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Monday, August 30,1993
Major Problems Dampen Celebration
As Israel, PLO Near Historic Accord
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JERUSALEM Once Israel and the
Palestine Liberation Organization can
agree on the details, proponents say Pales
tinian autonomy can be established in the
Gaza Strip and Jericho in a matter of
months.
But there are many obstacles: both Is
raeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and
PLO leader Yasser Arafat are politically
weak, facing serious challenges from
within.
Also, Palestinians are worried that the
experiment in self-rule could collapse un
less they get real political power and enough
financial aid to convince the 1.8 million
residents of the occupied lands that peace
pays.
Perhaps the biggest threat is the
assassin’s bullet and an outbreak of fight
ing between Arafat and Palestinian fac
tions that reject peace negotiations.
“I expect if an agreement is reached
there will be violence. I expect assassina
tions” by Islamic groups and leftists who
reject any compromise with Israel, said
Abdel Al-Sattar Qassem, a political sci
ence lecturer at Bir Zeit University in the
occupied West Bank.
Islamic militants in Gaza’s Shabura
camp told a reporter recently that they
expected to be fighting with activists from
Arafat’s Fatah faction soon after an agree
ment was reached.
“If Israel leaves, Gaza will become like
Lebanon. There will be civil war,” said
RUSSIAN
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University officials took advantage of
the Radionovs’ visit to present the visitors
with Carolina sweatshirts, a book about
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Abu Mohammed, an activist with the Is
lamic fundamentalist group Hamas, who
is wanted by Israelis.
For example, threats recently circulated
against Faisal Husseini, the head of the
Palestinian negotiating team who is a pos
sible candidate to head the Palestinian self
governing authority that will replace Israel’s
militaiy government.
If self-rule turns into a battle for domi
nance in Gaza and Jericho, it could ruin
chances for Israeli withdrawal from the
rest of the occupied territories and creation
of a Jordanian-Palestinian confederation.
“If they fail, all Israelis will see the
failure as the end of any conceivable at
tempt to reach agreement with the Pales
tinians,” said Joseph Alpher, head of Tel
Aviv University’s Jaffee Center for Strate
gic Studies. He said this was why the two
sides should allow at least a year to train
Palestinian security forces and lay down
plans to prevent clashes.
There are also serious questions about
the political strength of Rabin’s coalition
government, which holds 62 seats in the
120-member parliament.
The Shas party, with six seats, has threat
ened to pull out if either of two Shas mem
bers is forced to step down, as seems likely,
from government posts as a result of cor
ruption investigations.
The Shas bond with the left-leaning
government is tenuous anyway, and the
right-wing Likud bloc’s campaign against
making deals with the “terrorist” PLO
UNC’shistory, and a calendar, all of which
commemorated the institution’s 200th
birthday and its position as the nation’s
oldest public university.
While in North Carolina, Gen.
Radionov also toured Greensboro’s Cen
ter for Creative Leadership, where he
helped enroll four Russian military cadets
in a week-long program.
STATE & NATIONAL
could make inroads.
Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu
warned Israelis that Rabin’s government
was putting the PLO “on the map” with its
headquarters only a short car ride from
Jerusalem.
“Once we withdraw from the territory,
Arabs who want to kill us will rule there,
and they will rule in areas that are very
close to the coastline and to Jerusalem.
They will basically surround us, and they
will threaten the country’s security and
existence, ” Netanyahu said on Israel army
radio.
To a great extent the agreement is bom
of weakness, not strength.
Rabin’s government sees Gaza and Jeri
cho as a no-fuss solution.
There are few settlers in either area, and
the agreement is crafted to allow Israeli
forces to remain in such settlements as
there are thus avoiding a traumatic
showdown with the 120,000 Jewish set
tlers and their right-wing supporters.
For the PLO, getting a toehold on Pal
estinian land is a symbolic step toward the
goal of statehood and creates a momentum
that could rescue Arafat from a financial
crisis and increasingly strident demands
for democratic reform.
Sari Nusseibah, a prominent Palestin
ian adviser to the negotiating team, said
Palestinians estimated it would take up to
sl2 billion to restore the economic health
of the occupied lands after 26 years of
occupation.
UNC students attending the event were
impressed that such an exchange could
take place so soon after the end of the Cold
War.
“Ten years ago this meeting would be
crazy. This is great exposure for the Uni
versity and I’m happy to be a part of it,”
said UNC senior Duane Strelow.
Justin Williams contributed to this story
CRIME
FROM PAGE 1
with a national network of Crimestoppers
units and is a group of local citizens com
mitted to working with local law enforce
ment agencies.
If information that a resident provides
leads to an arrest, the informant is given a
reward up to $1,200.
Because all calls are confidential, it is
the responsibility of the informant, who is
identified using a special number, to call
the hotline to collect the reward.
Chapel Hill Police Chief Ralph
Pendergraph said that although a
Crimestoppers line already served Orange
County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro, citi
zens thought a special line was needed to
handle local calls.
“The crime problems in Chapel Hill
and the county are different because of
geography and everything else,” he said.
“You don't have drug deals on the streets
and as many cars getting ripped off (in the
county)."
Sandy Brownstein, who serves on the
local Crimestoppers Board of Directors,
said the increasing number of crimes in
southern Orange County merited a sepa
rate line. “A lot of the people in the south
ern area felt as though the county
Crimestoppers was not theirs,” she said.
Crimestoppers operates using donations
from area residents, groups and businesses.
Wesley Clark, a crime prevention spe
cialist for the state Department of Crime
Control and Public Safety, said
Crimestoppers encouraged citizens to be
the eyes and ears of a local police force.
