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i i - frnii mmiMii jf Howdy, cloudy There will be variable cloudi ness today and Tuesday with a 40 percent chance of rain. The high will be In the low 80s; the low in the upper 60s. 9b G 'A n Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Writing test Writing tests will be given Tuesday and Thursday for prospective DTH staff mem bers. Names and times are posted outside the DTH office. Volume Issua Monday, August 31, 1S31 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewsSportsArts 962-0245 BusinessAdvertising $62-1163 i i ii . i i . hi il ' ' I iiji vtw-.'.'fwiiiii ii.ii hwwppi)i li i ii j ii i imiwf . .m.mmiiiii jiwi iimm iumlii, . -imiiiMM u i iwnnuui inn 11 iiimii i at.in m ui i m v v ... ..I " 1 S U . ,v ...... ?f i "; ,' iviSfis Si i(H. .,,v. J f ?A V X": - ' . U , : s N if f X - .: .:: ": :.. :-"-.:::i.-:--: 4 1 - Alumni-pro game DTHScott Sharp Ex-players return By KIM ADAMS . DTH Surf Writer It seems to be a painful curse of North Carolina basketball to come, up just short of a national championship. This was never more apparent than last season you can't get much closer than the NCAA finals. But before that, there were the teams in 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972 and 1977 than went as far as the NCAA final four. The leaders of those teams Phil Ford, Walter Davis, Bobby Jones, Al Wood and Charlie Scott were at the Pro-Alumni game Saturday at Car michael Auditorium. And another star of recent years, Dudley Bradley, led the Blue team with 32 points to win that game 95-91 over the White. Davis added 28. But also at Carmichael on Saturday were the only players in the history of Carolina basketball who can say they played on an NCAA championship, team Lennie Rosenbluth, Joe Quigg, Pete Brennan and Lee Shaffer, ineligible because he was a freshman. In their year, 1957, all the magic, talent and luck came together. The Heels won 32 , straight games and claimed the national title, defeating Kansas, led by Wilt Chamberlain, by one point in three overtimes. What did the 1957 team have that made it so special? The players all have slightly different ideas about their suc cess but they all agree on one thing they were a group of talented players who had confidence in each other. In the NCAA finals, the Tar Heels were heavy underdogs because of Chamberlain and the fact that the game was played on Kansas' home court. The Heels won the game in the last second on Quigg's two free throws. "There were about 10,000 people there and only 1,000 Carolina fans," Rosenbluth said. "Those few must have been in a corner somewhere because we sure couldn't hear very many people cheering for us. I'll never forget the hush that fell in that coliseum when they x lost. I've never seen a place empty so fast." . . Pete Brenna,;who was rj&med, to, the,i "All-America team in 1958, said that the 1957 team had confidence but also a . certain amount of self-doub. "Any time you have to play against someone M. - , , I rs i v ' N . . x . . -r-jf j - ' - ' - - r x ,x I 1 X. ;.. - i ,.,,. j I - - . i - t DTHScott Sharpe At left, Phil Ford drives past John Kuester to the basket In the Alumni-Pro basketball game, in which the Blues defeated the Whites 95-91. Above, Walter Davis, the game's second highest; scorer with 28 points, seeks to complete a pass to a teammate. like Wilt Chamberlain, there's no way you don't have doubts." The 1957 players at Carmichael a greed that things have changed quite a bit since they were in college. Besides the media coverage, importance on shooting high percentage shots, the height of players, and the conditioning methodshave improved. In 1957, freshmen weren't allowed to play on the team, but Shaffer said he felt like a part of the championship .nevertheless. " We always practiced with the regular guys and it was kind of amazing coming right out of high school and winning the championship. You just kept waiting for them to lose and they never did. It put a lot of pres sure on us the next year." . With this year's Carolina team comes another shot at a championship. No one can guess what will happen to a team but the members of the 1957 team had some advice for the players. "You just have to keep everything in perspective; basketball is a part of life, not all of it,'' Brennan said. "Every team has to have that one ball player who they can go to mthxonfij dence the leader of the team" Rosenbluth said. "But you also have to have confidence in the other guys on the team." " X O .kniFto ffi killed! iim . Id mM Ma The Associated Press J3EIRUT, Lebanon - A powerful ex plosion ripped