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Volume 94, Issue 35
Tuesday, April 15, 1988
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WASHINGTON The United
States, acting to "pre-empt and discour
age" Libyan terrorism, carried out a
series of air strikes against Libya,
President Reagan's top spokesman
Larry Speakes announced Monday
night.
The Libyan state radio said Libyan
leader Moammar Khadafy's home and
headquarters were hit.
Relatives of Khadafy and some
foreigners were 'injured in U.S. air
attacks, which struck a military airport
in Tripoli, Khadafy's barracks, head
quarters and his house, the local radio
reported. There was no immediate word
on the whereabouts of the Libyan
leader.
The Libyan radio, monitored in
London, said Libyan forces shot down
three American aircraft, and that
Libyan citizens killed the pilots. U.S.
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger
said in Washington that one U.S.
aircraft was unaccounted for, but there
was no evidence that it had been
downed.
President Reagan, in a nationally
broadcast address to explain the mil
itary strike, said the United States had
direct, precise and irrefutable evidence
that Khadafy had ordered recent anti
American attacks
"When our citizens are abused or
attacked anywhere in the world, we will
respond in self-defense." Reagan said.
In an unmistakable warning to Khad
afy, he said: "If necessary, we will do
it again."
Weinberger said the attacks were
mounted against five targets near
Tripoli and Benghazi, using 18 P- 111
bombers from U.S. bases in England
and 1 5 A-6 and A-7 attack jets off Navy
carriers America and Coral Sea.
Secretary of State George Schultz,
appearing with Weinberger in the White
House briefing room just after Reagan's
Oval Office statement, said the Soviet
Union was told of the operation as it
was taking place and was assured it was
"in no way connected with the Soviet
Union."
Asked what would happen if Libya
was to retaliate for the air strikes,
Schultz said, "What is clear tonight is
that the United States will take military
action under certain circumstances."
"He counted on America to be
passive," Reagan said of Khadafy. "He
counted wrong."
Weinberger and Pentagon officials
said the Air Force and Navy jets had
attacked these targets inside Libya:
The Al Azziziyah barracks in
Tripoli, described as "the main head
quarters of Libyan planning and direc-
News Primer
The War Powers Act of 1973,
prompted by congressional discont
ent over the way U.S. troops were
used during the Vietnam War,
requires the president to notify
Congress within 48 hours after U.S.
forces are put into a situation where
they may become engaged in
hostilities.
It also requires those forces to be
withdrawn within 60 days, subject
to a 30-day extension, if Congress
doesn't declare war.
tion of its terrorist attacks overseas."
The Sidi Bilal port facility, desribed
as "a training base for Libyan
commandos."
The military side of the Tripoli
airport. After this area was attacked,
Weinberger said all the lights at the
facility went out. The Pentagon said
that section of the airport is used "to
transport military and subversive
material around the world."
The Al Jumahiriya barracks in
Benghazi. This was described as "an
alternate command post to the Al
Azziziyah barracks."
And the Benina military airfield.
The Pentagon said this target was hit
for "military suppression purposes" to
ensure no efforts were made by the
Libyans to attack American planes.
Earlier. Speakes told reporters in a
news conference that U.S. military jets
struck at Libya's "terrorist infrastruc
ture the command and control
systems, intelligence, communications,
logistics and training facilities."
"We cannot afford to sit back and
wait passively" for Khadafy "to strike
again," he said in explaining the
operation, which Speakes called "a
series of carefully planned air strikes."
"U.S. military forces have executed
a series of carefully planned air strikes
against terrorist-related targets in
Libya." Speakes said. "These air strikes
have been completed and our aircraft
are returning."
Speakes would not discuss casualties
or damage. He said "we took every
precaution" to ensure that no civilians
would be affected by the action, saying
the strikes were directed at military
targets in Libya.
There are thought to be more than
800 Americans in Libya, despite Rea
gan's order last year that U.S. citizens
get out of the country.
Speakes also said U.S. officials had
"highly reliable" evidence that Khadafy
is planning future attacks against
American interests in 10 countries and
considered the air strike a "pre-emptive"
move.
Asked how the targets were chosen,
he said, "Because they strike at the very
heart of Khadafy's ability to conduct
terrorist activities."
