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latlu ®ar Metl Volume 102, Issue 12 101 yam of editorial freedom MK Serving the students and the University community since 1893 IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation and world Serbs, Croats to Negotiate For End of War in Bosnia BELGRADE, Yugoslavia—Serbs and Croats, the main rivals in Yugoslavia’s bloody breakup, agreed Wednesday to hold their first talks on formally ending their vicious war, which started in 1991 and later engulfed Bosnia. Talks between leaders of the Serbs and the Croatian government will take place Tuesday at the Russian Embassy in Zagreb. Balkan bloodshed began when armed Serbs rebelled against Croatian indepen dence during the breakup of the former Yugoslav federation. The ensuing war killed at least 10,000 people beforeaU.N.- brokered trace brought an uneasy peace to the one-third of Croatia under Serb con trol. More than2oo,ooopeople are dead or missing in the two-year-long conflict. Harding Pleads Guilty In Kerrigan Cover-Up Case PORTLAND, Ore. Tonya Harding ended her competitive figure skating ca reer but avoided jail Wednesday by plead ing guilty to a conspiracy charge in the attack on Nancy Kerrigan and resigning from the U.S. Figure Skating Association. As part of a plea bargain, Harding was fined SIOO,OOO and agreed to three years’ probation. Withdrawing from the USFSA excluded her from all amateur competi tions, including the world championships next week in Japan. In her plea bargain, Harding admitted that she and ex-husband Jeff Gillooly met with her bodyguard, Shawn Eckardt, on Jan. 10 in Portland and went over a cover story they hadconcocted. Harding pleaded guilty to conspiracy to cinder prosecution, a felony punishable by a maximum five years in prison and a SIOO,OOO fine. Arab Panel Says Soldiers Fired in Hebron Massacre HEBRON, Occupied West Bank Arab judges and lawyers investigating the Hebron massacre fbrthe PLO said Wednes day that they believed soldiers fired at people and caused at least one death at the mosque despite denials by Israeli officers. “Soldiers had a role in the massacre because they shot inside the mosque and in the area outside,” said Abdel Ghani Awawi, a lawyer on the Palestinian panel looking into the Feb. 25 massacre. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin report edly will allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to deploy dozens ofPalestin ian police in Hebron, even though it is not in the self-rule areas designated by the PLO-Israel peace accord. The move would be a concession to the PLO in an effort to revive the peace talks, which have been at a standstill since the massacre. N. Korea Refuses to Allow Inspectors at Nuclear Site VIENNA, Austria North Korea’s refusal to let inspectors into a nuclear re processing plant thwarted the search for a secret atomic weapons program, the Inter national Atomic Energy Agency said Wednesday. The IAEA, a U.N. agency based in Vienna, said North Korea denied its seven inspectors access to a reprocessing plant they wanted to check for any signs of nuclear material being sidetracked to a weapons program. The Clinton administration indicated previously that it might seek U.N. eco nomic sanctions against North Korea if the U.N. inspectors were unable to certify that safeguards on nuclear materials had been maintained. Senate Approves Measure To Boost U.S. Technology WASHINGTON Small and me dium-sized manufacturers of high-tech products would get help from the govern ment under an administration-backed plan approved Wednesday in the Senate. The National Competitiveness Act au thorizes spending $1.9 billion in 1995 and 1996 for programs to help companies de velop and adopt advanced technologies. The measure would allocate funds to the Commerce Department to set up a nationwide network of technology out reach centers and also to make grants and loans to promote advanced technologies. Itis expected to boost efforts to build the “information superhighways" that would connect all areas of the country. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: Sunny; high mid-50s. FRIDAY: Partly cloudy; high 60-65. Geneticist to Give Commencement BYMICHELLE VANSTORY STAFF WRITER Francis Collins, a renowned alumnus of the UNC School of Medicine and the director of the Human Genome Project at the National Institute of Health, will speak at this year’s commencement ceremony May 15, Senior Class President Joe Andrews announced Wednesday. The commencement ceremonies will conclude UNC’s Bicentennial Observance, which began in October to honor the 200th anniversary of the first public university in the United States. “(Collins) is an incredible speaker, and he’ll bring a message that we haven’t heard,” Andrews said. Andrew said he thought Collins would bring a fresh, unique perspective to the Bicentennial finale. “In his spare time, he rides around on a HondaNighthawk7so(motorcycle) wear ing cowboy boots,” Andrews said. “He’s not just a guy in a lab wearing a Round 1 Romp: Tar Heels Roll Past Eagles Hw 'witw - Jasßßaafe .