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(Slip iailtt Star Bppl Volume 102, Issue 2* JL*’ / 101 years cfeditorialfreedom IMS* Stmng the students and theUnhmity community since 1593 IN THE NEWS Top atria from the state, nation and world Egyptian Fundamentalists KHlAiti-Terrorist Official CAIRO, Egypt The Islamic funda mentalist Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya, or Is lamic Group, claimed responsibility Sun day for a rifle and grenade attack that killed Egypt’s top anti-terrorism official. The group also threatened further as saults on intelligence and law enforcement officials in its statement, which was faxed to a Western news agency. The killing Saturday night was the most daring operation carried out in Cairo in the two-year campaign by Muslim radicals to overthrow the secular go vemment and turn Egypt into an Islamic state. The victim, Maj. Gen. RaoufKhayrat, 48, was deputy chief of state security intelligence in charge of religious terrorist activities. Ethnic Violence in Rwanda Threatens Relief Efforts PARIS Relief workers in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, were overwhelmed by ma chete-hacked bodies piling up in the morgue. Armed men, their affiliation unclear, have set up roadblocks in Kigali, relief workers said from the capital on condition America! Troops Help Evacuate Foreign Nationals See Page 4 of anonymity. “They have ma chetes, grenades and knives in their hands,” one said. “It’s hard to get passes in the late afternoon because people (at the checkpoints) have a high level of alcohol. Those are wild, wild checkpoints.” The fighting is mainly between the Hutu dominated army and the mostly Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front. It is the latest outbreak in a decades-old struggle between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups. Research Suggests Blacks More Pyrene to lung Cancer SAN FRANCISCO Blacks may be biologically more likely than whites to de velop lung cancer from smoking, accord ing to a study released Sunday at a cancer conference. The results are particularly relevant be cause cigarette manufacturers are aggres sively targeting blacks in their marketing campaigns, said John Richie ofthe Ameri can Health Foundation, which conducted the study. Richie said a difference in me tabolism might be responsible. “Our initial data seem to indicate that blacks have a poorer capacity than whites to detoxify NNK, one of the most impor tant tobacco-related carcinogens linked to lung cancer,” Richie told the annual meet ing of the American Association for Can cer Research on Sunday. Commission Investigates Second Hebron Gunman JERUSALEM A Muslim guard at the Hebron mosque where a Jewish settler massacred 30 worshipers said Sunday that he had asked Israeli soldiers to help stop the shooting but they had refused to do so. Muhammed Abu Salah told the com mission investigating the massacre that settler Baruch Goldstein pushed past him into the hall where Palestinians were pray ing and opened fire. Abu Salah raced to call soldiers for help, but they would not enter the hall, he said. Also Sunday, hospitals gave medical investigators two types of bullets recov ered from victims of the Feb. 25 massacre, an apparent indication that more than one gunman was involved. Repaired Shuttle Radar To Make 3-D Map of Earth CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Engi neers working frantically on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean fixed a broken radar on space shuttle Endeavour, and the instru ment was operating perfectly Sunday. The fix will allow the shuttle to create an un precedented three-dimensional map of Earth’s mountains, volcanoes, forests, deserts, oceans and rivers. One day into the flight, the two radar systems on Endeavour had collected enough environmental data to map 1.5 million square miles. That is equivalent to one-quarter of the United States. Among the sites surveyed Sunday: the Strait of Gibraltar; Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii; the Austrian Alps; Canadian for ests and African dust storms. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: Mostly cloudy, 40-percent chance of rain; high upper 60s. TUESDAY: 40-percent chance of rain; highmid-60s. Medical School Dean Search Narrowed to 1 BY KIRK ROYAL STAFF WRITER A pediatrics researcher from the Uni versity of Utah is the front-runner to re place the outgoing dean ofUNC’s School ofMedidne. Chancellor Paul Hardin recommended Michael Simmons, 52, Wednesday to re place Stuart Bondurant, who will step down when his five-year contract expires in June. The medical school deanship is consid ered one of North Carolina’s most impor tant health care positions. Simmons has not yet officially been named to the post, although he had earlier said he and UNC were in final negotia tions and he probably would take the job. Before he can be appointed officially, three University committees and, ulti Thousands Turn Out For Carolina Saturday BY MARY BETH MAURIELLO STAFF WRITER Stances and N.C. Supreme Court cases were part of UNC’s biggest lawn party ever. And the whole state was invited to boot. Carolina Saturday convinced about 25,000 students and North Carolina resi dents to forget work and studying for a few hours and enjoy UNC’s unusually festive atmosphere. The 131-event University open house was the second of three major events planned for UNC’s Bicentennial Obser