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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
Truce Called for Signing
Of Peace Treaty in Angola
LUANDA, Angola Angola’s army,
nearing military victory over UNITA
rebels, ordered a nationwide trace Wednes
day to allow the signing of a peace treaty
ending 19 years of civil war.
Mistrustful UNITA rebels appealed for
rapid deployment of U.N. observers to
monitor the cease-fire.
Chief of Staff Gen. Joao de Matos, in a
statement broadcast on state radio, ordered
his troops to lay down their guns and
respect the cease-fire “scrupulously.”
As the cease-fire deadline passed, the
government commander of the main,
southern front, said his men were holding
fire as ordered.
Military officials said the northern city
of Uige, the last provincial capital under
UNITA control, had fallen to government
forces.
Army Says Three Divisions
Not Prepared for Combat
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Three Army
tank divisions whose assignments include
reinforcing South Korea and the Persian
Gulf are not fully ready for combat, the
first time in 12 years the Army has been so
rusty, officials said Wednesday.
The Army refused to disclose which
divisions were involved, saying the infor
mation was classified. But officials com
menting only on condition of anonymity
said the Ist Infantry Division, Mechanized,
at Fort Riley, Kan.; the 4th Infantry Divi
sion, Mechanized, at Fort Carson, Colo.;
and the 2nd Armored Division, at Fort
Hood, Texas, all had received the next-to
lowest readiness grade.
The Pentagon announced that three of
the 12 divisions had gotten the second
lowest readiness grade from their own com
manders.
Fighting Starts in Somalia;
Aid Workers Evacuated
NAIROBI, Kenya Hundreds of ci
vilians fled and foreign aid workers were
evacuated Wednesday in the first heavy
fighting in northwest Somalia in more than
a year.
The fighting came as the United Na
tions prepared to withdraw its 16,500peace
keepers from southern Somalia and the
country’s warlords jockeyed for power.
Using mortars, anti-aircraft guns and
small arms, rival clans battled for the capi
tal of the breakaway Somaliland Republic.
A faction allied with warlord Mohamed
Farrah Aidid claimed that it had captured
the capital, Hargeisa, and killed 70
Somaliland troops. It said it had taken 200
Somaliland troops prisoner.
U.N. Council Praises Iraqi
Recognition of Kuwait
UNITED NATIONS The U.N. Se
curity Council on Wednesday called Iraq’s
recognition of Kuwait “a significant step. ”
Diplomats said the gesture could hasten
the end of sanctions that had crippled the
Iraqi economy.
In a carefully worded statement, the 15-
member council said it would closely moni
tor Iraq’s pledge last week to acknowledge
Kuwait’s sovereignty and borders.
Iraq’s recognition of neighboring Ku
wait is a fundamental step toward the lift
ing of the oil embargo and other economic
sanctions imposed after Iraq’s Aug. 1990
invasion ofKuwait, New Zealand Ambas
sador Colin Keating said outside the coun
cil chamber.
Ukraine Approves Nuclear
Arms Reduction Treaty
KIEV, Ukraine Progress in world
wide nuclear arms reduction got a major
boost Wednesday with the Ukrainian
Parliament’s long-awaited approval of the
Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The action, on a 301-8 vote, puts the
world’s third-largest nuclear power firmly
on the road to total nuclear disarmament.
The former Soviet republic of 52 million
people now is obliged to get rid of its
nuclear weapons by about the turn of the
century.
Coming after months of intense lobby
ing by the international community, espe
cially the United States, it also is a signifi
cant step in strengthening ties with the
West.
President Leonid Kuchma had staked a
great deal of his political credibility on
steering the treaty through Parliament.
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Man Attempts Suicide on NCSU Campus
BY RYAN THORNBURG
ASSISTANT STATE AND NATIONAL EDITOR
A retired N.C. State University librar
ian remains in serious condition after he
shot himself intheheadWednesday morn
ing in front of the D.H. Hill library on the
NCSU campus.
