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Thursday, November 9,1995
Democrats Encouraged by Tuesday’s Elections
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
After two years on the defensive, Demo
crats had reason to cheer. They fended off
Republican bids to claim the Kentucky
governorship and legislatures in Virginia
and Maine. The best news for the GOP
was in Mississippi, where Gov. Kirk
Fordice easily won a second term.
Tuesday’s ballots included dozens of
mayoral contests, including a mudslinging
brawl in San Francisco that pitted incum
bent Frank Jordan against former Califor
nia Assembly Speaker Willie Brown and
prominent lesbian activist Roberta
Achtenberg.
Brown and Jordan, a former police chief,
will face each other in a December runoff
because neither won at least half the vote.
Brown had 33.9 percent to Jordan’s 31.4
percent. Achtenberg, a former federal hous
ing official who trailed with 27.4 percent,
conceded the race early today and en
dorsed Brown. Five other candidates split
the remaining votes.
Incumbents who won easy re-election
bids included Democrats Kurt Schmoke in
N.C. State BOT Members Split on Tuition Increase
■ 60 students attended a
speakout asking members to
vote down the hike.
BY JENNIFER BRYAN
STAFF WRITER
According to North Carolina State
University Student Body President John
O’Quinn, NCSU Board of Trustees mem
bers are split over the issue of a proposed
S4OO tuition increase much like the one
recently passed at UNC.
Board members listened as approxi
mately 60 students and faculty members
gathered to debate the proposal at an Oct.
30 forum at McKimmon Center on the
NSCU campus. A vote on the issue is
expected to take place on Nov. 17.
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Baltimore and Edward Rendell in Phila
delphia and Bob Lanier in Houston’s non
partisan contest.
In Gary, Ind., where 90 percent of the
population is black, Democrat Scott King
defeated Republican Diane Ross Boswell
and two other black candidates to become
the first white mayor since 1967.
Leaders of both national parties closely
watched the gubernatorial contests in Ken
tucky and Mississippi and legislative races
in Virginia, Mississippi and Maine to see
whether the GOP would build on its his
toric gains of the past two years.
Results were mixed.ln Kentucky, Lt.
Gov. Paul Patton narrowly defeated busi
nessman Larry Forgy, dashing his hopes of
becoming the first Republican in the Ken
tucky governor’s mansion since Louie B.
Nunn left office in 1971. Patton, a million
aire coal operator, interpreted the results as
a referendum on national politics. “Ken
tucky has said ‘no’ to Newt Gingrich and
Bob Dole,” he said.
But the White House couldn’t consider
the victory an unqualified endorsement
“Trustees are split. It’s going to be a very
close vote in November,” O’Quinn said.
Trustees are not sharing their views
publicly at this time.
“None of the board members are speak
ing publicly about it right now,” said BOT
member William KlopmanofGreensboro.
Representatives from student groups
spoke at the forum about how the proposal
would change their lives personally and
the difficulties the increase would present
to the members of their groups.
Some of the groups represented were
the Graduate Student Association, the
African-American Student Advisory Coun
cil and the Chinese Students Scholars
Friendship Association. O’Quinn saidout
of-state students might be discouraged from
applying to NCSU by higher tuition rates.
The university’s out-of-state tuition rate is
already fairly high compared to competing
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because Patton had distanced himself from
President Clinton and, in a big tobacco
state, had vowed not to support him in
1996 if the president kept pushing curbs on
smoking.
With 99 percent of the vote tallied,
Patton had 498,805 votes, or 51 percent, to
Foigy’s 476,296, or 49 percent. In Missis
sippi, Fordice easily beat Democrat Dick
Molpus, a three-term secretary of state, by
a margin of 55 percent to 45 percent, with
95 percent of the vote counted.
Fordice, 61, recycled the conservative,
anti-government message he used to de
feat incumbent Ray Mabus four years ago
when he became Mississippi’s first Repub
lican governor since 1876. Tuesday’s vic
tory made him the first chief executive to
win back-to-back terms this century.
In Virginia, where the GOP has never
controlled a chamber of the legislature,
Democrats maintained their 52-47 edge
over Republicans in the House. There is
one Independent. Republicans did gain
two Virginia Senate seats enough to
leave the 40-member chamber equally di
schools such as Georgia Tech, the Univer
sity of Florida and the University of Texas.
Currently, about 13 percent of NCSU’s
students are out of state.
Andy Crocker, an out-of-state Caldwell
Scholar, said higher tuition meant NCSU
would attract fewer scholars and make the
program less competitive. According to
JeffMorisette, president of the Graduate
Student Association, increased tuition
would create difficulties in attracting high
quality in-state and out-of-state graduate
students.
According to the Technician, NCSU’s
student newspaper, Morisette said, “I’d
say that the graduate student institution
will feel the bite of the increases more (than
undergraduates).”
