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Volume 101, Issue 96
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; INTHENEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
U.S. Forces Stay Neutral
As Clans Fight in Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia—Militiamen
loyal to Mohamed Farrah Aidid, engaged
for months in a guerrilla war with U.N.
forces, clashed with an old rival Monday in
fighting that broke a 19-month-old truce.
U.N. officials said at least 10 Somalis
were killed and 45 were wounded in fierce
battles around Aidid's stronghold.
The battles began when Ali Mahdi’s
supporters tried to cross the Green Line for
what was touted as a peace rally.
Spokesmen for Aidid’s faction had
warned Ali Mahdi’s followers not to come
into their stronghold, and accused Ali
Mahdi of trying to disrupt a truce Aidid
ordered Oct. 9 in his battles with U.N.
troops. U.N. and American troops stayed
out of the fray.
U.N. Envoy Urges World
Leaders to Help Haitians
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti U.N.
envoy Dante Caputo urged international
statesmen Monday to come to Haiti in 48
hours to protect lawmakers against politi
cal terror and salvage a rapidly unraveling
plan for restoring democracy.
Caputo made the desperate appeal just
five days before ousted President Jean-
Bertrand Aristide was scheduled to return
under the terms of a U.N. peace plan.
Premier Robert Malval canceled a trip
to Washington to meet Aristide because he
did not want to raise expectations that
Aristide would return on time, Informa
tion Minister Herve Denis said.
Ukrainian Lawmakers Fail
To Support Disarmament
KIEV, Ukraine Ukraine’s President
Leonid Kravchuk and leaders of Parlia
ment avoided setting a timetable for nuclear
disarmament Monday, despite appeals
from Secretary of State Warren Christo
pher for compliance with past pledges.
Kravchuk promised to putthe 1991 Stra
tegic Arms Reduction Treaty before the
Parliament for ratification in November.
But he did not promise approval, even after
Christopher offered at least $330 million in
U.S. economic assistance this fiscal year.
Leaders of Ukraine’s parliament cited
instability in Russia as a reason not to
dismantle all their nuclear warheads or to
become a non-nuclear nation right away.
Egyptian President Visits
Clinton at White House
WASHINGTON Amid extraordi
nary security, Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak gave President Clinton an up
beat assessment ofMiddle East peace talks
Monday, predicting quick resolution of
differences between Syria and Israel.
Clinton appeared more cautious than
Mubarak about prospects for the peace
talks. Clinton said he and Mubarak agreed
on a need to implement the Israeli-Pales
tine Liberation Organization accord that
promised Palestinian autonomy in the
Gaza Strip and the city of Jericho.
Under death threats from Islamic ex
tremists, Mubarak was accorded unprec
edented security precautions. Traffic was
barred on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of
the White House, and massive concrete
barricades stood in the way in case anyone
tried to break through.
Durham Teen Hospitalized
After Robbery, Shooting
DURHAM —A 16-year-old’slifehung
in the balance after a gang of masked rob
bers dragged him from a car, beat him and
shot him in the back of the head. The
robbers got $3 from him.
The youth, Steven L. Crain Jr., was on
life support at Duke Medical Center after
being shot about 1:23 a.m. Sunday.
A teenage companion was robbed of
s2l and hit with a gun on the head. He
managed to get in the car and drive away.
Family members of Crain’s compan
ion, who requested anonymity for him out
of fear of retaliation by the robbers, said
Crain had agreed earlier to meet the teen at
his job to drive him home.
The robbers told the youths to get out of
the car, or they would be shot.
The robbers later knocked Crain’s cap
off and taunted him about his shaved head,
using racial epithets against Crain, who is
white.
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Spangler Deal Brings New Criticism
BYPHUONGLY
STAFF WRITER
UNC-system President C.D. Spangler
recently invested S3B million in the sec
ond-largest gypsum-wallboard manufac
turer in the world, and some state and
University officials say they are worried
Spangler hai his hands too full with his
public and private responsibilities.
Spangler, who is one of the state’s
wealthiest individuals, and his family have
purchased about 2 million shares of stock,
or 10 percent of Charlotte-based National
Gypsum Cos. through Spangler’s company,
Golden Eagle Industries Inc. of Charlotte.
The company offered Spangler a spot on its
board of directors when it learned of his
investment, and Spangler officially will
join the board Sunday, company spokes
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Matthew Hanley, a senior from Clayton, reads outside Person Hall on Monday afternoon while a statue appears to look
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Students Begin Final Push for Bonds
Student Government Effort
To Include Fliers, Posters
In Support of Bond Issue
BYERICA LUETZOW
STAFF WRITER
On the Nov. 2 ballot, students will have
more to vote on than just local government
candidates.
In an effort to pass a bond issue on the
ballot that would grant more than $33
million to UNC, student government is
working to encourage all registered stu
dents to vote for the UNC-system capital
improvement bonds.
LaineyEdmisten, student government
state relations coordinator, said the 16
UNC-system campuses would use $3lO
million of the $740 million bond package
to finance building projects at the schools.
Because the bond would greatly benefit
UNC, all students should vote, Edmisten
said.
