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2Trie Daily Tar Heel Tuesday, October 13, 1987 arf brf jplannis foreign gcoeoirmc reform By LAURIE DUNCAN Staff Writer Although Central America is just beginning to implement political reforms, Sen. Terry Sanford, D-N.C, is trying to foresee how economic development in the five countries can be advanced. Sanford announced in June 1987 the creation of the International Commission on Central American Recovery and Development, a pri vately funded research organization to draft a plan for economic devel opment in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Costa Rica. "This is as thorough a plan for economic development in the world since the Marshall Plan, Sanford said Monday. The Marshall Plan was a U.S. policy of economic aid for all countries ravaged by World War II. The blueprint for Central America would look beyond the Arias plan, a peace agreement the five countries' presidents signed Aug. 7, said Ann Hubbard, a Sanford representative. The Arias plan, named after its principal author, Costa Rican Pres ident Oscar Arias, goes into effect Nov. 7. Sanford's economic plan would give aid as a reward to countries that achieve democratic reforms, he said. The reforms, such as free press and elections, correspond with the Arias plan's goals of peace and democracy. President Reagan has expressed varying degrees of support for the Arias plan, from labeling it "fatally flawed" to calling it a good first step, with "much work to be done." The administration has not faltered in its support for the contras, a rebel group fighting Nicaragua's Sandinista government, and plans to seek a $270 million contra aid package from Congress. The administration said the San dinista regime cannot be trusted in a peace agreement, but congressional proponents of the Arias plan counter that Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has already taken steps outlined by the plan that indicate his willingness to achieve peace. Ortega reopened the opposition newspaper La Prensa; appointed four people to a commission required by the Arias plan that must comprise church, government and opposition party officials to monitor Nicaragua's compliance with the accord; and enacted a partial cease-fire. The economic development plan should be ready to present to Con gress in one year, just before a new administration comes in, Sanford said. The scope of the project is greater than previous U.S. attempts at reform in the region because it specifically addresses issues such as education, finance, debt and trade instead of creating comprehensive aid pro grams, Hubbard said. The international commission brings together American and Latin American scholars to study the needs, strengths, weaknesses and priorities of the Central American people, said Hubbard, who is running the Durham-based organization. San ford said the principal research would be conducted in San Jose, Costa Rica. The freshman senator dove into Central American peace issues as soon as he arrived in Washington. Early in 1987 he was appointed to the Central American Negotiations Observer Group, a bipartisan team of six senators studying the progress of peace measures in the region, and he has visited Central America twice this year as a member of this delegation. N.C. high court clarifies state, local laws By MICHAEL JORDAN Staff Writer '. The N.C. Supreme Court devised a new test to distinguish local leg islation from statewide legislation in a decision handed down last week. The court reversed a N.C. Court of Appeals ruling by deciding 5-1 in Town of Emerald Isle vs. State of North Carolina that despite a con stitutional prohibition, the state can legislate locally as long as the law promotes the general welfare of the public. The town was contesting state legislation that prohibited cars from a four-block area in the town. It also created public beach access and required the town to maintain it. "The (N.C.) General Assembly does not have the authority, or did not seem to have the authority, to do that," said Wade Horn, Emerald Isle town manager. ". In past rulings, the state could not enact laws affecting a specific area, but the new ruling reverses the 100-year-old precedent. Writing for the court, Associate Justice Henry Frye said, "We hold, therefore, that the restrictions on vehicular traffic contained in the act are intended to promote the general welfare of the public and are reason ably based to further this intent." Robin Smith, associate attorney general of North Carolina, said the decision set up a two-pronged test. The first test would be whether an act affects only a local area and the second test would be whether the act serves the interests of the general public, Smith said. "It looks like it will be a very significant decision in setting a new test of general vs. local," Smith said. The ruling could further jeopardize any other local laws, Horn said. Every local issue could be treated as a statewide issue, he said. "If you really think about the implications there, we have almost done away with local laws," Horn said. But proponents of the decision said the new test will not erode the distinction between local acts and general legislation. "(The court's decision) is pretty much a restatement of what we at the state level believed that the law was all along," said David Owens, director of the N.C. Division of Coastal Management. "In cases where there is a significant state interest, the state will be allowed to address that interest." Associate Justice Louis Meyer dissented from the court's decision and Associate Justice John Webb abstained. In his dissent, Meyer wrote, "The purpose of the constitutional prohi bition against the use of local acts to accomplish certain ends was to How to hack college. 