2The Daily Tar Heel Wednesday, March 30, 1988.
World and Nation
My irdeir not racially motivated, sheriff ay
From Associated Ptms reports
' LUMBERTON One Lumbec
Indian was in custody for the slaying
of Robeson County judicial candi
date Julian Pierce as the suspected
triggerman committed suicide Tues
day in what the sheriff called roman
tic instead of political turmoil.
I can assure the world that there
was no political involvement in the
case," said Robeson County Sheriff
Hubert Stone. I think that Robeson
County will understand that it's just
another murder."
Investigators had speculated that
the slaying of Pierce a popular 42-year-old
Lumbee Indian and lawyer
who founded the Lumbee River Legal
Services was linked to drug
traffickers in the county or was a
political assassination. Such theories
heightened tension in the county,
where Indian concerns over corrup
tion and drug trafficking had spilled
over Feb. 1 when two Indians took
hostages for several hours at The
Robesonian newspaper.
Fop Justice Department officials resign
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON The No. 2
official in the Justice Department and
the head of the department's criminal
division abruptly handed in their
resignations today amid continuing
legal problems for their boss, Attor
ney General Edwin Meese.
Deputy Attorney General Arnold
Burns and Assistant General William
Weld announced in letters to Pres
ident Reagan that they were stepping
down. Both have served in their
positions since Oct. 17, 1986.
Their resignations, combined with
the departure of Associate Attorney
General Stephen Trott to become a
federal judge, leave a leadership
vacuum of major proportions in the
Mioistiry suspends Swaggart for
From Associated Press reports
: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. Evange
list Jimmy Swaggart on Tuesday was
conditionally suspended for two years
by the Assemblies of God in connec
tion with allegations that he hired a
prostitute to pose naked,
j He was also ordered to undergo
Rehabilitation for two years and was
ordered out of the pulpit for a period
of not less than one year. He may
hot appear on his television show for
one year.
The Pentecostal church's General
Presbytery had the final say on the
fiery preacher's punishment. Its
decision was more severe than the
ihree-month suspension recom
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But Stone said tension should ease
since the motive has shifted from
conspiracy theories to a soured story
of the heart.
Stone said Sandy Gordon Chavis,
24, of Pembroke was arrested Tues
day after a warrant was issued at 4
a.m. charging him with murder in the
shotgun slaying of Pierce early
Saturday.
A murder warrant also was issued
for John Anderson Goins, 24, of
Pembroke. But Stone said Goins
sought refuge in his father's house,
hid in a closet and shot himself in
the head. Goins' father was not home.
Goins had dated Shannon Bullard,
16, the daughter of Pierce's girlfriend,
Ruth Locklear.
"They (Goins and Bullard) started
having problems and they broke up,"
Stone said. "Two warrants were
issued last week by the girlfriend's
mother, charging Goins with tres
passing. Goins felt Pierce had some
thing to do with it. He got mad and
Justice Department.
Their resignations were unexpected
and were disclosed to other depart
ment officials at this morning's
Justice Department staff meeting,
said a department source, speaking
on condition of anonymity.
Two assistants to Burns and two
assistants to Weld also are resigning.
Neither Burns nor Weld mentioned
Meese's legal problems in their
resignation letters, but the sources
said the attorney general's continuing
legal troubles he has been under
criminal investigation for nearly a
year were significant contributing
factors.
Burns' letter to Reagan said that
"under your leadership, I believe we
mended by the Louisiana branch of
the church.
Gus Weill, a spokesman for Jimmy
Swaggart Worldwide Ministries in
Baton Rouge, La., declined imme
diate comment on the denomination's
decision.
People approved by the church
would supervise S waggart's rehabil-.
itation, the Rev. G. Raymond Carl- ,
son, general superintendent of the
church, said at a news conference. He
provided no other details of the
sanctions.
The rehabilitation period would
begin when Swaggart agreed to the
terms in writing. He has 30 days to
respond.
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he killed him."
Pierce, who had been divorced
since December 1983, was shot in the
chest and side early Saturday morn
ing. The gunman blasted twice
through a broken window in Pierce's
kitchen door and entered the room
to shoot him again in the head with
a 12-gauge shotgun, Stone said.
Stone said Chavis had said in a
confession that Goins, who had
worked as a security guard in Raleigh,
pulled the trigger on the pump
shotgun that killed Pierce. The sheriff
also said that there were no racial
undertones to the killing and that the
shotgun belonged to Chavis' brother.
