2 The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, October 27, 1987
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By MICHAEL JORDAN
Staff Writer
In an effort to defeat legislation
banning smoking on airplanes,
tobacco companies have deluged
Congressional offices with telegrams,
and senators from tobacco states plan
to filibuster. ,
An amendment tacked on to the
Senate Appropriations Bill spon
sored by Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D
N.J., calls for a three-year smoking
ban on all domestic airline flights of
two hours or less. The proposal is
expected to go to the floor of the
Senate today or Wednesday.
One of the largest tobacco com
panies, New. York-based Phillip
Morris, battled the legislation by
sending about 4,000 letters from New
Jersey residents to Lautenberg alone,
said Jim Abbott, Lautenberg's press
secretary. The company called New
Jersey residents to ask permission to
send the computer-generated tele
grams which protested the legislation.
Tobacco giants like North Caro
lina's R.J. Reynolds have relied on
the Tobacco Institute, a lobbying
organization, to protest the legisla
tion, said Maura Payne, manager of
external communication for R.J.
Reynolds. ,
"This legislation would affect 80
percent of all airline flights in this
country," said Walker Merryman,
vice president of the Tobacco Insti
tute. "This is not a minor thing."
A similar bill has already been
approved by the House, Abbott said.
The House bill, however, calls for a
permanent smoking ban on airplanes.
Both N.C. senators, Republican
Jesse Helms and Democrat Terry
Sanford, plan to oppose the legisla
tion, their press secretaries said.
Although Helms realizes that the
legislation has much support in the
Senate, he formed a coalition with
four other Southern senators to
filibuster the amendment, said Mark
Flemming, Helms' legislative assis
tant for agriculture.
"There's a Nov. 10 deadline,"
Flemming said. "We just want to hold
this up until then."
As chairman of the appropriations
committee, Sen. John Stennis, D
Miss., will decide the fate of the
proposal if it is not passed before the
deadline. Stennis opposed the amend
ment in committee and would prob
ably oppose it again, Flemming said.
Merryman said the Airline Pilots
Association and the Air Transport
Association also oppose the
amendment.
The two groups could not be
reached for comment Monday.
"The pilots are very concerned that
under some circumstances a pas
senger might try to sneak into the
restroom to smoke a cigarette, and
that creates a fire hazard," Merryman
said. "The last thing a pilot needs is
another fire hazard."
Merryman said statements by the
Department of Transportation
(DOT) support the anti-ban group.
But Ed O'Hara, a DOT spokes
man, said the department has not
taken a position on the issue.
The DOT initiated a 14-month
study earlier this month to determine
the hazards of smoke in close quar
ters. The study will gather enough
evidence for an empirical ruling.
Opponents also questioned the
amendment's legality.
"You cannot legislate with an
appropriations bill," Flemming said.
"That's against the rules."
New academic plan in the works for Duke
By USA WYNNE
Stan Writer
After it is revised and resubmitted
to the board of trustees next Sep
tember, a plan outlining an estimated
$100 million in improvements may
result in a tuition increase and a
reduction in enrollment for Duke
University.
The Academic Plan, which targets
five- and 10-year goals for improve
ment, includes a 300-student reduc
tion in the university's undergraduate
enrollment, from 6,000 students to
5,700 students, which will better the
student faculty ratio, said Leonard
Pardue, associate vice president and
director of university relations.
For the Record
Monday's story, "New book slams
State Department," reported that
David Funderburk challenged
incumbent Jim Broyhill for the
Republican Senate nomination in
1984. Funderburk sought the nom
ination in 1986. The Daily Tar Heel
regrets the reporting error.
Pardue said the plan did not result
from any immediate crisis, but rather
from an ongoing dedication to
maintaining the university's
standards.
"We're in a strong position, but we
want to take steps to ensure that we
not only stay where we are, but move
forward," he said.
The plan, initiated by the board of
trustees under the leadership of the
provost's office, restates the univer
sity's commitment to hiring women
and blacks. The university, as a
private institution, is not required to
comply with government regulations
in affirmative action.
The plan also calls for more
computers on campus, improvement
in scientific laboratories, elimination
of courses taught by first-year grad
uate students, increased study abroad
programs and improvement in job
placement programs for seniors.
Although university officials know
the plan will require added revenue,
specific costs have not been discussed,
Pardue said. But the university may
raise tuition if alternate ways of
raising money are not found, he said.
The provost's office initiated the
plan in January after the chairman
of the board of trustees suggested the
need for an overall picture of the
academic departments' direction, said
Susan McDonald, assistant provost.
After university administrators
formulated a report, deans of indi
vidual schools reported their depart
ment's status and goals to the provost,
she said.
The provost's office presented the
preliminary plan to the board of
trustees at its September meeting,
McDonald said.
After the deans make the recom
mended revisions, the plan in its final
form will be presented at the board's
September 1988 meeting.
