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with highs in the 80s.
Terrorism
Terrorist nuclear bomb
threats are a probability. But
will the bombs go off? An
expert on terrorism lectured
at UNC Monday night. The
story is on page 3.
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for oil vital
says Carter
WASHINGTON ( A P) President
Carter said Tuesday he favors
"government action, if necessary, to
require oil companies to explore for new
petroleum and gas with the money they
receive from decontrolled oil prices.
However, Carter did not specify what
action might be taken, or if he would
initiate it, in responding to a question at a
nationally broadcast news conference.
He also said proposals to bar the oil
companies from ownership of competing
energy sources, such as coal mines,
should be explored thoroughly. .
Carter said even if Congress enacts his
proposed oil profits tax, as he expects, the
oil companies would receive a net boost
in profits of $6 billion over the next three
years.
Meanwhile, fourteen senators,
including the chairman of the Senate
Energy committee, introduced legislation
Tuesday aimed at blocking President
Carter's plan to phase out federal price
controls on domestically produced oil.
"The president justifies this windfall by
saying it will encourage additional
production," Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D
Wash., said in a Senate speech. "That
sounds fine, but the facts do not square
with the rhetoric.
Carter has authority to phase out price
controls without congressional action. It
would take new legislation to block the
president's plan.
The president has said he will begin
phasing out controls on domestic oil
prices this June. All price controls will be
lifted by October 1981 under present law.
"The nation has a right to expect that
all this new income will be used for
exploration for new oil and gas," he said.
"I would favor any constraints placed
on the oil companies by Congress or by
administrative action" to see that the
companies devote their income to
increasing production, Carter said, but
gave no specifics.
He said despite the accident at the
Three Mile Island nuclear plant, the
nation cannot abandon nuclear power,
which supplies about 13 percent of
America's electricity. --
But Carter said the nation must move
more aggressively to expand use of its
abundant coal resources.
He said he was asking West Virginia
Gov. Jay Rockerfeller, head of the federal
Commission on Coal, to hold hearings in
a search for acceptable ways to substitute
coal for oil and natural gas.
Asked if he favored nationalizing or
splitting up the oil companies, Carter said
he opposes a government takeover of the
companies but that some explorations
should be done about proposals to
require divestiture, especially so-called
horizontal divestiture.
Horizontal divestiture would bar oil
companies from ownership of coal, solar,
nuclear and other competing energy
sources.
Carter acknowledged that inflation is
still a painful problem, but said, "I believe
we will see a turn downward, very
shortly."
He repeated that mandatory wage and
price controls or an economic recession
both are unacceptable.
Carter noted he has no legal power to
impose wage-price controls the way then
President Richard Nixon did in 1971 and
predicted Congress would be unable to
give him such authority if someone
proposed it. He said he would resist a
controls bill if one were introduced.
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Muscle-straining steps, grueling dances
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By NANCY BROOKS
Staff Writer
Tension ran high in Carmichael
Auditorium Monday night as the
lucky few awaited the final selection.
Participants and spectators alike at
final tryouts for the Carolina Varsity
Cheerleading Squad sat on the edge of
their seats as the 30 remaining
candidates lined up in threes to
perform their stunts.
"I feel like I have to go to the
bathroom constantly," one candidate
said as she awaited her turn before the
judges.
"Just think cool," said Mike
Guzman, another waiting applicant.
"That's what I keep saying to myself as
I go over my routines in my head."
Participants and a crowd of excited
well-wishers eased the tension by
chanting and clapping along with the
cheers. Yells of "All rightl" and "Go
Heels!" pierced the silent intervals.
As the pressure mounted before the
presentations, all the hours of practice
came in handy for the cheerleader
hopefuls. The tryout process began
Thursday and Friday for the original
69 applicants who signed up, senior
cheerleader Bob Fussell said. The
applicants were given the weekend to
practice alone before the first cut on
Sunday.
