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weather # TODAY: Mostly sunny; high around 80 FRIDAY: 70% chance of storms; high near 70 0 Century of Editorial Freedom BMO Est. 1893 Volume 101, Issue 32 THURSDAY IN THE NEWS Top stones from state, nation and world South African leader's death provokes strike JOHANNESBURG, South Africa In an outpouring of black rage, millions of workers went on strike Wednesday to protest the slaying of black leader Chris Hani. Four people were killed and hundreds wounded as blacks battled police. The worst clash was in the black township of Soweto, where police fired on marchers outside the main police station. Hospital spokeswoman Adri Potgieter said three people died, five were critically wounded and 259 suffered minor wounds. Police said they fired because protesters were hurling rocks, but witnesses said most of the crowd was calm and had started to leave the area. Among the dead was African National Congress official Sam Ntobane, the black group said. Police and soldiers fired shotguns, rubber bullets and tear gas at looters who rampaged through shops in Cape Town and torched vehicles. A hand grenade exploded and injured 10 soldiers, and medical officials said a man was killed and about 150 people were wounded in the looting. Lawyer: Kopesh to end siege when book done WACO, Texas Armed cult leader David Koresh, who has broken past promises to end his 46-day standoff with authorities, now pledges to surrender after writing a religious manuscript, his lawyer said Wednes day. Attorney Dick DeGuerin talked with Koresh in an hourlong phone call. He said the cult leader was writing about the seven seals from the Bible’s book of Revelation, signs that are said to precede the end of the world. “David has been working day and night, composing a manuscript that will be delivered to me, upon which he will then come out,” DeGuerin said. DeGuerin said Koresh wanted his manuscript to be studied by two religious scholars before he surren dered. DeGuerin said he didn’t know when the manuscript would be finished. Clinton envoy demands that Serbs end terror BELGRADE, Yugoslavia President Clinton’s special envoy warned Yugoslav leaders Wednesday that they face complete isolation if Bosnian Serbs do not stop committing atrocities and make peace. The United States and its allies also will press for Bosnia’s largely Muslim government to be exempted from a U.N. arms embargo if Bosnian Serbs do not sign a U.N.-sponsored peace plan, envoy Reginald Bartholomew told reporters. “The military and human horror has to stop now,” he said. “Bosnian Serbs have to do it now.” China releases photos of pilots it shot down WASHINGTON China has provided U.S. officials with informa tion confirming the deaths of two U.S. Navy pilots who were shot down by Chinese forces in 1967 after they inadvertently flew into China’s air space, the U.S. State Department said Wednesday. The identities of the pilots, who were involved in the U.S. war effort in Vietnam, were not disclosed. The incident occurred on August 21,1967. Photos of the pilots turned over to U.S. officials clearly showed the pilots to be dead and appeared to have been taken at the time of their deaths, department spokesman Richard Boucher said. Activist: Acquittal may boost attacks on gays WILMINGTON The acquittal of three Marines charged with assaulting patrons outside a gay bar sends a message that attacks on homosexuals will go unpunished, a gay activist said Wednesday. But Judge Jacqueline Morris- Goodson, who heard the case without a jury, said prosecutors failed to prove the fight was anything more than a bar brawl. Mab Segrest of the North Carolina Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality said she was worried about how Tuesday’s verdict would be interpreted. “We don’t want it to seem like a green light that it’s OK to beat up gay people,” Segrest said. —The Associated Press Ballgames come and go. But there is this dignity challenge. That will not go away. Jesse Jackson _ ~~~ THURSOiff, APRIL 15,1993 altp Daily ®ar UM Serving the students and the University community since 1893 V (esse Jackson Jackson: Sit-in renewing ’6os fervor By James Lewis Assistant University Editor The Rev. Jesse Jackson met with student activists, athletes and house keepers Wednesday afternoon and urged them to continue their struggle for Uni versity recognition of their work and achievements. “The University is a community is sue,” he said during an afternoon inter view. “In order for it to be a good citizen, we have to look at the way it treats its workers, the diversity of the subject matter it teaches and opportuni ties that are available for all of its stu dents, faculty, staff and administration.” Jackson was on campus Wednesday to help in the student-led fight for a free DTH/Stephani Holzworth Jackson addresses protesters while former professional athlete Kellen Winslow(left) and basketball player George Lynch look on UNC bars local vendor from selling T-shirt By S. Tebbens Staff Writer A UNC basketball championship T shirt that University officials deemed unsportsmanlike was yanked from the shelves of Johnny T-Shirt this week. The T-shirt, a hot-selling item, was removed because it displayed a logo not officially approved by the