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Sfjr oaily (Ear Uppl WORLD BRIEFS Hamas militants targeted in Israeli attack; 26 injured GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip , Israeli helicopters fired four mis siles at a car carrying Hamas mil itants Monday, killing at least one of them and wounding 26 people on a crowded Gaza City street in the sixth such attack in two weeks. Three men were in the car, wit nesses said, and at least one got away. Israel has been waging war on Hamas in retaliation for a deadly Suicide bombing that killed 21 people on a Jerusalem bus Aug. 19. With Monday’s attack, 14 Palestinians, including at least 10 Hamas members, have been killed in missile strikes. A cease-fire declared June 29 by Hamas and other militant groups collapsed shortly after the bus attack, when Israel killed a senior Hamas leader, Ismail Abu Shanab, in a helicopter missile strike. Hoping to arrange anew truce —and clear the way for progress on a U.S.-backed peace plan Egyptian leaders staged talks Sunday in Cairo between Hamas representative Osama Hamdan and Palestinian Authority legislator Ziad Abu Amr, a Palestinian official close to the talks said Monday. Widow: Weapons adviser felt betrayed by officials LONDON Weapons adviser David Kelly felt betrayed by his bosses at the Ministry of Defense after being caught up in a political storm regarding the British gov ernment's case for war in Iraq, his widow testified Monday. Janice Kelly said that in the days before his apparent suicide, he was distressed about being identified as t the possible source of a British Broadcasting Corp. report that claimed Prime Minister Tony Blairs office had exaggerated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s weapons to justify war. Kelly was unhappy about testi fying at a televised parliamentary hearing, she added. “I had never in all the Russian visits and all the difficulties he had to go through in Iraq, where he had lots of discomforts, lots of horrors, guns pointing at him, munitions left lying around, I had never known him to be as unhappy as he was then,” Janice Kelly told a judi cial inquiry examining the circum stances of her husbands death. North Korea rejects U.S. demands to scrap weapons MOSCOW Keeping up its bellicose rhetoric, North Korea on Monday dismissed U.S. demands that the communist nation scrap its nuclear program as “a game even kids won’t play.” North Korea took an angry, hard-line stance following last week’s landmark talks in Beijing with the United States, South Korea, Japan, China and Russia about its nuclear programs. “Despite our goodwill and gen erosity, the United States has shown no readiness to drop its hostile policy toward the DPRK during the latest talks and bla tantly put forward new gang-style demands,” the Foreign Ministry said Monday in a statement from its Moscow embassy, according to the Interfax news agency. Checkpoint ambushed by suspected Taliban fighters QALAT, Afghanistan Suspected Taliban fighters attacked an Afghan government checkpoint Monday and ambushed soldiers along the main road linking the south with the capital, killing at least eight sol diers and taking two prisoners, Afghan officials said. , The attacks came a day after two U.S. soldiers were killed in a 90-minute gun battle with insur gents in Paktika province, in the east near the border with Pakistan. Four suspected Taliban were killed in the fighting. CITY BRIEFS Student's laptop stolen from Granville Towers 1 A $3,500 IBM Think Pad T4O laptop was stolen from a student’s room in Granville Towers East at 1 a.m. Friday. CALENDAR Today 7 p.m. The Advocates for Sexual Assault Prevention will hold their first meeting of the year in Bingham 101. 7:30 p.m. The Carrboro Board of Aldermen will hold a public hearing concerning the greenways and sidewalks bond in the Carrboro Town Hall board room. Town Hall is located at 301 W. Main St. Student aid keeps pace with tuition State aid to UNC to top $3 million BY BROOK R. CORWIN UNIVERSITY EDITOR All is calm in the Office of Scholarships and Student Aid. It’s one week into the school year —and less than two months since the N.C. General Assembly passed its most recent tuition increase —but the office isn’t scrambling to patch together financial aid packages. “Right now, it’s remarkably quiet,” said Shirley Ort, director of scholarships and student aid. “One of the ways we know we’re doing a good job is if the phone doesn’t ring.” Despite a steady stream of tuition increases during each of the past five years, the office hasn’t fall en off its goal of meeting 100 per 5 ill 4, Mr jgggggjjjy ** /j? — .