2The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, October 10, 1989
World and Nation
Opposition leader calls for dialo
gye
From Associated Press reports
BERLIN An East German oppo
sition leader said Monday that unless
the government eases its policies, vio
lence may increase in the communist
nation, where police clubbed pro-democracy
protesters in six cities over the
weekend.
' The Rev. Rainer Eppelmann, a Lu
theran pastor in East Berlin, said the
doctrinaire regime must "talk with the
people about their wishes and needs."
West Germany's ARD television
said many of the hundreds arrested
over the weekend already had been
sentenced to jail terms of up to six
months.
Weekend protests coincided with the
visit of Mikhail Gorbachev, the reform
minded Soviet president, for East
Germany's40th anniversary. They were
the biggest street demonstrations in East
Germany since Soviet tanks put down a
workers' uprising in 1953.
Church sources said a participant in
a demonstration last week was run over
by a train and lost both his legs.
Saechsische Zeitung, a government
daily in Dresden, has said a person was
"seriously injured" when thousands of
people tried to board freedom trains
that passed through Dresden carrying
East German refugees from Czecho
slovakia to the West.
West Germany's government pro
tested police harassment of journalists
covering the weekend demonstrations.
Police broke several cameras and or
dered some photographers and televi
sion crews out of the country.
Chancellor Helmut Kohl denounced
the East German government Monday
as "rigidly authoritarian."
Up to 15,000 pro-democracy activ
ists held a sit-in Sunday evening in
Dresden, and thousands of others pro
tested in East Berlin, Leipzig, Potsdam,
Jena, Plauen and Karl-Marx-Stadt over
the weekend.
Witnesses said police used dogs and
clubs to disperse peaceful demonstra
tors. Junge Welt, the Communist Party
youth newspaper, said the "gang of
Western news reporters" stirred up the
protests.
Eppelmann, speaking in an inter
view with RIAS radio of West Berlin,
said Monday, "If the state does not send
a clear signal soon and talk with the
people about their wishes and needs, an
escalation is possible. There is fear in
the GDR (East Germany) that violence
Debate
could soon reign."
The clergyman, a leader of Demokra
tische Aufbruch (Democratic Awaken
ing), is among those urging the country's
increasingly restless young people to
be calm.
Officials in West Berlin said West
era tourists were allowed into East
Berlin on Monday. They had been kept
out since Thursday because of the
anniversary celebrations.
Extra police patrols were visible
throughout the divided city's eastern
sector.
Tens of thousands of East Germans
have fled to West Germany in recent
weeks in the largest exodus since the
Berlin Wall was built in 1961. Many of
those remaining hope Gorbachev will
persuade their government to under
take political and economic reforms.
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Chemicals to engage in an on-campus
debate on the use of Agent Orange, a
chemical produced by Dow, if the
company was to continue to recruit
students on campus.
"We feel very confident that we're
standing on precedent," CIAAC mem
ber Graham Entwistle said. "We feel
we have a very fair proposal."
Boulton will make Chancellor Paul
Hardin aware of the CIAAC's inability
to engage the CIA in debate, he said.
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Boulton said he thought requests for a
debate were not unreasonable.
"I would certainly hope that there
would be "a portion of the CIA that
could come out and tell what their side
of the story is."
Boulton said he would "be glad to
help" and would support the group's
efforts. "I'm disappointed that there is
no one to come to the campus and help
in the understanding process. I hope we
can get it done."
In the event of a debate, Lewis Pitts
of the Christie Institute South will
support the CIAAC's side of the issue.
In the past, Pitts has been active in
investigating the CIA, Entwistle said.
"We know from past history that the
CIA will not debate former agents, so
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we've got Pitts."
A debate would not produce any
definite answers, but would help make
students more aware of the CIA's ac
tivities, Entwistle said.
"With it being an emotional issue,
we don't expect any clear-cut answers.
But we do want everybody who wants
the CIA to interview on campus to
know what dogs they're sleeping with."
