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Monday. October 21. 1996
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American journalist dies,
wile hurt in car accident
BOGOTA. Colombia An Ameri
can journalist who wrote for Time maga
zine and the United Press International
news service during a 20-year career in
Colombia died early Sunday in a car
crash.
Tom Quinn. 53, and his wife were
driving in Bogota when their car plunged
70 feet off a bridge onto a highway below.
Quinn died instantly. His Colombian
wife, Zulma, was in a coma after surgery
at a Bogota hospital, a hospital spokes
man said.
The cause of the accident was not
known. It was 2:30 a.m. and raining at
the time.
At the time of his death, Quinn was
correspondent for Bridge News, a finan
cial news service, and wrote a column for
El Tiempo, Colombia’s most widely read
newspaper.
AscorrespondentforTimeuntil 1994,
Quinn got two rare interviews with
Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, a leader of
the Cali drug cartel who was in hiding.
Rodriguez was arrested last year.
In 1989, a report by a Time investiga
tive team that included Quinn found evi
dence indicating Gen. Guillermo Medina
Sanchez, then national police chief, had
taken money from drug traffickers.
The Supreme Court opened an inves
tigation based on the Time report, and
Medina Sanchez was sentenced to six
years in prison. In the mid-1980s, Quinn
was jailed for more than two months for
marijuana possession. He said he bought
the marijuana as part of an investigative
report on the drug trade.
Quinn also wrote for oil and other
industry publications. He was an editor
at The Colombia Post, an English-lan
guage newspaper in Bogota.
Quinn, of San Diego, Calif., arrived in
Colombia in the early 1970s to study
political science.
Dole outlines plan for
campaign finance reform
NASHUA, N.H. - Keeping his fo
cus on politics and funding, Republican
presidential candidate Bob Dole on Sun
day proposed an overhaul of campaign
financing to keep big money and foreign
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interests out and “to preserve the Ameri
can people’s confidence in the system.”
“We simply cannot allow the political
influence of any American to be out
weighed by foreign money,” said Dole,
seeking to capitalize on recent revela
tions that people with ties to an Indone
sian conglomerate have raised hundreds
of thousands of dollars for the Demo
cratic Party.
“In an American election, the voice of
a single citizen must speak louder than
the entire world,” he told an audience of
a few hundred who braved a driving
rainstorm to hear his speech at Daniel
Webster College.
President Clinton, campaigning in
New Jersey and New York to raise money
for Democratic candidates for Congress,
urged supporters not to be overly com
placent despite his healthy lead in na
tional opinion polls.
“I’d like to celebrate, scream and shout,
but it’s not over yet. It’s a long way from
over,” Clinton said in Teaneck, N.J.
Dole’s running mate, Jack Kemp, had
the same message as he made the rounds
of Sunday talk shows it’s not over for
the GOP ticket either. “We will win, and
I believe that from the bottom of my
soul,” he said.
Vice President AI Gore, firming up
core Democratic constituencies in Chi
cago, met with Hispanics and black
churchgoers to tell them their support
would be key on Nov. 5. “You can make
the critical difference," he said. Under
current federal rules, foreigners who are
legal U.S. residents can donate money to
American candidates, and in fact, Dole
has received such donations himself.
Eight people die in Canada
in chartered plane crash
EEL RIVER CROSSING, New
Brunswick A twin-engine chartered
plane bound for Maine crashed in a field
and exploded Sunday, killing all eight
people on board.
The victims were all Americans, many
of them Massachusetts police officers
returning from an elk-hunting trip, ac
cording to Royal Canadian Mounted
Police Inspector Jim Payne. Theirnames
were not released.
The Piper Navajo was on its way from
Anticosti Island in Canada to Bangor,
Maine, when it radioed that it was hav
ing mechanical problems, police said.
The plane tried to head to nearby Chalo
airport but went down a few miles away.
It crashed shortly before noon, narrowly
missing some homes in Eel River Cross
ing, a tiny community on New
Brunswick’s northern shore 250 miles
northeast of Bangor.
The plane was a charter of Telford
Aviation Inc., which is based in
Waterville, Maine.
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STATE & NATIONAL
Clinton focuses on education in Yale address
BY SHARIF DURHAMS
STAFF WRITER
NEW HAVEN, Conn. First lady
Hillary Rodham Clinton told hundreds
of Yale University students and town
residents about her husband’s commit
ment to education during a Friday after
noon address a block from her alma mater.
“He knows that your education is not
just an investment in your future it’s
an investment in the future of America,”
she said.
Clinton outlined President Bill
Clinton’s plan to help families fund a
college education in her speech on the
steps of City Hall. President Clinton’s
campaign promises included allowing
tax free withdrawals from Individual
Retirement Accounts for college educa
tion and providing Hope Scholarships
for community college students.
Clinton also said she was excited about
her husband’s plan to give parents as
much as a SIO,OOO tax deduction for
Siler City receives grant to support violence awareness
■ Siler City was one of only
three cities nationwide to be
awarded the grant.
