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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
Two African Presidents
Killed in Airplane Crash
UNITED NATIONS—The presidents
of Rwanda and Burundi were killed
Wednesday in a plane crash near the air
port in Rwanda’s capital.
Presidents Juvenal Habyarimana of
Rwanda and Cyprian Ntayamira of
Burundi had been in Tanzania for a meet
ing of east-central African leaders seeking
ways to end ethnic violence in the two
countries. Rwanda and Burundi have been
wracked by bloodletting between the rival
Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups.
The plane went down while approach
ing the airport in Kigali, capital ofßwanda,
accordingto Chinmaya Gharekhan, a U.N.
political adviser.
The French Embassy in Kigali con
firmed both presidents were killed in the
crash. About 10 people were aboard and
there were no survivors, the embassy said.
Witnesses heard heavy-weapons fire
around the airport shortly before the crash.
Revenge Bombing Kills 8
In Northern Israeli Town
AFULA, Israel Police and civilians
worked desperately to help victims of a car
bomb that killed eight people and injured
45 Wednesday in revenge for the Hebron
massacre.
The explosion occurred at about 12:30
p.m. in the northern town of Alula near a
city bus stop close to three high schools. As
a city bus pulled up to the stop and some
students crowded around, a blue Opel
parked 10 feet in front of the bus erupted in
a fire cloud.
Alula, a factory and agriculture town in
the northern Galilee region, is surrounded
by Arab villages and is six miles from the
occupied West Bank town of Jenin. The
Islamic militant group Hamas claimed re
sponsibility for the attack, saying it was in
revenge for the Feb. 25 massacre in a
Hebron mosque that killed 30 Muslims.
Teamsfbrs Strike After
Negotiations Break Down
WASHINGTON Up to 75,000
Teamsters members went on strike
Wednesday in a contract dispute concern
ing the use of lower-wage, part-time em
ployees, setting uppicket lines in the union’s
first nationwide walkout in 15 years.
A handlul of strikers were arrested in
the Northeast, but no serious violence was
reported. “Everything is peacelul. It’s un
usually quiet, which is good,” said Millard
Kizzia, manager of a Churchill Truck Lines
Inc. terminal in Tulsa, Okla.
The Teamsters’ contract expired last
week. The union agreed to extend its strike
deadline until Wednesday so negotiations
could continue, but the trucking compa
nies said the proposal they put forward last
week was their final offer.
Federal Sting Brings 81
Arrests in Smuggling Case
MITCHELLVILLE, Md. Federal
agents investigating a gang accused of
smuggling Chinese people into this coun
try and holding them for ransom arrested
81 people Wednesday in the Washington
suburbs and in New York.
In raids conducted by agents of the
Immigration and Naturalization Service
and the FBI, 63 people were taken into
custody at a house in Mitchellville, six
more were arrested in restaurants in nearby
Upper Marlboro, and 12 were arrested in
New York, the FBI said.
The FBI learned of the smuggling ring
Sunday, when friends or relatives of one
hostage contacted the agency, FBI spokes
man Andy Manning said in Baltimore.
Mandela Says Elections
Must Take Place On Time
DURBAN, South Africa Nelson
Mandela rejected any delay in elections in
volatile Natal Province, saying Wednes
day that the army could end mounting
bloodshed in the three weeks before South
Africa’s first all-race vote.
The African National Congress leader
spoke to a national conference of ANC
youth in the capital ofNatal. He spoke two
days before a key meeting Friday with
Inkatha Freedom Party ChiefMangosuthu
Buthelezi and Zulu King Goodwill
Zwelithini, who oppose the vote and de
mand changes in the country’s new consti
tution to guarantee self-determination for
the 7 million Zulus.
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FRIDAY: Clear; high lower 60s.
Cloud Wins Congress Speaker Race
BY SHARON BALDWIN
STAFF WRITER
The 76th Student Congress elected Rep.
Monica Cloud, Dist. 16, as the 1994-95
congress speaker in a run-off vote at its
Wednesday night meeting.
“I know that I can be neutral and acces
sible," Cloud said. “I want to make debate
freer and more flowing, and under my
direction debate could flow freely and un
biased.”
