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UNC graduate student keeps
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By ANDRE HAUSER
Stafl Writer
Even though two months of violent
protests ended Sunday in Katmandu,
capital of the Himalayan kingdom of
Nepal, the North Carolina activist of
the Alliance for Democracy and Hu
man Rights in Nepal said the people of
Nepal should not be satisfied.
Pro-democracy demonstrations that
began Feb. 18 in Nepal have led to
thousands of arrests and hundreds of
deaths, but the demands of the opposi
tion may soon be met, said Harihar
Bhattarai, who is also a UNC graduate
student in medical anthropology from
Tanhun in western Nepal.
As many as 300 people may have
been killed during last weekend's pro
tests, Bhattarai said, but state-run Ra
dio Nepal and Nepal Television re
ported only one death.
King BirendraBirBikram Shah Dev,
46, who has ruled Nepal since his
father's death in 1 972, agreed Sunday
to allow political parties to operate in
Nepalese politics. Nepal, a mountain
ous country with 1 7 million people, has
been ruled by the king and the nonpar
tisan National Panchayat assembly
since 1960.
Late Sunday night, a television an
nouncer read a statement that said, "In
view of the international situation, and
with a view to maintaining unity among
the Nepalese people, and with a view to
meet the rising expectations of the
people, the king has uplifted the ban on
political parties."
Birendra was also shown meeting
with Prime Minister Lokendra Bahadur
Chand, his three-member cabinet and
members of the opposition Sunday
night.
B hattarai ' s group had planned to hold
a rally at the United Nations headquar
Time eases
From Associated Press reports
MATAMOROS, Mexico A year
ago, the smell of death clung to the
Rancho Santa Elena, where police dug
up 13 mutilated corpses, victims of a
cult of drug smugglers who sacrificed
humans for magical protection.
Two more bodies were found at a
nearby farm.
More a farm than a ranch, Rancho
Santa Elena is returning to the rural
Famine claims 500, threatens others in
From Associated Press reports
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan As many
as 500 people starved to death last
month in northwestern Afghanistan
because of famine caused by war,
weather and locusts, Western diplo
mats said Tuesday.
Humanitarian aid workers based in
the border city of Peshawar, Pakistan,
began issuing famine warnings late last
year. One agricultural expert, Tom
Morrison, said the situation was so bad
it might not be possible to save those
who remain in the stricken areas of
Herat, Badghis and Faryab provinces.
The infestation of locusts and other
pests is "very, very severe indeed," said
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reforms in Nepal
ters in New York, but it has been can
celed because Birendra agreed to allow
the multiparty system and may allow
more reforms later. "We're observing
what is going on now," Bhattarai said.
Chand said Monday he would inves
tigate charges of corruption against
former Prime Minister Marich Man
Singh Shrestha, who was removed from
office last Friday. Birendra dismissed
Shrestha because his hard line policy
against the protesters had failed.
Bhattarai said his group appreciated
and welcomed the investigations as a
sign that the government was serious
about reform.
President Bush had not taken a stand
on the protests by late Tuesday after
noon. "We have not released any word or
statement on Nepal at this point," said
Paul Luthringer, assistant director of
media relations at the White House.
The president may deal with the issue
when he returns from Toronto Wednes
day, Luthringer said.
Protests began Feb. 18, the 40th
anniversary of the overthrow of the
autocratic government that ruled Nepal
since the mid-1800s. The overthrow
was led by Birendra's grandfather, King
Tribhuvan. Democracy Day is a na
tional holiday and was chosen because
of its significance, Bhattarai said.
"(The protest) was well-organized,
and they had given ample time to the
government to reform," he said. When
the protests began, thousands of people
from all walks of life were arrested for
simply supporting the reforms.
The Nepalese government had long
thought that by killing some dissidents
it could force the rest to be quiet out of
fear, but in the recent protests, several
opposition groups joined together and
became a "great threat to the govern
memory of murders
obscurity it enjoyed before it was a
"human slaughterhouse" that sickened
even experienced lawmen.
The land is still pockmarked with
shallow grave excavations and people
have been seen digging recently, per
haps in search of missing relatives.
But nature has started to reclaim the
land. Grass and bright yellow wild
flowers are doing their best to fill in the
graves. The pungent odor of decom
Morrison, director of Agrisystems
Nordic AB Sweden, a Swedish agricul
tural research firm.
"It is so serious that I think the only
way to cure it is for everyone to leave
and starve it out," he said.
A Western diplomat who refused to
be identified quoted refugee sources as
saying as many as 500 people may have
died of hunger in Faryab province and
that hundreds of families have fled
because of a shortage of food.