Speakes spoke about an hour after
Pentagon sources had revealed that two
U.S. aircraft carriers had left their
stations in the central Mediterranean
and had steamed closer to Libyan
shores. It was hot known whether the
carriers were used to launch the air
strikes, and Speakes said "I won't
discuss much operational detail. The
planes at this moment are returning to
their bases."
NBC News said F-111 warplanes
made the attack, flying from Great
Britain.
In Moscow, a Soviet commentator
on Tuesday called the U.S. attack on
Libya a "new bloody crime" aimed at
intimidating the North African country.
The commentary of political news
analyst Vladimir Goncharov was car
ried by the official Soviet news agency,
Tass, and said the United States "has
started speaking in its true tongue
the tongue of bombs, flames and death."
Goncharov said, "American impe
rialism has perpetrated a new bloody
crime" and then referred to U.S. actions
in Vietnam, Nicaragua and Grenada.
"The aim of the new bloody Amer
ican aggression is to try to intimidate
the Libyan people and also to show the
other nations that the present American
administration will not stop short of
using military force to fulfill its hegem
onistic political plans," said the
commentary.
Tass' English-language wire first
reported the U.S. attack on Libya in
a two-paragraph news flash Tuesday
morning (8:55 p.m. EST), nearly two
hours after the White House announced
the raid.
An earlier statement issued by the
Foreign Ministry specifically denied
U.S. allegations of suspected Libyan
involvement in the April 5 bombing of
a West Berlin discotheque in which an
American soldier and Turkish woman
were killed.
Reagan has indicated his willingness
to order a military strike against Libya
if its complicity in terrorist acts can be
proven. Two U.S. aircraft carriers were
in the Mediterranean awaiting Reagan's
decision.
Concern over possible reprisals
against foreign residents in Libya
increased after Thursday's arrest of
Bishop Giovanni Martinelli, leader of
See LIBYA page 3
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Jeff MacNelly, a cartoonist who has won three Pulitzer Prizes, said He flunked seven art courses while at UNC
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By JENNIFER ESSEN
Staff Writer
Cartoonists always have the last word,
political cartoonist for the Chicago Tribune
and creator of the comic strip "Shoe," Jeff
MacNelly, told about 400 students at Memor
ial Hall Monday night.
Jim Shumaker, associate professor of
journalism, introduced the former UNC
student, saying, "Jeff became a published
cartoonist while he was pretending to be a
student at the University here."
MacNelly worked for The Chapel Hill
Weekly drawing editorial cartoons for
Shumaker, he said. Shumaker said that after
he had taught MacNelly everything he knew
today, MacNelly went on to win three Pulitzer "
Prizes, fame and fortune. MacNelly was the
only three-time Pulitzer winner The Daily Tar
Heel and The Chapel Hill Weekly ever turned
out, he said.
MacNelly's said his entire journalism
education took -place under Shumaker. He
only took one course at the School of
Journalism, making a "D." He said he also
flunked seven art courses.
Because he said he still thinks of himself
as young, the 38-year-old MacNelly said he
hates coming back to UNC, because he feels
like "one of those gray-haired old farts."
Before showing slides of some of his
cartoons, MacNelly called them "(A) bunch
of slides of a vacation 1 took in the Grand
Canyon."
Many of his cartoon ideas come from
watching the other members of the Chicago
Tribune's editorial board, he said. The board
members are the funniest people in the world,
only they don't know it, MacNelly said.
After showing a cartoon of former Vice
President Walter Mondale, he said, "Amer
icans keep electing very funny people for high
public office."
In "Shoe," the Perfessor is MacNelly at 68,
he said. As for Shoe, the character, MacNelly
said sarcastically, he doesn't bear any great
resemblance to anybody youVe seen here.
Shumaker has been denying his namesake for
eight years, MacNelly said.
MacNelly said he likes to include Richard
Nixon in his cartoons, but because he always
saw Nixon as a caricature and never as a a
human being, he's the hardest to draw.
One cartoon included in the slide presen
tation was of Nixon holding a large tape
recorder and saying, "Well, there 1 was,
playing 'Hail to the Chief on what I thought
was my accordian ..."
"If you can't think of any reptiles that they
(politicians) remind you of, you draw them
as small children," MacNelly said. Politicians
are so preposterous looking in the first place,
he said, that photographs usually do a much
finer job of portraying them than caricatures.
