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(Dip latlu ®ar Uppl J? Volume 103, Issue 36 102 years of editorial freedom Serving the students and the University community since 1893 IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation and world 3 Officers Shot by Gunman Holed Up in NJ. House HADDON HEIGHTS, N. J.—A gun man opened fire Thursday on two police officers and a prosecutor’s investigator as they tried to force their way into his home to search for weapons. At least one officer was killed, authorities said. Witnesses said as many as 100 shots were fired in the battle between the suspect and the three men. The gunman barri caded himself inside the house with the investigator and held dozens of officers at bay into the night. The investigator and one officer were shot while inside the house, but the officer managed to escape, despite bullet wounds in his chest, leg and hand. Haddon Heights officer Richard Norcross underwent surgery and was ex pected to survive, said Camden County Assistant Prosecutor Joseph Audino. The investigator’s condition was not known. Norcross’ brother, officer John Norcross, 24, was shot in the temple as he stood across the street. He died later at a hospital, police Chief Theodore Taylor said. Authorities were talking by phone to the gunman, identified by police as Glenn Nelson, who lives in a house. Nelson has undergone sex-change surgety and also goes by the name Leslie, Audubon police Cpl. Ralph Trovato said. Mexican Negotiators Fail To Show for Peace Talks SAN ANDRES LARRAINZAR, Mexico Government negotiators failed to show up Thursday for the first peace talks in more than a year, put off by the hundreds of peasants who set up camp in town to show support for guerrilla leaders. The night before, angry government officials had warned that the surprise dem onstration by rebel sympathizers could jeopardize the peace process. Although there has been no fighting since January 1994, the government’s fail ure to end the Zapatista rebellion has con tributed to the sense of crisis in Mexico during the past 16 months. Criminalist: 0 .J.'s Blood Wasn't Logged Same Day LOS ANGELES—A rookie criminalist accused by O. J. Simpson’s defense of bun gling evidence collection told jurors Thurs day she immediately logged every item she handled but one— a vial containing Simpson’s blood. Criminalist Andrea Mazzola, testifying after her supervisor’s nine-day ordeal on the witness stand, told jurors she carried a plastic trash bag out of Simpson’s estate the evening after the murders of Simpson’s ex-wife and her friend. Ccriminalist Dennis Fung testified that the bag contained a vial of blood drawn from Simpson earlier that day. British Army Opens U.N. Peace Mission in Angola LUANDA, Angola British forces landed Thursday ahead of a U.N. peace keeping operation next month to separate the armies of Angola’s long-warring rivals the government and UNITA rebels. The 650 British military engineers will string telephone lines, build military hospi tals and set up supply routes for the nearly 8,000 international troops scheduled to arrive May 9. A squad of 70 Welsh Guardsmen was deployed to protect the logistics team, which will be working along Angola ’ s land mine- and bandit-plagued southern coast. N.C. Legislator Says Rape Victims Don't Get Pregnant RALEIGH Rape victims can’t get pregnant, a state legislator told his col leagues Thursday as he explained why North Carolina didn’t need a state abor tion fund for poor women. Another lawmaker said including rape and incest victims in the fund only encour aged women to lie about the cause of their pregnancy. “The facts show that people who are raped who are truly raped the juices don’t flow, the body functions don’t work, and they don’t get pregnant,” Rep. Henry Aldridge, R-Pitt, told the House Appro priations Committee as it debated a pro posal to eliminate the state abortion fund. "... Medical authorities agree that this is a rarity, if ever.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: Mostly cloudy, 40 percent chance of rain; high mid-70s. SATURDAY: Sunny; high mid-80s. SUNDAY: Chance of rain; high 70-80. FBI Issues Warrants for 2 Suspects in Bombing Oklahoma City Death Count Moves Up to 52; Hundreds Still Missing THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OKLAHOMA ClTY—Moving swiftly to solve the deadliest U.S. bombing in more than 70 years, the FBI issued arrest warrants Thursday for two men suspected of renting the truck that blew apart the federal building with a half-ton of home brewed explosives. In London, a third man, a Jordanian- American described by U.S. officials as a possible witness in the attack, was put on a plane back to the United States for ques tioning. Italian officials saidhis bags, seized in Rome, contained possible