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Volume 101,Issue 112 A century of editorialfreedom WiflW Serving the students and the University community since 1893 IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation and world Clinton Wins New Support For NAFTA As Vote Nears WASHINGTON Seizing the mo mentum on the eve of a House showdown, President Clinton won a rush of converts Tuesday for the North American Free Trade Agreement. Opponents accused the White House of doling out billions to line up support. An Associated Press survey showed that more than 200 House members were sup porting the pact or were likely to do so a gain of roughly two dozen since the weekend. In contrast, opponents’ numbers were dwindling, and stood at roughly 200. “Tomorrow, the Congress has simply got to vote for hope over fear, for the future over the past,” Clinton told the nation’s governors, summoned to the White House to provide evidence of widespread support for the treaty. Senate Shows No Empathy For Abortion Protesters WASHINGTON—The Senate moved Tuesday toward arming the Justice De partment with new powers to stop abor tion clinic blockades and go after violent protesters. Senators rejected complaints that they were stepping on peaceful dem onstrators' First Amendment rights. In a test vote on the bill, the Senate turned back a bid by anti-abortion law makers to drastically soften the proposed penalties for anyone who repeatedly staged nonviolent blockades. Instead, the chamber passed, 56-40, a compromise making the penalties less harsh, but keeping the offense a felony. Later, the vote was even stronger when the Senate beat what the bill’s supporters called a “killer” amendment relating to violence against anti-abortion protesters. Israel, PLO May Not Meet Pact's December Deadline JERUSALEM A handover of au thority in occupied lands appears increas ingly unlikely by the Dec. 13 deadline set down in the Israel-Palestine Liberation Organization peace accord, Israeli and Palestinian officials said Tuesday. A holdup in the Palestinian autonomy plan would delay the start of Israeli troop withdrawals from the territories, seriously undercutting the accord at a time when public support seems to be eroding because of mounting bloodshed. Two Palestinians died and two Israelis were wounded in the occupied lands Tues day. And Jewish settlers in the West Bank town of Hebron overturned market stalls, smashed cars and broke windshields to retaliate for a hatchet attack on an Israeli man Monday. China's Communist Party Issues Plans for Reform BEUING The Communist Party on Tuesday issued its long-awaited outline for new market reforms designed to push se nior leader Deng Xiaoping’s economic revolution into the next century. The 25-page document was short on key details, however, including how the measures would be implemented, and it left in doubt the effectiveness of the pro posed new changes. Market reforms have dismantled rural communes and allowed families to farm their own plots. With Chinese economic growth—now 13 percent a year far outstripping the world average, the reforms have replaced Communist Party ideology as the under pinning of the party’s legitimacy. Judge Rejects Proposed City Charter Amendment CINCINNATI A judge blocked a voter-approved city charter amendment that would have removed anti-discrimina tion protection for homosexuals. “Now the gay, lesbian and bisexual citizens won’t have to spend any time on the outside looking in,” said Alphonse Gerhardstein, a lawyer for those who sued to stop the amendment. U.S. District Judge S. Arthur Spiegel ruled Tuesday that the amendment in fringed on homosexuals’ rights to petition the city for legislation. His ruling prevents the amendment from taking effect until further court action. But supporters of the amendment also argued that democracy was on their side. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: 40-percent chance of rain; highmid-70s. THURSDAY: Partly cloudy; high mid-60s. (Tltp Daily (Ear HM Local Gas Station Owner Found Dead BY KRISTEN LANEY STAFF WRITER The owner of McFarling’s Exxon, Clarence “Peanut" McFarling, 66, of Canboro, was found dead Monday evening from hanging. McFarling’s son, RodMcFarling, found his father at 7:45 p.m. in Clarence McFarling’s deceased mother’s vacant home on Legion Road, according to Eddie Durham, manager of McFarling’s Exxon at 126 W. Franklin St. Dr. Thomas Clark, associate chief medi cal examiner at UNC Hospitals, has ruled the death a suicide. A time of death was not given, and Clark said he did not know whether Clarence McFarling had any alcohol or drugs in his system. MEN'S BASKETBALL TIPS OFF TONIGHT Senior Forward Sullivan Opts for Redshirt Season BY JOHN C. MANUEL SPORTSATURDAY EDITOR The class of 1994 keeps getting smaller, while the class of ’95 adds a member. At a Tuesday Smith Center press con ference, UNC head basketball coach Dean Smith announced that forward Pat Sullivan, thought to be a contender for a starting spot with the defending national champions, would sit out the season. The announcement came on the eve of UNC’s season opener. The Tar Heels host Western Kentucky tonight at the Smith Center at 7:30 in the first round of the preseason NIT tournament. Smith just slipped in the announcement while discussing his starting lineup. “An interesting sideline I think is that Pat Sullivan will not play,” Smith said. “He is getting his degree in speech commu nications he now wants to coach and teach which means he’s got to go back to school for a fifth year. He is going to be held out at least we think so for the entire year. “We’ll miss his ability... but I’m sure at this time next year we’ll be glad we have him as a senior. I’m sure Donald will be happy to have another senior with him next year.” Smith announced that senior Kevin Salvadori would start at power forward against Western Kentucky. Sullivan might not be the only Tar Heel to redshirt in 1993-94. “We have talked to one other young man, but he’s in