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Members of the Royal
Shakespeare Company are
coming this week to perform "As
You Like It" and "Beckett, This
Evening." Check the Student
Union box office for tickets and
details.
Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 93, Issue 11
Tuesday, March 12, 1S85
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From wire reports
WASHINGTON President Reagan decided Monday
not to attend the funeral of Soviet President Konstantin
Chernenko in Moscow but chose Vice President George Bush
to lead the three-member U.S. delegation.
Administration officials said Bush, in Geneva, Switzerland,
after a tour through the drought-stricken areas of Africa, "
would be accompanied by Secretary of State George Schultz
and the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, Arthur Hartman.
Chernenko died Sunday after 13 months in power and
was succeeded Monday by Mikhail Gorbachev as head of
the Communist Party, the Soviet news agency Tass said.
Gorbachev had served as chairman of Chernenko's funeral
committee, an assignment which Sovietologists used to
predict his succession to Chernenko.
The appointment of Gorbachev, 54, makes him the fourth
Soviet leader in the past 28 months and may usher in a
new generation of younger Soviet leaders.
The death of Chernenko, 73, was attributed to heart
deficiency and cirrhosis of the liver as a result of emphysema,
and an autopsy showed Chernenko had been suffering from
pulmonary emphysema, complicated by pulmonary and
cardiac insufficiency, Tass said. He will be buried Wednesday.
"The heart stopped beating at 7:20 p.m. on March 10,
1985, against the background of worsening hepatic,
pulmonary and cardiac insufficiency," said a report signed
by chief Kremlin physician Yevgeny Chazov and nine other
doctors.
"Mikhail Gorbachev was unanimously elected General
Secretary of the Communist Party at an extraordinary session
of the Central Committee," Tass said four hours after
Chernenko's death was made public.
The announcement of Chernenko's death came almost 19
hours after it occurred, following a night of speculation fueled
by programming changes on Soviet TV and radio and the
early departures of three high-ranking Soviet delegations
from the U.S., West Germany, and Yugoslavia.
A Harvard University study group director said he doubted
there would be abrupt changes in Soviet policy because of
the death. William Ury, who returned recently from Moscow,
said Gorbachev would soon have to confront problems over
domestic policy, because "the people in Moscow want change,
want reform."
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As seen through the blinds of a Davis Library window, senior Dorothy Arundell, from Charlotte, diligently catches up
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By KATHERINE WOOD
Staff Writer
While many UNC students lounged
on the beaches of Florida, Chapel Hill
police were busy investigating a shoot
ing at Time Out restaurant in University
Square as well as the usual array of
misdemeanors.
A shot fired into the west window
of Time Out on March 6 caused
approximately $500 worth of damage
to the window and the wall where the
slug lodged, said Kevin Hinkle, an
employee at the restaurant.
.No one in the jestaurant was injured
by the shot, and some of the restaurant's
customers saw a black male leaving the
premises, according to police reports.
Chapel Hill police determined that the
shot was fired from a .22-caliber rifle.
An abandoned car with a .22-caliber
rifle in the back seat was discovered in
the rear parking lot of University
Square on March 7. Police officers said
that the rifle could have been used in
the Time Out shooting although no
proof of a connection between the two
incidents has been released. Police are
still searching for suspects.
Also on March 7, two white males
stole a Budweiser sign from He's Not
Here on the Village Green. Mark
Burnett, manager of He's Not Here,
noted the license plate number of the
suspects' car. Police traced the car and
recovered the sign.
Police also investigated the theft of
$5 worth of gasoline from the Etna
Service Station and the theft of a Puch
Moped and two bicycles.
Four shoplifting incidents, three at
Roses department store in University
Mall and one at Kroger on South Eliott
Road, occurred over spring break as
well.
On the lighter side of crime, a masked
bandit, also known as a baby raccoon,
was apprehended on the steps of
Morrison Dorm and taken away by a
police officer.
