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Satin ®ar JIM J? Volume 102, Issue 161 102 years of editorialfreedom Serving the students and the University community since 1893 a IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation and world U.S., China Agree to Sign Copyright Protection Pact BEUING China and the United States averted a major trade war Sunday by signing a comprehensive agreement put ting teeth into Chinese laws protecting copyrights, trademarks and patents. The agreement capped 20 months of “often very difficult negotiations,” said Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky. Chinese trade minister Wu Yi said the negotiations on enforcing intellectual prop erty rights affected the entire Sino-U.S. relationship. Barshefsky, speaking at a news confer ence in Beijing, called the accord “the single most comprehensive agreement we have ever negotiated with any country.” It spells out measures to enforce laws China wrote after tense talks in 1992. Foster Says He Demanded Aid for Syphilis Patients NASHVILLE, Tenn. Surgeon gen eral nominee Dr. Henry Foster went on the offensive Sunday against “right-wing ex tremists,” whom he accused of attacking his nomination to advance their own agenda. Before his hometown congregation at First Baptist Church, the 61-year-old ob stetrician-gynecologist urged church mem bers to help fight “the latest attack from the right-wing extremists that are using my nomination to achieve their radical goals. ” The controversy stems from the conser vative Family Research Council’s allega tion that Foster learned in 1969 of a federal study that left black Alabama sharecrop pers with syphilis untreated, and that he did nothing about it. Aide to Croatian President Hints They May Enter War ZAGREB, Croatia A close aide to Croatia’s president hinted strongly at the possibility of war, while U.N. peacekeep ers in neighboring Bosnia faced obstruc tion Sunday from both the Muslim-led government and Serbs. In an interview published in the Vecemji List daily newspaper, Miomir Zuzul, Croatia’s ambassador to the United Na tions in Geneva, said the only real chance for peace in Croatia lay in rebel Serbs’ acceptance of reintegration into Croatia— which they have repeatedly rejected. If the Serbs do not accept Zagreb’s rule, Zuzul said, “Croatia could do what every sovereign country has the right to do in its territory ... and afford normal life to the majority of its population.” Rival Clans Clash Outside Of Airport in Mogadishu MOGADISHU, Somalia Rival So mali clans battled with mortars, grenades and machine guns outside the main gate of the Mogadishu airport on Sunday as U.N. peacekeepers prepared to withdraw from Somalia. At least one person was shot and killed during the fighting, witnesses said. U.S. military officials said it was the biggest fire fight in the Somali capital so far this month, and some feared it could fore tell bloodier struggles for control of the airport once the peacekeepers depart. More than 2,000 U.S. Marines and Ital ian soldiers are expected to sweep ashore at some point during the next week to secure part of Mogadishu’s port and air port facilities. Russians Pound Chechnya; Mass Gravesites Reported SHALI, Russia Using the same tac tic that pushed rebel fighters out ofGrozny, Russian forces pounded southern Chechnya on Sunday with heavy artillery and rockets. Also Sunday, a newspaper reported the discovery of two open mass graves in the capital of the breakaway republic. The Observer of London said the graves con tained the bodies of more than 100 Chechens, most of them civilians, includ ing women and children. Bodies of the newly dead lay among a far larger number of decomposing corpses in open trenches between Grozny’s central graveyard and a main road, the newspaper said. Some were clearly victims of explod ing shells while others looked relatively unscathed. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: Partly cloudy; high 70. TUESDAY: Partly cloudy; high upper 60s. Williamson to Face Death If Convicted BY GRETCHEN HOFFMAN ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR Orange-Chatham District Attorney Carl Fox filed documents in Superior Court on Friday seeking the death penalty for former UNC law student Wendell Justin Williamson in connection with the Jan. 26 Henderson Street shootings. Williamson will also be charged with additional charges of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and inflict serious injury, Fox said. Fox filed a petition Friday in Superior Court asking a grand jury to bring feloni- UNC Wallops Duke, Clinches 2nd in ACC BY SCOTT WEAVER STAFF WRITER Hulk Hogan must be teaching wrestling at Duke. At least that’s the way it appeared with 12:55 left to play in Saturday’s season finale between No. 12North Carolina (25- 4,12-4 in the ACC) and No. 19 Duke (19- 7,10-6 in the ACC) in front 0f6,925 fans at Carmichael Auditorium. That’s when Duke’s Alison Day wrestled UNC forward Charlotte Smith to the ground af ter the two went up for a rebound. Day Wobmi's Basketball Duke 57 UNC 82 had a pretty good headlock on the Shelby native. “I like physical play,” Smith said of the incident. “It just gets me fired up for the game.” At that point, the game was tied 42-42. But then the Tar Heels embarked on a 40- 15 run to finish the game, downing Duke 82-57 and clinching second place in the conference. Smith and sophomore Marion Jones sparked North Carolina’s scoring frenzy. “Charlotte Smith had her 18th double double—22pointsand23rebounds;there’s no question in my mind she’s the best player in the ACC—without any doubt,” UNC head coach Sylvia Hatchell said. Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors said, “In my mind, she’s a Kodak All-American and obviously a candidate for National Finance Committee Doles Out Funding for Next Year BYPATRICKLINK STAFF WRITER The Student Congress Finance Com mittee held its annual meetings Friday and Saturday to determine how much of the student funds to allocate to 41 campus organizations. The committee had $109,000 to allo cate to groups that collectively requested $308,924.21. “Obviously, we have to cut a lot,” said Tom Lyon, finance committee chairman. Start of Business School Construction Lass Behind BYVICrORD. HENDRICKSON STAFF WRITER The construction of the new Kenan- Flagler Business School facilities will be gin in the middle of March after more than a month of renegotiations. The construction is behind schedule, but it should still be completed by fall 1997, said Katherine Phillips, media relations manager for the Business School. There was not an original fixed date for the construction to begin, but this winter was the earliest it could have begun, Phillips said. The construction could have started in January, but the financial agenda was re negotiated because it was over the Busi ness School’s budget, said Gordon Rutherford, director of facilities planning and design. Because of the cold winter weather, the construction probably would not be much further along than it is now even if it had begun in January, Rutherford said. Preconstruction meetings will be held during the first weekofMarch, and activity on the site will begin by March 15, he said. The new facilities for the Business School will be adj acent to the Kenan Center, which is located on Skipper Bowles Drive on South Campus near the Dean E. Smith Center. The new home for business stu dents will have 190, OOOsquare feet ofspace, making it nearly double the size of Carroll Chapa! NHL North Cara Baa MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27,1995 I _ WENDELL WILLIAMSON could face additional charges. ous assault charges against Williamson. According to N.C. law, a first-de gree murder convic tion can result in life imprisonment or the death sentence. Aggravating cir cumstances in the case must be found before the death penalty can be con sidered, Fox said. “There are, from theevidence,aggra- Sports Action Ihis ■ Track and Field Both the men’s and women's track and field teams took top honors at the ACC Indoor meet in Greensboro. ■ Men's Swimming The Tar Heels won their third straight ACC crown by lapping Florida State at Koury Natatorium. ■ Men's Basketball UNC spoiled Florida State's Senior Day by thwarting a Seminole comeback in the game's final seconds. Player of the Year.” Jones scored a career-high 32 points as Duke’s players failed to keep up with the track superstar. “There for a while in the second half, Marion Jones just looked like the ‘Bionic Woman,”’ Hatchell said. “She was in a different world. She just put on a perfor mance I thought was just unbelievable.” Goestenkors said: “Marion Jones is a tremendous player in getting up and down the floor. She’s very difficult to defend. She took it to the basket, she scored off of offensive rebounds, free throws, 3-point shots; she did it all today.” And she didn’t even start. See WOMEN’S BASKETBALL, Page 6 Each group requesting Student Con gress funding gave file finance committee a copy of its proposed and actual budgets from the past year and of the