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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
Mercedes-Benz to Name
Alabama As Site for Plant
VANCE, Ala. German auto giant
Mercedes-Benz capped months of specu
lation Wednesday by signaling that a rural
Alabama town won the bidding war for the
company’s first U.S. assembly plant.
To business interests, the selection of
Alabama also signaled that Mercedes
would help recast the state's image.
Mercedes issued a statement saying it
would announce the site of the S3OO- mil
lion factory Thursday in Tuscaloosa, about
20 miles west of Vance, where developers
offered a 1,000-acre tract for the project.
The company previously said the an
nouncement would be made near the fac
tory location.
Sites in South Carolina, North Carolina
and several other states also were consid
ered for the plant, which will employ 1,500
and is expected to create another 11,500
jobs through related industries.
Bosnian Parliament Votes
To Reject Peace Proposal
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bosnia’s parliament spumed an interna
tional peace plan Wednesday, voting over
whelmingly to reject it unless Serbs return
land taken by force.
The vote portends another calamitous
winter of fighting while the Muslim-led
government of Bosnia tries to wring more
concessions from Serbs and Croats. Serbs
already have said they will bargain no
more over laijd.
Sixty-one parliament deputies voted for
conditional acceptance of the international
peace plan, which would divide Bosnia
into three ministates controlled by Serbs,
Croats and the Muslim-led government.
Four voted forit unconditionally and seven
voted against it, Information Ministry
Spokeswoman Senada Rreso said.
Republican Senator Backs
Clinton Health-Care Plan
WASHINGTON Hillary Rodham
Clinton picked up the first Republican co
sponsor for the administration’s health
care plan Wednesday as U.S. Sen. James
Jeffords, R-Vt., pledged his backing during
the first lady’s second round of hearings
before Congress.
Although the White House is courting
many Republicans and believes no bill will
get through Congress if it turns into a
partisan fight, Jeffords is the first GOP
lawmaker who has been willing to put his
name on President Clinton’s bill.
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s second day
of testimony to sell the Clinton plan to
Congress went much like the first, with
lawmakers singing herpraises but pointing
to possible trouble spots with the proposal.
Yeltsin Gives Lawmakers
Five Days to Surrender
MOSCOW The government gave
increasingly isolated lawmakers five days
to leave the parliament building or “face
the consequences” Wednesday. Besieged
hard-liners, short on food but long on weap
ons and bravado, vowed to hold out.
The government kept up a tight cordon
of razor-wire and thousands of police and
troops around the building. But the hard
liners showed no signs of surrendering.
The government didn’t spell out what it
meant by “serious consequences,” but it
will be expected to do something if the
lawmakers continue to hold out past Mon
day. Foreign Minister Andrei V. Kozyrev
offered fresh assurances Wednesday that
force would not be used in the showdown.
Senate Votes to Prohibit
Federal Funds for Insane
WASHINGTON The Senate voted
Wednesday to bar the criminally insane
from collecting federal disability benefits
so long as they are in a mental hospital or
halfway house.
The Social Security Administration es
timates that stopping such payments would
save about $lO million a year and deny
benefits to 1,500 people.
Although the ban passed the Senate by
a 944 vote, congressional aides said the
amendment faced an uncertain future in
the House. The Senate vote came after
Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., told the Senate
about the shopping sprees of a N.C. man
who has been collecting Social Security
since a jury found he was insane at the time
he killed four people.
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Clinton Expected for University Day
BY HOLLY RAMER
STAFF WRITER
President Bill Clinton has not yet con
firmed whether he will attend the
University’s Bicentennial Convocation on
Oct. 12, but officials in the Bicentennial
Observance Office said Wednesday that
they were optimistic about the visit.
Clinton is tentatively scheduled to de
liver an address in Kenan Stadium at 7:30
p.m.
Richard Richardson, faculty chairman
ofthe Bicentennial Observance Office, said
he expected to hear from Clinton’s office
by Monday.