"I just stayed out on the balcony
with the stereo turned up and
practiced and practiced," applicant
Teri Mogan said.
For Guzman, practicing the stunts
and chants wasn't too bad.
"I think the dances were the hardest
for the guys," he "said. "Keeping
rhythm under pressure is really
difficult."
One thing everyone should keep in
mind during practice is the "Carolina
style," Fussell said. "What we're
looking for is a mixture of grace,
coordination, poise and good looks,"
he said.
The tryouts were judged by a panel
of four former cheerleaders, two
campus representatives, the
cheerleading adviser and Associate
Vice Chancellor for Student
Development William Strickland. Of
the 13 men and 17 women still in the
competition Sunday, only 16 were
selected to become members of next
year's varsity squad.
Persons chosen for the 1979-80
squad were Cheryl Malcolm, Jana
Mason, Stephanie Maynor, Marianne
Shoaf , Leslie Smith, Kim Cline, Tibby
Thomas and Lisa Yount. Also chosen
were Paul Nader, Tim Lucido, Ross
Loppage, Mike Guzman, Jeff Mott,
Alex Dunn, Terry Pittman and Terry
Lamb.
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Staff Writer
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The Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen
agreed Monday night to schedule a public
hearing on widening the often-conjested
15-501 bypass to four lanes, after ,
expressing their approval for the
widening.
A formal request to widen the bypass
will be made to the N.C. Department of
Transportation after the public hearing.
While most of the aldermen said they
supported the expansion of 15-501, Alderman Ed Vickery said,
"There are options to expanding the road. You can take cars off
the road by various devices."
Since most of the traffic on the bypass is University-related,
restricting student access to cars might solve some of the
problem, he said.
He suggested students not be allowed to bid for parking
permits for several years.
Mayor James Wallace said he did not concur with Vickery's
idea of limiting student use of cars.
"I don't think students should be selected as a class to make the
first sacrifice," he said.
Alderman R.D. Smith, who placed discussion of the bypass on
the agenda, said expansion of 15-501 will soon be necessary
because it appears that the Interstate 40 connector will be built.
This will increase the traffic flow on the bypass, he said.
Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County originally
challenged the DOTs plan to build the 1-40 link near Chapel Hill.
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near final agreement
But Chapel Hill withdrew from the lawsuit, which was aimed at
blocking the interstate connector, one day before the hearing of
the case.
On Feb. 28 Wake County Superior Court Judge Maurice
Braswell dismissed the suit. The Orange County Board of
Commissioners was scheduled to decide whether to appeal the
decision Tuesday night.
Smith also said the University's proposed construction of an
athletic complex on the controversial Baity property would
generate even more traffic.
Because of the existing heavy traffic on the bypass and the even
heavier traffic expected in the future, the board should request
the DOT include four laning the bypass in its highway
improvement plans, he said. .
Mayor Wallace agreed that expansion of 15-501 is necessary.
He said, "I don't think it's a question of whether or not it will be
done, but simply when."
Smith said the board has to take some action now so the DOT
will consider Chapel Hill's request this October.
"The idea is to get it (the bypass proposal) on their (DOTs) list
of things to look at," Wallace said.
"Whether it (15-501) will be able to carry the burden of traffic
that will be with us in 20 years is the real issue," Wallace said.
Wallace has repeatedly argued in the past for a southern
bypass of Chapel Hill that would extend to Chatham County,
and divert traffic, including the traffic from the proposed 1-40
link, away from the town and the 15-501 bypass.
In February the mayor said the town withdrew from the 1-40
case partly in the hope that the DOT might look favorably upon
the southern bypass proposal. At that time, the board formally
asked the DOT for the southern bypass.
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WASHINGTON (AP)-The
Teamsters union and the trucking
industry reportedly reached tentative
agreement on a money package Tuesday
and sought to resolve remaining
differences to end a 10-day nationwide
work stoppage.
