T N rf Always be spring of rain Variable cloudiness with a possible chance of thunder storms. High near 60, low around 40. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph. Programmed to rock J. Bonasia and Louis Con rlgan review the work of new synth-pop bands and find some lack substance. See page 4. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Copyright 1984 The Daily Tar Heel. All rights reserved. ii ii ii Volume 92, Issue 22 Verdict leaves opponents of Klan, From staff and wire reports Nine men acquitted of 25 charges from the 1979 Greensboro slayings of com munist demonstrators breathed sighs of relief, while supporters and relatives of the slain marchers brimmed with indig nation at the verdicts. "I'm going back to normal living now," said defendent Edward W. Dawson of Greensboro, after the verdicts, were announced Sunday in U.S. District Court in Winston-Salam. "It feels like a ton of bricks coming off you." Dawson, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, was one of the nine present Salvadoran gunmen kill US. staffer The Associated Press SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador Gunmen in a taxi assassinated the highest ranking Salvadoran employee of the U.S. Embassy security staff Monday as his car stopped at a traffic light, an embassy spokesman said. The taxi carrying the gunmen drew alongside the car driven by Joaquim Alfredo Zapata Romero and the attackers opened fire, killing him instantly and wounding his wife, Yolanda, spokesman Gregory Lagana said". Zapata's wife was hit in the face and neck, but the couple's daughter Lindora, also riding in the car, was not injured, Lagana said. In battlefield action, the army suffered a bloody setback when rebels ambushed a convoy, killing 37 soldiers and wounding 14, according to Col. Carlos Mauricio Guzman, executive officer of the 3rd In fantry Brigade. He said the guerrillas launched their at tack at 6:30 a.m. near the village of El Junquillal, 45 miles east of San Salvador, as the army convoy was traveling along the Pan-American Highway with the soldiers returning to San Salvador for an "ad ministrative mission." Vs. a-J attacK planes were sent to support the troops, and their bombing and strafing r resulted in "the elimination of a column of terrorists," Guzman said. He gave no casualty figures for the rebels. It was the second sharp government loss in an ambush in San Vicente province in a month. On March 24, guerrillas killed 32 soldiers near Tecoluca, 38 miles east of San Salvador. Guzman said the battalion ambushed Monday had been formed recently with recruits conscripted earlier this year. The attack on Zapata occurred near the Camino Real Hotel in northwestern San Salvador. Lagana said the security official had worked for the embassy for eight years and was chief of Salvadoran security per sonnel at the embassy, responsible for about 200 full-time security agents. The spokesman said Zapata had nothing to do with investigations of rightist death squads that have been ac cused of many of the murders of civilians since the start of El Salvador's civil war. "He was a routine investigator," Lagana said. "I don't suspect anyone yet." Zapata had worked for the National Police and had been chief of the police criminal investigation unit, a police spokesman said. Lt. Cmdr. Albert A. Schaufelberger HI, deputy commander of the American military advisers in El Salvador, was assassinated by guerrillas last May as he sat in his car waiting to pick up his girlfriend at a local university. He was the only American military adviser slain in EI Salvador. UNC graduate Royster wins second Pulitzer Vermont Royster, a Kenan professor emeritus in the UNC School of Jour nalism, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for journalism Monday. Royster won the prize for distinguished commentary from the Pulitzer board at Columbia University, which administers the competition under the will of the late publisher Joseph Pulitzer. Royster, editor of The Wall Street Journal from 1958-1971, writes the weekly column "Thinking Things Over" for the Journal. For Royster, 70, it was his second Pulitzer. "I admit that it's a little more exciting when you're young and win one than when you're 70 and win," he said in an Associated Press interview Monday. "It gives me a great sense of pride and satisfaction to win one 30 years after the first one." He said he had heard rumors that he might win a Pulitzer. "But don't count your chickens 'til they hatch," he said. Royster, a Raleigh native, graduated from UNC as a Phi Beta Kappa in 1935. He soon joined the staff of the Journal and eventually became editor. In 1971, he returned to Chapel Hill and taught jour nalism and political science until 1981. All of us learn to write in the second grade . . . most of us go on to and former Klansmen and Nazis charged with violating the civil rights of five demonstrators who were killed during a "Death to the Klan" march sponsored by the Communist Workers Party on Nov. 3, 1979, in Greensboro. An all-white jury acquitted the nine defendents Sunday after a 14-week trial. Six Klansmen and Nazis were found in nocent of murder in a 1980 state trial. The nine current and former Klansmen and Nazis, including five of the original defendents, were indicted last year on federal civil rights charges . after civil rights and church groups blasted the acquittals. : o r ' ? ''' , - ' ' ' , -Kix&aV A kiss for Bugs Sophomore Pam Haeuser kisses an Easter Bunny played by Eddie Piskura after an Easter egg hunt Monday in Forest Theatre. A prize was supposed to be awarded to the person who found the most Easter eggs, but the players ate them before they could be counted. Local cost of living "index dgSeS By LISA BRANTLEY Staff Writer Chapel Hill's cost of living index for the last three months of 1983 was .01 per cent below the national average and represented the second highest cost of liv ing in the state, according to a study released last week by the Chapel Hill Carrboro Chamber of Commerce. The study, conducted by the American