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2The Daily Tar HeelMonday, March 14, 1988 World amid Nation Memo ay Meese From AModated Press reports WASHINGTON A memo writ ten by a longtime friend of Attorney General Edwin Meese describes the two men joining for a 10-minute "briefing' of Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres on a proposed $1 billion Iraqi oil pipeline. The memo by Robert Wallach, first disclosed in Sunday editions of The Washington Post, says Peres "literally dragged me off into a comer" and began discussing the pipeline "inten sely" at an Israeli embassy reception in Washington on Oct. 16, 1985. The document says that in the crush of activity at the reception, Peres then asked Wallach to wait until after the event to discuss the pipeline further. "Fortunately, as the time approached, my friend (Wallach's Soviets woirk to settle From Associated Press reports Talks aimed at ending the Afghan war are one day away from a Soviet deadline for their completion, but a crucial dispute on who will run the country still stands in the way of a signed settlement. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev It brings out the best in all of us. Unnd ilia If you have Mastercard or Visa, Kenan wonl bill your heating oil for 30 days. Even then we can put you on our budget plan. You'll pay a little every month instead of a big chunk all at once. And our price is low to begin with, so we're real easy on your paycheck. usual phrase for Meese) arrived and there was a three-way discussion which took approximately 10 min utes," said Wallach's memo. "He (Peres) is very quick and we went right to the point and he was agreeable in all respects. It wasn't the kind of briefing I would have pre ferred, but it seemed to be effective," the memo said. Meese, interviewed Sunday on ABC-TV's "This Week With David Brinkley," denied the story, while Foreign Ministry officials in Israel refused to comment on the latest report. The attorney general, asked if the report was correct, responded: "No it's not. It's the usual thing you expect these days from The Washington Post, taking a small fact that is well said last month that Soviet troops would begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan by mid-May if an agreement is reached by March 15. But sources close to the U.N. sponsored negotiations say they don't view the deadline as rigid. Delegations from the Soviet backed government in Kabul and from Pakistan, which is representing the Afghan resistance, both say they are ready to extend the negotiations. U.N. Undersecretary General Diego Cordovez, the talks' mediator, said he asked both sides to seek "strengthened instructions" during the weekend to prepare for Monday's ' ; ?p i S P iff ipMx You'll have plenty of heating oil and plenty of money too. Call Kenan. We're in your Yellow Pages. IMEMAM OIL we keep you comfortable for less Chapel Hill 942-4180 konew of known and trying to blow it up into a new news story." "Many times at that particular reception I had brief conversations with Prime Minister Peres," Meese said. "There's nothing new to it." Meese also reiterated that he will not resign his post despite the growing controversy. "Obviously I shouldn't step aside because if honest public officials can be hounded out of office by partisan political attacks, by media barrages, then no one as a public official is safe," he said. Wallach was legal cousel to Swiss oilman Bruce Rappaport, a partner in the proposed project. Two months before the embassy reception, Rap paport had paid Wallach $150,000, which Wallach directed to be sent to Afghanistan conflict session. Soviet troops intervened in Af ghanistan in 1979. An estimated 1 15,000 troops have been helping the government fight the U.S.-backed Moslem guerrillas. The latest round, the longest since the talks began in 1982, opened with a confident mood on March 2. Two days later, an accord was announced on an issue that had stalled negoti ations for years, with both sides agreeing on a timetable and the basic logistics for withdrawing the Red Army troops. Under that accord, the pullout would be completed within nine N o r popeDnoe an account owned by Franklyn Chinn, an investment manager at the time for both Wallach and Meese. Wallach's money was in effect pooled in several stock trades with Meese's funds, sources familiar with a criminal investigation of Meese said Friday, speaking on condition of anonymity. Meese, when asked about reports that he had profited from the stock trades, said, "I knew nothing about this money being paid." Chinn's company had a separate financial arrangement with Meese. The attorney general said his financial arrangements with Chinn were set up as a limited blind partnership so that "I had no way of knowing what was being done or how it was being managed." months after its start, with half of the troops leaving in the first three months. Cordovez said later there remained no "differences of sub stance" that would bar tying up a peace package of agreements. The agreements include a bilateral agreement pledging the two countries not to interfere in each other's affairs and arrangements for the return of more than 5 million Afghan refugees from Pakistan. But the quick pace of the early talks quickly ran into snags. Pakistan's chief representative, acting Foreign Minister Zain Noo rani, said the talks were "inching slowly" forward, but that he expected them to regain speed this week. He did not explain why. Women Women's Network's first year as a student government committee. "It compiles events and activities that effect women on campus," Sitton said. "Members of the committee serve as liaisons between their groups and the committee by telling what their group is doing, then reporting other groups' activities back to members of their own group. It has worked very well