A source close to the talks emphasized
final agreement on a new three-year wage
and fringe-benefit package depended on
resolution of several thorny non
economic issues.
Teamsters President Frank
Fitzsimmons expressed optimism
Tuesday his giant union and the industry
would move swiftly to wrap up a final
agreement and end the longest trucking'
shutdown in U.S. history.
"We made some progress (on Monday)
and we hope to complete it today,"
Fitzsimmons said before resuming
negotiations with bargainers for 500
major trucking firms that have locked out
235,000 Teamsters in retaliation for a
strike that began April 1.
The dispute has crippled much of the
auto industry, which has laid off some
1,000 workers and placed another 57,000
on short shifts because-f parts shortages
at assembly plants.
Although most state industries say the
strike and lockout have had little impact,
officials at Cone Mills in Greensboro say
their company's shipments are being held
up by the strike.
"It's getting progressively worse," a
Cone Mills spokesman said. "We are
probably getting out only 75 percent of
our outbound shipments. It's going to be
somewhat lower by the end of the week."
The shutdown has had only minimal
impact elsewhere in the economy. The
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Tuesday the first week of the shutdown
had no adverse impact on food stores,
private hospitals and chlorine for water
purification.
Details of the tentative agreement were
not available immediately.
'Yack' editor asks removal from Media Board control
By THOMAS JESSIMAN
Staff Writer
Yackety Yack editor Chrisann Ohler Monday
night requested the Campus Governing Council
Rules and Judiciary Committee to remove the Yack
from the control of the Media Board.
Ohler said she wants to set up a separate board of
directors for the Yack.
"The Yack has been dissatisfied with the workings
of the Media Board," Ohler said. "The members of
the board are not sure what their function should be.
We're in a position where the board isn't helping us
and is a waste of time on our part, but is beneficial for
the smaller organizations."
Media Board Chairman Ted Kyle defended the
board's relationship with the Yack.
"It's in the best interests of the Yack that it have an
authority to be responsible to and to provide it with a
system of checks and balances," Kyle said.
"The Yack is stable now but there have been
problems in the past. Without the Media Board it
would be in a much weaker position."
The Yack needs to be free from Media Board
control to make more efficient policy decisions,
Ohler said.
"We know more about the workings of the Yack
than the board," she said. "Their decisions on
matters of the Yack only amount to rubber stamp
approval."
Kyle said, however, that the Media Board is in a
better position to make objective decisions
concerning the Yack's operations.
"With the Media Board you have an impartial
board of people who are not just interested in the
Yack? he said. "The board is designed to help
organizations become strong financially, to lend
them some stability, to stip in when serious financial
problems arise, and to select the editors and business
managers in an impartial way."
But Ohler said a separate board of directors for the
Yack would be capable of making unbiased
decisions.
"Our staff is large enough not to have a clique," she
said. "We could have an objective board of directors.
The last thing we want is internal perpetuation."
Representatives of other publications controlled
by the Media Boad, however, said a separate Yack
board would hurt the stability of the smaller
publications.
"With no buffer like the Media Board, it will be
tougher to get our money," said Virginia Howard,
business manager for the Carolina Quarterly. "It will
be easier for the CGC to pass over our demands."
The Rules and Judiciary Committee did not take
final action on Ohler's request Monday night. The
committee recognized the Media Board but said the
board's relationship with the Yack would be
reviewed.
Sickle Ceil
Dormant trait no risk to carrier; misery, misconception warded off through education
By SUDIE TAYLOR
Staff Writer
Outwardly there's nothing unusual about Camille. She is a
healthy UNC student.
But within her blood cells lies the dormant trait for an
incurable genetic disease. If it is inherited, a child of Camille's
may suffer intense pain and possible death before the age of
10.
Camille, like one out of every 10 black Americans, carries
the sickle cell trait. If the trait is united with another defective
trait, the resulting child may inherit sickle cell anemia, a
blood oxygen deficiency disease that affects 50,000
Americans.
