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"There is very little chance of having a Flag-burning issue continues By EMILIE VAN POUCKE Staff Writer Conflict between protectors of the American flag and defenders of the Bill of Rights continues since the U.S. Senate defeated a proposed constitutional amendment to prohibit flag burning. "Our position is that basically this is one more attempt of the Republi can Party to wrap themselves in the American flag at the expense of the Constitution," said Amy Isaacs, na tional director of Americans for Democratic Action. Some amendment supporters contend "What is wrong with letting the people decide whether this na tion should protect the honor of the American flag under which so many fought and sacrificed?" Sen. Jesse Domestic By KYLE YORK SPENCER ; Staff Writer The N.C. General Assembly will fund North Carolina's 61 domestic violence centers with $2 million over the next two years, according to a press ; release from the Legislative Services Office. The program of "equal grant sup port," which began in 1987 providing ; 56 domestic violence centers with equal ; funding, will provide each center with ; $15,000 for the 1989-90 fiscal year, i Because domestic violence centers For Halloween Costumes!! Jones Ferry Rd. C Carrdoro JQ 967-1272 Store Hours: BotH Stores No SaIes-CarrIkro Hiurs, 12 FTA THRIFT SHOP Greatest JXNJB Celebration Values! 100 Cotton Twill Fashion Pleated Slacks Comfortable Great Looking Casual Wear BEST EVER Black Olive Khaki Remember to Register for Saturday's Drawings of Great Gifts! 1MB HUB of 103 E. Franklin Street 929-0343 . X Earn A iff J? Receive $20.00 TODAY on your first donation as a new or returning plasma donor with this ad! .CALL 942-0251 SERA-TEC BIQLOSICAIS 109 V2 E. FRANKUN ST. ixiuse wiiu nave not uonaicu wiuim we past yu uaysjjjM l l major earthquake like the one that hit California occur here." The chances, although very slim, are still not zero, he said. Some quakes have been felt in the western part of the state within the past decade but were too weak to do noticeable damage. "The most frequent activity is re ported in a small pocket south of Asheville and in eastern Tennessee," said UNC geology professor Robert Butler. "Some of the quakes measured close to 5.0 (on the Richter scale), but most aren't even felt." The Richter scale measures the amount of ground motion caused by an earthquake. Each increment of one whole number, such as going from 5.0 to 6.0, denotes an increase in the energy Helms, R-N.C, said to Congress. The pro-amendment group won the majority during last Thursday's vote but lacked the necessary two-thirds of senators present. The count was 5 1-48 with 33 Republicans and 18 Democrats for the amendment, and 1 1 Republi cans and 37 Democrats against it. President Bush's call for an amend ment began after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Gregory Lee, who was being prosecuted under a Texas flag burning law. The Supreme Court main tained the law violated Johnson's con stitutional right to free speech under the First Amendment. The Supreme Court equated flag burning with speech because it reflects a political attitude. "The strip of cloth is not words on paper, it is not words spoken," said violence centers to receive $2 have received increased media atten tion over the past few years, there is a continual increase in the number of women and children who seek help, said Joanna Parker, director of advo cacy and community education at the OrangeDurham Coalition for Battered Women. There is a need to expand services, and in dealing with this in crease the General Assembly will allot an additional $17,500 in grants for the 1990-91 fiscal year. To receive the grant, centers must meet certain standards, such as provid- sgOroy? Headquarters Kroqer PLaza Chapel Hill 942-6101 8:X) am-5:00 dm - 9; Kroqer Fri. 12-5 All profits go to the ChapelHM' Carrboro Schools. 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She was told she had to take the arm band off or be expelled from school. The Court ruled in favor of Tinker. The Senate did pass a statute that amends the Texas law banning flag burning. The new statute focuses on the act of burning, not the place of the burning, the desecration or mutilation of the flag or the expression of political contempt. "Remarkably, I think that people feel that to tamper with the First Amend ment is a drastic thing to do, so they ing a hotline, transportation services and community education programs. Before 1987 the General Assembly appropriated a lump sum of money for domestic violence centers. The funds went to the Council On The Status Of Women, which was in charge of allo cating the money to each center. The unified approach alleviates dis sension among the centers, and pre vents competition for funds, Parker said. The bill appears to be a response to individual center demands for state financial