the pro cess of making his decision about what he Public Housing Residents Come Together for Change BYANUBHAANAND STAFF WRITER Cathy Gomez still hasa roach problem. They are not swarming in the kitchen cabinets like they were last month, but a few still scurry across the blue-and-pink wallpaper border in her living room. The town finally sprayed Gomez’s pub lic housing apartment after she and other Airport Gardens residents produced a video documenting the substandard conditions in the town’s 12 public housing neighbor hoods. The tape shows Gomez lifting a picture frame from her sons’ bedroom wall and gasping to find a horde of roaches on the other side. “My son, Shawn, still won’t sleep in his bed,” she said. Nine-year-old Shawn and 6-year-old Maurice share a room in Gomez's two-bedroom apartment. Before the videotape, the town’s proce dure for handling pest control was to give residentsfly-paperroachtraps, Gomez said. Clegg’s Termite and Pest Control, which has a contract with the town, sprayed Gomez’s apartment last week. “They sprayed it, but the roaches are coming back,” she said. “They need to spray the whole building, and they need to come back and give it three treatments like Police Might Charge Weekend Assault Suspects With Hate Crimes BYBILLBLOCKER STAFF WRITER The Chapel Hill Police Department is determining whether to charge an assail ant in this weekend’s assault on four New Yorkers with a “hate crime” under North Carolina’s ethnic-intimidation statute. The assault by about 15 to 20 teenagers against four band members from Staten Island, N.Y., occurred at 1:45 a.m. Sun day near University Square on West Franklin Street. According to police, the incident began when the victims, three white men and one Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. Norman Douglas WEDNBDA^NwStE7,I993 Jane Cousins, Chapel Hill police spokes woman, said, “There was no foul play.” Durham said Clarence McFarling left the service station at about 2:30 Monday afternoon. After he was gone from the station for more than an hour, Durham and Rod McFarling became concerned and started to look for him, Durham said. “It was unusual for him to be gone for two hours,” he said. “He was a good ol’ hard-working retail man. His life was the business.” Durham said he was totally shocked by McFarling’s death. “It’s something that I never would have thought to happen, not from him, ’’ Durham said. Judy Huntsman, an employee of Sutton’s Drug Store at 159 E. Franklin St., wants to do regarding his year of eligibil ity,” Smith said. Sullivan, a 6-foot-8, 216-pound senior from Bogota, N.J., averaged 6.4 points and 3.4 rebounds per game last season. He was expected to compete for the starting job at power forward and get playing time at small forward this year. “We talked about it as a freshman,” Smith said. “It’s just recently we talked about him coaching and teaching. “And after the Blue-White game (Nov. 6), when I saw him play so very well, I really started thinking it would be a shame to have him only play for 12 minutes a game, 15 minutes a game, 20 minutes a game. That entered my mind, and couple that with the fact that he’s going to be getting his fifth-year degree really helped me address him.” The loss of Sullivan might be addition by subtraction for the Tar Heels. While Smith acknowledged the loss of savvy, experience and leadership the team will feel this year without Sullivan, it should allow for moreplaying time forplayerslike Jerry Stackhouse and Dante Calabria. “It could hurt us this year, ” Smith said, “but it could give the others more breath ing room. They won’t feel like Pat’s com ing in for them all the time. “We’ve looked at the situation and Jerry Stackhouse played very well in the pre season not that Stackhouse would beat Sullivan out —but we were bunched there at the forward spot, and now if Brian’s hurt Please See SULLIVAN, Page 9 D TH /ELIZABETH MAYBACH Children who live in a Chapel Hill public housing neighborhood take advantage of the playground at Estes Drive Community Center. Residents say poor public housing conditions are compromising their children's future. it says in (Department of Housing and Urban Development) guidelines.” The apartments at Airport Gardens, which is across from the Chapel Hill Police black man, were walking east down West Franklin Street, and a group of teenagers began walking behind them making racial comments. When the two groups reached Univer sity Square, more teenagers joined the group and continued making taunting re marks, police reports state. The only specific comment the victims could recall included the term “Oreo.” Jane Cousins, Chapel Hill police spokes woman, said that the department was look ing into the possibility of upgrading the charges. Dimetrius George Mullins, 17, of 205 knew McFarling and his family her entire life. She described him as a hard worker who cared for his business. “He was a real nice man,” Huntsman said. “It’s sad, and I don’t understand it.” She also said she was concerned be cause McFarling was the second down town-business owner to commit suicide in the last two weeks. Small World Travel Agency owner Paul Fisher was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head Nov. 8 after he had been missing for four days. Wallace Womble, a funeral director at Walker’s Funeral Home and a friend of McFarling’s, said, “I talked with him at 1:30 or 2 yesterday, and he seemed just as normal then as he could.” Womble also said he was shocked. “He was just a wonderful person to J fill " P'lb mu {-' / ipfi ] ■ W jiff WB ' IplPslPsll* " 1 i&s&Aj DTH FILE PHOTO Pat Sullivan, expected to compete for a starting position this season, instead will sit out a year and return to the UNC lineup for the 1994-95 campaign. Department on Airport Road, are con nected, so the roaches won’t disappear Please See HOUSING, Page 2 Broad St. in Canboro, was arrested at 12:30p.m. Monday andcharged with three counts of simple assault, according to Chapel Hill police reports. “Our