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American journalists killed
The Associated Press
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras Two Ameri
can journalists, one of whom was a North
Carolina native, were killed by artillery fire
while driving on an isolated road along the
Honduras-Nicaragua border, the State Depart
ment said today. Honduras blamed Nicaraguan
soldiers for the attack.
Honduran Foreign Minister Edgardo Paz
Barnica said the bodies of Dial Torgerson, Los
Angeles Times bureau chief for Mexico and
Central America, and free-lance photographer
Richard Cross, on assignment for U.S. News
& World Report, were being brought by car to
the capital and would arrive today after an
eight-hour drive.
Torgerson was born in 1928 in Southport,
N.C., officials said.
Anita Stockman, a State Department
spokeswoman in Washington, confirmed to
day that Torgerson and Cross were killed
Tuesday evening.
Paz Barnica said Torgerson, Cross and their
Honduran driver, who he identified as 27-year-old
Jose Herrera, were killed around 5 p.m.
EDT Tuesday by anti-tank fire from Nicara
guan troops across the border. However, The
Los Angeles Times said it had been told by
Honduran officials that the driver may have
survived and another man killed.
The Honduran government sent an immedi
ate protest note to Nicaragua, Paz Barnica
said in a telephone interview with The Associ
ated Press.
He said anti-tank weapons shattered the
rented automobile Cross and Torgerson were
riding in on a stretch of dirt road a few yards
from the Nicaraguan border.
Fellow reporters said the newsmen left
Tegucigalpa early in the day, but their car was
not marked.
Torgerson joined The Los Angeles Times,
in 1967 as a general assignment reporter and in
1974 went to Nairobi, Kenya, where he served
years. In 1976 he was transferred to Jerusalem
and in March 1981 he was named bureau chief
in Mexico City.
Torgerson worked in the Los Angeles
bureau of The Associated Press from 1955-66.
Les Tanzer, U.S. News & World Report's
managing editor, said Cross went to Honduras
last weekend to take pictures of Honduras
based Nicaraguan rebels.
According to Tanzer, Cross was planning to
go to Puerta Castilla, where about 120 U.S.
Special Forces soldiers, including Green Berets
from Fort Bragg, N.C., are establishing a base
to train Salvadoran soldiers.
Cole still planning suit;
action to wait until fall
By ANDY HODGES
Tar Heel Staff Writer
Campus Governing Council represent
ative Rebel Cole said Tuesday that he still
plans to file suit against 1983 Carolina
Concert for Children Chairman Ben Lee,
but added that any action in the suit will
probably not be taken until the fall.
Cole, who is planning to sue Lee for
"breach of fiduciary duty," said, "As far
as I'm concerned, this issue is on the back
burner and has been since it first came
up.
He said he hopes to get Lee to explain
his actions in regard to the concert plan
ning, particularly why he did not pur
chase rain insurance, to the CGC when he
returns to Chapel Hill for the fall semes
ter. "When the facts come out, I think we
should let the students decide who's
right," Cole told The Tar Heel 'two weeks
ago. "I think they will agree with me that
the concert was mismanaged."
He said Tuesday, however, that the
students' reactions will not be a determi
nant of whether the suit is carried out.
Cole, who is also chairman of the
CGC's Student Affairs Committee,
refused to comment when asked if he has .
hired a lawyer.
Lee could not be reached for comment
Tuesday, but he said earlier that he could
not comment because he was at home in
Ohio and had not yet seen the allegations
against him.
Temporary CGC Speaker Ron Everett
said Tuesday that the possibility of a
spring concert for next year will not be
discussed until the fall and that the
chances now look slim.
"Right now we don't have the
capital," he said. "The money we would
have used is not there (because of '83 los
ses)." Concert Treasurer Anthony Hughes
said earlier that the income from the con
cert was about $44,000 and that projected
losses are between $60,000 and $70,000.
Affirmative Action officer named to head history department
By CASSANDRA POTEAT
Tar Heel Staff Writer
Professor Gillian T. Cell, affirmative action officer at
UNC, has been named the new chairman of the history
department.
The recommendation will be presented to the UNC Board
of Trustees by Chancellor Christopher C. Fordham III on
Friday. Cell will resign her current post on June 30 to assume
her new position July 1. She will succeed Professor R. Don
Higginbotham.
A native of England, Cell has been with the faculty at the
University since 1965. She became affirmative action officer
in January 1981.
She has served the University in numerous capacities
director of graduate studies for the history department, chair
of the Committee on the Status of Women, and a member of
the Educational Policy Committee.
Cell is a specialist in English history and the history of the
British Empire. She received her bachelor's and doctorate
from the University of Liverpool.
Cell's duties as chairman of the history department will in
clude decision-making on personnel in the department and
responsibility for the academic program.
Cell said the history department, one of the largest in the
College of Arts and Sciences, will offer her a new challenge.
She said her prior experience as affirmative action officer
will help her as chairman of the history department, as will
her administrative experience and thorough working knowl
edge of University policies.
When asked if she foresaw any problems with her new
position, Cell said, "Yes, but I look forward to having the
support of my colleagues."
Dr. Cell's successor as affirmative action officer has not
been named, but a search committee, headed by Harold Wal
lace, vice chancellor for University affairs has been formed.
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