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Volume 98, Issue 10
Friday, March 9, 1990
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Gorbachev asks payment
for Lithuanian secession
MOSCOW President Mikhail
Gorbachev has demanded that Lithu
ania pay the Kremlin billions in hard
currency if the republic goes ahead
with its plan to secede from the Soviet
Union, the Baltic republic's president
says.
The demand for compensation came
in a meeting with Lithuania's presi
dent, Algirdas Brazauskas, ahead of an
expected weekend vote on secession in
the republic's parliament.
Vilnius Radio put the figure at $34
billion, saying the money would cover
investments Moscow has made in Lithu
ania since forcibly annexing it in 1940.
Lithuanian nationalists say the Krem
lin has it backward, and should pay
them for a half-century of exploitation.
Brazauskas, who also heads the
republic's breakaway Communist
Party, told Lithuanian television
Wednesday night that there was no
need "to frighten ourselves and others"
about the consequences of secession.
Poindexter accused of
dishonesty as trial begins
WASHINGTON John Poindex
ter lied to Congress and ripped up a key
presidential document to "rewrite the
history of the Iran-Contra affair," a
prosecutor declared Thursday in the
opening argument of Poindexter's trial.
Prosecutor Dan Webb also told ju
rors that Oliver North, Poindexter's
former aide, will testify that "he lied
and he lied and he lied" to Congress on
Poindexter's instructions.
As the proceedings got under way,
U.S. District Court Judge Harold Greene
dealt the defense a setback, ruling that
the prosecution could put North on the
stand and ask him about Poindexter
destroying the finding. The judge sug
gested that North had changed his story
on that subject since his trial last year.
The case is about "coverup, decep
tion and concealment," Webb told the
jurors who will decide on the five fel
ony charges facing the retired Navy
rear admiral who served as President
Reagan's top adviser on national secu
rity matters from late 1 985 to late 1 986.
Poindexter and National Security
Council aide 01 i ver North tried to cover
up a 1985 shipment of U.S. arms to Iran
and the diversion of profits to the Nica-
raguan rebels to "avoid tarnishment of
the Reagan administration," Webb said
Haitians protest slaying
of girl in demonstration
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -
Thousands of demonstrators streamed
, into the capital Thursday and set up
flaming tire barricades to protest the
army's killing of a schoolgirl. One man
was killed when soldiers fired in the air,
About 3,000 people, shouting "Lib
erty!" and slogans against Haiti 's leader,
Lt. Gen. Prosper Avril, converged
downtown near the National Palace
after attending a memorial service on
the outskirts of the city for a schoolgirl
killed by the army Monday.
Businesses closed and people poured
into the streets pounding pots and pans,
garbage cans and metal poles after
students called a day of mourning for
.11 -year-old Roseline Vaval.
' ' ' She was shot by a soldier breaking
up a demonstration in Petit Goave, 30
miles west of Port-au-Prince.
From Associated Press reports
Garbage duty
Ten residents to advise selection of
landfill location 3
And the winner is ...
Duke wins the ACC (Atlantic Conva
lescent Conference) tournament... 6
Suited for sun
Variety's the name of the game for
this season's beach wear 6
Campus and city 3
Arts and features 6
Sports Friday 7
Classified .8
Comics 9
Men will
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One-vote margin, registration
By MYRON B. PITTS
Assistant University Editor
A presidential re-election may result
from a two-vote discrepancy and one-
vote margin of victory in Thursday
night's Black Student Movement
(BSM) elections.
The announcement of official elec
tion results was postponed, and the
BSM Central Committee will discuss
the outcome, including the possibility
First h.dj stresses family's role in.
By ERIC LUSK
Staff Writer
First lady Barbara Bush met with
regional education leaders and spoke at
a luncheon at the Kenan Center Thurs
day, following her visit to a pilot liter
acy program at a Henderson elemen
tary school.
Bush spoke briefly to a crowd of
about 250 people, including N.C. Gov.
Jim Martin, and praised the newly es
tablished Families In School Together
program (FIST) at Carver Elementary
School in Henderson.
"Families in School Together isn't
that what our children need to meet the
challenges and opportunities sweeping
our world?" Bush asked.
FIST is one of seven pilot programs
in North Carolina and Kentucky de
signed by the National Center for Family
Literacy in an effort to solve the nation's
illiteracy problems. The center, based
in Louisville, was established with a
grant from the William Kenan Chari
table Trust.
Bush said engaging the entire family
in literacy programs helped teach both
parents and children the value of know
ing how to read and write.
