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Volume 102, Issue 69
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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
American Warship Arrives
In Haiti Ready for Invasion
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Tension
mounted Wednesday as low-flying planes
dropped American propaganda leaflets on
the Haitian capital and a U.S. warship
steamed within sight of the port.
Pro-army militiamen beat up some
people trying to pick up the leaflets, which
announce the return ofHaiti’s elected presi
dent. Capital Police Chief Michel Francois
was heard on the police band ordering
soldiers to shoot at the aircraft as they flew
over at 2:45 a.m., according to a resident
who spoke to The Associated Press on
condition of anonymity.
Ultranationalist politician Vladimir
Jeanty, who heard the planes fly over his
roof in the Delmas section of the capital,
said Wednesday, “The sound of invasion
is already in our ears.”
Israel, Syria Making More
Progress in Peace Efforts
JERUSALEM lsrael and Syria are
moving toward an agreement after months
of deadlocked peace talks, Israel’s chief of
military intelligence said in an interview
published Wednesday.
“I think that the near future may afford
us the ability to bridge the gaps,” in posi
tions, Maj. Gen. Uri Saguy, reportedly
involved in secret talks with Syria, told the
Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
Saguy refused to give details or say
through which channel the two sides were
negotiating. Formal talks in Washington,
D.C., were suspended earlier this year, but
Israel and Syria reportedly have established
a back channel involving the two nations’
ambassadors to Washington.
An Israeli official confirmed reports
Wednesday that Syria had not rejected
outright a proposal involving an Israeli
troop withdrawal.
U.S., N. Korean Dissidents
Holding Talks in Germany
BERLIN Amid reports of a dead
lock, U.S. and North Korean diplomats
held a third day of technical talks on Ameri
can initiatives to steer the Koreans’ nuclear
program away from weapons production.
Neither side provided any details of the
talks.
The negotiations Wednesday, the last
in a series that started Saturday, began at
midmoming and were expected to last into
the evening.
The United States has offered to replace
North Korea’s reactors with light-water
reactors that are safer and produce less
weapons-grade plutonium than the Rus
sian-designed graphite reactors North Ko
rea is now developing.
Croatian, Bosnian Leaders
Open Road in Peace Effort
ZAGREB, Croatia Croatian and
Bosnian Muslim leaders, seeking to shore
up a faltering federation, agreed Wednes
day to open a key road linking Croatia and
Bosnia and to create joint municipal au
thorities in Bosnia.
The measures were part of efforts to
ease growing tensions six months after
Bosnian Croats and Muslims stopped fight
ing over territory in central Bosnia.
The federation agreement, signed in
March following U.S. prodding, is between
Bosnian Croats and Bosnia’s Muslim-led
government. But neighboring Croatia fig
ures prominently because of its influence
on Bosnian Croats.
Little of the agreement has been en
acted, due to lingering mutual mistrust.
Imprisoned IRAMembers
Support Cease-Fire Plan
BELFAST, Northern Ireland—Senior
IRA prisoners in Northern Ireland’s top
security prisonsay they support the group’s
cease-fire as a lasting step away from vio
lence but expect political concessions in
return.
British Prime Minister John Major said
Wednesday that he still wasn’t sure whether
the Irish Republican Army’s 2-week-old
truce would last. He is seeking firm assur
ances from Sinn Fein, the IRA’s political
partners, that the truce is permanent before
talks could begin.
Meanwhile, a night of street violence in
Belfast between the mainly Protestant po
lice and hard-line Protestant “loyalists”
starkly demonstrated how the IRA’s ges
ture has divided sentiments in Northern
Ireland’s pro-British majority.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Weather
TODAY: Sunny; high near 90.
FRIDAY: Mostly sunny; high near 90.
Shooting Suspect Confesses to Police
Man Fatally Shot at Restaurant
Car Dealer Killed
In West Franklin
Street McDonald's
BYAMYPINIAK
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
A 26-year-old man was charged with first-degree
murder Wednesday afternoon after confessing to
having approached his former employer at
McDonald’s on West Franklin Street and fatally
shooting him.
David Alton Lewis of 5811 Sawmill Road in
Hillsborough was trans
ported to the Orange
County Jail without
bond after being ques
tioned in the death of
James “Buck” Jefferson
Copeland of Chapel
Hill.
Copeland, acting
president and general
manager at Yates Mo
tor Cos., was shot when
he entered McDonald’s
at about 9 a.m. He was
pronounced dead at the
scene of the crime from
a single gunshot wound
THE SUSPECT
DAVID ALTON LEWIS
Age 26
Hillsborough resident
to the left temple, according to medical examiner Dr.