Dormtlieffts
unsolved
By WAYNE GRIMSLEY
Staff Writer
Stereos and other valuables were
stolen from rooms in Spencer and Old
West dormitories during Spring Break,
and police suspect someone used a key
to enter the rooms, according to UNC
police reports.
Four stereos, a video cassette
recorder and a typewriter were stolen
from first floor rooms in Spencer, and
a television set was taken from a second
floor room in Old West, the report said.
University housing maintenance
" workers, housekeepers and University
police officers had access to the dor
mitories during break, said Ned Comar,
crime prevention officer for the UNC
police, but police have no suspects or
evidence to make an arrest.
Ellen Wilbur, area director for
Spencer, said the main doors to the
building were locked March 1 after
students left, and students did not have
access to the building during break.
And Yvonne Baldwin, supervisor of
housekeeping services, said the master
key housekeeping used was locked in
a box in the basement of Spencer.
Spencer resident Polly Pierce, a
sophomore from Greensboro, said
other students on her hall told her they
'found evidence that their rooms had
been tampered with. "(The thief) went
through every room," she said. Pierce's
stereo and typewriter were taken.
Pierce said her jewelry, stereo speak
ers, a television set and clock radio were
not taken. "It's scary that someone has
a key and knows what's in our room,"
she said.
In the Old West room, the theif left
behind an expensive typewriter, said
Carl Roth, a sophomore from Hickory,
whose roommate's television was taken.
"A person of that mentality should not
have a key," he said.
Soviets: Talks sDnomild ffocuns'.om space weapoms
By GENIE UNDBERG
Staff Writer
The United States and the Soviet
Union face a difficult task in the arms
control negotiations resuming in Gen
eva, but both sides must work toward
achieving tangible results, said an arms
control expert appearing on the March
7 episode of "Globewatch," a produc
tion of The University of North Carol
ina Center for Public Television.
"Globewatch" host Jim Leutze talked
with two Soviet Information Agency
representatives, Vitality Churkin and
Alexander Gregroryev, and with Dr.
Raymond Gartoff, an academic expert
from the Brookings Institution in
Washington, D.C., about the upcoming
U.S.-Soviet arms control negotiations.
"In the kind of situation objectively
that we have in the world today, it is
impossible to talk about reducing
offensive nuclear weapons if we allow
the militarization of outer space to
proceed," Churkin said.
Churkin said the Soviet Union has
stated clearly and officially that should
the plans to militarize outer space be
allowed to proceed further, the reduc
tion or elimination of nuclear weapons
would be out of the question.
"The only military role of the plan
to build those star wars weapons in
space is to create a situation where an
aggressor would be able to contemplate
the possibility of launching the first
nuclear strike, and after that, hiding
from the retaliatory strike of the victim
of their aggression behind that so-called
protective shield," Churkin said.
An official from the U.S. adminis
tration told Churkin that talk of sharing
technology could begin only after the
U.S. had built its defenses, and the
Russians had agreed to abandon their
offensive forces, Churkin said. In the
meantime, the arms race will continue,
and the mountains of weapons will be
reaching the heavens.
"Our role should be to make clear
that a policy of assertiveness on the
Soviets part will not gain them any
thing, but by the same token, that a
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Soviet readiness to pursue the possibil
ities for accommodation will meet
receptive response on our part," Gartoff
said.
The deployment of American
intermediate-range missiles in Europe
has given the United States some
leverage in getting the Soviets back to
the arms table and also gives them some
leverage in the talks, Gartoff said.
"On the other hand, if the admin
istration simply takes the position that
it will not negotiate any limitations in
the whole area of space weapons and
strategic defense weapons, then, rather
than giving bargaining leverage, it will
ulitmately, I think, stymie possible
progress in other limitations," Gartoff
said.
A study prepared by Soviet scientists
examined the prospects for strategic
defense in space and found that it will
not be possible to achieve the kind of
complete defense that President Reagan
spoke of in his speech in March 1983,
when he proposed the "Star Wars"
system as a substitute for strategic
offensive arms, Gartoff said. He said
the study's findings were similar to those
of most American scientists.
