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£> Volume 102, Issue 11 101 years of editorialfreedom Serving the students and the University community since 1893 IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation and world Rabin Says Israel Ready For Accelerating Self-Rule WASHINGTON—IsraeIi Prime Min ister Yitzhak Rabin, opening two days of talks in Washington, on Tuesday apolo gized anew for the Hebron massacre but told PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, “It’s time to get back to the negotiating table.” Rabin said Israel was ready to acceler ate the schedule for Palestinian self-rule on the West Bank and in Gaza. But in a speech to a pro-Israel lobbying group, he also stood firm on keeping Jerusalem as Israel’s eternal capital and on protecting the country from terrorist attack. Significantly, Rabin referred to the 130,000 Jews who live on the West Bank and Gaza not as settlers but as residents. And he used the biblical terms Judea and Samaria in speaking of the territories the Arabs claim were wrongfully seized by Israel in the 1967 six-day war. Democrats, GOP Argue About Employer Mandates WASHINGTON Democrats on a House Ways and Means panel Tuesday narrowly defeated a Republican attempt to kill a requirement that all businesses pay for workers’ health insurance. By a 6-5 vote, the health subcommittee defeated an amendment offered by Rep. Fred Grandy, R-lowa, to the health plan drafted by the panel’s chairman, Rep. Fortney Stark, D-Calif. Rep. Mike Andrews D-Texas, joined the panel’s four Republi cans in the losing effort. The Stark bill is a diluted version of Clinton’s plan. It would require large em ployers to pay 80 percent of their workers’ premiums, starting in 1995. Small employ ers with 100 or fewer workers would have until 1997. The bill also would expand Medicare to cover the poor and uninsured. Despite Chinese Testing, U.S. Extends Nuclear Ran WASHINGTON—President Clinton is extending the U.S. moratorium on test ing nuclear weapons for a year despite China’s resumption of tests, the White House said Tuesday. Clinton had announced a 15-month moratorium last July. But after China deto nated a bomb in October, he deplored the action and directed the Energy Depart ment to make preparations for possible resumption of U.S. tests. Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers said his decision now to extend the moratorium through Septem ber 1995 was a recognition of restraint shown by other nuclear powers in not responding to China’s test. Energy Secretary Hazel O’Leary said the government would, however, stay in a readiness posture. 7 Killed in Gunship Crash Might Have Jumped Late NAIROBI, Kenya Seven crewmen who died when a U.S. gunship crashed off Kenya might have tried to parachute too late. Rescue teams searched the waters offshore Tuesday for a missing crewman who reportedly jumped clear. Lt. Col. Mike Gannon, speaking from the scene, said six crew survived, including three who stayed in the Spectre gunship when it ditched in the Indian Ocean late Monday 75 miles north of Mombasa and just 200 yards offshore. Army Col. Steve Rausch said the AC 130H gunship had taken off minutes ear lier from Mombasa’s Moi International Airport for an “Eyes Over Mogadishu” surveillance mission. Clinton Seeks Friendlier Ground in New Hampshire KEENE, N.H. Struggling for an other political comeback in snowy New Hampshire, President Clinton went before friendly crowds Tuesday in hopes of dem onstrating that Americans care more about jobs and health care than the Whitewater controversy. “Whitewater is for canoeing and raft ing," Betty Windberg, 68, told Clinton at a townmeetinginNashua. “Shameonthose who would detract and distract from the important work you’re doing.” In his hour-long appearance, Clinton moved like a talk show host, pacing the stage at the Elm Street Junior High School with a wireless microphone and answering questions—which were exclusively about education, jobs and health care. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: Mostly sunny; high mid-50s. THURSDAY: Fair and cool; high in 50s. (She liitlg (Tar MM Committee Proposes Increase in Student Fees BYPHUONGLY ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR UNC students might have to pay $81.72 more in student fees for programs such as health services and athletics, according to proposals considered by the Chancellor’s Student Fee Committee. The committee, which was formed this year to increase student input on fee-in crease proposals, met Monday to make its recommendations on the fee proposals. The committee has four voting student members. Committee members refused to release the committee’s fee recommendations un til Chancellor Paul Hardin and UNC Board of Trustees members had a chance to look jgt mSWatla • iT’ iftV mk lH IP IF#7 I mk M -JH ■r-. igME Jfj* m IP iHr jM ; ii . Him Mrs. * ‘ IB DTH/JUSTIN WILLIAMS David Allen Sokolowski (center) enters the Orange County Superior Courtroom as jury selection continued Tuesday afternoon. Jury selection for the trial ended Tuesday, and opening arguments will be made today. Jurors Selected; Trial to Begin Today BY JOHN BLACKWELL STAFF WRITER HILLSBOROUGH Seventeen po tential jurors were dismissed Tuesday be fore attorneys finally agreed on the jury that will decide the fate of a man charged with the 1992 murder and dismemberment of two Orange County residents. After a full day of questioning potential jurors, the prosecution and defense in the trial of David Allen Sokolowski selected six men and six women to serve on the jury, with one woman as an alternate. The jury consists of 10 white and two black members. The alternate juror is also white. Orange-Chatham District Attorney Carl Fox called the case to trial at 10 a.m. Tuesday. Sokolowski, who lived just north of Hillsborough, is charged with first-de gree murder in the March 4, 1992, death of his friend Rubel Gray Hill, 35. Sokolowski is also charged with murdering his live-in girlfriend, Pamela Owens Ellwood, 42. Sokolowski, who has been held for two years under a $2-million bond, attended the jury selection Tuesday wearing a red, Man Convicted for Striking Greensboro Man With Car After 1993 NCAA Victory BY SARAH MCBRIDE STAFF WRITER A 60-day revocation of his driver’s li cense, a three-year probation period and a SSOO fine is the sentence for a former Durham resident convicted of striking a 22-year-old Greensboro man with his car last April. Theodore Edward Mosier, a former Pizza Hut employee who now lives in Florida, was moving his car away from the crowds celebrating the Tar Heels’ NCAA Championship victory April 5. While driving the car, witnesses said, Mosier hit Navdeep Dhesi of Greensboro, who flipped 10 feet in the air, bounced off the hood and landed on the pavement. Dhesi and some friends had just left Colonel Chutney’s bar on West Rosemary Street, where they had watched the game. Orange-Chatham District Attorney Carl Fox originally had charged Mosier with hit-and-run, which is a felony. Fox dropped this chaige Monday, in exchange for Mosier’s guilty plea to reck less driving to endanger, which is a misde Otapri HHL North Carolina WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16,1994 over them. The Daily Tar Heel received the committee’s figures and proposals from a confidential source. “I don’t feel it’s appropriate to release details until we give (the chancellor) our report,” said Neal Berryman, associate vice chancellor for finance and a nonvoting member of the committee. The UNC Board of Trustees will vote on the fees recommendations at its March 25 meeting. General fees (which affect all under graduate and graduate students) that might be raised include: educational and technol ogy, athletic, health service and student activity fees. Also in the proposals are increases in white and blue plaid shirt and blue jeans, with his shoulder-length hair combedback. He was silent throughout the proceedings, occasionally taking notes and conferring with his attorney. William Sheffield, Sokolowski’s court appointed attorney, questioned potential jurors both individually and as a group, asking them primarily about their previous knowledge of the case and whether they knew law enforcement officials involved in the investigation and arrest. Sheffield questioned potential jurors extensively about their opinions on the use and possession of firearms. He also asked jurors about how much information on the case they had obtained from the news media. Sheffield previously had said that the news media exaggerated the events surrounding the murders. Although the attorneys did not state their reasons for dismissing 17 potential jurors, several were excused after saying they had read or heard too much about the case and had already formed an opinion on Sokolowski’s guilt or innocence. Every juror except one said they had read and heard information about the case. “You had a couple of hundred people yelling and screaming outside, and it was raining, so his windows fogged up.” DAVID RUDOLF Theodore Mosier's attorney meanor. Fox also agreed not to ask for jail time. Mosier’s attorney, David Rudolf, said that Mosier did not feel truly relieved about the lesser charge. “He still feels horrible about