2 The Daily Tar Heel Tuesday, February 24, 1987
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By LEE ANN NECESSARY
Staff Writer
When ihc U.S. Department of
Energy postponed the search for a
eastern nuclear waste repository last
spring, N.C. officials were assured
that the search was over for an
"indefinite amount of time."
But in Congressional hearings last
week, U.S. Secretary of Energy John
Herrington said he would push to
continue the search unless Congress
amends the law that requires its
establishment, said Don Follmer,
director of public affairs for the N.C.
Department of Natural Resources
and Community Development.
Two of the 12 sites being consi
dered are located in the state.
Gephardt
By MICHAEL A. KOLB
Staff Writer
Rep. Richard Gephardt of Mis
souri announced his bid for the
presidency Monday. He is the first
major Democrat to officially
announce for president.
Gephardt, a moderate Democrat,
said his campaign would center on
trade.
Democratic Gov. Mario Cuomo
of New York ended months of
speculation last Thursday night by
announcing that he would not seek
the Democratic nomination for the
presidency.
Cuomo made the announcement
during a monthly call-in radio show
on WCBS-New York City.
"In my opinion, the Democratic
Party offers a number of candidates
who can prove themselves capable
of leading this nation toward a more
sane, a more progressive and a more
humane future," Cuomo said during
the radio show. "1 will not add my
name to that number."
Federal grant speeds
By CORNELIA LEE
Staff Writer
A $30 million federal grant will
help North Carolina complete con
struction of Interstate 40 six months
to one year ahead of schedule, and
Chapel Hill is preparing for the
impact of more traffic.
"The speed up (of completion) will
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goal in writing the letter was to
defund the CGLA. although alter
natives exist, such as .allowing
students to choose which groups they
fund.
The group's opposition to funding
the CGLA can be compared to other
students' calls for UNC to divest
from South Africa, Spargo said. "We
want to divest the CGLA," he said.
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The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of
1982 established a federal program
to search for possible sites for two
nuclear waste repositories. The
Energy Department has narrowed
the possibilities for the western site
to areas in Texas, Nevada and
Washington, Follmer said.
The department lowered its 1982
projection of spent nuclear fuel and
amended its original plan due to
construction of fewer nuclear plants
and longer usage of fuel, said Evan
Brunson. coordinator of the Depart
ment of Natural Resources Crystal
line Repository, Project. The new
plan postpones the search for the
eastern site to 1995 with a comple
tion date of 2025. Brunson said.
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Paul Kirk, the chairman of the
Democratic National Committee,
said in a prepared statement that the
Cuomo announcement "changes the
dynamics of the race significantly."
While Cuomo has chosen not to
run, there will not be a shortage of
Democratic presidential, hopefuls,
said Julie Anbender, deputy director
of news and information for the
Democratic National Committee.
Included among the list of near
certains are former Gov. Bruce
Babbitt of Arizona, Sen. Joseph
Biden of Delaware and the front
runner, former Sen. Gary Hart of
Colorado. Anbender said.
The list of possible candidates also
includes Gov. Michael Dukakis of
Massachusetts, civil rights activist
Rev. Jesse Jackson, former Gov.
Charles Robb of Virginia and Sen.
Sam Nunn of Georgia, Anbender
said.
Of these possible candidates,
Nunn. Robb and Jackson would be
not affect the town at all, except that
the anticipated effects of increased
congestion and growth will occur
sooner," said assistant town manager
Sona Lowenthal.
The town has a plan td include
a low density buffer to keep growth
and congestion within specific limits.
This plan recognizes the 1-40 inter
changes as special areas. Lowenthal
said.
Two interchanges will open near
Chapel Hill. The first to open will
be at U.S. 15-501 in July 1987,
scheduled to accommodate the
influx of athletes and visitors to the
U.S. Olympic Festival this summer.
The other interchange will be at N.C.
86.
