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Clear end loathing Sunny and breezy today with a high of 70; low of 45. Xl7 M Serving the students and the University community since 1893 O- A Rally today The Caravan for Human Sur vival, a group of students and citizens concerned with nu clear war and disarmament, is scheduled to arrive at noon today in the Pit. See story on, page 2. , Volumo 0, Issua CO Wednesday, October 14, 1S31 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NwsSporttArts 982-0245 Business Arfvftllng 962-1163 ILegai .1 act I mi Q&m. rail r V W Hit' K OTHAI Steele Escape from Vietnam Vietnamese refugees Cuong Tran (far left), Gai Tran (middle), and mother Mrs. Chau. The Tran Family escaped from Vietnam Oct. 2, 1978, then risked their lives at sea and in refugee camps. In Chapel Hill now, Cuong, 8, is in second grade at Ephesus Road Elementary School, and Gai, 12, is in the seventh grade at Guy B. Phillips Junior High School. Coordinator of the United Church's resettlement of refugee families, estimates that 17-20 families have been sponsored in the area since 1975. See related story on page 7. Millions of voters endorse Mubarak despite eruptions of violence in Egypt The Associated Press CAIRO, Egypt Millions of Egypt ians, not deterred by fatal bomb blasts at Cairo's airport and a gunbattle between police and Moslem extremists in Giza, voted TUesday in a referendum to con firm Hosni Mubarak as successor to slain President Anwar Sadat. ; killed, and that another baggage handler, an Air Malta stewardess and two security guards were wounded. They said three of the wounded were seriously injured, but did not say which ones. Airport officials said none of the pas sengers on the Boeing 737,' mostly Egyptians who work in Libya, were hurt. The plane originatedat Tripoli, Libya's v No violence was reported at the polling cajrftal; and mack' a stopover in Valletta, stations, guarded by heavily armed soldiers and police. Although security was tight, it was not considered unusually strict. Egyptian media broadcast reports of the airport bomb blast and the shooting near the pyramids throughout the day. Mubarak, the country's vice president and the only candidate, was certain to win approval from Egypt's 12 million eligible voters. The Interior Ministry said the time bombs exploded on an Air Malta flight from Libya shortly after it landed at Cairb International Airport and dis charged its 93 passengers. Police said a baggage handler was Malta, the airport officials said.- Police said the first bomb exploded while on a baggage cart below the plane. There was a second blast 14 minutes later. No group claimed responsibility imme diately for the blasts. An Interior Ministry statement said the bombs had been timed to explode inside the. airport terminal, but detonated during unloading because the flight was 15 minutes late. Earlier in the day, the ministry, which controls the country's police, said that authorities seized five heavily-armed Moslem extremists after a dawn shootout nar the Giza pyramids, Egypt's top tourist attraction southwest of Cairo. It hi Uzzzlt said two policemen and one soldier were injured. The ministry said two the five captured men were ringleaders in the fundamenta list ! assault on security men in the southern city of Asyut on Wednesday. " Security officials said 118 persons, nearly half , of them policement, were killed in the two-day battle. The three ottier.cap- -tared men were said to be accomplices : Despite the violence, officials said voter turnout was heavy for the referen dum on Mubarak, a 53-year-old war hero and fighter pilot who Sadat chose six years ago as his successor. Long Sadat's closest collaborator, Mubarak was endorsed unanimously for the presidency by Egypt's National As sembly and the ruling National Democra tic Party a day after Sadat died in a blaze of gunfire while reviewing a military parade last Tuesday. "He is our hope now. We must be all together for the future of Egypt," said Jihan, Sadat's widow, when she and her four children voted at a polling station near their Giza residence. By MICHELLE CHRISTENBURY DTH Staff Writer The Chapel Hill Town Council voted 7-1 Monday night to take legal action against a local realtor for failing to secure from the council a modification of a special-use permit. The modifi cation would have enabled him to convert Brookside Apart ments and University Garden Apartments into condominiums legally. - The motion was made by Council member Joe Herzenberg to instruct the town's attorney to file action in court to restrict the sale of apartment units in the two complexes until Chapel Hill Realty Company gains proper appro val from the Council. "Condominium conversion at University Gar dens and Brookside is not taking place in a vacuum of ignorance," Herzernberg said. "On at least one occasion, the town attorney and the town manager met and discussed the matter with the owner of those two apartment complexes, who was not con forming with town procedures." Council member. Jim Wallace, the lone voter against the motion, said that the town did not have the authority to control the ownership of ah apart ment complex. Although he sympathized with the tenants of the two apartment complexes, Wallace said he did not believe a court would rule in their favor. VVsHsca Wallace said Tuesday that the Council was using the owner's special-use permit to block the change of ownership from apart ments to condominiums because the owner didn't secure proper modification of the permit from the Council. "Zoning controls the use of property and not the ownership' of property," Wallace said. "Zoning with or without a special use permit, in my opinion, does not control ownership, only use. It isn't what we like, it's what the law will allow." After the Council's vote, several speakers voiced disapproval of condominium conversions. Tony Lathrop, town relations