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4 Thursday, August 31, 2000 U.S. Gives $1.3 Billion in Aid to Colombia The Associated Press CARTAGENA, Colombia - In a country beset by decades of violence, President Clinton delivered a $1.3 bil lion U.S. package Wednesday that he said would help Colombia defeat its drug traffickers without getting the United States into a Vietnam-like quag mire. “We will not get into a shooting war,” with Colombian guerrillas, he said, standing alongside Colombian President Andres Pastrana, both in short sleeves in the sweltering heat of this Caribbean Dilbert© f™T NETWORK*] j 1 sunrvon THE • (WELL. THIS rs-A J ] VAST POWER OF i RRAS \ ING ' (m CERTIFIED?) 1 CERTIrICnTIONn Rekeiaber frokJ THE Daily Crossword By Diane C. 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Cali 962-3782 Sponsored by the Peer Ttitoring Program and UNC Learning Center port city. Pastrana stressed that Colombia has no intention of drawing the United States into its military conflict. “As long as Andres Pastrana is presi dent, we will not have a foreign military intervention in Colombia,” he said. There were reminders, during Clinton’s half-day visit to Cartagena, of the fear and violence that bleeds this Andean nation. Police said they discov ered and deactivated a 4.4-pound bomb found five blocks from a neighborhood Clinton planned to tour. 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In an unusual display of bipartisan support, Clinton was accompanied by House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-111., and 10 other members of Congress. Hastert was instrumental in pushing the aid package through Congress, despite misgivings by some who feared the United States would get drawn into the guerrilla conflict and help an army long criticized for human rights abuses. (C)2000 Tribune Media Services, Inc. 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Lunch & Late Night 11am-2pm or 11pm-2am Medium 1-Topping Pizza only $5.99 2+2+2 2 Medium, 2 Topping Pizzas, & 2 Liter $12.99 Large 1 Topping Pizza and a 2-Liter ONLY $9.99 We accept UNC OneCards, Mastercard A Visa UNC Campus/ East Chapel Hill North Chapel Hill Carrboro 967*0006 932*9500 929*0246 )Open Late Till 2:Goam News Clinton was also accompanied by Attorney Generaljanet Reno, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Barry McCaffrey, Clinton’s chief drug policy adviser - part of a delegation of 35. Daughter Chelsea also came along. “Why are we here today?” Hastert said. “Not only do we share a great her itage of democracy, but we also share a great burden” - the threat drugs pose both to countries that produce drugs and those that consume them. “In our nation, over 14,000 young people lose their life every year to either drug use or drug violence, and it hap pens in our wealthiest communities and the street comers of our most devastat ed inner cities,” Hastert said. The U.S. assistance is part of Pastrana’s $7.5 billion “Plan Colombia,” designed to end decades of civil war, fight drug trafficking, strengthen the judicial system and revive an economy in the doldrums. CP&L From Page 3 cem for Orange County, but something all employees of the plant and CP&L share. “Safety goes beyond the gate,” he said. “When we talk about safety, it affects me personally.” The informal setting was then opened up for public questioning, rang ing from concerns about higher power bills to inquiries regarding alternative power sources. Richard Hargrader of Durham, a board member of N.C. Solar Power Association, questioned the efficiency of nuclear power and raised environmen tal concerns. “Why aren’t you considering renew- MERGER From Page 3 ered,” Spalt said. If negotiations don’t go as planned, AOL-Time Warner could be facing some competition. “There is one other cable operator that has expressed interest in setting up in towns in the area,” Spalt said. “We are interested in that. We would welcome more competition in the town.” Rain Could Snuff Out Forest Fires The Associated Press RED LODGE, Mont. - A sprinkling of rain fell on some of Montana’s vast wildfires Wednesday, and firefighters hoped it signaled a change in the region’s hot, dry weather. Thirty major fires continued to burn on more than 650,000 acres in the state. A steady drizzle developed in late morning at Red Lodge, where a 2,500- acre fire four miles outside the town VEGGIE TALES . - J I DTH/JEFF POULAND Bhakta James serves a free vegetarian meal to junior Charles Wilson. The feast, hosted by the UNC Vegetarian Club, takes place from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. every Wednesday in the upper quad. able generation power sources?" he asked the panel. “Renewable generation takes away a lot of the risk - you’ve been talking a lot about risk.” Skip Orser, executive vice president of energy supply, replied that the com pany already worked to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from the various plants. “We want to be good stewards of the environment,” he said. Jim Donley of Raleigh said he sup ported nuclear power and appreciated the opportunity to hear about the plant’s expansion. “I think the most important thing we’re doing tonight is getting these issues in the open -and they’re difficult issues,” he said. “There are no easy solu tions.” The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu. Alderman Mark Dorosin said that more competition would