In a cartoon of President Ronald Reagan,
MacNelly pointed to wrinkles on Reagan's
neck and said, "He's getting really fun to draw
he's getting a lot more of this stuff in here."
A newspaper headline in "Shoe" reading
"News Shortage Grips Nation" reminded
MacNelly of his days at the Chapel Hill
Weekly, he said. The editor, Shumaker, would
storm around looking for "charming god
damn scenes" for the front page, he said.
"Some of the funnier guys on the planet
are the Russians," MacNelly said, and.
covering the Russians means covering a lot
of funerals.
Sometimes he is given "tough" assignments
such as the Super Bowl, MacNelly said. The
Chicago Tribune sent 27 people to the Super
Bowl, while only two, people from the paper
covered the Vietnam War, he said.
Showing a cartoon about the Equal Rights
Amendment, MacNelly said it was always
good to do cartoons which irritate groups with
no sense of humor.
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Associated Press
TRIPOLI, Libya Loud explosions were
heard in Tripoli early Tuesday at the time the
White House said U.S. warplanes made a series
of air strikes on Libyan targets.
"The bombings took place about (2 a.m.)," a
Western diplomat said by telephone to the
Associated Press in Rome.
"We heard planes but as it was night, we did
not know if they were American," said the
diplomat, who spoke on condition his name and
nationality remain confidential.
"I didn't see any smoke or bright lights. Some
people were still on the streets and cars were driving
along the coast road. Everything was normal and ,.
quiet."
Charles Glass of ABC News said in a live report
broadcast in the United States: "For what seemed
to be the 20-odd minutes of the attack, one could
hear quite a good deal of anti-aircraft fire going
up toward the sky, and one could see missiles being
fired from the port area and other areas around
Tripoli..
"We saw no sign that any planes were brought
down. It was dark. It was impossible for us to
even see the planes, even though some flares were
fired over the city to light it."
The diplomat said he had seen no unusual
Libyan military activity and heard no announce
ment on the local radio, although foreign
broadcasts monitored in Tripoli reported bombing
attacks. He did not elaborate.
White House spokesman Larry Speakes said
in Washington that the air raid was in retaliation
for recent terrorist acts. (See related story). He
'Libya has no relationship with the
claims made by America linking it
to the recent terrorist attempts and
operations . . .
Libyan government statement
said American military, aircraft attacked terrorist
centers and military targets in Libya at about 2
a.m. Libya time.
Eight or 10 Libyan military vessels, at least one
frigate and several patrol boats, were seen entering
Tripoli harbor Monday afternoon and taking
positions between foreign cargo ships, mostly
Turkish.
No military checkpoints were evident in the
capital Monday; shops were open for business and
foreigners could be seen on the streets.
Libya vowed Monday that U.S. forces would
pay a price "like they paid in Vietnam" if America
attacked in reprisal for recent terrorist acts.
A . statement issued by Khadafy's Foreign
Ministry also repeated denials of Libyan invol
vement in international terrorism.
The Libyan government statement said: "Libya
has no relationship with the claims made by
America linking it to the recent terrorist attempts
and operations, for Libya is against all terrorist
operations, hijacking airplanes, and the murder
of the innocent.
See TRIPOLI page 4
Media Boairdl appoMts
4 editors mew memlbeFS
MELA lotos food! ' service opponents
By SMITHSON MILLS
Staff Writer
The Residence Hall Association approved
a resolution opposing the renewal of ARA's
food service contract with UNC at a meeting
Monday.
The resolution also endorsed the student
government-sponsored report by a number of
student groups, "On The Need for a New
Campus Food Service," calling for the
removal of ARA Services from campus.
On February 4, an all-campus referendum
indicated mass student disfavor with ARA,
and the resolution cited the referendum and
the student groups' report as reasons for not
renewing ARA's contract.
RHA President Ray Jones, a junior from
Buies Creek, said he was satisfied that the
charges in the report were accurate. "With
the investigation we've made I believe those
allegations have been substantiated."
Jones said that he could understand Food
Service Director Connie H. Branch's denials
of the charges because Branch was employed
by ARA.
Only one RHA member voted against the
proposal, Granville Towers Governor
Michael Home, a junior from Winston
Salem. "I've talked with a lot of residents in
Granville Towers, and a large number of them
had no interest in ARA," Home said.
