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Stiff Hally Star lUksi js>: JL Volume 101, Issue 150 A century of editorialfreedom Serving the students and the University community since 1893 IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation and world Clinton: U.S. Won't Play Major Role in Bosnia WASHINGTON—President Clinton played down differences with Russia over NATO’s threatened air strikes against Bosnian Serbs, saying there were no seri ous obstacles to carrying out the attacks. For the second straight day, Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin were unable to discuss NATO’s decision. Clinton, at a news conference on Wednesday, made clear the U.S.would not play a major role in Bosnia even though American war planes might be called upon to help silence the guns of Sarajevo. Clinton said U.S. ground forces would not take part in NATO’s newly authorized mission to get rid of the more than 500 heavy guns pointed down on Sarajevo by Bosnian Seths. UPS Sues Teamster Union For Staging Worker Strike ATLANTA The United Parcel Ser vice filed a lawsuit accusing the Teamsters union of an illegal strike, seeking SSO mil lion in damages from the one-day walkout. The strike Monday was in protest of an increase in the weight limit on packages handled by UPS drivers, from 70 pounds to 150 pounds. Both sides agreed to discuss the limit and the walkout ended. In the lawsuit filed Wednesday, UPS said the union violated a court order and grievance procedures in calling the strike. The union said the high weight limit raised the risk of worker injuries. Bemie Mulligan, a Teamsters spokesman, said Thursday the strike was legal and the union would fight the lawsuit, filed in U.S. Dis trict Court in Washington. Russian Market Reformer Plans New Political Party MOSCOW—Yegor Gaidar, the cham pion ofßussia’s market reforms, on Thurs day announced plans to create anew po litical party thathe said would help solidify the ranks of reformers. Gaidar’s action, however, reflected a split within Russia’s Choice, a pro-reform alliance he leads in the new parliament. Some of its members are turning away from Gaidar, blaming him for their defeat in the Dec. 12 parliamentary elections. Some smaller pro-reform parties have re jected Gaidar’s calls to unite. Gaidar announced his plan to about two dozen politicians and cultural leaders. He said reformers needed a well-oiled cam paign machine to succeed in the 1996 presi dential race and other elections. Official Says Agreement Won't Stop MIA Search WASHINGTON The adminis tration’s top official on Asia told skeptical POW-MIA family members Thursday that the search for the missing will not slacken following the restoration of trade relations with Vietnam. “ Our efforts will continue undiminished, indeed with fresh momentum," said Win ston Lord, assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific affairs. Lord said there were more than 500 military and civilian personnel assigned to POW-MIA affaire. But leaders of several POW-MIA fam ily groups said they were betrayed by Presi dent Clinton’s decision last week to end the two-decade-old trade embargo. Harding Sues Olympic Committee for S2O Million LILLEHAMMER, Norway A defi ant Tonya Harding struck back at the U.S. Olympic Committee with a S2O million lawsuit and vowed to skate, win a gold medal and “hang it on my wall forever.” The skater asked an Oregon court Wednesday to block the USOC from hold ing a hearing that could lead to her expul sion from the Winter Games for actions surrounding the attack onNancy Kerrigan. A court hearing on her request was set for Friday. “I have done nothing that would war rant my removal from the U.S. Olympic team,” Harding said. USOC executive director Harvey Schiller said the committee would counter her lawsuit by filing motions of its own. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: Cold, freezing rain; high mid-30s SATURDAY: 30-percent chance of rain; high mid-50s SUNDAY: Chance of showers; high 50s Elections Board Drops Case Against Candidate BYERICA LUETZOW STAFF WRITER The Elections Board dropped a pending hearing against Roy Granato, candidate for Student Congress, after discovering a section in the Student Elections Code that defined what constitutes campaign materi als. Granato, who won the congress seat for Dist. 13 in Tuesday’s election by a 98-62 vote, tore down posters Tuesday morning that discouraged students from voting for him. Granato then took the signs to the Elections Board. The board had to determine whether the posters were actually campaign mate rial supporting another candidate. Cold Snap Closes UNC Offices, But Most Classes Stfll On [ Mi >fSf|ff Computer Error Produces Duplicate Duke Tickets BYALIBEASON STAFF WRITER * A computer system foul-up left some students without die seats they had camped out