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SatUt ®ar MM J? Volume 102, Issue 39 101 years efeditorial freedom Serving the students and the University community since 1893 m IN THE NEWS Tip stories from the state, nation and world Soldiers Kill 23 in Attack On Democracy Movement PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Soldiers massacred at least 23 fishermen and mer chants in a west coast slum loyal to ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, witnesses and human rights advocates said Monday. It followed a wave of attacks on Haiti’s pro-democracy movement. Hie soldiers raided a seaside neighbor hood in the west coast city of Gonaives on Saturday, firing shots in the air but causing no reported injuries. Hours later, they returned and began shooting indiscriminately at people gath ering firewood on the beach. The troops also commandeered rowboats and attacked fishermen off shore. The weekend attack was first reported Monday. The killings come as Washington has toughened its stance against the military, which has dominated Haiti since ousting the elected Aristide in a 1991 coup. Car Bomb Raises Death Toll to 19 in South Africa JOHANNESBURG, South Africa A car bomb devastated a crowded taxi stand used by black commuters Monday, raising the death toll to 19 in a terrorist spree aimed at disrupting this week’s his toric all-race election. The terror spread to a Pretoria suburb late in the day, when an explosion rocked an area used by black commuters. Police said there were some deaths and up to 40 people were injured. Deputy Law and Order Minister Gert Myburgh said police were questioning someone in Sunday and Monday’s bomb ings in the Johannesburg area, but he re fused to give any details. His announcement followed earlier police statements that they hoped for a breakthrough soon. Serbs Block Aid Convoy Headed to Muslim Enclave SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina Bosnian Serbs blocked a U.N. aid convoy headed for Gorazde on Monday despite pledges to allow free access, but appeared to be moving heavy weapons farther away from the Muslim town as demanded by NATO. U.N. helicopters evacuated 91 more wounded people from the besieged Mus lim enclave for treatment in Sarajevo. Hundreds more were awaiting flights. The Serbs mostly halted their assault on Gorazde on Sunday, more than a day after NATO threatened air strikes if they did not immediately cease fire and withdraw ar mor and artillery 1.9 miles from the town center. U.N. Requests Aid Money For War-Ravaged Rwanda NAIROBI, Kenya The United Na tions appealed for money Monday to help Rwandans, even as the only two aid groups working in the country reduced their op erations in despair over the ethnic slaugh ter. Troops of the Hutu-run government and mainly Tutsi rebels exchanged more gun fire in the capital, Kigali, U.N. spokesman Abdul Kabia reported. Speaking by telephone from Kigali, he said the United Nations was getting “dis turbing reports” of widespread fighting and new massacres in the countryside. An estimated 100,000 people have been slain since a suspicious plane crash April 6 killed the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, both Hutus. Egyptian Police Attack Muslim Extremist Group CAIRO, Egypt—Police killed a leader of the main radical Islamic group on Mon day in a raid on his Cairo hideout. They killed four suspected members of the group in another raid in the southern city of Assiut. Talaat Yassin Hamam, known as the “Tiger,” exchanged fire with officers be fore dawn and was killed, police said. Weapons were seized at the hideout. Hamam was the Cairo head of al-Gamaa al-Islamyia, or the Islamic Group, a secu rity source said. He was responsible for planning most of the attacks against police and banks in the past year, the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: Mostly sunny; high upper 80s. WEDNESDAY: Mostly sunny; high mid-80s. New Policy Changes Senior Ticket Distribution BYHMGOINES STAFF WRITER The Carolina Athletic Association voted unanimously Sunday to establish a sepa rate ticket distributionpolicy for nextyear’s senior basketball game. Jen Rasmussen, CAA co-president, said the senior game policy was the biggest change made in the 1994-95 student ticket distribution policy, which the CAA re leased Monday. All other changes were minor, she said. In order to be eligible for a senior ticket, all graduating seniors and final-year gradu ate students must obtain senior verifica Around the Clock DTH/ELIZABETH MAYBACH Elias Bingham, 17, a junior at Chapel Hill High School, brushes up on his skating technique Monday afternoon around the sundial in front of Morehead Planetarium on East Franklin Street. Buyback Program Still Seeking Funds BY KATHRYN HASS STAFF WRITER An auction held Saturday to raise money for the Buy