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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
Bosnia f Croatia Plan Union
As Peace Talks Relocated
WASHINGTON The Clinton ad
ministration announced Thursday Bosnian
peace talks would be shifted here with the
aim of creating a two-republic country
one Serb and the other a Croat-Muslim
mixture.
In Zagreb, Croatian President Franjo
Tudjman appeared haggard and serious in
a Croatian TV broadcast Thursday of his
speech to leaders of his governing party.
“The international community thinks
and is persuading us that the Croatian
people in Bosnia-Herzegovina should live
together in a community with the Mus
lims,’’Tudjman said. “The outcome of this
could be federation ofMuslims and Croats
within Bosnia-Herzegovina and confed
erationof(thetwogroups) with... Croatia.’’
Death of 10 Double Agents
Linked to Top CIA Official
WASHINGTON U.S. officials sus
pect that Aldrich Ames, the CIA officer
charged this week with spying for Mos
cow, passed information that led to the
deaths of at least 10 Soviets working for
U.S. intelligence, a congressional official
said today.
The official, who spoke on condition of
anonymity, said the CIA informed Con
gress shortly after the arrest Monday of
Ames and his wife, Rosario Ames, that
they had linked him to the 10 deaths.
The official cautionc i that while the
CIA said it had reason to believe Ames’
alleged disclosures to the Russians had led
directly to the deaths of the 10U.S.agents,
it had not been made clear to Congress that
the link could be proved.
Yeltsin Gives First Speech
Before Russian Parliament
MOSCOW President Boris Yeltsin
stood by his economic reforms in his first
address to Russia’s new parliament Thurs
day, but said the new freedoms should be
tempered with “more justice, more safety,
more confidence.”
The president’s appeal for compromise
acknowledged the popular discontent that
gave extreme nationalists and Commu
nists nearly half the seats in the parliament
elected two months ago.
“Anew detachment of the government
fiomthepeopleandtheirneedshas emerged
and is becoming even deeper,” Yeltsin told
the two houses of parliament, which met
together for the first time. “Poverty, in
equality and unemployment must be our
focus. They cause die most concern.”
Deputy Defense Secretary
Nominee to Be Announced
WASHINGTON—President Clinton
will nominate John Deutch, a defense offi
cial and military technology expert, as
deputy secretary of defense, the White
House said Thursday.
If confirmed by the Senate, Deutch
would serve as the Pentagon’s No. 2 civil
ian official, filling the vacancy created when
William Perry became secretary of defense.
Deutch, 55, was bom in Brussels, Bel
gium, and became a U.S. citizen in 1946.
He has more than three decades of experi
ence in national security policy. In his
present position Deutch is in charge of
defense acquisition and technology.
In his career, Deutch has served as di
rector of energy research and
undersecretary in the Department of En
ergy and has been a member of several
government commissions and councils.
Burma Signs Peace Treaty
To End Ongoing Civil War
RANGOON, Burma Rebels of the
Kachin ethnic minority signed an agree
ment with the government Thursday, for
mally ending 32 years of armed rebellion.
The accord marked a major break
through for the repressive Burmese junta’s
quest for stability and legitimacy.
Details of the agreement, negotiated
last year, were not immediately available,
but Kachin leaders previously said it was
limited to a military cease-fire.
Junta leader Khin Nyunt was present at
the signing in Myitkyina, the capital of
Kachin state, 615 miles north of Rangoon.
The Kachin’s leader, Brang Seng, who is
recovering from a stroke, was absent.
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Judge Sets Rules for Sokolowski Murder Trial
BY SARAH MCBRIDE
STAFF WRITER
HILLSBOROUGH ln the pre-trial
hearing Thursday for what could be the
county’s most gruesome murder trial,
David Allen Sokolowski’s lawyer entered
not guilty pleas for the three charges filed
against his client.
The prosecution contends that
Sokolowski murdered his live-in girlfriend,
Pamela Owens Ellwood, on or about Feb.
