SLcou.nessan.oo,. WaraMy o'Uiis out on Heeis to Siry to swing Tltdta Low in the teens. Highs in the lower n n n w m mn U&y Chanceo. HiSM in S OleOlt lOanS -Pages . .UDOO'ir b tail -Page6 For seniors to apply the 40s. lows n the upper 30s. . ' . tj for graduation KB" HIT fl lt$ Copyright 1987 The Daiy Tar Heel Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Volume 94, Issue 127 Wednesday, January 28, 1987 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewsSportsArts 962-0245 BusinessAdvertising 962-1163 8 states set rales for waste By SHARON KEBSCHULL Staff Writer The Southeast Compact Commis sion began deciding the future of radioactive waste repositories and of states that won't support them in a meeting Tuesday in the Radisson Hotel in Raleigh. The commission, made up of eight states, designates waste sites for common use. Last September it decided to put the next site in North Carolina by January 1992. The state threatened to withdraw after being chosen, but eventually agreed to stay in as long as certain terms are met. Those conditions include estab lishing sanctions against states that try to pull out of the compact. "On balance, it was a good meet ing," said William Briner, one of North Carolina's delegates to the commission and associate professor of radiology at Duke University. "You can never be completely satisfied," he said. "I thought we made some progress." Two representatives from each state attended the meeting, except for Virginia representatives. Delegates decided to retain legal counsel to advise them on sanctions against states trying to pull out of the compact, Briner said. They also will review the designation process of host states for the sites, he said. Briner said the N.C. delegates thought identifying a host for waste sites should be a continuous process. Within six months to a year, the commission will decide whether the criteria used to pick North Carolina should be used to choose the next state, Briner said. Within 18 months to three years, the next site should be designated, he said. The selection should be completed before con struction of the N.C. site begins. The next site will be the second or third host state, depending on whether the N.C. General Assembly decides to pull out of the compact, I here is some urgency to it, he said, because the legislature will want to know whether the process will be the same as that by which North Carolina was chosen. The disposal facility must be built in North Carolina by January 1992, when the current South Carolina site finishes its term. The N.C. site will be used for 20 years, or until it reaches 32 million cubic feet, which isn't expected to happen, Briner said. The agreement to build it in North Carolina was met with controversy as N.C. delegates threatened to pull out of the compact in September 1986. If the state had pulled out, it still would have had to build its own site for radioactive waste. Subcommittees have met to decide on sanctions for members who try to pull out when it comes their turn to host a waste site, Briner said. The threat of having to build its own waste site keeps states in the com pact, members said. Briner said some possibilities for sanctions included the following: setting a specifid date beyond which no state may withdraw; setting up an account to which all member SBP9 senior class president candidates put best foot By JEAN LUTES Assistant University Editor Candidates for student body president were asked Tuesday to answer the following question: What makes you different from the other candidates running for student body president? David Brady said he had demon strated more desire to be student body president than the other can didates. "I've taken the time to talk to people," he said. "I make an effort and go door to door." Brady said his will to win was obvious, since he's running for the second time: "I think that desire is very important, to show students that I care." Keith Cooper said he was different from other candidates because he didn't want to use student govern ment as a "vehicle to advance my own personal ambitions." An egghead . . . stands firmly on both feet in ,.,x;?:;: : 3 O a: Squeeze play Bruce Hornsby plays his accordian and sings with The Range to a sold-out Memorial Hall audience Tuesday night states will contribute until their term comes, and if it won't sponsor a site, depleting the money from the fund; and placing a penalty charge on generators in the states that withdraw. "We're treading in very murky waters as far as the legality of this is concerned ... that's why we're getting legal counsel," Briner said. The compact must established sanc tions because the members never know how a state will respond if it is selected, he said. "You need some assurance that down the road, some of the states that haven't been using it won't all of a sudden drop out, and cause more than heartburn in this state," he said. Gov. Jim Martin supports North Carolina's remaining in the compact, so long as there is a requirement that other states remain as well, said Tim Pittman, Martin's press secretary. He also wants to see a tax schedule put in place to generate revenue for the host state, Pittman said. North Carolina's second delegate, George Miller, could not be reached for comment. Elections 1987 Forum schedule "Student Government for years and years has been under the control of power-hungry fraternities and elitists," he said. "I have a