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Wednesday, October 6,1993
U.S. Scholars Call Yeltsin’s Actions Necessary
BY JONATHAN BARKER
STAFF WRITER
Observers in the West defended Rus
sian President Boris Yeltsin’s Monday raid
onßussia’sPariiamentbuildingbut warned
that Yeltsin needed to move quickly to
wards democratic elections.
“Yeltsin did what any government offi
cial would have to do, ” said Joel Schwartz,
a UNC political sci-
ence professor. “If
youhaveamobthat
is shooting and kill
ing innocent
people, then you
have to use whatever force is necessary to
restore order.”
Schwartz said he thought reports of
death tolls in the hundreds were inaccurate
and were being perpetuated by anti-Yeltsin
supporters who wanted Yeltsin’s actions
to be seen as inhumane and excessive.
In a recorded statement, the U.S. State
Department declared one American dead
Ya. Woman
To Plead
Insanity in
Penis Case
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - The Virginia
woman who cut off her husband’s penis
will try to prove in court she was tempo
rarily insane at the time, her lawyer said.
Attorney James Lowe said Lorena
Bobbitt was repeatedly beaten and raped
by her husband, John Wayne Bobbitt. Af
ter he attacked her in their Manassas, Va.,
apartment on June 23, she was seized by an
“irresistible impulse” that caused her to
reach for a knife and cut him, Lowe said in
an interview in the November issue of
Vanity Fair magazine.
She faces trial Nov. 29 on a charge of
malicious wounding.
Lowe said he would argue that people
who had been repeatedly abused or beaten
often have an altered mental state.
Lorena Bobbitt told police she muti
lated her husband after he raped her when
he came home drunk from a night out with
a friend.
John Bobbitt has been charged with
marital sexual assault and his trial is set for
Nov. 8. He denies the charge. Both Bobbitts
faceup t 0,20 years in prison if convicted.
LorenaJjobbitt told the magazine she
was appalljjffthat some women had hailed
her as a feminist heroine for striking back
against alleged abuse. “Nobody knows
what I went through,” she said. “Nobody
knows anything about me.”
She said that after her husband assaulted
her, she went to the kitchen to get a glass of
water.
“It was just so many things together. I
was scared.... I was physically hurt.... The
first thing I saw was a knife, when I turned.
I grabbed that knife and, um, I went to the
bedroom, and he was there, I guess, and he
kind of, like, moved or something. I don’t
know. And I took the sheets off, and I cut
him.”
She said she wished she had never done
it, but couldn’t say for sure if she felt re
morse, or if she thought he deserved it.
James Sehn, a urologist who helped
perform the nine-hour operation to reat
tach Bobbitt’s penis, said, “He has a work
ing organ. It’s very possible he’s already
had sex, and I wouldn’t be surprised.”
U.S. Troops Bound to Stay in Somalia to Hold Up U.N. Forces
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NAIROBI, Kenya No president
wants to preside over the deaths of Ameri
can boys in strange, faraway places, but a
pullout of U.S. troops could sound the
death knell for U.N. military and humani
tarian operations in Somalia.
There is little doubt that the4,7ooAmeri
can soldiers in Somalia are the glue that
holds together the 28,000-strong U.N.
peacekeeping force from 33 nations.
Without the 3,000 U.S. troops perform
ing logistics work underU.N. command, it
would be impractical or impossible for
many nations to send troops to Somalia.
Their units depend on the U.S. contingent
for water, food and transportation.
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and five Americans injured in the violence,
warning against travel to the still-volatile
country.
Dennis Papazian, director of the Michi
gan-based Center for Study of Russia, the
Caucasus and Central Asia, said Yeltsin
had the potential for historic failure or
historic success.
“Ifhe has greatness in him, then he may
pull this off. Ifhe has fatal flaws as many
suspect he does, he may make topical re
forms only,” he said. “I hope and expect
that he will follow a moderate road, have
elections, and go on with democratic re
form.
“His actions were unfortunate, but the
situation deteriorated and he finally did
what he had to do,” Papazian said.
Many scholars across the country agreed
with Schwartz that Yeltsin was forced to
violent actions by hard-line lawmakers se
questered in the Parliament building.
