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The Trimble J Council cf Governments is trying to
XxzJk an impress cn the issue of monitoring potential
low-level radioactive waste sites by expanding the
committee that is preparing a resolution cn the matter,
a council spokesman said this week.
A resolution prepared in August was tabled last
month after some area officials, including Chapel Hill
Town Council member Eev Kawalec, said it supported
too strongly the placement of a disposal site in the
Triangle area.
In that resolution, the Hazardous Waste
Management committee, . encouraged "the geologic
monitoring cf several potential low-level radioactive
waste disposal sites located in the Triassic (soil) area."
The basin between Raleigh; and Chapel Hill is
composed of Triassic soil, a clay considered desirable
for a waste disposal site. .
Mark Eurnham, the council's senior regional '
planner, said, however, the emphasis of the
committee's work was not to encourage the
construction of a radioactive waste facility, but to
support consideration cf more than one site if studies
were begun for a disposal site in North Carolina.
Government regulations require that a site. be
monitored for two years before a radioactive waste
disposal facility is placed there, making it wise to have
an alternate site in case one site is rejected, he said.
According to the memorandum accompanying the
original resolution, the amount of low-level radioactive
waste produced in Research Triangle Park and by area
hospitals, including N.C. Memorial Hospital in Chapel
Hill, makes the issue one cf concern for
governments. .
The controversy arose when the resolution's
opponents believed the committee .was claiming that '
most cf the state's radioactive waste was produced by
Almost S3 percent cf the waste is produced by nuclear
power plants, according to a council report. '
"The (resolution) acquired a statewide
connotation," he said, explainia that it was intended
crJy to express the interests cf the Triangle area.
The committee expansion is designed to provide the
."committee- with -.more expertise in anticipation cf
Dumham said. j
" 'State" Rep. Jce Hackney, D-Orar.ge, said he was
pleased with the council's activity c.i the issue. "Their
recommendations will carry considerable weight
bee. t.ey are repo?. local Ciies, he said.
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Ssezreksra recover body
of Weoieymn cheerleader
From psg3 1
WELDON (AP) The nude body of
a young Rocky Mount woman, one of
three cheerleaders abducted from North
Carolina Wesleyan College Wednesday
night, was pulled from a gravel pit near
this northeastern North Carolina town
Thursday.
A Roanoke Rapids man identified by
police as 23-year-cld Kcrrnit Smith was
arrested at gunpoint while leaving the
scene and later charged with first-degree
murder, rape and robbery.
Deputies said the woman had been
beaten over the head with a blunt object
and her feet were jammed into the holes
in a cinderblock before she was dumped
Jnto the water.
She was , identified as Whelette
Collins, 20, of Rocky Mount. ,
The Roanoke Valley rescue squad
dragged the pond for her body after
Halifax County Sheriff W.C. Bailey was
told where to find it.
Bailey said Collins and two friends,
Dawn Killen, 19, of Somerdale, N.J.,
and Yolanda Marie Woods, 19, of
Baltimore, Md., were abducted at
gunpoint from the grounds of the
college at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The three cheerleaders had left the
gymnasium after a junior varsity
fee
basketball game and before the varsity
game against Methodist College was to
start, college officials said.
Bailey said Killen and Woods were
forced into the trunk cf a white
Chevrolet Camaro and Collins rode with
the kidnapper.
The three were taken to a secluded
gravel pond adjacent to the Becker
Industrial Park.
When the young women were released
from the trunk, they fought their
abductor with a tire iron and escaped,
Bailey said. .
Collins, separated from her
companions from the beginning,
remained behind. .
Killen and Woods made" their way
northwest along the Stoinoke River to
Interstate 95, where they notified a
highway patrolman of the abduction.
Bailey took Killen back to the area
along a narrow dirt path and as they
approached, the Camaro was leaving the
scene.
Bailey blocked the path with his patrol
car, drew his gun and arrested the driver
of the Camaro.
Smith was being held at the Halifax
County Jail without bond.
Bailey said $7 was reported taken
from the cheerleaders.
From pags 1
package includes what the SSOD package
offers and an et-ht-piace setting cf crystal,
silverware and china.