Back the Hill gun buyback program fell short of its $5,000 goal by about $3,000, program chairman Fred Meier said Monday. Meier said a little more than s2,ooowas raised at the auction, sponsored by Chi Psi fraternity and a community volunteer task force. The money will be used to buy back unwanted guns from local owners who bring them to the Chapel Hill police station on Airport Road on May 7 or May 21. Gun owners can receive anywhere from S2O to SSO for guns in operating condition. Guns collected most likely will be turned into some sort of art object, Meier said. Though the auction was well organized and received many donations, only about 25 people attended, Meier said. Local busi nesses and residents donated items that were auctioned off to the highest bidder. The highest bid, $350, was for a lunch date with UNC men’s basketball coach Dean Smith. Meier said a 15-foot sailboat netted S3OO. “We were disappointed that we didn’t have more people and raise more money. We’re not worried about the community’s attitude because everybody New Japanese Prime Minister Suffers Blow With Collapse of Coalition THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata suffered a severe blow after less than 12 hours in office early Tuesday when the largest party in his coalition quit due to political disputes. The departure of the left-leaning Social ists deprived Hata ofhis majority in Parlia ment and raised severe doubts about whether he would be able to deal with pressing issues, such as trade frictions with the United States, an overdue budget and tax reform. Hata said he hoped the Socialists would change their minds. “I will call for us to open our hearts and talk, and ask them to remain”, Hata told a 3:30 a.m. news con ference at his official residence. He postponed plans to form a Cabinet until at least later Tuesday. The current Cabinet includes six Socialist ministers, all of whom would have to be replaced. The move brought new turmoil to the six-party coalition, which bickered for two weeks before uniting behind Hata as prime A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. Gloria Steinem Chapel Mflli North Carofiea TUESDAY, APRIL 26,1994 tion cards from CAA, Rasmussen said. With the change, CAA officials will be able to tell beforehand who is eligible for senior tickets, she said. Rasmussen said CAA members hoped to distribute the cards with next year’s athletic passes. Athletic passes for this se mester were distributed at the beginning of the semester in the Pit. Tickets for the senior game—UNC vs. Duke will be given out on a random basis. Seniors will be given first preference for tickets. Beginning at 8 a.m. on the Saturday morning before the game, senior tickets will be distributed according to the number of students in line at the time of that has talked to me is for it.” Concern about an increase in gun-re lated violence prompted Chapel Hill Town Council member Jim Protzman, chief ex ecutive officer of Franklin Street market ing and advertising firm FGI Inc., to start Buy Back the Hill in September oflast year. Protzman said that the low attendance was due to other weekend events and that the program would fall short of its overall $20,000 goal. “It’s kind of discouraging,” Protzman said. “We’re not giving up our fund-raising we’re keeping it going on all the time. Regardless of what ends up, we’ll be able to make a dent.” Chi Psi member Matt Cheek, a senior from Pennsylvania, said the turnout was less than he hoped, but he was not disap pointed. “Certainly it was successful you have to start somewhere,” he said. Cheek said about 25 members of the fraternity helped set up the event. He said the death of Appalachian State University student Christopher Todd Stewart at the Chi Psi house during a party sparked the fraternity’s involvement in the program. Stewart, 20, was killed Jan. 27 after a Glock 40-caliber semiautomatic pistol ac cidentally fired and killed him. Chapel Hill District Court Judge Patricia Love decided Friday that ASU student William Scott Hata, a former foreign minister, had hoped to quickly name aCabinetandmove ahead with the government’s overdue bud get. He also has promised to settle trade disputes with the United States. Despite quitting the ruling coalition, the Socialists’ chairman, Tomiichi Murayama, said the party would cooper ate in passing the budget for fiscal 1994, which began more than three weeks ago. It was not immediately clear whether Hata would attempt to govern with a mi nority and rely on support on individual issues from the Socialists or the conserva tive opposition Liberal Democrats. The departure ofthe Socialists left Hata’s coalition with 180 to 190 seats in the 511- seat lower house of Parliament, far short of a majority. That means Hata would need significant support from opposition law makers to pass any