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Volume 98, Issue 127
Tuesday, January 22, 1991
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Gunmen bomb NATO
facility in Turkey
ISTANBUL, Turkey Gunmen
overpowered a guard and bombed a
NATO maintenance facility overlook
ing the Bosporus Monday night, police
said. The blasts caused extensive dam
age but no injuries.
, An anonymous caller to a newspaper,
Cumhuriyet, claimed responsibility for
the blast in the name of DevSol
Revolutionary Left a militant com
munist group.
T Police said three of eight bombs
placed by the gunmen went off, shat
tering windows and causing other
damage to the five-story building. They
said no one was injured, but refused to
give other details.
The attackers apparently fled.
There was speculation that the attack
was in reaction to Turkey's stand in the
Persian Gulf war. U.S. warplanes have
taken off from an airbase in Turkey to
carry out bombing raids on Iraq.
Non-aligned nations
plan peace initiative
NICOSIA, Cyprus Iran said Mon
day that the non-aligned movement
would launch a peace initiative in the
Persian Gulf War.
Iran's official Islamic Republic News
Agency quoted Foreign Minister Ali
Akbar Velayati as saying the effort by
nations that profess non-alignment in
volved Iran, India, Yugoslavia and Al
geria. The Yugoslav state news agency,
Tanjug, said that country was seeking
support for the initiative from the Soviet
Union, Egypt and several other coun
tries. The late President Tito of Yugo
slavia was a founder of the non-aligned
movement, which now has 101 mem
bers. Velayati was quoted as saying there
had been little support for an earlier
proposal by Iran that the 46-nation Or
ganization of the Islamic Conference
convene an emergency session to seek a
cease-fire. He said only 1 0 members
responded favorably.
NATO plans sanctions
against Soviet Union
BRUSSELS, Belgium NATO and
the European Community appeared
ready Monday to take economic retal
iatory measures against the Soviet Union
for ordering commando assaults on fa
cilities in the Baltic republics.
The 12-nation EC trade bloc and
NATO also raised the specter of cool
ing relations with the Kremlin.
Even some nations of the moribund
Warsaw Pact, until recently an instru
ment of Soviet policy, strongly con
demned the assault late Sunday of So
viet commandos on Latvia's police
headquarters. Five people were killed
and 10 injured in the incident.
At its parliamentary session in
Strasbourg, France, the EC was con
sidering steps to slash Soviet food and
assistance programs totaling more than
$1 billion. The EC also could suspend
or cancel a 1989 trade and cooperation
agreement.
At NATO, the U.S ambassador,
William Taft, said he supported "a
closely coordinated series of actions to
be undertaken by alliance nations."
; There was no indication what steps
the alliance might take, but sources pre
dicted decisions would be made shortly
by member governments.
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From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON President Bush,
upset by bleak pictures of all ied prisoners
of war, denounced Iraq's "brutal treat
ment" on Monday and pledged their
capture would not deter the war against
Saddam Hussein. "America is angry,"
Bush declared.
Asked if the Iraqi leader would be
held accountable for any mistreatment
of prisoners, a grim-faced president said,
"You can count on it."
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney
called the treatment of the prisoners "a
war crime." Iraq's senior diplomat in
Washington, Khalid Shewayish, was
called to the State Department and given
a message strongly protesting
Baghdad's actions.
In other news, one fallen American
pilot got lucky, being plucked from the
Iraqi desert by a daring Air Force rescue
mission.
Under the cover of two A-10 jets, an
Air Force search-and-rescue helicopter
picked up the Navy A-6 Intruder pilot in
an eight-hour mission, Air Force offic
ers said. At one point, an A-10 fired on
and destroyed an Iraqi truck driving
toward the stranded pilot, they said.
For many Americans, the war took
on a harsh reality as television news
casts provided a firsthand look at cap
tured U.S. pilots making obviously
forced statements criticizing the war
against Iraq. Bush saw tapes of the
pilots. Iraq said it had dispersed the
prisoners of war to "civilian, economic,
education and other targets."
"This is not going to make a differ
ence in the prosecution of the war against
Saddam; it's not going to make a differ
ence," Bush said, calling Iraq's treat
ment of prisoners a "direct violation" of
international conventions protecting
POWs.