University. “By far, that shirt was our best-seller and most popular shirt in the store,” said Chuck Helpingstine, owner of Johnny T-Shirt. “We got the shirts from our licensed vendor and apparently he didn’t get it approved beforehand.” The popular T-shirt read “Fab Five can talk the game, Carolina plays the game!” on the front. The back read “1993 National Champions” printed over an interlocking “NC.” Johnny T-Shirt has had disagree ments with the University in the past. The store and its owners agreed to sell only authorized merchandise aftera suit filed in 1987 by UNC and the Board of Governors claimed trademark infringe ment and “unfair and deceptive trade practices.” Helpingstine said he received the shirts Tuesday, April 6, and was told to pull them from his shelves Friday or Saturday. Johnny T-Shirt’s vendor recalled the shirts and removed all but the display shirt from the store. Biruta Nielsen, who approves the logos for UNC apparel, said a licensing agent discovered the illegal shirts in Johnny T-Shirt. “We had somebody over here the week before the NCAA tournament and the week after going through the stores looking for infringers,” she said. See T-SHIRT, page 4 Chapel Hill, North Carolina National athletes’ group gets start at UNC By ThanassLs Cambanis University Editor After speaking to a near-capacity crowd at Memorial Hall Wednesday night, the Rev. Jesse Jackson called on UNC athletes to form the first-ever branch of the Rainbow Commission for Fairness in Athletics. “Universities reap the profits of the success of black athletes on the court, but refuse to acknowledge their cultural contributions,” Jackson said. About 25 athletes, black and white, responded to his call. Jackson wasjoined on stage by football players Jimmy Hitchcock, Tim Smith and John Brad ley, who together founded the Black “T 1 want to seem as a catalyst for social justice, a catalyst for multicultural living, a catalyst for a BCC.” JESSE JACKSON standing black cultural center on cen tra! campus. “You know, I want to seem as a catalyst for social justice, a catalyst for multicultural living and a catalyst for a BCC,” the former Democratic presi WmKi wßm DTH/Andrea Broaddus Johnny T-Shirt can no longer sell this popular shirt Awareness Council last summer. Jackson was on campus to support the fight for a free-standing black cul tural center on main campus. He is scheduled to meet with Chancellor Paul Hardin this morning. Kellen Winslow, a Jackson aide and formerprofessional football player, will serve as the official liaison between the Rainbow Coalition and the newly cre ated group of student athletes. Members of the new group, which will strive to provide better academic conditions for athletes, will meet at the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center Monday at 5 p.m. and then walk to the all-sports banquet at the Smith Center at 7 p.m. dential candidate said. Jackson said he would meet with Chancellor Paul Hardin today at 7:15 a.m. Jackson asked students to gather outside South Building for a prayer vigil at 7 a.m. while he meets with Hardin. Jackson visits sit-in Shortly after arriving on campus, Jackson visited protesters in the South Building rotunda, which has been occu pied by BCC supporters for two weeks. The students want Chancellor Paul Hardin to recommend building the black cultural center in the area between Wil son Library and Dey Hall. More than 50 students and house keepers packed the rotunda and spilled Bradley said the group would strive to change the face of college athletics, especially by improving the graduation rates for all athletes. “We’re going to get athletes aware,” Bradley said. “We’re going to decide if we’ re going to let things stay as they are or if we’re going to change things.” During his speech, Jackson deplored the low number of blacks in coaching and front-office positions in the sports world. Statistics are full of zeros when it comes to the number of blacks in impor tant positions in sports administration, he said. “Those zeros don’t represent our IQ, they represent discrimination based on out onto the steps of the building to hear Jackson’s comments. Jackson told the students they were picking up the civil rights movement where his generation had left off in the late 19605. “What gives me special pleasure is to HOT postpones consideration of cultural center until June By Steve Robblee Assistant University Editor A final decision about the future of a free-standing black cultural center will be delayed an additional three weeks if the next Board of Trustees meeting moves from May 28 to June 18, as BOT Chairman Robert Strickland has requested. Strickland, who is chairman and chief executive officer of Lowe’s Com panies Inc., said he requested the change because the trustees’ meeting would conflict with an annual Lowe’s shareholders meeting he must attend. "1 just did not notice that 1 had that conflict,” Strickland said in a tele phone interview Wednesday evening. “With everything going on, I did not want to miss the meeting.” Meanwhile, the Buildings and Grounds committee met Wednesday and delayed making a BCC site rec ommendation to Chancellor Paul Hardin until its May 12 meeting. The committee held a public hearing on the issue Tuesday night. “We simply need