for at the Feb. 3 UNC-Duke game in the Smith Center. About 30 students were surprised to find other ticket holders in their seats when they got to the Smith Center that night. The Smith Center Ticket Office distrib uted two rows of duplicate tickets for up per-level section 214A. The triangle-shaped section is in a far comer of the center. The Ticket Master system that the ticket office uses to generate tickets for athletic events went down during printing, said ticket manager Daren Lucas. When the mechanism fails, officials of ten can’t tell where the computer stopped, Lucas said. Sometimes there is an overlap, he said. There seem to he so much more winter than we need this year. Kathleen Norris Chapa! Hill, North Caroßu FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11,1994 Vf After reviewing the election code Thurs day and deciding the posters in question were not campaign material, election offi cials ruled that a hearing would not be necessary, and Granato would not be dis qualified, said Melinda Manning, elections board chairwoman. “I’m relieved,” Granato said. Granato said he took down the posters because he thought they were not cam paign material. “I strongly feel these are not campaign Student tickets are printed by section, Lucas said. The overflow of students from the two rows were given seats on the lower level in walkways behind lower level section 110. Ushers set up folding chairs behind the regular seats. Some students went to complain to Carolina Athletic Association Ticket Co ordinator Todd Austell at halftime. The upper-level comer is one of the worst stu dent sections on the upper deck, Austell said. The students who were moved to the lower level probably got better seats than they would have had on the upper level, he said. When he heard about the problem he was concerned that more than two rows of students had beenleft without seats, Austell Please See TICKETS, Page 7 materials,” Granato said. “They were just some kind of sick plot for me to lose.” “(Thepostere)werelies,”hesaid. “They were not in any way endorsing another candidate.” Granato said he also thought removing the posters did not adversely affect his opponent Dallas Duke’s campaign. “I won the election fair and square,” he said. “By taking those down I was not hurting (Duke’s) campaign.” Manning said the case was a result of a misunderstanding of the Student Govern ment Code. “Roy believed that negative campaigning like that was illegal, which it is not,” she said. “You can be as nasty as you want under the code.” Granato’s election violation dispute was DTH PHOTOS BY JUSITN WILLIAMS Beverly Bowen (above), a freshman from Charlotte, scrapes away frozen sleet from her windshield before heading out to the mall Thursday afternoon. A Chapel Hill public works truck (left) spreads a layer of sand over the icy Bolin Creek bridge on East Franklin Street before Thursday's rush hour. Sleet, Ice and Cold Temperatures Invade Triangle Temperatures at Raleigh/Durham International Airport fell 47 degrees in a 23hour time span. •= -ft I. Wednesday's high temperature, TfFm | HU low | 50 temperature S4O I/*} -V. V* £ ' , as of 5 p.m., 25'F 1 3. mm&z n 1 20 jjg M lm 8 10Q24 6 81012 2 4 6 810122 4 am am pm pm pm pm. pm pm a.m. am am am. am am. pm. pm. pm SOURCE WRAL TV-5 WEATHER CENTER DTH/JUSTIN SCHEEF First Lady Addresses Forum Via Satellite BYADAMBIANCHI STATE AND NATIONAL EDITOR North Carolina’s winter storm kept Hillary Rodham Clinton out of the Tri angle on Thursday afternoon, but the First Lady used a satellite transmission from Washington to address6oovie were in N. C. State University’s McKimmon Center. Clinton began her speech by talk ing about the ac complishments of the president’s ad ministration in its first year, includ- Surgeon General Discusses Health-Care Reform at NCSU See Page 4 ing moves toward balancing the federal budget and the National Community Ser vice Act. She said her work as head of the Task Force on National Health Care Reform had convinced her of the need for funda mental changes in health care to ensure that all citizens had access to medical care when they needed it. “The system is broken in some places, not the only one that occurred during the campaign season, Manning said. Manning said that there had been eight official election violations this campaign season. “There have obviously been a lot more (violations), but these are the only ones we have been able to catch and get evidence,” Manning said. “The Roy Granato thing would be the most serious one.” Manning said the number of official violations was up from last year, when they did not take formal action against violators. “I would say it is above normal. We’ve just been a little more conscientious about it,” she said. A lot of the violations involve signs and we need to make sure it gets fixed, ” she said. “We