aid, Parker said. The General Assembly was faced with two other similar bills. One involved the Domes tic Violence Shelter and Services of The Cape Fear Area Inc. The shelter re quested $100,000 in state funds. The other involved a Swain County center that requested $10,000 in aid. Both bills were rejected. Guerrilla violence rocks Colombian towns From Associated Press reports BOGOTA, Colombia Leftist guerrillas armed with mortars and auto matic weapons stormed two northeast ern towns Wednesday in Colombia's worst rebel violence since 1987. Initial reports from helicopter crews who retrieved the dead indicated five Assumable Payments as low as $58850 Special Financing: 8 12 fixed for three years with 10 down. From $76,000 Limited number of rentals available for summer and fall. 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While most of these faults are inactive today, some such as the one present in New Madrid and one that runs beneath Charleston are capable of causing some activity. as Senate want to try the statute route," said Rich ard Richardson, chairman of the UNC political science department. The proponents of the Texas statute, Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., and the Senate Judiciary Committee, have reshaped the amendment so it will be similar to the federal statutes forbid ding the burning of draft cards. The Supreme Court ruled those stat utes constitutional in United States vs. O'Brien (1968). The Court decided O'Brien interfered with Congress's conduction and regulation of the draft when he burned his card. "Suppose there is an ordinance that disallows burning in Chapel Hill's city streets," Van Alstyne said. "Because the law does not make references to desecration, the act of burning an ob ject is illegal whether you burn a copy Most state centers receive other fi nancial aid from county governments, other state and federal grants and the United Way, said Jo Sanders, director of the Family Violence and Rape Crisis Services of Chatham County. In Chatham County the center also re ceives funding from the school board, fund raising and "offender fees," the cost of an eight-week program for men who beat their wives. In the past year, North Carolina's centers for domestic violence treated 22,000 patients. Domestic violence includes wife beating and child abuse. Because North Carolina's domestic violence centers' provide most of the same programs, one center can be used as an example of services offered by the state. The OrangeDurham Coalition for Battered Women has been open for 12 years and offers five component policemen and one guerrilla were killed and nine policemen wounded, the army reported. Military spokesmen said the attack ers apparently were from the National Liberation Army, a group led by a defrocked Roman Catholic priest who patterns his insurgency on the teach- t .A.'l. Chapel Hill Realty Mike Beam 942-4147 IOPPE loans! n i geologists "North Carolina has hundreds of faults running throughout the state, including one located in Chapel Hill," Folio said, "But just about all, includ ing the one in Chapel Hill, are inac tive." If an earthquake did occur on the East Coast, a larger area would be af fected due to the nature of the rock present in the earth's crust, he said. The rock is harder in content and transfers ground tremors farther and more effi ciently than the softer rock found in California. "A greater number of metropolitan cities would be affected by a major quake in the East, and a lot of damage could be anticipated," Folio said. The N.C. Emergency Management rejects amendment of the flag, a copy of the Constitution or a copy of the Bible." The Judiciary Committee's statute will have a better chance of surviving constitutional scrutiny than the Texas law because the Supreme Court is more sensitive to Congress, Richardson said. "In other instances the court has given signals that it will back away if Con gress will give some sort of firm posi tion. The Court rarely declares national acts unconstitutional." The question of amendment or stat ute divides legislators supporting limi tations on flag burning. One group contests that an amendment weakens the Bill of Rights and infringes the rights of the American people. s "With various constitutional amend ments we have strengthened the free doms and rights of the people in Amer million in state funds programs: The Advocacy program is run by 50 active volunteers who provide coun seling, information and referrals. The Community Education Pro gram focuses on public awareness. The CHANGE program provides counseling for the abuser. The Support Group, which began a year and a half ago, meets weekly to provide "rap sessions" for women suf fering with domestic violence. The shelter houses up to 20 women and children at a time and provides emergency housing for battered fami lies. While available programs offer much support for abused women and chil