Joseph Charles Lebourgeois, 60, of
Raleigh shot himself with a .38-caliber
semi-automatichandgunat 11:03 a.m. and
was taken by ambulance to Wake Medical
Center, according to Debbie Griffith,
spokeswoman for NCSU news services.
Liz Mcßoberts, spokeswoman for Wake
Medical Center, said Lebourgeois was
listed in serious but stable condition after
being treated Tuesday afternoon.
Students who heard the gunshot and
went to see what had happened said they
had seen a man lying on the ground, bleed
ing from the head near the Brickyard, a
gathering place in the center of the NCSU
Search for New
Chancellor to Be
Finished by March
BYAMYPINIAK
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
The chancellor search committee will have the names of the
finalists chosen well before the June deadline, committee Chair
man Johnny Harris said Wednesday.
Harris said he expected the committee to choose its final
candidates before March 1. “I would hope to be done sometime
in the not-too-distant future,” he said.
Harris would not say how many names
were still on the committee’s list of possible
replacements for Chancellor Paul Hardin,
but he disputed a recent report that the list
was down to 10.
“I don’t believe anyone on the commit
tee said there were 10 because we’ve never
been at that number,” he said.
“We’re just not at that point yet.”
Hardin announced in January that he
would step down as chancellor in June.
N Harris would not comment on the back
grounds or the qualifications of the current
candidates. “So many times, people have
written things that are absolutely absurd,
like that a politician who just lost in the
elections was being considered for chan-
cellor,” he said. “People don’t understand
the need for confidentiality in selecting candidates.”
Harris would not say whether any candidates had visited the
UNC campus but did say, “How in the world could you do that
(bring candidates to campus) with all the interest surrounding the
selection? The process must be confidential.”
Harris was not aware of the Campus Y survey that has been
published in The Daily Tar Heel, but he said the committee would
consider the results. TTie Campus Y organized thesurveytogauge
student opinion on the kind of person who should lead the
University and will compile a report of its findings for the search
committee.
“If somebody presented the survey to us, we would certainly
take a look at it," Harris said.
At the beginning of the chancellor search, he said, the commit
tee met with student leaders on campus. “We met with student
leadership to discuss with them and other students what criteria
they wanted in a chancellor.”
Every candidate had to send in an application and be inter
viewed by the committee, Harris said. Once the finalists are
chosen, the committee will send those recommendations to the
Board of Trustees, who will then send two or three names to
UNC-system President C.D. Spangler.
Spangler will send his recommendation to the Board of Gov
ernors, which oversees all 16 UNC campuses. The board will
choose the next chancellor.
Speaker Calls for End to
Human Rights Violations
BY ERIC FLACK
STAFF WRITER
Human rights violations around the
world and what can be done to stop them
were the focus of a speech by the director of
Amnesty International Wednesday night
in Carroll Hall.
William Schulz, executive director of
Amnesty International, spoke to an audi
ence ofabout6opeopleasakeynote speaker
for Human Rights Week.
“Tibetan nuns are arrested by officials
in Tibet while participating in peaceful
protests and forced to endure shock treat
ment on their teeth and genitals for their
crimes,’’Schulzsaid. “Teens who refuse to
serve in Saddam Hussein’s army in Iraq
have an X branded in their foreheads and
their ears chopped off.
“When we do think about things like
these, we are often forced to wring our
hands. Amnesty International exists to tell
the world of these atrocities and put an end
to torture, political killings, forced arrest
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The supply of government exceeds the demand.
Lewis Lapham
Cfcual NIL North Caroliai
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17,1994
campus. No one else was injured in the
incident.
Ulrick Casimir, an NCSU student, said
he had heard shots and had arrived at the
scene just before police arrived, about five
minutes after he had heard the shots.
Casimir said that 100 to 150 students had
been in the area when it happened and that
four orfivehadbeenstanding very close to
Lebourgeois at the time of the shooting.
