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®lje Daily Star Hrrl £> Volume 101, Issue 149 A century of editorial freedom Serving the students and the University community since 1593 IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation and world NATO Decides to Set Date For Serbian Withdrawal BRUSSELS, Belgium After months of indecision, NATO allies tentatively agreed late Wednesday to warn the Bosnian Serbs either to lift their murderous siege of Sarajevo or face air raids, diplomats said. But the Serbs, apparently seeking to head off NATO air strikes, arranged a quick cease-fire with the United Nations. Despite the Serb announcement, the ambassadors of the 16-nation Northern Alliance went ahead and backed a French plan to lay down a deadline for the Serbs, according to diplomats at the meeting. Under the plan tentatively agreed on, the allies would carry out air strikes against the Serbs if they failed to withdraw within 10 days the more than 500 heavy guns that for two years havebeenpoundingSarajevo. Newspaper: Clinton's Firm Shredded Documents WASHINGTON Rose law firm, where first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was a partner, shredded documents last week relating to the Whitewater Develop ment corporation, The Washington Times reported today. The firm emphatically de nied the report. The paper cited as its source an unidentified Rose employee. President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton were partners in Whitewater, an Arkansas real estate venture. In Little Rock, Ronald Clark, manag ing partner of the Rose firm, said the report of shredding Whitewater documents was “totally false... lam absolutely sure. “I am extremely upset that somebody would allege this,” Clark said, adding that his firm had “no significant documents” concerning the Whitewater development. Senator Alleges U.S. Gave Biological Agents to Iraq WASHINGTON Biological agents shipped to Iraq with Reagan administra tion approval could be the cause of myste rious ailments striking veterans of the Per sian Gulf War, Sen. Donald Riegle Jr., D- Mich., contended Wednesday. Riegle, in a speech on the Senate floor, said the agents exported to Iraq between 1985 and 1989 included E. coli and salmo nella and other bacteria such as those caus ing anthrax, gas gangrene and brucellosis. “I am deeply troubled that the United States permitted the sale of deadly biologi cal agents to a country with a known bio logical warfare program,” Riegle said. Riegle pointed to a Pentagon report stating that by the time of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, Iraq’s biological warfare program was the most advanced in the Arab world. N.C. legislature Approves First Bill of Crime Session RALEIGH The state House has ap proved the first bill of the special crime session —a measure that would prevent people found innocent by reason of insan ity from possessing handguns. The 106-4 vote came after an hour of debate. The bill, part of Gov. Jim Hunt’s crime package, would bar anyone found inno cent by reason of insanity from carrying a pistol or other firearm. A person convicted under the measure could seek court per mission to own a weapon for hunting. Rep. Foyle Hightower, D-Anson, one of the four who voted against it, said he thought the bill went too far because it covered people found innocent by reason of insanity in misdemeanor assaults, in stead of applying only to felonies. U.S. Grants Conditional Recognition to Macedonia WASHINGTON —The United States on Wednesday recognized the indepen dence of the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia after more than two years of sidestepping the issue in deference to North Atlantic Treaty Organization ally Greece. A White House statement said the the former republic had chosen independence by democratic means and that recognition could resolve differences with Athens. Greece had argued against establish ment of U.S. diplomatic ties unless the name was changed. One option was to use the name of the capital, Skopje. Greece contended that referring to the country as Macedonia implied it had a claim on the Greek province also called Macedonia. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: 100-percent chance of rain; high upper 20s. FRIDAY: Morning freezing rain, 60- percent chance of rain; high upper 30s. Thank heavens the sun has gone in, and I don’t have to go out and enjoy it. Logan P. Smith Israel, PLO Reach Agreement on Key Issues THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO, Egypt PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres, Israel’s foreign minister, reached agreement Wednesday on critical security issues that have stalled the Israeli-Palestinian peace accord. Although some matters remain in dis pute, both sides called the agreement a maj or step forward, as did President Clinton in Washington. Peres said he and the Palestine Libera tion Organization chairman had settled “five or six of the most complicated issues” involved in turning over control of the occupied Gaza Strip and West Bank town of Jericho to the Palestinians. But Peres added, “We didn’t complete our work.” The issues that Arafat and Peres had discussed intensively for three days in cluded control of the crossings from the ['% >; V V 'I wgr g 1 t£tk -4 ‘'ZGf* DTH/LAURA M. KLEINHLNZ A small girl is carried away to UNC Hospitals after being struck by a car Wednesday afternoon at the intersection of Franklin and Columbia Streets. According to police, she sustained only minor injuries. Congress OKs Referendum On Campus Dining Service BY MARISSA JONES STAFF WRITER Students will have the opportunity to rate the quality of food services offered by Marriott Inc. during the run-off campus elections Tuesday. Student Congress passed the resolution calling for the referendum by voice vote at their emergency meeting Wednesday night. Congress did not pass resolutions call ingforreferendumsthatwouldhavegauged student opinion on controversial Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board member LaVonda Burnette and the elimination of the physical education requirement. The referendum on food services will allow student government to know stu dents’ opinion on Marriott before its con tract goes up for renewal this summer, said Student Body President Jim Copland, who sponsored the bill. The referendum will read, “Please rate your level of satisfaction Turnout Tops 4,200, Highest in 4 Years BY MARY BETH MAURIELLO STAFF WRITER It takes about five minutes and a No. 2 pencil to vote in campus elections. But it took an aggressive voter-incentive campaign by the Elections Board to break a four-year streak of decreasing voter turn outs. More than 4,200 students turned out to vote in Tuesday’s campus elections, according to Elec tions Board Chair- Election Go WeH Despite Snags See Page 3 woman Melinda Manning. Tuesday’s voter turnout, which repre sents 17.98 percent of the student body, is the highest since 1990, when 4,440 stu dents cast ballots for campus offices. Since 1990, voter turnout has gradually decreased. Last year, about 2,798 students voted. “I think (the turnout) was awesome," Manning said Wednesday. “I am really autonomous Pales tinian areas to Egypt and Jordan, security for Jewish settlers remaining in Gaza and how much land around Jericho would be ceded to Palestinian control. Peres said the size of the Jericho area had yet to be decided, but indi cated the other is sues were agreed on in principle and PLO Chairman YASSER ARAFAT says the new security accord is crucial. would need to be worked out in detail. Egyptian sources said there also remained disagreement about who actually would stand at the borders. The final deal is to be negotiated be- Pedestrian Struck on Franklin with Marriott food service.” Answer choices range from “very unsatisfied” to “very satisfied.” Copland said that if students reported satisfaction with Marriott, student govern ment would encourage the Board of Trust ees to keep the food service. If students reported dissatisfaction, student govern ment would consider other options that might be preferable, he said. “If (students do not report satisfaction), then student government would address that because students’ needs as customers are not being met,” Copland said. In 1986, students voted in a referendum against the campus food service, he said. The dining service subsequently was re placed with Marriott. The act received overwhelming support from members of congress. Rep. Bret Batdorff, Dist. 23, said he supported the Please See CONGRESS, Page 2 ELECtTOVIu } SMtart BqpUll9l BJ happy about it.” The freshman class was best represented at the polls Tuesday, with 1,166 voters. Juniors, who voted for senior class of ficers, cast a total of 958 ballots. Sopho mores cast 941 votes; seniors, 415; and graduate students, 557. Manning attributed the high voter turn out in part to the work of the Elections Board. Board membershung posters, made announcements in class and even recruited the Clef Hangers and Loreleis to sing in the Pit to encourage students to vote. The board also offered tangible incen tives to voters. Randomly selected stu dents received coupons from area busi nesses as they left the polls. Voters also entered a raffle for other prizes. Ctupei Hill. North CiroEaa THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10,1994 tween