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The Daily Tar Heel Friday, February 10, 19893 amaicao election marked by violence; at least dead From Associated Press reports .KINGSTON, Jamaica Sporadic gunfire broke out Thursday as Jamai cans voted in an election expected to oust conservative Prime Minister Edward Seaga and return socialist Michael Manley to power after eight years in the opposition. .Police said one woman was shot to: death and at least six people were wounded in separate shootings and a stabbing. The two main parties also accused each other of intimidation arid voting irregularities. The killing of Glenna Williams, a 25-year-old pregnant housewife, raised to at least 1 2 the number of people killed in politically related violence since the campaign opened Jan. 15. Seaga said Williams was shot a minute before he arrived to vote. It was Jamaica's first nationally contested election since 1980, when an estimated 700 people were killed in political violence over a nine month campaign. This campaign was shortened to just over three weeks because of fears of violence at the height of the Caribbean island's winter tourist season. Attacks were confined mainly to slums in Kingston, the capital, and a few towns where armed gangs control large voting blocs. Montego Bay and other beach resorts on the northern coast were calm. About 10,000 police officers and soldiers were deployed to maintain order at more than 6,000 polling stations. About 1 million people were eligible to vote in this country of 2.4 million people, and lines formed early. Officials had no immediate estimate of turnout. Manley, prime minister from 1972 to 1980, voted at a probation office in Kingston. Manley said he awak ened at 5:30 a.m. to check polling stations where there might be trouble. He said Seaga supporters were harassing his supporters verbally at one polling station, and five other stations lacked red ink to mark voters' fingers to prevent people from casting multiple ballots. Noting the atmosphere was less charged than in 1980, Manley said Jamaicans were "returning to former adi-aod-ride lots to ease traffic woes By JESSICA LANNING Staff Writer Adding to the many actions taken in an attempt to alleviate Chapel Hill's traffic and parking problems, the North Carolina Council of State has approved the establishment of a park-and-ride lot for Chapel Hill on N.C54. The purpose of a park-and-ride lot is to provide parking spaces outside the town so commuters can avoid the problems of parking in town. Those ; who park in a park-and-ride lot can then take a bus shuttle into town. David Bonk, transportation planner for Chapel Hill, said the new . lot will be near the Durham-Orange county line, southeast of the Univer sity's Continuing Education Center i site, and will provide 512 parking ; spaces. ; Bonk said he hopes the project will ; begin this summer and be completed ; by the beginning of 1990. The cost of the lot has been estimated at about $650,000, but Bonk said he expects this cost to increase as the town receives con- ; struction costs from the consultant. ' The lot will be paid for by three main sources. Bonk said. The federal government will provide 80 percent of the cost through the Urban Mass Transit program and the state will provide 10 percent. The other 10 percent will come from a local fund based on the value of the land. UNC leased the land to the town for a 1 0-year period. Bonk said there would normally be a land cost for the town, but in this case the Uni versity will not ask the town to pay rent. The land will be appraised for the cost of rent and this amount will be used as the local fund to pay for the lot. Bonk said he is unsure what will happen to the land at the end of the 10-year period. Either the lease will be extended or the land will be returned to the University along with the parking lot, he said. Students, faculty, residents and commuters will be able to use the lot since it will be public, and no permit will be required to park in the lot, Bonk said. The lot can be used by people coming into Chapel Hill and by people who need a central meeting place for carpools going to Raleigh and the Research Triangle Park. The lot will not be available for long-term parking, but Bonk said there would probably be a provision for 24-hour parking. The lot will alleviate the parking shortage at the University and should eliminate some of the cars parked at Slug's at the Pines, Bonk said. "We expect some people who will be displaced by University construc tion (to use the lot)," he said. "Continued shortage of parking will be relieved by lots like this. "It cuts down on the number of cars entering the core area of Chapel Hill and the University," he said. "It reduces the amount of parking in those areas." Bonk said preliminary plans are being considered for additional lots on U.S. 15-501 between Chapel Hill and Pittsboro and a possible lot on the Chapel Hill-Durham Boulevard and N.C. 54 corridors. Gene Swecker, associate vice chan cellor for facilities management for the University, said the University decided to lease the land to the town because only the town is able to obtain federal government money. "This way both of us (the town and UNC) can benefit," he said. "Any thing that adds to the supply (of parking) is helpful." Swecker said he was unsure what will happen when the lease comes to an end and a decision will probably depend on how well the lot is utilized. Swecker said the University is also building a lot near the Horace Williams Airport. habits" of holding peaceful elections. After voting at a Kingston high school, Seaga accused his opposition of fraud. "The level of stealing of ballot boxes and stuffing of ballot boxes, backed by intimidation and pressure from adjoining areas and by leading political figures is something that's undefinable," Seaga said. Seaga said Williams was killed "a minute before I got there. I saw her dead right there." Police said she was shot when a man fired at party supporters. A member of Seaga's party, Sen. George Ramocan, said Manley's supporters intimidated some voters and that men posing as police officers stole ballot boxes from a polling station in a Seaga stronghold. Despite sporadic violence, people were seen calmly chatting and stand ing in line outside polling stations. Jamaica's leading pollster, Carl Stone of the University of the West Indies, forecast Manley's party would win 48 of the 60 parliamentary seats. Manley and his left-of-center People's National Party boycotted the last election in 1983 in a dispute over voter registration. 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