<£%.. \‘ Mp ' lj|l v tip MM jjigf 6 % m , * jAVhK W DTH/JAYSON SINGE Georgia Southern's Tara Anderson hounds UNC guard Jill SuddrethJn the Tar Heels' 101-53 first round NCAA win Wednesday night at Carmichael Auditorium. UNC hosts Old Dominion in the second round Sunday. Watchdog Group Wants Input in WUNC’s Mission Residents Want Mission Statement Made Public BY MARISSA JONES STAFF WRITER An ongoing debate between public ra dio station WUNC and a Carrboro-based media watch group arises again with the revising of WUNC’s mission statement. Representatives from Balance & Accu racy in Journalism sent letters to WUNC administrative board members last week asking that drafts of the public radio station’s re vised mission statement be made public before members approve it. The letter asks that community mem bers be given a chance to express their views at an open meeting. WUNC Station Manager Bill Davis said public opinion would be heard and consid ered at a Community Advisory Council meeting March 30. Davis said the scheduled meeting was not a result of the BAJ letter. “Any people There wasn’t even a crack out there on the floor l could hide in. Georgia Southern head coach Drema Greer ChMMIHn, North Carofiu THURSDAY, MARCH 17,1994 white coat 24 hours a day.” The senior class originally had said it hoped to have an international humanitar ian as its speaker. Among those who were invited to speak but declined were Mary Robinson, presi dent of Ireland; Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel; and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Andrews said that while the University had been looking for a big-name speaker to draw international recognition to the Bi centennial Commencement ceremonies, the senior class had been more interested in finding a speaker it would enjoy listening to and one who reflected the interests of the senior class. “Most students want to hear a good speaker and want to walk away feeling good about graduating,” he said. “They may not remember the name, but they will remember the message.” Commencement committee Chair woman Jennifer Robinson agreed. “A lot of times people shoot for a big who have concerns, comments, questions, etc., not only about the mission statement, but about (programming), will have a chance to talk about whatever they want to talk about, ” he said. “I don’t know that the BAJ’s point is moot, but there’s no hidden agenda here.” He said that WUNC meetings always had been open and that the minutes of recent meetings documented attendance by the public. But BAJ co-founder David Kirsh said he was concerned that WUNC meetings had not been open to the public, noting that the Corporation for Public Broadcast ing required recipients of its funds to hold open meetings. He said he had talked to people who had given less money than usual or none at all to WUNC last fall. “The national mandate for public broad casting states that public radio should pro vide for controversy, diversity and unheard voices,” he said. “And that’s exactly what WUNC has not been doing.” Please See WUNC, Page 2 “Most students want to hear a good speaker and want to walk away feeling good about graduating. They may not remember the name, but they will remember the message JOE ANDREWS Senior class president name, but you get a packaged speech,” she said. “Dr. Collins wii! give a unique speech, probably something special for UNC.” Robinson cited last year’s commence ment address by broadcast mogul Ted Turner as one such “packaged speech.” She said Turner had had nothing rel evant to say to the graduates and that many in the audience had gotten up and left. Chancellor Paul Hardin said he thought the senior class’s speaker choice was a good one. Witness Testifies He Saw Body Parts BY JENNIFER TALHELM ASSOCIATE EDITOR HILLSBOROUGH The first wit ness in one of Hillsborough’s grisliest mur der trials testified Wednesday that while he was staying at David Allen Sokolowski’s home, he saw the defendant empty a cooler full of body parts into a bonfire in his yard. Jurors heard the attorneys’ opening ar guments and testimony from Curtis Bauer after Orange County Judge Gordon Battle ruled that evidence gathered from a search of Sokolowski’s property could be used in the trial. Sokolowski is accused of killing Rubel Gray Hill on March 4,1992, and chopping his body into pieces and burning them. Sokolowski has pleaded not guilty and is being held in lieu of $2 million bail. Sokolowski remained in the courtroom throughout the day, paying attention and occasionally flipping through papers. Hill’s family members watched the proceedings intensely. Everyone in the courtroom was searched with a metal detector before they entered, and Battle reminded everyone that they were free to leave the courtroom, but they could not re-enter until a recess. “Francis Collins is widely considered one of the world’s foremost geneticists,” he said. “The fact that he is an alumnus and a teacher deeply respected by his own former students makes it highly appropriate that he will address Carolina’s graduates this year." Collins’ strongest tie to UNC is his daughter, who is a student. He also is one of six people who will receive an honoraiy degree from UNC at Commencement and is a 1977 graduate of the UNC School of Medicine. Collins succeeded James Watson, the Nobel Prize-Winning co-discoverer of DNA, as director of the Human Genome Project, a 15-year effort to map and se quence all human genes. By applying anew strategy called “posi tional cloning,” Collins’ teams have played a key role in identifying the genes respon sible for cystic fibrosis, neurofibromatosis, Huntington’s disease and a type of adult leukemia. BYZACHARY ALBERT SENIOR WRITER Most coaches would be happy with a 48-point blowout in the NCAA tourna ment. But most coaches aren’t Sylvia