Arafat and Israeli Prime Min ister Yitzhak Rabin. Arafat said Wednesday’s pact was “a very impor tant step to imple ment the agreement from paper to the ground. We can say that Palestine and the name of Palestine has re turned to the map ofthe Middle East,” he added. As Arafat and Peres spoke in Cairo, members of the World Jewish Congress in Washington got word of the agreement from Clinton. “Another big milestone has been achieved today,” Clinton said. Students Attacked After Duke Game BY JAY TAYLOR STAFF WRITER Since Tar Heel fans stormed Franklin Street Thursday night to celebrate the win over Duke, Chapel Hill police have re ceived two more reports of assaults that occurred during the party. Two UNC students reported late Tues day afternoon that they had been attacked, less than a week after UNC football player Sean Boyd was arrested and charged with assault in an unrelated incident that oc curred during the celebration. According to a police report filed at 4:50 p.m. Wednesday, an unknown suspect hit a UNC student on the cheekbone with his fists in front of Schoolkids Records at 144 E. Franklin St. The incident occurred about 11 p.m. Thursday, and the student sustained mi nor injuries, reports state. Another assault also was reported Tues day afternoon. UNC freshman Ben Heinl was hit on his right cheek at 11:30 p.m. Thursday, according to reports. This at- The expanded voting hours also served to increase voter turnout, Manning said. Students were able to vote between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Tuesday. In previous years, the polls had closed at 6 p.m. “The extra hour was very important,” Manning said. Many students stopped by poll sites to vote during their dinner hours, she said. At one site, about 60 students were still stand ing in line to vote when the polls were scheduled to close, she said. The efforts of candidates and their staffs to excite students also were influential in the high turnout, Manning said. Many students cited personal ideals as the reason for their votes. Matt Stowe, a freshman from Glastonbury, Conn., said he believed the right to vote was important. “I wanted to show my support for the system by partici pating in it,” Stowe said. Please See VOTE, Page 4 Although he characterized it as “an agreement on self-rule and on the terms of withdrawal from Gaza and Jericho,” the statements of Peres and Arafat showed that agreement was not total. Peres and Arafat initialed 21 pages of documents, including maps, at a ceremony hosted by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak at the end of three days of talks. After the ceremony, Arafat and Peres each shook hands with Mubarak and then, in Middle Eastern fashion, kissed him on both cheeks. Later, Rabin called Mubarak to thank him for his efforts in keeping the talks going, Israel radio reported. The call indi cates that the agreement has strong sup port in the Israeli government and is likely to be approved. Egyptian Foreign Minister AmrMoussa had worked late into the night to smooth Israeli Foreign Minister SHIMON PERES says some issues still will require work. B-GLAD Sets Criteria For New Chancellor BY HOLLY STEPP UNIVERSITY EDITOR Bisexuals, Gay men, Lesbians and Al lies for Diversity released their criteria and suggestions for anew chancellor Wednes day. A commitment to continuing Chancel lor Paul Hardin’s nondiscrimination policy on sexual orientation is one essential qual ity of anew chancellor, said Trey Harris, B GLAD co-chairman. Hardin, who will retire in June 1995, established a nondiscrimination policy, including discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, during his six-year ten ure at the University. The policy was issued as a personal policy, which will end with his retirement, ratherthanasaninstitutional policy, which would have been permanent at the Univer sity. In a prepared statement, B-GLAD said Hardin’s successor should be a candidate “who is committed to equality for all people regardless of sexual orientation.” Harris said Wednesday that only a can didate who was willing to continue a non discrimination policy should be selected. “There should not be an interim period when there is not a nondiscrimination policy,” he said. The statement said, “B-GLAD believes “J just went to the Franklin Street jam after the game. Suddenly, I just felt this freight train hit my face. 1 never saw it coming. ” BEN HEINL UNCfreshman tack also occurred near Schoolkids Records. Heinl said Wednesday that he had not provoked the attack. “I just went to the Franklin Street jam after the game,” he said. “Suddenly, I just felt this freight train hit my face. I never saw it coming. “He sucker-punched