will press Congress for a bill to underwrite
expenses of an alternate site for U.S. athletes to compete
if the country boycotts the Moscow Games.
USOC executive board member Roily Schwartz said
the committee has been assured of Carter's support for
alternate site funding by White House general council
Lloyd Cutler.
"He assured us that the president would underwrite
any type of bill that would assure us of venue so that the
athletes can compete," Schwartz said.
Kane said Saturday that the Executive Board was
"buying more time" by approving the resolution because
the USOC has until May 24 to decide whether to enter a
U.S. team in the Summer Games.
"Well deal with it when we have to," he said.
"Circumstances will change, we hope for the better, but
we're not clairvoyant, so we don't know."
He said he did not fault Carter for pressing the
Olympics issue.
"If I were president I would use every weapon I could,
so 1 don't personally blame him for using this," Kane
said. "I think it is more symbolism than effectiveness,
but it is a weapon even if it is only a psychological one."
He added: "I don't think we're surprised that the
American public is outraged by this (the Soviet
intervention). The question is whether the Olympic
movement and the U.S. Olympic athletes are the kind of
weapon to use to whip the Big Bear. The weapon is made
of flesh and blood, the flesh and blood of our athletes."
Kane indicated the most viable option would be to
seek a postponement of the games. USOC
representatives will meet with IOC President Lord
Killanin on Feb. 9 in Lake Placid, N.Y., fdur days
before the formal opening of the Winter Olympics there.
Nuclear vs. coal energy ; measles
which i more economical?
trustees
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Kevin P. Garrity, a member of the
health service administrative board,
opposed the board's recommendation for
a fee increase. Garrity said that given a
choice between no fee increase services,
he would favor cutting services.
Garrity said he did not know what
services should be cut, however.
"Dr. Taylor and the professionals in
the health services will have to come up
with the areas to be cut," he said.
Taylor said SCAU and student
government would have to suggest what
services the health service should do
without.
Taylor also said he believed SCAU and
Student Government are using the fee
.. issue to play political games.
"Most of the fee increase is because of;
the state legislature's wage increase for
state employees." Taylor said. "We're
state employees and that wage increase is
required."
Last year the University approved a
By ANNETTE MILLER
Staff Writer
Because of uncertainty about future
inflation rates, fuel and capital costs,
nuclear power plants are not always
cheaper, energy sources than alternate
facilities, a Duke University economics
professor said Thurday.
Roy Weintraub spoke at a meeting of
Chapel Hill's mayoral task force on the
effects of the Shearon Harris Nuclear
Power Plant.
"There is no clear-cut answer to
whether nuclear is cheaper than coal,"
said Dr. Roy Weintraub, who has
testified before the state legislature on the
economics of power plants. "What is
essential are the assumptions you make."
Those assumptions include
comparative costs of construction
(capital costs), service life and fuel cost
estimates of coal and nuclear power
plants.
Nuclear power plants cost more to
build than coal plants, Weintraub said.
Nuclear power costs $600 per kilowatt of
capacity, compared to $450-500 per
kilowatt for coal power, he said.
Fuel costs for nuclear plants, however,
are estimated to be two to three times
lower than than fuel costs for coal plants,
Weintraub said. Mining and processing
coal costs more than the complete nuclear
fuel cycle of mining and milling uranium
308, converting, enriching and storing it
- and disposing of waste.
The service span of a plant is another
important factor in cost estimates.
$40 per year health fee increase. Because
of a delay in the opening of the new
infirmary, the Board of Trustees reduced
the fee increase to $35.
This year students paid $57.50 for fall
and $52.50 for spring health fees.
Students will pay $57.50 per semester
next year, unless the new fee increase is
approved.
A new orientation fee recommended by
the orientation commission and the
Residence Hall Association also will be
presented to the Trustees today.
"The fee will be a one-time charge for
all new students freshmen, transfers
and graduate and professional students,"
said Ddonald A. Boulton, vice chancellor
for student affairs. i t
The fee would be assessed only in the.,
fall. The proposed fees would be $12.25
for freshmen, $7.75 for transfer students
and . $4 for graduate and professional
students.
