2Jhe Daily Tar HeelTuesday, November 10, 1987
edges vie for Sepreme Court spot
By LAURIE DUNCAN
Assistant State and National Editor
The White House may scrap a list
of potential Supreme Court nominees
used to select Douglas Ginsburg and
find fresh contenders for the vacant
seat, said Peter Smith, a Senate
Judiciary Committee spokesman.
"Everybody on that list has some
kind of problem," said Smith, who
could not name the problems.
The White House is not ready to
nominate a candidate, so the judiciary
committee is just watching and
waiting, he said.
But Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C, did
more than watch and wait this
weekend. At a Republican fund
raiser in Raleigh, he endorsed former
Wake Forest Law School Dean
Pasco Bowman of the 8th Circuit
Court of Appeals to succeed Lewis
Powell's seat on the U.S. Supreme
Court. Bowman appeared on the list
from which Ginsburg was chosen, but
Smith said he was not one of the top
three contenders.
The intense scrutiny given to
Will North
By HELLE NIELSEN
Stan Writer
State lotteries are slowly encroach
ing upon North Carolina's borders,
putting pressure on the state legisla
ture to bring the lottery issue to a
referendum.
Although a bill to get a statewide
lottery referendum on the ballot did
not pass a N.C. Senate committee this
year, proponents of the bill say the
Virginia lottery, passed last week,
may force the N.C. General Assembly
to put the lottery to a public vote.
"It will have an impact on our
economy," said Rep. Frank Rhodes,
R-Forsyth. "People will be going up
there (to Virginia) and buying not
only lottery tickets, but also
groceries."
Rhodes said he did not know how
much revenue the state would lose.
Virginia will allow North Carolin
ians to play its lottery, said Ken
Storey, spokesman for Virginians for
the Lottery.
"(The lottery) is open to anybody
who wants to play," he said. "There's
nothing illegal about it."
But North Carolinians with a
gambling itch will have to go to
Garbage barge illustrates waste disposal problem, speaker says
By STAC1 COX
Staff Writer
The lslip, N.Y., garbage barge
punctuated the national waste dispos
al dilemma, including who should be
ultimately responsible for waste
treatment, a professor at the State
University of New York Waste
Management Institute told about 30
people in Mitchell Hall Monday
afternoon.
Dr. Sheldon Reaven, who served
as a waste management consultant to
the city, said 2 million inhabitants of
Long Island create 9,000 tons of
garbage each day. To protect Long
Island's ground water supply, New
York has required all Long Island
landfills to close by 1990, Reaven
said.
Taxpayers in lslip paid $86 per ton
of garbage for the Waste Alternatives
Company (WAC) to transport it out
of state, he said.
WAC then paid Texas business
man Lowell Harrelson $10 a ton to
take the garbage. Harrelson thought
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News Analysis
President Reagan's two former nomi
nees, federal appeals court judges
Robert Bork and Douglas Ginsburg,
has not dampened the desire of
several other potential candidates,
including federal appeals court judges
Anthony Kennedy of the 9th Circuit
and William Wilkins of the 4th
Circuit.
More than two weeks ago, the
Senate dealt Bork an unprecedented
58-42 confirmation defeat after
examining his record and finding his
conservative views out of sync with
mainstream American thinking.
Ginsburg's subsequent nomination
was short-lived after revelations that
he smoked marijuana in the 1960s
and 1970s, but his youth and inex
perience would have caused confir
mation problems anyway, said Daniel
Pollitt, a UNC professor of law.
The White House is scrambling to
find a nominee who has a chance of
Carolina
Virginia to buy the lottery tickets, as
federal postal regulations forbid
ticket sales by mail across state
borders.
To get the tickets, people in states
without lotteries have pooled money
and sent couriers to buy lottery
tickets, said William Fiars, a Virginia
senator and sponsor of the bill that
set up Virginia's lottery referendum.
Fiars said he advocated a lottery
"to keep Washington, D.C., and
Maryland from taking money from
Virginia."
Fiars said Virginia lost about $20
million a year when Virginians played
lotteries in neighboring Maryland,
West Virginia and Washington.
Fiars said he based the figure on
sales from a Virginia city that has a
pier reaching into the Potomac River.
The pier is under Maryland's juris
diction but allows access from Vir
ginia. This one sales location made
$77,000 each month selling lottery
tickets to Virginians, Fiars said.
Competition for revenue has
helped spread lotteries from state to
state, said Ralph Batch, director of
Public Gaming Research Institute in
Maryland.
he could transform the garbage into
methane for heating fuel, Reaven
said. -' -
The trash was bailed, loaded oriv
a barge and prepared for shipment '
to a North Carolina landfill for
Harrelson's experiments, he said.
Harrelson secretly leased a N.C.
landfill for his garbage operation,
Reaven said. But when the public
found out, it protested until the state
denied Harrelson access to any N.C.
landfill, he said. The barge, towed by
a tugboat, left North Carolina's coast
and sailed down the eastern seaboard,
while Harrelson contacted almost
every state trying to get permission
to unload his garbage, he said.
Harrelson became desperate, and
after the National Guard prevented
him from entering the Mississippi
River, he decided to tow the barge
to the Caribbean, Reaven said. The
Navy Coast Guard decided to follow
the barge to make sure the garbage
was not dumped into the ocean, but
somehow lost the barge until it
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getting confirmed before the new year
because if the Reagan administration
does not find a successor before then,
the new administration in 1988 can
make the nomination.
