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Wednesday, March 5, 1997
IN THE NEWS
Top stones from the state , nation and world.
Black Texaco employees
accept settlement offer
WHITE PLAINS, NY. All 1,342
black Texaco employees covered by a
slls million landmark race discrimina
tion settlement have apparently accept
ed the offer.
The past and current Texaco employ
ees had until Tuesday to notify Texaco
by mail that they would opt out of the
settlement, giving them the right to sue
separately. None had done so, plaintiff
lawyer Dan Berger said.
“We’ve spoken to a number who
were considering it,” Berger said. “But
when they hear what they’re going to
get, people are getting much more than
they ever could hope to recover if they
pursued individual lawsuits.”
The workers would receive an aver
age of $60,000 each, depending on
length of employment. Initiators of the
class-action lawsuit would get more.
Yeltsin: rocket launches
reborn space program
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Russia launched the first rocket from its
new Svobodny cosmodrome today and
President Boris Yeltsin said the country
remains a space leader despite setbacks
to its cash-strapped space program.
Yeltsin ordered construction of the
cosmodrome in the Amur region a year
ago to ease Moscow’s dependence on
Baikonur, once the Soviet Union’s main
launch site and now part of the Central
Asian nation of Kazakstan.
Russia still leases Baikonur for
manned flights, and also has the
Plesetsk launch site in the northwest.
Today’s launch of the 191-pound
Zeya satellite “opens anew page in
Russia’s space research,” Yeltsin wrote
in a message to the cosmodrome staff.
The new launch site about 60 miles
from the Chinese border “will ensure
our country’s guaranteed access to outer
space and will promote a comprehen
sive development of the Far East
region,” Yeltsin said.
McVeigh's lawyers decide
not to seek trial delay
DENVER Timothy McVeigh’s
lawyers decided Tuesday not to seek a
delay in his trial, saying they believe the
Oklahoma City bombing suspect can get
a fair trial despite a newspaper story
about his purported confession.
The defense team made the decision
after discussing options with McVeigh,
and then meeting with U.S. District
Judge Richard Matsch and prosecutors.
“We did not ask for a continuance.
We gathered with the government and
with the judge, and we were all on the
same page,” lawyer Stephen Jones said
Russians sew dress
to express respect
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOSCOW Students at a school in St. Petersburg have
sewn an emerald green silk dress as a gift for first daughter
Chelsea Clinton.
The students who study at a special school where they
receive training in making Russian handicrafts put the tra
ditional-style dress on display Monday at St. Petersburg's
House of Friendship and Peace, the ITAR-Tass news agency
said.
In a letter, the students said they were inspired by President
Clinton's re-election campaign and made the dress for his 17-
year-old daughter as an expression of “respect for your fami
ly,” ITAR-Tass said.
The students intend to present the dress to Chelsea's moth
er, Hillary Rodham Clinton, during a U.S.-Russia summit that
will take place March 20 through March 21 in Helsinki,
Finland.
Traditional Russian dresses usually are embroidered sleeve
less frocks worn over wide-sleeved white blouses.
STATE & NATIONAL
as he left the 45-minute meeting at the
federal courthouse.
He said jury selection would start
March 31. “That’s what our client
wants, and that’s what we want, and I
think that’s what everybody wants,” he
said.
Prosecutor Pat Ryan said he did not
believe a delay was necessary. “I share
the confidence of Mr. Jones and the
court that the people here will be able to
give Mr. McVeigh a fair trial.”
Ohio River floodwaters
drown Midwest towns
Louisville, Ky., bolted the gates shut
in its floodwall Tuesday as the highest
water along the Ohio River in 30 years
pushed downstream, swamping one
town after another and swelling the
ranks of people driven from their
homes.
“I literally broke down and cried at 4
this morning," Jack Hall said after
watching the Ohio lap through the door
of his home in Utica, Ind.
The Ohio was out of its banks from
West Virginia to Ohio, Kentucky and
Indiana, and the water wasn’t expected
to crest in most places until Wednesday
or later. Thousands of evacuees waited
for the river to start dropping; thousands
more downstream moved out.
“All I’ve got is the clothes on my
back,” Mike Donley said after leaving
his home in New Richmond, Ohio, a
community of some 2,500 people about
20 miles upstream from Cincinnati.
President Clinton declared 14 coun
ties disaster areas in Ohio and nine in
Kentucky.
Senate rejects budget amendment
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON ln a stinging
setback for Republicans, the balanced
budget amendment to the Constitution
went down to narrow defeat in the
Senate on Tuesday at the hands of
Democrats.
In the end, all 55 Republicans and 11
Democrats voted for the amendment.