attorney, Terrie Gale, is looking into the possibility of designating the as sault as a hate crime,” she said. Cousins said police still were investigat ing how many assailants were involved during the weekend assault. “There is still a possibility of more arrests.” Gale said the department had not made anyfinaldeterminationonthecharge. “No decision has been made as to which of the charges will be filed,” she said. know,” Womble said. “He loved people, and he’d do anything foranyone he could. ” Clarence McFarling had been in busi ness for about 40 years and had worked at the Franklin Street location since 1974. McFarling lived in Chapel Hill for his entire life and attended the local schools through 10th grade. McFarling is survived by his wife Inez, his son Rod, two sisters, one brother and two grandchildren. Flowers will be accepted, and memori als can be made in McFarling’s name to the Carrboro Methodist Church. The funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Carrboro Methodist Church. Viewings will be from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. today at Walker’s Funeral Home at 120 W. Franklin St. Dealers Destroy Children’s Hope BYANUBHAANAND STAFF WRITER April Brown has a big job for a fourth-grader while her mother is working hard to become a nurse and get out of public housing, she helps take care of her five younger sisters and brothers. Whenhermother, Felicia, attended a Residents’ Council meeting last week, April, 9, kept 7-year-old Keisha and 2-year-old Rachel occupied with markers and paper. Eight-month-old Samuel rode around on her hip. Toni, 5, and Jasmine, 6, pestered her for one more chocolate-chip cookie. Felicia Brown and her children moved to Oakwood, a public housing neighborhood, two years ago because the place where she was living had no heat. But Brown said she was about to buy a home for her family and move Please See CHILDREN, Page 2 Orange-Chatham County Assistant District Attorney James Woodall said most people charged with hate crimes were tried in federal court. “There’s a North Carolina statute that concerns crimes that are racially moti vated,” he said. Woodall said he was not sure whether it was a true hate-crime statute. “(But) that’s the closest thing to a hate-crime statute under state law,” he said. The police department will have to de cide whether the attack falls under the statute. “I don’t believe we’ve prosecuted any News/Features/Aits/Sports 962-0245 Busmess/Advertismg 962-1163 01993 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Students To Start Center For Kids BY RACHAEL LANDAU STAFF WRITER The Student Bicentennial Planning Committee is planning to turn an old day care building in Chapel Hill into a commu nity center to promote the University’s 200th-birthday theme of community. Renovations on the center, located on South Estes Drive at the largest public housing development in the Chapel Hill- Canboro area, is expected to be complete next spring. The project is part of a program to create a Carolina Community Foundation, which will sponsor a different community project each year. Kevin Moran, chairman of the Student Bicentennial Plan ning Committee, said organizers wanted the community-center project to start a tra dition of the University contributing to the community. “I am really ex citdd because we are working on a community project that is our culmination project Bicentennial official KEVIN MORAN says students will help with the center's upkeep. for the Bicentennial, ” he said. “This will be the gift of the entire student body to the University on its birthday.” The community-center project will be co-sponsored by several campus organiza tions including the Campus Y, Sangam— the South Asian student organization and the Residence Hall Association. The CCF -will be an endowment fond con trolled by a board of directors made up of students, staff, faculty, administrators, alumni and town residents. The CCF originally was pro posed as a senior class gift, but the idea was not chosen for this year’s gift and was turned over to the Student Bi centennial Committee. Senior Class President Joe Andrews, who is working with Senior Class President JOE ANDREWS says students will create a new project each year. Moran on the community project, said the main focus of the CCF was to get programs such as the community center started and then let other groups take them over. Andrews said he hoped UNC faculty, staff, administrators and alumni as well as town residents would be involved in the community-center project. “The key to it all is to build community within the campus by building community outside,” Andrews said. “The program will establish a common ground by working on a common goal. I want to see this theme maintained for as long as the University stands and be built upon and strengthened over the years,” he said. Chapel Hill Mayor Ken Broun said the center also was an excellent effort to help people living in South Estes. “If we help people in that area, it helps the community and everyone," he said. Mimi Courtney, co-chairwoman of the Campus Y’s Ridgefield Action Project, said the group had been working with the children in this area before the Student Bicentennial Committee started planning its community-center project. RAP sug gested the site for the community center to the Bicentennial committee. Courtney said she was glad to see other Please See COMMUNITY, Page 9 body here under that statute,” Woodall said. Woodall said state law concerning the ethnic-intimidation statute had not been appealed or interpreted by the state Su preme Court. N.C. General Statute 14-401.14, titled Ethnic Intimidation, states, “If a person shall, because of race, color, religion, na tionality or country of origin, assault an other person or damage or deface the prop erty of another person or threaten to do any such act, he shall be guilty of a misde meanor punishable by imprisonment up to two years or a fine or both.”
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