2The Daily Tar Heel Thursday, October 6, 1988
World and Nation
Status of
From Associated Press reports
WIESBADEN, West Germany
There are no signs that the nine
American hostages in Lebanon will
be freed soon, despite the release of
an Indian captive, a U.S. State
Department official said Wednesday.
Doctors said former hostage
Mithileshwar Singh was in good
spirits but under tremendous stress.
The official said a State Depart
ment debriefing team started ques
tioning Singh, an Indian citizen and
resident alien of the United States,
in hopes of learning about the
American hostages.
Singh went to the U.S. Air Force
Hospital in Wiesbaden early Wednes
day, two days after his captors
released him in Beirut in what they
said was a goodwill gesture. Sixteen
foreign hostages are still held in
Lebanon.
"One wants to be encouraged that
they will be released, but we really
don't know," the U.S. official said at
the hospital. "There are no indica
tions that others are coming out."
Of those holding hostages in
Lebanon, the State Department
Ailing savings and loans
may burden industry
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON The chairman
of the Federal Home Loan Bank
Board said Wednesday that his
agency can no longer cover the cost
of rescuing ailing savings institutions
without placing an exceedingly
"heavy burden" on the industry.
Danny Wall, whose agency regu
lates the nation's 3,000 savings and
loans, told the Senate Budget Com
mittee it will cost $45 billion to $50
billion to clean up the industry,
boosting an earlier projection by
more than one-third.
Noting that the bank board has
resolved 122 cases so far this year at
the cost of $20 billion, Wall said it
would cost an additional $25 billion
to $30 billion for the work that
remains to be done.
As much as $10 billion of the cost
remaining could be spent between
now and the end of the year to rescue
dozens of additional institutions, he
said.
Sen. Lawton Chiles, D-Fla., chair
man of the committee, complained
that Wall's shifting estimates "offer
little reassurance to the taxpayer" and
said, "We could be hearing about a
$100 billion problem just in time for
Christmas."
Chiles also said the bank board,
by issuing promissory notes that are
counted toward the federal budget
deficit, was spending billions of
dollars without congressional author
ization. That, he said, would result
in other problems, such as anti-drug
efforts being squeezed.
Wall's projections now are in line
with other government estimates,
including the $45 billion to $50 billion
projection of Congress' General
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official said: "It is our opinion that
they are under the influence of Iran
and are part of Hezbollah."
He added later: "There are indi
cations that they (the kidnappers) are
backed by Iran, we assume financed
by Iran."
A team of 10 to 12 State Depart
ment officials flew to Wiesbaden on
Wednesday to interview Singh, 60,
who was a captive for 20 months.
Singh said after his release that
three American educators abducted
with him were "OK."
"It's better for me not to make any
statements because we don't know
what might hurt them," he said.
"Please let me be quiet. . . . It's better
for my colleagues."
Singh flew to Frankfurt aboard a
military transport plane. He has not
spoken to reporters since he arrived
in West Germany.
Dr. Robert Gilmore, head of the
Wiesbaden hospital, told reporters a
preliminary examination indicated
Singh was given adequate medical
treatment during his captivity.
"He lost significant weight and
muscle mass. But he was afforded
Accounting Office ' (G AO). Private
analysts have put the price tag as high
as $100 billion.
However, while the GAO said its
cost estimate meant Congress will
have to appropriate taxpayer dollars,
Wall said his agency's resources could
cover the cost. But, he said, that
would place "an exceedingly heavy
burden on the thrift industry."
Currently, the board's fund insur
ing deposits in savings and loans up
to $100,000 gets all of its money from
healthy institutions, which pay a
special assessment amounting to
more than double the regular assess
ment paid by competing commercial
banks for deposit insurance.
Wall said the only way the bank
board can get by without additional
funding would be to abandon plans
to phase out the special assessment
and continue it for30 years, a move
sure to provoke an outcry from
savings and loans lobbyists.
Rep. Stephen Neal, D-N.C, speak
ing at a separate session of the House
Banking Committee, argues that
forcing the industry to pay more
could push healthy savings and loans
into insolvency.