Student government hopes to increase
awareness of the bond by distributing fliers
and posters and talking with students in
California Student-Fees Ruling Won’t Affect University Groups
BYPETER ROYBAL
STAFF WRITER
UNC student groups deemed political
or ideological by some students can con
tinue to receive mandatory student fees
and will not be affected by a February
California Supreme Court decision that
allows individual students to choose which
organizations they will fund.
FormerStudentCongressßep. Charlton
Allen and current Rep. Joey Stansbury,
Dist. 11, said Monday that they would
support a decision like the one made in
Smith vs. University of California Regents
so individual students could dictate that
their fees would not be used to fund orga
nizations such as Bisexuals, Gay Men,
Lesbians and Allies for Diversity, a group
Cbapal Hill, North Carolina
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26,1993
man Allan Cecil said.
UNC Board ofTrustees member Walter
R. Davis said Sunday that Spangler’s ex
tensive business obligations made him a
“part-time” president of the 16-campus
university system.
Spangler needs to devote his full atten
tion to university concerns, such as UNC
CH’s slip from national rankings, rather
than dividing his time between business
pursuits and university duties, Davis said.
“You can’t run a university system and
a big business at the same time,” Davis
said. “Whenyouinvestthatkindofmoney,
it’s going to take a lot of your time.”
Two years ago, Davis resigned from the
UNC Board of Governors, a position he
held for 10 years, citing Spangler’s man
agement.
Spangler owns stock in Nationsßank
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residence halls and student meetings,
Edmisten said.
“We’re working on some publicity for
the bonds,” Edmisten said.
“We’re doing a big publicity blitz to get
people to vote.”
Organizers are investigating the idea of
an on-campus polling site to increase voter
participation, she said.
It is particularly important for all regis
tered students to vote for the bond because
it will show the legislators in Raleigh that
the students care about their university,
Edmisten said.
The bond will both improve the quality
of education at UNC and also indirectly
benefit the state as well, Edmisten said.
At UNC, the money would be used for
improvements and additions to many cam
pus buildings, such as the Lineberger Can
cer Research Center, and for anew build
ing forthe Kenan-Flagler Business School.
“We’ve got a lot of pending projects
critical to the long-term success of the
University,” said Jim Copland, student
body president.
“It’s totally in the student’s self-interest
to vote for it.”
Even students who don’t support the
Allen considers political.
“If people have a philosophical opposi
tion to a group’s mission, they shouldn’t
have to fund it,” Allen said.
But the U.S. Supreme Court’s early
October decision not to hear an appeal of
the Smith case means N.C. precedent,
which permits use of mandatory student
fees for groups some consider political or
ideological, has not been changed.
The N.C. precedent was set in 1974
when Robert Lane Arrington and five other
UNC students filed a suit charging that
their First Amendment freedoms had been
violated because their student fees paid for
TheDailyTarHeel, which proposed views
contrary to their own.
The court ruled in favor of the paper
“The disbursement of funds derived from
and serves on the board of directors of
Bell South Corp.
Forbes magazine recently ranked
Spangler 220th out of 440 in its annual
liking of the nation’s richest individuals.
His net worth this year is $475 million, up
from $390 million last year, according to
the Forbes ranking.
Spangler said Monday that he did not
want to comment on the investment on
National Gypsum because it was a family
investment.
Spangler, who has been system presi
dent for almost eight years, said he had no
comment on whether his business pursuits
were taking his time away from his public
duties. In the past, he has said he had little
to do with the day-to-day functions of his
family’s business.
He said Monday that he saw no conflict
specific projects in the proposal should
vote for the bond issue because the bond
money will allow other University needs
to be addressed, Copland said.
Copland said that because money for
the capital projects would have been se
cured through the bonds, it might become
easier for other University needs to ad
dressed.
“It will be easier for other building
projects to get funding,” Copland said.
Asa result, other University financial
requests involving faculty salaries, library
needs and financial aid are more likely to
be met by the General Assembly, Copland
said.
Now is a good time to issue bonds,
Copland said.
“It’s the ideal time to have a bond be
cause the interest rate is very low, ” Copland
said.
“Asa fiscal matter, this is something the
state can very easily manage without a tax
increase.”
The bond package also includes fund
ing for construction projects at the state’s
community colleges as well as money for a
clean-water initiative valued at $145 mil
lion and funds for the state park system.
“The government effectively
taxes you and spends your
money for ideological
propaganda purposes
WILLIAM VANALSTYNE
Duke Law School professor
mandatory student fees to and for the ben
efit of the DTH creates the possibility of
censorship by (Arrington)” and therefore
is a violation of the paper’s constitutional
rights.
Betsy Bunting, who represented the
University in the 1974 litigation, said the
DTH case had been cited in other student-
of interest between his public and private
pursuits.
The state Board of Ethics has told
Spangler in the past to be careful in his
public and private duties to avoid both
legal problems and the appearance of con
flict of interest.
N.C. law states that government offi
cials can invest in companies and serve on
their boards. But officials cannot make
legal contracts with a company for the state
boards that they serve on if they own 10
percent or more of the company.