17, 1992, and his friend Rubel Gray Hill
around March 4 of that year.
A third charge is for the attempted mur
der by strangulation of Thomas Edward
Thurber on May 27,1992.
A neighbor of Sokolowski’s alerted po
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Carolina Athletic Association Co-president-elect Jen Rasmussen, Jerry Bayles of Western Carolina University and UNC’s
Bill McLean discuss issues at a mock board of trustees meeting as part of the National Student Leadership Summit.
Students Govern at Mock University
BY MATTHEW HEM BY
STAFF WRITER
Students probably wonder what their
boards of trustees do at their meetings. The
National Student Leader Education Sum
mit on Thursday gave them some idea.
The education summit, which is part of
Student Leadership Week that began Sun
day, includes a simulation of university
administration processes.
The summit shows students through
role-play how a university system’s admin
istration works. The event is sponsored by
the Student Bicentennial Committee.
“It gives students a sense of where pub
lichighereducationisgoing,” said Heather
O’Neill, co-chairwoman of the summit.
It shows students how universities work
and gives insight about how they interact
with the state, O’Neill said. The relation
ship between a public university and the
state adds many different dimensions, she
said.
During the summit, a simulated univer
sity, its administration and representatives
Finance Committee to Hear Budget Requests of 31 Campus Groups
BY HOLLY RAMER
STAFF WRUER
The Student Congress Finance Com
mittee will debate the financial fate of 31
student groups this weekend during its
annual budget hearings.
The groups, who are asking for a por
tion of the $190,000 to be allotted, will
present their cases to the committee today,
Saturday and Sunday. The requests range
from $lB5 to more than $20,000.
The Finance Committee can vote to
report favorably, unfavorably or without
prejudice for each appropriation request.
The full congress then considers these
recommendations when it makes the final
decision.
Congress Speaker Wendy Sarratt said
the criteria for funding groups were out
lined in the Student Government Code.
He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25,1994
lice March 9 of the first two incidents after
seeing a dog wandering around
Sokolowski’s property with a human hand
in his mouth. Police later found human
remains being burned in the yard and body
parts inside the house.
In court, Sokolowski’s court-appointed
lawyer, William Sheffield, made the fol
lowing motions for the first two cases:
■ A motion to reduce the charges to
second-degree murder. Superior Court
Judge Gordon Battle said the March 16,
1992, grand jury indictment was sufficient
to merit the charge of first-degree murder.
■ A motion to suppress physical evi
dence. Sheffield said police did not have a
search warrant the first time they entered
Sokolowski’s house, which would invali
of various groups meet to discuss its future.
A deceased trustee, Ms. Eleanor
Waldroff Chatham, has left an estate worth
S2OO million, and the will gives the univer
sity 30 days to decide what to do with the
large sum. The only other restrictions
placed on the university are that the be
quest must be divided between short-term
projects and long-term endowment sup
port.
O’Neill said the simulation was “the
cutting edge in the way conferences are
held.” She said the summit’s co-chairmen
Nicole Perez andKevin Moran, who wrote
the simulation, came up with the idea and
then realized Joseph Lowman had devel
oped a similar program. Lowman is a clini
cal psychologist and a dean in the College
of Arts and Sciences.
Students will produce a document that
will be sent to public research universities,
the White House and the Department of
Education, Perez said.
She said the document could show ad
ministrators the students’ perspective.
Perez said.
“We look to see how many students are
served by the group’s programing, the
uniqueness of the programing and make
sure that the programs are not overlapped
by another group,” Sarratt said.
Sarratt said die actual appropriations
varied from year to year because Student
Congress was required to balance the bud
get. “We go over the total allocations and
the actual money there to give, and if they
don’t match we go over them until they
do.”
Finance Committee member Joey
Stansbury said he did not think most groups
would be satisfied with the committee’s
recommendations.