chairman for UNC's Student Government, told the Council that converting the two apart- UNC has higlf potential loss ment complexes into condominiums would add to the already tight housing situation for students. Half of the tenants at Brookside Apartments are students. ' Lee Neckman, a spokesman for the Brookside tenants, said the town should stop all condominium conversions until it gathered more criteria found in planning journals. William Schell, spokesman for the Glen Lennox tenants' or ganization, proposed that the Council ask state legislatures to pass an enabling law for a local housing organization and to pass a law guaranteeing basic tenants' rights. In other action, the Council voted 7-3 to approve a modifica- " tion of a special-use permit which would allow ; CastiUian Villa Apartments to convert to condominiums. Herzenberg, Mayor Joe Nassif, and Joe Straley opposed that resolution. Nassif said that the town should control condo minium conversions by drawing up a local supple ment to the state building code. "I don't like condominium conversions, and it's been an error that we've chosen to do them," Nassif said. "It's dangerous to pick and choose which ones we want (to convert). I just want to be sure we do it properly with a building code." Herzenberg made a motion that the Council not consider future requests for condominium conver sions through a special-use permit. It passed 7-1. "I have offered this motion to the Council until we have it clear in our minds what we are prepared to do about this matter," Herzenberg said. Jim Wallace cast the dissenting vote on that motion also. "We have taken three different views in almost a matter of 15 minutes," Wallace said. "It is a most arbitrary and capricious set of circumstances. First, we ordered the attorney to restrain the sale of apartments in two complexes. Second, we approved one request to convert to condominiums. And third, we warned . others not to even bother making a request until we get our act together." In other action, the Council voted 6-1 to allow a zoning map amendment permitting a new Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house. ...-'.'''--. , Cuts in funds to hurt research By MARK SCHOEN DTH Staff Writer Efforts by the Reagan administration to trim the federal budget will have an adverse impact on research programs at The Uni versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, two campus officials said recently. But, the competitive nature of UNC's faculty will ensure that the University will EDnike9 Iblsick i&rliiiieii enrollment decreases By JIM WRINN DTH Staff Writer As the UNC-Department of Education desegregation dispute fades, the number of entering black freshmen at most private colleges in North Carolina increased or held steady this year. However, the number of matriculating blacks at Duke University decreased by one-third this fall from 1980. Jean Scott, director of undergraduate admissions at Duke, said Thursday 60 black freshmen were admitted this year in a class of 1 ,322. Last year there were 90 blacks in a freshman class of 1,448, Scott said. Scott said the decrease was probably due to proposed cuts in federal assistance to minority students. "Based on those minority students who didn't come, we found out that they're worried not so much about present cuts in federal assistance, but the trend for the future," she said, "There was a lot of uncertainty in April over the pattern of the next four years." Delores Burke, Duke's affirmative action officer, said, "We don't really know why we went down this year. I guess we just lost out." . Financial aid decreases and tuition increases this year were a possible cause for the drop, Burke said. She said the school recruited at predominantly black preparatory schools, through alumni and public high schools. There will be no change in Duke's recruiting policies despite the decrease, she added. Scott also said the entire freshman class was limited to 100 fewer students than in 1980 to keep Duke's enrollment below a 5,700 ceiling. There was no relationship between the drop and the limit on this year's freshman class, Scott said. -y, . ; :.;; The president of Duke's Black Student Alliance, Mark. Jones, said he felt Duke's recent tuition increase and the" fear of government cuts in financial aid kept the number of entering blacks low this year. Louis Bryson, director of the post-secondary division of the U.S. Office of civil rights in Atlanta, said his of fice had received no complaints of discrimination at Duke and there were no plans to review the university's admis sions practices. Bob Wilson, a spokesman for Duke's new service, said there were 539 minority undergraduates, of which 290 were black. He said 269 ethnic graduate students were enrolled at-Duke, 120 of them black. See MINORITY on page 6 not be hit as hard as other schools in the state, those officials said. "One of the most important problems we'll face is a reduction of funding for research," said UNC Chancellor Christo pher C. Fordham III. "This is the leading research facility in the Southeast. We po tentially have the most to lose." The University's focus, Fordham said in an interview last week, must be on coping with the reductions without sacrificing the quality of research. "The inevitable question is that we have to see how we can reduce without gutting our research effort," he said. "This may be the time for us to learn to get by with less materials and costs. - .. ' "Unfortunately, those cost are always going up," he said. The University's tradition and the sup port of the state, however, should help ease the effects of the reductions, For dham said. "We don't -know precisely what those effects will be," he said. "But we're an unusually strong university and that says something good about the state. , "I can't believe the people will let it go down the drain," Fordham said. Although federal cutbacks