bomb-mak ing tools. More bodies were removed in late after noon, raising the death toll to 52. Rescue teams briefly suspended the search for sur vivors for fear workers could become bur ied; they resumed snaking through the crumbled hulk of the nine-story Alfred P. Cheers for Charity ! n Kf 1 Al*-*■-**■ H T ANARUS, _ | DTH/CRAIG JONES The Delta Delta Delta sorority held its annual Spring Fling for Charity Thursday evening at He's Not Here in downtown Chapel Hill. The Winebottles were the feature band, which started about two hours late. Mandatory Laptops Spur Protests at Wake Forest BY ION GOLDBERG FEATURES EDITOR WakeForestUniversity’sboardoftrust ees approved a plan Wednesday that would put IBM laptop computers in die hands of every student starting with the incoming freshman class in 1996. But payingforthis technology and other perks with a $3,000-a-year tuition hike has turned the usually quiet liberal arts college into a hotbed of protest. About 150 students rallied in front of Wait Chapel on the center of campus this week to protest The Plan for the Class of 2000, which also calls for 60 freshman seminars, 100 new courses, 40 new profes sors and a host of scholarships. Funding will also come from $19.2 million in bud get surpluses and $1 million in annual administrative savings. Adversaries cite three major problems with the plan. They say that it was pushed A nose that can see is worth two that sniff. Eugene lonesco Clu|Ml Hat Nortk Caroliaa FRIDAY, APRIL 21,1995 Murrah Federal Building after the shat tered columns had been reinforced with steel and concrete. Gov. Frank Keating reported that a firefighter had told him: “You find out whoever did this. All I’ve found in here are a baby’s finger and an American flag.” FBI Agent Weldon Kennedy said arrest warrants had been issued for two white men suspected of using aliases to rent the truck used in the car bombing Wednesday morning. The men’s identities were not known, he said. Investigators said the truck was rented Monday, packed with fuel-and-fertilizer explosives and parked outside the office building, where the blast tore away half the structure and blew a crater 8 feet deep and 30 feet across. An axle thought to have come from the vehicle was found about two blocks away, said a police source who spoke on condi tion of anonymity. Major auto parts are marked with an ID number to thwart thieves. Two years ago, the vehicle ED number on a piece of axle enabled investi gators to break the World Trade Center bombing case. through without enough consideration, that the true intentions of a liberal arts educa tion would be reduced and that only the very wealthy would be able to afford $18,500 a year in tuition. James Hans, an English professor at Wake for 13 years, has expressed his dis content through letters to the Old Gold and Black, Wake’s weekly student newspaper. "The whole point of a university is to be driven by academic imperatives and not marketing strategies,” Hans said in a tele phone interview Thursday. “There’s no doubt the administration looks at the uni versity as a business with a product. Their idea is how to best sell this product.... I don’t know how you run a university by saying, ‘Hey, we’ve got neat computers.’” Although the student government and faculty voted to support the measure, some still believe the administration didn’t really See LAPTOPS, Page 2 Fetzer Field Festival The seventh annual ACC lacrosse tournament featuring four of the nation's top 8 teams, starts tonight in Chapel Hill. No. 2 Virginia takes on No. 7 Duke at 6 p.m., and No. 3 Maryland plays No. 8 UNC 30 minutes after. Admission is free for ACC students with IDs. See page 9 for full coverage. A federal law enforcement official, de manding anonymity, said investigators believed the truck had been rented in Kan sas and were checking fertilizer dealers in that state to try to trace the fertilizer used in the bomb. Dave Russell, a Ryder Truck Rental official, said the FBI had contacted his company about atruckrentedfromElliott’s Body Shop in Junction City, Kan., about 270 miles north ofOklahoma City. Russell said he could not comment further. In Junction City, Sheriff Bill Deppish said the FBI had sent an artist to talk to witnesses for a description of the wanted men. In Washington, D.C., Attorney Gen eral Janet Reno announced a $2 million reward for information leading to arrests in the case. CNN reported that three men had been arrested two in Dallas, one in Okla homa City—on immigration charges and that they were being questioned in the bombing. The men had stopped to ask an Oklahoma Highway Patrol officer for di- See BOMBING, Page 7 Coleman, Kids and the Mentor System BY MARSHALL BENBOW STAFF WRITER One of Evelyn Dove Coleman’s ear liest memories as a young girl was when she sang