through the prime minis try in Tehran on Sunday, injuring Iran's president and prime minister, Tehran Radio reported. President Mohammad Ali Rajai and the prime minister, Hojatoleslam Mo hammad Javad Bahonar,' were taken to a hospital, the state-run radio said. There was no word on how seriously they were injured. The official Pars news agency said five people were killed and 15 wounded, with some of the bodies, "burned beyond recognition" in the explosion and fire that followed. In a broadcast interview, Iran's parlia ment speaker condemned the explosion as a "last-ditch effort by American hire lings" and said the two injured leaders , were together in the room where the ex plosion took place. . "Just as our evening session was due to start ... we heard the sound of an explo sion, followed by a thick column of smoke rising from the prime minister's office building,' the speaker, Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said. "The session began, and it was only later that we learned that the explosion had occurred in a room in which President Rajai and Premier Dr. Bahonar were gathered with several others." The explosion at 3 p.m. 7:30 a.m. EDT in the stone and glass building touched off a fire, but the official Pars news agency said the blaze was fully un der control within 2Vz hours after the ex-: plosion. . ,. : ; t thousliiiroup'cl Kty for the blast, the explosion highlighted the urban guerrilla campaign that secular leftist foes of the Islamic fundamentalist regime have been waging for the past two months. Marijuana vessels, fie on the increase in N.C. By JANE FOY DTH Staff Writer V ; The past summer has seen an increase of ves-. . sels seized off the N.C. coast carrying drugs, said state officials recently, and at the same time many counties have been plagued by the sudden appearance of large fields of marijuana: In an attempt to explain the increase in drug trafficking and production in the state, Assistant Secretary for Crime Control and Public Safety Robert A. Melott said it was North Carolina's location and geography that made a flourishing drug trade viable. "The smuggling is a problem everywhere in the United States. It is the most severe in Florida, less in South Carolina, and then slightly less in North Carolina," said Commander Robert Bastek, Chief of the Intelligence and Law En forcement division of the U.S. Coast Guard, which is responsible for rnonitoring the coast for offshore drug smugglers. Marijuana and drugs are coming up from Columbia to the state, Bastek said. "Both rou tine random patrols and intelligence informa tion have been used to increase the number of vessels seized this summer," he said. It is unclear whether organized crime is in volved, but it would be "difficult for an indivi- dual to arrange to load twenty tons of mari juana on a fishing vessel in Columbia, transport it, distribute" iL and finance the operation," Bastek said. "It would require a multinational company." V; . Once the marijuana is seized, enough is kept for evidence and the rest is destroyed, Melott Said. - . ".' The drug problem has spread to many coun ties throughout the state, where some farmers seem to feel more profit can be made in mari juana than in soybeans. However, neighbors sometimes have reported the illegal crops to local authorities. "This has been an extremely good growing season with plenty of rain," said a deputy in Cabarrus County, where several large crops have been found this summer. "The plants have gotten so big that more people have noticed and have been willing to call in," he said. Large crops Of marijuana " have been dis covered and confiscated this summer in Wilkes, Catawba, Cateret, New Hanover, Brunswick and Cleveland counties, as well as in several other areas around the state. "It seems like everybody has it," said Deputy Arnold Simmons of the Dare County Sheriffs Department. Being on the coast, Dare County . has been a target area for drug smuggling. "Our biggest problem is that people don't want to get involved (in reporting lawbreakers)," Simmons said.'