CIAAC member Jerry Jones said he
hoped the administration would back
the group. "The administration ought
to take the moral high ground. We're
expecting the University to do the right
thing."
The CIAAC formed two years ago to
protest the CIA's on-campus recruit
ment of UNC students. The group has
held several protests against the CIA,
some of which have resulted in arrests
and honor court charges. .
Cubs playoffs Nobel payoff
for cancer gene researchers
From Associated Press reports
SAN FRANCISCO Two Uni
versity of California cancer research
ers won the Nobel Prize in medicine
Monday and immediately reaped the
perquisites of success: box seats at
the National League baseball play
offs. "We're off to the game just got
tickets," a jubilant Michael Bishop
said shortly after he and Harold
Varmus learned that they had won
this year's prize.
The 50-member Nobel Assembly
of the Karolinska Institute, Sweden's
largest and oldest medical univer
sity, cited Bishop and Varmus for
their discovery that cancer genes in
certain viruses are altered forms of
normal animal genes.
The research helped scientists
understand how cancer begins, and it
"widened our insight into the com
plicated signal systems which gov
ern the normal growth of cells," the
assembly said.
Varmus called the research a
"cornerstone in understanding the
genetic mosaic of cancer."
State representative under fire
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. A first
term state representative and physi
cian is in the center of Florida's
abortion storm this week because he's
the only legislator who performs
abortions, making him a lightning
rod for protests. Ben Graber even
gets hate mail.
"They need something to marshal
their forces around," he said of abor
tion opponents. The obstetrician
gynecologist's Pompano Beach
women's clinic drew a raucous
demonstration Saturday, three days
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before the state Legislature was to
begin a special session on abortion
called by Gov. Bob Martinez.
"They were frustrated by the
(Florida) Supreme Court decision.
They decided to make me the target,
an ideal situation with the legislative
session coming up," Graber said
Monday.
The state Supreme Court last week
cited the state privacy law to strike
down a 1 988 statute requiring minors
to get parental consent for abortion,
uphold a woman's unrestricted right
to abortion in the first trimester and
emphasize individual privacy rights
in abortion decision-making.
NEA to get new chairman
WASHINGTON The National
Endowment for the Arts, shaken by a
conservative furor over subsidizing
"obscene art," is getting a new chair
man this week who promises to strike
a balance between free-wheeling
artistic freedom and respect for the
public's trust.
"We are not the nation's official
pornographer, and it's important that
the country know that," said John
Frohnmayer, a 47-year-old lawyer
from Portland, Ore., who takes com
mand of the beleaguered arts endow
ment Tuesday.
Nonetheless, some members of the
cultural community are expressing
fear that the bitter controversy over
the endowment's role in financing
controversial art might undermine
future support for bold, innovative
and unpopular ventures.
Funds
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budgets in the spring," Buchenau said.
"The budgets were discussed separately.
The order was determined by random
drawing. Groups usually ask for more
than we have."
The budget is presented to the con
gress as one bill, but contains as many
articles as there are groups requesting
funds. Each article gets a separate vote,
and one of three things can happen: The
congress can accept the Finance
Committee's recommendation; the
representative of the group can request
more money; or a congress member
can call to give the group less money
than requested.
"The final budget is usually below
the proposed budget," Buchenau said.
"Usually additional cuts are proposed
in congress. Last year the groups asked
for $175,000. The congress spent
$155,000."
The surplus money increased in May
when the money allocated that had not
been spent reverted back to the con
gress. Buchenau said the congress
started with $50,000 to $60,000 this
fall.
Groups that didn't make the budget
deadline last spring or who want to
request additional funds can now apply
for money. Groups that do not meet the
nonpartisan qualification to receive
money can get money from the execu
tive branch of the student government,
which receives a donation from the
congress.
"Donations are a trick on the treas
ury laws," said Buchenau. "We appro
priate funds to the executive and tell
them to appropriate the funds to the
group."
Esposito said more groups would
probably submit requests for money.
"We'll continue to appropriate
money until we have no more money."
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