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Chapel Hill nmayor derides court finding
From Associated Press reports
Mayor Jonathan Howes is so
dissatisfied with a state Court of
Appeals ruling in a development case
involving Chapel Hill that he may
seek legislation to counteract the
decision.
The ruling in a lawsuit brought by
Dierdre Batch obligates towns to go
through a five-step process to justify
certain requirements placed on a
development if the developer objects
to the requirements.
The new procedure ordered by the
court involves showing that develop
ment requirements imposed by the
town are directly related to the
development itself. Examples of
town-imposed development require
ments include giving the town a street
right-of-way, or land for a park or
utility easement.
Town Manager David Taylor said
the rules could conceivably require
the town to go through the five-step
process to legitimize each of 30
conditions in a development
application.
Howes called the ruling "a heavy
and undue burden on this council
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and, presumably, on every other
council in this state."
"Apparently there's some public
purpose in ail of this," Howes said,
"but I'm not clear on what it is."
S&L crisis blamed on crime
WASHINGTON White-collar
crimes, not poor economic conditions
or deregulation, are the root cause
of the savings and loan crisis, con
gressional auditors said Wednesday.
The General Accounting Office
(GAO) told the House Judiciary
Committee's criminal justice subcom
mittee that it had examined 26
insolvent thrift institutions in eight
states and found evidence of fraud
or abusive insider dealing in each.
While the survey was skewed to
S&Ls with the worst problems, the
26 represented 60 percent of the total
losses sustained by the government's
insurance fund from 1985 through
1987. The pattern of fraud and abuse
among all failed thrifts "clearly is
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North Carolina feeDs strike effects
By TOM PARKS
Staff Writer
N.C. travelers, airports and travel
agencies have been hit by the strike
against Eastern Airlines, but the
wounds are not as deep as in hubs
like Atlanta, according to airport and
company officials.
All Eastern Airlines flights have
been suspended in North Carolina,
according to an Eastern employee in
Charlotte who declined to be
identified. .
Before the strike, Eastern had only
nine departing flights at Raleigh
Durham Airport (RDU), Teresa
Damiano of the Raleigh-Durham
Airport Authority said Wednesday.
Six of the flights were to Atlanta and
three were to New York.
"At least three other carriers serve
those cities," she said.
Eastern's Machinist union went on
strike March 4 and was joined by
Eastern's pilots and flight attendants.
Eastern filed for Chapter 1 1 protec
tion and bankruptcy reorganization
March 9.
Patricia Jones, an employee with
Eastern's corporate communications
Local stores poll suspect fruit from shelves
By CRAIG ALLEN
Staff Writer
Recent scares about the quality of
fruit available to consumers may
make finding certain produce difficult
and leave area stores smarting from
the economic loss caused by the '
produce scares, according to govern
ment and company officials.
The recent U.S. Food & Drug
Administration (FDA) ban of fruits
exported from Chile came after an
inspector in Philadelphia found two
grapes laced with cyanide.
According to Dan Stiko, a spokes
man for the FDA, the agency imme
diately issued a warning to consumers
and recommended that all super
markets pull Chilean produce from
the shelves.
The FDA is continuing a close
inspection of all berry fruits, pears
and nectarines now in U.S. ware
houses and ports and is slowly
allowing the fruits to return to
markets, Stiko said.
"Once a lot (shipment) is cleared,
it's eligible to be back on the mar
ketplace," Stiko said. Stiko also said
the burden of inspection will fall on
the consumer. If consumers find
strange holes or crystalline or
powdery substances on their fruit,
they should throw it out, he said.
Area stores, like Kroger in Chapel
Hill, have followed the FDA's advice
and pulled all Chilean fruit. '
James Crawford, an employee at
Kroger, said the store has had many
calls from customers, asking where
Kroger buys its fruit. The store also
pervasive," GAO officials said.
"The huge losses which will ulti
mately be passed to the nation's
taxpayers," estimated at $100 billion
to $150 billion, "did not come about
primarily because of economic con
ditions or deregulation," Assistant
GAO Comptroller General Frederick
Wolf told the subcommittee.
"The bulk of the losses are directly
attributable to the failure by manage
ment of a minority of the industry
to follow basic, prudent business
practices, including the establishment
of effective systems of internal
control," Wolf said.
Asked if that is a crime, Wolf said
violation of fiduciary responsibilites
to operate in a sound manner is
clearly a criminal issue.
The subcommittee's chairman,
Rep. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y.,
complained that of the 11,000 S&L
cases the Federal Home Loan Bank
Board has referred to the Justice
Department for criminal prosecution
in the last two years, less than 200
have resulted in convictions.
"Ten billion dollars would go a
long way to housing the homeless,
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"Eastern's situation is so confusing
that nobody knows what the game is"
Susan Sheffield, travel agent
office, said 111 Eastern flights flew
Tuesday. Eastern had a pre-strike
schedule of 1 ,040 daily flights.
Maria Catlett of Small World
Travel Agency on Franklin Street
said Eastern's move "caught quite a
few spring breakers" last week. One
group of four had to cancel their trip,
and a couple on their honeymoon
who planned to fly Eastern had to
pay almost twice their planned cost
to get other tickets.
Catlett said Small World, which
did a "fair amount" of business with
Eastern, has a stack of Eastern
tickets, and they are waiting to find
out where to send them to get refunds.
The strike has not caused much
trouble for Travel With Us, a Dur
ham travel agency, according to agent
Susan Sheffield. The company did
not do a large amount of its business
with Eastern, she said.
