2Tha Daily Tar HeelWednesday, September 16 , 1987
By DONNA LEiNWAND
State & National Editor
It is the obligation of peoples who
have suffered to help those who are
suffering, Nobel peace prize winner
Elie Wiesel told a full house Tuesday
night in Page Auditorium at Duke
University.
"It is impossible to witness an
injustice and not to protest, because
if one does not protest, one is an
accomplice," Wiesel said, drawing on
his own experience as a Jewish
survivor of a Nazi concentration
camp during World War II.
"When I saw the boat people from
Vietnam, I felt close to them," he said.
He said the experience of Vietna
mese refugees is similar to an incident
during World War II, when a ship
full of German Jews was turned away
from the United States and sent back
District -attorney urges students to vote
By MATT BIVENS
Staff Writer
Students should register to vote
and should vote for whom they agree
with, instead of who they think will
win, Orange County District Attor
ney Carl Fox told about 40 students
at a meeting of the Young Democrats
Tuesday night in the Union.
"Personally, I think you should be
thrown in jail if you don't vote," Fox
said. "Don't raise your hands, you
know in your consciences who you
are. How many of you didnt vote
and were eligible to vote? If you didnt
vote, you should be embarrassed."
Students are especially guilty of not
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to Germany.
"If they are boat people, refugees,
then we must open doors for them,"
he said.
Wiesel, who has written 30 books,
sprinkled his speech with stories and
incidents from his life.
A trip to the Cambodian border
to deliver food, Wiesel said, showed
him how one group of people who
have suffered can reach out to
another group.
Wiesel said the anniversary of his
father's death fell during the time he
was at the Cambodian border.
Because Jewish law requires 10 Jews
to be present in order for relatives
to say a prayer for the dead, Wiesel
went in search of fellow Jews.
"I finally found 10 Jews and I said
the prayer," Wiesel said. "One man
voting in elections at all levels of
government, he said.
"Students dont vote," Fox said,
"and that's a shame, because that says
things don't mean much."
All around the country, college
groups like the Young Democrats are
meeting, Fox said, and if one or two
people in each of those rooms doesn't
vote, the outcome of the presidential
election could be changed.
If all of the students of Chapel Hill
registered to vote, they could single
handedly elect the mayor and every
alderman in Chapel Hill and Carr
boro, he said. If students at all college
campuses registered to vote, the
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was saying the prayer for the dead
(usually said by immediate relatives
only) right alongside of me. I asked
him if he was in mourning. He said,
'No.' So I asked for whom he was
saying the prayer for the dead. He
pointed to the Cambodians. One can
reach out."
Although Wiesel said he is devoted
to the priorities of the Jewish people
because of the experiences he has had,
but the priorities are not exclusive.
"Once the first priorities have been
met, one must look for other prior
ities," he said. "We must help those
who need help."
When he writes, Wiesel said he tries
to focus the lessons of the past on
the present. .
"Today writing is a commitment
to memory and that memory is a
commitment to humankind," he said.
drinking age would never have been
raised to 21, he said.
It's not enough for students to
simply register and vote, if they don't
vote courageously for candidates they
support, Fox said.
The courage to vote shouldn't be
selfish courage, where voters examine
the issues based on what the candi
date can do for them only, he said.
"I have seen T-shirts that say it's
not whether you win or lose, it's
whether I win or lose. If I believed
that, I'd be a Republican," Fox said.
Issues should dominate election
choices, he said.
"So what if the candidate I support
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"The memory (of the Holocaust)
invades our lives. Forty years after
the event we are abandoned by it,
hopeless and helpless. We haven't
even begun to tell the story.
"There are still wars, hunger,
hatred. Hasn't humanity learned
anything? Woe to the people whose
future would be a reflection of the
past."
Weisel said he sees hope in the
future.
"Our people (Jews) have tried to
teach," he said. "We are trying to
show the suffering. We are proving
there is a response to suffering. We
have seen the darkest of all times. It
is possible to envision a time when
there could be some joy and then time
itself will dance. I hope that time is
near."
only has 10 percent or 3 percent or
25 percent of the vote," Fox said.
