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Wednesday, October 24, 2001
Local Officials Claim
Layoffs Unnecessary
By Jamie McGee
Staff Writer
Chapel Hill and Canboro officials
say they do not foresee local govern
ment layoffs, despite an economic
decline that has hit home for some N.C.
businesses.
State officials recendy announced
that the state’s economy is expected to
grow more slowly this year than previ
ously expected.
But Carrboro Town Manager Bob
Morgan said careful budgeting will pre
vent the slowing economy from affect
ing town employees.
So far, Midway, U.S. Airways and
some furniture plants have reported job
cuts or are planning them.
But Morgan said statewide layoffs
will not affect how business is conduct
ed in Carrboro.
“We budgeted conservatively on rev
enues in anticipation there would be a
slow down in state economy, and we
haven’t had to face shortages,” Morgan
said. “If we lay off, we’d have to reduce
services.”
Local news agencies have reported
that U.S. Airways in Charlotte plans to
cut 1,700 jobs, while the Raleigh-
Durham based Midway Airlines, which
filed for bankruptcy after the attacks,
already has laid off 700 employees.
Another 1,000 employees at furni
ture plants in Hickory also have lost
their jobs.
Biff Stockard, Chapel Hill assistant
town manager, said that even though
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the economy has suffered, there is no
need to reduce town employees.
“The town, and government in gen
eral, still needs to provide services to the
public," Stockard said.
“This involves keeping the staff avail
able to do that.”
Stockard said it is still important to
consider the economic slowdown when
assessing the budget, even though lay
offs are not now a problem for Chapel
Hill.
“Economic recessions are always a
reality that might affect budgets,”
Stockard said. “The town tries to plan
accordingly. It is important to retain
employees, council and staff and try to
address employee turnover issues.”
Morgan said Carrboro eventually
will have to face the slowing economy
and will need to take action to avoid set
backs. “In the next years, the budget will
be influenced by the state economy, and
we will take a look at local economy
when making the budget,” Morgan said.
“(We need to) be conservative about
requesting any personnel needs.
“There will be very little expansion in
next year’s budget.”
Mayor Mike Nelson said economic
downturns tend to increase the need for
government services, making layoffs
unnecessary. “We haven’t had to lay off
anyone,” Nelson said.
“The economy affects businesses and
government differently.”
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Taliban May Be Hiding in Towns
Airstrikes in Afghanistan
continued, with Air Force
F-16G fighters being used
in attacks for the first time.
The Associated Press
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Afghanistan may be hiding in residential
areas, aware of the U.S. military’s hesi
tancy to bomb where civilians might be
hit, a senior military officer said Tuesday.
Rear Adm. John Stufflebeem, deputy
director of operations for the Joint
Chiefs of Staff,
said he has seen
anecdotal evi
dence of such a
Taliban tactic,
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which he attributed to their realization
that troops in the field or at military
installations are vulnerable to punishing
attacks by American warplanes.
U.S. airstrikes continued Tuesday
with about the intensity of the previous
day, in which about 60 carrier-based
strike aircraft, 10 long-range bombers
and 10 land-based strike aircraft hit 11
planned target areas, officials said.
Air Force F-16G fighters entered the
fray for the first time on Monday, a
UNC Study Explains Beer 'Skunkiness'
By Br.yd Chiasson
Staff Writer
Anew UNC chemistry study has the
potential to eliminate one of the annoy
ances of many college students’ lives -
foul-smelling, “skunky” beer.
Malcolm Forbes, a UNC chemistry
professor and one of the experiment’s
conductors, said the study revealed that
the biggest factor contributing to some
foul-smelling beers is sunlight.
Forbes said sunlight provides energy
for a chemical reaction to occur within
the beer. “We’ve figured out what’s
going on and what causes skunky beer,”
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senior defense official said, speaking on
condition of anonymity. A pair of F
-16Gs, equipped with advanced naviga
tion and targeting systems that enable
precision strikes at night, flew missions
from bases in the Persian Gulf.
Stufflebeem said U.S. airstrikes have
hit every known training camp of the al-
Qaida terrorist ring that is the ultimate
target of allied military, financial and
diplomatic pressure and that bombing
has eliminated most of the ruling
Taliban regime’s air defenses and com
munications. Asa result, he said, the
Taliban and al-Qaida are dispersing
what’s left of their forces “to save them."
He said he did not know how many al-
Qaida training camps had been hit, but
British officials said Tuesday that nine
had been destroyed. “There aren’t going
to be any camps that we’re going to allow
them to use, and when we find them,
we’ll strike them," Stufflebeem said.
