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Saily ®ar Heel IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation and world British army headquarters rocked by blast'2o hurt LISBURN, Northern Ireland Two bombs rocked the British army’s head quarters in Northern Ireland on Mon day, sending up a plume of black smoke and wounding as many as 20 people. A police spokesman said the bombs struck in a barracks parking lot at about 4:15 p.m., then minutes later near the base’s main medical facility. At least nine people suffering head, chest and leg injuries arrived at Lagan Valley Hospital, hospital spokesman James Livingstone said. Four were re ported in serious condition. “Sadly, early indications were that we could anticipate upwards of 20 casual ties,” Livingstone said. He could not say if they were soldiers or civilian employ ees. A police source said today’s blasts came without any of the Irish Republi can Army’s customary warning. The IRA ended its cease-fire in Febru ary by bombing London, but so far has not claimed attacks in Northern Ireland. The blasts shook homes in Lisburn, a town southwest ofßelfast. Smoke could be seen over the heavily fortified army installation as ambulances headed to the scene and helicopters hovered overhead. LisbumDeputyMayorPeterO’Hagan said the explosions were about 15 min utes apart, inside Thiepval barracks in the mostly Protestant town. “We’ve been living on a razor edge on the last few days and weeks,” he said to the British Broadcasting Corp. “But ev eryone was expressing the hope that the madness would not begin again.” “I certainly hope it’s not the beginning of a slide into the mayhem that we had a few years ago,” O’Hagan said. “If it was the IRA it represents anew shift in their present strategy because it returns violence to the streets of North ern Ireland again," said Jeffrey Donaldson, a leading member of the province’s main pro-British Protestant party, the Ulster Unionists. Yeltsin rests, sets up shop in hospital before surgery MOSCOW —President Boris Yeltsin held his first working meeting at a gov ernment health center outside Moscow on Monday after moving there from the capital’s Kremlin hospital. Yeltsin, who is resting up for a heart bypass operation expected in late No vember or December, met with Yegor Stroyev, the chairman of the Russian parliament’s upper house, the Federa tion Council. The presidential press service said without elaboration that the two dis cussed social and economic problems, including possible legislation, and Russia’s current regional elections. A brief Russian Television report showed the two sitting at a table; Yeltsin wore a sweater and spoke slowly. Yeltsin has suffered several apparent heart attacks, including one just before the July presidential runoff election th.-t he won over Communist challenger Gennady Zyuganov. That episode wasn’t made public until September. Yeltsin entered the Kremlin hospital in mid-Sep tember fortesting. On Sept. 25, surgeons postponed his multiple bypass surgery for six weeks to 10 weeks, saying his damaged heart needs time to heal. Eleven killed in weekend of Somalian gang violence MOGADISHU, Somalia—Factional fighting and gang violence claimed 11 lives during the weekend in a sign of worsening security conditions in and around Somalia’s capital. Five civilians were killed and 15 wounded Sunday when a crowded south Mogadishu market turned into battle ground between armed guards protect ing merchants and racketeers demand ing extortion money. Nadei Ali Ahmed, a shop owner in the busy Hamar Jajab market said the rack eteers were angry at the merchants’ re fusal to pay the 50 cents a week. The merchants hired guards to protect them. In Jowhar, 55 miles north of Mogadishu, a policeman working for Ali Mahdi Mohamed’s faction was shot dead by gunmen trying to hijack his car. On Saturday, three people were killed and eight others wounded when a shell exploded in south Mogadishu, residents said. It was not known which of the three Somali factions fighting for control of Mogadishu was responsible, but explo sions and exchanges of fire are common place in the country, tom by six years of Civil War. Tropical storm threatens Florida's western coast ST. MARKS, Fla. Boat owners rushed to secure their vessels as Tropical Storm Josephine swirled over the Gulf of Mexico, aiming to hit Florida’s western coast at high tide Monday night with close to hurricane-force winds. Josephine’s 70-mph winds were most likely to come ashore near this remote fishing village about 30 miles south of