"When parents engage in learning,
they come to see learning as valuable
for their children. Then children be
come eager to learn when they see that
learning is something their parents
value.
"The parent-child relationship be
comes a partnership for success."
Bush said the family has always been
the most powerful influence on a child's
enthusiasm and capacity to learn.
"American families, sometimes
against tremendous odds, have instilled
in their children the love for learning.
The members of the National Center
for Fam i ly Literacy are working to bring
Davis Library typinj
rooms closed down
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By MELANIE BLACK
Staff Writer
The typing rooms in Davis Library
have been closed due to vandalism
and will not be reopened to the pub
lic, Brad Lamb, administrative assis
tant of Davis Library said.
These rooms will now be used as
closed carrels for faculty study. "Their
function has changed," Lamb said.
Robert James, library technical
assistant, said the demand for faculty
study rooms was increasing. This
trend, coupled with the fact that van
dalism in the library is worst in the
typing rooms, prompted the decision
to convert the rooms. The small tables
in the typing rooms are closer to the
wall, James said, and "as students get
closer to the wall, they tend to write
on it."
Lamb said the major problems the
library had experienced in these rooms
were writing on the wall, damaging
thermostats and knocking ceilings out.
Librarian James Govan agreed the
damage to the rooms was fairly se
vere. Jerry Pullium, construction and
maintenance supervisor of the UNC
Physical Plant, said repairs to the
typing rooms had been completed
within the last two weeks. The rooms
are still locked and have not yet been
assigned to faculty members, he said.
Lamb said that even though the
conversion of these rooms will limit
the space available to students, 32
group study rooms will remain open.
Two group study rooms are closed
now because of vandalism. James
estimated this number was consistent
with the average two to six study
rooms closed at any given time.
Lamb agreed with James' estimate
of closed study rooms and said the
rooms would be repaired as damage
listen to anything
of a re-election, in a March 19 meeting.
According to BSM President Tonya
Blanks and two members of the Central
Committee, the election results were
not announced because of a discrep
ancy between total voter registration
and ballots cast. Although 153 ballots
were cast, only 151 signatures of BSM
members appeared on registration
sheets.
The election for the two candidates,
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Gov. Jim Martin
that love alive in every American fam
ily." B ush al so prai sed the work of Sharon
Darling, the president of the National
van'
"It drains re
sources that
might be devoted
to other, more
useful things.
Money devoted to
this kind of thing
is a waste. "
James Govan,
librarian
occurs if the budget allows. The
library's recent budget cuts are
hampering repairs on the rooms, he
said. "If damage keeps reoccurring,
we will reassess whether or not the
rooms will be reopened."
No more than six rooms should be
closed at one time, Lamb said, but he
predicted that "with the budget
crunch, more may be closed by ex
ams." Govan said vandalism became a
problem at the library within six
months of its opening in 1984. "It
drains resources that might be de
voted to other, more useful things,"
he said. "Money devoted to this kind
of thing is a waste."
Exact figures on the cost of repairs
to the group study and typing rooms
were not available, but James esti
mated several thousand dollars have
been spent since the library's open
ing. if they think it's
dalisni
discrepancy slow announcement of results
sophomore Dana Lumsden from Bos
ton, and Sabrina Evans, a junior from
Brooklyn, N. Y., yielded a difference of
one vote, in Evans' favor.
Lisa Schaeffer, BSM secretary and a
Central Committee member, said the
small margin of victory coupled with
the voter discrepancy prompted the
decision to put the elections on hold.
"It was such a small margin. It came
down to one vote. There was a discrep
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makes a presentation to First lady Barbara Bush on her visit to address illiteracy and education
Center for Public Literacy, saying she
made the crucial connection between
parent and child learning before any
one else.
Departments consolidate
rape response procedures
By SUSIE KATZ
Staff Writer
Several University departments are
combining their rape response proce
dures in an effort to ensure that a rape
report from any single department
would be consistent with the policies of
related departments.
Kathleen Benzaquin, associate dean
of students, said, "Last fall, we put
together the Response Plan Task Force,
including representatives from the
departments on campus that deal with
any aspect of (helping) a student who
has been sexually assaulted."
The aims of the task force are to
make sure that all of the groups will
have consistent information to give to
rape victims and to make sure that
everyone knows who to contact for
help in a confidential manner, Ben
zaquin said. She added that she was
"kind of excited about (the task force
because it deals) with issues of confi
dential ity in the media, jurisdiction with
the campus and city police, and issues
of academics and housing."