The other 34 Democrats voted against
it, making a 66-34 vote.
It marked the third year in a row the
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further technological advances, Binder
said.
Following the fire, the fraternity was
DEAF
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ing, using facial expressions, writing
notes, cueing and speaking orally.
Jeremy Johnson, a freshman from
Winterville, said without hearing aids he
could hear nothing quieter than a lawn
mower.
Johnson communicates orally, but
sometimes has difficulty understanding
what people are saying to him. Then he
has to ask them to repeat themselves.
“I really don’t like to do that very
much,” he said, adding that he has
become used to it. “I don’t know what
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turns away about 30 students each
semester who want to enroll.
The 20 students she does enroll meet
for an hour twice a week to learn new
signs and practice ones they have
already learned.
“Students have a desire to learn it,”
Mclntyre said. “There’s definitely a
need there.”
Senior Krista Stewart, who taught the
class the one semester Mclntyre did not,
said the relatively low deaf population
on campus makes it difficult for hearing
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GOP had failed to muster the support to
pass a cornerstone of their agenda.
Republican frustration was evident
before the vote, when Sen. Orrin Hatch
repeatedly accused Democrats of “dem
agoguery.”
Democrats, he said, “don’t want to
cast the right vote” to force an end to
nearly three decades of nonstop deficits.
But Democrats had long since made
up their minds because of social securi
ty issues. Senate Democratic leader Tom
temporarily relocated in a University
owned house. The chapter has a two
year lease on that house, for which it is
paying fair market value, Binder said.
Garrett said he was thankful for the
support from the community and was
it’s like to be hearing, but I know how to
deal with it.”
Grace Consacro, a junior from
Nashville, Tenn., lip reads, speaks and
uses Cued Speech to communicate.
“(Being deaf) is not something I think
about every second of the day," she said
through a telephone relay operator, who
reads aloud the words Consacro has
typed on her TTY, which allows deaf
people to communicate on the phone.
“I tend to not really notice it until
something pops up to make me think
about it,” Consacro said.
One of those times was when
Consacro had to watch a film for a class.
students to know deaf students and be
aware of deaf issues.
There are 17 students on campus who
are deaf or hearing-impaired. That
means less than one tenth of the
University’s students have hearing
impairments, as opposed to 7 to 10 per
cent of the local and national general
populations.
“Deaf people have their own needs,”
Mclntyre said, mentioning everything
from deaf education to special vibrating
alarm clocks.
She said students should know about
deaf issues as well as sign language.
“If they’re going to be learning the
an alternative plan,” Pomerantz said.
Heather Overfield, a junior from
Raleigh, questioned why the construc
tion would begin before summer school,
when fewer students would be inconve
nienced.
“It is just going to make it inconve
nient for the last part of the year.”
To create more room for students and
alleviate congestion, the University
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Daschle said, “For millions of older
Americans it is the difference between
living in dignity, and living in fear and
poverty. A balanced-budget amendment
shouldn’t force us to break that historic
contract.”
President Clinton said he was pleased
with the amendment’s defeat. “Let me
be clear: While I oppose a constitution
al amendment, I am committed to
achieving the bipartisan goal of balanc
ing the budget by 2002.
ready to get started with the new house.
“The city has been great and we appre
ciate all they have done for us,” Garrett
said. “It is the best interest of the citi
zens of Chapel Hill to to get the house
rebuilt as soon as possible."
She had to specially order and watch a
closed-captioned version. “Everyone
was very helpful, but it’s the little things
like that," she said.
She added that many people don’t
shy away from talking to her simply
because she’s deaf. “They seem to take
it in stride,” she said.
But she said there are others who
don’t try to communicate with her
because they’re afraid.
“I’m sure some people don’t know
how to react," she said. “There will
always be some people who can’t wait to
get as far away from something that
makes them uncomfortable.”
language, they need to know who
they’re learning it about,” she said.
Lauren Thrower, a sophomore from
Charlotte, is taking Mclntyre’s class this
semester so she can learn different ASL
teaching methods. Thrower taught ASL
last semester to members of her sorority.
She said she hoped to expand her
class next semester to all undergraduates
and continue trying to get an under
graduate ASL course offered after
Mclntyre and Stewart graduate in May.
“We’re still very much working on
it,” Thrower said. “I think it’s important
because deaf people aren’t people to be
ignored.”
might move the picnic tables from under
the Union canopy to create a walkway,
Union Director Don Luce said.
“We are going into things with an
understanding that there are going to be
some changes,” he said.
Luce said they could not plan for
everything, but were trying to stay flex
ible. “We ... are doing our best to
accommodate everyone’s needs."