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Volume 102, Issue 105
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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
U.S. Troops Should Return
From Haiti By Christmas
WASHINGTON, D.C. At least
13,000 U.S. soldiers are scheduled to re
turn home from Haiti and Kuwait by Christ
mas, and Defense Secretary William Peny
is hinting the number could go higher.
President Clinton approved the plans
Sunday during a campaign trip to the West
Coast, officials said.
The plan calls for bringing 6,000 troops
back from Haiti by about Dec. 1, leaving
about 9,000 troops. Nearly all the 7,800
ground combat troops will return from
Kuwait by Dec. 22, leaving a bolstered air
and naval presence, Pentagon officials said.
Appearing Monday at a photo session
with Cambodian defense officials, Perry
said “several thousand more” troops might
be withdrawn, but he did nqt say when.
South Korea Agrees to Lift
Trade Ban With N. Korea
SEOUL, South Korea South Korea
on Monday lifted a half-century ban on
direct trade and investment in Communist
North Korea, a dramatic shift in policy
expected to benefit both countries’ econo
mies.
President Kim Young-sam said the thaw
in relations had been made possible by a
recent U.S.-brokered agreement to freeze
the North’s feared nuclear program.
The step could supply South Korea, one
of the world’s most dynamic economies,
with a source of cheap labor, while provid
ing North Korea, one of the world’s most
hermetic economies, with a source of in
dustrial goods.
Foryears, SouthKoreahadsaiditwould
improve economic and political relations
with the North only afterthe nuclear stand
off was resolved by a verifiable agreement.
Simpson Judge Decides
To Allow Cameras in Court
LOS ANGELES The judge in the
O.J. Simpson trial today decided to allow
cameras to cover the case, turning aside his
anger over inaccurate leaks and a stack of
anti-media letters.
Superior Court Judge Lance Ito said
that news reporters had become more re
sponsible lately and that any problems that
had occurred were outside his legal reach.
He placed only one restriction on TV and
still cameras, ruling that they must be oper
ated by remote control during witness tes
timony.
Ito ruled after hearing rfledia attorneys
argue that broadcasting the proceedings
educates the public and helps avoid inac
curate reporting. The prosecution also
asked the judge to let the cameras remain.
U.S. Officials Say Serbs
Must Accept Division Plan
WASHINGTON, D.C.—TheClinton
administration told Bosnian Serbs Mon
day that once they accepted a plan for
dividing Bosnia they could try to negotiate
an arrangement more to their liking.
But first the Serbs must reverse their
rejection ofthe map and embrace it as a fair
way to end the war in the former Yugoslav
republic, the State Department said.
Themap, preparedby the United States,
Russia, Britain, France and Germany,
would give the Bosnian Serbs control of 49
percent of the country.
The Bosnian Serbs gained control of
about 70 percent of Bosnia and
Herzegovina before the Muslim-dominated
government achieved some military suc
cesses and seized about 160 square miles.
President Clinton Makes
Last Push for Candidates
FLINT, Mich. President Clinton
delivered an impassioned election-eve plea
for embattled Democrats on Monday, even
as he braced for Republican gains. A GOP
takeover of Congress could “put our
economy in the drink,” Clinton asserted.
His voice hoarse from eight nonstop
days of campaigning, and with wife Hillary
at his side for a final push through the
Midwest and East, Clinton told audiences:
“This country is in better shape than it was
21 months ago.”
He was campaigning for Democratic
Senate candidates in close races in Michi
gan and Minnesota. He also planned an
evening finale in Wilmington, Del., where
aides hoped also to gain air time for Demo
cratic candidates in Pennsylvania and New
Jersey.
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Candidates Near End of Campaign Trail
BY JENNIFER FREER
STAFF WRITER
Election day is today, and many candi
dates are doing some last-minute cam
paigning, from greeting voters at the polls
to putting up more signs to provide infor
mation.
David Price, incumbent candidate for
U.S. Congress, is continuing his standard
campaign schedule, said Sallie Stohler,
campaign press secretary for Price.
“It is important to campaign strong from
the beginning,” Stohler said. “It’s impor
tant especially the last few days, because
voters tend to concentrate more the last
few days.”
Price spent Monday morning greeting
state employees as they went to work, and
his afternoon was spent talking with voters
in Zebulon and Raleigh, she said.
Price and other Democratic candidates
held their last major public campaign rally
Monday afternoon at the Fayetteville Street
Mall in Raleigh. Price plans to vote today
at 9:30 a.m. and spend the day at the polls,
Stohler said.
“It’s always the hope that last-minute
campaigning will pull in votes,” she said.
“It is important to meet voters and go
beyond the TV ads to have a strong pres
ence.”
Others, such as Orange County com
missioner candidate Bill Crowther and
N.C. Senate candidate Fred Hobbs, agreed
that campaigning was important. Neither
Crowther nor Hobbs said they believed
last-minute campaigning alone would sway
voters.
