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Top stories from the state, nation and world
Nussbaum Testifies Before
Whitewater Grand Jury
WASHINGTON Departing White
House counsel Bernard Nussbaum testi
fied for about four hours today before a
federal grand jury reviewing contacts be
tween White House and Treasury officials
in the Whitewater affair.
The president’s counsel said he was
certain that he and everyone in his office
acted legally and ethically. Nussbaum said
he did not claim executive privilege in his
questioning by the jury.
Nussbaum resigned his position March
5 amid a number of missteps related to
Whitewater. He will remain at the White
House until April 5, devoting his time to
turning over his duties to Lloyd Cutler,
named by Clinton earlier this month to
temporarily take over the counsel’s office.
Soldiers Offer Conflicting
Testimony on Massacre
JERUSALEM Two army guards
testified Wednesday that Baruch Goldstein
did not enter the Hebron mosque armed
with the Galil assault rifle used to carry out
the massacre, but that a second Jewish
settler following him had such a weapon.
The testimony before Israel’s commis
sion of inquiry raised the possibility that
Goldstein had an accomplice. Witnesses
have repeatedly said he did not act alone.
The soldiers also said they fired at least
four bullets at a door to the mosque when
they heard the noise, and not just in the air
as their commanding officers testified.
A PLO panel investigating the massa
cre said Wednesday it believed at least one
worshipper was killed by army gunfire in
the confiision of the massacre.
Thousands Riot in France
To Protest Jobs Program
PARIS Rioting broke out in Paris
and a Corsican city on Thursday as tens of
thousands of workers and students marched
to protest the jobs policies of Premier
Edouard Bahadur.
About 3,200 policemen monitored the
main march by at least 30,000 people in
Paris. Although most marchers were peace
ful, several hundred masked youths
smashed store windows, hurled rocks at
riot police, overturned a dozen cars and
attacked news photographers. Marches
drew about 15,000 people in Lille, 10,000
in Bordeaux and 7,000 in Besancon.
The target ofthe protests was Bahadur’s
plan to allow a below-minimum wage for
young people entering the work force, pro
vided that employers offered training.
Defense Minister Accepts
Russian Position in NATO
MOSCOW Russia will be ready to
join NATO’s Partnership for Peace by the
end of the month in a possible precursor to
full membership, the Russian defense min
ister said Thursday.
In the surprise announcement Mow
ing an hour-long meeting with Defense
Secretary William Perry, Gen. Pavel
Grachev, Russia’s defense minister, said
final details of a proposal to join the part
nership were being worked out. Some
Russian legislators criticized the announce
ment, saying the new arrangement was a
Western ploy to weaken Russia’s security.
Russia has opposed full NATO mem
bership for former East Bloc states, but has
been generally receptive to the idea of the
Partnership for Peace process as long as
Russia also was included.
Colleague Names 106th
Element After Discoverer
SAN DIEGO The 106th element in
the periodic table has been named
“seaborgium’’ in honor of Nobel laureate
Glenn T. Seaborg, a University of Califor
nia chemistry professor.
Seaborg is the co-discoverer of pluto
nium and nine other transuranium ele
ments, which are artificially created in par
ticle accelerators.
The announcement of the name
seaborgium, identified by the chemical
symbol Sg, came from the element’s co
discoverer, Kenneth Hulet, a retired chem
ist from the Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory. Hulet made the announce
ment Sunday at an American Chemical
Society’s annual meeting.
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Finance Committee Redistributes Extra $9,000
BY HOLLY RAMER
STAFF WRITER
The Student Congress Finance Com
mittee redistributed about s9,oooWednes
day night to student groups whose budgets
had been cut in a late February emergency
meeting.
The extra $9,000 came from a decrease
in the amount the committee originally
recommended for part of Student Legal
Services’ budget, said Wayne Rash, Fi
nance Committee chairman.
Congress approved an increase in legal
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Some Granville Residents
Petitioning for Recall Vote
BYERICA LUETZOW
STAFF WRITER
A group of students are petitioning to
recall a Student Congress representative
who they say did not run his campaign
seriously.
