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Olympic bombing suspect
cleared after investigation
ATLANTA—Now cleared of suspi
cion as an Olympic terrorist, Richard
Jewell went from hero to suspect to an
example of how high-profile investiga
tions can make an innocent man infa
mous.
“He’s the perfect image for why we
have the presumption ofinnocence,” said
Roy Black, the defense attorney who
represented William Kennedy Smith in
his rape trial. “But to be honest, this is
one of those times that there is a wrong
with no real remedy.”
The beefy security guard’s life turned
upside down when his name was leaked
as a suspect in the July 27 bomb blast at
Centennial Olympic Park that killed one
person and injured more than 100.
Though he never was charged with a
crime, Jewell became a virtual prisoner
as federal agents and reporters staked out
the apartment he shares with his mother.
A letter Saturday from federal pros
ecutors clearing J e well of suspicion helps
only so much, his attorneys say.
“There will always be people out there
who believe Richard is thebomber,” said
Wayne Grant, one of several attorneys
representing Jewell. “There will always
be people who stare. There will always be
whispers of recognition.”
That controversy will make it difficult
for Jewell to return to law enforcement,
as he wants to do, Grant said.
E-mail messages link N.C.
man to missing woman
LENOIR The body found at a
Lenoirman’s home could be identified at
about the same time as the man’s court
hearing Monday.
The state medical examiner’s office in
Chapel Hill was scheduled to perform an
autopsy Sunday to determine whether
the body is a missing Maryland woman.
Hie office referred questions about
the autopsy results to the Caldwell County
sheriffs department, which did not re
turn calls seeking comment.
Robert Frederick Glass was charged
with murder Friday after the body of a
woman was discovered in a shallow grave
in his back yard. Investigators said they
also found personal belongings of Sharon
Rena Lopatka, 35, of Hampstead, Md.
Glass was being held without bond in
the Caldwell County Jail. He was sched
uled to appear in court Monday.
Lopatka told family members that she
was going to Georgia to see friends, but
she never arrived. She was reported miss
ing Oct. 20 by her husband.
E-mail messages found on her home
computer showed she had been corre
sponding with Glass via the Internet for
several weeks and had arranged to meet
him in North Carolina on Oct. 13.
U.S. envoy tries to help
Israeli troop withdrawal
JERUSALEM U.S. envoy Dennis
Ross shuttled between Jerusalem and the
Palestinians’ Gaza Strip headquarters
Sunday, trying to finesse a deal to start an
overdue Israeli withdrawal from Hebron.
With warnings of violence multiply
ing from Jewish settlers in the West Bank
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town and from Islamic militants, both
sides were anxious to reach an agree
ment soon.
Ross and the Israelis reported progress;
the Palestinians said substantive differ
ences remain.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat met
with Ross on Sunday night, and both
Palestinian sources and Shai Bazak, a
spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister
BenjaminNetanyahu, said after the meet
ing that agreement was not imminent.
Ross made no comment after the meet
ing. But he suggested earlier that anew
deal on the months-overdue pullback
agreed to by Israel’s previous govern
ment could be delayed if Arafat goes
ahead with plans to leave Monday on a
weeklong trip to Europe.
Netanyahu promised to honorthe ear
lier agreement, but wants more security
for Hebron’s Jewish settlers. The Pales
tinians said his demands would require
unacceptable changes to the agreement.
Tutsis in Zaire form armed
force to fight Hutu faction
KIGALI, Rwanda They saw hun
dreds ofthousands of their Tutsi brethren
massacred in Rwanda in 1994, and other
Tutsis forced from their homes in Zaire’s
North Kivu province in early 1996.
Now, members of the Tutsi clan of
Banyamulenge have taken up arms, vow
ing die same will not happen to them.
“We are defending ourselves against
the Hutus and Zairian officials who are
trying to drive us from the region,” said
Benjamin Munanira, a Banyamulenge
leader. “We will defend our homes. Zaire
is our home.”
Munanira is a member of anew 2,000-
strong Tutsi fighting force, which has
been battling armed gangs of Hutu refu
gees from Burundi and Rwanda and the
Zairian military since September.
The new fighting has driven more than
300,000 Burundian and Rwandan Hutu
refugees from camps near Uvira, Zaire,
sending them scattering into the moun
tains of the countryside.
Munanira’s Tutsi clan, which migrated
to what is now Zaire almost 200 years
ago, is a minority in Zaire’s South Kivu
province. Compared with their neigh
bors, its members are relatively well-off
cattle owners and traders.
