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HAPPY 200TH BIRTHDAY, UNC (5hp iailu (Tar !M £ Volume 101, Issue 88 A century ofeditorial freedom Serving the students and the University community since 1193 ■ IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation and world U.N. Welcomes Cease-Fire Offer by Somalian Warlord NAIROBI, Kenya—Following a show of force over Mogadishu by U.S. war planes Monday, the U.N. special envoy to Somalia welcomed a cease-fire by the mi litia of clan leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid. The comment by Jonathan Howe, a retired admiral, was relayed to reporters at a briefing after Mogadishu ended its third night without attacks on fortified U.N. positions around the city. “We welcome all overtures of peace and stability in Mogadishu, as we have seen them in the rest of the country,” Howe’s statement said. His spokesman, Farouk Mawlawi, said he would not elabo rate on the envoy’s words. Fighting between U.N. peacekeepers and Aidid’s militiamen has been largely confined to the part of Mogadishu con trolled by Aidid. Haitian Protesters Prevent U.N. Forces From Landing PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Anny backed toughs wrecked plans for Ameri can troops to land Monday as part of an international peace mission, drove away U.S. diplomats waiting to greet them and threatened to create another Somalia. The band of 25 to 50 men, some of them armed, beat up merchants in the nearby market and fired guns while roving through the capital, including the seaside U.S. Embassy. No casualties were reported. U.S. and U.N. officials said die distur bances would not halt the overall peace mission. But it was yet another direct chal lenge by the military to the U.N. efforts to restore democracy to Haiti. Monday’slanding was to begin the peace mission to restore democracy and rebuild the economy. About 100 other U.N. per sonnel including 25 U.S. troops al ready are in the country. Russian Voters to Elect Two Parliament Chambers MOSCOW President Boris Yeltsin moved to give more power to Russian voters Monday by ordering that both cham bers ofßussia’s new parliament be elected, instead of just the lower chamber. Yeltsin said the upper chamber, the Federation Council, would be elected Dec. 12 along with the larger State Duma. The order was issued as Yeltsin departed for Tokyo for a three-day state visit. The upper chamber will consist of two representatives from each of the Russian Federation’s 89 regions. Representatives to both chambers will serve four-year terms. Yeltsin has set presi dential elections for next June. Arafat Wins New Support For Mideast Peace Accord TUNIS, Tunisia Palestine Libera tion Organization chairman Yasser Arafat gained an influential ally Monday in ef forts to get the Palestine Central Council to endorse a peace accord with Israel. Farouk Kadoumi, head of the PLO’s political department, set aside misgivings about parts of the accord and joined Arafat in urging the council to endorse it. The pact gives Palestinians a measure of self-rule in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho, with their powers to be spread over a wider area pending the outcome of talks in the next three years. T erms of the accord require approval by the Palestine National Congress, orparlia ment in exile. Greece Returns Socialist To Position of Premier ATHENS, Greece Premier-elect Andreas Papandreou began assembling the Cabinet Monday that he hoped would help him keep bold promises to the voters who returned him to power in a stunning elec tion upset. Greeks weary of the conservative government’s harsh economic policies Sunday gave Papandreou back the post he held for eight years before a banking scan dal drove him from office in 1989. Papandreou and his Panhellenic So cialist Movement won 46.9 percent of the vote and 171 seats in the 300-member uni cameral Parliament, a far cry from the 38.6 percent he got four years ago. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: Partly cloudy; high mid-60s. WEDNESDAY: Fair skies; high upper 60s to lower 70s. Li’s Lecture Kicks Off Celebration BY STEPHANIE GREER STATE AND NATIONAL EDITOR Former Chinese student leader Li Lu shared his experiences of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and received two standing ovations from a rapt and often emotional audience at Monday’s opening lecture of the UNC Bicentennial Celebration. “Freedom cannot be preserved without educated minds,” he told the crowd of more than 600, which spilled out of the designated seating areas and across thebalcony in the Great Hall of the Student Union. “Freedom is our heaven-given right since the be- UNC BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 200 YEARS ginning of man,” he added. The deputy leader of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations for democracy, Li presented a lecture titled “A Tribute to Freedom,” which denounced the Com munist government in his homeland and emphasized the necessity of education to ensure democracy. Li said he decided at age 10 that he wanted to be educated after his grand mother stressed to him the importance of education. “I want to help the helpless, to speak for the voiceless and to fight for the power less,” he said. Currently, Li is finishing up work on the three degrees he has pursued at Columbia University since his escape from China after the government crack-down. “There are no schools in China.... We only have centers for brainwash,” he said. Li