Goud stressed her past experience on
the Finance Committee and the Rules and
Judiciary Committee of Student Congress
and her knowledge of parliamentary pro
cedure as proof that she was more compe
tent than Rep. Jonathan Jordan, Dist. 1,
and Rep. Jonathan Justice, Dist. 21.
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Housekeeper Larry Farrar, a member of the UNC Housekeepers Association Steering Committee, talks to a crowd of
about 50 on Wednesday in the Pit. Farrar said being fired from the University might lead him to a better job.
Rally Targets Housekeepers’ Low Wages
BYRACHAELLANDAU
STAFF WRITER
Speakers at a rally Wednesday for the
UNC Housekeepers Association stressed
how the workers’ low wages were affecting
the quality of life in the community.
“It’s very hard to build and sustain vi
able communities without sufficient capi
tal and so, when you hear debates about
problems in our community, people forget
there are structures perpetuating the prob
lems,” said junior Fred Wherry, master of
ceremonies for the rally.
The rally, held at noon Wednesday in
the Pit, was a part ofßace Relations Week.
About 80 students showed up to support
the housekeepers, whose goal is to get the
UNC administration to raise wages, pro
vide better working conditions and pro
vide advancement training programs.
Supreme Court Justice
Blackmun Steps Down
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON Justice Harry
Blackmun, a liberal anchor of the Supreme
Court and author of the landmark Roe vs.
Wade decision that legalized abortion na
tionwide, announced on Wednesday that
he would retire at the end of the current
term.
President Clinton, citing Blackmun’s
distinguished 24-year career on the highest
court, said “the shoes are large” as he
searched for a replacement. Clinton prom
ised to fill the second Supreme Court va
cancy of his term soon.
“I shall miss the court, its work and its
relationships,’’Blackmunsaid. “Butlleave
it in good hands.” At a White House an
nouncement, Clinton saluted Blackmun
as a judge of “majesty and reason, with
scholarship and grace,” who defied all
political labels. In stepping down, Clinton
said Blackmun would “step up into our
history.”
Blackmun, 85, said it was hard to step
aside from a job he loved, but “it is time.”
“It’s been a great ride, and I am in
debted to the nation and Mr. President to
you and all your predecessors for putting
up with me,” he said.
The justice told Clinton several months
ago he was likely to retire at the end of this
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Al 4-9-5 vote in favor of Goud resulted
in a run-off election between Goud and
Jordan, which resulted in her 15-13 vic
tory. Two representatives abstained from
voting in the run-off election.
Inhernominationspeech, Goudquoted
author Naomi Wolfs analogy of a trans
ferrer and an energy source linked by a
machine as being the elements in the mak
ing of a successful relationship.
“A well-run machine connects the trans
ferrer —Student Congress —and the en
ergy source the student body,” Goud
said. “I want to be the machine that links
the two.”
Goud began her position as speaker of
congress immediately upon election.
In addition to speaker of congress, Stu
dent Congress elected anew speaker pro
“We would like to not work against the
University but with the University, but
right now the University has not upheld
their end,” said Barbara Prear, a UNC
housekeeper.
The main goal of the housekeepers as
sociation this year is to organize house
keepers on all the 16 campuses of the UNC
system. The group said it hoped to have
housekeepers associations on every state
campus in the next five years.
Chancellor Paul Hardin has said that it
would not be “appropriate” for the Univer
sity to recognize the housekeepers associa
tion as the representative body of house
keepers. Employee interests and concerns
can be addressed through the administra
tion, he said.
But housekeeper Lany Farrar, a mem
ber of the housekeepers association, said
the administration did not want house
year’s term. With the White House search
for a successor well under way, Clinton
promised a nominee “of genuine stature”
and reminded reporters of his campaign
statements, including a promise to name
abortion-rights supporters to the court.
Early speculation Wednesday centered
on retiring Senate Majority Leader George
Mitchell and Interior Secretary Bruce Bab
bitt.
“I think either one could be confirmed,”
said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., a member
of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Mitchell, speaking to reporters in South
Portland, Maine, said, “Nothing has been
offered to me, so I have nothing to consider
at this time.” Mitchell said that if he was
offered the job, “I will consider it, as I will
consider any option that is presented to
me.”