" would say that it ( the scare ) has
helped our sales. In the community,
people expect us to be a leader"
Simcha Weinstein, manager of
Weaver Street Market
sent any questionable produce back
to the suppliers to receive a refund.
Crawford also said the store has
been looking for substitutes for the
banned produce, but the availability
of substitutes is largely determined by
the weather.
All Food Lion stores have pulled
any questionable fruit from the
shelves and plan to wait for the FDA
to approve the sale of fruit before the
stores offer them again, a spokesman
for Food Lion said.
Food Lion also sent produce back
to its suppliers, and officials at Food
Lion said they predict some loss for
their company but expect most of that
to be covered by the companies who
supply Chilean fruit.
E.S. Dunn, a spokesman for the
Harris Teeter central office in Char
lotte, said Harris Teeter has also
pulled all Chilean fruit from the
shelves.
Dunn said that Harris Teeter did
suffer an economic loss because of
the Chilean produce scare, but it was
feeding the poor, educating the
public, caring for the sick," Schumer
said. "Instead it has been wasted on
lavish parties, jets, real estate, travel
and meals at the expense of
taxpayers." 1
Wage compromise offered
WASHINGTON The House on
Wednesday debated legislation to
raise the minimum wage, with Demo
crats who long have sought an
increase praising President Bush for
supporting a raise but saying the
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Some of that agency's clients also
have applied for refunds for Eastern
tickets, she said.
"Eastern's situation is so confusing
that nobody knows what the game
is," Sheffield said.
One company that booked group
trips, Flyfare, has gone out of
business as a direct result of the strike,
Sheffield said. The company, which
dealt heavily with Eastern, operated
out of the Northeast.
Eastern's ticket office at RDU has
closed until further notice, Sheffield
said. Eastern's local sales office and
the Raleigh ticket office have also
closed.
John Braden, director of market
ing and public relations at Atlanta
Hartsfield International Airport, said
8,000 Eastern employees in Atlanta
have lost their jobs.
"There are a lot of people out of
minimal. The sale of Chilean fruit
amounts to about one-half of one
percent of the company's total sales.
For this reason, measuring the loss
for the Harris Teeter corporation is
difficult.
"We suffered some loss, but it
measured in the thousands of dol
lars," Dunn said. .,
Dunn also said the ban has been
lifted, and Harris Teeter expects to
have fresh fruits back on the shelves
by this weekend.
Daminozide, sold under the name
Alar a chemical sprayed on apples
to make them firmer has also
produced a scare in the produce
market dating back to a report by
the National Resource Defense .
Council (NRDC).
The NRDC report said that a
breakdown chemical of Alar was
carcinogenic and was found on apples
at levels up to 100 times the accep
table standard set by the Environ
mental Protection Agency.
This information has prompted
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amount he has suggested is too low.
"It is the first positive sign of
cooperation on this issue that we have
seen in eight years between the White
House and the Congress," said Rep.
Austin Murphy, D-Pa., who man
aged the floor debate for the Demo
crats. "Democrats and Republicans
have made an honest effort to work
out our differences."
The Democratic-controlled
chamber is expected to vote on the
measure Thursday.
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work," he said. "That's the major
impact on Atlanta."
Eastern was the second busiest
airline at the airport, Braden said.
Before the strike, Eastern carried 580
of the airport's 2,200 daily flights.
Now Eastern is not flying in or out
of Atlanta at all, he said.
American Airlines has not seen a
significant increase in business at
RDU because of the Eastern strike,
spokesman Ed Stewart said.
While American has been busy, it
is expected because of spring break
traffic, Stewart said.
"It's been business as usual,"
Stewart said, "We expected heavy
loads in that part of the world (spring
break destinations). It was going to
be busy strike or no strike."
Eastern is not operating at Pied
mont Triad Airport, which serves
Greensboro, High Point and
Winston-Salem, or at Charlotte
Douglas International Airport,
according to airport officials.
Eastern had only seven daily flights
out of 435 total flights to and from
Charlotte, according to the airport's
February transportation report.
many school systems nationwide to
ban apples and apple products from
their lunchroom menus.
According to Stiko, a 1985 report
by the government has shown the
NRDC report to be false. He also
said the 1988 apple crop was at least
95 percent Alar-free.
Supermarkets are responding to
the Alar scare, however.
Dunn said the Alar problem was
first brought to the attention of the
company in 1986. At that time, Harris
Teeter discontinued any sales of
apples using Alar and obtained
affidavits stating that the company's
apple juice was Alar-free.
Weaver Street Market of Carrboro
has not lost any money from the Alar
scare, according to Simcha Wein
stein, a manager at the market.
The Weaver Street Market prides
itself as one of the only markets in
its area that offers organic or
pesticide-free produce, Weinstein
said. Because the market offers
organic produce, consumers have
treated the market as an information
source about Alar and other pesti
cides, she said.
"I would say (the scare) has helped
our sales," Weinstein said. "In the
community, people expect us to be
a leader."
Weaver Street Market also lost no
revenue from the Chilean fruit scare.
The market, in protest of the Pinochet
government in Chile, carries no
Chilean fruit. But, Weinstein said,
finding non-Chilean fruit can be
difficult at this time of the year.
The legislation would raise the
minimum wage from its current level
of $3.35 an hour to $4.65 by 1992,
but Murphy plans to offer an amend
ment Thursday scaling back the final
target to $4.55.
That amendment, drafted by
Murphy with the support of the
House leadership, would also tack
onto the Democratic bill a provision
allowing employers to pay new
entrants into the job market a sub
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