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IN THE NEWS
Top stones from the state, nation and world
Teenager Arrested After
California Firebombings
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Police ar
rested one teenager and expected to detain
more suspects in a string of firebombings
aimed at minorities that Gov. Pete Wilson
blamed on a “gutless group.”
The first of five bombings damaged a
synagogue in July. The last caused minor
damage Oct. 14 to a state agency that
investigated discrimination in housing and
employment. Fires also were started at an
office of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, the Japa
nese-American Citizens League and the
home of Jimmie Yee, a city council mem
ber. The youth in jail turned 18 on Sunday.
Police didn’t identify the youth they
arrested Saturday. Officers want to deter
mine whether Sacramento-area skinhead
groups are responsible, said police spokes
man Michael F. Heenan.
Government, Rebels Call
Cease-Fire in Philippines
JAKARTA, Indonesia The Philip
pines government and Muslim rebels
agreed Sunday to a cease-fire, while talks
continue to end the separatist war that has
claimed at least 50,000 lives over two de
cades.
The talks, which began Oct. 25 in
Jakarta, are aimed at implementing a 1976
accord that calls for granting some au
tonomy to the 6 million Muslims in 13
southern provinces.
The rebellion began months after former
President Ferdinand Marcos declared
martial law in 1972. It had been largely
dormant until a spate of bombings hit the
south and the capital of Manila this year.
Free Elections in Jordan
Accompany Peace Talks
AMMAN, Jordan—Candidates made
last-minute appeals Sunday for votes in
Jordan’s first multiparty elections since
1956, in which proponents of peace with
Israel are expected to retain a majority in
Parliament.
Monday’s elections come after Israeli
officials confirmed over the weekend that
Jordan and Israel are close to reaching a
peace agreement. While Muslim funda
mentalists are expected to win the single
largest bloc in the lower house of Parlia
ment, conservative and tribal members who
support Hussein’s policy are expected to
keep a majority of seats.
The bicameral legislature must ratify
any peace agreement, although Hussein
retains ultimate authority with the power
to dissolve Parliament and rule by decree.
Assassination Attempt
Leads to Israeli Protests
BEIT KAHEL, Occupied West Bank
—Palestinian gunmen opened fire Sunday
on a car carrying a prominent rightist rabbi,
killing his driver. The attack led to settler
demonstrations in the occupied territories.
Rabbi Haim Druchman, a former legis
lator of the right-wing National Religious
Party, suffered light wounds in the arm and
shoulder. It wasn’t immediately clear
whether Druchman was the target.
The Democratic Front for the Libera
tion of Palestine, a Palestine Liberation
Organization faction led by Nayef
Hawatmeh, took responsibility for the at
tack in an announcement in Damascus,
Syria. But Israel radio said authorities be
lieved the attack was carried out by the
Muslim fundamentalist group Hamas.
Raleigh-Durham Airport
Gets Direct London Flight
RALEIGH-DURHAM American
Airlines on Friday congratulated the com
munities of Raleigh-Durham and Nash
ville for their successful efforts to gain
route authorities to serve London’s
Gatwick airport. Both cities learned Fri
day thattheU.S. Department of Transpor
tation had awarded them the routes.
Michael Gunn, American's senior vice
president of marketing, said service would
begin from both American hub cities May
26 using a Boeing 767 aircraft.
The new London service from Raleigh-
Durham will become American’s second
daily nonstop to Europe from its East Coast
hub. The airline began serving Paris from
Raleigh-Durham on May 26, 1988. The
Nashville-London service will be
American’s first international flight from
that hub.
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Heels' 4-1 ACC Championship win Sunday afternoon. See story on page 10.
Committees Aim to Improve Strained Faculty-Staff Relations
BYJOHN ADCOCK
STAFF WRITER
The Faculty Council and the Employee
Forum have decided to form two commit
tees to improve faculty-staff relations,
which have been strained since a heated
discussion over basketball ticket distribu
tion.
During that debate, which came at the
Oct. 15 Faculty Council meeting, some
professors said they deserved better tickets
than staff members because they were more
valuable to the University.
The new faculty-staff relations commit
tee will consist of an equal number of
faculty and staff.
Gun Buyback
Plan to Begin
In February
BYBRETT PERRY
STAFF WRITER
A program called “Buy Back the Hill"
designed to get unwanted guns off Chapel
Hill’s streets will begin in February, now
that Town Manager Cal Horton has given
the plan his stamp of approval.
The Chapel Hill Town Council will
vote tonight whether to support the gun
buyback program
initiated by town
council member
electJimProtzman.
