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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
Middle East Peace Talks
Reopen Amid High Hopes
WASHINGTON—Emotion-charged
Middle East peace talks reopened Tuesday
with confident Palestinian and Israeli pre
dictions that a historic agreement to estab
lish Palestinian self-rule would be con
cluded within days.
Moreover, Nabil Shaath, chief political
adviser to Palestine Liberation Organiza
tion chairman Yasser Arafat, said, “We
hope to hear very soon—tomorrow or the
day after” statements of “full mutual rec
ognition” by Arafat and Israeli Prime Min
ister Yitzhak Rabin.
Israeli sources confirmed that Arafat
and Rabin would move toward an accom
modationbut said the announcement might
be several days off.
The sources, declining to be identified,
also said the PLO had agreed that 3,300
Jewish settlers would remain in Gaza with
Israel responsible for their security.
Secretary of State Warren Christopher,
praising the accord that will put the PLO in
charge of day-to-day life in Gaza and in the
West Bank city of Jericho as “a conceptual
breakthrough,” said the United States was
prepared to provide financial assistance.
Yeltsin Attempts to Create
New Legislative Council
MOSCOW—After failing to defeat his
opponents head-on, President Boris Yeltsin
is trying anew tactic: circumvent them
with plans for anew legislative body and
state treasury.
The strategy, however, might only in
tensify his power struggle with the Russian
parliament and heighten the risk of “dual
government” paralysis. The parliament is
led by Yeltsin’s mainpolitical rival, speaker
Ruslan Khasbulatov.
Yeltsin had promised a battle to end the
feud with hard-line lawmakers, who had
assailed his political and economic reforms
over the past two years, claiming they are
impoverishing and dividing Russia.
Yeltsin’s chief of staff, Sergei Filato\
told the ITAR-Tass news agency that a
new 176-seat legislative body, called the
Federation Council, would be created next
week.
Jackson Accuser's Father
Made Threats on Phone
SINGAPORE Michael Jackson’s
doctor pronounced him fit after a brain
scan Tuesday and said the entertainer could
continue his concert tour.
Jackson’s publicists and his doctor have
insisted the cancellations had no connec
tion to allegations that he sexually abused
a 13-year-old Los Angeles area boy.
On Monday, KCBS-TV in Los Angeles
and CBS News broadcast excerpts of a tape
recording on which a man, purportedly the
father of the boy Jackson is accused of
molesting, threatened to ruin Jackson’s
reputation.
On the tape, a telephone conversation
allegedly between the boy’s father and step
father, the voice identified as the father is
heard making a threat involving Jackson
and the boy’s mother. The parents recently
were involved in a custody dispute overthe
boy.
“Certain things are going to have to
come out, and those two are not going to
have any defense against me whatsoever,”
said the voice on the tape, allegedly re
corded in July. “It’s going to be a massacre
if I don’t get what I want,” he added with
out elaborating.
Witness: Beating Suspect
Declared Violent Intent
LOS ANGELES A man accused of
beating trucker Reginald Denny at the
outset of last year’s riot had declared ear
lier that “today I’m going to hit and kill
people, ” another victim of the rioting testi
fied Tuesday.
Gabriel Quintana, a gas station atten
dant working at the comer of Florence and
Normandie avenues on April 29, 1992,
said defendant Damian Williams ap
proached him that afternoon and made the
threat.
Later, during the riot, Williams dragged
him out of a bathroom where he was hid
ing, pushed his head through the glass
cashier’s window, beat him and demanded
money, Quintana testified.
The witness also identified Williams as
one of Denny’s attackers.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Weather
TODAY: Partly cloudy, hot, humid;
high low 90s
THURSDAY: 30-percent chance of
afternoon showers; high 90-95
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Emily Brushes N.C. Coast,
Veers Toward Northeast
FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
ATLANTIC BEACH—CoastalNorth
Carolina was deserted Tuesday evening as
residents breathed a sigh of relief that Hur
ricane Emily had left the N.C. coast un
scathed, save a few minor scratches.
“There was fight damage on the Outer
Banks. Walkways and small piers were
washed away. Winds reached 100 miles
per hour at (Cape) Hatteras and there was
some structural damage to a few homes,”
said a spokesman for the North Carolina
Highway Department. “Much of the
beachfront damage was due to waves that
were four to eight feet high."
Many buildings along Ocracoke and
Hatteras islands lost their roofs as wind
gusts topped 90 mph, said Dare County
emergency management officials, who
abandoned their operations center on
Hatteras because of flooding.