Hatchell. The Tar Heels opened up the postseason with an ugly 101-53 drubbing of Georgia Southern Wednesday night in front of a sparse Carmichael Auditorium crowd. Despite the final score, the UNC coach detected a few rough edges on her team. “We haven’t played in nine days, and we wereabitrusty,” Hatchellsaid. “I don’t know if it was the layoff, but we just didn’t shoot well at all in the first half.” Essentially, the outcome could’ve been worse, as UNC turned the ball over 22 times. But Lilliputian Women's Basketball UNC 101 Georgia Southern .53 Georgia Southern, the Southern Confer ence champion, couldn’t convert on the other end, committing 29 turnovers and shooting just 26.4 percent against the much quicker and taller Tar Heels. Georgia Southern head coach Drema Greer was frank about the disparity be tween the teams. “Their height will take a lot of people outofrhythm,”Greersaid. “It’snotoneof the quickest team’s we’ve played. It is the quickest. We just don’t have that caliber of player in our conference, to be honest.” The quickness of UNC guards Tonya Sampson and Marion Jones created most of the Eagles’ foul-ups. The pair combined for seven steals and 37 points by sprinting past an often flat-footed Georgia Southern defense. But the Tar Heels also held a decisive advantage in height. The Eagles tallest starter measures just 5-foot-10, while UNC starts three players over six feet. Asa re sult, the Eagles found themselves trying to rebound against a wall. “They’re just so tall,” Greer said. “I knew rebounding was going to be a major factor. We tried to key in on it, but it didn’t work too well.” The height difference was never more apparent than when UNC’s Gwendolyn Gillingham, 6-7, came out of the post to shadow Georgia Southern’s Stacy Childers, a 5-1 guard— a scene reminiscent of Jim Valvano’s junk defenses with Chris Corchiani guarding the center. The Tar Please See WOMEN’S BASKETBALL, Page 11 Jurors were instructed not to read, watch or listen to any news accounts about the case for the extent of the trial. In his opening argument, Orange- Chatham District Attorney Carl Fox, the prosecutor in the trial, explained his case to the jury. He told them witnesses had seen Hill’s body parts in Sokolowski’s yard and that Sokolowski had shot Hill, chopped him up and burned his remains. “You will hear evidence that Mr. Sokolowski killed Mr. Hill, and that it was not in self-defense, and that it was pre meditated,” Fox told the jury, which had been selected Tuesday. Sokolowski’s court-appointed attorney, William Sheffield, countered by remind ing the jury that Sokolowski was innocent until proven guilty. He added that what happened to a body after death was un pleasant, and he asked jurors to remain objective even though the evidence was graphic. “The real task is to look at the death itself,” he said. “Notice (Fox) didn’t say too much about Rubel Hill. You will hear testimony that Hill was a violent and dangerous man.” Hill had threatened to kill various people and often showed off a tattoo signifying his New/Features/Arts/Sports 962-0245 Business/Advemsmg 962-1163 O 1994 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Address FRANCIS COLLINS is director of the Human Genome Project at the National Institute of Health. Man Faces Charge of Murder Shooting Victim’s Death Leads to New Charge BY KATHRYN HASS STAFF WRITER A local man accused of shooting his neighbor was charged on Wednesday morning with first-degree murder, accord ing to Chapel Hill police Capt. Barry Th ompson. James Phillie Harris, 52, of 601 Craig St. now faces a murder charge in connec tion with the shooting death of Robert Baldwin after the two had an argu ment Monday night. Police served Harris with the war rant at the Orange County Jail, where he already faced a charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting se rious injury in con nection with the shooting. He now is JAMES HARMS was arrested in connection with a fatal shooting Tuesday night. being held without bond because of the new murder charge. Robert Baldwin, 60, of 412 Sykes St. died early Tuesday morning at UNC Hos pitals from a gunshot wound to his left side. He was shot Monday evening at an acquaintance’s home at 506-B Craig St. Minutes after the shooting, a police officer spotted Harris at the comer of Sykes and Nunn streets and arrested him. Thompson said first-degree murder showed “malice and forethought” by the suspect. He would not comment on why that charge was chosen instead of second degree murder in Harris’ case. “We think the charge warrants first-degree murder,” Thompson said. Chapel Hill police spokeswoman Jane Cousins had said Tuesday that it appeared Please See HARRIS, Page 2 membership in Hells Angels, Sheffield said. He argued that Sokolowski would have acted m self-defense when Hill threat ened him. The jury heard the first testimony in the case from Bauer, 33, of West End. Bauer, a small, stocky, bearded man, answered questions from both attorneys for almost two hours before court recessed for the day. Bauer first met Sokolowski in early March 1992, when his friend Kevin “Bear” Fulmar introduced them, Bauer said. Bauer needed a place to stay for a while, and Sokolowski said he could put him up. Sokolowski and Bauer drank about 18 beers every day while Bauer was visiting, he Please See SOKOLOWSKI, Page 2 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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