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South Africa to outlaw
university racial quotas
CAPE TOWN, South Africa A
law permitting the government to im
pose racial quotas on university admis
sions will be abolished. National Edu
cation Minister Louis Pienaar said Tues
day. Pienaar said the government would
soon submit to parliament a new law
eliminating the quota system. President
F.W. de Klerk's governing National
Party controls the dominant white cham
ber of parliament, assuring the measure's
approval
"If parliament passes the amendment
act, the universities will enjoy full au
tonomy with regard to the admission of
students from all population groups,"
Pienaar said.
For decades, universities were segre
gated by race, although the practice has
eased informally in recent years. De
Klerk has proposed repealing all re
maining apartheid laws and called for
multiparty negotiations on a new con
stitution to end white minority rule,
Iranians paint insignia
on Iraqi warplanes
TEHRAN, Iran Iranian crews have
begun painting their air force insignia
on some of the Iraqi warplanes that
were mysteriously flown into the Is
lamic republic during the Persian Gulf
War, diplomats said Tuesday.
The claim, which could not be inde
pendently confirmed, indicates Tehran
plans to keep at least some of the mili
tary aircraft that sought refuge from the
allied air offensive in neighboring Iran.
In another sign that Tehran plans to
hold on to the planes, Foreign Minister
J Ali Akbar Velayati said Sunday that
only 22 aircraft, including some airlin-
ers plundered from Kuwait, "would be
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returned when the crisis is over."
The rest, he said, either crashed or
were shot down by allied jet fighters
before they could land
He did not specify which types of
aircraft were among the 22 cited, but
stressed the fate of the planes would be
decided by Iran and Iraq with the help of
the United Nations.Asian and Persian
Gulf diplomats in Tehran cited reports
from two Iranian government officials
as saying Iran's military had put air
force insignia on at least IS planes.
An American reporter said he saw
another three planes being repainted
near a highway between Tehran and the
holy city of Qom, 1 00 miles south of the
capital. "There were three planes that
were clearly Iraqi in the process of
being repainted. They appeared to have
Iraqi markings," said Tom Squitieri of
USA Today. He said Iranian soldiers
were giving the planes a coat of fresh
paint, but he did not see any Iranian
insignias being affixed to the jets.
Czech leader ousted by
democratic dissident
BRATISLAVA, Czechoslovakia
Vladimir Meciar, the populist premier
of Slovakia, was ousted by the republic's
parliamentary leaders Tuesday and re
placed with Jan Carnogursky, a Chris
tian Democrat and former dissident
under the Communists.
The 50-year-old Carnogursky favors
a weaker federal government and stron
ger powers for Slovakia. Carnogursky
told reporters that Meciar had pledged
his support.
The removal of Meciar, 48, by
parliament's 2 1 -member Presidium had
been expected after parliamentary depu
ties voted Friday to censure his govern
ment for its paralysis. Hundreds of
Meciar's supporters rallied outside the
parliament to demand new elections.
The Associated Press
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enate commttee
By Anna Griffin
Staff Writer
Now that U.S. forces in the Persian
Gulf have defeated Iraq, U.S. legisla
tors in Washington are turning their
attention to what may be the deciding
issue in the upcoming congressional
elections and in the 1992 presidential
election: the national crime dilemma.
Two anti-crime packages currently
being discussed in the Senate Judiciary
Committee seek to halt the spread of
crime throughout the United States by
imposing stiffer penalties for drug of
fenses, drunk driving, juvenile crimes
and terrorism.
Despite these similarities, the bills
proposed by Sen. Joe Biden (D-Dela-ware)
and President Bush are remark
ably different in their stand on the com
bination of civil rights issues such as
racial discrimination, capital punish
ment and habeus corpus rights. And the
crime debate continues to be split along
party lines.
The bill proposed by Biden, chair
Activities honor mansion's 100th birthday
By Sabrina Smith
Staff Writer
Franklin Delano Roosevelt called it
"The most beautiful in America."
He was speaking about the N.C. Ex
ecutive Mansion. A celebration of the
mansion's 100th anniversary will high
light a weekend of festivities titled
"Mansions, Memories and Raleigh
Rambles."
The May 17 and 18 celebration will
be hosted by the Historic Preservation
Foundation of North Carolina, Gov.
James G. Martin and his wife, Dottie
Martin.
A great deal of sentiment has gone
into planning the centennial, said Mary
Biddle Semans, chairwoman of the committee.
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man of the Judiciary Committee, is a
broad, reform-oriented package de
signed to improve local and federal
police forces by providing increased
funding to state and federal government
agencies.
Additionally, the bill provides more
than $300 million funding to cities
plagued by drug-related crimes.
Under the so-called Biden Bill, drug
testing would be required of all federal
prisoners paroled, and local law en
forcement officials would be granted
expanded power in the raiding and clos
ing of crack houses.
According to committee reports,
however, the major reforms under
Biden's package would be in the area of
civil rights.
The death penalty would still be in
effect for drug offenders and for crimi
nals found guilty of murdering federal
agents and state officials working in
conjunction with the U.S. government.
But Biden's bill would, "effectively
eliminate the death penalty as a tool of
the law," according to Steve Phillips,
"She's a hundred-year-old lady and
the people of Raleigh feel close to her,"
Semans said.
The event begins with a cocktail party
in the Heck-Andrews House, which has
not been restored since it was built in
1870. Following the cocktail party, the
governor and Dottie Martin will host a
dinner for 400 patrons at the recently
redecorated Executive Mansion, said
Susie Burnett Jones, public information
director for the event.
"We wanted to show the contrast
between the two (mansions)," Jones
said.