Although the pro
gram could begin
without the
council’s approval,
the vote would
meansymbolic sup
port for Protzman’s
plan.
The program will
allow people to
bring unwanted
guns to the Chapel
Hill Police Depart-
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JIM PROTZMAN says
his business, FGI Inc.,
initially will fund the
buyback program to
get it off the ground.
ment, where they will be destroyed. Former
gun owners will receive money for their
unwanted guns and a receipt from the
police department documenting the trans
action.
Protzman’s business, FGI Inc., has do
nated the first SSOO to start the program.
Other private donations are expected to
continue to fund the program, which will
begin Feb. 1 after a January fund-raising
project.
“($500) should be enough money to
destroy a dozen guns,” Protzman said.
“We expect there will be a lot of support
from the public, and we hope that the
public will donate enough money to keep
the program running for a year.”
Chapel Hill residents who want to get
rid oftheir guns haveahard time, Protzman
said. “You have to go to a lot of trouble to
do something that would seem simple to
do.”
There are many reasons why people
mightnolongerwanttheirguns, Protzman
said.
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Membership for a second committee —
the basketball-ticket distribution commit
tee will be proportional to the Univer
sity work force, which is 74-percent staff
and 26-percent faculty.
Townsend Ludington, chairman of the
Faculty Committee on Athletics, said the
argument over ticket distribution was in
dicative of deeper issues concerning fac
ulty-staff relations.
Faculty Council Chairman James Pea
cock voiced similar concerns.
“I think the reason for bad relations is
that each has the wrong perception of the
other,” said Peacock, who proposed the
idea for the committees.
“I do not think there is enough contact
New Council Members Say Gun Control a Positive Step
BYAMYPINIAK
STAFF WRITER
Chapel Hill Town Council members
will have their hands full Nov. 22 when
they vote on five proposed stricter gun
control ordinances, which would prohibit
the use and storage of firearms in specific
areas.
The proposed ordinances will prohibit
the display of firearms by anyone underthe
influence of alcohol or drugs and the dis
play of small handguns on public property,
including sidewalks. They also will ban
firearms at polling places and the display of
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Alexander Julian, fashion designer and Chapel Hill native, shows Mike Hershfield various suit fabrics at Julian's College
Shop on East Franklin Street. Julian worked Saturday at the store his father started to promote changes at the shop.
Bands Ask University to Pay
Gists for Bicentennial Visit
UNC Can’t Afford to Repay
Expenses for Every Group,
University Officials Say
BY KIRK ROYAL
STAFF WRITER
East Carteret High School’s band spent
more than $6,000 to come to UNC to play
for President Clinton in the school's Bicen
tennial Celebration.
Schools from Burlington, Southern
Pines, Wadesboro and Wilson spent a to
tal of about $3,000.
Now they're asking the University for
compensation.
The bands
were among a
group of 13,000
high school
bands and cho-
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Festival for High
School Bands
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ruses from around the state that didn’t get
to play because of poor planning on the
part of Bicentennial organizers cost them
their reserved seats in Kenan Stadium.
“I don’t feel like it’s right to invite people
as your guests and then not even allow
them to participate,” said Arnold Adams,
director of the East Carteret Marching
between faculty and staff in a friendly at
mosphere,” he said.
Kay Wijnberg, chairwoman of the
Employee Forum, said she was hopeful
that better relations would result from the
new committees.
“The comments made at the Faculty
Councilmeetingupsetme,” Wijnberg said.
“But I really believe that there is a silver
lining in this that none have expected.”
The Employee Forum plans to ask Chan
cellor Paul Hardin to read a resolution at
the Faculty Council meeting Friday stat
ing that staff members are key contributors
to the University.
At the October Faculty Council meet
ing, some professors said they didn't think
firearms at public assemblies.
The last ordinance will prohibit the pos
session of weapons of mass destruction off
of one’s own property. Mass-destruction
weapons are defined as semi-automatic
weapons with the capacity of 20 rounds or
more.
The final public forum on the gun-con
trol issue, held by the town council Nov. 4,
gave area residents their last chance to
speak out against or in favor of the ordi
nances. More than 60 residents and non
residents spoke at the hearing.
Town council member-elect Rosemary
Waldorf, who will vote on the proposals,
Mariners. “Instead of working on my half
time shows, I spent all my time on this
thing, thinking we’d get to play.
“It was a big letdown for the kids,” he
said.
University officials have said they could
not meet the schools’ demands for reim
bursement because they could not afford to
compensate all the schools that were sup
posed to have participated.