clearly defined list of goals, and I have no conflict of interest because of my non-fraternity connections." Cooper questions the sincerity of the other candidates who belong to fraternities, because they want to use student government for their own purposes. Mark Gunter said that although most of the campaign issues were the same for each candidate, he planned to use a lot of committees to find out what student needs are and how to serve them. 1 H' i i I If A ?! I! DTHTony Deifell Foreign policy control shifts By CHRIS CHAPMAN Staff Writer ' The lack of strict constitutional guidance has led to conflicts between the president and Congress over the proper administration of foreign policy, Ole Holsti told about 250 people in Hanes Art Center Audi torium Tuesday night. Holsti spoke about "The Consti tution and Foreign Policy: The Role of Law in Foreign Studies," the first speech of the Great Decisions '87 lecture series. "The Constitution does not spell out in tremendous detail who should run foreign policy," said Holsti, a political science professor at Duke University. Since the beginning of World War II, every President has taken an expansive role in foreign policy, pushing the Constitution to its limits, Holsti said. The trend began with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who traded destroyers with Great Britain for "I have a lot of newer ideas centered around student needs," Gunter said. "By initiating different programs to deal with student needs, I feel I would be most effective in dealing with them." Because he has lived close to the campus for so many years, Gunter said he was more in touch than the other candidates with how the University had progressed and where it needed to go. Gordon Hill said nothing made him different except the concrete solutions he offers to solve specific problems for students. "I'm just a student like everybody else," he said. "Students need to see that a student body president is just like them." One of Hill's proposals is to form a cooperative day-care program for students needing financial aid. "People want answers, and this is what we're going to give them." .Reas an of Iranian arums By JEANNIE FARIS Assistant State & National Editor President Ronald Reagan said Tuesday night that although he believed he had acted to secure worldwide freedom, his one major regret was his inability to successfully contact Iran and secure the release of American hostages. "1 took a risk with regard to our action in Iran," he said in his sixth annual State of the Union address to both houses of Congress. "It did not work, and for that I assume full responsibility." Reagan said he thought the goals were worthy of action. "Certainly it was not wrong to try to secure freedom for our citizens held in barbaric captivity," he said. "But we did not achieve what we wished, and serious mistakes were made in trying to do so." After vowing to get to the bottom of the diversion of the Iranian arms money to Nicaraguan Contras, Reagan urged the nation to look beyond the present scandal. "Let it never be said of this Haurt attacks education cote By JIM ZOOK Editor DURHAM Calling education "the key to the 21st century for America," Democratic presidential contender Gary Hart introduced a massive educational reform package Tuesday that is touted as one of the centerpieces of his campaign for the White House. "Our national government must recapture our historic role of using education to meet the challenges of economic and social change," Hart told a capacity audience of more than 1,200 at Duke University's Page Auditorium. Hart's plan contains recommen dations that would affect every phase Great Decisions leases on Caribbean naval bases without Congressional approval, Holsti said. Examples of this exec utive action in the Reagan admin istration include the dispatch of troops to Lebanon and Grenada, as well as the recent Iran-Contra affair. The executive branch has also shifted its foreign policy-making apparatus from the State Depart ment to the White House, Holsti said. This began under the auspices of Secretary of State Henry Kis senger. "On the key foreign policy initi atives of the Nixon administration, such as SALT I, the Vietnam nego tiations, detente and the opening of China, things were done out of the White House to the point that the senior officials at State (Department) had little to do," Holsti said. This shift in foreign policy-making Personal contact would be impor tant in Hill's work as student body president, he said. "I'm a student, and I want to be myself and I want to encourage others to be themselves, too." Jaye Sitton said her experience with Student Government distin guished her from her opponents. "Having been speaker of Student Congress and vice president of the student body for the last year, I've seen Student Government in action. I know what it's doing right and IH be able to build on that success." Also, Sitton said she could avoid the shortcomings of past administra tions and waste less energy dealing with the bureaucratic part of the job. "I won't lose myself in meetings," she said. "I won't have to spend .several months learning the job. I think that's key." Brian Bailey said he's the only mid-air on both snoMlders load. generation of Americans that we became so obsessed with failure that we refused to take risks that could further the cause of peace and freedom in the world," he said. In the traditional