W. Travis Porter, vice chairman of the
Board of Governors, said that as for as he
knew, Spangler’s business pursuits ben
efited the university system and were not a
conflict of interest.
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Council Sets Date for
Gun-Control Hearing
BY ROCHELLE KLASKIN
STAFF WRITER
The next round of the gun-control de
bate will be Nov. 4, when the council will
hold a hearing to receive public comment
on possible local firearm regulations.
The council met Monday night to set a
date for a formal debate on more stringent
gun control in Chapel Hill and for Town
Attorney Ralph Karpinos to present two
additional ordinance proposals.
Karpinos explained five ways the town
council could control violent crime through
gun control:
■ Prohibit the display of any firearm by
any person consuming or under the influ
ence of alcohol or any other impairing
substance on town streets, sidewalks, al
leys and other public property;
■ Prohibit the display of any firearm at
polling places;
■ Prohibit the display of any firearm at
any public assembly in Chapel Hill on
public streets, sidewalks, alleys and other
public property;
■ Prohibit the display of any small hand
gun that is “easily and ordinarily carried
concealed” on the streets, sidewalks and
alleys of the town; and
■ Prohibit the sale, possession storage,
use or conveyance within the town of any
weapon of mass death and destruction, to
be defined to include assault and certain
semi-automatic weapons.
The manager had recommended that
the public hearing be held in the cultural
arts auditorium of Chapel Hill High School
Nov. 9.
But because not all council members
would be able to attend the hearing, mem
bers changed the date to Nov. 4.
Town council members hope to have
the hearing at the auditorium, but will
have to check with school officials.
The town also considered having a fo
rum to hear public comment about whether
the town should lobby the N.C. General
Assembly to seek a public referendum
changing the state constitution to enable
more restrictive statutes and local ordi
nances controlling guns.
Council member Mark Chilton said that
the forum was postponed indefinitely be
cause the N.C. General Assembly only
took up controversial issues in odd-num
bered years.
He said it would be premature to have a
forum because the Assembly could not
take action in 1994.
Council member Art Werner said he
was concerned that if the council com
bined the public hearing with the forum,
residents would not address the specific
local resolutions.
Wemer said he also feared it would just
be a repeat of the Sept. 7 public hearing,
which was emotional and disorganized.
“I think the forum opens it up to the
broad gun discussion.”
fees cases around the country.
William Vanalstyne, Perkins Professor
of Constitutional Law at Duke Law School,
said he wasn’t surprised the U.S. Supreme
Court didn’t address the case because its
state outcome was consistent with other
decisions the court had made, but agreed
that the Smith ruling would only apply in
California.
Vanalstyne compared the collection of
mandatory student fees to fund political or
ideological groups to state bar associations
that required lawyers to pay a fee to prac
tice and then used the dues for “propa
ganda purposes you find repugnant,” like
advocating prochoice legislation.
“The government effectively taxes you
and spends your money for ideological
propaganda purposes,” Vanalstyne said.
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SPANGLER and his family recently
made a large investment in
Charlotte-based National Gypsum.
Town Manager
Recommends
Rejecting Class
On Gun Safety
BYMAUREEN TURNER
STAFF WRITER
The Chapel Hill Town Council was
scheduled to discuss a proposal Mon
day night to use town-owned facilities
for firearm training —a proposal that
the town manager recommended re
jecting.
The request, submitted to the coun
cil in late September by David
McFarling, president of the Durham
Pistol and Rifle dub, Inc., requested
the use of Chapel Hill classrooms for a
National Rifle Association Home Fire
arm Safety Course.
Town Manager Cal Horton, who
reviewed the proposal, recommended
in a memo to the council and Mayor
Ken Broun that it be rejected.
Horton cited philosophical incon
sistencies between the proposed pro
gram and the council’s history of gun
control efforts.
“It’s clear from the council’s poli
cies and ordinances that it is their ob
jective to reduce the possession and
display of handguns or any kind of
guns,” Horton said Monday.
Such a course also would violate a
1992 town ordinance prohibiting fire
arms in town buildings, said Town
Attorney Ralph Karpinos.
The course, according to
McFarling’s proposal, would not in
clude shooting firearms but would use
unloaded guns and non-fireable bul
lets provided by the instructor to teach
students about loading, safety, care
and storage.
Karpinos said that while the town
ordinance did not explicitly state that
only operable firearms were banned,
the town still was considering amend
ing the rule to include all guns
whether operable, inoperable or fac
similes to ensure against possible
legal problems.
“My understanding from court cases
is that, absent some specific definition,
the courts would not consider toys or
facsimiles to be included (in the ban),”
Karpinos said.
Council member Art Wemer said
Monday that Horton’s proposal to deny
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At the University of California, the As
sociated Students, who lost their bid to
reverse the Smith decision, are preparing a
proposal to collect mandatory fees and
then allow students to get a refund for
categories of groups they don’t want to
support, said Sarah Swan, University af
fairs advocate at the university.
Swan said she thought the alternative
—developing a definition of a political
group would destabilize student gov
ernment.
Allen said he would favor a system
where students could apply for a refund of
their fees that went to groups they did not
support. He said student government would
distribute money to groups for students
who didn’t apply for a refund as they did
now.