The House committee was consid
ering a bill sponsored by Rep. John
LaFalce, D-N.Y., that would increase
from $10.8 billion to $15.8 billion the
bank board's authority to borrow
through bonds. The board has so far
issued $3.75 billion of the 30-year
bonds, which are in turn paid off
through the industry assessment.
LaFalce said his bill was intended
to give the agency a way to raise
money without resorting to promis
sory notes that ultimately could have
to be paid off by taxpayers.
visits by a physician and treatment
was appropriate for his illnesses,"
Gilmore said.
Gilmore said the kidnappers
allowed a doctor to visit Singh twice
a week.
He said testing done in Wiesbaden
confirmed his previously known
problems of diabetes, hypertension
and "possible coronary artery
disease."
"Overall, Dr. Singh is in good
spirits and though very fatigued has
traveled well," Gilmore said.
Gilmore said Singh lost 35 to 40
pounds during his ordeal. He said the
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demonstrators clash
in 'siese of Atlanta'
From Associated Press reports
ATLANTA Police headed off
anti-abortion sit-ins Wednesday by
impounding the demonstrators' bus
and increasing security at clinics
where 360 people were arrested a day
earlier during the protesters' "siege of
Atlanta."
Officers dragged three demonstra
tors to police vans Wednesday. Most
demonstrators, however, limited
activities to praying and singing
hymns.
The bus was impounded as it took
demonstrators from a silent vigil at
one clinic to a, demonstration at
another.
"The officer determined (the bus)
to be unsafe for operation. When it
was stopped there was smoke coming
out and it was crowded with too many
people," said police spokeswoman
Myrna May. She said she did not
know how many were aboard.
Protesters on Tuesday complained
that police treated them with un
necessary harshness, twisting arms
and fingers and using pressure-point
holds just under the ears to force them
into buses.
Some screamed or cried as they
were taken away, and four were
treated for apparently minor injuries.
George Napper, Atlanta commis
sioner of public safety, said he
believed there were isolated arrests "in
which police could have acted more
gently" but that he thought the overall
Debate
legislation. Every major environmen
tal group has endorsed the Demo
cratic ticket, he said.
Quayle was asked three times how
he would approach the presidency.
First, he said, he would say a prayer
for himself and the country, and
would then gather Bush's advisers
together to help him. When asked
about it again, he said he would
simply turn to the Cabinet, because
he would know it well after working
with Bush's advisers as vice president.
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kidnappers agreed to respect Singh's
vegetarian diet.
"There is tremendous stress,"
Gilmore said, however. "Singh is
exhausted." '
. Gilmore said Singh told officials
he wants to return to Colorado after
his tests. Singh taught at the now
defunct Western Colorado University
before moving to Beirut.
Armed men dressed as policemen
took Singh hostage Jan. 24, 1987, on
the Beirut University College campus
in Moslem west Beirut, along with
Americans Alann Steen, Robert
Polhill and Jesse Turner.
behavior was justified.
Demonstrators on Wednesday
arrived gradually at the Feminist
Women's Health Clinic, where police,
arrested one for trying to jump a
barricade and two others for assault
ing a woman trying to enter the clinic,
Maj. W. Holley said.
' About 50 police, including several
on horses, were posted at the small
clinic.
On Tuesday night about 75 people
at an anti-abortion rally stayed
behind for tactical training and said
they would take part in Wednesday's
action and face arrest, but fewer than
that were in evidence at the clinic.
Joseph Foreman, a leader of
Operation Rescue, which is organiz
ing a week of attempts to close
Atlanta abortion clinics, said demon
strators would try to cross police lines
"only if we see a woman preparing
to go in and kill her child."
He claimed the police lines kept
women out. "So there is no need for
us to risk arrest," he said.
Lynne Randall, the clinic director,
denied that the demonstration is
stopping abortions and said the
protesters were "acting like thugs."
She said several patients had
arrived at the clinic. "They might
postpone it," she said. "Our appoint
ment numbers are the same, they are
just distributed differently." She said
the clinic usually sees 10 to 50 patients
a day. ' ;.
Bentsen said the differences
between him and Dukakis were
important, but they showed Dukakis'
openness to other views . and his
reluctance to have a "clone" as a
running mate. "We agree on the vast
majority of issues," Bentsen said.
Hume also asked Bentsen about his
acceptance of political action com
mittee (PAC) money through his
creation of the "$10,000 Breakfast
Club."