• * £** t jmy mm j JUm* 1 3T jf ■ W/m4 'W ifr 'iffiSSIIBMi TW j — /i M < I Sft Sl , SHMPffn’' fk ,W£. j - H DTH/JOANIE TOBIN Dalton Zachary of Zack's Fresh Produce sorts through a pile of sweet potatoes Saturday morning at the Carrboro Farmers' Market. Zachary has been coming to and shopping at the Farmers' Market for 14 years. Local farmers’ market fights fickle weather BY EMILY VASQUEZ STAFF WRITER Plump red tomatoes, colorful sprays of freshly cut flowers and scores of peppers adorned vendors’ tables Saturday at Carrboro’s Farmers' Market. The market appeared to be thriv ing, but many local farmers still struggle to overcome two years of extreme weather. One year ago, North Carolina was experiencing a record drought. Last October, the rains suddenly returned, and they haven’t stopped. Orange County’s rainfall during Jewish South shines in film BY PHILIP MCFEE ASSISTANT ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Several years ago, BriEin Bain hit the Southern roads in an ancient Cadillac to sell hats and ties, like his grandfather. Thousands of miles later, he had a story: “Shalom Y’all,” a documen tary telling the story of the Jewish experience in the South. Dozens of film festivals later, Bain now can boast of a sensation. But boasting wouldn’t be up Bain’s alley. His odyssey wasn’t meant to be a sweeping piece of self-promotion. Top News cent of financial need. With more support coming from the state, private donations and the University itself, the office’s efforts to supply funds for students who qualify for aid actually have improved. Last year, 65 percent of aid to students who applied on time came in the form of scholarships and grants. That figure is a sub stantial increase from the 1996-97 school year, when only half of all aid came in the form of scholar ships and grants, with the rest coming from loans. For almost every tuition increase passed during the last sev eral years, either by the UNC Board of Trustees or by the General Assembly, enough money WEATHER WOES the past 12 months stands at 39 percent above average, according to Ryan Boyles of the N.C. State Climate Office. “Weather affects farmers more than anyone else in the population," said Ken Dawson, president of the Carrboro Farmers’ Market Association and owner of Maple Spring Gardens in Hillsborough. “The last two years have been dev astating for some." The heavy rainfall has impacted both crop yield and quality espe cially vegetables and fruits that flourish in the sunshine. “The IF YOU GO Date: Thursday, Sept. 4 Time: 8 p.m. until 9.30 p.m. Location: 116 Murphey Hall “I approached it initially as an outsider, almost as a cultural anthropologist," Bain said of his modest beginnings. As time passed, however, Bain found himself integrated in the story. “It became a very personal story in the end. Ultimately I became very engrossed,” he said. “That’s TUITION: RISING WITH THE YEARS March 2002 ** Students at UNC-Chapel HHI have seen their tuition WHs rise BOG reduces increase to S3OO but General Assembly past five years, thanks to increases from the UNC-CH Board of hikes tuition 8 percent for in-state passes 5 percent Trustees, the N.C. General Assembly and the UNC-system students, 12 percent out-of-state. tuition increase. Board of Governors. • I— ... January 1999 August 2001 January 2002 January I BOT raises tuition Genera! Assembly BOT approves BOG freezes all I S6OO for two years. passes a 9 percent 1-year S4OO campus-based I retroactive increase. increase. tuition increases I 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 SOURCE: DTH ARCHIVES has been set aside to meet the increased need for financial aid. Much of that support has come from the Need-Based Grant Program, a state-funded initiative whose funding has increased to S3O million since its 1999 inception. The program’s funds, which are distributed to students across the amount of rain and (its) frequency has made it difficult to work the soil," Dawson said. “It has been dif ficult to keep up with planting schedules.” Once seeds are planted, frequent rainfall can wash them away or cause rotting. Alex Hitt, owner of Peregrine Farm in Graham, said his bottom field flooded