Tallahassee, weaken as it cuts across southeastern Georgia and stay inland as it sends rain up the Atlantic Coast. “I will probably stay as long as I can. If things get too rough, I’ll be the first one out the door,” said Rich Gray, mainte nance chief at Shell Point Resort near St. Marks, 30 miles south of Tallahassee. Evacuations were ordered for the beaches and barrier islands of nine coastal counties, where flooding was expected. The storm could dump as much as 5 inches of rain on the region following a wet weekend across most of Rorida. The most likely target for Josephine’s eye was the remote fishing village of St. Marks, about 15 miles south of Tallahas see. At one dock Monday afternoon, boaters struggled in gusts and driving rain to double up their lines. With the storm’s landfall expected at about midnight Monday the same time as high tide —a bulldozing storm surge of 6 feet to 9 feet was anticipated. U.S. warns Serb leaders for skipping inauguration WASHINGTON The United States is "furious” with Bosnian Serb officials who skipped their own inaugu ration rather than swear allegiance to a unified Bosnia, a State Department spokesman said Monday. The Bosnian Serbs have been notified that sanctions couldbe reimposed against them if they continue boycotting joint Bosnian government institutions and “everything else that’s got to be done to make this state a unified state,” spokes man Nicholas Bums said. The United Nations last month abol ished economic sanctions against the Bosnian Serbs, following elections within Bosnia’s two entities and a vote for a joint three-man presidency and national par liament. Punitive sanctions against neighbor ing Serbia, whose leader Slobodan Milosevic is blamed for igniting the Bosnian war, were also formally lifted. But Momcilo Krajisnik, the Serb rep resentative on the new Bosnian presiden tial troika, and 11 parliamentarians re fused to travel to Sarajevo to attend Saturday’s inauguration. The Muslim and Croat members of the presidency and 31 members of the republic’s House of Representatives took the oath of office without the Serbs. The boycott is seen as a serious blow to the unsteady peace process and to U.S.-led efforts to re-establish a united Bosnia after three years of warfare among its three ethnic groups. “The United States government was furious with the decision by Mr. Krajisnik not to participate in the opening of the national assembly,” he said. "It was an important symbolic event which was meant to kick off anew era in Bosnia, an era where institutions will be built now that the elections have been held.” FROM WIRE REPORTS EpWantedfj articipate in our life-saving & financially rewarding plasma donation program. IMMEDIATE COMPENSATION! Earn $25 TODAY & up to s9o* in 2 weeks as anew or returning (inactive for 60 days) donor! RA-TEC BIOLOGICALS 1091/2 L FRANKLM STREET • 942-0251 ♦Based on four consecutive visits. PtEASE PRESENT THIS AD EXPIRES 10/11/96 FREE tzfi PRE-MED SEMINAR How To Improve Your Chances of Getting into Medical School! 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The Department ofEducation appro priated $4.9 million to Guilford, Wilkes, Suny, Stokes and Person County school systems to be used for Internet and CD ROM installment in the schools. The ABC Technology Partnership in Company aids graduates in their quests for employment BY KISHMA PATNAIK STAFF WRITER Spokespersons for the Texas-based company Decisive Quest say they have found a way to ease the stress and hassle of job hunting through the Internet. CEO Gary Slagel said the company created Grad Quest, its online job ser vice, with students in mind. “Companies can always find people, but people cannot always find compa nies,” Slagel said. “We created a system where the job finds the candidate.” Graduating students can use Grad Quest to fill out a template or vir tual resume by downloading the propri etary software. The software will be free until Nov. 1, 1996. After Nov. 1, it will cost $9.95. After a student has filled out a virtual resume, the information will be entered into the Grad Quest database. Companies use the service by entering criteria for prospective employees. If a profile matches a company’s search criteria, Grad Quest will automatically e mail the applicant information about the company and a description of the job. If the applicant is interested in the position, Grad Quest will then release their virtual resume to the company. Celeste Baron, director of career man agement at Maryville University in St. Louis, said the difference between Grad Quest and