Included in the task force are Uni
versity representatives for the Dean of
Students' Office, the Department of
University Housing, the Division of
Academic Affairs, the University News
Bureau, University Police, the Gyne
cological Clinic of the Student Health
Service (SHS), SHS Psychological
Services, the Student Attorney Gen
eral, the Chancellor's Office's Legal
Counsel, the University Counseling
Center and student organizations such
as the Rape Action Project and The
Daily Tar Heel, Benzaquin said.
Additional support in the task force
is provided by organizations in the
Chapel Hill community, including the
Orange County Rape -Crisis Center,
North Carolina Memorial Hospital, and
the Chapel Hill Police, she said.
Benzaquin said she was pleasantly
surprised to see how efficiently the
existing protocols outline the steps taken
when a rape is reported to each specific
foreplay. Annie Savoy, 'Bull
ancy in the amount of signatures we
have against the amount of votes we
received.
"Therefore we had to make a deci
sion about whether to go ahead and
give the victory to one person or the
other when there could be possible
discrepancies."
Blanks said the BSM constitution
did not have specific election guidelines.
Martin introduced Bush at the lunch- tern president, and Paul Hardin, UNC
eon to a crowd including William Fri- chancellor. Also attending were mem
day eycutivedirectorof KenanChari- Se(J BUSH 3
table Trust, CD. Spangler, UNC sys- ' r 3
department.
"Everyone has an individual proto
col," she said. "I'm currently writing
the main response program. Everyone
will look at it to make sure all the holes
are filled and that everything is legally
tight to protect the victim."
The Daily Tar Heel is in the process
of drafting a specific plan for dealing
with sexual assault reports in a way that
protects victims' anonymity, said Co
Editor Kelly Thompson.
Karis Turcogeorge, area director of
Ehringhaus Residence Hall, is repre
senting the housing department on the
task force. "Our first priority is to check
on (the victim's) physical and emo
tional well-being and to make sure that
person is out of danger," she said.
"(Victims) may or may not be in a state
to know whether or not they want to
state a report.
"We want to be in a position to attend
to that person so they feel safe and
know what their choices are to that
point."
If the victim feels that he or she
wants to move into another dormitory
for any reason, the housing department
would honor that request as soon as
possible and with as little disruption as
possible, Turcogeorge added. "We can
get you somewhere where you feel
safe."
Confidentiality is the highest prior
ity, and information concerning the
identity of the victim is given to hous
ing authorities only on a "need to know"
basis, Turcogeorge said. Usually only
the liaison, area director and director of
University housing would know the
victim's identity, but "it's hard to qual
ify it's the victim we're concerned
with," she said.
Jeffrey Cannon, assistant dean of
students, has been involved in the de
velopment of a judicial protocol in
conjunction with the Student Attorney
General's office. He said this was nec
essary because sexual assault was added
to the list of offenses in the Code of
The Central Committee will decide
if the constitution needs change, Blanks
said. Whether the next president also
would work on amending the
constitution would be up to whoever
was elected, she added.
"We are not sure who the next presi
dent is right now," Blanks said. "The
candidates for office will play a part in
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Student Conduct last year, given the
possibility that the victim may wish to
go through the Attorney General's of
fice rather than through public criminal
courts.
Section V.B.I. b. of the Instrument
of Student Judicial Governance pro
vides that all administrative hearings
and Undergraduate Court, Graduate
Court and professional court trials
concerning sexual assault cases will be
closed.
Both the victim and the defendant
may have a support person present
during the hearing. Only a relative,
friend, or individual providing coun
sel, other than legal, to individuals
involved in sexual offenses may serve
as a support person. The support person
may not participate in any way in the
hearing.
Handling the case through the Stu
dent Attorney General's office might
be preferred by some victims because it
is more expeditious and confidential
than the public criminal process, Can
non said.
Elaine Barney, SHS Psychological
Services liaison to the task force, said:
"(The task force) has alerted us to some
of the other issues very relevant to rape
victims, whether it be talking to an
academic advisor or seeking academic
relief. (It) eliminates having the victim
going to 10 or 15 people and telling her
story over and over again. We have a
contact person to address that particu
lar need, and, in turn, people are doing
that with us."
Specific office hours are set aside on
weekdays when people can make ap
pointments to come talk to someone,
but Barney added that two permanent
staff members are available to see
people at any time between 8 a.m. and
5 p.m. In the event of an emergency,
someone is always available to talk",
even after hours, or on weekdays and
holidays.
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