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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world.
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Guerrillas attack air field,
army base in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Tamil
Tiger rebels broke a two-month lull in
Sri Lanka’s civil war by raiding an army
base and an air field in coordinated, pre
dawn attacks Thursday that left 213
people dead.
The guerrillas overran the base at
Vavunativu about 1:45 a.m. but later
withdrew under a withering strafing
from helicopter gunships. The attack on
the China Bay air base, which took
place the same time 50 miles away, was
repulsed hours later with the help of
reinforcements, the military said.
Four rebels with explosives strapped
to their bodies were shot dead before
they could detonate the bombs inside
RANKINGS
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ous that the mistake was so miniscule
that the traumatic change in rank
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Several representatives from law
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the base, said military spokesman Maj.
D. Ranawaka.
Another 160 guerrillas and 48 sol
diers died in fighting at the base, and an
airman was killed and a plane destroyed
at the air field.
The attacks were the heaviest since
Jan. 9, when 223 soldiers and 350 guer
rillas were killed in an unsuccessful
rebel onslaught on a military base.
Bombing deaths blamed
on Islamic separatists
ALMATY, Kazakstan lslamic
separatists carried out last month’s bus
bombings in northwestern China and
are planning more attacks, a Muslim
spokesman in Kazakstan said Thursday.
The Chinese have blamed Muslim
insurgents for bomb attacks on three
buses Feb. 25 that killed nine people in
Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang
province. Rebel groups in China have
not claimed responsibility.
Chinese authorities say they have
arrested suspects, but have provided no
details.
“If the Chinese continue their repres
sion, there will be continuous war,” said
Modan Mukhlisi, spokesman of the the
United National Revolutionary Front, a
Schools like Stanford University,
which moved from fourth to third in the
rankings, have said rankings cannot tell
students the true difference between
similar schools, said Connie Hellyer,
communications director at Stanford’s
law school. “For a while, Stanford has
been a critic of the ratings game," she
said. “This (incident) seems to lend sup
port to that point of view.”
Students unite for activist conference
■ SEAC will offer UNC students
transportation to the Greensboro
conference later this month.
BY ION WILLIAMS
STAFF WRITER
Students and members of the community
who are interested in progressive issues and
want to develop their skills in activism will have
a chance at Students Unite!, a conference
intended to bring together activists from differ
ent backgrounds.
Earth Culture, anew activist organization
based in Greensboro, is hosting the event from
March 21 to March 23 at UNC-Greensboro.
The conference is free, but Earth Culture is ask
ing for a $lO donation.
The conference will teach such skills as orga
nizing a demonstration, organizing a civil dis
obedience action and negotiation, said Brendan
Gannon, outreach coordinator for Earth
Race to benefit breast cancer foundation
BY DAVE SNELL
STAFF WRITER
Students can break in their new $125 sneak
ers and kick up a few bucks for charity at Zeta
Tau Alpha sorority’s eighth annual Franklin 5K
race on March 22.
"Our slogan for this year is ‘Run For a
Reason,’” said Heather Barber, publicity chair
woman for the Franklin SK. “People can have
a good time and support a great cause."
The race will benefit the Susan G. Komen
Breast Cancer Foundation and the Association
of Retarded Citizens of Orange County. Barber
said the foundation acted as an advocate for
breast cancer research and helped fund the
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer
Center.
“The foundation is supported as the nation-
group representing ethnic Uighurs in
Kazakstan.
Republicans succeed on
finance reform resolution
WASHINGTON A Republican
plan to investigate “illegal activities” in
the 1996 congressional and presidential
campaigns was rammed through a
Senate committee Thursday over
Democratic objections.
Democratic leader Tom Daschle,
speaking before the Rules Committee’s
9-6 vote, said that attempting to define
illegal activities could cause “very seri
ous” problems. But he did not threaten
a filibuster and acknowledged: “We do
need to get on with something.”
The Republican resolution, which
will may be ready for a vote on Tuesday,
was a compromise. It would shave more
than $2 million from an earlier $6.5 mil
lion GOP funding proposal, set strict
deadlines as demanded by Democrats
and permit an investigation of congres
sional as well as presidential fund rais
ing along with activities of both
political parties. Democrats had insist
ed that congressional fund raising be
included.
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Reed said the magazine also has not
found a good method of collecting
information from schools that compares
the same information. For example, she
said some law schools counted gradu
ates employed in any job as having post
graduation employment while UNC
only counted graduates who had jobs in
law or a field where they used learning
from their law degree.
“Our statistics don’t look as good as
other schools because we’re more truth
ful, and we’re penalized in the rank
ings," she said.
Hellyer and Mirinda Kossoff of
Duke University praised U.S. News for
working so hard to correct its mistake.
The company will spend about
$500,000 to send corrected editions of
their booklet to stores and will correct
the rankings in its magazine next week.
“They moved to correct it as soon as
possible,” Kossoff said. “I suppose
that’s the most they could do.”