"Even if he doesn't win, at least I
stood for something. '
"I heard one candidate at the
(Education forum say, 'I think
Americans want, I think Americans
want.' Who does he think he's talking
to, Communists? We know what we
want; what are you going to do about
it?"
Because people who do vote often
base their support on a candidates'
television presence or popularity, the
candidates' constituency later suffers,
Fox said.
"It wont be a joke to sell the BMW
and have to live in a tent for a while,"
he said. "It's not so funny when
they're cutting student aid while
you're at the movies."
Carl Fox is a graduate of the UNC
School of Law, and was assistant
district attorney from 1978 to 1984,
before being elected district attorney
in 1984.
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the date of the ratification of the
Appropriations Act was decided
by the state legislature.
"We were hoping for sooner, given
that (this issue) has been around for
awhile," he said.
Gunnells said that the feedback
from the people affected by the raise
has been positive, and that most
employees are happy with the terms.
Reagan, Soviet
to abolish nuclear missiles
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON President
Reagan and Soviet Foreign Min
ister Eduard Shevardnadze took
new steps to avert accidental war
and expressed mutual hopes Tues
day for a nuclear arms agreement
to crown a superpower summit.
However, Shevardnadze said a
letter he carried from Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev did not pro
pose a specific date for a summit
with Reagan.
Shevardnadze and Reagan con
ferred in the Oval Office following
a morning meeting at the State
Department between Secretary of
State George Shultz and the
Soviet minister. "We're just begin
ning," Reagan said when asked if
any progress had been made.
Shevardnadze's visit is viewed
as a critical step toward wrapping
up an agreement to abolish
intermediate-range nuclear mis
siles from the Soviet and Amer
ican arsenals. The expected accord
would be signed by Reagan and
Gorbachev at a summit which
U.S. officials expect in late
November.
Reagan said he looked forward
"to the day when General Secre
tary Gorbachev and I can sign
even more historic agreements in
our common search for peace."
UN chief leaves Persian Gulf
BAGHDAD, Iraq The Uni
ted Nations' chief ended his Per
sian Gulf mission Tuesday, saying
he discussed "the outline of a plan"
to implement a Security Council
resolution calling for a cease-fire
in the 7-year-old Iran-Iraq war.
But Secretary-General Javier
Perez de Cuellar gave no indica
tion before he flew out of Baghdad
for New York of how successful
his quest had been.
Perez de Cuellar spent two days
talking with top Iranian govern
ment leaders in Teheran, then flew
to the Iraqi capital Sunday night
for talks with President Saddam
Hussein, Foreign Minister Tariq
Aziz and other senior Iraqis.
He is to report Wednesday to
the Security Council on his
mission.
Hackers obtain NASA data
FRANKFURT, West Germany
Hackers broke into NASA's
worldwide computer network
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throughout the summer and
gathered secret data on space
shuttle projects and rocket fail
ures, West German media said
Tuesday.
News reports said young West
Germans gained regular access to
at least 20 computers of the U.S.
space agency and had the ability
to paralyze the entire network.
The ARD television network
said a flaw in the network's
security system allowed the
hackers to enter the network from
May to September.
The NASA system connects
more than 1,600 computers world
wide that share information on
space research, nuclear physics
and molecular biology, ARD said.
The network includes U.S. atomic
research facilities in Los Alamos,
N.M.
The reports did not say how
many hackers were involved or
where they lived.
In Washington, the National
Aeronautics and Space Adminis
tration said it was preparing a
statement.
Three White Patriots indicted
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. Three
members of a white supremacist
group, including its former leader,
were indicted Tuesday on charges
of possession of illegal firearms
and conspiracy to kill blacks and
Jews.
A federal grand jury charged
Glenn Miller, 46, the former leader
of the White Patriot Party, with
one count of illegal possession of
hand grenades, said Mike Jones,
an assistant U.S. attorney.
The other eight counts of the
nine-count federal indictment
named the two men arrested with
him, Robert E. Jackson, 26, and
Douglas L. Sheets, 30.
Miller pleaded guilty Monday
in federal court in Raleigh to a
charge of mailing a threatening
communication. He said in an
agreement with the government
that he also would plead guilty to
the weapons charge against him
in Missouri.
He also agreed to testify against
other members of his defunct
organization.
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