2The Daily Tar HeelMonday, February 13, 1989 World and Nation VloDemice mars Sri Laokao election From Associated Press reports COLOMBO, Sri Lanka At least 55 people were killed in the last two days of campaigning for legislative elections, including 36 villagers massacred while they slept, officials said Sunday. "It is the worst and bloodiest election campaign in Sri Lanka's history," said Elmo Gooneratne, a senior government official. In the bloodiest attack, Tamil militants attacked the villagers in a remote jungle of central Sri Lanka. Officials blamed militant Sinhalese for the other 19 slayings, including the assassination of an opposition party candidate. He was the 14th would-be legislator to die since campaigning for Wednesday's elec tions began five weeks ago. More than 1,000 people have been killed since nominations for the elections began Jan. 6. They will be the first parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka since 1977. A 1982 referendum doubled the normal six-year life of the legislature elected in 1977. Campaigning ends midnight Sun day. Most of the 1,400 candidates for 225 parliamentary seats spent the day addressing meetings and making last minute appeals for votes. The village massacre was perpe trated by more than 50 rebels who crept into the rice-farming village of Dutuwewa and attacked with auto matic rifle fire, clubs and machetes late Saturday, said a police officer contacted by telephone in nearby Horawapatana. Military officials in Colombo said the 36 victims included 20 children. "The rebels attacked a cluster of houses close to the jungle," according to the police officer, who said he was first to arrive at the scene. "Other villagers heard shooting and screams but were too frightened to come out." Dutuwewa is about 60 miles north east of Colombo, the capital. The village is in the predominantly Sin halese North Central Province, but lies just outside Eastern Province, a main operational area for Tamil separatists. Hundreds of army commandos and police fanned out in marshy jungles surrounding the village to search for the killers, while helicop ters made aerial surveys to prevent the rebels from escaping, the police- Parking man said on condition of anonymity. A foreign , ministry official in Colombo blamed the killings on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the most powerful Tamil guerrilla group that has waged a bloody war for independence since 1983. The Tigers issued a statement denying responsibility. More than 8,500 people have died in ethnic violence as minority Tamils press their attacks on the Sinhalese majority that dominates the government. Mainly Hindu Tamils make up 18 percent of the island's 16 million people. They claim they are discrim inated against in education, employ ment and culture by the majority Buddhist Sinhalese. from page 1 Martin. "Students are continually left out of the decision-making processes at this University," he said. There should be a student repre sentative on the Chapel Hill Town Council because there are 22,000 students living in the Chapel Hill Carrboro area, Loughran said. Gretchen Smith, a clinic manager at the hospital, asked the committee to consider a shuttle service between northern Chatham County and oard Chapel Hill. The recommendations made by the committee are. not going to work because there are so many groups of people in the University community, said Harry Gooder, a microbiology from page 1 before his failing health restricted him. "If you knew him as a colleague, as a student or as a friend, you knew him as a warm and caring man," Carson said. "He was supportive, encouraging, and I believe, approving (of the BOG)." After the tribute, the board ded icated a standing moment of silence to Coates' memory. The board also approved a recom mendation to establish a capital improvements project for Horace Williams Airport. The project will include the resurfacing of the entire runway and new runway markings, and will cost an estimated $324,600, said Wayne Corpening, chairman of the Committee on Budget and Finance. The project will be funded by $200,000 from the General Admin istration and an additional $124,600 from non-appropriated trust funds available to the University, he said. The BOG also proposed legislation to the N.C. General Assembly chang ing the governance of N.C. Memorial Hospital. The NCMH Board of Trustees has no limit on the number of successive terms an appointed member may serve, and the hospital requests a more regular basis for the replace ment of members, said David Whi chard, chairman of the Committee on University Governance. The bill would require that members of the hospital board serve no more than three four-year unin terrupted terms, Whichard said. The bill also proposes to change the name of the hospital to "The University of North Carolina Hospital," he said. professor. "You're trying to develop