allow for bet ter service and better pricing. If the revised resolution had not passed, some feared Carrboro would be neglected by the company. “They would have less incentive to deal with Carrboro on an active basis,” Spalt said. “So swallowing hard and voting for it was best.” The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu. kept some 50 families out of their homes. “A couple of days of this and we’d just about have her surrounded,” said Jeff Gildehaus, fire information officer. Light drizzle also helped firefighters attack anew fire north of Helena that forced five families out of their homes near Wolf Creek overnight. The evacu ation order was lifted Wednesday after noon, and managers said they expected to have the 450-acre fire contained later Judge Criticizes Ford, Plans to Order Recall The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO - A judge said he might order a recall of as many as 2 million Ford Motor Cos. vehicles over concerns that they are prone to stalling, and he accused the company of deceiv ing federal safety investigators and con sumers. Ford denied the allegations. The Alameda County Superior Court judge’s preliminary decision was issued late Tuesday in a lawsuit filed in 1996 on behalf of 3.5 million current and former California owners of Ford vehicles in model years 1983-95. They claim the vehicles stall because an ignition device was mounted in the wrong place. “I think it’s a huge victory. The judge studied this information for five years now,” plaintiff’s attorney Jeffrey Fazio said Wednesday. It’s anew blow for the automaker, which is involved in this month’s recall of 6.5 million Firestone tires, which were standard equipment on some Ford trucks and sports utility vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating 62 deaths that might be linked to the tires. Ford denies any ignition defects and said no injuries have resulted from the alleged faulty devices. Company spokeswoman Susan Krusel said the automaker would ask Judge Michael Ballachey to reverse his preliminary decision at a Sept. 28 hear ing in Oakland. No other judge has ever ordered a vehicle recall, but Ballachey has said that the law gives him the power to do just that. If the judge makes the order final, Ford believes it would be overturned on iatlg alar Her! POLICY From Page 3 residence halls, while upperclassmen are suspended from the university. Last year, 40 UD students were sus pended from residence halls and 23 from the university, Cummings said. “The program has worked very well for UD," she said. But UNC officials say it is unlikely the University will adopt a “three strikes" policy. Don Appairius, UNC assistant dean of students, said the University handles its drug and alcohol violations on a case-by-case basis - either through the Honor Court or the administration. “Student housing basically has a zero-tolerance policy for drugs,” Appairius said. “Students (found using drugs) will probably lose their lease.” But he said underage students caught with alcohol are sent to his office for assessment and are often required to go to alcohol classes. “It does no good to graduate students with knowledge in academic areas, and then on their 21st birthday, they wrap their car around a tree because we did n’t teach them about the effects of alco hol and how to drink responsibly.” The State & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. Wednesday. Rain also fell Wednesday on Wyoming’s largest fire, a 14,750-acre fire in the southwestern part of the state. The National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, said 30 large fires were burning in an area of 656,991 acres in Montana, while 85 major fires were burning on 1.64 million acres national ly. Wildfires have charred 6.3 million acres nationally this year, mosdy in the hot, dry West. appeal, Krusel said. The suit challenges Ford’s placement of the thick film ignition (TFI) module, which regulates electric current to the spark plugs. In 300 models sold between 1983 and 1995, the module was mounted on the distributor near the engine block, where it was exposed to high tempera tures. Plaintiff’s lawyers have said Ford was warned by an engineer that high tem peratures would cause the device to fail and stall the engine, confirmed the problem in internal studies, and could have moved the module to a cooler spot for an extra $4 per vehicle. Consumer advocates estimated that a recall would cost Ford S7O million to $250 million, The New York Times reported Wednesday. Ballachey’s preliminary order harsh ly criticized how Ford dealt with the fed eral safety agency and agreed with the plaintiffs that the company withheld information. “Ford’s strategy, clearly established by the credible evidence, was: “If you don’t ask the right question, we don’t have to answer with what common sense tells us you want to know,” Ballachey wrote. “Ford presented a blizzard of unper suasive statistical evidence in an attempt to disprove the obvious - that TFI mod ules failed in enormous numbers from the outset, that they continued to fail in unacceptable numbers for many years before being replaced by successor tech nology, and that they presented a seri ous safety risk to its consumers.” Ford denied it concealed critical information and said its vehicles were no more prone to stalling than any oth ers and posed no hazard.
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