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Human cloning dismissed by scientists
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON The scientist who suc
cessfully cloned an adult sheep in
Scotland said Thursday that human
cloning could be possible soon, but such
research is “offensive.”
Dr. lan Wilmut told a parliamentary
committee there was no reason deter
mined researchers could not apply his
technique to humans.
“I’ve hesitated to make predictions,
but I’m sure if you really wanted to do
it you could do it,” said Wilmut, whose
team from the Roslin Institute in
Edinburgh produced “Dolly,” the
world’s first cloned adult mammal.
In Jerusalem, Israel’s chief rabbi said
Culture. “We are trying to
pick something that
appeals to a lot of activist
groups,” he said.
The broad focus of the
conference allows a wide
range of activists from dif
fering backgrounds to par
ticipate, Gannon said
Students Unite!
activist conference
March 21-23
UNC-Greensboro
“We are doing everything from gay rights
issues to affirmative action issues to the rain
forests,” Gannon said. “We are trying to build
a coalition across lines of issues,”
Gannon maintained that although Earth
Culture is hosting the event, the participants
will decide how the event will be run.
“We are trying to facilitate it but not really
run it,” Gannon said. “The success of this thing
is the people who participate. They are going to
make it successful.”
Lauren Attanas, co-chairwoman of the
Student Environmental Action Coalition, said
SEAC was planning on attending the confer
ence.
al philanthropy of Zeta
Tau Alpha,” she said.
“And we have always sup
ported ARC of Orange
County.”
Last year, the UNC
chapter of Zeta Tau
Alpha raised about
$13,000 for both organi
zations, the most of any
Zeta Tau Alpha
Franklin 5K
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said.
Barber said the race would begin at 9 a.m. at
the Bell Tower and wind through the campus,
ending up at University Square. The three and
one-tenth-mile path includes gradual inclines
along Chapel Hill sidewalks.
Students can preregister for the race from
March 17 through March 21 in the Pit, Barber
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genetic cloning of human beings would
be a “deviation” from the role of science
and forbidden by Jewish law.
Rabbi Yisrael Lau said, “The Torah
permits the doctor to heal, but not to
encroach upon the role of the creator
not to create life by unnatural means,”
his spokesman, Daniel Aviv, told The
Associated Press on Thursday.
Lau said in-vitro fertilization is per
missible because it can be viewed as
healing barrenness.
Wilmut, who appeared before the
House of Commons’ Science and
Technology Committee, said his team
had used more than 1,000 unfertilized
eggs —one measure of the difficulties to
be faced in cloning a human being.
“If you were prepared to make that
sort of effort, then you would expect to
make significant progress in one or two
years,” he said.
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“(Motivation) has been a problem with
SEAC,” she said. “After the national conference
in ’95, we sort of hit a low point. This is com
ing at a really good time.”
Attanas said the conference would give
SEAC members, who have not had much expe
rience in activism, a chance to participate in an
actual demonstration.
Housing and food will be provided for the
participants, Gannon said.
“We are working with other groups who are
providing food and housing,” he said. “The
main group we are working with is Food Not
Bombs.”
News of the conference has provoked inter
est from all around the country, Gannon said.
“We have gotten interest from as far away as
Georgia,” Gannon said. “We think it may end
up to be pretty big.”
Andrew Pearson, co-chairman of SEAC,
said SEAC was offering transportation to the
conference.
“The conference is open to anyone who has
any interest at all in organizing.”
said. Preregistration is slo,including a T-shirt.
Barber said students could also register from
7 a.m. to 9 a.m. the day of the race for sl2, but
they are not guaranteed a T-shirt.
Participants will be placed in groups based
on age and gender. Winners from each catego
ry will receive prizes, as will the overall male
and female winners, Barber said.
Free refreshments will be served at a post
race party in University Square, she said.
WTVD newscaster Jennifer Silverman will be
on hand to present the awards, and Director of
Greek Affairs Ron Binder and representatives
of both charities will speak.
Jenny Beahm, a sophomore from
Greensboro, has already registered for the race.
“I like running, and breast cancer research is a
really worthy cause,” she said. “So when one of
the Zeta girls came by, I just decided to do it.”
orating with the institute, agreed “that
we would find this kind of work with
human embryos offensive.”
“We would support wholeheartedly
the idea of prohibition in the most effec
tive way possible," he said.
Professor Graham Bulfield, director
of the institute, pointed out that in 15
years there had been no attempt to apply
genetic modification to humans despite
the fact it was possible.
“The idea that you can bring back a
child, that you can bring back your
father, it is simply nonsensical,” said
Wilmut. “You can make a genetically
identical copy, but you can’t get back the
person you have lost.”
The scientists said cloning work on
farm animals would hopefully yield
techniques to extend to cattle and pigs in
five to 10 years.
Bulfield said cloning of cattle could
be used to protect biodiversity, with cells
frozen to ensure breeds do not die out.