One student, a junior from Newton, signed
the contract for the Sl.CCO packace. A $25D
finance charge, $64 in shipping and handling,
a $40 on-the-spot, deposit brought the
packaae price to $1,300. The student later
cancelled the contract because she said it was
too expensive.
Bernholz said the company used a high
pressure sales pitch in which it discounted
students from calling their parents before
signing and told them if they did not sign
immediately, they could never take advantage
of the offer again. She criticized the
company's ability to fulfill its promises. At
least one student had been told that the
pattern she ordered was no longer available,
Dernholz said. ' "
The. sales representative denied the
criticisms. She said AMA was 25 years old,
recognized by the Better Business Bureau and
that the company's products were of the
highest quality. She also said the company
had not received any complaints reading
the free trip in the two years she had been
employed there. - '.1
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At least cr.e student remained convinced
that the products were of high quality. "As
far as I'm concerned they're good products
and that's the chance I have to take," the -Kforchead
City junior said. "I'm not even
concerned about the trip. I doubt if I even go
onit:
Still,' others, like a sophomore student
from Winston-Salem, said they regretted
their initial involvement. "I should have told
them to forget it in the first place," the
student said. -
Meanwhile, Jody Harpster, associate
director , cf University Housing, said that
most students were unaware that AMA's
solicitation in residence halls was illegal.
Under the University Solicitation Policy,
companies such as Multi-Industries cannot
sell door-to-door in -a residence hall.
However,-Harpster said, there was nothing
the housing department could do in advance
to stop the company from soliciting dorm
residents. .
Bernholz warned students that it is both
expensive and risky to deal with a company
long distance. She said it would benefit
students more to borrow money from the
bank ;ml huv their wn china later. : ..
From pego 1
WHITE PLAINS. N.Y. (AP) An electrical fire fleshed thrci:h the
.conference rooms cf a surfcurbcji inn Thursday,. . IcilHns 25 pecpfe end
mjurl-3 0. Authorities sdd the erea where the fire spread was net equip d
with sprinklers. -
"It c-pears it flashed up suddenly and these people didn't have a chance,"
said Purcha:e Fire Chisf Robert Makowski at the scene cf the fire at
Stcuffer's Inn cf Westchester, about 20 miles north cf mid-Manhattan.
Westchester County Executive Alfred DcIEeHo said there was computer
equipment in the room where the fire started, but he said there was no
foundation to reports that the fire may have been cauced by an explosion of
FDI nuiJlmga may OK informant crimo
Council members also said a campaign
to inform students on where the money
was going and on what other universities
with comparable programs charged
should be started.
The committee's recommendations
will be submitted to Vice Chancellor of
Business and Finance John Temple.
Temple will review the budget
projections and make his
recommendations to Chancellor
Christopher C. Fordham III. The figures
must then be approved by the UNC
Board of Trustees and the UNC Board
of Governors.
Catch o rde
in the DTH classifieds
"As to these issues, the facts are
undisputed, the court said.
"Hall was a crucial witness for the state
and his credibility was the most basic issue in
the case, it added.
Had the jury known of the inconsistencies
oetween Hall's two statements, the court
said, he "may well have been disbelieved in
the entirety of his testimony.
"Indeed, the conclusion is inescapable that
Hall perjured himself..., it added.
The appeals court also criticized the trial
court's refusal to let defense attorneys have a
copy of Hall's psychiatric report.
"If the jury had known that Hall was a
borderline defective, it might we'd have
concluded that he lacked the ability to recall
accurately events, about which he testified
with such exquisit detail, that had occurred at
least 1 Yt years earlier," the court said.
As to the favorable treatment extended to
Hall, the ,w court said one of the most
important jf actors affcctlnj credibility was
the presence of any incentive on the part of
the witness to favor one particular side.
"A defendant in a criminal case must be
allowed to impeach the credibility of a
prosecution witness by cross-examination,"
it added.'
In addition to Chavis, Wright and Turner,
the defendants in the case were Connie
Tindall, Willie E. Vercen, Marvin Patrick,
Wayne Moore, Reginald Epps, Jerry Jacobs
and James McKoy.
The nine men were convicted of charges
stemming from the firebombing of Mike's
Grocery, a white-owned store in a black
neighborhood of Wilmington. Turner was
convicted on a lesser charge of being an
accessory.