bill —a sure formula for political gridlock. And if the Socialists, with their 74 seats, teamed up with the Liberal Democrats, distribution. As in the standard policy, each senior in line may get two tickets, she said. “Once they’re in the lot, they will receive a presence voucher to show they were there at the time of distribution.” Tickets then are distributed randomly to seniors. “For example, if 1,000 students show up, then 2,000 of the best tickets the entire lower level and some upper level —will be put into envelopes and handed to students randomly at the window,” Rasmussen said. “So, the first person in line could con ceivably get an upper-level seat.” Rasmussen said this would discourage students from camping outbecause it would Barnes, 21, would face a charge of involun tary manslaughter in connection with Stewart’s death. Another auction will not be held, but fund-raising efforts will continue, Meier said. The program has raised about $6,000, or 30 percent, ofits overall goal 0f520,000 since its beginning in January. “We have a long way to go, ” Meier said. “We need all the help we can get.” Meier said program organizers studied gun buyback events in other towns to es tablish how much to pay owners and to estimate how many guns would be re ceived. “What we decided is we would let the Chapel Hill Police Department put a value on the guns—anywhere from $20,” Meier said. The most recent buyback occurred in Stoneville, N.C. Thirty-eight guns were collected in the town of 1,500 in one day March 4. A similar program in Minneapo lis collected 6,000 guns in a six-day period. Organizers of buyback programs told Meier not to underestimate the number of guns that would be turned in on the speci fied days. “There are guns (out there), and there are people who will be willing to turn them in,” he said. “I think (the number of local guns) number is probably pretty good.” who have 206, they could pass a no-confi dence motion against Hata at any time. Parliament elected Hata, 58, on Mon day afternoon to replace Morihiro Hosokawa, who rose to power with a prom ise to clean up corruption but resigned after eight months in office amid allegations of financial wrongdoing. The coalition’s split grew out of an agree ment by a group of conservative and cen trist parties, led by Hata’s Japan Renewal Party, to unite in a single parliamentary bloc that excludes the leftist Socialists. The Socialists were not told of the move until after Hata’s election. The move appeared to be a bold step by conservative power broker Ichiro Ozawa Hata’s top ally to isolate the Social ists , who have fought endlessly with Ozawa over his plans to raise the national sales tax to pay for a cut in the income tax de manded by Washington. Murayama said at a news conference that the move “will increase the distrust of the people” in politics. He criticized the not increase their chances of getting a bet ter seat. All tickets left over after senior distribution will be distributed to under classmen in the usual best-to-woist order at 1 p.m. Other changes in basketball ticket distri bution deal with the times of distribution, Rasmussen said. Students will not be al lowed to begin camping out until 6 p.m., an hour later than usual, on the Friday before Saturday morning ticket distribu tion. Distribution on Saturdays will begin at 8 a.m., an hour earlier than usual. The changes in the policy for football games were minor ones, she said. The CAA decided to move the student Students Say Minority Leaders Good for UNC BY MARISSA JONES STAFF WRITER For the first time in the University’s history, the two most visible branches of student government are led by black stu dents. February’s elections brought more minority representatives to Student Con gress than in past years, and key positions in the student body president’s cabinet are held by black students. And most of them say more minorities in student government will make a posi- Analysis tive difference for the Univeisity. George Battle, UNC’s fourth black student body presi dent, said having more minorities in leadership positions would make student government more ef fective. Battle’s vice president, Donyell Phillips, along with Student Congress Speaker Monica Cloud and six members of congress are minorities. “Anytime you have substantial minor ity representation, I think it benefits the whole body,” Battle said. “Ithinkasmany different viewpoints as congress and stu dent government can get, it better serves the student body.” Including members of traditionally underrepresented groups in student gov ernment also discourages prejudice, he said. “It goes a long way toward dispelling a lot of the myths some people have about minorities and women—about our capa bilities to handle and exercise power.” Battle also said high minority represen- tation could indi