vance. The major events of the Bicenten nial Observance include last October's Convocation with President Bill Clinton and the Bicentennial Commencement on May 14. Blue and white balloons and banners floated from lampposts and railings on Polk Place and McCorkle Place. Wagons driven by men wearing bob ties and cowboy hats rolled around cam pus. Klingons and Starfleet officers pro moting the new Morehead Planetarium U.S. Fighters Bomb Serbian Forces Advancing on Gorazde THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina—Two U.S. F -16 fighter jets bombed targets near the besieged Mus lim enclave of Gorazde on Sunday after Bosnian Serb forces overran government defenses to reach the out skirts of the town. It was the first NATO attack on ground positions in its 44-year history. In February, NATO jets downed four Serbplanesviolatinga “no-fly zone"overßosnia, which has been convulsed by civil war since seceding from Yugoslavia two years ago. NATO officials at their headquarters in Naples, Italy, said the planes were U.S. F-16Cs based in Aviano, Italy, and said the attack was requested by U.N. peacekeepers in Gorazde. “The United Nations made it absolutely clear that there were U.N. personnel in Gorazde, that an attack on the town would be interpreted as a dear violation oftherules,’’President Clinton toldreporters in Wash ByMp'|Mppi Mliji I ~ 8 R 'JB . iff ■Sr ■ --- —*-v\ DTH/DAWD ALFORD A miniature train carries children and parents up and down Franklin Street during Sunday's 22nd annual Apple Chill festival. The event was sponsored by the Chapel Hill Department of Parks and Recreation. See story on page 3. A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else’s money. Carter Glass Chapal Mi, Martfe CaralM MONDAY, APRIL 11,1994 mately, the Board ofTrustees and the Board of Governors must approve his applica tion. The Daily Tar Heel was unable to con tact Simmons in Salt Lake City at home Sunday. “I’m pleased with the prospect that (Simmons) maybe appointed,” Bondurant said. “I think he’ll make an outstanding dean.” Bondurant said the title of pediatric re searcher was not an adequate description of Simmons’ credentials. Simmons is an academic clinical pedia trician who has done some research, buthe also has done close patient care as well as teaching and some administration, Bondurant said. Simmons is chairman of the Depart ment of Pediatrics at the University of show, “ Orion Rendezvous, ” mingled with the crowd. In Gerrard Hall, two attorneys in 19th century outfits walked slowly to the front of the full auditorium. Facing each other, they doffed identical top hats, peeled off identical white gloves and shook out iden tical capes. Solemnly, they took their seats in identical wing chairs. These costumed graduates of UNC’s School of Law were part of “History on Trial,” a re-enactment of famous N.C. Supreme Court cases. Members of a rapt audience of about 100 wereappointed “jus tices” for this 1800s version of Court TV and heard oral arguments presented by the lawyers. * John Mann vs. State was the appeal of a Chowan County man convicted of as sault and battery in the shooting of a slave, Lydia. Mann’s lawyer argued that a mas ter had uncontrolled authority over the body ofhis slave. The state’s defense main tained that the master must avoid cruelty when disciplining his slaves. Please See SATURDAY, Page 2 ington. “We said we would act if we were requested to do so. We have now done so and will do so again if we are requested.” Clinton urged the Bosnian Serbs to return to the negotiating table. “I very much hope that now the attacks will cease, that the Serbs will go back, that the talks will resume,” he said. U.N. officials in Sarajevo said Serb shelling of Gorazde stopped about an hour after the attack Sun day evening. “The situation in the town is very calm right now, ” Olivier Van Bunnen, a representative ofDoctors With out Borders in Gorazde, told The Associated Press via ham radio four hours after the bombing. U.N. and NATO officials did not specify the target of the bombing and said the extent of the damage was being assessed. Italian RAI state television said at least two tanks had been hit. Bosnian Serbs accused NATO of having hit civilian targets. Apple Chill Choo-Choo Utah and medical director of Primary Children’s Medical Center in Salt Lake City. He also has served as co-director of newborn servicesatthe University of Colo rado Medical Center in Denver and vice chairman of clinical affairs for pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. The role of dean of the medical school requires more than just hiring and firing, Bondurant said. “The dean has a wide range of authority and responsibility. The dean is ultimately responsible for all opera tions in the medical school.” Those duties include overseeing the entire admissions process; assuring that the curriculum is appropriate, with the necessary resources available; and assur ing that clinical instruction, which involves Please See DEAN, Page 2 I ~~ y mt w v. \lSmk sear Svi j DIH/JAYSON SDKS Kristen Alexander paints an alligator on 4-year-old Will Qartton during ‘Face Painting on P|uto,‘ one of several Carolina Saturday events sponsored by the Morehead Planetarium. See special photo page on page 5. “NATO aircraft fired four missiles at civilian tar gets,” Gen. Milan Gvero, deputy commander of the Bosnian Serb army, was quoted as saying by the Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA. He said there were civilian casualties but did not elaborate. “With this action, NATO has committed open aggression against the Serb people, by attacking civil ian targets far from the front,” said a statement from the command of the Herzegovina Corps, which had been besieging Gorazde. A U.N. source in Belgrade, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Bosnian Serbs had responded with anti-aircraft fire. U.N. officials said three to five bombs had been dropped. Gorazde, about 35 miles south of Sarajevo, is one of the six U.N.