this year." The idea behind Women's Aware ness ,Week involves : highlighting v women V accomplishments, raising '.worxien'stissuesr and improvingrthe' status of women on campus, Sitton said. "Raising awareness leads to solving problems that women face," Sitton said. "As people become aware of discrimination, they will work to end that discrimination. Awareness is the first step toward solving the prob lems, and in that way the two go hand in hand." In an open discussion between black and white women sponsored by Black Women United and Women's Forum, participants will discuss the Present this Coupon When Ordering r 1 Our chefs are better by degrees. LaibILuibibieik's O SEAFOOD RESTAURANT The cookin's timed in seconds. Israel cuts off gas supplies to occupied Palestinian areas From Associated Press reports JERUSALEM Israel choked off gasoline supplies to the occu pied West Bank on Sunday after Palestinian protesters torched two fuel trucks and pelted others with stones. The army confirmed an Arab died after being shot in the eye during a clash last week but denied Arab reports that a 5-year-old boy died from burns caused by a tear gas grenade. The army said the boy had been playing with a kerosene stove when he was fatally burned. A spokesman said the parents initially blamed soldiers but later retracted the allegation. National crime rate stable WASHINGTON Crime lev els in 1987 remained stable for the third straight year, according to preliminary government figures issued Sunday, a possible indica tion that declines in crime earlier in the decade are about to be reversed. Some 34.4 million crimes were committed in the United States last year, an increase of 0.9 percent from 34.1 million in 1986, accord ing to the Justice Department's national crime survey based on household interviews. The stability of the past three years is a surprise to some crimin ologists, who had been predicting continued declines for a few more years based on the fact that the most crime-prone age group con tinues to shrink in size. One factor that could have stopped the decline may be the "common grounds and differences" of black and white women, Sitton said. "Well discuss how women can work together to better understand each other and to work toward solving problems women face," she said. Community contributors to Wom en's Awareness Week include the Veto was a hidden agenda-somewhere in rthe'package (because the bill's woVd ing is vague)," said Ed McDonald, Coble's press secretary. McMillan opposed the bill because it gives the federal government too large a role in higher education, said Press Secretary Jay Timmons. "It is too much of an interference into colleges and universities," he said. But a spokesman for Sen. Terry Sanford, D-N.C, said the law will stop sex discrimination not give the government an excuse to meddle in higher education. mam tommy! m M- SEE News in Brief increased use of serious drugs. Illicit drug use among criminal defendants is high and seems to be on the increase, and heavy users, especially those using sev eral types of drugs, may commit hundreds of crimes a year, Justice Department officials said. Gallaudet gets first deaf leader WASHINGTON Gallaudet University's board of trustees on Sunday chose the dean of the school's college of arts and scien ces as the first deaf president in the 124-year history of the school for the hearing impaired. I. King Jordan, a popular campus figure, was chosen to replace Elizabeth Ann Zinser, a hearing woman from the Univer sity of North Carolina at Greens boro, who resigned early Friday after protests from students seek ing a deaf leader had virtually paralyzed Gallaudet's campus. School officials also announced that board of trustees Chairwo man Jane Bassett Spilman, who came under fire from protesters for her handling of the crisis, has resigned. She will be replaced by Philip Bravin, one of four deaf members on the board. In a clean sweep for student protesters, Bravin announced that the board of trustees would insti tute a plan to ensure that a majority of the school's 20 member trustees panel was deaf. from page 1 Orange County Rape Crisis Center, wiitvu win apuuaui a piugiaiu uii acn protection against sexual assault, and : other groups such as Child Care xt., 1, ri j t i i i itiwuiM, ridiiiicu rdicniuuuu uiu . the Women's Book Exchange. : Landscapes, ceramic sculpture and Z photography by female artists will be 7 on display in the Union Galleries and T Showcases throughout the week. from page 1 ;' "There was the oossibilitv that? there could have biien dicrimination," i ouu spu&.t.aiuui x uiii lxin iuii. i.cagau musi tti uu mc vui wiuuii 1 1 days after receiving it, Strickland -said, and Congress will probably schedule an override vote in late April or May. - "An override is a good bet," Lawton said. O ijuuib atiiaiuia may awiini mcii - votes out of loyalty to the president, but that won't affect the outcome, Timmons said. Rally from page 1 necessary step toward expanded negotiations, said Jamal Odeh, a medical school research technician. "We must take immediate action to support any peace plan giving Palestinians their natural rights," Odeh said. Israel is not only the Holy Land for Jews and Christians but for Muslims as well, said graduate student Mamdouh Rezeika. Jerusa lem is also a part of the Islamic religion and access should not be denied to any of the three monothe istic religions, he said. "Justice cannot have two faces, Rezeika said. "We cannot give freedom to some and ignore the others." For best supporting role on The Exam, the envelope please. It's Stanley H. Kaplan. And that's no surprise. But the real winner is you. Fifty years of test-taking techniques and educational programs have helped over 1 million students gain more test confidence and better exam scores. 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