dren, many specialists still feel that services must be expanded and aware ness must be increased. In order to fully combat the problem society needs to ings of Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Wednesday's raids apparently were not related to the government war on drug traffickers that began Aug. 19. The army has claimed for seven years, without proof, that some leftist guerrillas and drug traffickers work in tandem. It has had difficulty supporting the claim because right-wing death squads financed by the cocaine barons have killed hundreds of the guerrillas' sup porters. More than 700 members of the leftist Patriotic Union party alone have been killed by death squads that began oper ating six years ago, after guerrillas kidnapped a drug trafficker's sister and a $10 million ransom was paid. On Wednesday, about 60 men and women invaded Cachira, a town of 15,000 people 250 miles northeast of Bogota, at 1 a.m. and destroyed the police station with mortar fire, said a statement from divisional army head quarters in Bucaramanga. Two policemen and a guerrilla were killed and four policemen were wounded during five hours of fighting in Cachira, said the statement broad cast by the Caracol radio network. Police reinforcements arriving along a dirt road at 6 a.m. were ambushed by THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL and CHANCELLOR PAUL HARDIN invite you to a public lecture by one of our distinguished young scholars DR. KERRY S. BLOOM Associate Professor of Biology The Nature of Chromosomes'' WINNER OF THE 1989 PHILLIP AND RUTH HETTLEMAN PRIZE FOR ARTISTIC AND SCHOLARLY ACHIEVEMENT in the Faculty Lounge, Morehead Planetarium Tuesday, October 31, at 4 pm. Please join us for a reception to follow say team is ready in case the unexpected quake happens. "Emergency Management is ready in the event of any type of emergency," said Graham Wilson, director of public affairs for N.C. Crime Control and Public Safety. "Whether it be hurri canes, tornadoes, nuclear emergencies or even earthquakes, our set procedure is the same. "The state Emergency Response team is activated by Emergency Man agement and is given full power to call on any source, such as the Highway Patrol or Red Cross, for help." he said. "We then monitor the situation from our nerve center in Raleigh and keep up-to-date with the latest develop ments," ica, but we have never set out to diminish those rights," Sen. Terry Sanford, D-N.C, said to Congress. 'Today we are talking about the right to protest the right to protest against the government." Another group interprets flag burning as an offense to American democracy, not a protected form of speech. "Since that dark day (the Supreme Court's ruling) in June, a flood of self-anointed 'legal scholars' and self-proclaimed guardians of the Bill of Rights have praised those five jus tices for their bewildering 'contribu tion' to political discourse pre cisely what we have come to expect of people locked in ivory towers insulated from reality," Helms said. change its attitude about household crimes, Parker said. She said that courts were too lenient on household abusers and that they did not treat their offenses as crimes because they intimately know the victim. Courts need to impose higher fines and increase the length of sen tences for abusers, she said. "Violence is sanctioned and glori fied. Men feel it's OK to use violence to get what they want." Renee Stephens, director of the N.C. Coalition Against Domestic Violence, said society sees domestic violence as a race and class problem when it is not. But poorer women who seek help are more likely to seek public help, while wealthier women who seek help tend to have increased resources. They are less likely to seek public assistance, she said. the guerrillas, who killed three more officers and wounded three, the state ment said. Another band of guerrillas tried unsuccessfully to overrun the police station at La Vega, about 15 miles from Cachira, and two policemen were wounded in a seven-hour battle, the army statement reported. It said the raiders left pamphlets and wall graffiti in both towns indicating they were from the National Liberation Army led by Manuel Perez, the de frocked priest. His group has become the most ac tive of a half-dozen guerrilla organiza tions and has blown holes in Colombia's biggest oil pipeline several times. Perez organized it in 1960 and is believed to have about 2,000 followers. Army reports said his guerrillas dynamited a power line and killed two peasants accused of being informants Tuesday, and shot down a helicopter carrying about $84,000 to a government-owned farmers' bank Saturday, killing the pilot and a bank employee. The rebel violence Wednesday was the worst since guerrillas raided an average of one town a week two years ago and more than 50 people were killed in one month.
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