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®be latlu ®ar itel /S\ Volume 102, Issue 71 i®*' 101 years ifeditorial freedom M Serving the students and the Unimity community since 1193 IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation and world Serb Troops Force 2,000 Muslims Across Front Line TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina Serb nationalists pushed as many as 2,000 ex hausted, frightened Muslims from their homes in northeastern Bosnia and across the front lines Sunday in a defiant drive to finish their ethnic purge. The refugees flowing into this northern, government-held city, coupled with those reportedly expelled from another Serb-con trolled area Saturday, raised to perhaps 9,000 the number of people forced out of their homes since mid-July. The push illustrated the Bosnian Serbs’ determination to remove the remaining non-Serbs from areas they control despite increasing international pressure and iso lation. Muslims arriving in Tuzla said Serb extremists had decided to force out the last non-Serbs. Extremist Forces Will Be Moved Into Zairian Camps KIGALI, Rwanda Hutu extremists who have used fear to keep Rwandan refu gees from returning home will be moved to new camps deeper inside Zaire under a U.N. plan announced Sunday. Fugitive soldiers accused of participat ing in Rwandan death squads will be pro vided with U.N. aid and asked to move to the new camps after being disarmed, U.N. special envoy Shahayar Khan said. The plan’s aim is to speed up the repa triation ofßwandan refugees, most of them Hutus who fled in fear of retaliation after Tutsi-led rebels ousted the previous Hutu led government. Hutu soldiers and militias have been blamed for massacres of about 500,000 Rwandans, mostly Tutsis, since April. Hong Kong Votes in First Fully Democratic Election HONG KONG ln the twilight of British rule, Hong Kong voters chose local governments Sunday in the colony’s first fully democratic election, which China has sworn to annul. The election was held under rules im posed unilaterally by Gov. Chris Patten after China, HongKong’srulercome 1997, refused to accept them. The turnout, keenly watched as a ba rometer of Hong Kong’s enthusiasm for democracy, suggested a mixed triumph for Patten. At 33.1 percent, it was less than 1 per cent higher than in 1991. But a government registration drive almost doubled the elec toral roll, and the number of ballots cast increased 67 percent, official figures showed. Final U.S. Soldiers From Somalia Return to Virginia NORFOLK, Va.—The last American troops to leave Somalia have returned home, ending the United States’ 18-month combat presence in the African nation stricken by famine and civil war. The 55 Marines of the 2nd Platoon of the Norfolk-based Fleet Anti-Terrorism Security Team and three sailors returned Saturday to the Naval Air Station to a somewhat quiet homecoming, as Marines from the same unit stood a tense pre-inva sion watch over the U.S. Embassy in Haiti. The return from Somalia concluded a mission in which the team’splatoons, serv ing four months at a stretch, constructed more than 30 defensive bunkers, filled 100,000 sandbags and conducted nearly 500 armed escort convoys. Report Says CIA Officials Ignored Spy Information WASHINGTON, D.C. —More than a dozen active or retired officials either ig nored warnings or overlooked complaints, allowing former CIA agent Aldrich Ames to spy for the Soviet Union for nine years, according to a report by the ClA’s inspec tor general. Chiefs, deputies and operating person nel in the ClA’s security office are singled out for criticism in a 400-page draft of the report described in Sunday’s editions of The Washington Post. The newspaper quoted sources who have seen the draft as saying it criticizes CIA officials for failing to follow up on informa tion about Ames’ lavish spending in 1990. The report was particularly critical of the security office’s polygraph operation. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: Mostly sunny; high 77. TUESDAY: Sunny; high 78. Most of the evils of life arise from mans being unable to sit still in a room. Blaise Pascal Minority Recruitment Recall Debated BY JAY STONE STAFF WRITER Some members of Student Congress are accusing Student Body President George Battle of illegally signing the Minority Recruitment Bill into effect Thursday af ternoon. Battle signed the bill into law Thursday after Student Congress Speaker Monica Goud, who co-sponsored the bill, declared an 11-3 reconsideration vote invalid be cause of an absence of quorum. Supporters of the bill have pointed to the 11-3 vote to reconsider as evidence of a lack of quorum. A minimum of 16 Con gress members must be present to establish quorum. Without quorum, Student Con