in a concert that required a uniform of a black skirt and white blouse. But it wasn’t the concert itself that sticks in her mind. A girl in her class couldn't afford the uniform and therefore wasn’t going to be able to sing. Coleman's mother sewed a skirt for the girl the night before the concert and lent her a white blouse to wear. ffEROESONTHEHILL That example of service was one of many demonstrated by Coleman’s parents, and these encouraged her to give to her community throughout her life. “I think for me (community service) is a necessity,” Coleman said. “I grew up in a family where my mother and father were always giving to the com munity.” Coleman, who graduated from UNC as an undergraduate in 1975 and from law school in 1978, is the founder of Pathchoice, a program started in 1992 that is designed to encourage young children to make good decisions. She also runs a law practice, writes a column twice a month for the Chapel Hill Herald, serves on the Day Care Services board of directors, and is a single mother of 3-year-old twin boys. Coleman also looks after her par- See HERO, Page 6 Many Experts Not Surprised By Terrorist Attack Wednesday BY BRONWEN CLARK ASSISTANT STATE AND NATIONAL EDITOR In the wake of the car bombing in Oklahoma City, the search for bodies, survivors and answers continues. Many who were shocked by the inci dent have asked how such an act of violence could have occurred in the American heartland. Experts on terror ism, however, have claimed that the at tack was not unexpected. FrankMcGuire, editorofthe biweekly magazine the Security Intelligence Re port, said he was not surprised such an attack had occurred. “It is long overdue,” he said. “For a long time, we have had two questions: when and where. We have expected this CEOs Skip Many Chancellor Search Meetings BYPETER ROYBAL SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS EDITOR With chief executive officers of major corporations from New York to Charlotte, the roster of UNC’s chancellor search commit tee reads like a who’s who in the corporate world yet some of these big names rarely make a meeting in Chapel Hill. Richard Jenrette and Julian Robertson both New York businessmen—have missed 10 of 11 meet ings, meaning they were absent more than 90 percent of the time. Nationsßank CEO Hugh McColl and Richmond businessman Thomas Capps missed 8 of 11 meetings. And Charles Waddell, assistant commissioner of the Big Ten Conference, missed 7 meetings. Committee Chairman Johnny Harris said these members were “integral” to selecting a chancellor. “They have met the candidates and con tinue to be meeting the candidates, ” Harris said. “It is more important for the members of the committee to see the candidates than to come to Chapel Hill and discuss them. “People like that have very different schedules than other people,” he said. “We try to use them when things are very important.” Bob Eubanks, who led the search for Chancellor Paul Hardin in 1988, agreed with Harris that business people were important even if they didn’t attend every meeting. “You can keep up without coming to every meeting, ” Eubanks said. “These people have a lot of experience. They hire a lot of people. They make recommendations and get people interested in the University. “When you get down to the short list (of finalists), you’ll get a See CHANCELLOR, Page 6 i IPii v' * 11 If M^ ,B 'V „ W jjt ♦- DTH/CRAIGIONES Evelyn Dove Coleman founded Pathchoice, which invites community leaders to talk with children at the Hargraves Center. Name: Evelyn Dove Coleman Bom: Jan. 4,1954, in Kinston Hobbies: Reading, bicycling, tennis, going to the beach Family: twin sons. Jay and Lee Education: UNC undergraduate, 1972-75; UNC law school, 1975-78 Job: attorney Awards for service 1993-94 Citizen of the Year for Chapel Hill and Carrboro by the Mount Olive Masonic Lodge Philosophy on life; "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you * News/Features/Arts/Sports Business/ Advertising C 1995 DTH Publishing Q*p. All rights reserved. for a long time.” Martin Miller, a professor of history at Duke University, agreed and said terrorism in America was not anew phenomenon. “Terrorism has existed in this coun try for a long time. Everyone acts as if it neverhappenedbefore,”hesaid. “There have been networks of terrorists in this country for years.” David Paletz, a professor of political science at Duke, said that the materials for bombs were easy to find and that anyone could gain access to them. “There have always been indigenous violent groups in this country, while you haven’t had anything quite this massive See REACTION, Page 7 - —~ X w | Search committee member RICHARD JENRETTE missed 10 out of 11 meetings in Chapel Hill. 962-0245 962-1163
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