CUSTOMER INFORMATION FROM GENERAL MOTORS
Weintraub said studies have estimated a
30-year life span for both coal and
nuclear plants. "We assume a 30-year life
span for nuclear, but on what basis?
Weintraub said. "We don't have any
experience with them. If one starts
shortening that span, nuclear power is
more expensive than coal, but if a nuclear
power plant lasts 50 years, it favors
nuclear."
Capacity factors also favor nuclear
energy, Weintraub said. There are three
kinds of facilities with varying degrees of
capacity base, intermediate and peak.
Base facilities operate more than 6,000
hours per year; intermediate facilities
operate 1,000-6,000 hours per year; and
peak facilities operate at less than 1 ,000
hours per year. Nuclear power plants are
base facilities, which are least expensive
since they operate the most, Weintraub
said. Coal plants are usually a
combination of peak and intermediate
facilities.
In the wake of projected increases in
electricity demands, the question of
which energy source costs most is a
central one, Weintraub said. Variables
such as population increases,
unemployment, inflation and appliance
use are used by power companies to
forecast electricity demands.
"Over the past 20 years, power
companies have consistently predicted
more increase (in electicity use) than
actually occurred," Weintraub said.
.Weintraub stressed that the
inconstancy of variables of both coal and
nuclear power makes predictions tricky.
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OVERCOMING YOUR PSYCHOLOGICAL RESISTANCE TO SEAT BELTS MAY BE THE KEY.
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The facts are startling.
Experts estimate that about
half of all automobile occu
pant fatalities last year might
have been avoided if the
people had been wearing seat
belts. That's because injuries
occur when the car stops
abruptly and the occupants
are thrown against the car's
interior. Belts prevent this.
- Many people say they
know the facts, but they still
don't wjear belts. Their reasons
range all over the lot: seat
belts are troublesome to put
on, they are uncomfortable,
or they wrinkle your clothes.
Some people even think
getting hurt or killed in a
car accident is a question of
fate; and therefore, seat belts
don't matter.
If you're one of those
people who don't use belts for
one reason or another, please
think carefully about your mo
tivations. Are your objections
to seat belts based on the
facts or on rationalizations?
Here are a few of the
common rationalizations.
Many people say they are
afraid of being trapped in a
car by a seat belt. In fact, in
the vast majority of, cases,
seat belts protect passengers
from severe injuries, allowing
them to escape more quickly.
Another popular rationaliza
tion: you'll be saved by being
thrown clear of the car. Here
again, research has proved
that to be untrue you are
almost always safer inside
the car.
Some people use seat
belts for highway driving,
but rationalize it's not worth
the trouble to buckle up for
short trips. The numbers tell
a different story: 80 of all
automobile accidents causing
injury or death involve cars
traveling under 40 miles per
hour. And three quarters of
all collisions happen less than
25 miles from the driver's
home.
When you're the driver, .
you have the psychological
authority to convince all of
the passengers that they
should wear seat belts. It has
been shown that in a car, the
driver is considered to be an
authority figure. A simple
reminder from you may help
save someone's life. And
please remember children
can be severely injured in
automobile accidents, too.
Make sure Child Restraint
Systems are used for children
who aren't old enough to use
regular seat belts.
Because so many people
still don't use their seat belts,
the government has directed
that some form of passive
restraint one that doesn't
require any action by the oc
cupantbe built into every
car by the 1984 model year.
GM is offering one such
restraint a new type of auto
matic belt-as an option on the
1980 Chevette to gain insight
into its public acceptance.
By the 1982 model year,
we must begin putting pas
sive restraints in all full-size
cars and, eventually, into the
entire fleet. But until you
purchase one of these cars of
the future, you can protect
yourself and others by using
seat belts and urging your
family and friends to follow
your example.
At GM, we're very con
cerned about safety. So
please fasten your seat belt,
because even the best driver
in the world can't predict
what another driver will do.
This advertisement is part of
our continuing effort to give cus
tomers useful information about
their cars and trucks and the
company that builds them.