University officials are offering to pay
registration and transportation costs of up
to sl,oooper band for a music festival to be
held at UNC in the spring. UNC has in
vited the 70 bands and 58 choruses to the
first Carolina Classic Band and Choral
Festival as reimbursement for the mix-up
at convocation.
Adams said the invitation to the music
festival was a political move, and his band
would not be participating in the festival.
“No one apologized for what happened
until the media got wind of the situation.”
He said SI,OOO was only “a drop in the
bucket” compared to what it would cost to
attend the festival. “Besides, we don’t want
to try something twice when we were
stabbed in the back the first time,” he said.
Steve Tepper, University Bicentennial
Observance Office director, blamed the
Secret Service for the problems of getting
it would be fair if a staff member received
better tickets than a tenured professor. They
said they wanted prime basketball tickets
to be a faculty perk.
The factors in the current distribution
policy are rank and the number of years an
employee has applied for basketball tick
ets. Employee Forum members want a
policy that considers only the number of
years at the University and the numbers of
years applying for tickets.
Some members of the Employee Fo
rum said they were upset over some of the
comments about faculty-staffequality made
at the meeting.
“I hope those comments reflect only a
small segment of the faculty council, ” said
said the hearing was orderly and helpful.
Waldorf will be sworn in earlier than the
three other council newcomers to fill in for
former town council member Joe
Herzenberg, who resigned Sept. 23 after a
year-long controversy surrounding his will
ful failure to pay state taxes.
“The citizens made some interesting
fine points that the town attorney (Ralph
Karpinos) will check on,” she said. “We
certainly want to adopt something that’s
workable.”
Waldorf said she favored all five pro
posals, but she wanted to wait and see what
answers Karpinos would find to the citi
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the bands into the stadium.
“The plans were changed 12 times in
five days because of security for the presi
dent,” he said.
The Secret Service refused to allow the
bands to enter the stadium early and made
them go through security checks that were
meant for the general public, Tepper said.
Asa result, the general public grabbed
seats reserved for the bands before the
Bicentennial staff had a chance to rope off
the area.
“Had we known there would be 1,000
confused band members trying to get in
through gate four, we would have tried to
have more staff down there,” Tepper said.
“It turned into a disaster."
East Carteret’s band was one of 10 that
never made it into the stadium.
Adams still holds the University, not
the Secret Service, responsible.
“Everyone wants to put the blame on
someone,” he said. “Chapel Hill is still
liable because it was their campus, and
they invited the president and let the Secret
Service take over.”
Tepper said most of the bands were
understanding about the mix-up.
“The majority of the bands who got in
were still happy to have been able to come
and see the president.”
Ed Phillips, vice chairman of the Employee
Forum.
“I think, judging from people’s reaction
concemingthe comments, thatpeoplehave
realized the situation is bad and will change
for the better.”
At the October meeting, the Faculty
Council postponed a decision to adopt a
recommendation that would have elimi
nated rank as a factor in ticket distribution.
The council wanted members to recon
sider provisions in the recommendation.
Ludington said the joint committee
probably would form a compromise in
which rank would be diluted rather than
eliminated in the ticket distribution for
mula.
zens’ questions.
“He is looking into all the questions the
people had at the hearing,” she said. “We
don’t want to make a decision until we are
fully informed.”
Council member-elect Pat Evans said
she supported all the ordinances, and added
that the hearing, for the most part, was a
repeat of the other public hearings. Evans,
who will not vote on the ordinances, said
most of the questions raised at the hearing
were technical ones.
“There were technical points raised
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UNC Students
Charged With
Bomb Threats
BY KELLY RYAN
CITY EDITOR
Two UNC students charged with mak
ing bomb threats to Tammany Hall bar
Friday night could face more trouble in
the form of a civil lawsuit.
UNC students Karl Kenton Sale, 20, of
303 E. Franklin St. and Adam Portius
Wheeler, 21, of 201 Augusta Road in
Clemson, S.C., were arrested early Satur
day morning and charged with seven counts
of making false police reports, Chapel Hill
police reports state.
No local address was available for
Wheeler.
Sale and Wheeler were arrested at 2:04
a.m. Saturday at Nationsßank Plaza, where
police officers observed them in the imme
diate area of a pay phone where they could
have called Orange Central Communica
tions, or 911, according to Chapel Hill
police Sgt. Steve Riddle.
“They had gotten into an altercation
with the manager of Tammany Hall and
had to be escorted out,” Riddle said.
Riddle said he would not comment on
whether Sale and Wheeler appeared to be
intoxicated at the time of arrest. Even
though Sale is underaged, police do not
know whether he was served drinks at
Tammany Hall and so will not press addi
tional charges, Riddle said.
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