Bentsen said he made a mistake
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Speaker of House defends
release of CIA information
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON House
Speaker Jim Wright formally
denied to the ethics committee
Wednesday that he broke house
rules by talking openly about a
secret CIA operation aimed at
undermining Nicaragua's leftist
government.
Wright, in a letter to ethics
chairman Rep. Julian Dixon, said
his Sept. 30 criticism of the CIA's
purported secret efforts to pro
voke civil disturbances in Nicara
gua was based on publicly avail
able information.
But the letter left several unan
swered questions for the panel,
formally known as the Committee
on Standards of Official Conduct,
to examine in its informal probe,
of the allegations against Wright.
Dixon, D-Calif., called the
investigation relatively simple,
particularly compared to the
committee's separate and complex
probe into Wright's finances. "It's
not that complicated a matter," he
said.
"There are two basic elements:
what classified information the
speaker may have received, and
. . . what he said to the press."
Martin wont meet Quayle
RALEIGH Gov. Jim Martin
will not be on hand when Dan
Quayle makes his first appearance
in North Carolina since becoming
the Republican vice presidential
nominee, an aide said Wednesday.
Democrats gloated at the news,
saying Martin was afraid to be
seen with Quayle because the
Indiana senator was a political
embarrassment. Martin denied it.
"I would like to join Sen. Quayle
and in fact have invited him to
join me on Friday," Martin said
in a prepared statement. "But our
schedules simply could not be
worked out for us to appear
together."
Quayle will attend a late
afternoon rally Friday at N.C.
For the
Tuesday's story "Are out-of-state
students at UNC in a class by
themselves?" incorrectly stated that
the average SAT score of out-of-state
students denied admission is 1300.'
with the club but noted it was legal
and that he supported reform of
campaign rules.
Quayle said he supported getting
rid of PACs and letting people make
individual contributions to cam
paigns or the parties.
The candidates also discussed trade
issues.
Bentsen said he supports opening
markets through tougher trade reg-
BSM
going to try and work with the
administration. I would hope the
University will take the Black Cul
tural Center proposal seriously."
BSM members agreed that the first
step is to convince the University of
the need for the new center by holding
meetings in the small BCC facility.
A special meeting for this purpose will
be called after Fall Break, Perry said.
One student stated the need for the
BSM to promote black culture on
campus.
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State University and a private
gathering at the Bush state
headquarters.
Settlement reached in CIA case
WASHINGTON The
government has tentatively settled
a lawsuit charging the CIA used
nine Canadians as human guinea
pigs in mind-control research that
included heavy doses of LSD,
lawyers in the case said
Wednesday.
The tentative out-of-court set
tlement, negotiated by attorneys
for the Canadians and the Justice
Department, was announced on
the eve of trial at a hearing before
U.S. District Judge John Garrett
Penn.
Neither side would discuss the
amount of the proposed settle
ment, which is still subject to final
approval by to-level Justice
Department officials. But sources
who spoke on condition of ano
nymity said the CIA agreed to pay
the plaintiffs a total of $750,000.
The $9 million lawsuit claimed
that CIA-financed research into
mind control left permanent psy
chological or emotional damage
on the nine patients who under
went treatment in the late 1950s
at the Allan Memorial Institute of
McGill University in Montreal.
Stock market partially recovers
The Dow Jones average of 30
industrials, which had fallen 10.85
points Monday and Tuesday,
recovered 4.27 to 2,106.33.
Advancing issues outnumbered
declines by about 3 to 2 on the
New York Stock Exchange, with
852 up, 564 down and 517
unchanged. ,
Big Board volume totaled
175.13 million shares, against
157.78 million in the previous
session.
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ulations and getting farmers to match
market prices. .
"Senator Bentsen talks about
recapturing the foreign markets,"
Quayle responded. "But 111 tell you
one way that we're not going to
recapture the foreign markets, and
that is if in fact we have another
Jimmy Carter grain embargo. Jimmy
Carter's grain embargo set the Amer
ican farmer back."
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"This whole University is a whiter
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" The proposal requests that the new
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student organizations, a library, and
space for studying. The facilities
planning committee will receive the
proposal within the next two weeks,
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