-designated “safe areas” for Bosnian Muslims. But the United Nations was able to put only a handful of observers in Gorazde, and Serbs have continued to besiege the enclave. Bondurant Ready to ‘Pass Baton’ BY MICHELLE VANSTORY STAFF WRITER Stuart Bondurant said he had many fond memories of his years as dean of the School of Medicine, but that giving up the position was the right thing to do. At age 65, and with 20 years experi ence as dean of two medical schools UNC and Albany Medical College Bondurant said he looked forward to “scanning” his options to decide what to do next. “I’m having a lot of fun,” he said. “But someone younger than 65 and with a longer perspective should do it.” Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic praised the NATO action, calling it “psychologically very impor tant ... for our people who suffered for two years.” Earlier Sunday, U.N. aid officials painted a picture of growing chaos as Serb forces pushed toward the outskirts of Gorazde. Hundreds of panicked civilians from outlying regions poured into the town overnight, Kessler said. Esad Ohranovic, a Gorazde city official speaking with reporters in Sarajevo via a ham radio linkup, said Bosnian Serb troops had reached the edges of town. Suburbs as close as a mile south of the town center were being shelled, Kessler said. Shells also were falling within 100 meters of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees office in downtown Gorazde, he said. The Bosnian Serb military said its troops tookUhotica Brdo hill, one of the last strongholds of the Bosnian Please See BOSNIA, Page 2 BOG Appoints Woman As Asheville Chancellor BY HOLLY STEPP UNIVERSITY EDITOR As UNC-CH’s chancellor search gets underway, the University of North Caro lina at Asheville has ended its search and made a historic appointment to their top position. The UNC-system Board of Governors approved the appointment of Northern Arizona University administrator Patsy Bostick Reed as UNC-A chancellor Friday at its bimonthly meeting. Reed, vice president of academic affairs for Northern Arizona, will be the second woman to serve as permanent chancellor at a UNC institution. “this is a good move for the state of North Carolina, a good move for women and a great move for me,” Reed said. Reed’s appointment comes after UNC system President C.D. Spangler’s call for more women in senior leadership posi tions at the 16 UNC-system universities. The board recently formed a committee to study the process by which women were appointed to leadership positions, includ ing that of chancellor. Jane Milley became the first woman to lead a public university in North Carolina when die was appointed as the N. C. School of the Arts chancellor in 1984. Milley stepped down from that position in 1989. Nan Keohane also made history last year when she was chosen to be Duke University’s first female president. The UNC-A chancellor search commit News/Features/Aits/Spom 962-024$ Business/Advertismg 962-116} O 1994 DTH Publishing Coip. All right! itkmd. Bondurant said he would remain on the medical school staff and would seek some other sort of responsibility. “I have always thought I wanted to do one more thing,” he said, adding that he was not sure yet what that would be.; Bondurant, who attended UNC but received his bachelor’s and medical de grees from Duke University, has had his share of responsibilities throughout his career. He has been president of the Ameri can College of Physicians and of the Please See BONDURANT, Page 2 tee consisted of 14 people, including six women, two blacks and one student mem ber. Jay Banks, chairman of the UNC-A: chancellor search committee and their Board ofTrustees, said the committee had focused on picking the best possible person for the position. The committee, which, began work in October, finally presented: Spanglerwithtwo candidates, both ofthetn’ women Reed and Barbara Hetric, vice : president of academic affairs at Hood Col-; lege in Maryland. Five of the nine finalists for the UNC-AJ chancellorship were women, Banks said.; Reed, a 57-year-old Texas native, will be-: gin her job leading the state’s only public, liberal arts college on June 15 with an! annual salary ofsloo,ooo. She will replace! former chancellor Samuel Schuman, who-: left UNC-A last August. Reed's appointment also comes at time when many administrators and dents have speculated whether UNC, ai' the flagship university of the UNC system,. would name a woman to its top position:! A 22-member search committee has been appointed by Board ofTrustees Chajrv man John Harris and includes five women: and four blacks, one of whom is the only student—Student Body President George' Battle. Harris has said gender would not be a consideration in picking the chancellors! saying he selected the committee membqii Please See CHANCELLOR, Page 2
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