the whole situation,” Rudolf said. In court, Mosier apologized forthe inci dent to Superior Court Judge Gordon Battle. Dhesi’s attorney, Walter Brock, was not available for comment Tuesday. Dhesi is now paralyzed on his right side and probably will remain in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He currently is undergoing rehabilita- life is a zoo in a jungle. Peter De Vries course fees and new special fees for stu dents in the School of Education and mas ters students in the business school. The schools said in a report to the committee that they had the support of students and faculty in the programs. Student Body President Jim Copland, a nonvoting member of the committee, said that as a trustee, he would approve all of the committee’s recommendations when they go before the BOT. Next year, the proposed increases should not be as high, he said. Some fees such as the athletic fee have not been raised in several years, he said. “Personally, I wish this was not as large (a fee) increase as we may have recom mended, but I’m supportive of the process At Fox’s suggestion, the court recessed after jury selection was complete. Both Sheffield and Fox declined to com ment on the jury selection process. But Sheffield did say during a recess that ques tions about jurors knowing law enforce ment officers were not connected with the issue of the illegal search warrants. “Obviously, whenever a juror knows a law enforcement agent as a close friend instead of just an acquaintance, that’s go ing to present a big problem,” he said. Superior Court Judge Gordon Battle told the jury to return today at 2 p.m. for opening arguments. Fox told the judge that the preliminary hearing Wednesday morning would take at least half a day. At the preliminary hearing, the judge will rule on the following two motions Sheffield filed. ■ One is a motion to suppress evidence gathered when police initially searched Sokolowski’s residence. Sheffield has ar gued that the evidence was invalid because police searched the house without a war rant. He also said subsequent search war- Please See SOKOLOWSKI, Page 4 tion in an Asheville clinic. Rudolf said that as Mosier was driving his company car down Church Street, crowds were just starting to come out of local bars to celebrate after the Tar Heels beat Michigan for the championship. “You had a couple of hundred people yelling and screaming outside, and it was raining, so his windows fogged up, ” Rudolf said. “He didn’t want to unwind them be cause of the crowds there were people pounding on the front of his car, pounding on the sides of his car, pounding on the back of his car.” Witnesses testified that Mosier stopped and got out of his vehicle, looked around, and saw Dhesi lying on the ground. Mosier got back in his car and drove to a nearby parking lot, witnesses said. Rudolf said there were so many people banging on the car that Mosier did not know he had hit someone. “In retrospect, I think it’s fair to say that he recognizes he shouldn’t even have at tempted to drive down the street at that time.” ftojHHHHI Student Fee Increases for Fiscal Year Education and Technology $126 i $156 j S3O 23.8% AWefe SBO S7O i $lO 16.7% Health Service $222 $254 ]s 32 14.4%m! Transit $25 $35 $lO 40% Business School $0 SSOO jSSOO aucafron School $0 SIOO j SIOO Placement Service $0 $5 £ss Undergraduate Application $45 $55 =/ I $lO 22.2% <: we’ve established,” Copland said. “You’ve got lots of people with differ ent perspectives.... In general, all the fees were heavily scrutinized. “I have some concerns, but I’m not Local Man Shot, Killed Following Argument BYBILLBLOCKER STAFF WRITER A Chapel Hill man was pronounced dead early Tuesday morning following a violent confrontation with an acquaintance the night before. Robert Baldwin, 60, was shot in the left side at 8:16 p.m. Monday at another acquaintance’s home at 506-B Craig St. in Chapel Hill. James Phillie Harris, 52, of 601 Craig St. was arrested and charged Monday with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, said Chapel Hill police spokeswoman Jane Cousins. “Mr. Harris was spottedbyanofficer at the time, and he then surrendered himself to him,” Cousins said. After Baldwin was shot, police Capt. Barry TTiomp son said, he wan dered away from the scene and was found in the 400 block of Sykes Street sitting on someone’s porch Chapel Hill resident JAMES HARRIS was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon. steps. An ambulance picked Baldwin up there and transported him to UNC Hospitals, where he died at 2:23 a.m. Tuesday, ac cording to UNC Hospitals spokeswoman Kathy Neal. Medical