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Paris prisoner ffies From Associated Press reports PARIS A "pretty little woman" pilot eased a rented helicopter down to a prison roof on a sunny Monday morning and carried away a tough convict in a blue-and-red warm-up suit who had been hiding from guards behind a chimney. Police identified the prisoner as Micheal Vajour, 34, who has been jailed 10 times since he was 17 on increasingly serious charges. Vajour, a veteran of three pre vious jail breaks, was serving 18 years for armed robbery. In-state students face DOSSl ble tuition Mikes From Associated Press reports RALEIGH Gov. Jim Martin's plan to add up to $16 to UNC's in state tuition rates took some members of the UNC Board of Governors by surprise and few have taken kindly to the idea. "The more that you keep raising tuition, the greater the burden on parents," said board member Phil Haire of Sylva. "There are other ways of raising revenues than from college students who we're trying to educate and make taxpaying citi zens. And the better we educate them, the greater their possibility of making a greater income and being productive citizens." Martin says the increase would boost state income by $1.3 million. He has defended the proposal by noting that 10 years ago, the in-state tuition covered about 13 percent of costs, compared 8 percent today. The Board of Governors, which agreed to an out-of-state tuition increase, did not support the in-state change. "Going any further at this time is going to be bad for public higher education," said board member John Jordan of Raleigh. "It is not in the tradition of public education in North Carolina. It is a departure of the philosophy we have followed for 200 years." Tuition for in-state students is currently $350 at four-year cam puses, $410 for students at campuses that offer master's degrees and $480 at doctorate-granting campuses. The governor's plan would add $10 to the lowest tuition rate and $16 to the highest. The white helicopter flew low over central Paris, ignoring radio warn ings that it was below the illegal altitude limit, and hovered over a roof of the LaSante prison in the southern part of the capital. A man armed with a submachine gun slid down alone from the aircraft to the roof at about 10:45 p.m. Vajour grabbed a landing skid and clam bered aboard with the gunman following. The men were hidden from guards by a large chimney. A second prisoner on the roof, identified by police as Pierre Her- Wiliam Dees, the first chairman of the Board of Governors who now directs its budget and finance com mittee, said he would have preferred that Martin bring his proposal to the board before presenting it to the general public. "It's more difficult to get him to back down after he's taken the position he has," Dees said. UNC President CD. Spangler said last week that Martin consulted him about the proposal and went ahead despite Spangler's objections. Some sources told the Greensboro News & Record that Martin trimmed the increase from 5 percent or 6 percent to 3.2 percent after talking with some UNC officials. The 3.2 percent increase is the same raise Martin is recommending for state employees and teachers. Dees said the last time an in-state - tuition increase was proposed, the General Assembly, which originated the proposal, approved the 10 percent increase despite the Board of Governor's opposition. This time, however, Lt. Gov. Bob Jordan and House Speaker Liston Ramsey have said they oppose the increase. And even former Gov. Jim Holshouser, the only other Repub lican governor this century and . .Martin's poltical ally, was reluctant to support the change. Holshouser said the Board of Governors seemed opposed to the increase. "I guess that's the official position and I don't want to go on record as being opposed to it," he said. "1 also don't want to go on record as opposing the governor either." Lose Weight for life. 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Vajour was convicted on March 8, 1985, of a 1981 bank robbery, to which he admitted, and the attemp ted murder of a policeman who was shot in the leg in 1980 while Vajour was on the run, which he denied. Hernandez, who decided to stay behind, is awaiting trial for armed robbery. Claude Roumet, a 47-year-old It . It : tl -.! V. i VMM. it' :. 4tttJflKtl " . !! 1 1 , tm !iu --!ltj nntnu is , ' t sS- Uf.iiifH r'fa ' -Mtll- It f te-fWi li', r i . U' f y-nt - -;'t. t t i I ! " f no . itvt: ilr, t . H'iim nrnilii, oiiiiK mu jMm-'nmmt jmmmmm. -.mm- Hfl iMiMimtiwiiiiiii'wiiiiirtiiiiMir iiihmhi .. , m, y r j --- , Tar Heel Thursday, May 29, 19867 owner of the rental company, said the woman was about 30, called herself Lena Rigon and had taken out the same helicopter several times in the last six months. He described her as "a pretty little woman, the sportswoman type." Roumet said the identification was false. 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