cate that race was becoming less of an issue in UNC cam pus elections. “My best bet would be that people realize that these particular can didates were the best, regardless of race, and I think that says a lot about where (UNC stu dents) are going as a group,” he said. GEORGE BATTLE Is the fourth black student body president in UNC history. Omar McCallop, the Dist. 15 Student Congress representative, said he thought increased minority representation would have positive effects on Student Congress processes. “I think it will allow Student Congress to include views from all minorities,” he said. “It will be reflected in the funding of groups and in all the aspects of Student Congress.” But Philip Charles-Pieire, Battle’s chief of staff and former congress member, said some UNC students were wary of the in creased representation of minorities and women in student government. other coalition partners for not informing the Socialists of their plans. Speaking before Hata’scallfornew talks, Murayama said his party’s decision was final. The turmoil will make it unlikely that Japan will be able to respond with decisive market-opening measures in the face of U.S. threats of trade sanctions over the $59 billion annual U.S.-Japan trade imbalance. American officials have demanded that Japan cut the red tape wielded by powerful bureaucrats in Tokyo, which they describe as a barrier to foreign products. But a divided or minority government would hardly be capable of battling the bureau crats. The division between the Socialists and the rest of the coalition was a familiar one. The two sides have feuded about how to pay for the income tax cut, which Wash ington is urging as a way of increasing Japanese consumer demand for imports. Hata has promised a decision on taxes by June. News/Featurej/Aits/Sponi Business/ Advertising C 1994 DTH Publishing Corp. AH rights reserved. block seating section from Section 13 in Kenan Stadium to the end zone because in the past, students sitting in the general admission section would spill over into the block sections. “There was a greater de mand for security in block seating,” Rasmussen said. “The individual seats of the blocks will be forfeited if people are not in their seats after 30 minutes.” The other change involves tickets for the UNC vs. N.C. State game. Students will be allowed only one guest ticket for this game, rather than the usual two tick ets. Rasmussen said that because it was the biggest game of the year, CAA wanted to provide more tickets for UNC students. “I’ve heard that people have noticed it andare wary, andldon’tunderstand that,” Charles-Pierre said. “I think it’s an attempt at marginalization, and it puts a lot of pressure on people who have positions of power now.” Charles-Pierre said he thought the in crease in minority leaders would create positive results. “I think because of the pressure, it’s going to make people in power work a lot harder, so I think it’s going to have a wonderful effect on student govern ment and the Univeisity in general.” McCallop said he felt a pressure to perform his duties well but said the pressure was self imposed. “Ifeellike it’s my duty to set an example—to do well for minori ties who might come into congress in the future,” he said. “Everything we do, bad or good, is going to stand out.” Eddie Hanes, i says having more minority representatives will improve congress. executive secretary for human relations for Battle’s administration, said he thought pressure from campus groups was not an issue for most minorities in leadership po sitions. “I think my motivation comes from within,” Hanes said. “I don’t feel any out side pressure from community groups, and I don’t think any minorities in student government posi tions would feel that pressure because they’re very moti vated people.” McCallop said some leaders feared a backlash against minority candidates in future years be cause of this year’s high representation. “I’ve heard talk that because there are so many minori ties in student gov- —3 PHILIP CHARLES PIERRE says greater minority representation will help UNC. ernment there will be some kind of back- I lash in future years that would come from I a need to compensate for the lack of white ! leadership this year.” Hanes said he hoped UNC students would not vote for candidates based on their race. “I would hope that students at 1 this University would not vote just because of race.” But Hanes said it was counterproduc- “ tive to worry about future elections. “You’ve got to worry about the here and now,” he said. “I don’t want to muddy the water around having positive people in leadership positions.” ' iPffii, i * AM TSUTOMU HATA lost his majority in Parliament because the Socialist party left the ruling coalition. 9624)245 962-1163
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