Chamber of Commerce Researchers Association, is fairly new to Chapel Hill. Lydian Altman, retail trade and tourism coordinator for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce, said the local chamber has participated in the study since the beginning of 1983. The last report for the third quarter of 1983, conducted by the same organiza tion, showed a Chapel Hill cost of living index of 4.4 percent above the national average. Although lower costs by comparison with previous figures were reported in the areas of transportation, utilities, housing, health care, and miscellaneous goods and services, Altman said she attributes some One can receive a quick course on N.C. Vky x v X Tuesday, April 17, 1984 While Dawson and other defendents were jubilant, opponents of the Klan and Nazis were upset by the- verdicts. Yonni Chapman, a Communist Workers Party spokesman from Chapel Hill, said Monday that while the Klan and Nazis were celebrating, communists and others around the state planned to double their efforts to educate people on what happened in the Greensboro rally and how the two trials failed to reach the truth. "The main thing about it is once again there's a tremendous incentive for (the Klan and Nazis) to organize and recruit," Chapman said. "Several things are need of the lower figure to better local repor ting of raw data to the researcher's association. "We're more or less getting the reporting down pat," she said. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro chamber is responsible for pricing a standard list of goods and services within the town's limits at the same businesses every repor ting period to ensure consistency and sen ding them to the research association to be turned into statistics. One reason that the cost of living index dropped was through lower health care costs during the 1983 fourth quarter reporting period. Durham County Hospital and Duke Medical Center, as well as North Carolina Memorial Hospital costs were figured in the third quarter report, but only North Carolina Memorial costs were included during the fourth quarter. Partly because of this, Chapel Hill's health care costs went from 15.7 percent above the national average in the third quarter, to 4.3 percent above average in the fourth. v The cost of miscellaneous goods and services also decreased from 2.1 percent id win u WWW j v... s, .v. f. 'J Piifi illustration !'t I ' Ji'ihr.-s politics by counting the bumpeV stickers on partisan cars Chapel Hill, North Carolina ed now,, particularly an immediate and strong and broad condemnation of the acquittal." Chapman, other Chapel Hill residents and UNC students opposed to the trial's outcome have scheduled a rally to be held about 12:15 p.m. today in the Pit. "We hope to have community-wide action in Chapel Hill," Chapman said. The jury reached its innocent verdict in the trial because federal prosecutors fail ed to prove the defendents' guilt "beyond a reasonable doubt," juror William Henry Johnson of San ford said Monday. "I'm not saying the lawyers or the prose cution wasn't sufficient ... but beyond a ' DTHChaiies Leiltoul below the national average during the third quarter to 11.1 percent below the average in the fourth with only groceries showing an increase within this category. Transportation costs also plummeted from 1 .5 percent above the average in the third quarter to 5.3 percent below the average in the fourth a drop which Altman attributed to lower gasoline prices. Chapel Hill housing and utility costs made a similar drop between the third and fourth quarters. Housing costs de creased from 15.8 percent above the average to 13.9 percent above, and utility costs decreased from 3.4 percent above the national average to 3 percent above. The study in which Chapel Hill par ticipated is based on data collected from 227 cities nationwide. Raleigh's cost of living, 0.7 percent above the national average for the fourth quarter, was the highest in North Carolina. The lowest was Winston Salem's cost of living at 4.4 percent below the national average. zis o reasonable doubt, that's 100 percent; Johnson said. Jury foreman Ronald M. Johnson of Burlington said the long trial "has definitely been hard on all of us involved." "All I would have to say about it is that after all the evidence was presented to us and all the tapes that we reviewed and our careful deliberations over each indict ment, we were able to come up with the not guilty verdict," he said. When the verdicts were read, KKK Grand Dragon Virgil Griffin gave a thumbs-up sign and said he'd attend a Klan rally this weekend to celebrate his a Rising interest rate has many disputed effects By VANCE TREFETHEN Business Editor The prime interest rate has increased twice in the past month, from 1 1 percent to 11.5 percent and most recently to 12 percent, and economists, businessmen, and politicians are starting to take notice. But while most economists agree that the prime rate, the interest rate that banks charge their best customers for borrowing money, is an important economic in dicator, they often disagree on exactly what effect interest rates have on the economy. Some observers believe rising interest rates will hurt the economy by driving up the cost of operating a business. "There's no question that they (interest rates) play a vital role in the cost of doing business," said -Gene Sullivan, research officer for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. , Businesses often get caught with rising costs, Sullivan said. They must pay more to borrow the money needed to maintain their capital and inventories. "In an environment such as we're in, there's probably little chance for them to pass those costs on to the consumer," he said. -Theresult ' iS': a squeeze - that can sometimes force a firm out of business. But businesses are not the only ones to feel the pinch when interests rates go up. Consumers also must make adjustments in their spending plans when interest rates climb. Interest costs are a direct cost to them (consumers)," Sullivan said. "They have