He said he would continue his opposi
tion to groups such as the Phoenix maga
zine and Bisexuals, Gay Men, Lesbians
and Allies for Diversity. “I don’t think
they’ll be satisfied with what they see,”
date subsequent warrants based on evi
dence found before a warrant was issued.
Battle decided that, after the jury is se
lected, he would hold a separate hearing to
determine if the evidence is admissible.
Holding the hearing after jury selection
will allow for fairer selection of jurors in
the event of a great deal of pre-trial public
ity, the judge said.
■ A motion to suppress statements.
Sheffield said police failed to read
Sokolowski his rights before obtaining a
statement of admitted guilt, and Sokolowski
also had not spoken to a lawyer.
N A motion that if he uses an insanity
defense, the issue of insanity and the issue
of guilt be decided by separate juries. Battle
denied the motion for the time being, but
She said the summit gave students a
collective voice.
Perez said the other benefit of the sum
mit for the students was the interaction
with their peers from across the nation.
Fifty-five students are traveling from as
far away as Maine and California to meet
at the summit.
The students in the simulation draft an
agenda and then have a plan of action on
how to accomplish the agenda, Perez said.
The students examine how the system
looks in the ideal world, she said, and then
plan how they want to get there. The stu
dents draft the agenda based on their own
experiences.
O’Neill said she liked the idea of the
education summit because it was a good
ice-breaker for the debates on Sunday.
Perez said the summit was unique to
leadership conferences and “something
never done before.”
“This conference is totally determined
by students. They determine issues and
focus on the debates of the issue,” O’Neill
said.
said Stansbury, who represents Student
Congress Dist. 11. “If it came down to me,
I know they wouldn’t be satisfied.”
Stansbury said he weighed the group’s
monetary situations and ideologies in mak
ing his decisions, not whether a group is
conservative or liberal.
B-GL AD Co-chairman Trey Harris said
he expected the Finance Committee to
continue its tradition of trying to defund
the group, which plans to request $2,582.
“There’s never been a year, as far as I
know, that they haven’t,” he said. “There
is some chance that they might report us
without prejudice, but they usually report
unfavorably.”
Although Harris said he expected
lengthy questioning from Finance Com
mittee members, he said he was more fo
cused on lobbying the full congress to fund
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said he would reconsider if Sheffield enters
a plea for defense by insanity.
N A motion to strike the M’Naghten
rule for determining insanity. The judge
upheld the rule, which says that a person is
insane at the time of a crime if he or she
could not then distinguish between right
and wrong. The N.C. Supreme Court has
upheld the rule.
N A motion for the sequestering of wit
nesses, which means that witnesses could
be segregated from society throughout the
trial. The judge granted the motion.
During the hearing, Sokolowski ap
peared to listen closely, occasionally strok
ing his chin or his shoulder-length hair and
nodding his head. Once he referred to legal
papers in front of him.
Senior Phon-a-Thon
Ends on a High Note
BYJOHN ADCOCK
STAFF WRITER
A weeklong phon-a-thon aimed at rais
ing money for the senior class gift ended
Thursday night, but senior class officials
said they would not release the final total
on pledges received.
Matt Williamson, co-chairman of the
senior class gift committee, said he could
not release the figures because senior class
officials were not sure of the totals.
“We feel the phon-a-thon has gone very
well, and we received a great deal of
pledges,” Williamson said. “We just can’t
release a number that isn’t accurate or
true.”
The senior class has held activities in the
Pit and spoken with different campus
groups about the gift campaign.
The senior class set a goal of $325,000.
The money raised will be used to fund
library services such as an electronic re
serve system that will allow students to
access and print reserve materials from on
Downtown Bank Robbed;
Police Search for Suspect
BY KRISTEN MIN
STAFF WRITER
The Chapel Hill Police Department
answered its first bank robbery call of 1994
on Thursday.
Branch, Banking & Trust Cos., which is
located at 143 E. Rosemary St., was robbed
in broad daylight Thursday afternoon, ac
cording to Chapel Hill police reports.
Police reports state that a man walked
into the bank and approached the informa
tion desk at about 1 p.m. Thursday.