relived his experiences at Tiananmen Square, praising the unification of the Chi nese protesters behind one cause but mourn ing the massacre that followed. “For the first time in 40 years, the Chi- Stepping Out WBM SEk !HL ■ oHMMg ■ 9 ill if? R. TRr m fl v-v ■, r H * W J DTH/IUSTIN WILLIAMS Junior Phi Beta Sigma member Derek Elliott performs Monday afternoon during the Black Greek Council Step Show in the Great Hall. Housekeepers Plan Forum In Pit, March on Polk Place BY JAMES LEWIS ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR On a day when the nation's attention will be focused on the oldest public univer sity in the nation, members of the UNC Housekeepers Movement hope to make the public aware of their fight for higher pay, better working conditions and more opportunities for advancement and train ing. Barbara Prear, a member of the House keepers Steering Committee, said the group would have an open mike for housekeep ers in the Pit at about 11:30a.m. that would probably last about half an hour. “It’s open to all the housekeepers,” she said. “Anybody who wants to speak.” Then, the housekeepers will march to Chapel Hill, North Carou TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12,1993 nese people united in one voice,” he said. “Hope was in the air,... and yet a tragedy awaited.” The year of Li’s birth, 1966, was the “darkest time” in the history of China’s government, he said. “According to my mother, I knew it was safer inside the womb when I was still a fetus,” he said. “So I delayed my arrival by a month.” Orphaned at an early age when his par ents were sent to a Communist labor camp, and his grandparents were sent to prison for espousing democratic beliefs, Li said he was moved from family to family. “All of my generation have gone through similar experi ences," he said. See special Bicentennial section inside “We have seen the sufferings, and we know for sure we do not want to repeat the lives our parents and grandparents have lived.” The audience was silent as Li described the somber atmosphere during the final days of the Tiananmen Square protests. “Freedom is not free. It costs,” he said. “Although we were prepared to die when we first came to the square, we now had to face it, eye to eye, face to face.” The focus of the demonstration was epitomized in the image of the student who faced down an entire brigade of tanks by himself, he said. “The world has watched that one lone student in front of a line of tanks.... There was a whole generation of Chinese behind that one man,” he said. “Freedom and an educated mind are what Tiananmen Square was all about,” he said. “But whatever happens on top of poli tics, people continue to suffer on the bot tom.” Li also praised the infallible spirit of the Chinese people. “Communists have failed to break the hope of millions of Chinese for a better life,” he said. Polk Place, the site of a Bicentennial picnic from noon until 2 p.m. Fred Wherry, a member of the execu tive committee of the Campus Y, said housekeepers had organized the event and the Campus Y fully supported the event. ‘ ‘ What theyfightforiswhatwefightfor, and that is social justice,” he said. He added that the march would not detract from the picnic. “The housekeepers are planning to gather in the Pit around 11:15 a.m. and march up through the quad, "he said. “This will be a very dignified march, like the people they are. They’re not out there to rain anybody’s picnic." Larry Farrar, also a member of the UNC Please See HOUSEKEEPERS, Page 4 Education makes a weak man strong. Li Lu i* M * " SUB.- ~ P?' JR Hr DTH/ELIZABETH MAYBACH Li Lu, deputy leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in China, delivers an address titled 'A Tribute to Freedom' to a crowd of more than 600 in the Great Hall on Monday. Turning his remarks toward the United States, Li praised American policies of liberty and democracy while exhorting citi zens, especially students, to take advan tage of their role in the workings of the government. “In China, we pay for our freedom with our lives, and here you earn your freedom by voting,” he said. University’s Bicentennial Observance To Include Dean, Davie, Dawn of Justice BYPHUONGLY STAFF WRITER Kevin Moran didn’t mind catching only a few hours of sleep a night in the past week and walking around campus talking to reporters on a cellular phone. The chairman of the Student Bicenten nial Planning Committee says he’s “in credibly excited” about the start of UNC’s 200th-year birth day bash. But then, who with UNC ties wouldn’t be fired up? More than 40,000 people are expected to come to UNC today to participate in the beginning of a seven-month UNC BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION :oe YEARS commemoration of the birth of public higher education in the nation. President Clinton is delivering the key note convocation speech. He will be the first U.S. president to speak at the Univer sity since John F. Kennedy visited the campus in 1961. UNC’s celebration, which has attracted hordes of state and national press, has Secret Service Plans Tight Kenan Security Spectators Must Enter Stadium by Two Gates The Bicentennial Observance Office recommends that students arrive when gates open at 5 p.m. and enter through Gate 6. Football game-day parking regulations will be in effect. University officials advise those who live off campus to use the park-and-ride lots. The convocation and speech will take place in Kenan Stadium rain or shine. DTH/IUSTIN SCHEEF Li