“We’ve been checking regularly with
the White House,” he said. “We are the
only thing scheduled on his agenda for that
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New Law to Put Heat on Drunk Drivers
BYWARDCONVILLE
STAFF WRITER
Anew law lowering the legal blood
alcohol concentration for North Carolina
drivers will go into effect Friday.
“This is a major victoiy in our fight to
make North Carolina highways safer,”
Gov. Jim Hunt said in a Sept. 16 press
release.
Hunt gave strong support to the law,
which lowers the legal amount of alcohol a
driver can have in his or her bloodstream
from .10 to .08 BAC.
The N.C. General Assembly passed the
law this summer.
“Drunk drivers are not only a threat to
themselves but to all motorists,” Hunt said
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a strong message that we are serious about
reducing the threat posed by drunk driv
ers.”
Local Police Now Can Withhold Victims’ Names
BYBRETT PERRY
STAFF WRITER
Law-enforcement agencies across the
state beginning Friday will have the au
thority to decide whether to reveal victims’
names from crimes occurring within their
jurisdictions.
The main purpose of the new law is to
prevent the news media from publishing
the names of sexual-assault victims and to
protect those people who don’t wish to be
identified. The N.C. General Assembly
passed the new law July 23.
Before, the State Bureau of Investiga
tions was the only agency that could de
clare portions of police reports private.
Now local agencies will have the same
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evening. Ithinkthere’sapretty good chance
that he will come.”
After the presidential election last No
vember, Chancellor Paul Hardin invited
President-elect Clinton to attend the open
ing ceremonies of the Bicentennial Cel
ebration.
Brock Winslow, associate director of
the Bicentennial office, said many state
dignitaries, including Gov. Jim Hunt, had
strongly supported the invitation. The en
tire N.C. congressional delegation also
signed a joint letter of support for the invi
tation, Winslow said.
“A lot of what is involved in getting
(Clinton) to come here is making him aware
of the invitation,” Winslow said.
Last spring, Clinton responded with a
letter thanking the University for the invi
Running With the Devil(s)
The law, sponsored by N.C. Rep. Joe
Hackney, D-Orange, met little opposition
in the General Assembly, Hackney said.
“I think it causes people to think when
they drink a little bit more, a reminder that
the la w is gradually getting stronger, ” Hack
ney said. “I think we see it sending a strong
signal that one drink less will be tolerated. ”
Hackney also said the passage of the
law was part of a national trend to
strengthen drunk-driving laws.
According to the press release, North
Carolina will become the 10th state in the
nation to enact the .08 BAC limit.
The press release also stated that in 1992
there were nearly 76,000 drunk- driving
arrests in the state and 534 deaths due to
alcohol-related accidents.
Joe Parker, director of the Governor’s
Highway Safety Program, said the law was
one of the most important pieces of legisla
tion to pass the General Assembly this
right.
Most ofthe terms and sections of the bill
already were part of the state’s public
records law, which gives citizens the right
to inspect government documents.
For law-enforcement agencies, the most
confusing part of the bill is that subsection
“D” makes police officials responsible for
determining whether a victim’s name
should be identified.
“A public law-enforcement agency shall
temporarily withhold the name or address
of a complaining witness if release of the
information is reasonably likely to pose a
threat to the mental health, physical health
or personal safety of the complaining wit
ness ...the bill states.
Any person who is denied access to
tation, but saying it was too soon to com
mit to the engagement.
“We’ve had no official communication
since then, but we have had verbal commu
nication (with White House officials) on
several occasions,” Winslow said. “I’ve
talked with their scheduling office con
stantly about the possibility.”
Because most invitations are declined
quickly, University officials are encour
aged that Clinton has not yet turned down
the offer, said Steve Tepper, executive di
rector for the Bicentennial Celebration.
“It’s encouraging that they have not
said no,” Teppersaid. “That means we’re
still being considered. I guess (President
Clinton’s staff) is making last minute plans
for his schedule.”
The convocation, which will be at 6
year.
“It means North Carolina is serious
about taking drunk drivers off the road,”
Parker said. “California did this and had a
significant decrease in alcohol related fa
talities.