The charges on which the men were
convicted were malicious burning and
conspiracy to shoot at police officers and
firefighters who answered the alarm.
They were sentenced to a total of 2S2 years
in prison, with Chavis getting the stiff est
sentence, 25 to 29 years.
Chavis was a field worker for the
Commission for Racial Justice at the time
and had been sent to Wilmington to try to
quell racial disturbances in the city.
The case was appealed through, the state
court system and the U.S. Supreme Court
I refused to review it. ,
'j The Commission for ftackt: Justice was
among civil rights groups that backed the 10
and continued over the years to push for t
... reversal of their convictions.
A group of 53 congressmen filed a brief
with the appeals court earlier this year,
charging that the 1972 trial in Superior Court
at Burgaw was conducted in a racially
charged atmosphere and was replete with
prejudice and error.
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WASHINGTON (AP) Attorney GcnrriJ Benjamin Civilstti Thursday
issued guidelines' for the FBI that in seme cases would allow informants to
participate in crimes.
The guidelines say that an FBI informant in a criminal case shall be warned
that his relationship with the bureau will not protect him from prosecution
for federal, state or local crimes except in specified instances.
According to the guidelines, the instances include situations where the
criminal conduct "is necessary to obtain information or evidence ... to
establish and maintain credibility or cover with persons associated with
criminal activity under investigation, or to prevent or avoid the danger cf
death or serious bodily injury' and where these needs outweigh the
seriousness of the crime involved.
Polish committee may call for Soviet help
WARSAW, Poland (AP) A member of the Polish Central Committee
raised for the first time Thursday the possibility of a Polish request for Soviet
assistance in the Polish crisis. But he said it would be imprudent to try to
solve the country's problems with the help of military forces.
Josef Klasa, head of the Central Committee department for relations with
the media, told a news conference that the Polish leadership would ask for
Soviet assistance if authority "slipped into the hands of anti-socialism
elements." He said a call for assistance would be made only if "socialism
became endangered.'
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DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) A Saudi
Arabian mediator reported Thursday
that Syria had egreed to gradually
withdraw its troops and tanks alons the
border with Jordan, according to the
Saudi news agency. This was seen as
defusing at least temporarily the threat
of a second war in the Middle East.
The second deputy premier of Saudi
Arabia, Prince Abdullah bin Abdul
Aziz, made the statement after returning
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not been informed officially of - the
reported withdrawal pledge.
Jordanian Information Minister
Adnan Abu Audch was quoted by the
official Jordanian news asency as
saying: '0ur confidence is in whit we
see on the ground and in facts. We will
jud-e this report when we see thi last
Syrian soldier ... withdrawn.
Diplomatic sources in Amman, said
Jordanian officials believed the tension
cf for-d-v r"A'"Qn sun!tu b-tw n tr.: .i ;..3 C2ys, rr iy occ- u.ey
agency said.
Syrian Information Minister Ahmed
Iskandar Ahmed made comments that
observers took to mean Syria had
achieved its objectives and there would
be no need to maintain the military
buildup.
Iskandar told reporters in Damascus,
'Ve are convinced now that the
Jordanian regime will seriously take into
consideration what Syria wants. ThUs
could be what we sought to achieve.'
Although details of the reported
agreement were not revealed, Syrian
observers said they expected President
Hafez Assad to issue orders soon to
withdraw Syrian troops gradually from
the border area.
A spokesman for Hussein's
government in Amman said Jordan had
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Secretary-General Chadli Klcibi, due in
Damascus Saturday, would complement
Abdullah's peace-making shuttle.
Kleibi's mission was seen by observers
as trying to work out details cf
reciprocal withdrawals from both1 sides
of the ICD-mi'e border.
Syria, which sympathizes with Iran in
its war with Iraq, bean the buildup
Nov. 20. It sent 50,000 troops and 1,203
tanks to the border and Jordanian King
Hussein, who supports Iraq in th$ war,
moved 30,000 men to positions just six
miles south of the Syrian deployment.
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tion late,!! The Daily Tcr tee (said
graduate students who wanted a friend
to pick up their yearbooks could leave
their student ID or some type cf written
authorization with the ether person. The
person who picks up the bock, however,
cannot use a written permission, but
must present some kind of valid
identification.
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