gress has no legal authority. Lee Conner, Student Congress parlia- La Fiesta del Pueblo Hr i f wLM MMvF.'Jzf Is I m.M f WmasW-Wm I ff-f ■ m!K¥' gfcii I pi /- / 1 j ■HUB jgk pH Y - ii, FEATURES EDITOR ; sJaSm Kids whacked pinatas with all the ,lE§ strength they could muster from their little V- bones. Adults browsed through the craft S|| booths filled with handmade dolls, cloth ing and jewelry. IFMSHWFI f B ut the music and the soccer, perhaps JtWmiMM better than any other feature of Sunday's ummmk La Fiesta del Pueblo, achieved the main mff goal of the festival: to unite the Hispanic .j|jj Jf JP| community from across the state. “The music was wonderful," said John ■ . Jjfbi Herrera, who came up with the idea of the Chapel Hill Police Receive Two Sexual Assault Reports BYSARAYELTON STAFF WRITER Two sexual assaults were reported to the Chapel Hill Police Department over the weekend, bringing the total to four in the last eight days. Both assaults occurred early Saturday morning within an hour and a half of each other. The first incident was reported to Chapel Hill police at 3:06 a.m., although the assault was reported to have happened somewhere in Carrboro. After assisting in the case, Chapel Hill police referred the victim, a woman, to Carrboro police, according to Sgt. Bill Rounds, the officer on duty at the Chapel Hill Police Department Sunday afternoon. The officer was unable to give further information. The Carrboro Police Depart ment had no further information either, according to the station’s officer on duty. Chapel Hill, North CareHu MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19,1994 BJ Jonathan Jordan r Student Congress Rep., Dist. 1: | “What you do any I time you ee i something illegal is | call the cops and I press charges." mentarian, said the bill’s validity centered around establishing exactly when quorum was lost. Conner said members in the room during the reconsideration vote had an obligation to vote or to abstain for the record. The parliamentarian specializes in Orange County’s First Hispanic Festival The officer did say the department was preparing to begin an investigation of the incident. Just under 90 minutes later, at 4:30 a.m., a sexual assault occurred in the Eastgate Plaza area on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. No additional information was available Sunday. The two assaults come just eight days after two unrelated sexual assaults that were both reported the previous weekend in Chapel Hill. One of the victims was a teen who had been attacked by a man she knew. The other incident was a delayed report in which a UNC student was raped Aug. 27 by a man she had met earlier that same day. The number of sexual assaults reported to the Chapel Hill Police Department indi- Please See ASSAULTS, Page 2 George Battle Student Body President: fy&RNB "A thinly veiled threat Jpes| jlr to take people to Honor Coart for doing what they thought VVM was right is the lowest of the low." knowing the rales of parliamentary proce dure. “It’s really an issue of timing,” Conner said. “There is an interval between when a motion is introduced and (when) it is voted upon where quorum can be lost. If people left before the vote, then quorum was lost. cBBc JkXhBGL % ix ‘\ ■ . ‘■BHPTA.. Mr w| ill PTH PHOTOS BY ELIZABETH MAYBACH TOP: Members of Takisuyo play music of the Andes for the crowd on Sunday afternoon. ABOVE: Karen Diaz, 4, of Louisburg takes a swing at a pinyata. LEFT: Shirley and Ivan Ramos, members of Salsa Carolina, perform a traditional dance. Lewis Makes First Court Appearance BY GRETCHEN HOFFMAN STAFF WRITER A Hillsborough man accused of shoot ing his former employer in the West Franklin Street McDonald’s entered no plea to the charge of first-degree murder in a preliminary hearing Friday, and will re main in Orange County Jail without bond until the trial. David Alton Lewis, 26, of 5811 Saw mill Rd. is accused of shooting James “Buck” Copeland once in the head as the general manager and acting president of Yates Motor Cos. sat drinking his custom ary cup of coffee in McDonald’s on Wednesday, the morning of his 61st birth day. Copeland was pronounced dead at the scene. James Williams, a public defender, has been appointed to act as Lewis’s attorney in the case. “I wasn’t in court at his first appearance,” Williams said. The hearing was held Friday morning at the Orange “There are multiple stories from mul tiple people who have political interests in the bill,” he said. “All we have to go by is what the clerk recorded as the vote, which was 11-3. That’s not enough for quorum.” But Rep. Jonathan Jordan, Dist. 1, said the vote to reconsider the bill did not indi- County Superior Court in Hillsborough. To say that Lewis has been denied bond would be