“Candidates should campaign until the
last minute,” Crowther said. “The issues
pull voters in, not the campaigns.”
Crowther said he didn’t try to hound
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committee will meet once a month.
Public Housing Gets
Federal Monetary Aid
SIOO,OOO Grant Will Go to Residents for
Management and Leadership Training
BYLAURA GODWIN
STAFF WRITER
The Chapel Hill Residents Council of public housing received
a SIOO,OOO federal giant that will be used by the council to begin
the difficult task of overall improvement.
The grant is a training grant, said Tina Vaughn, director of the
Chapel Hill Housing Department. “The grant is for office equip
ment and training residents, ” Vaughn said. The dispersion ofthe
funds will be administered completely by the residents council,
she added.
The council will use the grant money for leadership training
and to train residents for management, said Joann Shirer, presi
dent of the council. “We want to be a resource outlet for commu
nity members.”
Shirer said she wanted the grant to be just a start for public
housing. “This is just a beginning, a steppingstone,” she said.
“We want to become independent of public housing.”
The residents council, formed five years ago, is made up of
representatives from each of the 13 public housing communities.
The council completed the application packet required to receive
federal grants.
Shirer said she was concerned about the way the department of
housing was treating residents. “Public housing has not sup
ported the residents, ” she said. “They have not helped to motivate
the community or say ‘I support the (residents) council.’
“This grant is something to stand on, now we can get help for
our residents.”
Unlike the Housing Department, the Chapel Hill Town Coun
cil has done a lot to help the residents council, Shirer said. “The
Town Council has been working quite a bit to get improvements
for housing,” she said.
The residents council showed a video about living conditions
in the public housing developments to the Town Council in
October 1993. In the video, which showed actual footage of
everyday life in a Chapel Hill housing project, Town Council
members saw roaches, bathtubs that were separated from their
foundations and holes in the walls, Shirer said.
“Public housing is like any other house, there are continual
maintenance and upgrades that always need to be done,” said
Town Council member Joe Capowski. “People live there, and we
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina
TUESDAY,NOVEMBER 8,1994
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Time to Cast Your Ballot
Voters registered in Orange County can go to polls today
and vote in the following races:
U.S. Congress - Dist. 4
David Price-D
Fred Heineman-R
(vote for one)
State Senate - Dist. 16
Fred Hobbs-D
Howard Lee- D
Teena Little-R
(vote for two)
State House of Rep. - Dist. 24
Anne Barnes-D
Joe Hackney-D
(vote for two)
Orange Cos. Board of Commissioners
Bill Crowther-D
Alice Gordon-D
Richard Hammer-R
Stephen Halkiotis-D
(vote for three)
Orange County Sheriff
Lindy Pendergrass-D
Bill Apple-R
(vote for one)
N.C. Supreme Court - two races
Sarah Parker-D
I. Beverly Lake-R
(vote for one)
Student Advisory Committee Created
Committee Will Foster
Communication Between
Students and Chancellor
BY STEVE MAGGI
STAFF WRITER
UNC students will have anew channel
for voicing concerns and presenting ideas
to the chancellor —a student advisory
committee established to enhance com
munication between the two.
Lee Conner, chairman of the new Stu
dent Advisory Committee to the Chancel
lor, said the main goals of the committee
were to provide students with an opportu
nity to voice their concerns and ideas and
to provide the chancellor with a “sounding
board” within the administration.
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Jim Fuller-D
Bob Orr-R
(vote for one)
N.C. Court of Appeals - two races
Elizabeth McCrodden-D
Mark Martin-R
(vote for one)
Ralph Walker-R
Sydnor Thompson-D
(vote for one)
District Court Judge
Joe Buckner-D
Register of Deeds
Betty Hayes-D
Clerk of Superior Court
Joan Terry-D
Norman Haithcock-R
N.C. Superior Court
Seats are open in districts: 2, 38,
5, 208, 22, 24, 258 and 26C.
Orange-Chatham District Attorney
Carl Fox-D
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Conner hopes the committee will allow
the chancellor to test new ideas and gauge
student reactions before enacting Univer
sity policy, he said.
“We can suggest improvements and
clarifications to the chancellor’s ideas and
give him our opinions, and the student
body can get information to him, ” Conner
said. “It’s a good two-way street for the
both of us.”
The first meeting of the Student Advi
sory Committee to the Chancellor is tenta
tively scheduled for the end of the month,
Conner said. The committee will meet
once a month throughout the year, he said.
Conner was named student chairman
of the committee by Student Body Presi
dent George Battle and is the representa
tive of the executive branch.