The sheriff said Chavis and Goins
came from "very outstanding fam
ilies" and neither had prior criminal
records other than traffic violations.
Stone said Goins had gone to Lock
lear's house after the slaying to talk
her but "didn't tell her he had killed
Mr. Pierce."
Pierce was running against District
have made important contributions
to the administration of justice . . .
Unfortunately, I have regretfully
concluded that I must return to
private life at this time."
Weld, a former U.S. attorney in
Boston who has prosecuted a number
of important public corruption and
white-collar crime cases, told Reagan
that "I am grateful to have been
charged with the responsibility of
seeing that justice be done without
fear or favor."
Another department source, also
speaking on condition of anonymity,
said neither Burns nor Weld acted in
belief that Meese is about to be
indicted.
However, said the source, both
Carlson said he had notified Swag
gart of the decision.
A member of the General Pres
bytery, H. Maurice Lednicky, said
most of the discussion in the two-day
meeting of the group was over the
power of the 13-member Executive
Presbytery to impose punishment in
the case.
The Louisiana District had
Catholic Church urges
From Associated Press reports
PANAMA CITY, Panama The
Roman Catholic Church on Tuesday
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Moderator: Joel Schwartz (CTL Director)
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Attorney Joe Freeman Britt in the
May 3 Democratic primary for
Superior Court judge. Because there
was no Republican opposition, the
primary winner would have been the
judge after the November election.
County commissioners here also
adopted a resolution asking Britt, a
white man with a reputation for never
losing a death penalty case, to ask
the state attorney general for a special
prosecutor. Because Pierce is dead,
current state law says that Britt will
become Superior Court judge. But
supporters of Pierce planned to meet
Thursday with Gov. Jim Martin and
ask him to call a special session of
the legislature to seek an exception
to the law for Robeson County.
Stone was joined at the news
conference by SBI Director Robert
Morgan and Thomas McNally, an
FBI special agent. Stone had
requested outside help in the probe
immediately after learning of Pierce's
slaying Saturday morning.
men are concerned because the
Justice Department's image con
tinues to be damaged due to the
ongoing criminal investigation of
Meese, the nation's top law enforce
ment officer.
Terry Eastland, a Justice Depart
ment spokesman, pointed out that it
is not unusual for political appointees
to leave government in the last year
of an administration.
Eastland said that Burns, Weld and
Stephen Trott, the associate attorney
general who was confirmed as a
federal judge last week, were sworn
into their jobs in 1986 and that "this
is 1988; this happens to be a year when
people are leaving and they all happen
to be leaving at the same time."
two years
imposed a three-month suspension
from the pulpit for Swaggart and had
refused to reconsider it on request of
the Executive Presbytery,- which
sought a stiffer penalty. The executive
board noted that every other Assem
blies of God minister who has
confessed to moral failure has been
barred from the pulpit for at least
a year, officials said.
called for Gen. Manuel Antonio
Noriega to resign and offered to act
as a mediator between the strongman
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Dukakis in state primaries
From Associated Press reports
HARTFORD, Conn.
Michael Dukakis defeated Jesse
Jackson in the Connecticut pre
sidential primary Tuesday night
and bid for a victory that would
reassure Democratic leaders about
his troubled candidacy. Dukakis
regained a narrow advantage in
the duel for national convention
delegates.
George Bush was the runaway
Republican winner and surefire
nominee as well, following Bob
Dole's withdrawal earlier in the
day.
With 79 percent of the precincts
reporting, Massechusetts Gov.
Dukakis had 59 percent of the vote
from his New England neighbors,
ending a recent series of poor
performances. Jackson, landslide
winner last weekend in Michigan
and the man with momentum in
the race, had 28 percent of the
vote.
Sen. Albert Gore lagged with 8
percent and Sen. Paul Simon, who
ignored the state, was receiving
slightly more than 1 percent.
On the Republican side, Bush
had 71 percent to Dole's 20
percent. The vice president's lone
remaining challenger, former TV
evangelist Pat Robertson, had 3
percent.
Dole ends presidential quest
WASHINGTON Sen. Bob
Dole, his White House hopes
crushed by George Bush, ended his
Republican presidential bid on
Tuesday, saying, "You come to
trust your instincts to tell you it's
over.
