2The Daily Tar HeelMonday, November 26, 1990
Heseltine
From Associated Press reports
LONDON Michael Heseltine,
who precipitated Prime Minister Mar
garet Thatcher's downfall, said Sunday
he was confident of getting the neces
sary votes to win the leadership of his
party and country this week.
But he admitted that some Conser
vative Party loyalists are deeply angry
at him forhis role in forcing out Thatcher,
who last week agreed to step down as
prime minister.
Heselrine, 57, and treasury chief John
Major, 47, a right-winger who is re
portedly supported by Thatcher, ap
peared to be locked in a close contest in
the race to succeed Thatcher, with
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From Associated Press reports
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. All
Sharon Russell ever wanted to be was a
nurse, but her weight nearly got in the
way.
After she was kicked out of nursing
school in 1985, weighing more than
300 pounds, she sued the school and
won. Now the case has moved to the
U.S. Supreme Court, and she's moved
to the forefront in the fight for dignity
for overweight people.
"It's going to take time. It's going to
take patience," Russell said. "And it's
going to take people like me who have
the guts to stand up and say, 'I was
humiliated.' This is how I felt."
A federal jury last year ordered Salve
Regina College of Newport, R.I., to pay
Russell nearly $44,000 in damages. An
appeals court upheld the judgment, and
the school appealed its case to the Su
preme Court.
This week, Supreme Court justices
will hear arguments in order to decide
on a narrow, procedural point of law
relating to the appeals court's standard
of review.
Although the decision, expected
sometime next year, will have little
bearing on the legal question of so
called size discrimination, it determines
whether the award must be paid.
"The important thing is more people
will understand what I had to go through
to get to this point," said Russell, now
26 and apediatric nurse at All Children's
Hospital in St. Petersburg.
Russell maintains size discrimination
was the sole reason for her dismissal
from Salve Regina, but school officials
argue she was unhealthy because she
suffered from an eating disorder and
was physically unable to handle patients.
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confident
Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd trail
ing. London bookmakers ranked
Heseltine and Major as even favorites
to win in Tuesday's ballot among the
372 Conservative Party legislators. Hurd
was a long shot at around 10-1.
A series of opinion polls in Sunday's
newspapers indicated the party would
win elections with him or Major as
leader, but lose under Hurd.
But Hurd, 60, argued that he had the
best chance of unifying the traumatized
Conservative Party. He said Heseltine
was handicapped by deep anger among
some legislators and party activists over
Thatcher's departure.
for size discrimination;
"We don't dismiss students because
they're fat," said Catherine Graziano,
Salve Regina's dean of nursing. "We
dismiss students if they have behavior
problems that make them unable to
function as nurses."
Russell said her 5-foot-6-inch, 300
pound body did not seem to bother
administrators in 1982 when she was
accepted at the small college run by the
Roman Catholic Sisters of Mercy.
After earning good grades through
her freshman and sophomore years, she
entered the college's nursing program.
Her problems began the first day.
Russell said: "My instructor took
one look at me and said, 'We're not
going to get a uniform to fit you. You'll
never get around a bed.'"
She said she was used as a "human
guinea pig" in class to show students
how to make a bed with a fat person or
how to give a shot to a fat person.
"I would sit there and pretend it didn't
bother me, but it was just killing me
inside," she said.
In December 1 984, faculty members
presented Russell with a contract re
quiring her to lose two pounds a week or
face dismissal, and she signed it because
she said becoming a nurse was all she
ever wanted.
According to the school, Russell
weighed 328 pounds at the beginning of
her sophomore year, was down to 297
when she signed the agreement and
back up to 303 during the summer of
1985. That was when Salve Regina
notified Russell she would not be al
lowed to attend her senior year.
Russell then filed a $2 million federal
lawsuit against Salve Regina and five
faculty members with allegations in
cluding handicap discrimination, in
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"There is a danger of a polarized
result with the right wing clustering
around him (Major) ... and the left wing
clustering around Michael Heseltine,"
said Hurd. "If that were to happen, then
I think there would be a danger of the
quarreling continuing."
Heseltine, in a series of radio and
television interviews Sunday, argued
that he has shown the same steely nerve
that Thatcher displayed in 1975 when
she ousted Edward Heath as party leader.
The Tories were then in opposition.
"Mrs. Thatcher and I have that
characteristic of independence, some
people call it guts," said Heseltine.
"When'you believe something is right
law process
tentional infliction of emotional distress,
invasion of privacy and breach of con
tract. The judge dismissed all claims except
the breach of contract allegation.
A Providence jury sided with Russell,
saying the school broke its implied
contract to provide her with an educa
tion on the condition that she paid her
tuition, maintained good grades and was
not a discipline problem.
The award reflected the cost of hav
ing to repeat her junior year at St.
Joseph's College in West Hartford,
Conn., and the lost earnings from
spending an extra year in school.
In upholding the verdict, the 1 st U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that
the school forced Russell out of school
"because she was obese and forno other
reason."
Steven Snow, Salve Regina's lawyer,
said, "If we did anything wrong, it was
in giving her too many chances."