me.” Heinl said he could not identify his attacker. “I staggered around some, and I found a cop,” he said. “He took me to an ambu lance.” Heinl suffered four fractures in his face Cavalier Curse: UVa. Beats No. 3 Tar Heels Yet Again BY JAMES WffITTIELD STAFF WRITER CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. North Carolina women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell more than likely woke up last night with nightmares concerning one thing —foul trouble. The Tar Heels met this season-long nemesis face-to-face Wednesday night in University Hall and lost for the second time this season to Virginia, 83-74, before a crowd of 5,550. North Carolina played the Cavaliers toe-to-toe for most of the evening, but when starting center Sylvia Crawley picked up her fourth foul with 8:19 left in the game, the momentum changed drastically. Crawley finished the game with 18 points News/Features/Arts/Spom 962-0245 Business/Advertising 962-1163 01994 DTH Publishing Cotp. AH ritfits reserved. last-minute disputes between Peres and Arafat, amid reports that Peres was seek ing approval from Rabin. The Israeli withdrawal will dear the way for limited Palestinian self-rule in the territories. It was to have begun Dec. 13 according to the PLO-Israel peace accord signed in Washington in September. Uri Savir, the chief Israeli delegate, de scribed the negotiations as a process of working “sentence by sentence, word by word.” “For each word, we have an hour of argument,” he said. Negotiators have repeatedly said any agreement reached here almost certainly would contain some sensitive problems to be settled later by Arafat and Rabin. Israeli and PLO officials have said it could take at least two more weeks of negotiations to complete spedfics. that the rights of all lesbian, gay and bi sexual students and faculty and staff will be compromised unless the next chancellor is personally committed to equality for mem bers of the University community who happen to be bisexual, gay or lesbian.” B-GLAD also calls for the new chancel lorto make substantial changes in the treat ment of homosexuals and bisexuals at the University. Harris said spouse benefits for homosexual couples was one of those im portant changes. “Currently, a gay or lesbian who works at this University and has a partner of 20 years or so will not receive any benefits, while a couple who has been married for five weeks will receive benefits,” he said. Other changes B-GLAD is asking for include increased scrutiny of the ROTC’s violation of the nondiscrimination policy, and the elimination of the loopholes in the policy that do not require private contrac tors to have sexual orientation nondis crimination polities. The group also asks Board of Trustees Chairman Johnny Harris to appointblacks, women and homosexuals to the selection committee that will choose candidates, for the chancellorship. The UNC-system Board of Governors will appoint the new chan cellor. Hardin announced his retirement at the Jan. 28 BOT meeting. and underwent reconstructive surgery Monday at UNC Hospitals, and he was released that afternoon. “My cheekbone got dented in, and they had to pop it out,” he said. “They put in pieces of titanium to hold it .here.” Heinl has been at home since the sur gery and will not return to school until sometime next week. Police spokeswoman Ja n e Cousins stud the police had some leads <\nd were inves tigating the incidents. She said Boyd was not a suspect in the new cases. Boyd, a sophomore fre un Gastonia, was arrested about midnigh t Thursday after witnesses pointed him out to Chapel Hill police officer Jack Wa ddell. UNC head coach Mack Brown issued a statement in defense of Boyd, stating that Boyd main tained his innocence. In addition to these attacks, police also have received two other reports of assaults occurring Thursday night, bringing the total to six. No information /..bout the latest reports was available. on 8-for-12 sh/joting. After she picked up that fourth foul, UVa. went on a 9-2 run to pull ahead 70- 61. But Crawley was not the only Tar Heel in foul trouble. Tonya Sampson, who con nected on o nly two of her nine shots from the field, fouled out with 2:46 remaining And freshman Marion Jones, who fin ished with seven points, fouled out with 29 seconds left. “They must pay the referees a little more than we do,” Hatchell said. And along with the foul trouble came a big advantage at the free throw line. The Wahoos scorched UNC at the charity stripe. Virginia attempted 18 more free throws on the night than the Tar Heels. The Wa- Please See VIRGINIA, Page 11 Women's Basketball Virginia 83 UNC 74
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