The center of the hurricane got as close
as about 20 miles due east of Cape Hatteras
late Tuesday afternoon, and the eye wall
the region of strongest wind around the
calm eye moved over Hatteras Island,
said Bob Sheets, director of the National
Hurricane Center.
No part of the eye crossed land, how
ever. The eye had grown to 45 miles wide
Tuesday evening, and it was 30 miles due
east of Rodanthe at 8 p.m.
Cars were floating in a bank parking lot
in Buxton, and fallen trees were blocking
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Dealer: Department Knew of Tag Law
BYPHUONGLY
STAFF WRITER
UNC athletic officials said Tuesday they
didn’t think they were doing anything
wrong when they drove cars with dealer
tags.
But a Chapel Hill car dealer said the
athletic department knew it was violating a
state law banning use of dealer tags on
courtesy cars.
In the athletic department’s 25-year-old
courtesy car program, dealers lend 53 cars
to UNC coaches free of charge in return for
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1,1993
KEmUySpares N .C. Coast
/ Hurricane Emily veered northward, thus
,** sparing North Carolina's Outer Banks
from serious damage. The storm center,
with 115 mph winds, was located 30
miles due east of Rodanthe at 8 p.m.
Tuesday night. It brushed Cape Hatteras
Tuesday afternoon with gusts of up to
100 mph, Hurricane warnings remained
in effect from the Northern coast of North
Carolina to Cape Henlopen in Delaware.
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roads, said the National Weather Service
in Buxton, which also reported flooding in
the yard of its office a mile inland from
Pamlico Sound.
The slow-moving storm was expected
to create a tidal surge six to eight feet high,
though the weather service said flooding
reports on Hatteras indicated the surge
was even higher.
No injuries were immediately reported,
though to the north, a surfer was missing in
Virginia.
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tickets to athletic events.
Courtesy cars are legal; putting dealer
tags on them is illegal. Only dealers, their
employees, company officers and those
test-driving cars are allowed to drive cars
with dealer tags.
Buck Copeland, general manager of
Yates Motors Cos. Inc. in Chapel Hill, said
athletic officials and dealerships knew about
the law.
“They knew it was not right, but they
were just getting by with it,” said Copeland,
whose dealership supplies one car a year to
the athletic department.
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Paul Getty, a Morehead City dentist,
said he was surprised the hurricane had not
hit Atlantic Beach harder.
“This is the fourth time one has come in,
and then, whoosh! It turned away. There
must be some meteorological reason for
storms to turn away from Morehead City,”
he said.
“It’s odd that each hurricane has missed
us. Maybe God is waiting to hit us with the
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COURTESY CAR CONTROVERSY
Legislators decided to put teeth into the
law because of the widespread abuse of
dealer tags, said N.C. Sen. John Kerr, D-
Goldsboro, who wrote the legislation. Law
makers did not direct the law at athletic
courtesy car programs, he said.
Anew state law taking effect Oct. 1
includes fines for dealer-tag abusers. The
old law had no penalties and wasn't heavily
enforced, Kerr said.
Kerr said users of dealer tags had several
advantages they did not have to pay
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Grads Are Struggling
To Make Ends Meet
Low Graduate Stipends
Hurt Teaching, Studies As
Students Take Extra Jobs
Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part
series about the financial troubles of the
University's graduate programs.
BY MARTY MINCHIN
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS EDITOR
The stereotype of the struggling gradu
ate student may just be a reality at UNC.
Graduate students juggle a frill schedule
of teaching, studying for competency tests
and going to class. And the small stipends
the University pays these students has
forced many to take part-time jobs to sur
vive.
“There is a real sense that (graduate
students) can barely get by on the teaching
assistant stipends,” Randall Henrick, lin
guistics department chairman, said.
The University removes tuition charges
and students fees straight from graduate
students’ paychecks, a practice most uni
versities do not follow, Henrick said.
Many universities that UNC competes
with for graduate students waives all tu
ition and student fees, said William
Balthrop, chairman of the Department of
Communication Studies. The University
still charges all graduate students in-state
tuition and student fees, he said.
Henrick said: “The problem we have
here is that people gooff and do other sorts
of things to make money. Sometimes they
spend an inordinate amount of time work
ing part-time.
“I’m worried about keeping and pro
ducing good students,” he said. “I’m wor
ried that there’s not much support once
they get here. It’s a problem for the pro
gram because it diminishes from the life of
the department. They aren’t around to
share ideas and bounce ideas off each
other.”
