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Tuesday, February 15, 2000
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News
New Visa System Gives
Cubans Access to U.S.
HAVANA - Hundreds of Cubans
lined up outside the U.S. mission in
Havana on Monday to apply for visas
under anew system that promises to
eliminate months of waiting for some
Cubans.
The new system took effect Monday.
About 700 Cubans -most of whom
meet visa requirements because they
want to visit relatives or take part in cul
tural or academic events - appeared at
the U.S. Interests Section to drop off
their passports and pick up application
forms.
“It’s been 40 years since I’ve seen my
brothers and sisters,” said Alejandro
Martinez, a 50-year-old carpenter stand
ing in the line.
As he spoke, he pulled out a photo
graph of a man in a hospital bed who
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Several 1996 U.S. Olympic Players To Be Featured
A Vjjy ■v The Olympic sport of Team Handball returns to Chapel Hill this weekend (Feb. 19-20). Team Handball, the second most
W popular sport in the world continues to progress in North Carolina when the Carolina Team Handball Club (CTHC) hosts
MW 1 Employee Volleyball: every Tuesday, the Tenth Annual Carolina Blue Cup Team Handball Tournament. Saturday play from 9am-Bpm with Medal Round play on
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- Witl field tW ° stron9 teams in this yeads competition - the CTHC and Carolina Blue (UNCs alumni team).
BP Dlav ITldmilllnw Fi-iHaw The 1999 season was one of the most successful in the history of the Carolina program. Currently, two Carolina teams are
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ranked Bth in the nation. The Carolina alumni team is currently ranked 10th.
5:30-9PM, Fetzer Gym B. Cell I 962"1153 Since its inception in January, 1989, the CTHC has made significant advances. Carolina has qualified a team for the
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was clearly ill.
He said the man was his recently
deceased brother.
Okla. City Conspirator
Pleads Double Jeopardy
OKLAHOMA CITY - Bombing
conspirator Terry Nichols asked a judge
Monday to dismiss state murder charges
against him, claiming they violate the
double jeopardy guarantee against
being tried twice for the same crime.
Attorneys for Nichols, who faces 160
counts of first-degree murder, argued in
a court motion that it is unconstitutional
to try him in Oklahoma because he has
already been convicted in federal court
for his role in the 1995 Oklahoma City
bombing.
At a federal trial in Denver, Nichols
was found guilty of eight counts of invol
untary manslaughter and one count of
conspiracy to use a weapon of mass
destruction. He was sentenced to life in
prison. Nichols, 44, was also found inno
cent of eight murder counts.
A co-conspirator, Timothy McVeigh,
was convicted of murder and sentenced
to death.
Oklahoma County District Attorney
Bob Macy is ■Seeking the death penalty
against Nichols, and Nichols argues that
the double jeopardy clause bars the state
from seeking die death penalty.
Rare Copernicus Texts
Stolen Around World
MOSCOW - Copies of one of the
world’s rarest and most valuable books
have been disappearing -a rash of mys
terious thefts that have perplexed police
from the former Soviet Union to the
United States.
The first-edition copies of 16th cen
tury astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus’
renowned treatise in Latin, “De revolu
tionibus orbium coelestium” (“On the
Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres”)
have vanished from collections across
the globe.
In Poland, a reader said he had to use
the bathroom -and made off with the
treasured volume. A thief in Kiev,
Ukraine, pilfered the book using a fake
police ID.
U.S. Delegates Discuss
Rise in Drug Production
BOGOTA, Colombia - As new fig
ures showed a 20 percent rise in
Colombian cocaine production, a high
level U.S. delegation met Monday with
leaders of this turbulent nation to discuss
a drug-fighting aid package.
The visit was led by Thomas
Pickering, the State Department’s third
ranking official.
It came as the U.S. Congress was
opening debate on the proposed two
year, $1.6 billion aid package that would
dramatically escalate the war on drugs
in Colombia.
Primarily a military aid plan, the
package includes 63 helicopters and the
training and equipping of two new army
counter-drug battalions.
—Associated Press
News
Dancing the Day Away
For a Good Cause
Dance Marathon organizers
and participants visited sick
children who will benefit
from the money they raise.
By Megan Butler
Staff Writer
Sometimes the rest of the world
seems a little uncaring toward families
who are caring for children with dis
eases such as cystic fibrosis, multiple
sclerosis, cerebral palsy or cancer.
But UNC students are reaching out
to those families through the second
annual Dance Marathon, which is
scheduled for Feb. 25-26.
After raising $40,000 last year for
the UNC Children’s Hospital, the
Dance Marathon is returning this year
with more student participants and
greater community support.
Organizers and dancers spent
Sunday afternoon with the children
and families the marathon will benefit.
Rosetta Morphis’ 8-year-old daugh
ter Amanda suffers from cystic fibrosis,
a disease with no cure. Typically it
leaves its victims with a life-span of 20
to 25 years, said Kelley Vance, chair
woman of the hospital committee.
Morphis said the best thing about
the marathon was not the money
raised, but the care that students
showed in their commitment to the
cause. But Morphis’ biggest disappoint
ment is a lack of parental support
“I wish that more parents would
make a special effort to support what
(UNC students) are doing,” Morphis
said. “Parents should flock to see what
these students are doing.”
Theresa Samulski is the mother of
12-year-old Regina, who also has cys
tic fibrosis.
“In the paper, all you hear are nega
tive things about high school and col
lege students,” Samulski said.
“It makes the world seem like a dark
place. It’s wonderful to see so many
students that care," she said. “You often
feel alone - like no one cares.”
But after seeing (he student partici
pation at the marathon last year,
Samulski said she was overwhelmed
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Children from UNC Children's Hospital and UNC students keep a huge
ball afloat during a social to kick off the upcoming Dance Marathon.
by the compassion of those who orga
nized and danced.
“It’s a very- good feeling how they
welcome my children,” Samulski said.
Along with the students, the chil
dren who are healthy enough can par-
ticipate in the
marathon. But it
also gives the sib
lings of these chil
dren a chance to
do something to
help, too.
Samulski said
the healthy child
in a family often
felt left out
because of the
“A lot of people don’t really
understand why we dance. ...
The 24 hours is a commitment
for the kids. ”
Mike Bucy
Dance Marathon Coordinator
attention placed on the chronically ill
child. She said her son David, 8,
enjoyed participating in the marathon.
“He’s healthy, and he feels like (the
students) include him fully,” she said.
“David loves to dance. But other
boys sometimes tell him boys are not
supposed to dance. So he was thrilled
to see so many college boys dancing
there,” she said.
The marathon was the brainchild of
junior Mike Bucy, who coordinated
the Dance Marathon. “A lot of people
don’t really understand why we
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dance,” Bucy said. “The key behind-il
is we need to show them emotionally
we can make a sacrifice. The 24 liour
is a commitment for the kids.”
The objective is to provide the fam:
lies with hope and the knowledge that
students care,
Bucy said. “And
it’s not the easies
thing to do in the
world,” he said.
“But on the 22m
hour, the familie:
come up and
thank everyone *
But this year
there is more of;
push to draw
spectators to support the effort, said
Phifer Crute, liaison between the
Dance Marathon and the hospital.
“Last year we saw how much i( helper
the dancers when people showed up t
cheer them on,” she said.
Bucy said he was sure anyone who
stopped by to watch would he sold on
the cause and efforts of the students.
Bucy said, “If you just stop by you’]
see.”
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