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The Daily Tar HeelMonday, November 28, 19883 Arafat denied Arab leaders From Associated Press reports : UNITED NATIONS The U.N. Arab League ambassador said Sun day that he has enough votes to move a General Assembly session to Gen eva so PLO chieC Yasser Arafat can address the world body on the Palestinian issue. ! Jordan and Egypt agreed to spear head the effort to reconvene the world body in the Swiss capital, Jordan's official news agency reported. ! They urged the unprecedented protest after the United States denied Arafat a visa Saturday to address the body in New York. ! In Kuwait, a senior Palestine Liberation Organization official said Ihe U.S. decision was "an open call Tor extremism." ! Reaction to the U.S. decision came 'quickly. Israeli leaders praised it, but Algeria, Egypt, France and Norway vere among nations which protested lhe decision. ! Egyptian Foreign Minister Esmat Abdel-Meguid and his Jordanian 'counterpart, Taher Masri, said they !UNC information By JENNIFER WING .Staff Writer : UNC will observe World AIDS !Day Thursday by sponsoring a fair Xo acquaint students and community '.members with information about the jdeadly virus. '. World AIDS Day is an interna tional program sponsored by the World Health Organization. --More than 50 researchers, doctors, fawyers and public health specialists will participate in the fair to discuss how their professions work with AIDS, Sue Cavenar, research asso By JASON BATES Staff Writer .-.The number of drug addicts who combine cocaine and tranquilizers is gr.owing, according to a new study of 3,000 workers in drug clinics across the nation. ; "Speedballing," the dangerous combination of drugs that originated in the 1970s, involves taking amphe tamines to get high and then taking heroin to offset the side effects of the high. The 1980s combination of crack and prescription drugs is even more dangerous, according to a study by D Q n D D 0 a D d q a a D a a o D D D Study ALL 135mm, 110, 126, AND DISC I " " FILM DEVELOPING rir HZJ rp lloi: First Second 1 1 1 I r I ! &Disc Set Set 12 exp. $289 FREE! W Wife isexp. $399 FREE! IFm Fa) mSBy 1ST 8 FREE! &9Wll&l Qffcr Q00g Through 36 Exp. $7" FREE! "588 coupon must accompany order mm call for Geneva session had scrapped plans to visit New York in protest. Clovis Maksoud, the Arab League's U.N. ambassador, said Arab nations felt "deep anger and outrage" over the U.S. decision and will ask the General Assembly to condemn it. Arafat wanted to enter the United States to address the U.N. body in New York on Thursday, when debate is scheduled on the Palestinian problem. A nearly one-year-old Palestinian uprising in Israeli occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip has left at least 316 Palestinians and 1 1 Israelis dead. However, the State Department rejected his visa Saturday, and said the leader of the PLO "knows of, condones and lends support to" terrorist attacks. "The issue of terrorism is a red herring used by the State Depart ment, because the State Department knows very well that resistance to Israeli occupation does not under any stretch of the imagination fall under the rubric of terrorism," Maksoud ciate at the School of Nursing, said Tuesday. The American Red Cross, the N.C. Hospice Association, the Research Triangle Institute, and Duke and N.C. State universities will participate in the fair, which will be held in Great Hall from 1 1:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Inge Corless, chairwoman of the Secondary Care Department at the nursing school and coordinator of the fair, said she hoped the variety of organizations represented would produce a unique view of AIDS. "(The purpose is) to inform the shows use the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic in San Francisco. The study surveyed 3,000 workers in more than 300 chemical dependency programs nationwide. Dr. David Smith, founder of the clinic, said speed was the main problem when he started the clinic in 1967 and has continued to be a problem. "San Francisco tends to be a trendy city," he said, adding that drug users in the city were the first to combine the drugs. The duaf addiction problem has increased in North Carolina, Smith riot a for a trip Hyw. 54 at 1-40 Atlantic Ave. at Spring Forest R, Raleigh 790-1200 Lunch 11:30-2:00 Monday-Friday Dinner 5:00-9:00 Sunday-Thursday 5:00-10:00 Friday & Saturday 2nd SET OF COLOR PRINTS said. . Approval to move the U.N. body to Geneva would , require a simple majority of the 159 members. The members have regularly approved Palestinian-backed resolutions by an overwhelming majority. t "Tomorrow (Monday) the recom mendation will be made at a meeting of the Arab group" of U.N. member states, Maksoud said. "Also we will ask the General Assembly to con demn this decision. This is the thrust of our thinking." "I think that also the people in the non-aligned countries and the Euro pean countries realize what a danger ous precedent" the U.S. action sets, he said. The non-aligned group has 101 voting members in the General Assembly. U.N. spokesman Francois Giuliani said the U.N. legal counsel was studying the State Department's decision and would advise Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, on Monday. , fair to recognize participant about the work that is occurring, and the service available from certain agencies," she said. "It will provide us with information to provide to others who will not be able to attend." Doctors believe that AIDS is caused by a virus that is transferred through the exchange of body fluids. Once a person is infected, the virus attacks the immune system. The virus then changes the immune system so that it actually reproduces any viruses in the body rather than destroying them, Lynne Chamblee, a said. The state has always had a sub stantial drug problem affecting all ages, said Dr. Robert Hubbard of the Research Triangle Institute. "Generally, multiple substance abuse, especially including alcohol, has been around for years," he said. "Back in the 1970s, people were taking cocaine, then Valium, pot or alcohol to come down," said Hal Linebarger, a chemical dependency therapist at Mills-Peninsula Hospi tals in Burlingame, Calif., in a recent telephone interview. The availability of the cheap cocaine called crack has lot of cash to Calabash. of illegal La x ulr biier's SEAFOOD RESTAURANT The cookin's timed in seconds. 