2The Daily Tar HeelFriday, September 23, 1988
World and Nation
Candidates feud
From Associated Press reports
' Republican George Bush touted
His endorsement by Michael Dukakis'
hometown police union Thursday,
prompting Dukakis to surround
himself with other law officers and
accuse his rival of "assault and battery
on the truth."
"What George Bush is doing to the
truth in this campaign is a crime,"
the Democratic presidential nominee
said in perhaps his strongest attack
on Bush to date. "His administration
Has waged not a war on crime, but
a war on crime programs."
The sharp rhetoric came three days
before Dukakis and Bush were to face
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From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON With the
Reagan administration's time
running out, Soviet General Secre
tary Mikhail Gorbachev sought
Thursday to give new momentum
to arms control efforts by present
ing the United States with a broad
range of proposals to sharply
reduce long-range nuclear
weapons.
Although senior U.S. officials
have virtually abandoned hopes
for cutbacks of 30 to 50 percent
in missiles, bombers and subma
rines as part of a new treaty,
Gorbachev sent Foreign Minister
Eduard Shevardnadze here with
suggestions for clearing two of the
main roadblocks.
Shevardnadze took the propos
als to Secretary of State George
Shultz along with a letter from
Gorbachev to President Reagan.
The Soviet foreign minister is
scheduled to see Reagan at the
White House on Friday.
"The agenda is very broad but
we have little time," Shevardnadze
said.
In an effort to facilitate pro
gress, the Soviets had sent some
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each other in the first of their two
nationally televised debates con
frontations that both sides consider
crucial.
Meanwhile, President Reagan was
back on the campaign trail for his
vice president in Texas, scorning
"born-again George Pattons" who
say they support a strong national
defense. It was an apparent reference
to Dukakis, who spent last week
sounding hawkish as he laid out his
defense policies and rode in a modern
M-l tank.
Reagan spoke to students at Baylor
University in Waco, then was joining
Bush at a big fund-raising dinner in
of their proposals to the U.S. side
before Shevardnadze's two-day
visit. Asked if the foreign minister
had brought good news, Reagan
said, "I think so," as he boarded
a helicopter at the White House
to begin a campaign trip on behalf
of Vice President George Bush.
The two treaty obstacles the
Soviet foreign minister singled out
to reporters at the State Depart
ment involve the restrictions to be
imposed on the range of non
ballistic cruise missiles that can be
launched by bombers and war
ships and ways of verifying that
any agreed-upon cutbacks on their
number are not exceeded.
Negotiators in Geneva have
been unable to resolve these
problems as well as related ques
tions dealing with Reagan's Stra
tegic Defense Initiative, the search
for a space-based shield against
Soviet ballistic missiles.
Immediately after Shultz
greeted Shevardnadze, teams of
U.S. and Soviet experts began
private deliberations on the twin
issues of reducing strategic nuclear
weapons and on anti-missile
defenses.
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Bush traveled to Boston to pick up
the endorsement of the Boston Police
Patrolmen's Association, a 1,500
member union.
"I'm the one in this race who wants
to strengthen law enforcement," said
Bush. "My opponent is strongly out
of the American mainstream on issues
such as fighting crime."
Although Dukakis has won the
backing of other police groups in his
state and in Bush's adopted home
state of Texas, a spokesman for the
Boston police group said its members
felt Bush would be more attentive to
law enforcement needs than would
U.So House speaker
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From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON House
Speaker Jim Wright denied Thursday
that he revealed anything classified
when he criticized a covert CIA
operation in Nicaragua, while Repub
licans pressed for formal ethics and
intelligence investigations of the
speaker's remarks.
Wright, who has become a lightn
ing rod for Democrats on Central
American policy, found himself again
embroiled in controversy for his
revelations two days earlier that the
Central Intelligence Agency had
instigated demonstrations aimed at
provoking the leftist Managua
government and sabotaging peace
talks with the contra rebels.
The speaker repeated that assertion
to reporters but contended such CIA
activity was already well known
through news reports.
"I didn't say anything that was
revealed to me as classified informa
tion," said Wright, D-Texas.
While he denied breaking rules
against disclosing secrets, Wright did
not specify how he had learned of
the covert operation in Nicaragua. He
and other Democrats sought to focus
attention on the administration's
action rather than the propriety of
Wright's disclosure.