Russell completed her nursing stud
ies at St. Joseph's and has been working
in St. Petersburg for two years. She had
her stomach surgically stapled in one of
her many failed attempts to slim down.
When asked how Russell was doing
at St. Petersburg, a spokeswoman for
All Children's Hospital said Sunday, "I
know that she is in a supervisory posi
tion, so that speaks for itself."
Russell has become an active fighter
against size discrimination and was the
keynote speaker for the 3,000-member
National Association to Advance Fat
Acceptance. Her message is simple:
"Accept yourself the way you are, work
with what you have, go for it and live
your life. My attitude is I weigh 285
pounds now get over it."
necessary
you do it."
But he acknowledged, "There are
people who are cross with me, and I
understand that."
Thatcher, prime minister for 1 1 years,
withdrew Thursday after she failed to
get a big enough majority to stop
Heseltine's challenge. With her hus
band, Denis, she spent the weekend for
the last time at the prime minister's
country residence outside London.
A clutch of well-wishers cheered the
65-year-old prime minister as she left
the local church after a morning service.
. She has not publicly endorsed any
candidate. ButLondon's Sunday Times,
quoting "friends" of Thatcher, reported
Iraqis scramble to buy U.S. dollars on
Baghdad streets at triple market price
From Associated Press reports
BAGHDAD, Iraq The dollar,
the hated and admired symbol of
American power, is the currency of
choice on the streets of Baghdad, where
U.N. sanctions have rattled the already
shaky Iraqi economy.
In ever-increasing numbers, Iraqis
approach foreigners, risking lengthy
prison sentences, to buy dollars at black
market rates that have almost doubled
in three months.
At the same time, some merchants
play the dangerous game of asking
customers to give them something
other than the new 25-dinar notes
bearing the likeness of President
Saddam Hussein.
Western diplomats suggest that the
dollar's popularity reflects a fear that
the dinar could lose its value if Saddam
is toppled after a U.S.-led attack or in
a coup.
'The common man is concerned
about his future and the future of his
family," said one Asian diplomat, who
spoke on condition of anonymity. "He
recognizes the possibility that Saddam
might fail and places his bets accord
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she will vote for Major, with Hurd as
second choice.
If none of the three candidates re
ceives a simple majority Tuesday, a
third ballot will be heldThursday. Major
and Heseltine both say they believe
they are rolling up the 1 87 votes needed.
"They must be getting worried,"
Major said Sunday after Heseltine's
campaign manager, legislator Neil
McFarlane, said claims of majority
support by Major's camp were bogus.
Heseltine challenged Thatcher after
her deputy prime minister, Sir Geoffrey
Howe, resigned and delivered a scath
ing attack on her combative stance with
Britain's European Community part
At official rates, one Iraqi dinar is
worth $3 in Iraq. But on the streets of
Baghdad, one dollar can buy five Iraqi
dinars, and, in some outlying areas, the
going rate is reportedly six or seven.
"It's a dollar economy," said one
European diplomat, also speaking on
condition of anonymity. "There isn't
much you can't buy with dollars. You
can buy your way out (of the country),
or you can buy your way out of the
army."
One Western diplomat said some
major Iraqi businessmen are turning
vast amounts of their assets into cash
and turning that cash into dollars.
The Asian diplomat also said: "The
weakness of the dinar is not linked to
the weakness of the government, but to
the weakness of the economy. The
dinar's a paper currency based on the
oil, and oil is not being sold."
Before Iraq's Aug. 2 invasion of
Kuwait and the subsequent U.N. em
bargo, the country earned more than 95
percent of its foreign exchange from oil
exports.
"Sanctions are already hurting. On
that I have no doubts," the Asian diplo
mat said. "Almost the entire industrial
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Thatcher was already in trouble over
the economy and an unpopular new
local government tax, the poll tax, whidj
Heseltine has pledged to review. He has
the advantage of being the only one fi)
the Cabinet not associated with the tax,
The polls in Sunday's newspapers
suggested the Conservative Party, which
had trailed the Labor Party for the last
16 months of Thatcher's leadership,
would be up to 13 points ahead under
Heseltine and about 4-6 points ahead
under Major in elections.
"I've brought about a transformation
in the Conservative Party's fortunes,"
Heseltine declared Sunday.
sector has either ground to a halt or is
chugging along very slowly."
Shortages of spare parts, imported
raw materials and foreign technical
expertise have left much of Iraq's in
dustry running at only a maintenance
level, Western diplomats said.
Prices on everything from cigarettes
to tires are soaring in the marketplace.
Cigarettes that just three months ago
cost one-third of a dinar, now cost 3.50
dinars. Tires now cost 300 dinars, or
$900 at the official rate.
"The level of frustration on the street
is amazing," said one European dip
lomat. "Everyone in the country has
his life on hold."
Food is still in abundant supply in
Iraq. Much of it is smuggled in from
Iran or looted from Kuwait. Store
shelves overflow with consumer goods
and delicacies still in their Kuwaiti
packaging.
Despite official Iraqi complaints
about shortages of medicine, doctors
in Baghdad say there is no problem
with supplies. Western diplomats
suggest Iraqi attempts to acquire more
medicine in exchange for hostages is
an attempt to bolster war stockpiles.
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