examiner Dr. Lisa Flannagan said one bullet had hit Baldwin. “They got him to the operating room, but he died of complications," she said. Chapel Hill police Sgt. W illiam Rounds found Harris at the comer of Sykes and Nunn streets and took him into custody. “The gentleman was leaving the area, and I stopped to talk with him,” Rounds said. “In the course of the conversation, he said he shot someone.” Cousins said an argument provoked the violence. “It appears that they had both been drinking and that they had a disagree ment,” she said. “Mr. Harris had a .380 semi-automatic and shot (Baldwin) in the side.” Harris could face stiffer charges than assault with a deadly weapon because Baldwin died after Harris was originally Please See SHOOTING, Page 4 Former Track Star Harris Indicted on Three Counts BY SARAH MCBRIDE STAFF WRITER A grand jury indicted former UN C track star Reginald Decarlo Harris, 22, of S-7 Old Well Apartments in Canboro on three counts of indecent liberties on Monday. The grand jury did not indict his roommate, former Culbreth Middle School teacher’s assistant Kevin Marcell Carver, 22, who had been charged with one count of indecent liberties. The charge is a felony punish able by up to 10 years in prison and a fine. Carver had been suspended from his REGGIE HARRIS was indicted on indecent liberties charges for an incident involving two teens. teaching duties after his January arrest and resigned his position effective Feb. 25, said Kim Hoke, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools spokeswoman. News/Features/ Arts/Sports 962-0245 Business/Advertising 962-1163 01994 DTH Publishing Coip. All rights reserved. going to oppose what the committee that I proposed recommended,” he said. Copland proposed the formation of the Please See FEES, Page 2 Fraternity Joins Buyback Effort BYAMYPINIAK ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR A UNC fraternity and a community volunteer group announced a joint ef fort Tuesday to get guns off Chapel Hill's streets, less than eight hours after a local man diedfromagunshot wound. Chi Psi fraternity will sponsor Buy Back the Hill, a program to buy back guns from local owners, the program’s chairman Fred Meier said Tuesday morning at a news conference. Chapel Hill resident Robert Baldwin, 60, was pronounced dead early Tues day morning after being shot in the abdomen. He was shot Monday night after a quarrel with acquaintance James Phillie Harris, 52, of 601 Craige St. “If anything, this incident stresses the real need for emphasis on gun safety,” Meier said. The buyback group had been seek ing a nonprofit sponsor so contribu tions couldbetax-deductible. “By spon soring, we mean time and energy,” said senior Matt Cheek, a Chi Psi member. “Well commit a lot of manpower.” Chi Psi also plans to help raise funds for the buyback program. The frater nity approached the group after the accidental shooting of Appalachian State University student Christopher Todd Stewart on Jan. 27, Meier said. Junior Craig Snydal, Chi Psi presi dent, said the fraternity had heard about Buy Back the Hill and wanted to help. “The group really wanted to do some thing good for the community, and we’ve got the manpower to help,” he said. "So it should be a really good combination.” Snydal said that handgun deaths were creeping up on automobile acci dents as the leading cause of death, especially for younger people. “It’s re ally getting to be a huge problem, with all the handguns out there.” Concern about increased gun-related violence prompted Chapel Hill Town Council member Jim Protzman, chief executive officer ofFranklin Street mar- Please See BUYBACK, Page 2 Canboro police arrested both men in January when one of the two 13-year-old Chatham County girls involved in the inci dent told a relative, who then passed the information on to authorities. Carrboro police officials said shortly after the inci dent that the two girls apparently knew the men but would not release any more de tails about the relationship. Carver stopped his physical contact with the girl with whom he was involved when he discovered her young age, sources say. Harris had consensual sex with the other girl. Taking indecent liberties can include kissing, fondling or touching. To be ar rested and charged with indecent liberties. Please See HARRIS, Page 5 Editor's Note Applications for 1994-95 editor of The Daily Tar Heel are available at the DTH office, Union Suite 104, and the Union front desk. Interested students must submit applica tions by noon Friday and be available for interviews March 26.
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