"In late August of last year, I
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the Massachusetts governor.
Robert Guiney, president of the
association, called Dukakis "no
friend of police." He cited Dukakis'
opposition to the death penalty, his
support for a former program grant
ing weekend furloughs for convicted
felons, and Dukakis' failure to attend
funerals for three police officers
recently.
However, it was not the first time
the union has endorsed a Republican.
In 1980 and 1984 the association
supported Reagan and in 1984 it
endorsed Republican Ray Shamie in
his unsuccessful Senate bid against
John Kerry.
became aware that elements of the
U.S. government were seeking to
disturb the domestic tranquility in
Central America, to foment distur
bances with a view to seeing if they
could provoke" the Sandinistas into
a crackdown that would derail peace
talks, Wright said.
"That seems to me just intolerably
two-faced," he said. Wright added
that he had been given "indirect
assurance" that the practice has now
been halted.
House Republican Leader Robert
Michel of Illinois and Rep. Dick
Cheney, R-Wyo., chairman of the
House Republican Conference, for
mally requested investigations in both
the intelligence committee and the
ethics committee, which has respon
sibility for enforcing non-disclosure
rules.
The ethics panel, formally known
as the Committee on Standards of
Official Conduct, already is investi
gating Wright on unrelated
allegations.
The controversy over Wright's
statements began Tuesday when he
said he had received "clear testimony"
from the CIA that the agency had
fomented opposition demonstrations
in Nicaragua.
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Senate committee examines
effects of airline deregulation
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON Members
of a Senate committee on Thurs
day faulted airline deregulation for
raising airfares for many Ameri
cans and leaving some cities
dominated by carriers that control
local air service.
But Transportation Secretary
Jim Burnley told the Senate
Commerce Committee that even
though "the airline industry has its
flaws," nearly 10 years of dereg
ulation has benefited most
travelers.
"Overall the airline industry has
become much more competitive as
to price and service as a result of
economic deregulation," Burnley
told the legislators.
Burnley cited statistics showing
that since 1978, domestic air traffic
has grown from 275 million pas
sengers to more than 450 million,
while average fares have declined
13 percent, adjusted for inflation.
Tensions
change the government. It is so
rotten.
"There is so much deceit here.
Hubert Stone, the sheriff, is not doing
his job. There is no sense in that.
Discrimination is a big problem
among all races here. We need some
new officials. A lot of people around
here thought Julian Pierce would do
a good job.
"When people get their hopes up
Harassment
in the same way that other forms of
harassment are, because it is defined
by most people as physical harass
ment, Sandler said. In a nationwide
study of female college students, 2
percent said they had been proposi
tioned overtly but 20 to 30 percent
said they had been harassed in other
ways.
"The harassed need to know that
they can get help and they should go
for help," Sandler said. Victims
should openly tell their assailant to
stop, or they can keep a diary if the
problem becomes severe enough to
litigate. The victim must try to stop
the harassment when it starts, because
assailants often consider no response
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News in Brief
Official addresses lottery issue
FAYETTEVILLE State
Attorney General Lacy Thorn
burg said he has no plans to
prosecute North Carolina resi
dents who cross the state line to
buy tickets in Virginia's new state
lottery.
Thornburg said the State
Bureau of Investigation does not
have the manpower to become
involved in wholesale prosecution
of misdemeanors and he feels that
any legal action against lottery
participants probably would be
more the responsibility of counties.
"As long as the player buys a
lottery ticket in Virginia and
doesn't bring it or his winnings
back across the line," Thornburg
said, "he's under the laws of
Virginia."
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that things are going to change, they
don't. When they think they're going
to get relief, it doesn't come. The
governor's task force did some goodj
but it caused some chaos. What Eddie
and Timmy did was right, but they
went about it in the wrong way. The
only way I can see change is to clean
out the legal system. Who can you
depend on if you can't depend on the
legal system?"
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to be a consent, she said.
In a study of UNC female graduate
students, 2.8 percent said they had
been harassed physically but up to
30.4 percent said they were harassed
in other ways. Sandler said the
correlation between those who had
been harassed physically and in other
ways meant the victims only consi
dered physical advances to be
harassment.
Up to 90 percent of undergraduate
females are sexually harassed if
nonphysical forms of harassment are
considered, and 10 to 15 percent of
those may be victims of date rape,
she said.-5 1
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