BY EMILY HOWELL
STAFF WRITER
The need to reduce domestic violence
in the community is the reason for a
$245,000 grant Siler City recently re
ceived from the Centers for Disease Con
trol and Prevention.
The CDC in Atlanta awarded the grant
to Siler City, one of only three cities
nationwide to receive money for research
in domestic violence.
Miriam Infinger, development and
community relations coordinator with
the Family Violence and Rape Crises
Services, said the primary use of the
money would be to educate and teach
prevention to all members of the commu
nity.
The grant’s formal title, Zero Toler
ance Project: Siler City’s Coordinated
Community Response to Intimate Part
ner Violence, illustrates best what
Chatham County officials hope the pro
gram will become -a community work
ing together to curb domestic violence,
said Infinger.
Siler City was chosen for the project
college tuition. “As the parent of a child
about to go to college we want this very
much,” she said.
The Clintons and their daughter
Chelsea visited Yale earlier this year as
the family considered colleges to send
Chelsea to next year. President Clinton
has a 70 percent approval rating among
Yale students, and the students who at
tended the speech showed their support
by holding signs reading “Chelsea can be
my roommate,” and “Chelsea: ’01.”
Clinton said the government needed
to support teachers through funding pro
grams such as Headstart to ensure chil
dren are prepared for a Yale-quality edu
cation.
“We have to realize some young chil
dren need extra help to prepare for
school,” she said. “If a child cannot read
by the time he leaves third grade he will
fall further and further behind.”
Adopting her husband’s theme of
building a bridge to the 21st century,
Clinton said children, especially minori
because the CDC was looking for a rural
community that was willing to work to
gether to solve the problem of domestic
violence and had a university nearby to
complete the research component of the
project.
The application for the grant was ini
tiated by die Chatham Hospital, FVRC,
Chatham Primary Care, the Siler City
Police Department and the UNC De
partment of Family Medicine.
Infinger said the goals of the Zero
Tolerance program were to establish a
culturally diverse community coalition,
develop a communitywide response that
focuses on prevention and intervention
of domestic violence.
Another goal of the program will be to
evaluate the effectiveness of the program
so as to determine how it would benefit
other communities.
While the FVRC will not receive fund
ing for already existing programs, part of
the grant money will go toward starting a
program for abusive men.
Many men who receive court orders
to attend such programs do not do so
because of the fact there are no existing
programs within Chatham County,
Infinger said.
“The CDC is looking to see what
would happen if an entire community
would join together to reduce domestic
ties, need more exposure to the Internet
and computer technologies.
“We cannot permit two classes of in
formation haves and have nots to de
velop in America.”
Clinton said she enjoyed returning to
New Haven and speaking at a spot two
blocks from where she met her husband
while they attended law school at Yale.
She used New Haven as an example of
success in reducing crime. She said the
community policing program, which in
cludes students and community mem
bers, was helping solve the crime prob
lem.
“Putting more police on the street,
especially in the form of community po
licing, is working,” she said. “The crime
rate is going down.”
She encouraged the crowd to take per
sonal responsibility in helping solve the
nation’s problems. "Individual economic
success is certainly important but not
enough,” she said. “There is a role for all
of us to play.”
violence,” she said.
“ The mission is to develop a coalition
made up of nonprofit and for-profit orga
nizations, churches, health care provid
ers, law enforcement and the courts, and
the education system.”
“If everybody in the community knows
what domestic violence is and how to
react when they encounter it,then maybe
we can prevent it.
“Our hope is that what is learned in
Siler City will flow out to the county and
create an example for other rural com
munities throughout the country,”
Infinger said.
Ted Chapin, chief executive officer
for Chatham Hospital, agreed, saying it
was important for Siler City to become a
model community.
“If we can pull this off, then the Siler
City program could be a model for the
rest of America,” he said.
The role of Chatham Hospital will be
that of principal investigator, Chapin said.
The hospital will manage the money given
by the grant and disperse it according to
a budget.
Chatham will also work with the UNC
Department of Family Medicine to orga
nize research about die effectiveness of
the program towards curbing domestic
violence.
“We will be measuring everything we
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do so as to evaluate the effectiveness of
the program,” said Dr. Phil Sherrod, a
physician with Chatham Primary Care
and director of the Chatham Project for
the UNC Department of Family Medi
cine
Sherrod said he became involved in
the grant because of his own family prac
tice and his work in the emergency room
of Chatham Hospital.
“I see the end result of partner vio
lence,” Sherrod said.
“We were lucky to find money not
usually available to address this problem
that needs help.”
Domestic violence is an important
public health issue, Chapin said.
Chatham Hospital receives a number
of partner violence cases in its emergency
room, he said.
“It’s not just the victims that need
help; those who are doing the battering
need to be addressed as well. This money
will help us do that,” Sherrod said.
When deciding if applying for the grant
was important to Siler City citizens, plan
ners got people in the community to
gether to determine if it fit the commu
nity, Sherrod said.
Infinger said, “There is a belief held by
many that domestic violence occurs in
the urban areas when actually it happens
throughout rural areas as well.”