“I think that for two weeks Yeltsin was
cautious and tried to avoid the use of force,
so I think it’s a mistake to suggest that
Citizens of Northern Bosnia Racked
By Lack of U.N. Aid, Severe Shelling
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
It’s been 100 days since tens of thousands
ofMuslims trappedbetween Serb and Croat
guns in the nearly forgotten north have
seen an aid convoy.
As Bosnia plunges into its second win
ter of war, U.N. officials are warning of
disaster for at least 150,000 Muslims in the
towns of Maglaj and Tesanj.
The reports that make it to the outside
tell of near-starvation and ever fierce shell
ing from Serb and Croat artillery.
“These two towns are basically a black
hole for us,” said Ray Wilkinson, spokes
man in Sarajevo for the U.N. High Com
missioner for Refugees.
Radio reports that shelling of the two
towns had been intensifying for the past
week are unconfirmed. But the situation
clearly is grim.
A Bosnian army official, speaking on
condition of anonymity, said shelling had
been continuous for a month in what ap
peared to be a standoff. He said Muslim
led government forces have adequate am
Buttafuoco Admits to Having Sex with Fisher
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK After 1 1/2 years of
denials—tohis wife, to Howard Stem and
Phil Donahue, to the produeersofhis made
for-TV movie Joey Buttafuoco finally
admitted it Tuesday: He slept with Amy
Fisher.
He admitted it happened at a motel. He
admitted knowing she was just 16 years
old. And he admitted it all in court, where
he pleaded guilty to third-degree rape and
set himself up for a six-month jail term.
“OnJulyi, 1991,1 had sexual relations
with Amy Fisher at the Freeport Motel,”
Buttafuoco declared in a clear voice before
a packed courtroom, acknowledging the
affair for the first time. He appeared with
out his wife, Mary Jo, who is said to be
standing by her man despite his confes
sion.
Joey Buttafuoco’s plea was one of the
final frames ofthe saga that began May 19,
1992, whenFishershotMary Jo Buttafuoco
in the head to clear the way for her affair
with Joey Buttafuoco. Fisher is serving
five-to-15 years for the shooting.
The “Joey and Amy” story captured the
public’s imagination like few others. There
About 1,300 other U.S. soldiers, bol
stered recently by 400 elite Rangers, make
up the Quick Reaction Force, designed
originally to provide rapid relief for other
national units that might find themselves
in trouble.
U.N. Secretary-General Boutros
Boutros-Ghali has shrunk from Clinton
administration suggestions that it might
withdraw U.S. troops. He said a pullout
would mean the abandonment of southern
Mogadishu to fugitive warlord Mohamed
Farrah Aidid.
And that, Boutros-Ghali said, would
“condemn the people of Somalia to the
resumption of civil war and all the horrors
that would result.” Somalia was tom by
STATE & NATIONAL
Yeltsin was trigger-happy,” said Russell
Bova, a political science professor at
Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.
Schwartz said Yeltsin now had huge
decisions to make concerning treatment of
his former vice president and Parliament
speaker.
“Yeltsin has to decide what to do with
(Alexander) Rutskoi and (Ruslan)
Khasbulatov, how to treat them, whether
or not he should bring them to trial or not, ”
he said. “It is a very delicate political bal
ance.”
Many scholars expressed concern that
because of his past autocratic inclinations,
Yeltsin could end reforms or institute slower
reforms while retaining his base of power.
“Yeltsin is acting undemocratically to
bring about democracy, and there is al
ways the fear that someday he may act
undemocratically to end democracy,”
Papazian said. “He cannot make Russia
democratic by making it autocratic.”
Bova said he thought Yeltsin could very
well upgrade his current, though neces
munition, but food and other civilian sup
plies are scarce.
“It’s potentially the worst-off region of
Bosnia,” Wilkinson said. “Ifeastern Bosnia
is critical, the Maglaj pocket has the poten
tial for catastrophe.”
“We have no specifics, but the condi
tionsmustbeterrible. They must have very
little food, virtually no medicines and profr
ably no shelter.”