“Forty-two percent of North Carolina
(motor vehicle) crashes involve alcohol,”
he said. “We hope that it will give further
deterrence to people driving after drink
ing.”
Parker said he thought the primary goal
of the legislation was to encourage driver
safety.
“Use a designated driver, or don’t drink
at all,” he said.
Steve Jones, a public information of
ficer for the N.C. Highway Patrol, said he
thought the new law would enable the
highway patrol to make more drunk- driv-
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information because of this law can bring
the issue to court, the bill also states.
The police are not liable if a victim’s
name is released that should not have been.
“There isn’t any criminal liability with
our releasing the names of victims,” said
Chapel Hill police Chief Ralph
Pendergraph.
Pendergraph was optimistic about the
new bill and said he was glad to see that the
department was given more freedom.
“I think that this bill is the first time an
attempt to regulate the information re
leased to the public has been tried,”
Pendergraph said.
“I hope that the bill will clear up the
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p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 12, will encompass
a wide variety of entertainment programs,
Tepper said. Six processions of faculty,
staff, students, alumni, visitors from inter
national universities and school children
will begin the ceremonies in Kenan Sta
dium, while a film and re-enactment of
Hinton James’ historic walk from
Wilmington will close the ceremonies, he
said.
Taped greetings from around the world
featuring David Brinkley, Walter Cronkite,
former Presidents George Bush and Gerald
Ford and the Chancellor of Oxford Uni
versity also will be broadcast, Tepper said.
“There will be lots of and lots
of flags,” Tepper said. “It will be very
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BSM Plans Pit Rally
To Inform Students,
Show BCC Support
BY JAMES LEWIS
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Black Student Movement President
John Bradley said Wednesday that the
organization would hold a “spirited” rally
in the Pit early next week to inform stu
dents about current campus issues, includ
ing the movement for a free-standing Sonja
H. Stone Black Cultural Center.
The News & Observer of Raleigh re
ported Wednesday that the BSM was plan
ning a protest on Monday against the UNC
Board of Trustees’ decision to build the
BCC on the Coker Woods site, located
next to Coker Hall on South Road.
But Bradley said Wednesday night that
the rally, which is scheduled for 5:30 p.m.
Monday in the Pit, was actually a meeting
to inform members of current issues and to
attract possible recruits.
“We mainly want freshmen to show
up,” Bradley said. “We are kind of target
ing them because we want to especially
educate them about the issue.
“That’s the big point of the rally is to get
the people who haven’t been here and
don’t exactly know what’s going on and to
get them knowledgeable about the issues. ”
The organization had planned the rally
before the BOT decided Friday not to re vote
on the site issue, Bradley said. “Actually,
this meeting was planned before the BOT
meeting.”
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BILL CLINTON is tentatively
scheduled to speak Oct. 12.
and Dey Hall, had asked the board to re
examine its July decision to build the BCC
on the Coker Woods site.
But BOT members did not move to
reconsider the site Friday, and many BOT
members have said the site issue has been
settled.
Bradley said the BSM was waiting for
the BCC Advisory Board to make a state
ment about the site decision.
“As of right now, we are trying to find
out if Coker is actually buildable,” he said.
“But as far as the Black Student Movement
is concerned, we haven’t come to a con
crete decision on where the site is.”
When they have been given enough
evidence on which site is buildable, then
the BSM will come to 3 decision.”
BCC Advisory Board Chairman Harry
Amana said Wednesday that the advisory
board would consider the BOT’s decisions
at Tuesday’s regular meeting.
Bradley said the rally would be more of
a campus-issues forum than a demonstra
tion against University officials.
“This is really not negative,” he said.
“This rally is not directed toward or to
point someone out and saying, ‘You’re
wrong.’ It’s more about information—of
getting people back involved.”
Bradley said he would not rule out pro
tests in the future. “(Protests) can happen,
and BSM will do it if it has to,” he said.
“But we really want this issue to be over.
It’s been fought for too long, but until it’s
completed we are not going to stop.”