2 new California fires
erupt Sunday, feed flames
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. Two
new wildfires erupted Sunday in south
ern California, killing one person and
chasing people from their homes in the
latest in a series of blazes that have de
stroyed more than 100 houses.
The new fires crackled through brush
in San Bernardino and Riverside coun
ties about 60 miles east of Los Angeles.
Elsewhere in Southern California,
firefighters kept watch for flare-ups in
previously burned areas as wind gusted
up to 35 mph through the region. Nearly
40,000 acres of land was covered with
ash by the series of wind-driven fires.
An evacuation order was issued early
Sunday for neighborhoods closest to a
600-acre fire just north of the city of San
Bernardino. An undetermined number
of people left their homes, said Lenore
Will, aU.S. Forest Service spokeswoman.
However, the wind died down when
the flames got to within about a quarter
of a mile from the houses, then shifted
fromtheneighborhoods. officials believed
the blaze was started by a campfire.
A fire near Rubidoux in Riverside
County burned about 175 acres of low
scrub and grass just north of Interstate
60, said Vance Persing, a spokesman for
the U.S. Forest Service.
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co-coordinator of Major Decisions, said
the plan was to ha ve a dinner every month
for a different department. Nathan said
he hoped the program would be institu
tionalized, and that departments would
become more involved.
Todd Austell, a professor in the De
partment of Chemistry said the overall
atmosphere of the dinner was very posi
tive.
“It’s a great idea, and it needs to be
pursued in the future with more faculty
and students involved.”
STATE & NATIONAL
Conference addresses Chinese women, work
BY AMANDA GREENE
STAFF WRITER
Speakers at an international confer
ence at the Carolina Inn this weekend
focused on notions of work, gender and
households in China.
“The Chinese talked about work in
the context of a division oflabor, a house
hold production system and an exchange
economy,” said Susan Mann, a profes
sor from the University of California.
Top scholars from anthropology, his
tory and sociology departments from
universities across the United States met
and spoke at the conference to contrast
ideas found in their research.
“The whole point of the conference
was to learn from each other and to give
those who may be doing the same types
of research, but in different disciplines,
Hunt, Hayes
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ASHEVILLE Gov. Jim Hunt and
his Republican opponent, Robin Hayes,
disagreed over the role of government in
their first and only televised debate Sat
urday night.
Hunt argued that government needs
to take more action in educating and
protecting children and in other areas,
while Hayes argued that less government
is better government.
“It is time we sounded the trumpet
against big government and for individual
freedom, ” Hayes said in his closing state
ment.
Hunt said that in 10 days voters would
choose not only a governor, but “the
direction for our state’s future... We’ve
made some progress, but this is no time
to stop or go backward.”
Hayes and Hunt had made several
joint appearances during the campaign
but had never faced each other in a for-
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Thanksgiving in September with her fam
ily. She said she dressed in traditional
clothing and attended church to give
thanks for Korean independence.
Park also said being able to speak
Korean was significant to her. “My mom
instilled the importance of the Korean
language into me,” she said. “I recently
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lectuals in South Africa,” Schabazzsaid.
“I’m not a socialist.”
Will Jones, one of the organizers of
the forum, said he felt one did not have to
be a socialist to be in the Labor Party.
“The Labor Party was founded to repre
sent the interests of working people,
whether they were conservative, liberal
orsocialist,” Jonessaid. “The Labor Party
is based on a more general principle than
are socialists.”
He also said the Socialist Forum was
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the chance to get together and share their
knowledge,” said Amanda Elam, sociol
ogy graduate student and organizer of
the conference.
Elam said the experts at the confer
ence focused on how various modes of
occupational life affect work and work
ers in China.
“Historians are looking at how gender
inequalities, migration and organization
of work has changed over Chinese his
tory,” Elam said.
“It is particularly relevant because
Chinese culture and political front has
been very dynamic in the 20th century,"
she said.
The main speaker for Friday’s ses
sion, Steven Harrell from the University
of Washington, said he would speak on
the research he did on the meanings of
work in China.
split in debate about government’s role
ROBIN HAYES and Gov JIM HUNT
attacked each other in the debate.
mal debate like the one sponsored by the
North Carolina Association of Broad
casters. An audience of about 100 people
watched the debate in a hotel ballroom.
The rhetoric sharpened during the sec
ond half of the debate, when each candi
date responded to questions prepared by
his opponent.
Hayes asked Hunt about his position
visited my relatives in Korea, and I felt
great pride in being able to converse so
well with people.”
Being bom an American has not over
shadowed Singla’s appreciation for his
culture, he said.