proposed budget for the coming year. Representa tives from each group presented their bud get and defended it before the committee for 15 to 45 minutes Friday and Saturday. “We grill them about how much they want,” Lyon said. “It’s a very thorough process.” The committee then determines how much money to give each group based on Hall, the school’s current location. The new building will consist of sepa rate floors for master’s of business admin istration, master’s of accounting and un dergraduate programs. The new facility will also feature a 430- seat auditorium and a 320-seat multipur pose dining pavilion and activity space. Two executive education classrooms and 15 teaching classrooms, all with mul timedia capability, are included in the plans for the new building. There will be a 45-seat seminar room with special audio, video and teleconfer encing capability for presentations, teach ing and guest speakers, and a connecting parking deck on the back portion of the F parking lot. The parking deck should be completed by fall 1996, and the rest of the construc tion should be finished by fall 1997, Rutherford said. “We are where we need to be,” he said. The School of Journalism and Mass Communication, currently located in Howell Hall, will move into Carroll Hall after the Business School finishes moving into its new facility, said Richard Cole, dean of the journalism school. Cole said that he hoped the construc tion would be finished by July 1,1997, so the journalism school could complete its transition into Carroll by fall 1997. "We’re absolutely looking forward to the move,” Colesaid. “We’recrushedinHowellHall.” Hike man, but not men. Ralph Waldo Emerson vating circumstances,” he said. The killing of more than one victim qualifies as an aggravating circumstance underN.C. law. In addition, murders occurring while the defendant flees another homicide, mur ders committed in an especially cruel man ner and the use of a weapon which nor mally would be hazardous to the lives of others also might constitute aggravating circumstances in the Williamson case. Williamson was indicted by an Orange County grand jury Feb. 20 on two counts of first murder in the deaths ofUNC student Kevin Reichardt and Chapel Hill resident Ralph Walker. During the inci dent, Chapel Hill police officer Demetrise <~~ fig 1 . '<***"'. W r _ ! nm Charlotte Smith fumbles the ball as she encounters two Duke defenders, including Alison Day (52). Smith hauled in 23 rebounds in UNO's 82-57 win. several criteria. “We try to come up with the funds based on the programs they will have next year and the money they got last year,” Lyon said. The allocations of funds is limited by the Student Government Code, said Rep. Julie Gasperini, Dist. 14, who is on the finance committee. “The Student Congress shall appropri ate no student activity fees to programs, services, or events of a religious or politi cally partisan nature,” Title 11, part 2 of the Supreme Court Grants Galbo Trial Challenging CAA Results BYPATRICKLINK STAFF WRITER The Student Supreme Court, in a pre trial hearing Friday, granted Wes Galbo a hearing to determine whether the Feb. 14 election results for CAA president should stand. The Student Congress race in one dis trict is also undecided in feet, law stu dents will participate in another election Tuesday. Galbo, who was a candidate for CAA president, filed a complaint with the Stu dent Supreme Court on Wednesday re questing that the Feb. 14 results stand. Galbo won the Feb. 14 election by 14 votes, but he did not have a majority be cause of write-in vfctes that were counted in the total number of votes. Had the write-in votes not been counted, Galbo would have r - . • .'. v I I yGp An in-depth interview and profile of UNC’s Paul ll; Stephenson was shot in her left hand at point-blank range through the window of her squad car. Bill Leone, a bartender at Tammany Hall, also was shot in the shoul der as he tackled the gunman However, before Friday, the charges against Williamson had not included any other criminal counts. “There were a lot of people that were shot at but weren’t included in the original charges,” Fox said. Fox said he had waited until all of the witness interviews and department reports had been completed before deciding whether there was enough evidence to charge Williamson with the additional Student Government Code states. “The basic premise is that funding is not to the end of supporting programs, services, and events of value only to organization mem bers or the mere perpetuation of an