"It's definitely a health problem," said Irma Jean Smith,
lecturer for the Sickle Cell Syndrome Program of the North
Carolina Department of Human Resources.
While medical science seeks possible cures for the
problem, health officials try to educate the public about the
disease, which has been identified only within the last 70
years.
In a pamphlet compiled by the Division of Health
Services, a sickle cell is described as, "a diseased red blood
cell whose hemoglobin has released too much oxygen, giving
the cell a half-moon, or sickle shape instead of the doughnut
shape of a healthy red blood cell."
"Sickle cells are fragile and tend to clog up the capillaries,"
Smith said. When the capillaries are clogged, blood can't get
to the organs and intense pain and swelling results, causing a
sickle cell crisis, she said.
Patients describe their crisis as moments of excruciating
pain, usually occurring two to four times a year, especially in
children. "1 screamed and just wanted to die," said one
teenager about her crisis.
Popular misconceptions about the trait and the disease are
that they are contagious and occur exclusively in blacks.
"Sickle cell is not contagious, and it is not caused by a germ
even though otherwise intelligent people have said that," said
Shirley Motter Linde, researcher and author of "Sickle Cell:
A Complete Guide to Prevention and Treatment."
"It is an hereditary blood disorder that can only be passed
along from parents with the disease or the trait," she said.
Though the disease occurs in nearly every country in the
world, it primarily strikes Blacks, Puerto Ricans and groups
from the Mediterranean Sea area. The trait originated in
Africa where it warded off malaria, Linde said.
"All ethnic and racial groups have their genetic diseases,"
Smith said. "Each race carries from three to six unusual
genes in their bodies, which are never a problems until a child
gets a double dose of those genes."
"If both parents have the sickle cell trait, each time they
mate there's a 25 percent chance that the child will get sickle
cell anemia," Smith said. If both parents have sickle cell
anemia, all of their offspring will have the disease.
Discovering the disease or the trait requires only a special,
painless blood test. A finger is pricked, four drops of blood
are smeared on lab paper, and the hemoglobin results are
analyzed.
A new method of testing unborn children has also been
developed.
There is no health threat for those who have the trait. "In
the past, sickle cell trait was misunderstood," Smith said.
"People thought if you had the trait, it would one day turn
into the disease, but that's not possible."
In North Carolina it is illegal to discriminate against
someone with sickle cell trait in health and life insurance and
employment. Smith said.
Having the trait only becomes a serious issue when
considering parenthood.
"We never try to discourage you from choosing a husband
or a mate that has sickle cell trait, but we want you to make
an informed decision," Smith said.
Of the one out of every 500 blacks that does have sickle cell
anemia, some lead long and successful lives. Most learn to
live with their condition, try ing to avoid infection and over
exertion.
Symptoms of the disease include pain and swelling in the
joints, leg ulcers, constant lack of energy, jaundice and severe
crises.
Research shows that symptoms tend to be mild if they
began later in life and if they've been mild in the past. Most
infants don't exhibit signs of the disease until six months of
age.
Methods to prevent the blood cells from sickling have been
somewhat successful, though attempts to eliminate the trait
have failed.
As with cancer, sickle cell anemia has a range of treatments
from penicillin injections to blood transfusions, from
hormone shots to spleen removal.
While research continues, so does educating the public,
though at times the results are disheartening.
"It's difficult explaining a blood disease, much less genetics
to those with little education," said Duke nursing student
E.B. Hobes, who works with Smith on the SCA program.
"In the end, they mate with whoever they choose. 1 just
hope it's a decision backed with information, not ignorance
as in the past," Hobes said.
Camille knows the facts but she said making her decision
about having children is not any easier.
"Having a baby knowing that it could have sickle cell
anemia is a big risk," she said. "I'm not sure I want to take
that chance."
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