a direct impact on the size of payments for houses and cars." A significant reduction in the interest rate would result in an increase in consumer spending, Sullivan said. Increasing demands for credit are caus ing interest rates to go up, he said. "The extent of demand that exists for Showing colors The sticky side of N.C. politics By JENNIFER MOONEY Staff Writer . In this North Carolina election year, chances are that the last campaign bumper sticker you saw came from an Asheville firm. Political Americana, a political consul ting and printing agency, handles printing for most of the Democratic campaigns in the state, including Gov. Jim Hunt and the six major Democratic gubernatorial hopefuls. The company also has printed bumper stickers for presidential can didates Walter Mondale and Gary Hart and former candidates Alan Cranston, Ernest Hollings and John Glenn. Jim Warlick, a. former UNC student, began Political Americana about four years ago. For the first two years, he operated out of his home in Asheville, but now the operation has grown to an office with five full-time employees and its own printing shop. Dee-Dee Oteri, vice president of Political Americana, said the firm does political consultanting as well as printing. For some of the smaller races where the candidates don't have as much money to spend on advertisement, Warlick works with the candidate and advises him on designs and color schemes. Oteri said that for the remainder of this election year, she would not advise any more red, white and blue since seven candidates have already chosen this color combination. The campaigns that have more money to spend hire professional artists to design buttons, brochures and bumper stickers. Major statewide candidates, including Hunt, who is seeking Republican Jesse Helms' Senate seat, and gubernatorial candidates Rufus Edmisten and D.M. "Lauch" Faircloth usually send Warlick designs that are ready to be photograph ed. "We are a small company, conscious of the Democratic effort," Oteri saM. "And we work to get Democrats greater things, NewsSports Arts 962-0245 Busirtass Advertising 962-1163 acquittal. "Man, I think I died and went to heaven," Griffin said. Glenn Miller, head of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, said Sunday night that the Klan and Nazi members were victims of double jeopardy because they had been tried twice. "It was a violation of their constitu tional rights to go through the retrial after being found innocent," Miller said. "We're outraged at the suffering and per secution these men and their families went through for 3'i years. They went See KLAN on page 2 credit is one major determinant," he said. An increasing demand for items financed on credit, such as houses and cars, along with the growth in the federal deficit have bid up the price of borrowed money and driven interest rates up, Sullivan said. But other economists downplay the possible negative effects of rising interest rates. "We've just had a surge in GNP for the last couple years with unprecendented real rates of interest," said Steven Rosefielde, UNC associate professor of economics. "We have simply had an un precedented recovery through a high rate of interest." Popular misconceptions contribute to an unwarranted fear of rising interest rates, he said. "Invariably the whole interest rate (issue) is jumbled up in people's minds and they see it as a cause of depression," Rosefielde said. Interest rates are rising because of in creased competition for loanable funds, he said. "The media says that it (the interest rate) goes up because banks have to pay more for their funds," he said. "In order to justify their own interest rates they (the major banks) point to their costs of funds. (But) there's competition between would-be borrowers and it's that com petition that's driving the interest rate up. If interest rates rise much further, con sumer demand will decline and interest rates will come back down, he said. "If interest rate were to go up significantly, say a couple of points, you'd see consumer demand go down very quickly. You'd see that first in hous ing and autos," he said. In the long run, money that is diverted from one sector of the economy because of high interest rates is simply spent somewhere else, and no jobs are lost. elected." The company would not know ingly do work for a Republican can didate, she said. While Political Americana handles bumper stickers, candidates often have to seek other firms to get their campaign buttons made. If a campaign wants Political Americana to handle the buttons as well, the firm contacts button manufacturers. Besides stickers and buttons, a can didate needs yard signs, and Oteri said the company handled those requests as well. "The candidates know we work for the others (in the race)," Oteri said of the possibility that conflicts could arise bet ween competing candidates whose ac counts are handled by Political Americana. The key to keeping all can didates happy is the fact that all can didates are given the same attention and service, she said. Gary Knox, a campaign staffer for gubernatorial candidate Eddie Knox, said displaying a bumper sticker shows that a person is committed to a candidate and is proud to tell others about it. "Political memorabilia is a sign of commitment and identification," he said. "The more you see a printed message, the more it will stay with you." All of Knox's campaign memorabilia is cost-efficient, Knox said. The staff doesn't order items in mass numbers, and everything is sold in order to pay for itself. On the Republican front, gubernatorial candidate Jim Martin sends all of its advertising to an agency in Washington, D.C. Diane Murphy, a spokeswoman for Smith and Harross in Washington, said, "the main thing a candidate looks for is cost efficiency." She said that a candidate with much experience wjth the media, such as Martin, doesn't need as much ad vice as a newcomer, and they often keep their traditional color schemes. Bobby Knight

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