have the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals and the best tech nology in the world. But we have abso lutely the worst system of paying for that health care in the world.” Clinton said she rejected arguments that the administration’s plan would damage America’s medical system while attempt ing to reform the insurance industry. “We need to keep what’s working and get rid of what’s creating problems,” Clinton said. “To those in Washington Editor's Note It s that time of the year again. It’s almost time to choose next year's editor. But before that can happen, The Daily Tar Heel needs eight students to serve as at-large members of the DTH Editor Selection Board. All undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to apply except those affiliated with student government officers of an offi cially recognized student group and current News/F eatures/Aits/Sports Business/Advertising 01994 DTH Publishing Coip. All rights reserved. posted in unapproved areas and campaign ing door-to-door after hours, she said. A similar incident occurred in Granville Towers when signs urging students not to vote for Meredith Armstrong and making fun of her sorority membership appeared on individual residence hall doors. “I did not file a complaint about that,” Armstrong said. “I felt I handled it on my own.” Armstrong said some friends of the other candidates put the signs on the doors, and they took them down after she talked to them. Other students thought the election code was violated when Mark Bibbs, a UNC Please See VIOIATIONS, Page 2 BYHEATHERN. ROBINSON STAFF WRITER There is about an inch of ice on the roads. Do you go to class? You make the call. Dean of Student Affairs Donald Boulton said Thursday night the University did not cancel classes for inclement weather, but he expected professors, students and em ployees to make the call when determining whether to show up. “I was planning to go to the (Carolina vs. Maryland) game, but I couldn’t make it out,” he said. “If I get up tomorrow and can make it (to the University), I’ll be here,” Temperatures dropped 48 degrees be tween Wednesday afternoon and 5 p.m. Thursday. Wednesday’s temperatures peaked at 74 degrees, while Thursday afternoon hosted temperatures only reaching 32 de grees. Both the Student Legal Services offices and the Registrar’s Office closed yesterday at 3:30 p.m. Student Health Services re fused to make additional appointments and Point-2-Point shut down its services for the day and night as well. But the possibility of classes being can celed was slim to none. “The staff is required to report in, so the students are required to go to class,” said Brenda Kirby, secretary to the University. “I’ve been here since 1980, and have yet to see classes canceled due to inclement weather.” “We just don’t do it—there is too much going on at the University to just close the place,” Boulton said. “We don’t require students to be in class, so they have to make the decisions.” Michael Klein, director of the Univer sity Department of Transportation and Parking, said that none of die three levels of the severe weather procedures had been put into effect for the storm by late Thurs day afternoon. The most-severe weather plan is the ice emergency plan. The plan states that the associate vice chancellor for facilities management makes the final decision on what precautions to take based on input from the physical plant director, the director of transportation and parking and UNC Hospitals. In the past, if Chapel Hill Transit work ers stayed home, so did students. Buses were running Thursday afternoon, but sleet and ice made CHT shut down later in the evening. When less than severe conditions oc cur, physical plant director Herbert Paul decides what precautions to take. Crews distributed sand and chemicals in shaded areas to prevent standing water from freezing, Paul said, and workers were on call overnight to distribute more if nec- Please See WEATHER, Page 7 who say there is no health-care crisis, I say tell it to the single mother who wants to work but has to stay on welfare to keep her family’s medical insurance. Tell it to the senior citizen who has to choose whether to buy either food or prescription medicine every month.” Clinton said she was convinced that the insurance industry needed to be overhauled because so many people lost their insur ance when they suffered a catastrophic Please See CLINTON, Page 6 DTH staff members. The DTH will appoint three staff members -a writer, an assistant desk editor and a desk editor - to serve on the 11- member board. Applications are available in the DTH office, Union Suite 104, and at the Union desk, and are due Feb. 18. This is your chance to play a part in deter mining the future of the DTH. 962-0245 962-1163
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