opposition-party response to Reagan's speech, Major ity Leader Sen. Robert Byrd, D W.Va., said, "The recent dealing with Iran cast a long shadow over this country. It raises real doubts about competence. Government without trust is government without power." After initial remarks about the Iran arms sales, Reagan's speech focused on his agenda for his remaining two years in office. He said within the past five years, the Soviet government had trans ferred $75 billion in weapons to client states, including Angola, Nicaragua and Syria. He said Con gress had cut $85 billion in his defense budget in the last three years. "There is no surer way to lose our freedom than to lose our resolve," Reagan said. "The brave people of Afghanistan are showing that resolve. Here especially the world is Student loans cut of education: a national volunteer effort to fight illiteracy; B more federal funds for grants and loans to college students; B competency tests and higher pay for teachers, and; B more partnerships between pub lic and private entities, (such as UNC's project with Glaxo, Inc., a Research' Triangle pharmaceutical corporation). While President Reagan was telling the nation during his State of the Union address that he seeks quality education, Hart berated the president for seeking cuts in federal resulted in the strengthening of the National Security Council, he said. "In 1981, Alexander Haig became Secretary of State," he said. "He presented a memorandum to Pres ident Reagan that would have made Haig 'vicar' of foreign policy. Rea gan's other staffers were unwilling to go along with this, and within a year, Haig was gone." The Congress has also engaged in foreign policy activity beyond the strict definitions of the Constitution, Holsti said. Congress often holds investiga tions which are not mentioned in the Constitution, Holsti said. Holsti cited congressional com mittees such as the one which investigated the Pearl Harbor sur prise attack in 1941 and Sen. Joseph McCarthy's efforts to investigate the State Department in the early 1950s. "Senator McCarthy's rather indis criminate investigations led to the removal of many of our China experts in the 1950s, so that 20 years candidate who wanted to de politicize student government, using the office of student body president to work on issues students think are important, not issues he and his assistants come up with. "Nobody is going around asking students how they feel," Bailey said. "We need to tell the administration how students feel. All that we're doing right now is sitting up in an office." Student Body President Bryan Hassel won his campaign last year based on "student empowerment," Bailey said, but such empowerment requires more than getting the administration to listen to Student Government. "The administration will never listen to Student Govern ment until we listen to the students first," he said. At a forum Monday in Mclver Residence Hall, Brady answered a sides of an issue. - scandal. waiting to see how this nation responds." Reagan said his stand against communism in Central America is a tradition among U.S. presidents. "John F. Kennedy made it clear that communist domination in this hemisphere can never be negotiated. Some in this Congress choose to depart from this historical commit ment, but 1 do not," he said. Byrd said the Democratic major ity of Congress wanted to work with the administration. "When Congress and the president do not work together, the nation's business goes undone. Government is at its best when Congress and the president hitch themselves to the same wagon and pull together," he said. Reagan issued a warning to Con gress saying he would not tolerate interference with his foreign policy powers. "I must tell you ... 1 will veto any effort that undercuts our national security and our negotiating leverage," he said. education spending. "Precisely at the time when we most need a strong national com mitment to education, our govern ment preaches passivity and retreat," Hart said. Hart also took a jab at the president's commitment to defense spending and the Strategic Defense Initiative, questioning the funding priority those areas receive over education. "Instead of a Strategic Defense Initiative to initiate an arms race in space, why not empower generations of tomorrow with a Strategic Invest ment Initiative to prepare students See HART page 3 eo"-: Ole Holsti later, when these people should have been our senior China experts, they weren't there," he said. "There is no simple formula as to the proper division of authority between the legislative and executive branches," he said. forward question about where he sat in the Smith Center for the UNC N.C. State basketball game. Brady, who has promised to work with the Educational Foundation to get students better seats for basket ball games if he is elected, had described his seats for the State game as being in the "nosebleed" section. When asked about reports that he sat behind the team in section 109 for the game, Brady said he was misunderstood. "I was trying to explain the situation for the majority of students," he said. "I'm sorry I was misunderstood." Brady said he sat in the upper level "buffer zone" of the Smith Center for all except two of this year's basketball games. Also at the forum, candidates for senior class president and vice See ISSUES page 2 Ferguson h K V-:-:-"-:

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