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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
Malcolm X's Child Indicted
In Plot to Kill Farrakhan
MINNEAPOLIS A daughter of
Malcolm X was charged today with hav
ing tried to hire a hitman to kill her father’s
rival, Nation of Islam leader Louis
Farrakhan
Qubilah Shabazz, 34, who was with her
father when he was murdered nearly 30
years ago and whose family has long sus
pected Farrakhan’s involvement in the as
sassination, surrendered this morning. She
faces charges of using the telephone and
crossing statelinesinthecourseof trying to
hire the hitman, U.S. Attorney David
Lillehaug said.
Shabazz was released on SIO,OOO bail
during a brief court appearance before
Magistrate Jonathan Lebedoff on Thurs
day afternoon. A secondhearing was sched
uled for Wednesday.
Lebedoff told Shabazz to keep in touch
with authorities and stay within Minne
sota. He also appointed an attorney to
represent her when she indicated she
needed one.
The nine-count indictment against
Shabazz follows a seven-month FBI inves
tigation. If convicted, she could be sen
tenced to 90 years in prison and fined $2.25
million.
Prosecutors said before the hearing that
they had no plans to insist that Shabazz be
held until trial because she had been coop
erating with authorities.
Shabazz, formerly of New York City,
has lived in Minneapolis since September.
The indictment said that eight phone
conversations occurred in July and August
and that Shabazz had traveled from New
York to Minnesota. After arriving, she
made a partial payment to the person she
hired to kill the 61-year-old Farrakhan, the
indictment said.
American Soldier Killed
During Shooting in Haiti
WASHINGTON, D.C. A U.S. sol
dier and a Haitian were killed today in a
shooting incident at a Haitian checkpoint
in Gonaives, U.S. military officials said.
Another U.S. soldier was wounded, a
Pentagon official said.
The incident appeared to be an isolated
one and is under investigation, the official
said.
No names of the soldiers involved were
available.
The two U.S. soldiers were taken to a
hospital in Port-au-Prince, where one of
them died of his wounds, a second Penta
gon official said.
The soldiers were part of the Special
Forces contingent that has been deployed
in the outlying towns of Haiti.
Bob Dole Moves to Verge
Of 1996 White House Run
WASHINGTON, D.C. Senate Ma
jority Leader Bob Dole stepped closer to a
third White House bid Thursday, forming
a presidential fund-raising committee and
promising a final decision by early April.
“I believe we must rein in the govern
ment at home and reassert American lead
ership abroad,” the Kansas Republican
said in announcing formation of the Dole
for President Exploratory Committee.
Dole promised a final decision in late
March or early April, and several of his
political advisers said all signs pointed to a
Dole candidacy. Before their official an
nouncements, presidential hopefuls often
form exploratory committees to get a head
start on fund raising—and to signal poten
tial supporters of their intentions.
Colombians Begin Search
For Cause of Plane Crash
CARTAGENA, Colombia —A 9-year
old girl who escaped a fiery plane crash
with only a broken shoulder lay in a hospi
tal bed Thursday, unaware that she was the
only survivor of the plunge that killed her
parents and 50 other people.
Colombians were stunned that Erika
Delgado emerged alive from the Wednes
day night crash that scattered mangled
bodies and wreckage of the DC-9 jetliner
across farmland and a swamp outside this
Caribbean resort.
The Intercontinental Aviation jet was
descending after dark toward Cartagena’s
airport when it plunged out of control. The
crew apparently didn’t have time to radio
a distress call before the plane hit a field
and exploded.
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Weather
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WEEKEND: Cloudy, showers; high
mid-upper 60s.
MONDAY: Cloudy; 55-60.
BOG Postpones Policy Debate Again
BY ANDREW RUSSELL
AND STEPHEN LEE
STAFF WRITERS
A nondiscrimination policy will not
be included on the agenda of today’s
Board of Governors meeting, the BOG
Governance Subcommittee decided
Thursday.
The revised policy was originally
scheduled for consideration last Octo
ber, but the BOG postponed discussion
about the resolution until this month’s
meeting. The ru s policy would prohibit
discrimination cased on age, sexual ori-
Land-Use
Company
Conducts
Forum
Students Express Possible
Drawbacks of Developing
BY CHRISTINA MASSEY
STAFF WRITER
A lack of parking, housing and cam
pus unity were among concerns voiced
by students at an open forum on the
possible development of University
owned land outside central campus.
At an open fomm held Thursday by
the land-use planning consulting firm of
Johnson, Johnson and Roy Inc., fac
ulty, staff, students and Chapel Hill resi
dents discussed future uses of the Ma
son Farm and Horace Williams proper
ties.
Development of the two land tracts
would create the need for more parking
spaces, adding to existing parking prob
lems and decreasing the amount of green
land in the area, said Andrew Koebrick,
a graduate student and Chapel Hill resi
dent.
“There are already too few parking
spaces on campus,” he said. “More
buildings would lead to more parking
spaces. What should be done is turn
existing lots into decks so that as much
land as possible could stay green.”
Koebrick said he thought the Uni
versity should develop existing land as
much as possible before building on the
Mason Farm and Horace Williams prop
erties.