Thomas Spom.
Witnesses said Lewis, described as a “young
black male driving a pickup track,” had left the
restaurant immediately after the
shooting. Lewis apparently then
drove to the Chapel Hill Police
Department on Airport Road,
where he waited to speak to inves
tigators.
Lewis was previously employed
by Yates Motor Cos., locatedat4l9
W. Franklin St. He worked in the
cardealership’sservice department,
said Michael Leonard, a Yates
salesman.
“(Lewis) seemed like the last
person who would do this,” said
Leonard, who has worked at Yates
Motor Cos. for about two years.
“He was always real quiet and nice.
He was someone you’d never sus
pect.
“(Lewis) just didn’t look like the
type ofperson who would do this,”
Leonard added. “But I guess looks
can be deceiving.”
Please See SHOOTING, Page 4
Congress Decides Funding Fate for 12 Student Groups
Victory Village Day Care,
SEAC, Yackety Yack Get
Funding Requests Granted
BY HEATHERN. ROBINSON
STAFF WRITER
From 7:30 p.m. to 10:45 p.m. Wednes
day night, Student Congress debated and
decided on only three of 12 appropriations
for University and campus-related organi
zations.
UNC’s yearbook, the Yackety Yack;
the Student Environmental Action Coali
tion; and the Victory Village Day Care
Center all received appropriations.
The Yackety Yack was given a total of
$12,699 in appropriations. The Student
Congress Finance Committee adjusted the
Yack’s previous request of $32,076 to
SHS Fee Policy Changes Don’t Mow
Patients to BiD to Student Accounts
BYRACHAEL LANDAU
STAFF WRITER
Students can no longer send their Stu
dent Health Service bills home to Mom
and Dad and hope they pay them before
registration time rolls around.
Student Health Service instituted anew
fee policy at the beginning of this semester
that states that students must pay any
charges they incur on the day of service or
by noon of the following day.
“We don’t want students to not come
because they don’t have money in their
pocket,” said Judith Cowan, SHS director.
Cowan said SHS would do everything it
could to help students work out how they
would pay for services if they could not pay
according to the new policy. “If a student
is unable to do that, then they can speak to
our financial counselor,” she said.
Procrastination the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis
Chapal Hill, North Caronoa
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15,1994
DTH/KATIE CANNON
A Chapel Hill police officer keeps an eye on the situation at McDonald's Wednesday afternoon while cleanup efforts get under way inside after a
Chapel Hill man was gunned down at 9 a.m. Wednesday.
Past Year Violent for McDonald's
The shooting death of James Copeland marked the third violent incident.
Copeland was
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David Lewis VffSjS MPMMUTB and acting
shot Copeland fM j#ff
at 9 a.m. when M BjlYates Motors Cos
he went to buy S Ti-nrur KH Lewis was a
a cup of coffee.
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I 11 Recent McDonald's crime
W Franklin St Jan. 24,1994: A Carrboro man was shot in
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J -f I Sept. 23,1993: Dissatisfied customer
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SOURCE: STAFF REPORTS
$21,376 last Wednesday and gave the re
quest an unfavorable recommendation.
The appropriation request was triple
the amount of last year’s.
Nathan Darling, editor of the Yack,
said the increase was due to a movement
toward a higher quality yearbook with an
emphasis placed on advertising for the
promotion of this year’s yearbook.
“We want the Yackety Yack to be not
just a yearbook, but your book,” Darling
said.
After the amendments were made to the
bill, it passed 17 to 4.
The Victory Village Day Care Center,
which did not receive a recommendation
from the finance committee, was allowed
S2OO in appropriations for printing and
publicity.
Debate lasted for more than an hour
while congress tried to decide if the fund
ing was in conflict with the Finance Com-
Previously, when students came to SHS,
they could pay by credit card or check or
charge it to their student account. Now
students may only pay with a credit card or
check.
Those students who have insurance also
must pay at the time of their visit, as previ
ously required. They then can file the nec
essary paperwork with their insurance com
pany to receive repayment.
The change was made because the
Cashier’s Office is installing anew com
puter system that will be ready for use Oct.
17, said Kermit Williams, University Cash
ier.
The new computer system is not com
patible with SHS’ computer system and
makes it much harder to share information
between the two departments, Williams
Please See SHS, Page 2
DTH/ROBERT ANDERSON & lOHN CASEKIA
mittee Code.