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Webb said he did not participate in the decision because he heard the case as a member of the appeals court and, in fact, wrote the decision the Supreme Court overturned. "This court reversed me," said Webb, who stands behind his decision in the appeals court. The case began in 1983 after town property owners asked the town to eUrninate vehicular traffic on their section of Bogue Point. The town refused, and landowners threatened to form a new town, going as far as introducing legislation in the General Assembly to do so. Eventually, a compromise bill was introduced in the General Assembly" to settle the dispute. That bill, sponsored in part by former Rep. Al Adams, D-Wake, became law in 1983. It required the town to impose a ban on vehicular traffic in the area and maintain access facilities built by the state. The town then filed its suit against the state and won every decision until the case reached the Supreme Court. 80 passengers sustain injuries as Amtrak train derails in Iowa From AModated Ptcm reports RUSSELL, Iowa Amtrak's California Zephyr slammed into a railroad crane laying new track Monday, knocking both locomo tives and 1 1 cars of the passenger train off the tracks and injuring more than 80 people, officials said. "Everything was going smoothly and all of the sudden I News in Brief Oct. 10. As the decades put the 1936 drubbing further and further behind him, Landon became a beloved symbol of his party, an elder statesman who received heard the screeching of the brakes President Reagan at his home on and everyone went flying, said the occasion of his 100th birthday, passenger Mildred Faddis of Landon, who emerged as the Oakland, Calif. "There was debris GOP's bright hope by being the everywhere. It was terrible." only Republican governor to win Amtrak spokeswoman Debbie re-election in 1934, received eight . Marciniak said the railroad's 16- electoral votes in the 1936 election, car No. 6 train was headed east Long afterward, he acknow- toward Chicago when it hit a ledged that he knew on Election Burlington Northern "bridge der- Eve he didn't have a chance. Yet rick" shortly after 1 1:30 a.m. near he never expressed any regret. Russell. "You see, I had never planned Eighty people were taken to the a political career," he said. "With Lucas County Memorial Hospital me, politics was not a vocation but in nearby Chariton, said hospital administrator Bill Bruce, while three of the most seriously hurt, including two railroad workers, were flown by helicopter to hos pital in Des Moines. GOP stalwart dies at 100 TOPEKA, Kan. Alf Landon, the former Kansas governor whose presidential hopes were swamped in Franklin Roosevelt's 1936 landslide but who became the grand bid man of the Grand Old Party in a long life outside politics, died Monday. He was 100. Landon, the father of Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan., wryly described himself as "a lawyer who never had a case, an oilman who never made a million and a presidential candidate who carried only Maine and Vermont." He refused to be nettled about his epic loss, and in later years gave state's southwestern coast, main- his grandchildren pomes named taining them only on the eastern for the two states he won. coast from Stuart, north of West "They might have forgotten me Palm Beach, to Key Largo, if it had been close," he once said. Floyd grew from a tropical Landon was hospitalized Sept. storm to become the season's third 28 at Stormont-Vail Regional hurricane. It began heading up Medical Center after compaining through the Florida Keys toward of internal pain. He was treated southern Dade County at the for a gallstone and a mild case of southern tip of the mainland, bronchitis before returning home spawning at least two tornados. an avocation. He never sought office again. Hurricane hits Florida coast MIAMI Hurricane Floyd sprang to life in the Gulf of Mexico early Monday, hitting south Flor ida with 80-mph winds and heavy rain. Some coastal residents scur ried for shelter, while others cleaned stores of batteries, canned food and bottled water. But by Monday evening the eye had all but disappeared, the National Hurricane Center reported, and winds dropped slightly to 75 mph. "There's, no well-defined storm," said forecaster Bob Sheets. "I'm afraid some people are overreact ing. This is just barely a hurricane." The center canceled hurricane warnings Monday evening on the Research from page 1 For the Record The stiff competition in the our budget is limited." research field is the main reason for Although no researchers recently fraud, Joseloff said. Of the 26,885 questioned at UNC said they sus- oroDosals sent to the NIH in 1986. pected their colleagues of research ; In Friday's article "Family conflict' is core of Lab Theatre play;," directory Cynthia- Stewart ' was' -'iricorre'ctly " identified as Carolyn' Stewart." The DTH regrets the reporting error. he said only 6,000 of them were granted. , , "There is definitely "a tremendous amount of .competition.-in the research iCield," Joseloff said. "Although we'd like to fund more fraud, an article in a recent magazine revealed that nearly one-third of the scientists at one major universfty suspected a fellow researcher of fraud, j :. .i . .;. 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