twice this spring. Leah Cook, owner of Wild Hare Farm in Cedar Grove, said she faced similar delays. “The season SEE MARKET, PAGE 5 why people are responding to it. They see that evolution.” Bain’s work will be playing on UNC’s campus this week, giving students an opportunity to see an engaging film on a subject not often documented. As Bain said, “Outside the South, the notion of Southern Judaism is very exotic." The event is co-sponsored by the UNC Center for the Study of the American South, the curriculum in American studies, N.C. Hillel and SEE SHALOM Y’ALL, PAGE 5 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2003 16-campus UNC-system, provided about $2.5 million to UNC-Chapel Hill last fall, a figure expected to increase by as much as one-third this year. “It’s an encouraging story,” said Steve Brooks, executive director of the N.C. State Education Assistance Authority. “All you hear is tuition, Rise in GDP could signal recession s end BY ELLIOTT DUBE ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR A recent 3.1 percent increase in the country’s gross domestic product the clearest indicator of economic strength suggests that the United States is leaving the doldrums of its most recent recession. After coasting through a decade of economic pros perity, the nation has had more difficulty staving afloat since early 2001. But it appears that the federal gov ernment’s various efforts to repair the damage have paid off. The government can control the economy using two tools: monetary policy and fiscal policy. The Federal Reserve Board deals with the former by decreasing or increasing interest rates. During the recent recession, the Fed ran an accom modating economic policy by cutting interest rates, said Randell Moore, editor of the Blue Chip Economic Indicators newsletter. The move had an immediate impact on the economy. But the results of changes in fiscal policy have taken longer to appear. Two major tax cuts —one passed in 2001 and another passed earlier this year eventually SEE ECONOMY, PAGE 5 Carrboro officials consider sister-city program in Mexico Hundreds likely traveled from Juventino Rosas BY KATHRYN GRIM CITY EDITOR Lupe had not seen her husband for three years when, in 1996, she boarded a sweltering bus with her cousin and son to begin the long trek from Mexico to Carrboro. She was 27- Her husband had taken the course of many men in Juventino Rosas, a city in Guanajuato state, when he left for the United States to earn money INSIDE Alderman energized by six weeks in Mexico PAGE 6 eign country than grow up without knowing their father. Now Lupe, who asked to be referred to only by her first name, only has to walk down the street to see cousins, uncles and friends she met in her hometown. Locals estimate that between 800 and 1,000 Mexicans, many undocumented, have made the move from Guanajuato to Carrboro, said Carrboro Alderman John Herrera, who toured Mexico for six weeks this summer on an Eisenhower Fellowship. Since his return, Herrera has begun work to set up a sister-city relationship between Carrboro and Juventino Rosas and to create a similar relationship between the states of Guanajuato and North Carolina. Several nonprofit organizations in Guanajuato have expressed interest in the agreement and plan to visit Carrboro for further discussion during the second week of November, Herrera said. Setting up a sister-city relationship would facilitate collaboration and communication between the two hometowns of many Carrboro residents, Herrera said. Poor Mexican residents, who almost always are denied visas, would have the backing of a U.S. town to visit to SEE JUVENTINO, PAGE 6 PHOTO COURTESY OF'SHAIOM Y'ALL" Brian Bain converses with his 99-year-old grandfather, whose route he retraced in the making of the documentary "Shalom Y’all." DTH/LINDSAY BETH ELLISON tuition, tuition. I’m always fearful that scares people off.” With money set aside for finan cial aid from each campus-initiated increase, Ort said, her office is able to hold emergency funds each year for special circumstances such as SEE TUITION, PAGE 6 to support his family. Like many men from Juventino Rosas, Lupe's husband planned to work in Carrboro for a couple of months and then return to his family. But months turned to years, and Lupe said she decided she would rather have her children live in a for- 3
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