“I still observe the religious holidays
andfestivals,”hesaid. “And even though
Ican’treadorwritein Hindi and Punjabi,
I really enjoy speaking them. My culture
is very important to me.”
not indoctrinating students with socialist
politics. “Our aim is to introduce stu
dents to a wide range of radical politics. ’’
Carrboro Alderman Jacqueline Gist,
who attended the forum, said she had a
history oflabor organization in her fam
ily and was interested in that aspect of the
party. “I think the way wage earners are
treated reflects the moral quality of an
economy, and right now our wage earn
ers are not being treated very well.”
Richard Koritz, a representative of the
Labor Party in Greensboro, said, “The
unity of action is the most profound unity
we need. In the long ran, if we do not act
in our Labor Party and vote for worker,
we will wither on the vine.”
“I’m going to be speaking on three
papers this afternoon on what work means
in China and doing a summary and dis
cussion of those papers,” Harrell said.
Support for the conference came from
groups such as the Carolina Population
Center and the Committee on Chinese
Studies of the American Council of
Learned Societies, said Ron Rindfuss,
director of the Carolina Population Cen
ter.
“The supporters of this conference
hope that while the conference is focused
on China that it will also be a collabora
tive effort to learn more about Chinese
culture and work habits,” Rindfuss said
at the conference.
Other than the historians and speak
ers at the conference, people who at
tended were interested in the conference’s
general ideas.
on abortion, about commuting the sen
tences of two inmates who later commit
ted murders and whether public schools
have improved in the past four years.
Hunt asked Hayes to stop running
what he called negative ads, why he voted
against a law making possession of a gun
on school property a felony and about
school vouchers.
“We need to support the concealed
weapons law as it now stands,” Hunt
said in response to a question. “But we
need to do more than that. We need to get
the guns out of schools.”
Hayes said Hunt had waited until his
third term as governor to get concerned
about crime and guns. “Guns in schools
aren’tthe problem. Discipline is the prob
lem,’’Hayescontended. “You’re attempt
ing to frighten mothers with children in
school,” he said later.
Hunt asked Hayes whether if he
were governor and had veto power—he
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educating construction companies to con
sider the long-term effects of their work
and do jobs correctly.
“It is a system’s problem the Uni
versity and the contractor has responsi
bilities," Pelland said.
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tion.
“The (student body president) plays a
very importantpart in Student Congress,”
he continued. “I think part of the prob
lem is a lot of people think the (student
body president) is trying to get his name
in the DTH, but that’s not the case.”
Currently, the student body president
has the same powers, with the exception
of voting, as regular Student Congress
representatives. The student body trea
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“I’m interested in the field: China,
migration and women’s work,” said
Arpita Chattopadbyay, who is doing
postdoctoral work in the area of Chinese
studies.
Elam said she hoped women would
look deeper into the focus of the confer
ence into its broader implications for all
women.
“I hope that women here this week
end will look beyond domestic issues and
leam something by comparing and con
trasting the state of women in America
with the state of women in China.”
The three-dayeventbeganFriday with
a session titled “Perspectives on ‘work,’”
continued through Saturday with ses
sions on gender inequalities in China and
ended with a fourth session on families,
households and the organization of work
on Sunday.
would have vetoed the law making it a
felony to carry guns on school property.
“This was a law that didn’t get tough
on crime. You got tough on rescue squads
and firemen,” replied Hayes, pointing
out that the law later had to be changed to
allow emergency personnel to carry then
equipment on school grounds.
“I am going to protect Second Amend
ment rights for honest citizens,” Hayes
said. “We’re going to be tough on crimi
nals, not law-abiding citizens.”
Hunt said taxes have been cut in each
of the past four years, with his support,
but Hayes said it took Republicans win
ning control of the state House in 1994 to
push tax reduction.
“I’d be sweating like you are if I was
saying what you are,” Hayes said. “In
1994, you had a conversion to conserva
tism. We (Republicans) had already said
what we were going to do, so you had to
go along.”
Aaron Nelson, student body presi
dent said outside contractors did not al
ways have the University’s best interest
in mind.
“One of the problems when you con
tract with an outside company is that the
company is more interested in making a
profit than how it’s going to affect the
community.”
matters, but also has nonvoting, ex-offi
cio status in Finance Committee
meeitngs,
Rep. Dara Whalen, DisfejS, said she
voted against the bill because,she felt it
was politically motivated.
While sponsors of the bill said it was
necessary in order to adequately separate
the powers of the executive and legisla
tive branches of student government,
Whalen said she did not agree.
“I believe that there is a separation of
powers because the student body presi
dent doesn’t have a vote (in Student Con
gress),” she said.
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