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Thursday, April 11,1996
IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
Mary Matalin Takes Dole
Campaign Advising Post
WASHINGTON, D.C - Mary
Matalin, the 1992 Bush campaign political
director and wife of Democratic strategist
James Carville, is taking a senior role with
Bob Dole’s presidential campaign.
Because of her new position, Matalin
will leave her job as co-host of the CNBC
program “Equal Time.” But she will con
tinue to serve as host of a CBS radio show.
“This is a historic election,” Matalin
said in an interview Wednesday. “Dole is
the right man at the right time to lead this
country through this economic transition.
And a second term with President Clinton
... would be a disaster for the course of this
country.”
Matalin said that she did not know what
her title would be at the Dole campaign
and that she would work on a volunteer
basis.
Dole aides said she would assume a
major strategic role working with cam
paign manager Scott Reed and Don Sipple,
the campaign’s top strategist.
Matalin worked on the 1988 and 1992
Bush campaigns. In between, she wasatop
aide at the Republican National Commit
tee.
She is a protege of the late Lee Atwater,
the GOP political strategist who died of a
brain tumor while serving as Bush's RNC
chairman.
Carville was lead strategist for Clinton’s
1992 campaign but has no formal role as
yet in the re-election effort, although he
does speak with Clinton periodically about
campaign themes and is expected to take a
larger role later in the year.
“We don’t talk politics,” Matalin said
when asked about her husband’s reaction
to her new job.
Helms Aiming at Sanders,
Gantt in Campaign Ads
RALEIGH —Both of his major Demo
cratic opponents are liberals who support
racial preferences in hiring and support
extending health in
surance to homo
sexual partners,
Sen. Jesse Helms
says in his first TV
ad of the 1996 cam
paign.
Helms, who
faces no primary op
position, says
Harvey Gantt and
Charlie Sanders are
“almost exactly the
same, "in an ad that
began running
Tuesday night in
Winston-Salem and
U.S. Sen. JESSE
HELMS has anew
campaign ad that
challenges both of his
opponents.
Raleigh.
"Helms had always wanted to just stay
on the sidelines and let the Democrats
battle to see who the candidate would be, ”
Eddie Woodhouse, a spokesman for
Helms, said Wednesday.
“But in every story and every piece of
campaign material I’ve seen, they’ve come
after Helms pretty good,” Woodhouse said.
“He can tolerate a lot of it, but he’s not
going to just sit there and let them keep
kicking him in the teeth.”
Sallie Stohler, a spokeswoman for Sand
ers, said the ad was a distortion. Sanders
supports affirmative action, she said. As
for the health insurance claim, “He's for
health insurance for everyone, so I guess
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Gantt’s campaign, in a prepared state
ment, said Helms “once again sticks the
race issue in right at the top,” replacing
“quotas” from 1990 with “racial prefer
ences in hiring” this year. The statement
said Gantt opposed racial quotas in hiring
but believed in hiring based on merit and
“inclusiveness.”
UN Expels Diplomat
Suspected of Terrorism
UNITED NATIONS The United
States has ordered
the expulsion of a
Sudanese diplomat
suspected of aiding
terrorists who plot
ted to blow up the
United Nations and
assassinate Egyp
tian President
Hosni Mubarak.
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to kill Egyptian
President HOSNI
MUBAREK.
had 48 hours to leave the country, James
Rubin, a spokesman at the U.S. mission,
said Wednesday.
“Our understanding is that the gentle
man will depart the United States within
the required 48 hours, ” a U.S. official said,
speaking on condition of anonymity.
Last week, U.S. Ambassador Madeleine
Albright told members of the Security
Council that two members of the Sudanese
mission were aiding terrorist groups.
Albright addressed the council as it con
sidered imposing sanctions against Sudan
for its participation in a 1995 assassination
attempt against Mubarak in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia. Sudan denies it was involved.
Grand Jury Indicts Goble
In Third Murder Case
ROBERTSDALE, Ala. A grand jury
in coastal Alabama has indicted a life-term
prisoner for capital murder in the killing of
a woman who was apparently lured and
slain in a method similar to his other vic
tims. Sean Patrick Goble, 28, an Asheboro
truck driver, is serving two life sentences
for murder in Tennessee and was recently
sentenced to 18 years for second-degree
murder in North Carolina.
Goble admitted all three killings, ac
cording to police, and he is suspected in a
dozen more, including the killing of Lisa
Susan O’Rourke, 29, of St. Louis.
O’Rourke’s body was found at the edge
of the Mobile River near Bay Minette in
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Wfllhoit Gave Up Bowling to Bea Commissioner
■ Don Willhoit is running
for re-election to the County
Board of Commissioners.
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of
profiles of County Commissioner candidates.
BY MILENA FISCHER
STAFF WRITER
Like a basketball player, Orange County
Commissioner Don Willhoit describes him
self as a member of a team. “You don’t
work alone,” he said not when you are
working to serve the community.
Willhoit is running for a sixth term on
Gantt Criticizes Sanders’ Time at Glaxo in 2nd Senate Debate
BY ANDREW PARK
STAFF WRITER
Like caring doctor, Charles Sanders
calmly debated North Carolina’s ills with
three of his rivals for the U.S. Senate
Wednesday but found himself under at
tack from Harvey Gantt on the issue of
healthcare. .