According to NCSU police Sgt. Lany
Ellis, campus police arrived at the scene in
response to a call from a student who was
in die area at the time. Ellis said that police
were conducting an independent investi
gation into the incident but that they had
received no indication about why
Lebourgeois had tried to shoot himself.
“You try to look for the warning signs
for this kind of thing, and hopefully there
are warning signs,” Ellis said. He said he
didn’t know how Lebourgeois had gotten
a gun onto campus.
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Eric Browning tells the crowd Wednesday at the Pit about how difficult it is to be a UNC housekeeper. The rally was intended for
housekeepers and students to show their support for Browning in his attempts to be reinstated by the University.
Search committee
Chairman JOHNNY
HARRIS said the
committee would
consider the results of
the Campus Y’s survey.
UNC Students Raixy for Eric Browning
BY CHRISTINA MASSEY
STAFF WRITER
Students and housekeepers showed their sup
port for former housekeeper Eric Browning and
criticized the State Personnel Commission in a
rally Wednesday.
Representatives from student groups called for
the rehiring of Browning and publicized the con
troversial record of the SPC.
“We are here today to show support for Eric
Browning and to abolish the SPC’s review of
public employees,” said Crystal Wiley, Campus
Y co-president. “What has happened is a symp
tom of a truly great problem plaguing the Univer
sity... institutional racism. We need to solve this
problem.”
Browning was fired in May 1993 after threaten
ing to kill his supervisor. The SPC recently over
turned a judge's decision that the University should
reinstate Browning as an employee.
DTH/KATIE CANNON
WILUAM SCHULZ, director of
Amnesty International, said the
United States committed too many
rights violations.
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“He could have just carried it on,” he
said. “Unless we have an idea that some
one has a gun, you can’t just search them. ”
Lebourgeois worked in the cataloging
department of the Hill Library from 1987
until he retired in 1993. He worked part
time for the library until he quit in August,
said Walter High, who was Lebourgeois’
“I have to support five children,” Browning
said. “I’ve worked here for four years. I put in for
13 promotions and was denied 13 times.
“Yes, I threatened my supervisor. I was angry.
I cursed. But I need my job.”
Browning said he thought he would get his job
back after Administrative Law Judge Fred
Morrison ruled in January that he be reinstated.
“For two days, I had a hearing concerning my
disciplinary action. The judge understood what I
was going through and ruled that I get my job
back,” he said.
Browning said he was upset when the SPC
overturned Morrison’s decision after a brief meet
ing.
“Where is the law? I thought the judge’s deci
sion was the law, but after 15 minutes with a
bunch of radicals, I lost my job,” he said.
Browning said he thought part of the reason the
SPC had overturned Morrison’s ruling was the
idea that because he threatened to kill someone,
Human Relations Summit to Unite Campus
BY STEPHEN LEE
STAFF WRITER
The first ever Human Relations Sum
mit at UNC will involve student leaders
from various organizations leading discus
sions designed to address a wide range of
issues relevant to the University commu
nity.
The two-day event will be held Friday
and Saturday, and all students are invited
to attend.
Cynthia Greenlee, coordinator of the
summit, said the event was the first of its
kind at the University.
“This is our biggest project of the year, ’’
she said. “Our goal is to provide a forum
for students to air their concerns about the
current climate at UNC.
“We want to make it clear that there are
other issues that have not been brought to
the forefront,” Greenlee said.
The majority of the programs will be
facilitated by undergraduate and graduate
students, she said.
Student Body President George Battle
said creating dialogue was the main objec
tive of the summit.
“I hope the summit will begin the dia
logue necessary to improve human rela
tions on campus,” he said. “This is a really
great opportunity for us to sit down and
immediate supervisor.
High called Lebourgeois a “professional
librarian” and a “well-liked man.” He said
he had no idea why Lebourgeois had shot
himself in front of his former place of
employment.
“Everyone is in shock, ’’ High said. “We
were close friends.”
Griffith said that the event was a very
unusual occurrence on the campus and
that the prominence of its location was
affecting both students and staff.