The new highway might drasti
cally shorten the drive from Chapel
Hill to the Research Triangle Park
yracuse University,
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If Congress does not approve the
amendment to the department's plan
or appropriate the funds for its
implementation, the department
may have to return to its original
plan and resume the search for a
second waste repository, Brunson
said.
"We in the governor's office have
been assured the search is over, and
North Carolina is out of the picture,"
said Tim Pittman, press secretary for
Gov. Jim Martin.
Before the last search was can
celed, Martin instructed the Depart
ment of Natural Resources to outline
evidence proving why the state was
not a good site, Pittman said.
"From our perspective, the geo
bid for presidency
strongest in the South, said UNC
political science professor Thad
Beyle.
Since many of the southern prim
aries occur early and close together,
the region is important in the 1988
primaries, Beyle said.
"The southern primary was
created so the South would be
counted in the north and northeast,"
Beyle said. "1 would think they (the
Democrats) have a good oppportun
ity to win the presidency in 1988 if
for no other reason than the arro
gance of foreign policy. There's a
malaise out there."
The South has been a Democratic
stronghold since the Civil War, said
Ann Gross, deputy press secretary
for the Republican National
Committee.
"The South is changing, though.
There is a general shift to the
Republicans," Gross said.
Cuomo was considered to be in
second place among the Democrats.
completion off 1-40
and Raleigh, or it might be heavily
congested the day it opens, said
David Bunk, planner for the Chapel
Hill transportation department.
The 15-501 interchange area will
become heavily congested, as com
muters from both Chapel Hill and
Durham converge on the new
entrance. Bunk said. Commuters to
Research Triangle Park might find
that traveling on the recently
widened N.C. 54 is the quickest route
into the Park, he said.
Traffic through Chapel Hill is
expected to increase as more people '
move into this area, lured by the
shorter drive to Research Triangle
Park, Lowenthal said.
But this influx is not expected to
cause an immediate surge in devel
opment, because there are already
manv vacancies in the new multi-
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logical evidence prepared proves that
we're not a suitable state because of
our unsuitable rock formations," he
said.
The two possible N.C. sites
included the Elk River area, which
encompasses Buncombe, Haywood
and Madison counties, and the
Roseville-Pluton area, which
includes Wake, Johnston and Frank
lin counties. The fissured rock
formations and dense population of
these areas were found to be unsuit
able for a high-level nuclear waste
repository site, Follmer said.
"We feel like there is little to no
chance that there will ever be a high
level nuclear waste repository east of
the Mississippi," he said.
said Merle Black, UNC associate
professor of political science.
"He would have been weak in the
South," said Black. "He probably
could not have won either the
nomination or the general election."
Republican White House hopefuls
include Vice President George Bush,
Sen. Robert Dole of Kansas, Gov.
Thomas Kean of New Jersey, Rep.
Jack Kemp of New York, evangelist
Pat Robertson, former Secretary of
State Alexander Haig and former
Sen.- Howard Baker of Tennessee,
Gross said. '
N.C. Sen. Jesse Helms' name is
also popping up as a possible
candidate. Beyle said. Helms, 'a
Republican, could benefit from the
southern primary and his name
recogntion in the South, Beyle said.
"He would energize a certain side
of the electorate," said Beyle.
The Associated Press contributed
to this star v.
family buildings in the area, said
Arthur Jackson, long range planner
of the Chapel Hill Planning
Department.
These vacancies will be filled
before Chapel Hill permits a push
for new construction, Jackson said.
When needed, additional develop
ment will occur on the perimeters
of the town, but there is little room
for development inside town limits,
he said.
The, existing, .neighborhood ar$
expected to remain intact, with , a
density of two to four units per acre,
and some developments reaching
four to eight units per acre, he said.
Chapel Hill will rezone downtown
areas this year to create a mixture
of residential, office and retail
development, Lowenthal said. By
granting the mixed-use zoning only
to tracts of 20 acres or more. Chapel
Hill hopes to encourage coordinated
development, she said. .
