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PROM THE
CAMPAIGN TRAIL
N.C. lawmakers
call for a debate
RALEIGH (AP) - North
Carolina's top two lawmakers
added their voices Wednesday
to the calls for Barack Obama to
debate Hillary Clinton later this
month in Raleigh.
House Speaker Joe Hacknev
and Senate leader Marc Basnight
wrote Obama on Wednesday, a
day after Gov. Mike Easley also
urged the Illinois senator to agree
to the proposed debate.
Clinton has accepted an invi
tation from the state Democratic
Party to participate in an April
27 debate, to air on CBS.
Clinton says GOP
will lose in the fall
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -
Hillary Clinton said emphatical
ly Wednesday night that Barack
Obama can win the White House
this fall, undercutting her efforts
to deny him the Democratic
presidential nomination by sug
gesting he would lead the party
to defeat.
“Yes. yes, yes," she said when
pressed about Obama's elect
ability during a Pennsylvania
debate.
Asked a similar question about
Clinton. Obama said, "Absolutely
and I’ve said so before."
JONES
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from a desire to help those who
don’t have a political voice.
“Sometimes vour lifestyle can't
allow you to be politically active,"
she said.
For Jones, being active in the
community sometimes requires
alternative tactics, such as sending
her husband to county commis
sioner meetings when she can't
make them.
“I gave him a list of what to ask."
she said and laughed.
She said the effects of develop
ment present specific issues that
must be dealt with by all resi
dents, not just those in govern
ment.
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Texas Mormons and lawyers descend
on courtroom, create epic spectacle
AN ANGELO. Texas (AP) - A
court hearing to decide the fate of
the 416 children swept up in a raid
on a West Texas polygamist sect
descended into farce Thursday,
with hundreds of lawyers in two
packed buildings shouting objec
tions and the judge struggling to
maintain order.
The case clearly one of the
biggest, most convoluted child
custody hearings in U.S. history
presented an extraordinary
spectacle: big-city lawyers in suits
and mothers in 19th-century , pio
neer-style dresses, all packed into
a courtroom and a nearby audito-
16 die in Taliban
suicide bombing
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP)
A suicide attack in front
of a mosque in southwestern
Afghanistan killed 16 people
and wounded more than 30
others on Thursday, a provincial
governor said.
The attack took place as
men were getting ready for the
evening prayer at the central
mosque in Zaranj. the capital of
Nimroz province, Gov. Ghulam
Dastagir Azad said. Azad said
there might have been more
than one bomber.
Suicide attacks in Afghanistan
spiked last year, with the Taliban
launching more than 140.
“The more I got
involved, the more
I began to see
things. I saw the
issues get bigger
NELOA' JONES, COMMISSIONER HOPEFUL
Jones said that the campaign is
just a part of her advocacy and that
she's here to stay.
“I can’t imagine being any
where else, landfill or no," she
said. “I've come home now. Where
else would I live?"
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rium connected by video.
At issue was an attempt by the
state of Texas to strip the parents
of custody and place the children
in foster homes. As many feared,
the proceedings turned into some
thing of a circus —and a painfully
slow one.
By midaftemoon only two wit
nesses had testified. One witness,
a state trooper, was cross-exam
ined by dozens of attorneys, each
of them asking the same question
on behalf of a child or parent.
As the afternoon dragged on,
no decisions had been made on
the fate of any of the youngsters.
Carter continues
Hamas outreach
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) Jimmy
Carter held another meeting
with officials from the Islamic
militant group Hamas on
Thursday, arguing it is necessary
to talk to all parties to achieve
peace between the Palestinians
and Israel.
The former U.S. president
said he urged Hamas leaders
from the Gaza Strip to stop
militants from firing rockets
into southern Israel. The Cairo
meeting came a day after Carter
talked with Hamas officials in
the West Bank, further anger
ing Israelis when he embraced
one of them.
PELISSIER
FROM PAGE 3
When explaining how she would
implement sustainability, she gave
the example of a three-legged stool
with legs of energy , environment
and ecology .
“You can't work on the three legs
separately." she said.
Pelissier intends to achieve this
through the board of county com
missioners by creating a sustain
ability coordinator position. The
coordinator would act as a liaison
between different planning com
missions.
“You can better meet the needs
of one group when you meet the
needs of another group as well,"
she said.
SIT-IN
FROM PAGE 3
embrace the DSP.
Following a 1999 sit-in for work
ers’ rights, UNC created anti-sweat
shop policies, but Mirza said these
codes haven’t been enforced.
In 2005 an international nonprof
it created the DSP to enforce those
labor codes of conduct, Mirza said.
Since then, more than 40 other uni
versities have accepted the policy.
But in an August 2007 letter,
Moeser wrote that too many ques
tions remained about the program's
effectiveness to adopt it
Student Action with Workers set
an April 16 deadline for UNC to sign
on with DSP or face more protests.
Members of SAW met Wednesday
afternoon with Moeser, a conversa
tion he said went “very' well."
Some student activists said they
disagreed.
“We re tired of empty conver
sations that yield little more than
promises of more conversations,"
said sophomore Haley Koch, a sit
in participant.
Similar protests this week at
Appalachian State University,
Pennsylvania State University and
the University of Montana resulted
in the arrest of a total of 46 stu
dents.
Despite his continued refusal of
the program. Moeser said Thursday
that he supported the students'
right to protest.
“Those students are probably not
going to be arrested.” Moeser said.
“We respect that culture. It’s part of
our tradition of free speech."
University Editor Whitney
Kisling contributed reporting.
Contact the University Editor
at iidesk@ unc.edu.
“People just want
crime taken care of.
We should take a
step back and ask
what causes crime.''
BERNADETTE PELISSIER, hopeful
But Pelissier said that local gov
ernment can only do so much in
finding solutions and that the gov
ernment must help the people do
things for themselves.
“In the end it really will take
all of us."
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at citydesk@unc.edu.
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Sophomore Brigitte Acosta laughs in response to the
Female Orgasm full-house event given by Marshall
Miller and Dorian Solot on Thursday. “It was witty' and
insightful everyone should go to one of these," Acosta said.
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