will be deep, the impact of the Reagan administration's program will not be felt for some time, George R. Holcomb, dean of the Research Administration, said Wednesday. "The federal program will affect us sig nificantly," he said. "It's hard to say how much at this point because we are a com petitive institution. There simply will be fewer dollars to compete for." The University, because of its heavy em phasis on research, probably will not be hurt as badly as other universities which . emphasize teaching and community service rather than basic research, Holcomb said. . "In some ways other schools that aren't research institutions, that don't have as much to start with, will be hurt more," he said. "They don't have the faculty to com pete with." Holcomb said the social sciences would be the hardest hit. "The administration has made a decision to neglect the social sciences," he said. "But it's hard to say what the other pro grams will feel. It depends on what funding will come through other federal agencies, that the National Science Foundation." Holcomb said UNC was granted $63.5 million for research this fiscal year and $70 million last year. He would not speculate on the amount of reductions for the next fiscal year. See RESEARCH on page 5 Succeoo of otatewide fairs due to uniqueness By KATHERINE LONG DTH Staff Writer Going to the fair is synonymous with going to the state fair in Raleigh for most people in North Carolina. But it isn't the only fair. From late July to October, 54 fairs are held all across the state. There are big regional shows and tiny county fairs sponsored by the local Rotary Club. And each fair is unique. The Dixie Classic Fair held in Winston Salem, the second-largest fair in the state, was just getting started last week. The stands filled up slowly on a cold Saturday morning with people coming to watch the draft horses clip ping along in brightly-painted wagons. Gleam ing farm equipment lined the paths through the fairgrounds. Farmers sitting in trucks filled with bleating sheep waited to move their animals into the pens. "We're primarily an agricultural fair the showpiace of northwest North Carolina," said Ray Dernpsey, director of press relations for the Dixie Classic. The Dixie fair is a regional fair, smaller thanthe state fair but much larger than many county fairs. The fairgrounds remain dormant for the 51 weeks when there is no fair. Counties like Macon cannot afford to leave their six-acre fairgrounds unused over the year. When the fair is over the field is used as a cow pasture, Secretary Wayne Proffitt said. The Macon County Fair is one of a few' strictly agricultural fairs. "We do not have a carnival," Prpfitt said. "There's no honky tonk to it." The Northwest North Carolina Agricultural Fair, held in Wilkesboro, is family-oriented, Chairman Ted Gaylor said. "Some of them have girlie shows; we don't do that here." But most fairs do have rides and games. At the Winston-Salem midway, rides flashed bright-colored lights, spinning and, whooshing in the air, and screeching music. Ghoulish figures beckoned outside the House of Hor rors while an old man in front took tickets gloomily. . Each region of the state has something a lit tle different to" offer. In Macon, there's a 'coon dog show. The Elizabeth City Jaycee Six County Fair has a large display of honey each year; in 1930, the display was the largest in the state. Chairman Larry Newell said. The Dixie Classic has the biggest flower ex hibit in the state, Dernpsey said. Some of the agricultural contests at the Dixie Classic bear the names of county celebrities: Wally Williams' Ornamental Corn Contest, Mel Kolbe's Best Decorated Apple Contest and Frank Kingman's Big Sunflower Contest. The localized, neighborly attitude is another characteristic that sets county fairs apart from . the state fair. No one misses the county fair. "Everybody goes," said Clyde Propst, manager of the Cabarrus County Agricultural . Fair. "You see people there you don't see at . any other time for the rest of the year:" ' "You come to see how your neighbor has placed" in the contests, Newell said of the. Elizabeth City fair. . The Macon fair, a tradition for 28 years, at tracts 7,000-8,000 people fromthe county population of 18,000, Profitt said. The smaller number of fair-goers is another major difference between county fairs and the large state fair. In Winston-Salem, the animal barns were quiet, with only a few farmers and visitors wandering through. There was a small group gathering in front of the pen where 12 tiny piglets swarmed over a huge mother sow, squealing tor breakfast. But the sheep pens were almost deserted, ex cept for two little boys in cowboy hats dancing across the rails that separated empty pens. Locally-managed, small fairs have one worry that the state fair does not:. With the cost of shows soaring, is the county fair head ed for extinction? Administrator of Fairs Eugene Carroll doesn't think so, although he admitted that a few small fairs are going out of business. "The smaller fairs have having problems, but it's a combination of things," he said. That combination includes poor management by. fair officials, he said. "The problem lies with the concessions," said 8-year veteran fair organizer Newell. "Unless" you get good attendance, you can't get good games.. And people expect to go to these games." The Dixie Classic, Cabarrus County, Macon County, Elizabeth City and Northwest North Carolina fairs are all growing, their organizers said. But they admitted that this growth was in part due to other fairs' dropping out. An official with the Franklin County Fair in Louisburg said the fair in that city was small this year. "It's really too expensive to run them now, with the price of gas and all the trucks," he said. "They (county fairs) are going out of business." : V : 71 A, X v fw It xn
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