The president said he was making
"the strongest appeal that these people
be treated properly And they are not
being. And America is angry about this,
and I think the rest of the world is."
Bush was accompanied by House
Speaker Thomas Foley, D-Wash., who
had spent part of the weekend with the
president at Camp David, Md.
Foley, too, called the treatment of the
POWs a violation of international ac
cords and said, "it will have very, very
strong repercussions, not only
throughout the United States, but
throughout the world if these violations
continue."
Baghdad says it holds more than 20
allied troops. The United States lists 21
allied servicemen as missing in the war,
12 of them Americans.
Bush said the POW display was
backfiring on Saddam. "If he thought
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Protest at McCorkle Place held to 'support the troops'
By BRIAN G0LS0N
Staff Writer
About 25 demonstrators gathered
near Silent Sam Saturday afternoon to
show support for U.S. troops in the
Persian Gulf and to voice their opinions
about the policies that sent the troops
there.
Most people at the rally expressed
support for President George Bush, his
administration and U.S. troops serving
in Saudi Arabia.
Alan Martin, organizer of the "Sup
port the Troops" rally, said, "I'm proud
that the land of the free is doing what we
can to preserve freedom throughout the
world. In waging the war, I hope we win
the war and with winning the war,
winning peace. The soldiers have my
hopes and my thoughts and most of all
my unending support."
Many people in the crowd waved
American flags, and several people
carried signs with slogans such as "Go
get 'em George ... we're with you" and
"Peace ... through Victory".
Culley Carson, a freshman from
Durham, said, "We need to support
President Bush and our troops 100
percent. That is the only way we can get
a peaceful resolution at this time."
Edward Oakes, a Chapel Hill resident,
said, "We've seen so many anti-war
protests that we believe it is time to
support the soldiers and to support
America. I think it is important locally
to support the effort as well as nation
ally." Martin said he agreed with the Bush
Administration's present policies, but
he did respect the opinions of people
who did not support the war effort. He
hoped people who were against the war
See PROTEST, page 4
Jewish students, faculty feel helpless after attack on Israel
DTHLinus Parker
Students rally in support of U.S. troops near Silent Sam Saturday
By STEVE P0LITI
Stan Writer
While Iraq's SCUD missile attack on
Tel Aviv Thursday made residents of
Israel feel helpless, members of the
Jewish community at UNC and in
Chapel Hill felt just as helpless watch
ing the event unfold on television.
Rebecca Freedman, president of the
Carolina Association for Israel Support
(CAIS) that was formed more than a
year ago, said she would have preferred
being in Israel instead of the United
States during the attack.
"It's a scary feeling," she said. "My
fiance has a lot of relatives there. The
first instinct is to call them up and see
how they're doing. When you're in Is
rael, at least you feel you're there and
you feel you're part of it. While I'm
here, I feel helpless."
Joel Schwartz, a UNC political sci
ence professor, said Israel's greatest
fear is a fear of the unknown.
"I think the feeling is one of great
anxiety and great fear," he said. "No
one's worrying about Israel being wiped
off the face of the map, it's a fear of the
unknown, the fear of a potentially hor
rible unknown."
The unknown in the Gulf War is the
possibility that Saddam will attack Is
rael with chemical weapons, Schwartz
said.
"For Jews to be gassed to death evokes
memories of the Holocaust," he said.
"The only person since World War II to
use chemical and nerve gas against a
defenseless mass population has been
Saddam Hussein.
"If the Israelis could be certain that
anything he threw in the SCUD missiles
could be only conventional, while they'd
be pissed off, that's a qualitatively dif
ferent anxiety than chemical and germ
warfare, as we know historically from
responses of troops in World War II,"
Schwartz said.
Eric Wagner, a Jewish UNC student,
was studying in Israel just two weeks
ago.
"I was shocked when I heard the
news," Wagner said. "I thought, rather
naively, that Saddam would never attack
Israel because of the possible response.
He did attack Israel, and Israel didn't
respond."
Wagner said his grandparents, who
live in Israel, have numbers on their
arms from the World War II death camps
in Germany. He respects Israel's deci
sion not to retaliate against Iraq, he said.