For dessert, the guests will be trans
ported via trolley to the foundation's
new home, the Bishop's House, located
on the campus of Saint Mary's College
in Raleigh, Jones said.
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spokesman for Sen. Jesse Helms.
The Biden Bill would take away the
power of individual judges to impose
the death penalty by effectively speci
fying definite instances under which
capital punishment could be imposed,
Phillips said.
The president's crime package, al
though still in the early stages of devel
opment, is a more conservative, stream
lined bill that promotes harsher penal
ties for terrorist acts and juvenile of
fenders. While Bush's bill is an opposing
response to the Biden plan, it fails to
deal with any of the civil rights issues
discussed under the democratic pack
age. The White House proposal would
eliminate federal court review of state
criminal conviction and would allow
police officers more leeway in searches
conducted without warrants.
The major stumbling points in the
search for an effective crime bill are the
death penalty, federal funding and gun
control, according to a spokesperson
for Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Massachu-
Tour leaders will highlight homes
designed by A.G. Bauer, designer of the
Executive Mansion, while showing
guests the historic section surrounding
the mansion during Saturday's
"Ramble," Jones said.
Planning began for "Mansions,
Memories and Raleigh Rambles" last
October, said Kit Boney, special events
coordinator for the foundation. "The
celebration is part of National Historic
Preservation Week dedicated by the
National Trust for Historic Preserva
tion," Boney said.
Although special guests have been
invited, "the event is open to anyone
who pays the price," Jones said.
Tickets for the entire weekend are
$150 per person, while the cost of
Saturday's "Ramble" is $25 per person.
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setts), a leading member of the Judi
ciary Committee and a supporter of the
Biden Plan.
Supporters of the Bush plan refuse to
discuss increasing federal funding of
police agencies, although the president's
budget, which was not passed, con
tained an almost $100 million cut jn
local spending.
Members of the House Judiciary
Committee currently are debating the
Brady Bill, a resolution which would
impose a seven-day waiting period for
gun purchases.
It appears likely that any crime bill
reaching the Senate floor would include
a modified version of the Brady Bill.
Bush, an outspoken opponent of the
gun-control measures, has said he will
veto any version of the Biden plan, but
would sign the Brady Bill if it is added
to his own anti-crime bill. -
A spokesman for Sen. Biden said he
was, "extremely confident some ver
sion of our bill will pass. There is no
way the bill proposed by President Bush
can get through the Senate."
The proceeds will benefit the His
toric Preservation Foundation of North
Carolina, a statewide non-profit organi
zation, Boney said.
"We are trying to raise the visibility
of historic preservation," Jones safd.
"We don't get funding except through
membership."
The Martins will host a black-tie
dinner, which promises to be one of the
weekend's main attractions. The dinner
will be held on the North Lawn of the
Executive Mansion. '
"(The centennial celebration) is' a
very special occasion for the Martins',"
said Nancy Pekarek, spokeswoman for
the governor. "They treasure the man
sion not only for its historic content, but
for what it means to them as a family."
The Executive Mansion Fine Arts
Committee supervised the recent reno
vations paid for by the Executive Man
sion Fund Inc., which was established
two years ago.
Former N.C. first lady Jeanelle
Moore, wife of Dan K. Moore, estab
lished the committee in 1965 to discuss
renovations and screen the suitability of
potential gifts to the mansion, Semans
said.
Having consistent funds will enable
the fine arts committee to improve the
Queen Anne Victorian style mansion,
said Marie Ham, committee curator and
director of the Executive Mansion Fund
Inc. :t .. v. .
"People think the mansion has it made
and (the committee has) an unlimited
supply of money " Ham said. "But we
don't."
The committee is looking to add more
furniture made in North Carolina and
furniture owned by former governors to
the Executive Mansion, Ham said.
"The dinner is just one of many events
to celebrate the (mansion's) hundredth
birthday," said Sarah Lofton, executive
secretary for Dottie Martin.
There was a concert held in January,
a Victorian ball in February, and a family-style
picnic is scheduled for early
June, Lofton said.
Moore
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the College Republicans because of
some personal problems with members.
"I was basically seen as being too mod
erate and not pushing any agenda for
congress," he said. Moore said he hoped
these problems could be worked out.
Moore was elected to congress in
February and elected to the speaker
position in April.
Moore said he wanted to form an
analysis board and send out surveys
about service organizations to students
in the fall. He also is working on a
campuswide recycling program.
Kristina Sung, who ran against Moore
for speaker, said she thought he would
have trouble because he was new to the
University. "I think it's going to be a
rough year for him because he really
doesn't know what's going on cam
pus," she said.
Sung also said Moore was concerned
about the amount of money allotted to
the Black Student Movement this year.
"I know he is very concerned and
talked to me about how much money
the BSM got this year and didn't under
stand why they needed so much," she
said. "I think organizations are going to
have a lot harder time getting money
next year."
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a fair amount of support," he said. '
Jones said Hardin and Spangler
stressed the need for flexibility in decision-making.
"We need to be able to
make decisions at the campus level in
order to use our funds most effectively
and cause the least amount of harm
when there are budget constraints as
there are r.ow," he said.
The bill would permit the General
Assembly to allot certain schools a pre
determined sum to be spent at the dis
cretion of each university's chancellor.
UNC-CH and N.C. State probably
would be pilot schools to determine
whether the flexibility plan should be
instituted throughout the system.
The bill would give chancellors of
selected schools flexibility to: transfer
funds to different budget areas for one
time expenses; keep half of leftover
funds each year, create and cut jobs
regardless of whether they fall under
the State Personnel Act; buy some equip
ment without taking bids and negotiate
contracts directly with suppliers.