Along with improvements in aca
demic departments, the plan recom
mends changes in the library system,
Pardue said.
Although Duke's library budget
has grown steadily, it must keep pace
with the growth in university pro
grams, said Jerry Campbell, univer
sity librarian and vice provost for
university affairs.
"It's not a crisis because the
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university is just now moving to
increase its programs," he said.
In addition to the Academic Plan,
the provost's office is formulating a
plan to address the lack of building
space at the university, McDonald
said.
Pardue said undergraduate hous
ing and faculty offices have definite
space needs. Possible solutions
include building a new residence hall
and renovating an old classroom
building to provide additional faculty
space, he said.
Lack of building space also affects
the library system, and to manage the
problem, the library may switch from
general shelving to compact shelving,
he said. Compact shelving allows
space for twice as many books, he
said.
Other options include storing
books off campus or putting the
content of older, fragile books into
computers or microfilm, Campbell
said.
Campbell said the Academic Plan
will increase awareness of university
problems before they reach crisis
level.
He said, MIt is exceptionally healthy
for the university to look at the real
cost of excellence."
It brings out
the best
in all of us."
Reagan calls for embargo
of U.S. imports from Iran
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON President
Reagan moved Monday to ban all
U.S. imports from Iran, citing "the
continued and increasingly belli
cose behavior" of Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini's government
in the Persian Gulf.
Reagan also said he was direct
ing the departments of State and
Treasury to bring about a ban on
the export to Iran of 14 broad
categories of U.S. products "with
potential military application."
The punitive economic mea
sures follow the military retalia
tion Reagan ordered last, week
against Iran after a Silkworm
missile strike against a U.S.
flagged Kuwaiti oil vessel in
Kuwaitian waters.
Secretary of State George
Shultz said, meanwhile, he hoped
other countries would follow the
U.S. lead and embargo Iranian oil,
thereby causing a drop in the price
of Iranian oil and in revenue for
the purchase of weapons.
Selling resumes on Wall Street
NEW YORK A fresh wave
of selling gripped Wall Street on
Monday as the stock market,
reacting to a stock selloff overseas,
posted its worst performance since
last week's historic collapse.
The 157-point fall followed a
record loss on the prime Hong
Kong exchange, which lost one
third of its value on the first day
of trading in a week. Tokyo,
London and other foreign markets
also had large losses.
In a procedure adopted Friday,
major exchanges closed two hours
early to curb the enormous volume
building up since Monday's
plunge, when stocks lost more
than $500 billion in value and the
Dow Jones industrial average
plummeted 508 points.
Investor shoots two, kills self
MIAMI An investor who
reportedly suffered heavy stock
market losses shot and killed one
broker and critically wounded
another in their brokerage house
Monday, then turned his gun on
himself, police and witnesses said.
The gunman, Arthur Kane, 53,
of Miami, was dead at the scene,
said Metro-Dade Police Cmdr.
William Johnson.
"We believe it was, in fact,
related to losses suffered in the
market during the recent down
turn,' Johnson said.
News in Brief
A Merrill Lynch spokesman -said
the slain brokerage manager
was Jose Argilagos, 51. The .
wounded stockbroker was Lloyd
Kolokoff, 39, of Miami. Both men
were local vice presidents of
Merrill Lynch.
Kolokoff was in critical condi
tion at Baptist Hospital following
surgery to remove bullet frag
ments. He had a gunshot wound
to the back and suffered injury to
a lung and the spinal cord, said ;
hospital spokeswoman Adrianne
Silver.
First lady's mother dies
WASHINGTON Edith
Luckett Davis, mother of first lady
Nancy Reagan, died of a stroke .
Monday at her home in Phoenix,
Ariz., the White House ;
announced. She was 91.
Davis, a onetime actress who
was the widow of Chicago neu
rosurgeon Loyal Davis, had been
ailing for several years.
President Reagan was told first
about Davis death at 3 p.m. by
Mrs. Reagan's press secretary,
Elaine Crispen, as he concluded ,
an interview. He immediately went '
to the residence to inform his wife
and remained with her the rest of
the afternoon.
Human rights leader killed
SAN SALVADOR, El Salva
dor Two men with silencer
equipped handguns killed the
president of the Salvadoran
Human Rights Commission on
Monday as he left home to take
two of his six children to school,
official sources said. ,
As the children 'stood some
distance away, the assailants shot .
Herbert Ernesto Anaya point
blank in a small parking lot, police
said.
There was no immediate claim
of responsibility, but a spokesman
for the human rights commission
blamed the shooting on right-wing
death squads linked to the
military. .
Anaya, 32, was the fourth
member of the commission, an '
independent private organization
made up of lawyers and other
professionals, to be assassinated
since 1980. Two other members
disappeared while in police
custody.
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