Steven Sciame, a freshman from Char
lotte, is leading the effort to get signatures
to recall Thad Woody, who represents
District 11, which covers Granville Tow
ers.
Sciame said he decided to begin the
recall petition because he was concerned
with the way Woody ran his campaign.
Most of Woody’s signs stated “Keep
Woody in Congress,” and was a joke,
Sciame said.
“We’re not trying to attack him as a
person,” Sciame said.
“We want him to run on his issues and
not his last name.
“Student Congress is not a joke,” he
said. “It’s something that should be taken
seriously.”
The petition must have the signatures of
15 percent or about 250 people of the
district’s eligible voting population to be
valid.
The petition then can be submitted to
the student body president.
Under the Student Code, the president
then authorizes a recall election, which
would be held three Tuesdays after sub
mission, said Melinda Manning, Elections
Board chairwoman.
Sophomore Dan Dzara, who unsuc
cessfully ran for the District 11 congres
sional seat this year, said the recall group
hoped to turn the petition in to Student
Body President Jim Copland on Monday.
“We’ve been doing this for two days,”
he said. “We’re over two-thirds of the way
there.”
Woody, a sophomore from
Waynesville, said he heard about the recall
petition from friends who were approached
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FRIDAY, MARCH 18,1994
services fees earlier this month, but the
increase still must be approved by the UNC
Board of Trustees and the UNC-system
Board of Governors.
If the increase passes, Student Congress
will no longer give money to Student Legal
Services.
“The reason the budget didn’t balance
initially was because of the Student Legal
Services situation,” Rash said. “The fee
increase has not been approved yet, so
they’re still coming to us for money.”
The committee decided to reduce con
gress’ contribution to the legal services’
by Dzara to sign the petition.
“(Dzara) doesn’t really have a valid
reason for recalling me except he lost the
election,” Woody said.
Woody said he thought that his political
views had a lot to do with the recall effort.
Woody also said that many residents of
Granville Towers know that he always
canceled out the votes of Student Congress
Rep. Joey Stansbury, who also represents
District 11.
“I suppose it’s my political ways that
he’s against mostly instead of my plat
form,” he said.
Woody said that all he could do was
wait to see how
events would turn
out.
“I was happy the
way the election
turned out but dis
appointed in the
way other candi
dates reacted to my
win,” he said.
“There’s nothing
I can do now but sit
back and see how
things turn out and
hope for the better
situation.”
DAN DZARA and
others want to recall
Woody from office.
Copland said that recall elections were
not a typical procedure in campus politics.
“There has not been a successful peti
tion for recall since I have been here,” he
said.
“There have been attempts that have
never happened.”
Manning said she thought that the peti
tion for Woody’s recall went against the
spirit of the code.
“I think it is pretty bogus,” Manning
said. “I think it is being sore losers, and
they are using the recall provision very
inappropriately.”
Manning said that the Elections Board,
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budget because, if the fee increase is ap
proved, the allocated money would revert
back to congress in the fall.
If the fee increase is not approved, Stu
dent Congress will return the $9,000 to
Student Legal Services by using funds from
an emergency discretionary fund.
The committee’s original recommen
dations for funding were reduced at the
special session Feb. 28 in order to balance
the budget. After making allocation rec
ommendations for 31 groups the weekend
of Feb. 25, the committee discovered that
it had gone over its budget and had to
Police Officers, Wife of Victim
Take Stand in Sokolowski Trial
BY SARAH MCBRIDE
STAFF WRITER
HILLSBOROUGH—In testimony that
ranged from the mundane to the eerie to
the downright bizarre, Leann Hill, wife of
the man whose dismembered and burned
remains were found two years ago on David
Sokolowski’s property, told herstoiy about
the week her husband disappeared.
March 3, 1992, was the last time Hill
saw her husband, Rubel Gray “Little Man”
Hill, she testified in Orange County Supe
rior Court on Thursday. A fight between
the two of them that morning caused her to
leave their trailer home for a few days.
At that time, she said, he was wearing
jeans and a black bandanna with a Grim
Reaper on it.