Granville Towers has its own food service
and its residents are not required to purchase
the $100 mandatory meal plan for on-campus
residents, Home said.
Also Monday, RHA discussed the pro
posed transfer of the Dormitory Enhancement
Fund from the University Housing Depart
ment to the Student Activities Fund Office.
The Enhancement Fund would be more
accessible to RHA if it were in SAFO instead
of University Housing, Jones said.
The Enhancement Fund was set up in 1972
for dorm upkeep and repair. On-campus
residents pay two dollars per semester in their
room rent for the fund. Last fall, students
passed a referendum in favor of the fund's
transfer to SAFO.
Jones said all individuals involved in
dormitory supervision are in favor of the
transfer, but Farris W. Womack, vice
chancellor for business and finance, had raised
some objections.
In a memo dated April 9 from Womack
to Donald A. Boulton, vice chancellor and
See RHA page 4
By SUZANNE JEFFRIES
Staff Writer
The editors of four campus publications the
"Yackety Yack," The Phoenix, the Cellar Door
and the Carolina Quarterly, have recently been
appointed for the 1986-87 academic year.
Liza Motsinger will be the 1987 Yackety Yack
editor, and James Farrer will be the editor of The
Phoenix. Beth Haas will be the editor of the Cellar
Door, and Allison David will be the managing
editor of the Carolina Quarterly.
The editors, who comprise the Media Board,
said they were looking forward to a productive
year for the board and the publications it represent.
The new editors were chosen by the outgoing
Media Board.
"I'd like to see more continuity in all of the
positions on the board," newly appointed
chairman Zanna Worsham said. "In the past,
attendence has really been low and some of the
laws haven't been enforced."
Worsham said she wanted the board's meeting
procedures to be more official so members would
be more dedicated to the board.
The Media Board is a governing body of campus
publications that makes sure that ' things run
smoothly, Worsham said. The editor and business
manager of each publication serve on the board.
The Student Congress also appointed one of its
members, Neil Reimann (Dist. 12), to serve on
the board. A faculty adviser also sits on the board,
but next year's has not been chosen.
Several at-large members and a business
manager, elected by the board, comprise the rest
of the board, Worsham said.
Worsham, a sophomore journalism and eco
nomcis major, said she had resigned as business
manager for The Phoenix to seek the Media Board
chair.
"Having had the business experience with the
Phoenix, I'd like to see publications run more
smoothly in the production aspect as well as
financially," she said.
Worsham said some of her goals as board
chairman were to' see that the "Yackety Yack."
UNC's yearbook, came out on lime, and to sec
that The Phoenix was published weekly or bi
weekly. "I'd like to see definite publication dates for
all of the Media Board publications," she said.
Newly appointed board member Motsinger said
she wanted to work on making the "Yackety Yack"
more visible to the University. "We'd be in a crunch
if we waited until the last minute to say 'Hey,
we're the Yackety Yack,' " she said.
As editor, Motsinger said she would work with
businesses, parents and students. "You have to
have business sense, service sense and public
relations sense," she said.
Former Media Board chairman Maurice
DeBerry said the board is "on the road to stability
and growth." The new editors have prior
experience, writing ability and a general concern
about the campus media, he said. "1 think the
board as a whole has gained credibility this year."
In a short meeting Monday, the Media Board
approved Haas as editor of the Cellar Door. Haas
said she hoped the board would guide her and
help her run the publication effectively. Haas has
served as the Cellar Door's associate editor and
assistant editor and staff writer for The Phoenix
this year.
"1 hope that the Media Board would help
everyone who's on it to run their organization
efficiently," Haas said.
Also during Monday's meeting, junior business
major Rebecca Berman was approved by the board
as business manager of The Phoenix. Berman
would be officially appointed after she takes the
treasurer's test. Worsham said.
Farrer, who was The Phoenix's features editor
this year, said his main concern was for the
Phoenix. Farrer said changes in how stories are
assigned, improving the writing quality and
reducing the number of design changes were some
of his goals for the upcoming year.
"The Phoenix has reached a level of organi
zation where we've overcome some of our past
problems such as coming out on time." he said.
Allison David could not be reached lor
comment Monday.
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