NJ. Suit Names Hardin;
Chancellor Denies Role
FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
University of North Carolina Chancel
lor Paul Hardin, who is a defendant in a
lawsuit aimed at the board of directors of a
New Jersey insurer, said he was not re
sponsible for the company’s day-to-day
operations.
Hardin is one of 45 defendants in a
lawsuit that charges former board mem
bers and executives of Mutual Benefit Life
Insurance Cos. with
mismanagement
and inaction.
New Jersey’s at
torney general filed
the lawsuit July 8
after a two-year in
vestigation into the
financial dealings of
the company.
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sey before coming to the UNC in 1988,
served on Mutual Benefit’s board of direc
tors from 1986 through its 1991 failure, the
Herald-Sun of Durham reported.
“I served on the board with other educa
tors, other professional persons, and the
CEOs of several of the country’s largest
corporations. Our responsibilities were the
usual ones attendant to persons in that
position,” Hardin said in a statement re
leased Tuesday.
He said that, more than a year ago, the
board asked the New Jersey insurance com
missioner to step in and protect the assets
of the company. “The company was sol
vent and he had no authority to come in
without our invitation,” Hardin said.
He said he was trying to keep the law
suit from interfering with his duties as
Are Courtesy Cars Necessary Perks
For Coaches or Athletic Excess?
BYPHUONGLY
STAFF WRITER
Although athletic officials say courtesy
cars for coaches are a necessary perk, some
faculty members think it is an example of
the inequity between academics and ath
letics.
“I think perks and large shoe contracts,
etc., are a blatant sign of this distortion of
values," said Townsend Ludington, chair
man of the Faculty Committee on Athlet
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Steve Bos, a third-year graduate student
in the political science department, said
many graduate students in his department
had to work second jobs to keep from going
into debt.
Bos said he was paid $7,400 a year for
teaching in the political science depart
ment, but after tuition and student fees
were deducted from his paycheck, he only
received $lO6 a week.
“That’s the same thing they’ve been
giving me for two years and tuition is
taking a jump,” he said. Bos said he worked
a newspaper route every day to earn money
to stay out of debt.
Working two jobs has affected his per
formance as a graduate student, Bos said.
“I’m probably a worse teacher because I’m
delivering a paper route.” Bos said his
work load also cut into his time for study
ing.
Bruce Winterhalder, anthropology de
partment chairman, said some graduate
students in his department could not work
at their frill potential because they were
often stressed because of their financial
situation or had to work another job to
support themselves.
“Once we have graduate students here,
even those we can fund, we fund them at
such minimal levels that they can’t achieve
the potential they would like to,”
Winterhaldersaid. “They’re constantly liv
ing on sort of a hand-to-mouth poverty
level.”
Laurence Avery, English department
chairman, said one problem resulting from
low frinding was that many students took
eight or nine years to get their Ph.D.,
which students normally could obtain in
four or five years.
“People have to work to make all the
money they can while they’re in graduate
school,” Avery said. “We need those fel
lowships to enable people to move towards
a Ph.D. at a faster pace. ”
Henrick also said some graduate stu-
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chancellor and was keeping President C.D.
Spangler informed.
Hardin said he would not comment
about the specifics of the case because it
was still being litigated.
The company was once the nation’s
18th-largest insurer.
Sharon Hallanan, deputy attorney gen
eral of New Jersey in charge of the Mutual
Benefit case, said the 45 defendants asked
for an extension in fifing their answer to the
suit.
The defendants must file an “answer,”
or response, to the suit by the middle of
September, Hallanan said.
“An answer generally contains denials,
explanations, often a counter-claim or
cross-claim,” she said. “Sometimes mo
tions are filed at this time.”
The lawsuit says the company sank too
much money into developments and lever
aged buyouts and got too far into real
estate lending without checking on the
risks. It also alleges that top company offic
ers made questionable inside deals and
worked to keep the directors in the dark.
“The essence of the thing, with respect
to the directors, is they didn’t oversee the
investments of the company adequately,"
said Bob Ritter, a Hackensack attorney
and special counselor for NJ. Insurance
Commissioner Samuel Fortunato, thesuit’s
plaintiff.
“They are responsible and directly ac
countable to the policyholders to see the
company is run in a proper manner, ” Ritter
said. “If they’re not doing that they
shouldn’t be on the board. That’s the law. ”
The state is seeking an unspecified
amount of compensatory and punitive dam-
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ics.
“The point of a university is educational
and intellectual development,” said
Ludington, who is also chairman of the
American studies department. “The point
of a university is not to offer sports for the
millions.”
UNC faculty members do not have cour
tesy cars. They can get access to a car for
business purposes through the University’s
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