"IVe been beaten before and no
doubt will again. But IVe never
been defeated and never will be,"
he said.
"The one thing you learn how
to do pretty well in our business
is to count. You come to trust your
instincts to tell you it's over. In
my heart I know that time is now.
I congratulate George Bush and
wish him well in November," the
Kansas senator said.
Land Day tainted with violence
RAMALLAH, Occupied West
Bank Israel's army isolated the
occupied territories Tuesday, but
Palestinians threw gasoline bombs
Noriega to
and opponents demanding his ouster.
A general strike continued for the
ninth day, with shopowners keeping
their stores closed despite a violent
government crackdown against its
opponents on Monday.
A church spokesman said Arch
bishop Marcos McGrath had talked
with both sides and received "a
positive impression" that a solution
could be found to the agonizing crisis
that has gripped Panama for over a
month.
In Washington, Panamanian
Ambassador Juan Sosa, speaking on
behalf of ousted President Eric
Arturo Delvalle, asked the United
States to send a military force to
remove Noriega.
The call for Noriega's resignation
by the church was the first public
indication of its stance on the Noriega
regime. Last week, church officials
privately urged Noriega, under indict
ment in the United States on drug
trafficking charges, to step down.
After a violent government crack
down on a demonstration Monday,
troops raided the Marriott Hotel,
which serves as the headquarters of
Panama's opposition and the foreign
press.
About 20 opposition leaders and
eight foreign journalists were
arrested. The journalists and most of
the opposition leaders were released
Tuesday, although Carlos Gonzales
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at patrolling soldiers and the
Israelis opened fire, wounding
eight of the demonstrators.
The unprecedented crackdown
on the 1.5 million Arabs in the
occupied West Bank and Gaza
Strip was aimed at halting four
months of unrest and at prevent
ing mass demonstrations by Pales
tinians on Wednesday's 12th
anniversary of Land Day, when
Israeli soldiers killed six Arabs
protesting land confiscation.
Defense Minister Yitzhak
Rabin and Lt. Gen. Dan Shom
ron, Israel's military chief of staff,
threatened for the first time
Tuesday to close the territories for
an extended period.
Protests continue in Armenia
MOSCOW Residents of a
city at the center of a tense ethnic
dispute stayed home again Tues
day protesting official refusal to
transfer control of their region to
another Soviet republic, a news
paper said.
The government newspaper
Izvestia also provided the first
breakdown of Armenian and
Azeri casualties in Feb. 28 rioting
in the city of Sumgait in Azerbai
jan, and it denied reports that
children had been killed.
Conrail engineer sentenced
TOWSON, Md. A former
Conrail engineer was sentenced
today to the maximum term of five
years in prison and fined $1,000
for causing 16 deaths in Amtrak's
worst train accident.
Rick Gates, 33, of Essex, Md.,
pleaded guilty Feb. 16 to the single
misdemeanor manslaughter count
and admitted in a statement of
facts to smoking marijuana on the
train and failing to make several
safety checks that might have
prevented the accident.
In return for the guilty plea,
Baltimore County State's Attor
ney Sandra O'Connor agreed to
consolidate the names of all 16
victims into one count, which
reduced the maximum sentence
''from 80 years and $16,000 in fines'
to five years and a $1,000 fine.
step down
de la Lastra, a founder and director
of the National Civic Crusade, a
coalition of businesses, professional,
labor and political groups, was still
missing.
President Reagan's chief spokes
man expressed outrage at Monday's
action by Noriega's troops.
"We are all angry at this latest
demonstration, at people being
beaten and threatened," spokesman
Marlin Fitzwater said, adding that
the Noriega regime "is showing its
true colors. It is desperate and afraid
of its own people and the free press."
The church agreed to intercede in
Panama's crisis at the request of
President Oscar Arias of Costa Rica,
Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez of
Spain, and former presidents Carlos
Andres Perez of Venezuela and
Daniel Oduber of Costa Rica.
For the Record
Tuesday's story, "Investigation
continues into senior's fatal fall,"
incorrectly reported the name of the
woman who reported the incident to
the police. The Daily Tar Heel regrets
the error.
Also, The Daily Tar Heel neglected
to note that the Carolina Gay and
Lesbian Association sponsored Ben
jamin Shatz's speech in the story
"Fighting AIDS Discrimination"
March 29. The Daily Tar Heel regrets
the omission.
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