Defense attorney William Sheffield
New Agreement Ends Siege of Sarajevo
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Serbs and Muslims signed an agreement
Thursday to ease the stranglehold on
Sarajevo for the first time in the 23-month
siege.
The U.N.-brokered accord calls for
opening a bridge and key roads linking
Serb and Muslim sections of the Bosnian
capital to civilian traffic, and frees a route
from Sarajevo to central Bosnia. It is sup
posed to take effect Wednesday.
But officials on both sides warned the
city was far from free or united, and some
residents expressed the skepticism borne of
nearly two years of bloodletting among
neighbors.
“The siege will not be over until all
citizens can be transported freely,” Hasan
Muratovie, the Bosnian government’s min
ister for relations with the United Nations,
said after signing the agreement at Sarajevo
airport.
But, he acknowledged, it was “the first
very small step toward the (M) opening of
Sarajevo.”
Momcilo Krajisnik, speaker of the self
styled Bosnian Seib parliament, said the
Stricter Alcohol Regulations Proposed
To Target Ears, Underage Consumption
BYELENABERTON
STAFF WRITER
The Franklin Street bar crowd might
face stricter regulations as the local govern
ment tries to dry up underage drinking.
The Coordinating Committee for Vio
lent Crime and Drug Abuse Program dis
cussed on Thursday plans to ask the Chapel
Hill Town Council to consider more re
strictive measures to prohibit underage al
cohol consumption.
Terrie Gale, Chapel Hill police legal
adviser, said the main problems linked to
alcohol consumption were driving while
impaired and fights in bars.
Gale proposed a number of new laws
which the committee voted to bring to the
attention of the town council:
■ Ban people from walking around with
open alcohol containers. The current law
only restricts drinking alcohol in public.
■ Close downtown streets during ex
ceptional events, such as the celebration of
sports victories, and ban bringing drinks to
the closed-off areas to prevent hazards
caused by bottles and cans.
N Make local bars close earlier.
N Require that some sort of food be
served with beverages in bars. The current
law states that bars don’t need to serve food
at all to have a license.
Chapel Hill police Capt. Gregg Jarvies
reported to the committee the results of
police patrols on Franklin Street.
During the last couple of months and
especially on weekends, police officers have
checked identification cards outside of
randomly choose budgets to cut further.
Student Congress will determine the
final budgets this weekend.
Committee Chairman Wayne Rash said
the new budget bill was more fairly bal
anced. “A lot of people were upset after
those cuts,” he said. “I don’t know if it was
a truly fair procedure, but it is what the
code specifies. Those cuts were not ones
we would have made before.”
But Rep. Joey Stansbury, Dist. 11, and
a member of the Finance Committee, said
the budgets should not have been restored.
“I think we made appropriate cuts to the
asked Hill ifher husband had had a temper,
and she said he did. When Sheffield asked
if her husband had ever struck her, Hill
answered, “No more than I struck him,
I’m sure.”
Sheffield also asked several questions
about a silver ring with a swastika design
that had belonged to her husband. Rubel
Hill also had a swastika tattoo on his upper
arm, she said.
Sheffield asked Hill ifher husband had
other friends with similar rings or who
wore swastika emblems, and she said she
didn’tknow. She also denied knowing ifhe
belonged to any groups or clubs.
The ring was later found in Sokolowski’s
possession.
When Leann Hill returned to the trailer
on March 5 after two days at the beach
with a friend and her son, Hill said she
agreement would improve conditions in
the city. But he refused to say whether and
when Sarajevo would be united.
The agreement does not permit com
mercial or military traffic on the road lead
ing from Sarajevo to Visoko and on to
Zenica in central Bosnia, but envisages
free passage of civilians in buses or cars
under U.N. escort.
The accord also does not permit unlim
ited travel. People wanting to cross mili
tary lines have to apply 24 hours in ad
vance,and permission can be refused. Still,
ifhonored, the deal would open a route out
of Sarajevo for people who have been
trapped since the war began.
The agreement is the latest and perhaps
most symbol-laden sign that the Bosnian
war in which at least 200,000 people are
dead or missing is winding down.