Other possible choice included federal
appellate Judges Richard Arnold of Ar
kansas and Stephen Breyer of Massachu
setts, a finalist before Ruth Bader Ginsburg
was picked; Justice Department official
Walter Dellinger; and federal trial Judge
Jose Cabranes of Connecticut.
Clinton had little else to say about his
search, which isbeingledby counsel Lloyd
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tempore, ethics committee chairman and
finance committee chairman.
Rep. Roy Granato, Dist. 13, waselected
ethics committee chairman over Rep. Thad
Woody, Dist. 11.
“Experience, hard work and dedica
tion, ” Granato said. “That’s what I have to
offer you as an ethics chair.
“In reference to my voting record, I see
myself as objective and fair, ” Granato said.
“I have never walked into a meeting with
a set agenda.” He ended his nomination
speech by reiterating his strengths as a fair
and unbiased candidate.
Granato’s goals include making the eth
ics committee play a more active role in
Student Congress, decreasing the noise
level and increasing the attendance level in
congress as a whole.
keepers to be free. Housekeepers are being
shackled by their minds, he said.
“This may be a plantation, but we ain’t
no slaves, and they ain’t our masters," he
said.
“This is the only real effort on the part of
the employees on campus to raise the stan
dards of employees, ” he said of the house
keepers association.
Prear said the heart of the issue was not
only the money but how it was affecting
the communities.
“We are working for nothing, and then
we are going to second and third jobs to
support our families. Then we arenothome
to raise our families,” she said.
Harvey Reid, president of the Midway
Development Commission and one of the
rally speakers, said he wanted students to
Please See RALLY, Page 10
Fashion Show Axed From Apple Chill
BYELENABERTON
STAFF WRITER
This year’s Apple Chill street fair has chilled the show of local
fashion designer Bill Witherspoon.
Witherspoon said he received a letter from the fair organizers
Monday, saying they were revoking the Chapel Hill Parks and
Recreation Department’s permission for him to participate as an
entertainer for Sunday’s Apple Chill.
Witherspoon said the decision was
unfair to the local businesses and nation
ally known makeup artists, video-graphers
and photographers involved in his show.
“I take what I do very seriously. For all
those people it’s not fair. You cannot do
that four working days before the fair.”
Witherspoon set up his first show in
1991 in the Trail Shop parking lot on East
Franklin Street, and during the following
fairs he organized his shows independently
of the Apple Chill organizers.
Mike Loveman, parks and recreation
department director, said Witherspoon’s
shows attracted a young, multicultural
crowd to the fair. “Witherspoon provided
an alternative kind of entertainment,” he said. “We think that’s
important. We have a lot of diversity of entertainment at the fair.”
The shows were so successful that in early March the parks and
recreation department informed Witherspoon that he had been
selected to perform at the Morehead Planetarium stage and that
they would provide a DJ and a dressing room.
Fair Organizer Carol Walbom said the disagreement between
the parks and recreation department and Witherspoon arose from
the issues of advertising and dressing room space.
Please See WITHERSPOON, Page 13
Congress members are allowed two
absences each semester. When asked about
his strategy for enforcing attendance,
Granato said he had a three-part plan.
“I would begin by calling each congress
member after they have missed one meet
ing and announcing it to the Student Con
gress after two absences,” Granato said.
“Further absences would result in censure
of a vote, expulsion from a meeting and, in
the off chance, elimination from office.”
Jordan was elected as this year’s speaker
pro tempore. Jordan ran against Justice
and Rep. Virginia Moore. Jordan won in a
run-off vote against Moore.
“I ran last year and lost in a heart
breaking tie,” Jordan said. “But like I said
Please See CONGRESS, Page 10
Union Space Allocation
Angers Some Groups
BY MARTY MINCHIN
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS EDITOR
Monday will be a big moving day in the
upstairs part of the Student Union.
Groups will be moving in and out of the
upstairs offices, according to space alloca
tion decisions made Friday by former Stu
dent Body President Jim Copland. Union
space allocation is the last major duty of
the student body president.
“Space is a huge problem,” Copland
said. “There are more groups that want
space than there is space to give.”