Sylvana Foa of UNHCR headquarters
in Geneva said Tuesday marked the 100th
day since an aid convoy has reached the
towns. The last one turned back after it
came under fire and two Danish drivers
were killed.
No aid officials are in the towns, which
now rely on nighttime U.N. airdrops.
About 110 tons were dropped last week,
but much of it is believed to have drifted
over enemy lines, out of reach of civilians.
Wilkinson said there were reports that
four people had died of food poisoning,
after eating wild mushrooms.
The towns are the only Bosnian govern
ment holdouts in northern Bosnia, where
was an instant book and three made-for-
TV movies. The Buttafuocos were guests
on the “Donahue” show, where Joey
Buttafooco was vilified. Jokes proliferated .
David Letterman drew laughs by simply
saying “Buttafuoco, ” while Madonna tore
Buttafuoco’spictureupon “Saturday Night
Live.”
“Let me tell you something. I don’t
cheat on my wife. No. Oh, no. Oh, no,”
Buttafuoco told radio host Stem last year.
Buttafuoco, who will be sentenced Nov.
15, had nothing to say after the 20-minute
hearing before Nassau County Court Judge
Jack Mackston. Under a plea bargain,
Buttafuoco’s sentence will be no more than
six months in jail, five years’ probation and
a $5,000 fine.
If he gets the maximum, Buttafuoco
could be released after four months.
“Itwasadifficultandhardday. Ithought
he handled it well,” said Buttafuoco’s at
torney, Dominic Barbara. “Joey
Buttaftioco is prepared to do whatever he
has to do for his children and his family.”
What he wouldn’t do, prosecutors said,
was participate in a blood test and a physi
cal examination.
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supplied by the Soviet Union and later the
United States during the Cold War.
TheU.S. Quick ReactionForce,known
locally as the QRF, is one of the most
essential parts ofthe U.N. military effort. It
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sary, dictatorial policies to cover the entire
Russian political system.
“Having instituted censorship within
the media, the question now is, will he
become autocratic and initiate a dictator
ship?” Bova said. He also questioned the
price Yeltsin had to pay to get the backing
of the military.
Papazian said that despite the apparent
end to the crisis, the future of Russian
reform was very much up in the air.
Yeltsin’s new plan of action should be
quite clear, he said.
“Yeltsin next needs to create a constitu
tion which is decently established, hold
parliamentary elections in December as he
promised that are free and democratic,
then encourage the Parliament to pass laws
on banking and taxes, things that they have
never had in Russia,” Papazian said.
Bova said Yeltsin would have to build a
stable foundation for Russia’s future.
“He’s won the battle but the long-term
effects on Russian democracy remain to be
seen.”
Serbs are consolidating a supply corridor
connecting their occupied territories in
western Bosnia and neighboring Croatia
to Serbia proper.
Bosnian Croats, who initially fought
with the government against Seth forces,
recently split and have cooperated with the
Serbs in some areas.
Lt. Col. Bill Aikman, a spokesman for
U.N. peacekeepers in Sarajevo, said last
week that some4o,ooopeople were trapped
in Maglaj and more than 100,000 were
holed up in nearby Tesanj.
Wilkinson said it was possible that
200,000 people could be pinned down by
shelling in the towns and surrounding ar
| eas, about 40 miles northwest of Sarajevo.
If no convoys get through within a
month, U.N. aid officials say they will
have to try dropping winter tents by air.
Serb authorities in the northern Serb
stronghold of Banja Luka demand that
they be guaranteed more supplies before
any more aid is allowed to reach Maglaj.
Wilkinson said such linkage “is out of
the question” under UNHCR policies.
Assistant District Attorney Fred Klein
thought the blood test would confirm
Fisher’s story that Buttafuoco gave her
herpes; the physical exam would confirm
her detailed description of Joey’s physical
attributes, including (but not exclusively) a
mole on his inner thigh.
The plea to the most serious count of a
19-count indictment resolves the whole
case.
Fisher’s lawyer, Philip Catapano, said
of the plea that “at least the world will
know Amy Fisher was not lying.”