See WILLIAMS, Page 2
Seeds of Sheba Tries
To Plant Hope in
Community
BYGREGKALISS
ASSISTANT FEATURES EDITOR
Countless events honoring Martin Luther King Jr. will
be held starting Sunday to commemorate the famed civil
rights leader’s birthday.
One such celebration, featuring live music, poetry and
essay readings, will
be held at the Seeds
of Sheba Caribbean
Cuisine restaurant
on Graham Street in
Chapel Hill.
The event, “For the Love of Martin,” is special because
of its founders’ goals and backgrounds. The Seeds of Sheba
is an Affocentric group based at the restaurant and its
accompanying cultural shop, and it is committed to pro
moting “unity in the community,” as its motto states.
Founded by Esther Tate about three years ago, the group
is a growing one with lofty ideals and a humanitarian sense
of responsibility for its community.
Larry Reni Thomas, a UNC graduate and manager of
the Seeds of Sheba Cultural Shop, which sells books,
African wear, incense and oils, andMickey Mills, who runs
the restaurant, are two integral parts of the Seeds of Sheba
organization.
See HERO, Page 2
Everything is funny as long as it’s happening to somebody else.
Will Rogers
The Proposal;
Would prohibit discrimination on
the basis of age, handicap or
sexual orientation
entation or handicaps, in addition to race and
religion, on all UNC-system campuses.
Joseph Stallings, chairman of the BOG’s
Nondiscrimination Policy Subcommittee,
said the new policy would be dealt with at
another time.
“It will not be on the agenda, but there will
Hardin Asks Faculty, Staff for Input on Plans
BYMICHAEL HATCH
STAFF WRITER
AND ADAM GUSMAN
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
In a Thursday memo to all campus
personnel, Chancellor Paul Hardin urged
members of the University community to
submit proposals on possible uses for the
Mason Farm and Horace Williams tracts.
“My hope is that faculty will put on
their thinking caps and imagine how we
might use these pieces of land,” said Tom
Clegg, chairman of the Faculty Advisory
Committee on Long-Range Land-Use
Planning.
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Time Frame:
The proposed nondiscrimination
policy might not be considered
before March now.
be an announcement made,” Stallings said.
“I think that it will be left up to me to set a
time that we can have a half a day or a day
to answer questions.”
The BOG will not officially meet again
until Feb. 10, on the second day of a three
day retreat to the coastal town of Duck.
“I hope the
chancellor’s memo
will bring some
harder information
to the committee,”
he said.
Clegg saidthat as
of Thursday he had
only received one
proposal from the
University faculty.
The proposal, sub
mitted by the Bio
logical Science De
partment, suggested
that the University
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Musician Mickey Mills is a member of the Seeds of Sheba artists' guild and fre
quently plays at the Seeds of Sheba restaurant. Mills says the group strives to
promote African-American culture and to bring people of all races together.
Uniformity!
Current nondiscrimination
policies vary throughout the 16
UNC campuses.
Stallings said the retreat had not been
scheduled to keep information from reach
ing the public but to give the BOG more
time for dialogue.
“The retreat is not to make things look
secretive but will allow us to discuss things
that we normally don’t have time to dis-
use the Mason Farm tract as the sight for an
environmental research campus.
Hardin wrote that the University was in
the “blue sky”planning stage. “For the
moment, we can free our imaginations,
perhaps to find innovative uses for these
properties,” Hardin wrote in his memo.
According to the memo, the University
will “outgrow our central campus infra
structure of roads, parking and utilities
early in the next century.”
The central question posed in the memo
is, “How can the University use these prop
erties most effectively to farther its mission
in a manner that is consistent with the
goals of the community?”
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HARDIN said
Innovative ideas would
be useful at this stage.
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cuss,” Stallings said.
He said that the nondiscrimination
policy also would probably not be on the
agenda for February’s meeting but that the
addition would be decided on at a later
time.
“It is the board’s decision, but I believe
that they will leave it up to me,” he said. “I
expect that it would be discussed in March.
I would rather not do it on the retreat in
February.”
Stallings said he preferred not to discuss
the nondiscrimination policy on the retreat
See BOG, Page 4
Representatives
from a Michigan
consulting firm
hold a forum on
the University's
plans to develop
the Horace
Williams and
Mason Farm land
tracts.
DTH/ CHRIS GAYDOSH
In other words, the University is at
tempting to balance a need for expansion
with a concern about maintaining a low
density, people-friendly environment with
significant green spaces on the 740-acre
central campus.
One advantage of “a more dense,
urbanlike central campus” would be the
close proximity, Hardin’s memo states.
The memo also states that any new
development would be expensive.
Hardin asked for all proposals to be
submitted before March 1. Proposals
should be from two to three pages in length
See HARDIN, Page 2
Woman
Assaulted in
Arboretum
Police Say Student Was
Attacked While Jogging
BY JULIE CORBIN
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
A University student was assaulted at
about 9 p.m. Wednesday in Coker Arbore
tum.
The female student had been jogging
through the Arboretum Wednesday
evening when she decided to sit down on
the rock wall near Davie Hall and take a
break. There were some people leaving
Davie Hall at the time, and the victim said
she had heard voices in the area.
The student told police she had heard
footsteps approachinjg behind her and had
begun turning to see who was there when
she was struck in the back of the head. The
victim said she had begun to scream. Her
See ASSAULT, Page 2
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