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4 Monday, January 31, 2000 Boy's Grandmothers Return to Cuba Associated Press HAVANA - Elian Gonzalez’s grand mothers arrived back in Cuba on Sunday without the child they had hoped to bring home, but they were greeted as heroes nonetheless with an enormous government-organized parade through the streets of the Cuban capital. “We are leaving, but Elian is still here,” said the 6-year-old boy’s paternal grandmother, Nlariela Quintana, as she wrapped up her campaign for the ship wrecked child’s return to Cuba. Quintana spoke before departing with GO AWAY! And spend summer 2000 abroad in Applications are due by February 15 t 2000 For further information please contact the IJNC-CH Study Abroad Office in 12 Caldwell Hall (919)962-7001 ahroad@unc.edu http://www.unc.edu/depts/abroad NO LATE APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED The Internet has EMPOWERED MILLIONS It AND LED the,ast TO THE party CREATION OF m A UNIVERSAL G “ m 7 a COMMUNITY. 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Even the national soccer champi onship game, which had been scheduled for Sunday in Havana, was postponed for a week so players and spectators could attend the event. The grandmothers were returning after “brave and extraordinary work in the United States, overcoming great obstacles and transmitting a persuasive message to the U.S. people,” said a gov ernment statement published in all newspapers here Sunday. Gonzalez was found floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast Nov. 25 after a boat wreck that killed his moth er and 10 other people. COCHRAN From Page 1 Lee is planning student commentary and a poetry performance to accompa ny Cochran’s speech, scheduled to be held in Memorial Hall. Officials expect the BSM’s request to be approved without much debate. “We fund speakers because they usu ally ask for more money than any group Does your definition of “financial planning” mean calling your dad befor&yoxi actually need money? MBNA PRESENTS money management for Students You are invited to a money management seminar geared to students’ needs and income. Spending and savings plans, investments, obtaining loans - your questions about financial planning will finally be answered. We’ll get you started by providing dinner from Hector’s. lUesday, February 1, 2000 • 6:00-7:30pm Carolina Club, Royall Room, George Watts Hill Alumni Center News PROTEST From Page 1 illegally to the United States. Gonzalez has been staying with relatives in Miami since he was rescued. For the past two months, Gonzalez’s U.S. relatives have fought for the child to be granted citizenship. But both of Gonzalez’s grandmothers have ardendy demanded the boy be returned to Cuba and reunited with his father. “The U.S. Justice Department made it clear that the law says he should be returned from Cuba,” Bartel said. “The general rule is any refugee found to cross illegally at sea must be returned.” Nelson said he protested because he wanted the law to be upheld. The INS has allowed Gonzalez to remain in the can even think of,” Whitfield said. “(The BSM) already had a written commitment with (Cochran) and one or two dates.” The committee also takes into account how much of the student body the speaker will reach, Whitfield said. “This is student money, so we don’t want to just give it out.” The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. country for humanitarian reasons. “It’s important to put pressure on the system for what the law says,” he said. “The U.S. Justice Department and the INS made the right decision." The task force, which is located at 1105 Sapling Place in Raleigh, has been putting pressure on the system for more than two decades. Representative Joe Straley said the organization was found ed in the 1980s to protest U.S. involve ment in Nicaragua. “This organization is sponsored by the mainstream,” he said. “We have been in the trenches of U.S. foreign pol icy since the early ’Bos.” Straley said he failed to understand how Gonzalez had remained in the United States for so long. “The reasons are not clear at all to me why the United States has allowed this REGISTRATION From Page 1 register on the first Saturday of registra tion for each semester, and juniors would register on the first Sunday. Sophomores would register on the sec ond Saturday, and freshmen would reg ister on the second Sunday of registration. Even though classes would be regis tering on the same day, half of the class would register at noon, and the other half would be able to register at 2 p.m. Student Body Vice President Monika Moore said she was concerned the new registration system would make the University less navigable for freshmen WEATHER From Page 1 Weather Policy, which states that the University is open under a normal schedule. In Wake County, N.C. Highway Patrolman Darby Guy said conditions were icy, but officials did not expect to have to close Interstate 40 because of ice Sunday night. 1-40 was closed for part of the day Tuesday, when 2 feet of snow fell in the area. Guy said the highway patrol had called in extra officers to cope with the icy conditions. “We have all available personnel out now, so that if stuff gets bad, we will be able to handle it,” Guy said. Roads in the western two-thirds of the state were considered hazardous because of the slick wintry mix. With some stores closed and church services canceled due to the precipitation -and last week’s record snowstorm still icing Saily (Jar Heri delay,” he said. “He lost a lot of family, and the law said he should go back to his father. This is like a kidnapping.” Bartel said returning Gonzalez to Cuba was in the boy’s best interest as well. “The family life (in Cuba) is very strong,” she said. “I am impressed with the virtues of their community life. If a child has a right to that life, why take that away from him? The cruelty of this is just awe some.” Nelson said he was confident the protest could help change relations between the United States and Cuba. He said, “I felt like it was one step in what may be a long battle to change this country’s attitudes toward Cuba.” The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu. and those seeking advising. “I have a few concerns since advising’s been going really well this year,” Moore said. “Advising has seen improvements, and I think we should stick with it for a while.” Student Body Treasurer Ryan Schlitt said he felt aspects of the proposal would not benefit students as a whole. “I’d hate to see the hard work people put into making the (advising) system more people/student-oriented be replaced by an impersonal system tak ing place through the mail.” Assistant University Editor Alexandra Molaire contributed to this story. The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. secondary roads - it was hard to find many good reasons to drive. “I think people are realizing that they shouldn’t be on the roads if they don’t know how to drive in it,” said Penny Roark, a dispatcher in Watauga County, where snow fell at midday. The sheriffs office had responded to only two wrecks by noon Sunday. “It’s not been too bad. It’s Sunday, people are staying at home.” There was widespread ice accumula tion across central North Carolina from Anson and Richmond counties north through the Triad and along the Virginia border. Further south and east in the Triangle, a light glaze that had covered the region Sunday morning had melted and washed off after hours of steady rain. Officials warned that the melted ice was likely to freeze again Sunday night as temperatures dropped into the ’2os. Slick conditions were expected to plague rush-hour drivers Monday morn ing.
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