Stufflebeem also cast doubt on the pos
sibility of ending the air campaign before
winter. “We don’t think that’s realistic."
U.S. officials have said repeatedly
through 17 days of bombing in
Afghanistan that care is taken to avoid
striking targets that might result in inad
vertent civilian casualties. But on Tuesday
the Pentagon acknowledged two instances
during the weekend in which errant
Forbes said sunlight causes a free rad
ical reaction in the beer, which involves
breaking hop compounds in the beer.
The broken bonds each contain elec
trons that create the free radicals.
Sulfur then traps the free radicals and
creates the main culprit in creating rot
ten beer - thiol. Thiol produces a scent
that most human beings identify as being
“skunky,” Forbes said, and most can’t
tolerate this odor even in small amounts.
Forbes said most beer is produced in
brown or green bottles because they
help shield sunlight He said dark bottles
prevent skunkiness more effectively.
“Brown and green glass prevent it to
a large degree,” said Forbes. “(But) I
bombs apparendy hit civilian areas.
On Sunday morning Afghanistan
time, a Navy F-14 Tomcat dropped two
500-pound bombs that mistakenly hit a
residential area northwest of Kabul, the
Afghan capital, Pentagon spokeswoman
Victoria Clarke told a news conference.
The intended targets were military vehi
cles parked about one-half mile away.
She said she did not know how many
people may have been hurt or killed.
In the second instance late Sunday
afternoon, a Navy F/A-18 Hornet dropped
a 1,000-pound bomb in an open field near
a senior citizens home outside the western
city of Herat, Clarke said. The intended
target was a vehicle storage building at an
army barracks approximately 300 feet
from the facility. Preliminary indications
are that the weapon’s guidance system
malfunctioned, she said.
Clarke said she was not certain
whether the second incident corre
sponded to one reported by the United
Nations, which said U.S. bombs hit a
military hospital near Herat. The
Taliban had said a strike Monday hit a
Herat hospital and killed at least 100
people. U.N. spokeswoman Stephanie
Bunker said it was not clear whether the
military hospital was in use and she had
no information on casualties.
“As we always say, we regret any loss of
think down the road you’ll see beer in
clear bottles."
Forbes predicted that there could be
a movement toward clear and plastic
bottles in the beer industry because of
the study’s findings.
He said modifying a beer’s ingredients
beforehand could help solve the prob
lem, something already being done by
manufacturers of Miller Genuine Draft.
“In Miller Genuine Draft, they chem
ically modify hop compounds,” Forbes
said. “They pre-extract flavor com
pounds and react them with hydrogen.”
Forbes said beer manufacturers can
then use clear and plastic bottles, which
are better because they are cheaper to
make and are easier to recycle.
Producers of Corona do not chemi
cally modify any of the hops used in
their beer, Forbes said. He said Corona’s
basic strategy is to keep the beer out of
the sunlight for as long as possible.
Forbes also said Corona specifically
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civilian life," she said. “U.S. forces are
intentionally striking only military and ter
rorist targets. We take great care in our tar
geting process to avoid civilian casualties.”
The Pentagon also disclosed new
details about a mishap during Saturday’s
commando raids into Afghanistan, in
which an airfield was seized and docu
ments taken from a Taliban compound
that included a residence of Taliban
leader Mullah Mohammed Omar.
An Army MH-47 special operations
helicopter struck an unknown barrier
while it was taking off from Afghanistan
after the raid, shearing off its front land
ing gear, Clarke said. It continued the
flight without incident and returned safe
ly to an undisclosed base. No one
aboard was injured, she said.
The chopper’s wheels were displayed
on television by the Taliban, which
claimed to have shot down an American
helicopter and foiled Saturday’s raid.
MH-47 helicopters are flown by the
Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation
Regiment, which specializes in low-level
night operations in support of Army
Rangers and Special Forces soldiers. The
Pentagon acknowledged that Rangers and
other special operations forces were
involved in Saturday’s raids, but it had not
specifically mentioned the 160th, whose
soldiers call themselves “night stalkers.”
marketed the use of limes to hide any
unpleasant odors. He said another strat
egy Corona uses to conceal the smell is
by using longer beer necks. “It’s a clev
erly marketed product,” Forbes said.
Forbes said representatives from
Labatt Brewing Company have contact
ed him about the study and have request
ed that similar experiments be performed
on then beer. But he said this might not
be possible because hop compound con
centrations are relatively low in beer.
Jon Connolly, the brewmaster at the
Carolina Brewery, said the results of the
experiment are good news to brewers
around the world.
“We make every effort to make sure
every part of the brewing process is
done correctly," Connolly said. “We’re
excited about anyone who can get
skunkiness out of beer.”
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