Derrick Coley, president of the African-
American Student Advisory Committee,
spoke about the impact on the black stu
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vided, with the tie vote to be cast by the
Democratic lieutenant governor.
In Maine, Democrats won two special
state House elections and thereby reclaimed
a one-vote majority. They had temporarily
lost control of the House earlier this year
because of party switches.
In New Jersey, where all 80 state As
sembly seats were contested, Republicans
maintained their lopsided majority.
A Maine proposal to prohibit laws
aimed at protecting homosexuals from dis
crimination was narrowly defeated.
San Francisco’s nonpartisan mayor’s
race was characterized by personal attacks
and a risque photo of the usually staid
Jordan taking ashowerwithtworadio disc
jockeys as joking proof that he was the
“squeaky clean” candidate.
Brown, one of the nation’s most power
ful black politicians who was ousted from
the Assembly by California’s term limits
law, had toned down his flamboyant im
age, but still came under fire as a shrewd
lawyer with a taste for SI,OOO suits and
fancy cars.
dent community. According to the Tech
nician, Coley said that approximately 80
percent of NCSU’s African-American stu
dents take out an average of $ 1,540 in loans
and an increase would hurt these students.
The six members of the Faculty Senate
who spoke about the proposed increase
were divided in their opinions. Two of the
members spoke for the increase and four
spoke against it. The Faculty Senate en
dorsed the proposal but only under the
condition that the the funds go toward
student financial aid and libraries.
Student Senate President Robert
Zimmer said tuition has always been a
substitute, not a supplement, for public
funds at NCSU. “We will never see a dime
of this increase,” Zimmer said.
O’Quinn said, “The feeling amongst
trustees is that we are caught between the
proverbial rock and the hard place.”
IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
Senate Delays Vote on
Late-Term Abortion Bill
WASHINGTON, D.C. Abortion
rights senators succeeded in their effort
Wednesday to delay Senate action on a bill
banning some rare late-term abortions un
til hearings are held.
Before a vote could be taken to send the
bill to the Judiciary Committee, the
measure’s sponsor heeded the advice of
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan.,
and gave up his effort to prevent hearings.
“Senator Dole and I have discussed this
and while neither one of us thinks this is
necessary, we do think it may not be a bad
idea in that the more one learns about this
horrible procedure, the harder it is to de
fend it,” said Sen. Bob Smith, R-N.H.
The Senate voted 91-6 to give the com
mittee 19 days to hold hearings.
President Clinton opposes the bill. The
House already has approved it.
POWELL
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she had concerns about his security, but
that her worry on that score was not a
factor in his decision.
Powell said running for president
“would require sacrifices and changes in
our lives that would be difficult for us to
make at this time.”
IfPowell were elected to the presidency,
Powell said, he would use the opportunity
to “show leadership, be conciliatory, move
the country more toward lower govern
ment, less government, put us on a more
fiscally responsible platform basis... try to
bring more civility into our society.”
Word of Powell’s decision caused a
flurry of political activity, as GOP candi
dates sought to portray the news as a boost
to their efforts and other Republicans
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Sending the bill to committee would
“get it out of the spotlight," Smith said.
“They don’t want to see what happens in
this grisly, disgusting procedure,” he said
of those favoring delay. “That’s why they
want to move it off the floor.”
Police Arrest Three More
In Rabin Assassination
TEL AVTV, Israel— The leader of an
anti-Arab group and another suspect were
arrested in the assassination of Yitzhak
Rabin, police said Wednesday, reinforcing
suspicions of a right-wing conspiracy to
kill the prime minister. ■
Israel radio also reported the arrest of
yet another suspect bringing the total
number detained to five —but the report
was not immediately confirmed.
Police suspect the militant leader A’ftshai
Raviv knew about the plan to kill Rabin
and told a Tel Aviv court they believed,
Raviv was “a catalyst in the murdet.”
Raviv heads Eyal, an offshoot of the
Kach group founded by the slain Ameri
can rabbi Meir Kahane. He told thejpourt,
without being more specific, that Rabin’s.
confessed killer had made vague threqjv
but that Raviv “never took him' seriously. ”
The 28-year-old Raviv lives in Kiryat
Arba outside Hebron, home to some of the
most militant Jews on the West Bank and
some of the most virulent anti-Rabin seritk,
ment.
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awaited his announcement for hints of his
future plans. '■*
The biggest immediate beneficiary ap
peared to be Dole, whose status as the
leader of the GOP field would have been
immediately challenged by a Powell can
didacy.
With Powell out, attention shifts to
House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who has
said he is not likely to run for the presi
dency but has also refused to flatly mle it
out.
“I’m not even going to think about it*
until Congress finishes work on balanced
budget legislation, Gingrich said.
At the other Republican campaigns,
there was a rush to suggest that with Powell
on the sidelines, Dole’s challengers would
get a closer look from Republican voters
eager for an alternative to the Kansas sena
tor.