493-8096 967-8227 SI 0 0 D D a D n D a a a D D Reagan From Associated Press reports SANTA BARBARA, Calif. President Reagan endorsed the deci sion to block Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's appearance at the United Nations, saying Americans can't be seen as "patsies" to terrorism. "I agree very much with his deci sion," Reagan said Sunday of Secre tary of State George Shultz's move to deny Arafat a visa to speak before the U.N. General Assembly in New York this week. Shultz said he would not grant Arafat a waiver of the' U.S. policy denying visas to terrorists. Arafat, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, "knows of, condones and lends support" to acts of terror ism, Shultz said. , Asked whether he thought the PLO continued to sponsor terrorism, Reagan said, "I think there was enough to justify not granting a waiver." He said it would have been wrong to give a visa to Arafat, who last spoke to the United Nations in 1974. public health educator with the Orange County Health Department, said. Because . of the change in the immune system, the body cannot fight other diseases. So the victim often suffers from rare forms of pneumonia or skin and blood cancer. Contrary to popular belief, anyone even heterosexuals can be exposed to AIDS, Chamblee said. People who participate in high-risk activities such as intravenous drug use or unprotected heterosexual and homosexual intercourse increase a rue mmoxes Docreasiim increased the problem, he said. Addicts take Valium or the tran quilizer Xanax to relieve the symp toms of cocaine use, which include anxiety, jitters and agitation. But Valium and Xanax can cause seizures when taken in high doses instead of calming the addict, Line barger said. Drug users also become addicted when they take high doses of tranquilizers. Addicts get the prescription drugs by taking doctors' prescription pads, robbing pharmacies and buying them on the street, Linebarger said. , "(Cocaine and tranquilizers) cancel SIPLKSDAIL AiSGH S 7 3.5" & 5.25" Datacases $3.95 Each 4J.95 Each Visit our new store in Holly Park Shopping Center! HOI IY PARK MUfVI ' PARK PMG CENTER praises decision "I think the other way would have sent out the wrong signal that we are patsies," Reagan said at Point Mugu Naval Air Station as he boarded Air Force One to return to Washington from his Thanksgiving holiday. But Reagan said he was not involved in the decision. Though he agreed with Shultz, Reagan said, "You recognize that officially it didn't make any difference whether I did or not, because under the law that is the province of the secretary of state." However, Reagan said U.S. offi cials are "available and are willing to negotiate at any time" for peace in the Middle East. "We are the ones with the peace plan." Arab spokesmen have criticized the U.S. decision, to deny Arafat a visa, calling it a big mistake. Arafat said he will ask the United Nations to move its session on Palestinian issues to Geneva, Switzerland. Three Democratic senators seeking to be elected majority leader by World ADDS Day their chance of contracting AIDS, she added. At this point in AIDS research, even saliva cannot be ruled out as a possiblemeans of infection, although it is highly unlikely, she said. ' Chamblee said the Orange County Health Department planned to make brochures containing information about AIDS and AIDS research in North Carolina available at the fair. Singer Kenny Rankin will perform during the fair, Corless said. Students can also participate in a drawing to win free basketball tickets to the home Duke and N.C. State games each other out, but it ends up being much more poisonous to the system," he said. Taking tranquilizers escalates an addiction and the chances of an overdose, Smith said. Smith said doctors need to learn when not to prescribe tranquilizers for patients who complain of being anxious and paranoid because these symptoms can be the result of cocaine use. Expanded treatment centers, supply-reduction efforts and educa tion programs are also necessary to counteract the problem, he said. J 8.5" X 11" Laser Cut (for 2 or more) r-7 1 1 y 100 Satisfaction Guaranteed or Your Money Back IDDC (SlILrIj Holly Park Shopping Center 3028 Old Wake Forest Road Raleigh, N.C. 27609 (919)878-9054 Monday-Friday 10-9, Saturday 9-6 to ban visit Senate colleagues this week also said they agreed with Shultz's action. The three Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, J. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana and George Mitchell of Maine said they did not believe the United States was caving in to pressure from the Israelis by denying Arafat the visa. "The United States should indicate to one and all that we stand against terrorism, and I think this was a very dramatic way of doing it," Inouye said in an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press." "The PLO has members . . . who are engaged actively in terrorism, and as long as that organization does, I don't think they should be allowed to speak at the U.N.," said Johnston. On his return to 'Washington, Reagan will prepare for his Dec. 7 session with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in New York. In mid week, Reagan will meet with his designated successor, Vice President George Bush, who will also take part in the talks. and may win free books from Student Stores. The Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association (CGLA) plans to have a table with AIDS information and CGLA pamphlets, said Liz Stiles, CGLA chair. "I think the biggest thing is aware ness," she said. 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