“The Crimestoppers programs are one
of the most cost-effective methods that
crime prevention has. It’s totally depen
dent on the community to have responsi
bility for itself —a terrific whammy for
reducing crime,” Clark said.
Because tax dollars do not provide
enough money to hire as many police offic
ers as are needed, community involvement
is the key to reducing crime, he said. “I
think we’ve gotten to the point where law
enforcement can’t do it alone,” Clark said.
Pendergraph said many of the criminal
problems in Chapel Hill and Carrboro could
be attributed to a change in morals.
“Social and moral values have changed
a lot in the past five years. There are a lot of
people without the same concern for their
AID
FROM PAGE 1
formula for calculating how much aid a
student should receive.
“What we are dealing with now is an
eligibility problem,” she said. “We used to
say that we try to analyze every family’s
financial circumstances and look at every
thing in that family to measure how much
that family ought to be able to pay.
“What Congress has done, is to say,
‘We want more middle-income families to
benefit from Federal Student Aid Pro
grams.’ So they took some things out of the
formula that we look at, such as home
equity.”
Morris said the new provision allowed
more students to be eligible for aid. “What
they did by making the form less restrictive
is they created this huge new need,” she
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Violent Crimes Still on the Rise
Since July 1992, personal crimes have risen in Chapel Hill. Robberies are up 70
percent,’aggravated assaults increased 27 percent, and rapes and sexual assaults
jumped 41 percent.
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SOURCE: CHAPEL HILL POUCE DEPARTMENT DTH/IUSTIN SCHEEF
fellow man,” Pendergraph said.
“I think drags are a symptom of the
problem. I think it comes from our social
system, which puts so much pressure on
youth.”
The town’s police department hopes to
strictly uphold local laws without chang
ing the complexion of the downtown.
“I remember the first thing I learned in
cop school was that the only deterrent to
crime is a shift and sure punishment,”
Pendergraph said. “When a person com
mits a crime, they need to feel like the risk
if doing it is high.”
Chapel Hill Mayor Ken Broun said
Sunday that he thought citizen involve
ment and expanding the police depart
ment were two ways the police department
could better prevent crime in town.
“I think the more we can get private
citizens involved in crime prevention, the
closer we are to making an inroad, ” Broun
said. “I think our police department is
doing a really excellent job with the amount
of people they have.
Local police officials hope the publicity
surrounding the new line will also trigger
students to become more aware of crime
problems in town.
University Police Maj. Don Gold said
the department planned to use pamphlets
By making more students eligible for
aid, more students have applied, thus cre
ating more delays.
“Applications have increased by some
40 percent, and we’re still getting them,”
she said. “A whole bunch of students are
eligible that never were before.”
But no more money was appropriated,
and those students who were eligible for
more money must b e sent to the loan pro
gram where money was available, Morris
said.
“This year students have anywhere from
SI,OOO to $2,000 more in eligibility,” she
said. “When students have more eligibility
under this new formula, all we can we do
for them is send them to the loan office.
“Where we had a S2O-million loan pro
gram, we expect that to increase to $35 to
S4O million this year.”
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and fliers to inform students about
Crimestoppers and the ongoing problems
with violent crime.
“The publicity that we get will open a
lot of eyes to the program,” Gold said.
University Police Lt. Angela Cannon
said Crimestoppers would be a big help for
curbing on-campus crime because itwould
involve more students in public safety.
“Students have knowledge—they have
more knowledge because they hang out at
the bars. They can get paid if the informa
tion leads to an arrest,” she said.
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Crimestoppers, which
is headquartered at 605 Eastowne Drive, will
hold monthly meetings. The phone number is
942-7515.
BCC
FROM PAGE 1
focusing on the BCC.”
If BCC fund raising became a Bicenten
nial objective, the Development Office
would help raise money for the center. The
Bicentennial Campaign’s goal is to raise
$320 million, but Amana said he hoped the
steering committee would raise the total $7
million to include money for the BCC.
Since the Board of Trustees voted in
July to build a BCC on a site located in
Coker Woods, leaders of the BCC move
ment have debated whether to support
fund-raising efforts or continue fighting
the Coker site.
Amana said he was unaware of any
movement on the advisory board to re
sume protests on the BCC site issue.
Members of the advisory board agreed
to let only Amana speak to the press.
“We thought it was a good idea for
them to come down and talk to the whole
board so there would be no misunder
standings,” Amana said.
Harris is chairman of the UNC Board of
Trustees, and Armfield is a trustee, but
both men said they met with the advisory
board solely in their Bicentennial capacity.
DRUGS
FROM PAGE 3
lice reports.
■ Police searched the home of Gaye
Kayleen Benton, 29, and arrested and
charged her with several charges.
Benton was charged with maintaining a
dwelling for the purpose of selling con
trolled substances, possession with the in
tent to sell and deliver cocaine, possession
of drag paraphernalia, simple possession
of marijuana and conspiracy to sell and
deliver cocaine, police reports stated.
Benton was placed under a SIO,OOO se
cured bond after appearingbefore the mag
istrate.
■ Michael Anthony Ellison was arrested
on three charges. Ellison was charged with
trafficking in cocaine, conspiracy and pos
session of drag paraphernalia, police re
ports stated.
Chapel Hill police reports did not indi
cate Ellison’s age.
Reports also stated that when Ellison
was arrested, he had in his possession $548
cash, 90 individual wrapped packages of
crack cocaine in various sizes and a .38-
caliber semi-automatic pistol.
Ellison was placed under a $20,000 se
cured bond.
Benton and Ellison will appear in Chapel
Hill District Court Tuesday.
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