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Lebanese man denounces
U.S. presence in homeland
From Associated Press reports
PARIS A Lebanese man
accused in the killings of Amer
ican and Israeli diplomats said at
the opening of his trial Monday
that he was an Arab fighter and
denounced "Yankee execution
ers" in his homeland.
Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, 35,
spoke for about 10 minutes in
what appeared to be a rehearsed
monologue when he was inter
rupted by Judge Maurice
Colomb, who said Abdallah was
beginning to repeat himself.
Court to rule on death penalty
WASHINGTON The
Supreme Court said Monday it
will decide whether the death
penalty is a valid punishment for
convicted murderers who com-
Conservatives seek
to control state GOP
By LAURIE DUNCAN
Staff Writer ...
As the 1988 presidential election
grows closer, control of the N.C.
Republican Party has become
increasingly important to Sen. Jesse
Helms, R-N.C, and his conservative
following.
Most officials agree that Helms
and his political action committee,
the National Congressional Club,
intend to take control of the party
from moderate Republicans.
Conservative and moderate
Republicans are squabbling over
choices for the state GOP chairman,
and the official decision won't be
made until the party's convention in
May. .
"It's not an ideological contest, it's
a power struggle for control," said
Paul Shumaker. campaign director
for the Republican Party.
But Carter Wrenn, executive
director of Helms' Congressional
Club, said several issues showed
ideological differences between the
two wings.
"Moderates in the Republican
party don't want to portray a
difference in philosophy," Wrenn
said Monday.
Last weekend. Helms endorsed
the Rev. Barry McCarty as the
conservative candidate for GOP
' party chairman., Jack Hawke,
1 recommended by Gov. Jim Martin,
j was named interim chairman last
month, replacing Bob Bradshaw
who left the post in January.
S6me officials said that Helms is
using the rage for Republican party
chairman 6 measure his support
within the party. Since state parties
choose delegates, who decide upon
presidential candidates for the
(Upcoming elections, to their national
convention, having a conservative
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mined their crimes before they
were 18 years old.
Witness identifies Nazi guard
JERUSALEM - A survivor
quivering with emotion testified '
Monday that John Demjanjuk
was the Nazi guard "Ivan the
Terrible" who clubbed prisoners,
gouged out their eyes and turned
on the gas at the Treblinka death
camp.
"This is the man, the man
sitting over there," Pinchas
Epstein shouted in the court
room, pointing at the retired
Cleveland auto worker and
pounding repeatedly on the wit
ness stand.
chairman for the state party could
further Helms' chances of influenc
ing the 1988 presidential elections,
Shumaker said.
"This might be (the Congressional
Club's) long-term goal," Shumaker
said. "But they have to get by the
(state) convention first."
Wrenn said Helms' interest in the
chairman's race was an attempt to
strengthen conservative values in the
party.
Thad Beyle, political science
professor at UNC, said the GOP
chairman's race should be
interesting.
"We have seen in the Funderburk
Broyhill primary the relative strength
of both factions in the party," he said.
In the May 1986 primary for the U.S.
Senate race, former Sen. Jim Broy
hill, considered a moderate Repub
" lican, received 67 percent of the vote,
and the Congressional Club's can
didate, David Funderburk, won 30
percent of the vote.
"The question is where (the Con
gressional Club) draws the line in this
attack," he said. "They're going to
get all over everything they can. The
more they do, the more potential
theyH have of hurting Gov. Martin."
Martin, who is wary of the threat
Helms represents, has been cam
paigning since last summer to build
Republican party strength, Beyle
said. '
Wrenn said the Congressional
Club's campaign for McCarty would
use heavy direct mailing and person-to-person
discussions with Republi
can party delegates.
Shumaker said the campaign
would also include a phone bank' for
contacting delegates to ask them to
hear campaign speeches at precinct
meetings.
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