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Volume 94, Issue 98
Iran deal
may tarnish
U.S. image
By PAUL CORY
Staff Writer
The revelation of the Reagan
administration's covert arms ship
ments to Iran may hurt the U.S.
image abroad, but the president's
popularity in the United States will
not be greatly affected, several UNC
professors agreed Monday.
A secret shipment of U.S. wea
pons and spare parts was sent to Iran
last week in payment for the release
of hostage David Jacobsen. Early
this month, Jacobsen was released
by his captors after being held
hostage for 17 months by Islamic
Jihad in Beirut.
The professors agreed that the
United States would lose some
credibility because of the incident.
"The whole thing seems very poorly
handled," Robert Rupen, professor
of political science, said. "I cannot
see how we can come out of this
looking any better."
They also agreed that it will also
be harder for the United States to
convince its allies to take concerted
action against countries that support
terrorism. "This takes some of the
urgency and righteousness away
from American appeals for action
against terrorism," James Leutze,
professor of history, said.
Rupen agreed: "The administra
tion's actions weaken all of those
calls for cooperative activity against
terrorists." The current resistance to
Reagan's calls for sanctions against
countries supporting terrorism will
probably strengthen because of this
affair, he added.
But the professors said the affair
would probably not affect Reagan's
popularity. "Currently, only an elite
group of people is getting riled up,"
said Thad Beyle, UNC professor of
political science. He added that most
people do not see it as a great
pressing problem. On a scale of zero
to 10, the Iranian affair is a one, he
said.
Leutze agreed, but said, "The
Democrats are going to ride him
(Reagan) very hard. They are going
to do everything they can to make
him eat crow in public." However,
he said the incident would probably
not be the foreign policy disaster that
the 1979 takeover of the U.S.
Embassy in Iran proved to be for
President Jimmy Carter.
Rupen said Reagan could be hurt
by the issue. "Things may go against
the president now. We could see his
popularity and support begin to drop
off," he said. "However, there is not
much of a strong feeling that he
should not have (traded arms for
hostages)."
Silent Sam
on pedestal
By JO FLEISCHER
Assistant University Editor
A shiny bronze, restored Silent
Sam returned Monday to UNC and
will be placed on his pedestal
Wednesday at noon. Sam returned
from Cincinnati in a less-than-regal
style he was transported in an
open U-Haul trailer.
The 73-year-old memorial to UNC
students who died in the Civil War
was in Cincinnati since April for
restorations and repairs by Elefthe
rios and Mercene Karkadoulias, the
bronze art specialists who did the
restoration of the Union Square
statues in Raleigh.
Eleftherios Karkadoulias said
Silent Sam attracted a lot of atten
tion riding in the open air on his
way home. "People were riding by
taking pictures," he said. "People
were excited about it when we
stopped to eat, it brought crowds of
people."
The Karkadouliases cleaned the
bronze statue, revealing a bright gold
color under the dark tarnish, and
coated it with a urethane solution.
The statue will retain its gold color
because the coating protects it from
both the elements and vandalism,
Eleftherios Karkadoulias said.
The statue will need only simple
maintenance every five to ten years
to retain its original appearance, he
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By SUZANNE JEFFRIES
Staff Writer
The Department of University
Housing should consider student
opinion before drawing up future
proposals like guaranteed sopho
more housing, the Student Con
gress voted 10-3-5 in its meeting
Monday night.
Although housing officials
recently decided against imple
menting the proposal, some
representatives felt it was impor
tant that the congress go on
record as opposing the proposal
exempting sophomores from
participating in the lottery
process.
The bill, authored by represen
Student injured in wreck dies
From staff reports
UNC sophomore Jennifer Ney,
who was critically injured in a
Chatham county car wreck last
week, died Sunday afternoon at
Moses Cone Memorial Hospital in
Greensboro, according to a hospital
spokeswoman.
Ney, who had been in intensive
care for more than five days, died
about 6 p.m. from injuries sustained
from the crash, the spokeswoman
said.
takes place
Wednesday
said. If the statue is vandalized with
paint it can be scrubbed off easily,
and the coating can be painted back
on, he said. He added that it did not
make Sam invulnerable. "There can't
be any good results from vandalism,"
he said.
The statue attracted a lot of
attention Monday in front of More
head Planetarium where it was kept
while the pedestal was cleaned. As
cars drove through the parking lot,
occupants craned their necks to see
the new statue, and students walking
by stopped to comment on Sam's
new incarnation.
Brad Conger, a sophomore from
Statesville, N.C., was surprised by
what the restoration had revealed.
"I think the remodeling has accen
tuated the emotional depth of Silent
Sam. To me this statue is a fine
symbol of Southern defiance," he
said.
John Harrison, a freshman from
Robinsville, N.C., said he was glad
to finally see the statue he had heard
so much about.
Karkadoulias said that the legend
that Silent Sam will fire his gun as
a virgin walks by was not proven
one way or the other during the
statue's trip off-campus. "Who
knows?" he asked. "1 didn't hear
anything, though."
