2The Daily Tar Heel Tuesday, February 9, 1988
Memos damage Martini camoalge
By CARRIE DOVE
Staff Writer
Republican N.C. Gov. Jim Mar
tin's re-election campaign has been
damaged by the surfacing of memos
describing some state employees as
ardent Democrats who cannot be
"converted," said officials around the
state.
Three former state employees have
cited memos dating from the very
beginning of Martin's administration
in a suit against the state that alleges
they were fired for political reasons.
"We question the motives of the
suit it was timed to show up during
the election season," said Tim Pitt
man, press secretary for the Martin
campaign.
The case was brought by three
employees of different departments in
Martin's administration, who were
fired after a career of state service for
what they saw as political reasons,
said a lawyer with the plaintiffs' law
firm who declined to be identified
because the case is in litigation.
The memo was written by Arlene
Pulley, then a member of Martin's
transition staff, in late 1984. It
identified 35 employees who she said
would not support Martin.
44 A lot of people wrote a lot of
memos based on their own opinions,"
Pittman said. "The governor did not
give much credence to them."
The N.C. Democratic Party was
not involved in bringing the suit, said
spokeswoman Margaret Lawton.
"(Ideological hiring) shows that
Martin is more concerned with being
the governor than with leading the
state," she said.
Pulley is now the director of citizen
affairs, in charge of liaison between
Martin and the general public,
Pittman said.
Only five out of the 35 employees
named were fired, Pittman said.
Sixteen of the others left because
they retired or resigned, he said.
"A lot of people left because they
chose on their own to leave," Pittman
said.
Fletcher Sanders, a crime preven
tion specialist with the Department
of Crime Control and Public Safety,
was identified in one of the memos
as a "troublemaker."
"I don't know Arlene Pulley, and
I have no idea why she would write
the memo," he said.
Fletcher has never been active in
politics, he said.
"Political activism is not compat
ible with a career in state govern
ment," said Fletcher, who has worked
for the state for 26 years.
His job has not changed, Fletcher
said.
"I had no knowledge that she had
written the memos, and the job I have
has not been affected," he said.
The governor has worked to reduce
the number of exempt jobs
employees who are subject to firing
for political reasons, Pittman said.
"This administration has gone out
of its way to avoid political standards
for hiring and firing, other than in
policy-creating positions," he said.
The number of exempt jobs has
been reduced from more than 800 in
1984 to less than 400 now, Pittman
said.
"(Government) insiders are con
cerned, but the general public prob
ably is not, because the governor's
record has been so good," he said.
Heroin deaths increase in North Carolina
By CHRIS LANDGRAFF
Staff Writer
The number of drug-related deaths
in North Carolina last year changed
little from 1986, although there was
a slight switch in the types of drugs
that caused those deaths, said UNC
toxicologist Arthur McBay last week
in a report on poisoning deaths.
McBay, the chief toxicologist in the
office of the Chief Medical Examiner,
said 21 cocaine deaths occurred
five less than in 1986 but heroin
deaths increased from seven to 1 1.
More people are using heroin than
before because the fear of injecting
a drug has decreased somewhat,
McBay said.
Although cocaine deaths went
down in 1987, cocaine is still a major
problem in North Carolina, he said.
"Recently the cocaine market has
been flooded, and as a result, prices
have gone down," McBay said. This
price decrease brings more people
into the potential user market, he
said.
It is difficult to determine whether
a person was a frequent user, but
"anyone who buys drugs on the street
is taking a risk because the concen
tration and contents of the drugs are
unknown," he said. Crack, which was
probably involved in a few of the
cocaine deaths, is a particularly
serious problem, McBay said,
because it is almost always extremely
concentrated.
McBay said the extent of the drug
problem in North Carolina is hard
to determine because friends and
relatives are reluctant to discuss drug
habits of the deceased, and tests in
the marketplace are not always
adequate indicators of who is using
drugs.
"Education is the best solution to
the problem," McBay said. If people
can be taught what the actual effects
of drugs are, drug use might decrease,
he said.
Current government efforts to
reduce drug abuse tend to switch drug
habits rather than reduce them, he
said. "If the government cracks down
on pot, the user might simply switch
to abusing alcohol."
McBay also reported that 42
people died from an overdose of anti
depressants, 11 from painkillers, six
from aspirin and one from an over
dose of caffeine pills. Most of these
deaths were suicides, McBay said.
Although each death is significant, he
said, these deaths pale in comparison
with the number of alcohol-related
deaths, which was in the thousands.
There were no reported deaths due
to an overdose of marijuana.
Despite these figures, a spokesper
son for the N.C. Division of Mental
Health said North Carolina has fewer
drug users per capita than most states.
Gorbachev says Soviet troops
will pull out of Afghanistan
From Associated Press reports
MOSCOW Mikhail Gorba
chev said Monday that the Krem
lin would begin pulling its troops
out of Afghanistan on May 15 and
complete the withdrawal within 10
months if U.N.-brokered talks on
the conflict reach a settlement.
Gorbachev also said his country
wants no say in who governs
Afghanistan or its politics after the
estimated 115,000 Soviet troops
battling Afghan guerrillas come
home.
The 5-year-old U.N.-brokered
talks in Geneva between Afghan
istan and Pakistan, which stands
in for the insurgents, have made
some progress, but have been
stuck on working out a schedule
for withdrawal.
Parliament debates TV use
LONDON The House of
Commons votes Tuesday on
whether to allow television came
ras in its chambers, but the issue
has divided many members over
the public's right to know and a
reluctance to let it know too much.