Although Buttafuoco denied it, Fisher
charged they had an affair that included
trysts in four motels, Buttafuoco’s auto
body shop on New York’s Long Island and
aboard his boat, “Double Trouble.”
Fisher, now 19, was only 16 when the
affair began, which is below the legal age of
consent in New York state.
There still might be an explosive finale.
Fisher, as the victim in the crime, has a
right to speak at the sentencing —and she
just might do that, said Matthew
Rosenblum, another of her attorneys.
“Amy Fisher,” he said in understate
ment, “has a tendency to want to speak.”
is a highly mobile light-infantry unit,
equipped with a squadron of helicopters.
The Rangers brought at least a dozen of
their own helicopters with them when they
arrived in August.
While the QRF remains under U.S.,
and not U.N., command, its role has
changed in recent months. Instead ofbeing
a reserve force, it is being used more and
more as an operational unit.
That, perhaps, reflects a lack of faith by
some commanders in other U.N. armed
forces.
With almost half of the U.N. force
pinned down in positions in southern
Mogadishu by militiamen loyal to Aidid,
the QRF’s helicopters have played an in
creasingly important—and visible—role.
They are almost constantly in the sky
low over southern Mogadishu where they
patrol mean streets on which the United
Nations has become increasingly loathe to
send its soldiers on foot surrendering
them, in effect, to Aidid.
GRE Testing to Be Part
Of Computer Revolution
BYMELISSA ROCHE
STAFF WRITER
Next month, the Educational Testing
Service will debut anew version of the
Graduate Records Examination (GRE),
which uses anew computer feedback
method of standardized testing.
The new Computer-Adaptive Test ver
sion of the GRE, which will be offered
beginning Nov. 1 at Sylvan Learning Cen
ters across the nation, has been preceded
by the Computer-Based Testing Program,
a computer version of the written GRE
test, said Kevin Gonzalez, an ETS spokes
man.
The GRE is a standardized test admin
istered to graduate school applicants.
“The Computer-Based Test is meant to
be a transitional step between the tradi
tional pencil-and-paper test and the new
Computer-Adaptive Test,” he said.
The Computer-Based Testing Program
has been offered at Sylvan Learning Cen
ters since last fall, said Ron Hester, director
of the Sylvan Learning Center in Raleigh.
Sylvan Learning Centers and the Edu
cational Testing Service have signed a con
tract granting the Sylvan Learning Centers
the sole right to administer the computer
ized version of the GRE, Gonzalez said.
The new Computer-Adaptive Test will
contain a smaller amount of questions and
will only present the test taker with ques
tions at the level of difficulty on which he
is functioning, he said.
“The first question will be of medium
difficulty,” he said. “If you answer a ques
tion incorrectly, the next question will de
crease in difficulty. If you answer a ques
tion correctly, the next question will in
crease in difficulty.”
The test taker will receive more points
for answering more difficult questions and
fewer points for answering less difficult
questions, Gonzalez said.
“The ETS wants only high scorers to get
the hard questions,” Krebs said. “They
Georgian Leader Imposes
Curfews, Orders Arrests
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TBILISI, Georgia Georgian leader
Eduard Shevardnadze imposed a curfew
Tuesday in the capital and in regions tom
by fighting between government troops
and rebels loyal to the former president.
The overnight curfew was announced
after widespread fighting between the rival
armies was reported in western Georgia
and several opponents of Shevardnadze
were arrested.
“We need tough measures to combat
terrorists and those forces attempting to
overthrowthestate,”saidDzhabalsoeliani,
the military commander of Shevardnadze’s
Emergency Defense Council.
Shevardnadze, using special powers
granted by Parliament, ordered the arrest
of several prominent supporters of ousted
President Zviad Gamsakhurdia.
David Mumuladze, a spokesman for
Georgia’s intelligence service, said a num
ber of people had been arrested for “the
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lead the procession of different groups into
Kenan Stadium.
Themain procession willbeled by Mark
Henderson, a 1951 UNC graduate, as he
completes his re-enactment of Hinton
James’ 155-mile walk from Wilmington.
The final event of the day will be the
president’s speech.