"Now I don't think the Soviet leaders
conclude that the United States would
necessarily or even likely launch a strike
against them, but they are troubled by
what they see as a combination of a
continuing pursuit of very extensive
strategic offensive forces," Gartoff said.
Gartoff said the Soviets thought this
kind of strategic defense would dull a
retaliatory strike from the other side.
"I think that both powers recognize
that theere are certain common interests
despite our competitive adversarial
relationship and that reducing the risks
of war are really primary among them,"
Gartoff said. "Arms control is a possible
Raymond Gartoff
means toward mitigating both the
buildup of arms beyond what is neces
sary for deterrence and to moderating
the whole conflict between themselves."
In his "Globewatch" analysis, Leutze
said that he did not anticipate a major
shift in relations between the United
States and the Soviet Union between
now and at the end of the 20th century.
Relations between the two countries
have never been particularly good
except for a few thaws now and then,
accroding to Leutze, who is chairman
of the Peace, War and Defense Cur
riculum, as well as a Bowman and
Gordon Gray Professor of History at
UNC.
"The historian in me says if relations
between the two countries have been
guradedly hostile for 60 of the past 68
years," Leutze said. "Why expect any
dramatic change in the next 15.?"
Health Vote '85 addresses
rising cost of medical care
By RACHEL STIFFLER
Staff Writer.
A six-week public education
campaign concerning the reduction
of health care costs is under way in
the Triangle area and Fayetteville.
Ron Lingley, a first-year graduate
student in the School of Public
Health, is a Chapel Hill organizer
of Health Vote 5. "We're just trying
to raise their awareness of rising
health care costs and the different
ways to slow down the rate of
increase," he said. "We can never
stop it (rising costs) altogether, but
we can get people to make a more
informed judgment about what
should be done."
College students should be con
cerned about the health care cost
issue, Lingley said. "After all, we're
the ones who will have to deal with
it if they (health costs) keep getting
worse."
Lingley said the mass media are
important tools for the campaign,
which started March 1 and is spon
sored by the North Carolina Foun
dation for Alternative Health Pro
grams. Area television stations are
broadcasting a series of shows and
commercials on health care costs, he
said, and the Raleigh and Durham
newspapers and The Village Advo
cate printed a supplement on health
care costs and issues that examined
several options for curbing costs.
The supplement proposed chang
ing the way people pay for health
care by letting patients pay more of
their own medical costs in return for
lower insurance premiums. It also
encouraged patients to see nurse
practitioners or physicians' assistants
for minor problems and to have tests
and minor surgery done in doctors'
offices instead of hospitals. Another
option would leave the system the
way it is to avoid the risk of cutting
the quality of health care along with
the costs.
In addition to the mass media
involvement, Lingley said commun
ity meetings on health care costs were
being held in churches, civic clubs
and student groups. Public meetings
for anyone else also will be held. The
22-minute film "What Price Health
Care?" is shown at the meetings, after
which one or two specially trained
moderators open the discussion to
the audience, encouraging them to
voice their opinions.
Health Vote 5 will climax April
15, when the public will be asked
to fill out a ballot listing 13 options
for reducing health care costs.
"We will tabulate the information,
present it back to the public through
the media, and the governor and
lieutenant governor will receive the
information," Lingley said, adding
that while the officials had not
promised to take specific action, they
had agreed to consider the informa
tion carefully.
The ballot will be printed in area
newspapers, and polling places will
be set up in the Pit, the School of
Nursing, the Franklin Street post
office and University Mall.
A schedule of meeting times and
places will appear regularly in
newspapers and on radio and tele
vision stations. Alpha Epsilon Delta,
an undergraduate honor sociey, will
sponsor a student meeting on the
health cost problem at 7 p.m. March
26 in Room 224 of the Student
Union.
Anyone wanting to know meeting
times and places can also call Ed
Crowe, chairman of the Chapel Hill
organizing committee for Health
Vote 5, at 929-7374. Lingley can
be reached at 968-0028, and the
Health Vote Hotline number is 477-8420.
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