a set of rules to apply to all of them," he said. "It won't work." Employees need to have direct access to their parking spaces without having to take a bus, Gooder said. "If the school calls and says your child is sick, you have to leave then," he said. "You can't wait for a bus to take you to a lot." Hardin said he was pleased with the forum. "It was extremely helpful to me," he said. "I took a lot of notes." Garland Hershey, vice chancellor of health affairs and chairman of the ad hoc committee, said he thought the forum was very productive. "We heard a number of good ideas," he said. "Most of them weVe talked about before, but there were some new ones. We will consider all of them." Supreme Court chief justice orders delay of North's trial From Associated Press reports WASHINGTON The chief justice of the Supreme Court on Sunday ordered a delay in the start of the Iran-contra trial of Oliver North to give the full court a chance to consider the case. Chief Justice William Rehn quist, in a brief order telephoned to news organizations by court spokeswoman Toni House, set a hearing for next Friday on issues raised in briefs filed Saturday by the Justice Department and the special prosecutor in the case. That Friday is the day the court had scheduled its first regular business meeting since its winter break. The order came as government sources said the Justice Depart ment was working with prosecu tors in an effort to reach a com promise that would allow the trial to proceed without delay. Presidential summit under way SAN SALVADOR, El Salva dor Five presidents of Central America bring varied agendas to a long-postponed summit Mon day, with Nicaragua hoping to destroy contra guerrillas and the others pushing Managua to democratize. After six months of delays, Oscar Arias of Costa Rica, Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, Jose Azcona Hoyo of Honduras and Vinicio Cerezo of Guatemala will join host Jose Napoleon Duarte. They want to resuscitate a stalled regional peace process, with Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government apparently in position to gain most. News in Brief The chief executives will analyze :. the effects of the peace plan, which they signed in August 1987. Called the Arias Plan after its author, the ' plan was designed to bring peace and promote democracy in the. turbulent region. A summit last August was to mark the anniversary of the plan's signing, but the presidents, who last met 13 months ago, could nof' agree on an agenda. The meeting''' has been scheduled, only to be'' postponed, five times since then. Marcos seriously ill MANILA, Philippines The prospect that Ferdinand Marcos may soon die presents his succes-1 sor, Corazon Aquino, with the unpalatable decision of whether to - let him return home. I It also has led to speculation about who will lead Marcos. followers upon his death. The former president has been ' hospitalized in Honolulu since Jan. 16 and last week suffered a '. relapse of pneumonia and bron-' chial asthma. He remains in'.' critical condition on a respirator in an intensive care unit. Supporters of the 71 -year-old Marcos say he is dying and wants to return to the country he ruled for 20 years until he was ousted in 1986 in a popular uprising. Aquino has repeatedly banned'.' Marcos from returning, citing security concerns, but she allowed' a Filipino official to travel to the United States to talk with Marcos representatives. 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Buy one ticket to a PerformingArts Series Event, get one FREE! i &mmmm (MSIUMKP Monday, February 13 8:00 PM Memorial Hall Tickets: $16 (All Seats Reserved) K" ' -:'f 5"' rv sJ r- ! a-' ! s r n , " i . p . iL-? 5 "i.f 5 -r 'i 1 'V i 7- mimmm Mon., Feb. 27 8:00 PM Memorial Hall Tickets: $16 (All Seats Reserved) the TOKYO StringQuartet Sun., March 5 8:00 PM Memorial Hall Tickets: $12 (All Seats Reserved) FEBRUARY 15 8:00 PM Sarah Levin & Jamie tocf acoustic guitar & vocal FEBRUARY 16 8:00 PM poetry reading with All' Arte & Cellar Door FEBRUARY 17 9:30 PM BOTH m s rn DES FEBRUARY 18 8:00 PM TALENT NIGHT at the Cabaret Information available Feb. 1. Room 200 Student Union the i cornel Is SATURDAY MARCH 4 9:00 PM MEMORIAL HALL, UNC Tickets: UNC Students $8 General $9 Day of Show $11 ALL TICKETS AVAIL ABLE AT THE UNION BOX OFFICE 962 1449 Ml ami mm Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You. Wednesday-Sunday February 22-26 in the Union Cabaret Tickets: $3 UNC Students, $5 General at the Union Desk 1117 rasps ill Mi I TWO FREE CONCERTS 8:00 PM MEMORIAL HALL Friday, Feb. 24 Saturday, Feb. 25 Ketch Quartet UNC Jazz Band with guest artists Bill Kircbner& Claudio Roditi ' March 29-April 1 in the Union Cabaret WHYMENABETHEWAY THEYAIUL Alecture & workshop by WARREN FARREL WED., FEB. 15 7:00 PM GREAT HALL t m hin win: s7;mu

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