organization’s structure. “Miscellaneous categories (supplies, telephone, secretarial) essential to the con tinuation of the organization shall be con sidered for funding on the basis of how the organization’s programs as a whole ben- See FINANCE, Page 4 WES GALBO Is attempting in a court complaint to reinstate the results of the Feb. 14 election, which he won by 14 votes. had a majority of the votes. Inorder foracan didate to win an election, he or she must have more than 50 percent of the total votes. In the runoff elec tion, held Feb. 21, Anthony Reid won by 14 votes and had a majority of the votes because no write-ins were al lowed. Galbo’s request was based upon three elections he cited as precedents in his See CHALLENGE, Page 5 News/Features/ Arts/Spats Business/Advertising O 1995 DTH Publishing Cap. All rights reserved. counts. If he had not waited, the prosecu tion would have had to serve warrants on witnesses, and Williamson would have had to make another first appearance, Fox said. The March 13 pretrial conference is a chance for the prosecution, defense and trial judge to go over “the simplification and formulation of issues,” according to state law. The case will now go to N.C. Superior Court, where it is expected to be heard sometime this fall. Williamson is currently in custody in the mental health ward at Raleigh's Cen tral Prison Gypsum Unseats Spangler STAFF REPORT The company that UNC-system Presi dent C.D. Spangler attempted to buy for $950 million ousted him Friday as chair man of its board of directors. Spangler will remain a member of the board of National Gypsum. He is the company’s largest investor with a 19 per cent share. A special three-person committee of National Gypsum’s board, which was formed inNovemberto consider Spangler’s bid, replaced Spangler with a member of the special commit tee Stephen Humphrey, the company’s presi dent and chief ex ecutive officer. Spangler had asked the board of directors to dissolve the board’s three member commit tee. He could not be reached for com ment Sunday. Spangler has been twice rebuffed in his attempts to UNC-system President C.D. SPANGLER will remain on the National Gypsum board of directors. buy the company, which is the world’s second largest producer of the building material wallboard. On Nov. 15, he offered $43.50 a share, a price industry analysts called too low. The company rejected the offer after a several week delay during which it formed the special committee and created a share holder-protection plan to force Spangler to negotiate with Gypsum’s board of direc tors rather than be able to buy the stock directly on the market. Spangler tried again Feb. 13, offering $44 a share, but was turned down. Friday’s move by the Gypsum board spurred talk that Spangler would attempt to install hisownboardof directors through a proxy battle. Gypsum officials said that other parties had expressed an interest in buying the company but that no official offers had been made besides Spangler’s. The board said it would continue to entertain offers to buy the company. Spangler’s previous bids had been com plicated when Lafarge Coppee, a French building materials firm that owns 10 per cent of National Gypsum, refused to join the Spangler-controlled Delcor in the pro posed takeover. Spangler’s bid is notable for the unusual partnership with which he proposed to fund it. Nationsßank and First Union Corp. —typically considered close rivals—each pledged $134.1 million toward the deal. In addition, the banks would together lend $375 million to the venture. Spanglerwould toss in $ 150 million and his existing stocks, according to a First Union press release. Spangler owns 8 million shares of Nationsßank stock, making him one of its largest investors. His wife, Meredith, is a member of the Nationsßank board of di rectors. Regardless of whether his bid is success ful, Spangler’s venture into the wallboard industry has been a profitable one. In July 1993, National Gypsum was a weak company emerging from three years ofbankruptcy. When shares for the reorga nized National Gypsum appeared on the market in the middle of August 1993, they were valued at about sl7. Spangler began to buy stock through Delcor, a branch of his family-owned Golden Eagle Industries. His initial invest ment of about sl9 million was worth about $65 million by mid-December 1993. At the price Spangler most recently of fered to pay for the stock, his 3.8 million shares are worth about $167.2 million. National Gypsum closed at $43.50 Fri day. 962-0245 962-1163