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tatives Rob Friedman (Dist. 16)
and Brian Sipe (Dist. 14), was
amended to acknowledge the
Housing Department's recent
withdrawal of the proposal and
to strongly recommend that
housing officials take into
account student oppinion in any
future proposals.
Student Body President Bryan
Hassel said passing the bill, even
though the proposal was with
drawn, was important. "This isn't
a dead issue," he said, "t's
important to say that we oppose
this proposal." Hassel said linking
the opposition to the proposal
with strong encouragement to
housing officials to consider
Ney was 18.
The car she drove Wednesday with
UNC freshman passenger Sara
Thomas ran a stop sign and was
broadsided by another car. Thomas
died shortly afterward from wreck
related injuries.
No charges were filed in the
incident, and the driver and pas
senger of the other car received only
minor injuries, according to the
Highway Patrol.
Ney and Thomas, roommates in
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make violent change unavoidable."
student opinion more in the
future would be effective.
In other action, the congress
voted to table a request for $1,850
from the Executive Branch of
Student Government for Project
Uplift, a minority recruitment
and retention program sponsored
by the University.
Hassel said additional money
was being requested because
$6,600 has traditionally come
from the Executive Branch. But
this year the congress allocated
only $4,750.
Speaker Jaye Sitton (Dist. 11)
said the congress needed more
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Granville Towers East, were return
ing from a visit to their hometown,
Albemarle, when Ney ran the stop
sign.
Ney, 18, was a little sister at the
Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. She had
been a lifeguard and was to complete
her Water Safety Instructor certifi
cation from the Red Cross, fraternity
members said.
A memorial service will be held
on campus. Thursday.
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By RACHEL STIFFLER
Staff Writer
Ending the harsh reality of racial
oppression in South Africa is a cause
worth fighting for, the daughter of
a South African political prisoner
told an audience of about 900 in
Memorial Hall Monday night.
In a speech sponsored by the
Carolina Union Forum Committee
and Campus Y's Human Rights
Week, Maki Mandela described life
under the white racist government
of South Africa.
Her father, Nelson Mandela,
president of the banned African
National Congress, has been in
prison 24 years on treason charges
for his role in the anti-apartheid
movement.
Mandela, a Fulbright scholar at
the University of Massachusetts in
sociology and women studies, said
her earliest encounter with apartheid
came during a bus ride with her
mother when she was a young child.
Her attempt to kiss a white infant
in a stroller met with a slap from
the baby's mother that pushed her
to the floor.
"It is a crime in South Africa to
visit in white areas, to have white
friends," Mandela said. "You can be
thrown into prison, fined and
detained."
: Mandela, who was a social worker
in the territory of Transkei after
graduating from the University of
Forthare, said all segments of South
African society are segregated,
including the hospitals and cemeter
ies. "The racist white regime carries
hate to the grave," she said.
She described living conditions
under the apartheid system in which
4.5 million whites give 24 million
blacks no voting rights and bar them
from public office.
When Mandela was a child, her
family lived in a two-room house
that had no bathroom, no electricity
and had a corrugated iron roof. Most
families live in similar houses.
The South African government
provides no money for the housing,
she said. Instead, it is funded by
profit from beer halls set up by the
National Beer Act of 1908.
The beer halls do more than
provide money for housing; they also
degrade black African society, Man
dela said. "The black workers spend
their money in the beer halls. By the
time they get to their families, there
is no money left to spend," she said.
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"They educate blacks just enough
to fulfill the demands of the South
African economy," she said. "The
education of black Africans was
never intended to produce respon
sible individuals who could find
work in any country. It is only to
produce good servants for the white
men."
The books used in the schools
promote the idea of white superiority
and black inferiority, she said. And
while education is free for white
children, blacks must pay for tuition,
books and a uniform. If the parents
do not have the money for all three,
the child cannot attend.
She criticized the communist label
often placed on her father because
of his fight for better living condi
tions for blacks. "His struggle does
not make him a Communist," she
said. "He is not a Communist and
never will be a Communist. He is
an African Nationalist."
After her father was imprisoned
when she was eight years old,
Mandela was not able to see him
for more than eight years, she said.
Since then, she has been allowed
brief visits with him two or three
times a year. Until two years ago,
she and her father talked only
through a glass window.
"But my father does not, and has
not for one minute ever, regretted
giving up his life, his child, his wife
for the African people," she said. "He
knows it has not been in vain."
She said he was recently offered
freedom in exchange for a public
renunciation of the violent tactics
used by the anti-apartheid suppor
ters, but refused. Since the blacks
resorted to violence only after many
years of peaceful struggle against
violence that was initiated by whites,
a renouncement of violence would
be selling out on the black South
Africans, she said.
She is confident that blacks will
triumph over repression in the end,
although the victory may come only
after a bloodbath.
"Those people who made peaceful
change impossible make violent
change unavoidable," she said.
Later, she said sanctions against
South Africa would not harm blacks.
"In fact, the call for sanctions came
first not from American students but
from the oppressed of South Africa,"
she said. ". . . Foreign divestment
will make no difference at all in the
lives of the people."
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