closed his remarks with a hopeful message to students. “I wish for you, students ofNorth Caro lina, the experiences of leadership,” he said. As the audience applauded and gave him his second standing ovation, Li raised both arms and held up two fingers on each hand, symbolizing peace. required more than 600 workers planning and sweating for the past five years about logistics such as how to feed the 12,000 high school band and choir members per forming in the convocation. “You can’t help but be excited, ’’ Moran said. “You can just walk around campus and see all the Bicentennial flags, bunting, banners and buttons.” Old East Medication University Day will kickoffatMcCorkle Place at 10 a.m. with the rededication of Old East Residence Hall, the oldest state university building in the nation. Princeton University President Harold Shapiro is scheduled to attend the cer emony. Shapiro was invited because most of the early UNC faculty were educated at Princeton, said Richard Richardson, chair man of the Bicentennial Observance Com mittee. Polk Place Picnic Looking to the future for social justice is the theme of the picnic on Polk Place, to be held from noon to 2 p.m., organizers said. More than 2,000 people are expected to lunch on the main quad of campus in front of South Building. The Campus Y and the Bicentennial office are co-sponsoring a “Dawn of Jus- BYAMYPINIAK STAFF WRITER Having thousands ofpairs of eyes watch your every move tends to be a little unnerv ing. President Bill Clinton can rest easier knowing that many of those eyes will be long to his protectors. For Clinton’s address at the Kenan Convocation tonight, more than 100 state and federal law officers will be standing by to ensure safety and security for the presi dent. The convocation, which will be held in Kenan Stadium, will begin at 7 p.m. Clinton is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at 8 p.m. North Carolina and federal agents, and uniformed officers from the 15 UNC-sys tem institutions, Orange County, Chapel Hill, Carrboro and UNC will be on hand for the convocation, said Brock Winslow, director of the Bicentennial Observance. “With all those agencies, it’s certainly safe to say that there will be a lot of security around,” he said. Please See SECURITY, Page 4 News/Features/Aits/Spom 962-0245 Business/Advertising 962-1163 01993 DTH Publishing Corp. All tights reserved. N.C. Poll: Clinton’s Approval Rate Falls BY STEVE ROBBLEE ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR University representatives have been scurrying over the past few weeks to pre pare for President Bill Clinton’s visit to North Carolina, but N.C. citizens said last week they were not as happy with Clinton as they were in February, according to a poll sponsored by the University. Clinton’s approval rating dropped 6 percentage points from a similar poll in February, and the number of people who disapprove of the way Clinton is handling his job increased 12 percentage points. Thad Beyle, a political science profes sor specializing in N.C. politics, said Clinton’s approval rating was beginning to rise across the nation after dipping to a low point in May or June —and Not® Carolina might be reacting more slowly than the rest of the nation. “Clinton has dropped both in the state and in the nation, but in the nation he has comeback,” Beyle said. “I’m not surprised by (the results). He didn’t carry the state (m the presidential election).” In response to the question, “Do yam approve or disapprove of the way Biff Clinton is handling his job as president?”, 35 percent of N.C. residents said they ap proved and 48 percent said they disap proved. The rest either said they both ap proved and disapproved or said they didn’t know. Kim Poler, a resident of Archdale, said Please See APPROVAL, Page 5 tice” program, featuring entertainment by cultural and dance groups. “We want to use it as a catalyst for social change and focus on these movements,” said Michelle LeGrand, Campus Y co president. The Campus Y had wanted to hold separate Bicentennial programs because it felt cultural groups were being left out of the University celebration. The Bicenten nial office has said that cultural events had been included in the celebration, but asked the Campus Y to join the Bicentennial. Davie Poplar Ceremony The Davie Poplar Ceremony at 2 p.m., to be held in McCorkle Place with the flags from the state’s counties as a backdrop, will symbolize the University’s ties with the state, Richardson said. UNC head basketball coach Dean Smith will give a sapling from Davie Poplar, to 103 sixth-graders who represent the state’s 100 counties and the Cherokee Indian Reservation. (There are two sets of twins.) Richardson said Smith, the winningest active basketball coach in the nation, was chosen to hand out the saplings because “we wanted somebody that the kids would love to get the trees from.” Please See PREVIEW, Page 4 Parking Lots, Shops Prepare For Crowds BY ROCHELLE KLASKIN STAFF WRITER As President Clinton and an ex pected 50,000 followers make their treks to Chapel Hill for the Bicentennial cel ebration, parking supervisors and local businesses are gearing up for the day’s events. Motorists will be able to park in a number of University lots. “There will be signs on and ap proaching campus directing people where the closest place to park is,” Slid. Randy Young, Department of Tnm* portation and Parking marketing Spe- Please See CROWD, Page 4
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