“I talked to the library director (Susan
Nutter), and she said he was a well-liked
employee and one of the most produc
tive,” Griffith said. “I can’t think of any
thing like this that has happened, and I’ve
been here five years. I would say it’s very
unusual.”
Ellis said that although there had been
no recent attempted suicides at NCSU as
prominent as Tuesday’s incident, he
thought there had been four or five suicides
Human Relations Summit Schedule
Friday
34 pan. Registration Lobby of Hamilton
4430 p.m. Opening Session Hamilton 100
4304:30 p.m. Session I Race and Ethnicity
Native Americans Hamilton 420
African Americans Hamilton 423
Asian Americans Hamilton 425
Hispanic Americans Hamilton 517
Mixed Heritage Hamilton 519
6:45-7:45 p.m. Session II Non-Racral
Differences
Sexual Orientation Hamilton 420
Students With Disabilities Hamilton 423
Women's Issues Hamilton 425
Graduate Students Hamilton 517
8-8:30 p.m. Closing Session Hamilton 100
discuss openly with one another.”
Battle said that although the summit
would not solve all problems on campus,
he hoped the summit would be the first step
in improving human relations.
“I do think this will give us a base from
which to spring,” he said. “It will be a big
step for this campus and for this commu
nity. I am looking forward to this.”
Battle plans to speak at the opening
session Saturday.
Philip Charles-Pierre, Battle’s chief of
staff, said the Human Relations Summit
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on the campus in the previous six years.
Although the shooting occurred in a
central areaofcampus, more people would
have witnessed the event if it had hap
pened a few hours later, said Stan North
Martin, advisertostudentmediaatNCSU.
“There was not quite as much commo
tion as there would have been if it had been
at lunchtime,” Martin said.
Griffith said counselors would be avail
able for students and staff who wanted to
talk about the incident. She said that no
additional security measures had been
taken and that the library and Brickyard
area had remained open throughout the
day.
Brett Larson, an NCSU sophomore,
went by the scene at 1:30 p.m. and said he
saw four uniformed police officers and two
plainclothes police officers searching the
area for evidence then. He said that the
police had been scouring the ground on
their hands and knees with metal screens.
he was a terrorist.
“I am not a terrorist,” he said. “I’m not going to
blow up a building, and I’m not going to kill any
body. But after years of working for this University,
I deserve a promotion.”
UNC housekeeper Chris Smith, leader of the
Housekeepers Association, said the housekeepers
strongly supported Browning.
“We are totally behind Eric Browning,” he said.
“It’s a shame what happened. All he did was make
a statement. He did not hurt anyone.”
Smith said he did not believe the accusations that
Browning was a terrorist.
“I’ve worked with Eric, and I do not think he is
a violent man. I am not afraid of him,” he said.
Carol McDonald, a Black Student Movement
(BSM) member, said Browning’s situation involved
a misuse of justice.
“It is ironic that we are holding this rally during
See RALLY, Page 2
Saturday
9-9:30 a.m. Opening Session Hamilton 100
9:45-10:45 am. Session 111 Political Issues
Housekeepers Movement Hamilton 420
Stone Black Cultural Center Hamilton 423
Student Government Hamilton 425
Student Rep. in Admin. Hamilton 517
11- p.m. Session IV: Social and Academic
Issues
Campus Segregation Hamilton 519
Curriculum Diversity Hamilton 523
Minority Student/Faculty
Recruitment Hamilton 420
Community Relations Hamilton 423
12- p.m. Closing Session
North Dining Room-Lenoir Hall
would address a variety of campus issues.
“Part of it is information gathering, and
part of it is bridging gaps,” he said. “I hope
it will accomplish dialogue between differ
ent groups on campus.
“We want to analyze and look at what’s
good and bad,” Charles-Pierre said. “This
affects everybody.”
Student Body Vice President Donyell
Phillips said that in addition to creating
dialogue, the goal of the summit was to
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