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Friday, February 4, 2000
Land Dispute Disrupts
Arab-Israeli Peace Talks
Associated Press
EREZ CROSSIN, Gaza Strip - Less
than a month after one much-touted
Israeli-Arab peace initiative crumbled,
another dissolved Thursday into mutual
recriminations -and the comprehen
sive Mideast peace Prime Minister Ehud
Barak promised by year’s end seems
further away than ever.
Palestinians said peace talks were in
“crisis” after Barak refused to budge on
terms for an interim territory withdrawal
during a tense two-hour summit with
Yasser Arafat at this Israeli military out
post on the Israel-Gaza border. It was the
second peace blow for Barak in three
weeks - talks with Syria went into deep
freeze in mid-January -and he scrambled
to deflect Palestinian talk of a dead end.
“I am convinced that this barrier will
be overcome,” Barak told senior offi
cials of his Labor Party'. “ There is a deep
interest by both sides.”
The Palestinians want the pullout
from 6.1 percent of the West Bank out
lined in an interim agreement signed in
September to include populous Arab
suburbs of Jerusalem. The Israelis
refuse, at least for now.
“Once the confidence and credibility
and integrity of the peace process
become absent, the element of trust dis-
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appears and both sides find themselves
in a crisis situation, and that’s where we
are now,” lead Palestinian negotiator
Saeb Erekat said in an interview.
Israel says it alone determines what
land goes back in the withdrawals,
although it will take Palestinian consid
erations into account
Barak is concerned the Palestinians
will use total control of the suburbs, cur
rently under joint control, as the first
stake in a claim to Jerusalem, the city
both sides claim as their capital.
Erekat said Arafat suggested using
U.S. Mideast peace envoy Dennis Ross,
who is in the region, as an arbitrator.
“We hope that through the good
offices of the American administration
... we can restore the confidence and
credibility,” he said.
Barak’s Foreign Minister David Levy
rejected that idea, accusing the
Palestinians of engineering the dispute
in order to invite U.S. intervention.
“No outside force can do the work
instead of us,” Levy said, pledging the
pullout would go ahead next week as
planned. “No one can do this instead of
the sides.”
Both the Israelis and Palestinians see
President Clinton as eager for a legacy
as his presidency winds down, and like
ly to press Israel into concessions.
get but had been dwindling in the past
years. “In the past two or three years the
number of funds we have received has
gone down.”
Jones said an increase would benefit
all students on campus.
Hip-Hop Nation President Briana
Parkins said the group did not get sig
nificant funding from Congress last year
but that student fees had paid for their
studio the previous year. “ They’ve been
very reasonable with us.”
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Investigators Locate 2nd Tape of Crash
Navy crews say a second
"black box" recorder might
provide clues in the crash
of Alaskan Air Flight 261.
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - Investigators
found the second “black box” recorder
from Alaska Airlines Flight 261 on
Thursday, quickly locating the devices
that could tell them why the plane
flipped upside down and plummeted
into the ocean.
Navy crews off Southern California
recovered Flight 261’s cockpit flight data
recorder. It should show the positions of
the plane’s controls and whether a prob
lem with the horizontal stabilizer was
merely a symptom of a larger failure
that led to Monday’s crash and the
deaths of all 88 aboard.
“That will tell the tale,” said William
Waldock, associate director for the
Center for Aerospace Safety Education
at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University.
The MD-83 jetliner’s other “black
box” was recovered Wednesday. It
records cockpit communications and
showed the crew had problems with the
horizontal stabilizer, a device on the tail
of the plane which keeps the aircraft
level.
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It captured the voices of the pilots try
ing to gain control of the jediner as it
rolled, flipped and spiraled nose-first
into the water, confirming what wit
nesses saw.
“The crew made references to being
inverted,” National Transportation
Safety Board Chairmanjames Hall said
in Washington, referring to the contents
of the recorder.
The Navy used an underwater robot
to locate the boxes about 200 feet apart
and roughly 640 feet beneath the sur
face of the Pacific.