Tepper said his office was waiting for
confirmation of final details of the
president’s arrival. The Bicentennial Of
fice is working around the clock to accom
modate Clinton’s schedule, Tepper said.
“No matter how well you plan for the
president, there will be certain things you
have to change,” Tepper said.
Hopefully, Clinton’s itinerary will ac-
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all students. “Socioeconomic biases both
in policy and practice are felt by both
parents and students, ” she said. “Our com
munity is no w suffering from our neglect. ”
Candidate Billy Bevill said he always
had supported the public schools. Bevill
recently removed his children from the
system, explaining that the schools were
teaching a value-based education instead
of the basics.
“I believe the critical issue is the level of
communication with the board and citi
zens, ” he said. “There is never a time when
the board collectively answers to the pub
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don’t want low scoring students to guess
and get the hard-scoring questions correct
just by chance.”
Gonzalez said he believed that the writ
ten administration of the GRE would be
phased out completely by 1997 and re
placed by the Computer-Adaptive Test.
The cost of the computer test is $93,
compared to the S4B charge for the written
examination. The current GRE test con
sists of 185 questions of varying difficul
ties, Gonzalez said.
Patty Krebs, area director of Princeton
Review, a national program that prepares
students for standardized tests, said the
new testing system would use computers
to adjust the test to each individual student’s
level of competence.
She said this would ensure students
would not have to spend time on questions
that were too easy or too difficult for them.
Krebs said she thought the Computer-
Based Test would be awkward to take.
“The Computer-Based Test is a clumsy
version of the written test,” Krebs said.
“You have to scroll the texts back and forth
to look at the reading and then at the
questions.”
But Hester said he had heard few com
plaints from students who had taken the
computer version of the GRE in Raleigh.
“Out of maybe 400 students who have
taken the Computer-Based Test, only two
students have said they didn't like it,”
Hester said.
For the past two or three months, the
center has included an extra experimental
section on the test which resembles the
new Computer-Adaptive Test, Hester said.
To entice students to take the experi
mental section seriously, the students were
allowed to claim the score of the experi
mental section if it was better than the
score they received on the traditional test
ing, said Hester.
“A lot of people have expressed interest
in the Computer-Adaptive Program and
are excited about the new system,” he said.
violation of emergency laws, the posses
sion of firearms and sedition.”
Juliana Datoashvili, a spokeswoman
for Gamsakhurdia, called the arrests ille
gal.
The Defense Ministry said five govern
ment soldiers were killed and dozens
wounded in skirihishes in western Geor
gia. Rebels are seeking control of strategic
positions between the seaport of Poti and
Kutaisi, the country’s second-largest city.
Gamsakhurdia loyalists captured Poti
on Saturday and are trying to move east
ward toward Tbilisi, the capital.
Gamsakhurdia, Georgia’s first demo
cratically elected president since it split
from the Soviet Union in 1991, was over
thrown ina military coup in January 1992.
Returning from exile two weeks ago, he
quickly amassed an army in his native
stronghold of Mingrelia in northwestern
Georgia and began trying to oust
Shevardnadze.
commodate the scheduled time for his con
vocation address, Tepper said. If it does
not, other dignitaries participating in the
convocation will have to change their
schedule. “The White House is aware of
that, and we hope they will be sensitive to
it,” he said.
Tepper said that without the generous
donations of time from volunteers and
campus departments, the celebration would
have been impossible. About 600 volun
teers, mostly students and some staff and
local residents, have helped with the cel
ebration.
Tepper said the work at the Bicenten
nial Office, located in the Alumni House,
never stopped. He encouraged anyone in
terested in helping to drop by.
“Someone is here 20 hours a day and
generally in a good mood.”
lie. This has got to change.
“We need to remove programs that take
away from academic time.”
Candidate Grainger Barrett was in Aus
tralia and therefore could not attend the
forum. Esther Tate spoke in his place.
In her opening statement, Tate said
Barrett believed every parent had a stake in
the success of every child.
“We must pursue academic success and
excellence together as a community, or we
will fall apart separately,” she said. “He’s
deeply concerned for the success of Afri
can-American students.
“We must extend a lifting hand to en
sure all our children have a part in aca
demic excellence.”