- : ' . ' " . According to Chapel Hill Chief of Police Herman Stone, there have been no increase in arrests for possession of marijuana, nor have any fields of the weed been sighted growing in the area. ' One factor many state officials seem to think may have an influence on the problem is the re cent drug paraphernalia law passed this sum mer, but they admit the influence would be hard to gauge. ' ; The law is not aimed at the drug traffic," Melott said, but rather at the culture that has grown up with the drug trade. "It only makes it . clear to society, especially to the younger mem bers of society, that the use of controlled sub stances is not looked on with favor," he said. , New legislation aimed specifically at drug trafficking, however, was passed in September 1980. "This new legislation makes possession of large amounts of marijuana on the seas in U.S. boats a more severe crime," Bastek said. Marijuana that comes in on the coast may end up halfway across the country, Bastek said. "Like everything else, it will go wherever there is a profit to be made." . ri 1 'ii nim-mrrfin .mna jhhihhihi l h ijwh juj jjwumi nii.iuimmiw.Mnw inminii,u i luu . jinujuiww minm I n . ..... t y Mrs- V ' 1 DTH file photo New state law bans such drug paraphernalia ...officials say law will help curb drug abuse New state law By DEAN LOWMAN DTH Staff Writer A new state law passed this summer banning the sale or possession of drug-related paraphernalia has drawn criticism from state and local merchants who sell smoking accessories, but state law enforcement officials say the law will go a long way toward curb-. ing drug abuse. George Hoffman, owner of George's Cheep Joint on Franklin Street, said arbitrary arrests could take away a person's right to "enjoy the fruits of his labor" and could constitute restraint of trade, even though the merchant is complying with the law. The law, which takes effect on Oct. 1 , outlaws the sale, possession or advertisement of implements com monly associated with drug use. Among the items that would be outlawed are pipes, bongs, roach clips, cocaine spoons and kits designed to enhance the potency of marijuana or cocaine. While it doesn't specifically outlaw roiling papers, it covers any item that was designed or sold with the intent of aiding the ingestion of any illegal substance. Law enforcement officials say the law was designed to shut down stores that deal in drug-related mer- U 9 Joaiiiiiiini; par; apkemsilia: dia w ciiticigm chandise, commonly called "head shops," while leaving other legitimate businesses, such as conve nience stores stocking rolling papers or similar items, alone. This distinction, Hoffman said, is the biggest pro blem with the law. - - "If a merchant happens to be selling rolling papers and, for some reason, doesn't get along with the local police," Hoffman said, "then the cops could come in and arbitrarily arrest him for not complying with the law." Bill Leakes, chief counsel for the Drug Enforce ment Administration in Washington, said the North Carolina act, patterned after a DEA model act, pro bably would hold up in court. ":: "Eight or nine states out of the 23 that have passed bills similar to the DEA act have had the constitu tionality of their laws tested in court," Leakes said. ''For the most part,' all the courts have found the laws to be constitutional with the exception of the Ohio law. It was remanded back by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals for further study," he said. Local enforcement of the law will be strict, accor ding to Chapel Hill Police Chief Herman Stone. , "We plan to enforce it as the law so directs us to," Stone said. " I've yet to study the law closely but I plan to do it soon. Then, I'll direct my men how to enforce it." Mike Carpenter, state Justice Department attorney for the State Bureau of Investigation, said he believed the law was written so that local officials would choose to prosecute only their strongest cases. "The impact of the law is that it will persuade businesses to drop questionable items," Carpenter said. "I think the businesses are going to have to evaluate whether that is the kind of thing they want to continue to merchandise.". The law passed in June by the General Assembly at "the urging of Gov. Jim Hunt, who vowed to use the law to put every "head shop" in North Carolina out of business." Carpenter said he thought the governor's position was that "it was sort of a hypocrisy for the state to make possession of illegal substances against the law while allowing the sale of paraphernalia in virtually any store on the street." North Carolina's law has one major anomaly, ac cording to Robert Malott, assistant state Crime Con trol secretary. The new law's penalties are tougher than those for possession of small amounts of marijuana. It makes possession of paraphernalia a misdemeanor carrying a maximum $500 fine and one year in prison; selling it carries a $1 ,000 fine and two years in jail as the max imum penalty. ' V Possession of less than one ounce of marijuana in the state, by contrast, is punishable by. a $100, fine . and no jail term. - . The law makes it illegal to advertise paraphernalia in