Sanders was repeatedly criticized for
raising prices on a popular prescription
drug when he was CEO of Glaxo Inc, a
Research Triangle pharmaceutical giant.
Twice during the debate, Gantt asked why
the price of Zantac went up six times in five
years during Sanders’ tenure. Gantt also
claimed that Americans paid 50 percent
more than Europeans for the same pre
scription drugs, and companies like Glaxo
were responsible.
“This guy has been the head of a major
drug company, and he has been increasing
CHILDREN
FROM PAGE 3
Several upcoming events promote in
volvement in Stand For Children. Among
them are a free ice cream cone day at Ben
& Jerry’s on Friday and an appearance by
Eddman at St. Paul African Methodist
Episcopal Church, located at 402 E.
Edenton St. in Raleigh, on Tuesday at
12:30 p.m. “We don’t want this to just be
something that feels good,” Lancaster said.
“We want it to have an impact.”
The success of the day, she said, won’t
be how many people show up in Washing
ton on June 1 but how many people go
back with that experience to the commu
nity. She suggested that a database be es
tablished at the University to link students
the board and will face off with three other
Democrats in the May 7 primary election.
The 62-year-old Kansas City native moved
to North Carolina in 1964 and said he
promptly became a Tar Heel fan.
In 1976, he won his first bid for the
Orange County Board of Commissioners,
and has served five four-year terms on the
board. Willhoit said he liked to be “where
action is.” That’s why he’s been involved
in politics since he arrived in North Caro
lina, working with the Carrboro Planning
Board. “There was a need to do things
differently, to be progressive, to move Or
ange County forward,” he said. “There
fore, I decided to run for county commis
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costs, ” Gantt said after the debate at UNC
TV in Research Triangle Park. The Derno
craticcandidatesforU.S. Sen. Jesse Helms’,
R-N.C., seat answered questions from vot
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Sanders, also a former physician and
hospital administrator, said prescription
costs were a small but necessary part of
health care spending.
“We’re the biomedical research labora
toiy for the world,” he said. “The prices
that we pay for prescription drugs fund the
research and development, which are find
ing new drags. The problem is how we
pay.”
During the debate, Gantt questioned
Glaxo’s motives whenit sold Zantac. “You
spend as much money marketing (drugs)
to hospitals and doctors as you do on
research and development.”
Sanders defended himselfby noting that
the drag was priced similarly to other drugs
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almost 60 hours per week with his “team, ”
Willhoit has had time to build a
greenhouse.“lliketobuild things,’’Willhoit
said with a laugh.
In the last 20 years, the Orange County
Board of Commissioners has reorganized
the health department which, as Willhoit
said, “wasn’t responsive for the
community’s needs.”
Willhoit also said he worked to divide
the tax burden fairly and foster inter-gov
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“Orange County was one of the very
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Sanders and Gantt disagreed on little
else during the hour-long forum with the
third candidate, Ralph McKinney, of
Durham. Instead, they sliced into Helms
and the Republican-led Congress for its
attempts to curb spending on Medicare,
Medicaid, welfare, education and envi
ronmental protection. “You’reaskingfora
battle down the road between poor people
and the elderly," Gantt said. “Let’s do
things to facilitate people moving up the
social and economic ladder.”
To do that, Gantt supports training
welfare recipients for new jobs, helping
them to find jobs and providing day care
for their children, he said.
Sanders said he worried for the future of
Medicaid and the families who depend on
it. “I am very concerned about the kids,”
he said.
Both candidates also advocated making
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pational health. These standards aim to
minimize the impact of pollutants in the
water provided for the county. “We’ve
done a good job throughout these years.” £
The first issue he wants to address for ~
this year’s election is school financing.
“Schools are overcrowded in Chapel Hill
and Carrboro,” said the commissioner,
who has four children. “We need addi
tional schools and I’ll strive to build them. ”
Willhoit is also concerned about growth
management. Noting that this is not an
individual job, he said the municipalities
would continue to work together, develop
ing a joint-planning agreement to address
the issue.
health insurance available and affordable
for all North Carolinians and making
money spent on health care tax deductible.
Sanders said he would open up the Fed
eral Employee Health Plan to small busi
ness owners and unemployed citizens.
“That’s a plan Jesse Helms has enjoyed for
24 years,” he said.
The three Democrats also dissected
Republican U.S. Sen. Lauch Faircloth’s
policies on the protection ofwetlands. They
said they supported reauthorizing the En
dangered Species Act and cleaning up the
state’s polluted air and water.
“The Democratic party may be the next
thing that’s endangered if we don’t speak
up for protecting the environment,”
McKinney said.
His opponents agreed. “Jesse Helms
has never seen an environmental law he
liked, ’’ Sanders said. Regulating pollution,
hesaid, is one way to promote better health.
The Office of Facilities Management
will wait for a request from the BOT before
looking into actual expansion plans, said
Bruce Runberg, associate vice chancellor
forfacilities management. “We wouldhave
to look at all of the types of facilities we
have,” Runberg said.
Chancellor Michael Hooker said he had
not been informed of a plan to increase
enrollment. “This idea may be being
knocked around, but not by anyone who is
talking to me.”
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