It follows the Serb withdrawal of artil
lery from around Sarajevo, underpressure
from NATO, and a tentative agreement
between the Muslim-led government and
Bosnian Croats to stop fighting, reform
their alliance and create a federation.
The successes reflect increased outside
pressure on the warring parties, including
“There has been an increase
of fraternities that sponsor
parties at downtown
businesses to avoid liabilities
in case of underage drinkers.”
CAPT. GREGG JARVIES
Chapel Hill police
downtown bars. They found several viola
tions, and as a consequence the Alcohol
Beverage Control last week revoked the
temporary permit of Tammany Hall, a bar
on West Rosemary Street.
“The message got out, and we got feed
back from bar owners,” Jarvies said.
He added that one of the main problems
police officers encountered was the care
less ID checks by local bars.
Jarvies said that the police had made a
lot of progress in their work with campus
Greek organizations.
“The Greeks have recognized the li
abilities and the troubles of dealing with
alcohol,” Jarvies said. “There have been
changes. For example, they no longer al
low common containers like kegs at their
parties.”
But Jarvies said that despite these
changes, members of Greek organizations
had found ways to get away with breaking
the law.
“There has been an increase of fraterni
ties that sponsor parties at downtown busi
nesses to avoid liabilities in case of under-
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budgets that were amended in the special
session,” he said.
“What we’re doing is restoring the waste.
We’re restoring money that will not be
efficiently used.”
After restoring the recommendations
for the groups whose funds had been cut,
committee members then further amended
their recommendations for several organi
zations.
The Phoenix, a student magazine, was
recommended for $3lO more in
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could tell someone had jimmied the lock
on the front door.
Inside the trailer she found a note
which she at first believed her husband had
written held down on the television
with a screwdriver.
“But (my husband) writes in cursive,
real fancy handwriting, and this was printed
in crayon.”
She did not say what was in the note, but
did say that she went to see Sokolowski to
ask where her husband was on Thursday.
She visited him again on Friday morning
and then ran some errands.
OnFriday atabout 1:30p.m., when Hill
returned to her trailer with her son, her
friend Nita Wilson and Wilson’s son,
Sokolowski was there, sitting on the couch
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an active U.S. and Russian role in mediat
ing agreements. But it also appears to be
recognition by all sides that little more is to
be gained by fighting, either politically or
territorially.
“The most important thingis that people
can move inside the city, ” said Muratovic.
“The next step will open so-called sea coast
routes to Sarajevo. We are ready to sign
immediately the opening of all roads.”
The deal was finalized after three hours
of last-minute haggling, chiefly because
Bosnian Serbs reportedly rejected a more
extensive agreement.
“I just don’t want to make a political
comment on whether the city will be uni
fied or divided,” Krajisnik said after the
signing. “If we were united we would not
need such an agreement.”
The narrow confines of the agreement
apparently prompted Bosnian vice presi
dent Ejup Ganic to reiterate a call for the
full demilitarization of Sarajevo as the only
way to turn the capital into an open city.
The agreement opens the Bridge of
Brotherhood and Unity in central Sarajevo
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age drinkers,’’Jarvies said. “This has led to
an increase ofunderageviolations,andwe
expect a further increase in April.”
Jarvies said the police also were trying
to target high school students for underage
alcohol consumption.
“We had high school kids in fraternity
parties,” Jarvies said. “One benefit of fra
ternity parties downtown (instead of in
fraternity houses) is that it’s more difficult
for high school kids to get into the estab
lishments."
Jarvies said that most violations by high
school students tend to take place near
lakes, on prom nights and at private parties
rather than at local hang-out spots.
Gale said she was concerned that alco
hol beverage manufacturers were lobbying
to lift alcohol restrictions.
“In this case ifyou drive while impaired
you violate the law, but if you simply drink
ityou don’t commit an offense," Gale said.
Chapel Hill Mayor Ken Broun, who is
chairman of the committee, said the group
was trying to push the town to take its own
initiatives even though state laws allowed
little local action.
“Local communities cannot set their
own rules,” Broun said. “We can get help
from legal municipalities, which are con
cerned about this trend.”
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