newspapers or other printed media. And it makes it a felony for an adult to sell paraphernalia to a minor. . "If anyone under 18 comes in here and wants to buy something," Hoffman said, "I tell them to go and get their parents to come by my shop and tell me it's all right before I'll sell anything to them. "I don't believe minors should be using any drugs, legal or illegal, and that they have no need for smok ing accessories," Hoffman said.. Hoffman sells a variety of pipes, bongs, incense and herbs in his Franklin Street shop. "All the products I sell can be used legally and, 1 suppose, illegally. However, if anyone mentions they are planning to use an item illegally, 1 will not sell anything to them," Hoffman said. Iran has been rocked by political vio lence since the .June ouster of moderate President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr. On June 28, an explosion at the ruling Islamic Revolutionary Party headquarters in Tehran killed more than 70 political leaders, including Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, considered the second-most powerful figure in Iran after revolutionary patriarch Ayatollah Rnhollah Khomeini. Rajai, who had been prime minister of the revolutionary regime, was elected without serious opposition to succeed Bani-Sadr fn July. Bahonar then was ap pointed to fill the vacant post of prime minister. Tehran Radio said the Iranian Cabinet was called into an extraordinary session at sundown by Rafsanjani to dis cuss ''important matters of state, in cluding the explosion at the prime minis ter's office." 1 Pars said ambulances rushed to the prime ministry to carry the victims of the explosion to hospitals. It said a helicopter also was called into service to help trans port the injured. The news agency quoted Iran's health minister, Dr. Hani Manafi, as saying all the injured were in satisfac tory condition. The clergy-led regime has arrested thousands of leftists and executed more than 470 counterrevolutionaries since the end of June. Bani-Sadr and top underground oppo sition leader Massoud Rajavi, who heads the underground Islamic-Marxist Mujahedeen Khalq organization, escaped .from Tehran aboard an Iranian air force plane to Paris on July 29. Both were granted asylum by France. They have been predicting that Khomeini's regime would not last more than a few months, "tnius message to the nation over Tehran Radio, Rafsanjani said Iran's "Islamic revolution should, and would, continue its march" despite "unpleasant events, which we are always ready for." S-4 holders gel parking in 'yS-5- lot By KEN MINGIS DTH Staff Writer An error that forced many Scott Residence College residents to take S-4 parking permits instead of S-5 stickers has been largely corrected, Student Government President Scott Norberg said Sunday. "We received a list of 30 names ofstu dents who had S-4 permits from SRC Governor Melissa Morgan," he said. "Of those 30, we've been able to help 25 students get S-5 permits." The traffic office has agree to hold any S-5 permits unclaimed by Friday for SRC residents who were given the wrong per mits. Normally, these permits would go on sale along with other unclaimed per mits. There are still about 40 spaces unclaimed, Norberg said. The S-5 permits will be turned over to Student Government to decide who needs them. "We've asked that the SRC-governor report to Student Government those names of students with S-4 permits," Norberg said. The S-5 permits will be turned over to Student Government to decide who needs them. "We've asked that the SRC gover nor report to Student Government those names of students with S-4 permits," Norberg said. "When we get the permits, we'll be ready to trade." More than 70 Scott College residents were denied parking spaces in the S-5 parking lot because of an error by the UNC traffice office, Norberg said. "The traffic office did not follow the Campus Governing Council laws when they dis bursed the permits. Many SRC residents had to park in the S-4 lots, which are far ther away." . Norberg had originally blamed the exe cutive branch of Student Government for the foul-up. "I was assuming that we told the traffic office about the hew parking lot apportionments, but in fact, they made the changes without consulting anyone," he said. The problem occurred when commuter parking spaces in the N-4 and N-4A lots were shifted to the S-5 areas along Stadium Drive and in Ram's Head park ing lot. During the past two years, half the spaces in the N-4 and N-4A lots were re Kcrvod for commuters. This summer, the See PARKING on page 2
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