other Internet job ser vices is that Grad Quest matches the pro files to the positions. Baron said match ing potential employees to jobs saves the employers from having to randomly sift through all the applicants. Slagel also said one of the service’s best features is that it exposes students to m Education was organized through the Guilford County school system. Charles Morris, executive director of pupil sup port services in the county, led the push for the grant. “Dr. Morris was instrumental in call ing all of the schools involved and getting them to participate,” said Sharon Johnson, secretary at the Guilford County Board ofEducation. “He was the main organizer. ” Morris, who was attending a technology conference in Washington, D.C. on the grant, could not be reached for comment. Guilford County was given the most funds in the grant, receiving approxi mately $2.8 million. Guilford received the most funds because it was the largest school system of the five, said Jo Laumann, principal of Andrew’s High “We created a system where the job finds the candidate. ” GARY SUGEL Decisive Quest CEO small companies that can’t afford to re cruit on campus. He said they have re ceived a tremendous response from hir ing companies. Since its launching in June, he said the company has been working to make busi nesses aware of the service. Slagel said the company has been pro moting the service at trade shows and with groups that link graduates and em ployers. “Starting with December grads we should see hiring,” he said. Marcia Harris, director of Career Ser vices at UNC, said her experience with online job services has not delivered many results. “We have not heard of anyone getting jobs through them,” Harris said. “We do not advise students to use ones that cost money.” Harris also said free online job ser vices have a limited list of opportunities that mainly cater to jobs already in high demand such as engineering. "Oftentimes they help the people that need it the least,” she said. Baron said she feels that will change as more people in non-technical careers gain access to the Internet. She said once this happens, morejobs for liberal arts majors will be posted online more often. Both Baron and Harris said that even ■IIIII I I I I I I ■ _JWTGHTHISSPACIEWEIKIYB CLIP THIS PAGE AWO SAVE IT! J ' V UCSOUNC.EDU . 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Tiger Management Analysts BA, BS Any Major Westvaco Sales BA, BS Any Major Division of Student Affairs School. “We are the forerunners in tech nology and with this grant, we hope to incorporate the information highway into all 14 schools in Guilford,” Laumann said. “Our wish list for the money would include upgrading graphics in our busi ness department, helping our art pro gram grow stronger using computer graphics in the classroom, and having computers available for student use in each classroom.” Laumann said the grant would benefit both teachers and students in the five counties. “Teachers might be able to get laptop computers that would average their grades, put them on reports, and send students’ transcripts,” she said. “This grant will help N.C. students keep in league with the times, so they won’t get as new services such as Grad Quest emerge, it is important not to rely on them alone. Harris said that online searches are l#4flC IvIGo J with purchase of another I I *! ® | ! qr ottier spMla! er dtoowiL Mm hi only. Expires 10/18/M. Bpp UU mn IMB MB BM fIM IHI 188 m Mexican Food has finally arrived^^^^- BL 159'A E Franklin Street Chapel HI ifc b JU ■k (Next t<? the Rjrthokefor) MMhHMfcgMk 4711 Hope VMeyfcwd fjJP jk Durham Tuesday, October 8,1996 out in the world knowing nothing but archaic technology. ” Russell Dixon, technology director for the Person County school board, said the grant is supposed to help underprivileged children have a chance. Dixon said the grant is the only one ever given to a Southern school system for technology education. “This grant is to be used to raise achievement levels in at-risk students. The grant focuses on all the essential studies: math, reading, social studies, and science,” Dixon said. Dixon also said the five school systems picked which schools would benefit from the grant. “We focused on the number of (En glish as a second language) students in the school and free and reduced lunches in each school.” another part of the whole process of find ingtheperfectpost-collegejob. “Although they are probably not thatuseful, they are one more avenue,” she said. 7
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