General Motors
People building transportation
to serve people
who take the vaccine not to get pregnant
for at least three months.
Red measles usually last from eight to
10 days. The symptoms include a dry,
hacking cough, runny nose, light
sensitive eyes, high fever and a rash.
Robinson said that side effects of the
red measles vaccine, including fever and
rash, may occur within two weeks in one
out of five students innoculated. The side
effects will quickly dissipate, he said.
Even if a student has already been
exposed to red measles, the vaccine may
lessen the severity of the disease,
Robinson said.
Students who go to the Student Health
Services infirmary will receive a form
about red measles and will be asked to
sign permission for SHS to give them the
vaccine.
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SHS is furnishing 4,000 doses of
vaccine for UNC students, and
vaccinations are being given in Carrboro
and Chapel Hill schools and day care
centers.
With precautions taken in both public
schools and at UNC, the red measles
should be curtailed, McCutchan said. In
the meantime, students should realize
that they may be exposed to red measles
germs through contact with children in
grocery stores, malls and other public
places, he said.
"It is a potential epidemic,'
McCutchan said. "We think 2,000-5,000
people are susceptible. In an attempt to
prevent it, it seems reasonable to attempt
an emergency vaccination.
From page 1
The campus generally opposed
shutting down all nuclear power plants
and raising the 55 mile-per-hour speed
limit to 65 miles per hour.
As for state issues, the campus
approved of the way Gov. James B. Hunt
is handling his job and expressed divided
opinions on Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C).
Most students responded with no opinion
with respect to Sen, Robert Morgan (D
N.C.). Opinions of politicians tend to become
more polarized, though, as the political
process heats up and primary elections
draw near, Russ said.
In response to various questions
concerning campus issues, more students
opposed funding of the Black Student
Movement and the Carolina Gay
Association. Furthermore," students
generally were opposed to the idea of a
racial quota for UNC admissions and the
elimination of the school's honor code.
Grade inflation was not a concern to
most respondents, and there was
widespread disagreement over the
efficiency of the use of student activity
fees.
Students generally were optimistic
about their futures and felt they were
better prepared for employment than
college students of the late 1960s.
Editor's note:
The next three articles in this series will
examine student response to specific
national, state and local issues, and will
present a more detailed breakdown of the
student body. The last article of the series
will compare, students pf today with those
of 10 years ago, and will examine the
changes and reasons for the changes in
the student body at UNC.
Plans for center suffer
By KITTY ADAIR
Staff Writer
The organizers of a proposed Orange
County Women's Center already are
facing financial difficulties, low
membership and lack of a building site,
they said at a meeting Thursday night.
Last fall, an anonymous donor
contributed approximately $30,000 for
the formation of a county women's
center. But the minimal amount of space
needed, about 945 square feet, would cost
$33,000 new and $23,000 renovated, said
Nancy Park, head of the center's site
committee.
"We would like to find a place in
Carrboro since it is on the bus route and
therefore easily accessible. ..but because
Carrboro is changing its zoning laws, it's
impossible to tell if we'll get a place
there," Park said.
The proposed Women's Center will
house the Rape Crisis Center, the
Women's Health Counseling Service and
the Coalition for Battered Women and
will offer assorted workshops and
counseling services. With these services,
the center will need a great deal of space,
said Elaine Barney, head of the center's
finance committee and director of the
Women's Health Counseling Services.
"We now have $32,200 in a Money
Market Fund. Since this money is only a
drop in a bucket, we are going to begin on
fund-raising projects. Also, we'll start
applying for grants and seeking funds
from donations," Barney said.
Fund-raising plans include an auction ,
a film festival and workshops. Donations
are tax deductible, Barney said.
Membership in the proposed center
also is low right now, with only nine of 2 1
advisory board positions filled, said Janet
Colm, director of the Rape Crisis Center.
Women can register to join the center
and to vote for the 12 available positions
up to Feb. 15., Colm said. Elections for
the remaining board slots will be on Feb.
26 at A Woman's Place, 1 10 Henderson
St.. she said.
For mure information, write to A
Woman's Place, Box 871, Chape! Hill,
N.C., 27514.
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