inaccurate, Williams said. “The decision is usually made by a magistrate when the person is arrested,” Williams said. The decision can be changed during the preliminary hearing at the dis trict attorney’s request. There was no re quest made for Lewis that he knew of, Williams said. Carl Fox, the Orange- Chatham District Attorney, could not be reached for comment Sunday. “I’m probably not going to be in a posi tion to respond to questions about the case at the present time in light of the fact that the case is relatively new,” Williams said. District Court Judge Patricia Love scheduled a probable-cause hearing for the case Friday. According to police, Lewis entered McDonald’s Wednesday morning, walked out, then returned and shot Copeland with a shotgun, witnesses said. Copeland died from a wound to the left temple. Lewis left McDonald’s and drove to the News/Features/Aits/Spons 962-0245 Business/Advertising 962-1163 C 1994 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. cate absence of quorum because some Stu dent Congress members neither voted nor abstained. The bill originally passed Wednesday night 11-10-1 after an hour and a half of debate. Following consideration of several other bills, Rep. Trong Nguyen, Dist. 8, moved at about 1:15 a.m. to reconsider or redebate the Minority Recruitment Bill, but four congress members left the meeting to cause a loss of quorum. Jordan, speaker pro tempore, said Goud’s decision to declare the division vote invalid and Battle’s subsequent sign ing of the bill were breaches of student government law. “The speaker does not have the author ity to make unilateral decisions about quo- Please See CONGRESS, Page 4 President Calls Off Haitian Invasion THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON, D.C. An Ameri can invasion of Haiti was barely averted late Sunday night in dramatic fashion as President Clinton announced an 11 th-hour agreement with strongman Raoul Cedras for Cedras to leave power by Oct. 15. * Clinton announced the accord in a tele vised address and said it came only after 61 planes with Army paratroopers had been airborne to begin an invasion to restore democracy to the Caribbean nation. Thousands of U.S. troops were to enter the country peacefully beginning Monday to guarantee that the terms of the agree ment are carried out. “This mission still has its risks," Clinton said. In an Oval Office address to the nation, Clinton declared: “From the beginning, I have said the Haitian dictators must go. And tonight I can say that they will go.” The diplomatic breakthrough, negoti ated in part by former President Jimmy Carter, paves the way for the eventual return to power of Haiti’s democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Clinton said Aristide would return “when the dictators depart.” Under the agreement, the dictators agreed to leave power as soon as the Hai tian parliament passed an amnesty law to protect the coup leaders and their support ers from retribution. In any event, that would have to happen no later than Oct. 15, under the pact. The White House had said that Carter was only negotiating the departure of the Haitian leaders, but the agreement con tained compromises from the administration’s insistence that the leaders leave immediately and unconditionally. Clinton said Cedras and two other mili tary leaders only agreed to step down when they realized that U.S. warplanes were literally on the way. The agreement also requires Haitian army chief Philippe Biamby to give up his authority, officials said. Although not re quired to leave Haiti, Cedras and Biamby were expected to do so. Police chief Michel Francois is “no longer a player in this agreement,” one official said, indicating that Francois’ post would simply disappear. ■ Clinton said that Aristide ousted in Please See HAITI, Page 2 Chapel Hill Police Station on Airport Road, where he turned himself in, according to police records. Lewis worked under Copeland at Yates Motor Cos. until February. Lewis had also been working nights and Sundays at the BP station on Airport Road until mid- August. He has been working for William Brown’s Body Shop in Hillsborough part time since March. Before his arrest Wednesday, Lewis’ criminal record consisted of only a speed ing ticket in 1987. Copeland’s funeral was Saturday. The car dealership was closed Thursday after noon and also Friday. Copeland is survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter. He had been acting as president of Yates Motor Cos. since Dou glas Yates retired in March for health rea sons. Copeland had worked for the com pany for 34 years. McDonald’s was closed for the remain der ofWednesday, but reopened Thursday morning for breakfast.
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