About 3.5 million Afghans have gone
to Pakistan to escape the civil war since
1979, when Soviet soldiers intervened
in Afghanistan to help the government
fight Moslem insurgents. Another 2
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The Nepalese Congress Party, which
led the movement, was joined by the
United Left Front, a seven-party coali
tion of left-wing and Communist
groups. They announced an end to the
protests as soon as Birendra agreed to
lift the ban on political parties.
The United National People's Move
ment (UNPM), a radical member of the
coalition, announced it would continue
the movement until the 1 962 Panchayat
constitution is abolished, The Associ
ated Press reported. A party spokesman
said the group did not want to use
violence but would if it had to.
'The very fact that they want to
amend the constitution and not form a
new one means the king wants to re
main the decisive body," the spokes
man said. The UNPM is not a major
political force, but it has a large follow
ing in some areas, according to AP
reports.
The constitution was written in 1962
after Birendra imprisoned the prime
minister, dismissed the government and
banned political activity in 1960. The
constitution had some restraints on the
king but was amended five years later
to give him almost absolute control,
Bhattarai said.
"There was no restraint on the king
before," Bhattarai said, but reformers
hope to adopt a system more like the
British parliamentary system, in which
the king is a figurehead but not a ruler.
The legislature in Nepal since 1960
has been the National Panchayat, which
is a class organization that not every
one can join. "The king once said,
Every Nepalese is a Panchayat, and
every Panchayat is a Nepalese,' but this
is wrong," Bhattarai said.
posing human flesh has long blown
away in the Gulf Coast breeze.
Even a shack where the cult report
edly sacrificed 21 -year-old University
of Texas student Mark Kilroy, a 14-year-old
Mexican boy and others has
burned to the ground. Mexican Federal
Judicial Police brought a "curandero,"
or witch doctor, to perform a purifica
tion ceremony on the grounds before
they torched the building last spring.
million fled to Iran.
Aid workers expect most people in
search of food will go to Iran because
Pakistan is several weeks' walk away
from the northern provinces.
The famine has been blamed on
several things:
D The 1 1 -year-old civil war. Farm
ers either joined the U.S.-backed rebel
fighters or were conscripted into the
army.
D Pesticide spraying, which has been
suspended because most of the coun
tryside is controlled by rebel fighters.
According to Morrison's firm, the
government has 800 tons of pesticides
but has released only 300 tons.
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General's mail was 68 percent against
"Caller ID" and 31 percent in support
of the service.
From Feb. 16-20, the Attorney
General noticed that, for the first time,
the letters in support of "Caller ID"
began to outnumber those against it.
Additionally, many of the pro-"Caller
ID" letters bore a striking resemblance
to each other and to the "prototype"
letters, suggesting they may have been
prompted by the Freedman memoran
dum, said Attorney General Lacy
Thornburg on Feb. 20.
The Attorney General also received
an anonymous communication in late
February from a Southern Bell em
ployee describing systematic company
meetings used to urge employees to
generate letters supporting "Caller ID."
Feb. 19, the Public Staff asked that
the Utilities Commission require South
ern Bell to disclose all letter-writing
activities and cease from any such ac
tivities that present to the commission
anything other than the personal opin
ions of the writers.
The next day, Southern Bell agreed
to undertake'an investigation. On March
2, it identified 412 letters written by its
employees in support of "Caller ID"
and asked that the commission deny the
motions of the Public Staff and Attor
ney General.
Following renewed motions and
responses by the Attorney General, the
Public Staff and Southern Bell, the
commission last Wednesday opposed
Southern Bell's actions and said, "In
the future, employee letters should also
be addressed to the appropriate
individual(s) specified in the public
notice and not to the Chairman or
members of the Commission."
Hildebolt fmmPa8e1
that students hear the case, and I think
their verdict would have been the same."
Hildebolt said he would not appeal
the board's decision. "It's ahuge weight
off my shoulders. If we can keep what's
said about it to a minimum, I hope it
will die quickly."
The incident is likely to cast a nega
tive light on the early part of Hildebolt's
administration, he said, but added that
he thought the executive branch would
overcome that. "Someone said to me
today that there are people watching
my every move, waiting for me to screw
up. That gives me the opportunity to
prove I can do a good job."
Afghanistan
B Inadequately prepared humanitar
ian aid groups.
D Late spring frost.
Government, which has used
nomad tribesman to buy up grain from
the Upper Herat Valley and hoard it in
Kabul. In addition, hundreds of thou
sands of tons of donated grain have
either been siphoned by the govern
ment for distribution in Kabul or taken
by rebel fighters.