The code would not allow appropria
tions to be given as scholarships. The day
care center was asking for $ 10,770 in “ schol
arships.”
Actually, the money they asked for in
scholarships was going to be used to subsi
dize the enrollment fee for the children of
UNC students.
Sixty-four people are served in this pro
gram, with UNC students (including un
dergraduates and graduates) having prior
ity of the spaces before staff and faculty.
The subsidy cut the monthly payment
of $525 to $l5O for children under 2 years
old and from $475 to S9O for children over
the age of 2.
Congress debated the definition of schol
arship and finally voted 12 to 10 that the
actual subsidy was not a scholarship for the
UNC student.
Congress then made amendments to
UNC Student, Teen File Rape Reports
BY CHRIS NICHOLS
CITY EDITOR
Two Chapel Hill women—one of them
a UNC student reported to Chapel Hill
police this weekend that they had been
raped in two unrelated incidents.
One of the rapes occurred over the week
end and involved a woman in her early
teens. The other assault, reported to Chapel
Hill police on Friday, stemmed from a late
August incident in which a UNC woman
was raped. The assailant was a man whom
she had met earlier the same day.
“We get a lot of blind reports, people
who don’t want to prosecute, but we get
reports,” police department spokeswoman
Jane Cousins said Wednesday.
Many times, rapes are reported anony
mously by victims, by their friends or rela
tives, or by hospitals, Cousins said.
But after filing a report, continuing the
Copelands Sudden Death
Leaves Residents Shocked’
BYAMYPINIAK.
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
The morning of his 61st birthday, James “Buck” Copeland left his office at
Yates Motor Cos. for a cup of coffee.
At about 9 a.m. Wednesday, Copeland walked, as he did almost every day,
to,the nearby McDonald’s on West Franklin Street. At the restaurant, former
employee David Alton Lewis approached him and asked, “Do you remember
me?” and fired his shotgun once into Copeland’s head.
Copeland’s sudden death hit hard for fkmily, friends, co-workers and acquain
tances.
Michael Leonard, a salesman at Yates for the past two years, said that “Buck”
Copeland had been well-liked.
“I think everyone liked Buck,” Leonard said. “I was surprised someone had
Please See COPELAND, Page 4
the bill, which asked for $2,100 in appro
priations for the subsidy and SSOO for print
ing and publicity.
The debate continued when Congress
could not agree on whether they were
promoting UNC as being a flagship school
that supported students with children or
whether they were supporting a lifestyle.
Speaker pro tempore Jonathan Jordan
led the argument that congress did not
need to support a lifestyle, while the Gradu
ate and Professional Student Federation
representative led the opinion that con
gress should support UNC’s goal of allow
ing everyone to get an education, includ
ing those people with children.
Both amendments failed, and congress
decided 13 to 8 to give the Victory Village
Day Care Center S2OO for printing and
publicity.
The Student Environmental Action
Coalition requested $605 to promote an
“ That's not unusualfor
women to decide that they
want some time to decide they
want law enforcement
involved. ”
JANE COUSINS
Chapel Hill police spokeswoman
case and pushing for prosecution is too
difficult a process for some rape victims,
she said.
“Some of these women don’t want to
talk to a policeman, much less prosecute,”
she said. “That’s not unusual for women to
decide that they want some time to decide
they want law enforcement involved.”
Cousins said neither of the women had
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expanded recycling program for Lenoir
Dining Hall and to get started as an inde
pendent group.
Two members of SEAC were present to
explain to congress that the group branched
from the Campus Y last year due to com
plexities.
SEAC has six existing subcommittees
and plans to set up an office in the Student
Union.
Congress granted SEAC the $605 —for
office supplies, printing and publicity, and
for the cost of setting up a telephone
with little debate.
The finance committee had favorably
recommended SEAC’s request last
Wednesday.
Three hours into the meeting, congress
had only reached a decision on three of the
12 appropriations to be made. Congress
was allowing a total of $73,000 in appro
priations to be made.
sustained physical injury other than the
rapes.
In the case of the teenager, the victim's
mother reported the incident to the police.
According to Cousins, the assailant was
someone the victim knew.
The rape of the UNC student occurred
at an off-campus residence on Aug. 27.
No arrests have been made in either
case. Police would not specify exactly where
the incidents occurred.
Because the case involving the Univer
sity student occurred in the town rather
than on campus, Chapel Hill police, in
stead of University Police, conducted the
inquiry and investigation.
Cousins said the Chapel Hill depart
ment often worked in conjunction with
University Police.
Police records indicate that five rapes
Please See RAPE, Page 4