This semester’s committee will consist
of 12 students, including Conner, and
State, Federal Legislative
Races Top Local Ballots
BYRYAN THORNBURG
ASSISTANT STATE AND NATIONAL EDITOR
A year of campaigning comes to an end
today as voters across the state go to the
polls to elect U.S. congress members and
state legislators, as well as a host of local
officials.
Candidates, too, are preparing for their
day of reckoning as they make a final push
for votes.
Incumbent Democrat David Price is
being challenged by former Raleigh police
Chief Fred Heineman for the U .S. congres-
sional seat in
District 4.
Price, a
Chapel Hill resi
dent, has been a
member of the
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since 1987 and serves on the House Appro
priations and Budget committees.
He has also been a political science
professor at Duke University since 1973.
Heineman, a Republican, is a 38-year
veteran of law enforcement who retired
from the Raleigh police force earlier this
year.
He also served as deputy chief of the
New York police department from 1956-
1973.
In the District 16 state Senate race,
voters will be choosing from three candi
dates to fill two seats. The candidates are
Chancellor Paul Hardin. In the spring,
Conner said, the next student body presi
dent will select three more members —a
freshman, a sophomore and a junior.
The group will not be expanded much
past that point, Conner said. “The com
mittee can only be so big.”
Stacey Brandenburg, co-secretary ofthe
Academic Affairs Committee of student
government’s executive branch, agreed.
“The committee must be relatively small
to be solid and effective.”
Conner said meetings would be closed
to the public “to ensure confidentiality and
openness.” The provost and the dean of
students will have standing invitations to
all committee meetings, he said.
Conner said committee members would
represent the diversity of the University.
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Democrats Fred Hobbs and Howard Lee
and Republican Teena Little.
Lee, the incumbent, is a former mayor
ofChapel Hill andaformer N.C. Secretary
of Natural Resources.
Lee has emphasized his support for
improved education as a main point of his
campaign.
“I will continue to support the many
programs I have supported in my years as
state senator, such as the university system
and faculty pay raises,” Lee said last week.
Lee’s fellow Democrat Hobbs, a civil
engineer from Southern Pines, served as
co-chair for Gov. Hunt’s election cam
paign in Moore County.
Hobbs said he was continuing to cam
paign up until the last minute.
“What Howard (Lee) and I are doing is
traveling around the district. We feel con
fident that we have done the right things in
this campaign. We've been out with the
people ... not just campaigning through
the media,” Hobbs said.
He said election day was an exciting
day but not a day of closure.
‘Tve been working in the Democratic
Party for some time now, and I really enjoy
the camaraderie of election day.
“We’re not tired. But campaigning can
sometimes be physically demanding, as
you can imagine. I'll be grateful to have
some time to spend with my family.
“We don’t intend to stop tomorrow.
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BCC Plans
To Broaden
Fund Raising
BY JULIE CORBIN
STAFF WRITER
The committee for the Sonja H. Stone
Black Cultural Center fund-raising cam
paign met Monday for the first time to
shape its strategies for raising the remain
ing $5.4 million needed to build the center.
The fund-raising committee is hoping
to raise the money by June 1995, when the
University’s Bicentennial Campaign offi
cially ends, said Richard Cole, dean of the
School of Journalism and Mass Commu
nication and a member of the special gifts
committee
Campaign leader Bob Eubanks said he
expected the committee to be successful in
raising funds. “We’ll go as quickly as we
can,” he said Monday. “I’m very optimis
tic.”
The BCC will be a center for research
and teaching focusing on the “African-
American experience,” according to the
BCC's fund-raising brochure.
About $1.6 million out of the needed $7
million has already been raised. Until Sep
tember, only a little more than $500,000 of
the $7 million goal had been reached. On
Sept. 23, Nationsßank pledged to contrib
ute up to $1 million to the center and to
take an active role in raising an additional
$1 million in matching funds from other
banks.
The fund-raising campaign comprises
five leaders and a larger special gifts com
mittee. The special gifts committee is a
group of University faculty, staff and stu
dents and local community leaders that is
raising money on behalf of the the BCC.
The committee decided on a two-prong
approach to obtaining the needed fimds,
said Matt Kupec, associate vice chancellor
for development.
First, the committee will continue to
identify potential donors and solicit major
contributions, Kupec said.
Although he could not name specific
possible benefactors, Provost Richard
McCormick said various individuals, cor
porations and foundations would be ap
proached for funds.
At the same time, the committee will
cultivateamorebroad-basedappeal, Kupec
said. Getting many donations from the
community at large will demonstrate to
observers that the BCC has popular sup
port, he said.
“We talked about our need to continue
to educate the public about the purpose
and the vision of the BCC,” Kupec said.
The committee discussed possible ways
to inform the public about the purpose of
the BCC, Eubanks said.
“We talked about how to get the mes
sage out, about what the BCC is and what
it will do,” Eubanks said. “There's a lot of
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