The remotely operated submersible
Scorpio 1 found the boxes in the debris
zone, about 10 miles off die Ventura
County coast within 20 hours of each
other - the cockpit voice recorder on
Wednesday around 5 p.m. and the data
recorder around noon Thursday.
From the beginning the investigation
has focused on the horizontal stabilizer
because the pilots had reported prob
lems with it.
Jammed or out-of-control horizontal
stabilizers have led to at least a half
dozen emergency landings but never a
crash of a commercial airplane, federal
records show.
A review of problems involving the
device over the last 20 years show jam
ming is rare but has never driven a
plane totally out of control.
An Associated Press examination of
aviation records found that at least 20
gram and head of EmPOWERmenl, an
area group that helps to provide afford
able housing, said federal funding for
nonprofit builders had been cut by more
than 70 percent since the 1980s.
“At least, if we allocate 1 cent to hous
ing, there will be a guaranteed base of
funds,” Presler said.
But Robert Dowling, Orange County
Community Housing executive director,
said that even if the program generated
the estimated $650,000, it would not
buy much land. “(Private builders) are in
the business of making money, and we
aren’t, and that is why we need the
in-flight problems with stabilizers were
serious enough to be reported to the
Federal Aviation Administration or the
NTSB since 1979.
In two-thirds of those cases, the
flights reached their intended destina
tion. Others made emergency landings,
including an American Airlines MD-83,
which returned to Phoenix minutes after
taking off Tuesday.
More than a half dozen involved jets
were made by McDonnell Douglas,
which also built the MD-83 that crashed
off Southern California. Five of those
cases involved planes with stabilizers
mounted high on the tail, like the MD
-83.
Trouble similar to what Flight 261
pilots reported never before led to a
crash in the United States, according to
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“I love Chapel Hill,” he said. “It’s a
neat community and a fun place to be.
1 enjoy the people and the space.”
Resnick studied in Israel during his
freshman year and found that Chapel
Hill was a great place to come back to.
“It’s a great launching ground,” he
said.
Jennifer Buschbaum, who works at
the West End Wine Bar, said that not
money,” he said.
Dowling said private builders did not
build inexpensive housing. Because
University and hospital employees often
have low salaries, many cannot afford to
live in the area, he said. Dowling also
said it was important for residents to
afford to live where they work.
“People need to be invested in this
community,” he said. “If they don’t live
here and if their kids don’t go to these
schools, they aren’t invested.”
The first formal proposal was sent to
the Orange County Board of
Commissioners in November after gain-
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experts and aviation reports.
The stabilizer, a wing at the tail end
of an aircraft, is designed to adjust - or
trim - the up-or-down angle of an air
craft’s nose. The device’s movement,
controlled by two motors, is restricted so
that the plane does not react violently.
“It’s like the small corrections you
make in the steering wheel going down
the freeway. Unless you’re really hand
fisted, people don’t feel all those small
corrections," said Capt. Steve Roach, a
pilot union official who flew MD-83s for
three years.
If the horizontal stabilizer starts mov
ing on its own - something called run
away trim - pilots can usually stop it by
pulling circuit breakers and using other
controls. In most cases, it will stop
before reaching an extreme angle.
only does Resnick love the Chapel Hill
community and desire to support it,
but that the community stood behind
him and supported him, as well.
“He’s a man around town,”
Buschbaum said. “A lot of people have
supported him as he opened up the
bar and the restaurant. He tries to give
back because he understands how
important the people of the communi
ty are.”
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ing approval from the state.
The board is expected to vote on the
tax increase at the end of the budget
process in May. A county budget must
be in place byjune 1.
Chapel Hill Town Council member
Flicka Bateman said she would not mind
the sacrifice for the betterment of the
community. “I don’t want taxes to go
up,” she said. “But 1 don’t want to be
surrounded by people in one income
bracket.”
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UNC football coach Carl Torbush
said the bill, if passed, would be a wel
come change. But he also recognized
that it would make some fans unhappy.
“I think it’s really sad that if a football
team wins by six or seven points,
instead of celebrating, there’s someone
complaining in the stands about how
they didn’t beat the spread.”
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