As he talked to a BB&T representative
about opening a bank account, he passed
the employee a note stating that he was
demanding money, reports state.
The reports also state that the man threat
ened the worker with a gun, although no
gun was shown. After the note was passed,
the representative and the suspect walked
up to the teller to get the money.
After receiving it, the suspect walked
out the door with the money and turned
right onto Rosemary Street, said Chapel
Hill police spokeswoman Jane Cousins.
When the man left, bank employees
contacted the police, who responded to the
call at about 1:05 p.m. Cousins would not
reveal the amount of money stolen.
Representatives from BB&T said Thurs
day afternoon that they had no comments
concerning the robbery or their security
procedures. Bank employees gave the po
lice a description of the man, and a photo
graph was retrieved from the surveillance
camera.
The suspect is described as a “clean-cut
Student Television, another organiza
tion that has had trouble getting money
from congress in the past, will request
$22,989.
STVstationmanagerJohn Sabbagh said
he hoped the Finance Committee would
recognize the goals of STV and its need for
funds. “I hope they will see our concern
and appropriate the money accordingly,”
he said.
Some groups will not have the opportu
nity to ask for funds this weekend because
they missed deadlines to turn in their re
quest. The Black Student Movement, which
usually requests the second- or third- larg
est amount, said its treasurer forgot to turn
in its budget proposals. The group officials
said it would request appropriations in the
fall.
Connie Reddan, treasurer of Pauper
Players, said the group missed the deadline
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After the hearing, Sheffield said he was
unsure whether he would use a self-de
fense or insanity defense.
“It might be that there’s a strong enough
case for self-defense that it wouldn’t make
much sense to weaken it with an insanity
plea,” he said.
He again contested the first-degree mur
der charge, saying the state lacked suffi
cient evidence. Orange-Chatham District
Attorney Carl Fox would not comment on
the case after the hearing.
“The state does have to prove premedi
tation, and I believe that’s a difficult bur
den,” Sheffieldsaid. “Whenyou say some
body did something with premeditation, it
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line terminals. One of the main reasons the
senior class marshals chose the gift was
that they wanted the gift to benefit a large
number of students.
Participants in the campaign were opti
mistic Thursday afternoon about reaching
their goal. The senior class’ gift has re
ceived endorsements from UNC men’s
basketball coach Dean Smith and football
coach Mack Brown.
“We have a really strong campaign,
strong phone sessions, and are overall
making a firm commitment to reach our
goal,” Williamson said Thursday after
noon. “We’re satisfied with where we are
right now in our fund raising.”
Senior class officers said they would
continue to raise money by publicizing the
campaign. “The phone-a-thon is not the
end of the campaign,” said Jason Dugas,
co-chairman ofthe gift committee. “We’re
going to continue with it afterwards by
making personal contact with the people
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The BB&T surveillance camera took
this picture of the robbery suspect
looking” black man with a medium com
plexion in his mid-20s. Reports state that
he is of slim build, 180 to 200 pounds and
between 6 feet 4 inches and 6 feet 5 inches.
At the time of the robbery, the suspect
was wearing a blue baseball cap with de
signs on the front. According to reports, he
was wearing a white T-shirt with an or
ange-colored design and a blue, denim,
zippered vest with matching jeans.
“This was the first Chapel Hill bank
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because the Finance Committee was in
consistent and unclear about when the
proposals should be turned in. “There was
a meeting to pick up the financial forms
that I could not attend, ’’ she said. “But the
next deadline on our notification was sev
eral weeks later to turn in the forms so I
figured I could just pick them up later.”
Student Body Treasurer Kevin Hunter
then informed Reddan that since she had
not contacted him within 24 hours of the
meeting, the group would be ineligible for
funds, she said.
However, Sarratt said that groups had
one week between each deadline to appeal
and give reason why the deadline was not
met.
Reddan said Pauper Players also would
request appropriations, but she thought
the group would probably end up with less
money.