Although the publicity bonanza
is hard for many legislators to
resist, there are those, including
Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher, who are reluctant to
shock viewers with the rowdy
scenes that often disrupt the
Mother of Parliaments.
Supporters of televising the
Commons cite the public's right
to know. Opponents argue that
television will encourage showing
off by quarrelsome legislators and
argue that editing may be unfair.
News in Brief
Teen killed in Gaza beating
JERUSALEM A Gaza Strip
teenager was beaten to death, and
crowds of Palestinians fought with
Israeli soldiers after his funeral
Monday. Israeli gunfire wounded
10 people in the occupied territo
ries, hospitals reported.
Soldiers had 1 1 Arab towns and
refugee camps in the occupied
West Bank and Gaza Strip under
curfew Monday, confining
245,000 people to their homes.
Arab riots began Dec. 8, and
49 Palestinians have died at the
hands of Israelis, according to
U.N. figures, nearly all of them
shot by soldiers.
U.S. Navy to defend Olympics
WASHINGTON The Uni
ted States will conduct naval
exercises off the South Korean
coast next fall as part of a cam
paign to deter North Korea from
disrupting the Olympic Games in
Seoul, administration officials
said Monday.
The officials, who agreed to
discuss the matter only if not
identified, refused to characterize
the moves as a military buildup.
The North Koreans have been
trying to exploit the recent pol
itical turmoil in South Korea while
at the same time making an
abortive attempt to host some of
the Olympic events.
Broadcast ministry officials decide to make ethics code mandatory
By BETH RHEA
Staff Writer
The National Religious Broadcast
ers (NRB) voted 323-6 last week to
require members of the organization
to comply with its recently revised
code of ethics.
For the Record
The information box above Mon
day's front page banner incorrectly
listed the candidate forums for Cobb
Residence Hall at 6:30 p.m. and in
Granville Towers at 9 p.m. Monday.
Those forums will be held today. The
Daily Tar Heel regrets the error.
Top officials in NRB said the now
mandatory guidelines will restore the
public's trust in broadcast ministries
and strengthen their image in the
wake of the 1987 PTL scandal
involving Jim and Tammy Bakker.
Thomas Zimmerman, chairman of
the NRB subcommittee that decided
on the wording of the new guidelines,
said he thinks the mandatory com
pliance heralds the "dawn of a new
day of openness, accountability and
integrity" in the industry of media
ministry.
The thrust of the guidelines is to
ensure the full disclosure of financial
information and the maintenance of
objective, independent executive
boards, said Ben Armstrong, execu
tive director of the NRB.
This means NRB members must
agree to "send a financial statement
to anyone who asks for one," Arm
strong said. In addition, the boards
of member broadcasters must have
at least 50 percent of their positions
filled by individuals not related to the
family or staff running the
organization.
Other guidelines require that the
boards hold four meetings a year and
that any fund-raising materials be
maintained for one year and made
available upon request, Armstrong
said.
The NRB has had a code of ethics
during its 45-year history, he said, but
the code had not been recently
updated. In addition, Armstrong said
it was relatively stringent and com
pliance with it was voluntary, so it
was virtually unenforceable.
The revisions began in December
1986 with the establishment of an
NRB subcommittee, the Ethics and
Financial Integrity Commission, or
EFICOM. In September 1987, NRB
voted to approve the revised guide
lines that EFICOM had drawn up,
but they still had little impact because
compliance with them remained
voluntary, Armstrong said.
Zimmerman said he had received
only positive feedback from member
organizations. "I was greatly encour
aged by the nearly unanimous vote
by which the EFICOM documents
were approved," he said. "I see it as
a strong indicator that the rank and
file are behind it."
He said the six members who
opposed mandatory compliance did
so because they felt it would pose "air
undue financial hardship" for small,'
family-run ministries. Provisions
have been made, he said, for minJ
istries which could not feasibly
comply.
Dole, Gephardt receive most votes
in Iowa caucuses; Robertson tops Bush
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From Associated Press reports
DES MOINES, Iowa Sen. Bob
Dole won a convincing victory in
Iowa's Republican presidential cau
cuses Monday night, while former
Rev. Pat Robertson bested faltering
Vice President George Bush for
second place. Rep. Richard Gephardt
led Paul Simon and Michael Dukakis
in a tightly bunched Democratic field.
Bush conceded defeat in the first
big test of the 1988 presidential
campaign and vowed to work harder
in New Hampshire's first in the nation
primary next week. "I'm a fighter . . .
I'm not going to be slinking around,"
he said.
Dole, who urged Iowans to regard
him as "one of us" said his victory
demonstrated "I can be elected in
November."
Gephardt, Simon and Dukakis
fought their battle while Gary Hart's
comeback bid was failing dramati
cally. He had scarcely 1 percent of
the Democratic total in the state that
catapulted him to national promi
nence in 1984.
With 90 percent of the Republican
precincts reporting, Dole had 37,942
votes, or 38 percent. Former TV
evangelist Robertson had 24,541 for
24 percent, and Bush the nation
wide front-runner who scored a
dramatic victory in Iowa's caucuses
in 1980 had 18,840, or 19 percent.
The rest of the Republican field
trailed far behind Jack Kemp with
11 percent, Pierre uPete" du Pont
with 7 percent and Alexander Haig,
who didn't compete but had a smat
tering of support.
The Democratic vote was slower
to tally, but with 60 percent of the
caucuses reporting, Missouri Rep.
Gephardt had 21,971 votes for 28
percent. Illinois Sen. Simon had
19,137 for 24 percent and Massachu
setts Gov. Dukakis had 16,095 for 20
percent.
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