more informa tion, and we’ll be seeking more infor mation,” committee chairman John Sanders said. He declined to say what additional information the committee needed. Sanders said the postponement of the BOT meeting would give his commmittee more time to make a rec ommendation. “The BOT isn’t meeting until mid- PHE Inc. again denied site-relocation permit By Katy Wurth Staff Writer HILLSBOROUGH The Hillsborough Board of Adjustment failed once again to approve a site plan application for a local sex-mate rials distributor Uying to relocate to the northern Orange County town. Phil Harvey, owner of PHE Inc., said he didn’t know whether he would reapply for an adult-use permit and continue his attempts to relocate to Hillsborough. After nearly five hours of debate, the board voted 3-2 in favor of grant ing PHE Inc. a site-plan permit, only one vote short of the four-fifths major ity needed for approval. PHE Inc., also known as Adam and Eve and located west of Carrboro on N.C. 54, has been the subject of much public controversy since it originally applied for the permit in February. The board’s vote came after a public hearing. “Harvey is like a beer can on the side of the road,” former Hillsborough town attorney Lucius Cheshire said during the hearing. “If you leave that beer can there and drive by a week later, there will be 10 beer cans be cause trash invites trash.” Board members found that PHE Inc. complied with the other standards of a site-plan permit, including ad equate protection of residential areas and provisions for safety of pedestri ans and motorists. Board members David Cates and John Forrest voted against approving sportsline MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Phillies 9, Reds 2 Angels 12, Brewers 2 Yankees 6, Royals 5 Red Sox 12, Indians 7 Astros 9, Expos 5 Cubs 6, Braves 0 Marlins 6, Giants 4 © 1993 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. News/Sports/Aits 962-0245 Butiixtt/ Advertising 9621163 race or sex,” he said. Jackson said everyone had a role to play in the struggle for black dignity and a free-standing black cultural cen ter on campus. “Don’t leave it to athletes to exalt the University,” he said. “They have their place. Let truth reign. Let the adminis tration be bold and courageous and fair.”; Jackson’s visit comes in the wake of an extremely successful year for UNC athletics, including a football win in the Peach Bowl and a national champion ship in basketball. Athletes must join the student struggle for a BCC if they are to live in dignity. See ATHLETES, page 5 j see you here on a moral agenda and your agenda of nonviolence,” Jackson said. “What you are doing is not only morally right, you are setting the pace for the country.” See JACKSON, page 4 June so there’s ample time,” Sanders said. John Bradley, Black Student Move ment president, said he was disap pointed that the committee decided to wait until it’s next meeting to make a BCC site recommendation to Chan cellor Paul Hardin. “We felt confident that the Build ings and Grounds Committee would come out with something, not a de lay,” Bradley said. ‘lt’s not surpris ing, but it will force the students to escalate their actions. “We’re disappointed because we thought that the board would act in good faith." Strickland said he did not want the postponement of the BOT meeting to affect the BCC debate. “There has been no intent on my part for (the postponement) to affect it oneway or the other,” Strickland said. The BOT meeting would take place after the spring semester ends —and during the first session of summer school—whether it was postponed or not, Strickland said. “Both May 28 and June 18 are after Commencement,” he said. Scott Wilkens, a member of the BCC Advisory Board, said the sched ule change was a delay tactic. “My opinion is, if Mr. Strickland couldn’t make the meeting, why couldn’t they move it up instead of back?” See BOT, page 5 the permit because they said that un der Hillsborough zoning ordinances, PHE Inc. qualified as an adult-use business and therefore required a con ditional-use permit. The Hillsborough ordinance defines an adult-use business as one that “ex cludes minors for reasons of age.” The examples of adult-use businesses cited in the ordinance include adult book stores, adult motion picture theaters, massage parlors and cabarets. PHE Inc. attorney Nick Herman urged board members to consider how PHE Inc. would use the site. “This is a warehouse and office building establishment that has noth ing in common with uses usually and evidentially described in your ordi nance,” Herman said. He said all the examples of adult use businesses given in the ordinance were intended for walk-in business. He added that PHE Inc.would take several measures to ensure that walk in business would not occur. Herman said PHE Inc. only would accept orders by mail or telephone, would not disseminate catalogs to employees or walk-in customer. But the opposition thought PHE Inc. still was an adult-use business. Cheshire said if the board followed the law in the ordinance, PHE Inc. would qualify as an adult-use busi ness. “The common denominator in the adult-use examples cited in the ordi nance is the product they deal in —a See PHE, page 4
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