"I praise Israel for not attacking Iraq,
They respect that the Allies have certain
objectives to fill,"he said. "The bombing
was nothing of military significance at
all, it was like Raleigh being hit by a
See ISRAEL, page 3
War contrary to King's beliefs
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By NICOLE PERAD0TT0
Stan Writer
About 100 people gathered Monday
at the Franklin Street Post Office to
commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.'s
birthday and denounce the war in the
Middle East as contrary to King's
teachings.
Lonnie Banks Jr., a representative of
the Chapel Hill Coalition for Peace in
the Middle East, expressed his concern
about the disproportionate number of
African-Americans representing the
United States in the Middle East.
"Perhaps one out of every four people
that will die in this ... sinful war will be
African-American," Banks said.
"Young (African-American) men and
women go into the military because
they don't have the same choices as
members of the dominant groups have."
Joseph Straley, professor emeritus of
physics and astronomy at UNC and a
representative of the Community
Church of Chapel Hill, rebuked the U.S.
government's involvement in the Per
sian Gulf. He reminded the crowd of
King's stance on war.
"Martin Luther King knew that these
things were only going to be rehashed,"
Straley said. "He proclaimed the
dominance of the people. We have to
stand with the people."
Straley said an easy solution to the
problems facing Americans exists.
"What we have to do is simple simply
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impeach Dan Quayle and President
Bush," Straley said amidst laughter from
the crowd. "Where is Spiro Agnew?
Where is Richard Nixon? They're in the
dust bin, and I hope that that dust bin is
big enough for two more guys."
The Middle East crisis also was on
the mind of Orange County Greens
member Dan Coleman.
"The war going on in the Middle East
is a chaotic situation," he said, referring
to King's article, Chaos or Community.
"If you were in the streets of most
American cities, you would see the
chaos."
Coleman said "misdirected policies
of the government" were to blame for
the war, as well as "local chaos."
He also urged people to support the
Greens most recent resolution to offer
sanction to conscientious objectors and
war resistors (see related story, page 3).
See MLK, page 2
Law professor appeals
case to Supreme Court
By ELIZABETH BYRD
Senior Writer
A UNC law professor, facing a
sanction of more than $40,000 for
filing a frivolous lawsuit, has re
quested a hearing with the U.S. Su
preme Court to appeal the case.
Barry Nakell, a UNC law professor,
has been sanctioned by the District
Court for the Eastern District of North
Carolina for filing a civil rights law
suit that was dismissed in 1989.
Lewis Pitts, director of a public
interest law firm in Carrboro, and
William Kunstler, a nationally known
civil rights attorney from New York,
worked with Nakell and also were
sanctioned. The sanctions against the
three men total $122,834.28.
The lawsuit was filed in January
1 989 by Nakell, Pitts and Kunstler on
behalf of American Indians Eddie
Hatcher and Timothy Jacobs. Hatcher
and Jacobs, civil rights activists, staged
an armed takeover in February 1988
of The Robesonian, a newspaper in
Robeson County.
The suit charged state and county
officials with First and Sixth
Amendment violations during their
investigation of the case.
"We had no choice but to file a
lawsuit," Nakell said. "We wanted to
protect our clients against constitu
tional violations."
But James Blackwell, N.C. Special
Deputy Attorney General, who argued
for the state defendants, said the suit
was without merit.
"The complaint was filed without
an adequate basis in law or an adequate
basis in fact, and for an improper
purpose," he said.
Hatcher and Jacobs were acquitted
of federal criminal charges in October,
1988, but both pled guilty to state
charges and are now serving prison
terms. Nakell said the men's rights
were violated between the time
Hatcher and Jacobs were acquitted of
one set of charges and when they went
to jail for the state charges.
According to a report by the U.S.
Court of Appeals, Hatcher and Jacobs
accused the State District Attorney
and the Sheriffs Office of "corruption
and criminal misconduct." Their ac
cusations included civil rights viola-,
tions and drug trafficking.
After his acquittal, Hatcher also
began a petition drive to demand that
members of the Sheriff's Office be
See LAWSUIT, page 3
This is the end of the innocence. Don Henley