A big problem is that aid workers
will not venture into the isolated towns
where residents are starving, said Bruce
Wannell, a British national and re
searcher who is employed by a variety
of groups on a contract basis.
He said a $1.2 billion U.N. relief
program to aid Afghans can boast only
"paper successes."
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Dave Miller
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Lois Fisher
Ray Lynch
Randy Vinson
Gus Fowler
Anna Hampton
Dan Wilson
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Bob Freedman
Caller ID Letters
From:
Sublect:
Attached are' 10 samples of Caller ID letters. They are not to fee
duplicated but instead are to be used as guidelines only for youar
use to make the letter writing easier.
Letters should be sent to: Mr. William Redman, Chairman
N. C. Utilities Commission
P. O. Box 29520
Raleigh, North Carolina 27626-0520
Copies should be sent to CorporateCommunity Affairs, P. 0. Box
30188, 4100 South Stream Blvd, Suite 200, Charlotte, NC 28230.
As before, please use your personal.; non-Bell, stationary and
your own postage stamp.
Thank you for your assistance and cooperation in this matter.
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attachments
CALLER ID LETTER 1
Early this morning I recieved several very vulgar calls within a
fifteen minute period. For that time I was terrified every time
the telephone rang. I don't believe I would have gotten the second
call if Southern Bell's proposed Caller ID were in operation
instead of being debated. I think Caller ID would have detered
that anonymous caller from invading my privacy and terrifying me.
I'm for the service and want it implemented as quickly as
possible.
CALLER ID LETTER 2
I'm a resident of a local housing project and every time there's a
knock on the door, I look through the peephole to find out who is
there and decide whether or not to let that person into my apart
ment. I'd like to have that same "peephole" available to me with
my telephone. I understand that Southern Bell wants to give me a
service called Caller ID that would offer me security concerning .
who is calling me. That sounds like a good idea to me. Please
implement Caller ID as soon as possible.
CALLER ID LETTER 3
I'm writing in support of a new service that Southern Bell wants
to provide its customers in North Carolina. It's called Caller ID
and would provide me with the telephone number of who is trying to
reach me. I think that makes a lot of sense. The. callers know
who they are trying to reach; I believe the called party should
have equal rights to make a determination as to whether they want
to answer that incoming call. Caller ID just seems to make sense
to me. Let's put it into effect as quickly as possible in N.C
CALLER ID LETTER 4
I own a small pizza parlor and recently a trainee took an order
for several of my most expensive pies over the phone. He, un
fortunately, failed to get a telephone number of the person who
was making the order. You guessed it, the call was a prank and
all of those pies sat on the counter for the night. Some of my
friends who operate small businesses like florists, cab companies
and restaurants have been plagued by the same problem. Southern
Bell's proposed Caller ID service would go a long way in helping
to eliminate that problem and it would save business people like
me and my friends money. -Put Caller ID in operation as soon as
possible.
CALLER ID LETTER 5
Everyday I get calls from students who say they are going to miss
class today because they got ill after their parents left for
work. As a school secretary, I would know immediately whether or
not that student is calling from home if we had Southern Bell's
proposed Caller ID service available right now. I think it would
help us to cut down our absentee rate. It would help in a lot of
other areas, also. Put it into service as quickly as you can.
Letter 1
As a working wife and mother, Caller I. D. sounds great! There is
nothing more frustrating than to come home from a hard day at the
office and be in the middle of preparing supper and for the phone
to ring. Then to make matters worse, the caller is a salesman.
Caller I. D. would identify the caller before I answer, giving me
the option of answering or not. Please implement this service as
soon as possible.
Letter 2
I am a resident of Charlotte, North Carolina y, and a housewife. I
- would be -glad to see, Caller I. D. , implemented to cut down on
harras sing phone calls.
Letter 3
As a small business customer, Caller I. D. would be very helpful
to cut down on prank calls. When you're trying to establish your
own business, it doesn't take many prank calls to shift your
operating balance from the black to the red.
Letter 4
As a school secretary, Caller I. D. could help us out tremendously
with calls coming in from parents on absenteeism. Knowing where
the call is coming from would help us to determine if the call is
actually coming from a student's home or the parents' work place
or perhaps from a student trying to skip school without their
parents' knowledge.
Letter 5
Caller I. D. sounds fantastic to' me. As a single woman living
alone, knowing who the calling party is before I answer the phone
would definitely give me a protected and secure feeling. Having
the option of answering or not answering would be great
Facsimiles of the memorandum sent by Bob Freedman, an operations
manager in Southern Bell Community Affairs, to management-level
Bell employees, requesting them to write letters to the N.C. Utilities
Commission in support of the "Caller ID" telephone service.
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