Forty-nine groups applied for office
space in the Union, seven of which had
never had space before. The student body
president has the authority to allocate of
fice space in Suites A, B, C and D, as well
as the former Student Television offices in
the basement of the Union.
Copland allocated space to all but nine
groups that applied, three of which had
never had space in the Union before.
The Fraternity Trade Association, to
which Copland allocated a smaller office
this year, plans to appeal its allocation to
the Union Board of Director.
Brendan Pierce, Fraternity Trade Asso
ciation president, said he was waiting to
hear from Student Body Treasurer Wayne
Rash if the group could appeal its alloca
tion. “We have had the space for a few
years,” he said. “We were basically put
into a much smaller office. We feel that the
percentage of people we represent on cam
pus is a lot larger than B-GLAD.”
Bisexuals, Gay men, Lesbians and Al
lies for Diversity received the Fraternity
Trade Association’s present office, which
is larger than B-GLAD’s present office.
B-GLAD member Stephen William said
the group needed the space. “Right now
our office is really crammed. We have a
library in here, and we need space for it as
well. Our books are falling off the shelf.”
But Pierce said his group was not pre
pared to move because members had not
expected their office reassignment. “They
also wanted us to move out on Monday,
and we can’t because we’re right in the
middle of closing out a business year.”
Carolina Union Activities Board Presi
dent Maleikka Hardy said she had not
heard about any appeals yet, but said all
appeals would be addressed at Thursday’s
Festival to Feature Local
Food, Arts, Performances
BYELENABERTON
STAFF WRITER
East Franklin Street will be closed again Sunday this
time not for the celebration of an NCAA sports victory, but
for the annual Apple Chill street fair.
Apple Chill, which is organized by the Chapel Hill Parks
and Recreation Department, will be held from 1 p.m. to 6
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p.m. and will feature
entertainment ranging
from fine arts and craft
to international food,
music and dance.
A group of Chapel
Hill art students and then
teachers began the fair
22 years ago as a way to
show andsell their work.
Known as “Boop la
Boop,” the exhibit origi
ssnally was set up on Co-
Fashion designer BILL
WITHERSPOON says
he could have provided
his own dressing room.
lumbia Street, but grew too big.
Organizers and artists thought the original focus of the fair
—a venue for local and developing artists—was getting lost
among the growing flurry of activities, so they approached
the Chapel Hill Town Council about its becoming the fair’s
sponsor.
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Rep. MONICA CLOUD. Dist 16. is
serving her second year in congress.
Union Board of Directors meeting.
The Carolina Union Building Use Policy
states that a group can appeal the student
body president’s space allocations only on
the grounds of discrimination and if cer
tain information was not considered at the
time of the decision.
Student Body President George Battle
said he would support Copland’s alloca
tions. “I think that space would be perfect
for B-GLAD,” he said. “To have (the Fra
ternity Trade Association) in there when
you have an organization like B-GLAD...
it doesn’t make much sense.”
Copland said that when he allocated
space, he tried to balance the need to ac
commodate as many groups as possible
while making sure that space was utilized
and not overcrowded. “lamnotgivingany
sort of prejudice in favor of groups who
already have space,” he said. “Otherwise,
you get groups that are entrenched, and it’s
not fair to the other groups that have space
here. The determinate is what groups have
critical needs for space and what groups
have a lot of student involvement.”
One problem with space allocation is
that some student body presidents try to
cram as many groups as possible into small
offices to ensure that all groups get some
office space, Copland said.
“It’s pointless to put four or five groups
in a tiny office,” he said. “It makes more
sense to make the tough decisions.”
Copland’s decisions did not please ev
eryone.
Joey Stansbury, vice chairman of the
Young Republicans, which was one of the
nine groups denied office space, said he
thought the group was being discriminated
against because it was conservative.
“It’s a reflection of the fact that this
University acquiesces and panders to lib
eral groups on campus,” he said. "We see
this in us being denied space, and The
Carolina Review (a conservative publica
tion) getting such a small space.”
Copland said he did not allocate space
to the Young Republicans because 70 per
cent of the Union was funded by student
fees, which cannot go toward groups affili
ated with specific political parties or reli
giousgroups. Copland said allocating space
to such groups could raise legal questions.
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