Bowman, a judge on the 8th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals since 1983, .
is a pretty fair-minded person, but
has received criticism for ties to the
Right to Work Law Committee, a
lobbying group opposing mandatory
union membership for workers unwil
ling to pay union dues, Pollitt said.
Before the White House chose
Ginsburg as its nominee, Bowman
said, the press speculated about his
ties to a lobbying group which proved
false.
He said Helms' praise of him came
as a surprise.
"It gives me a good feeling to think
that he (Helms) would think that
highly of me," Bowman said in a
telephone interview from St. Louis.
The White House has not con
tacted him about the possibility of
a nomination or an interview, Bow
man said.
get a state
"Over the past 20 years, economic
reasons have been more compelling
than anything else," Batch said.
Since New Hampshire began the
first modern state lottery in 1964, 28
states and the District of Columbia
have legalized state lotteries, he said.
Experience from other states indi
cates that competition for lottery
revenue among states does not
necessarily end when a state sets up
a lottery. The size of the jackpot pool
also comes into play.
In 1985, New Hampshire, Vermont
and Maine set up the first joint lottery
in the United States to be able to
compete with large jackpot pools of
the bordering states.
"We (the three states) were losing
an estimated $1.2 million weekly,"
said Rick Wisler, games manager of
New Hampshire's Sweepstakes. The
three states had individual lotteries,
each with a jackpot pool of $50,000,
he said.
"But you can sustain only so much
interest in that figure when neighbor
ing states have large jackpots," Wisler
said. "In the players' eyes, $1 million
is an attractive figure to bet on."
Virginia is aiming for a million-
reappeared in the Gulf of Mexico, he
said. ' : - 4
Harrelson trieid negotiating with -Mexico
to land his barge, but' the
president responded by gathering the
Mexican army on the coast to prevent
the garbage disposal, Reaven said.
Harrelson then attempted to tow
the barge to a Bahamian coral island,
a move he said would create a
paradise on the island because the
decomposed garbage would fertilize
the land, Reaven said. Harrelson's
request was again denied, he said.
Finally, the state of New York
agreed to take care of the garbage,
and the New York Department of
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He stressed the importance of the
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said. She does not remember all the
details of the attack, and she did not
recognize the assailant.
"I have no idea of how he got into
the house," the fraternity member
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A Helms spokesman said Bow
man's forte is in business law rather
than social issues. However, Pollitt
said Bowman has a libertarian view
point, which opposes government
involvement in the social areas as well
as in the economy. .
If Bowman's beliefs on social issues
correspond with traditional libertar
ian beliefs, Bowman could be more
acceptable to Democratic senators,
said Tom Boney, a Helms
spokesman.
Before Ginsburg's nomination,
Helms said he opposed Kennedy, the
choice of moderate conservatives in
the White House and a major can
didate for the next nomination.
Wilkins of South Carolina has Sen.
Strom Thurmond's, R-S.C, support
and held the third spot for the
nomination when Ginsburg was
chosen.
But, Smith said, other candidates
may emerge who both conservative
and moderate White House factions
find palatable.
lottery?
dollar starting base to compete with
Maryland and the other states, Fiars
said. He said it will take a year to
get a lottery of that size going.
But Virginians and people of
neighboring states should be able to
play an instant game in six months,
he said.
Instant lottery tickets can be
checked immediately by scratching
the ticket to make the number appear.
This appeals to out-of-staters, who
otherwise have to check Virginia
newspapers for the lucky number,
Fiars said.
Rhodes said a bill for a referendum
will not be presented to the N.C.
General Assembly until 1989, because
the issue is too controversial for the
short term of 1988.
Despite the outcome of the Virgi
nia lottery referendum, Gov. Jim
Martin remains opposed to a state
lottery.
Martin's director of communica
tions, Karen Hayes Rotterman, said,
"Martin thinks a lottery is a means
of developing revenue designed to
prey on those who can normally least
afford to be preyed on."
Environmental Conservation (DEC)
asked lslip to take the garbage back,
1 he-said.- - - - -' A
" ' Because the DEC had not allowed
lslip to expand its landfill to accom
modate the trash in the beginning,
lslip still had no room for the trash,
Reaven said. An lslip waste super
visor met with a DEC commissioner
and one of the governor's deputy
secretaries to work out a deal allow
ing the lslip landfill to stack the trash
higher instead of widening the land
fill's area. The DEC commissioner
failed to consult the DEC, who
objected to the plan, and was fired,
he said.
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"This University is a major pro-
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in off the street it was Saturday
night and the doors were open. Also,
there weren't many people around at
any one time. They came in and out."
The source said he considered the
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suspicious people."
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U.S. may reopen negotiations
with Sandinista government
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON President
Reagan said Monday the United
States would be willing to reopen
substantive discussions with Nica
ragua's leftist government once
serious cease-fire negotiations
begin between the Sandinistas and
the U.S.-backed contra rebels.
Reagan made the disclosure in
remarks to a gathering of hemis
pheric foreign ministers attending
the Organization of American
States General Assembly. Nicara
guan Foreign Minister Miguel
d'Escoto was among the 50 offi
cials gathered in a State Depart
ment room overlooking the
Potomac River.
The United States has had no
substantive negotiations with the
Sandinista government since the
latter half of 1984.
Reagan made clear that he
envisions talks with the Sandinis
tas as part of a broader discussion
involving other Central American
countries as well.
IRA admits to bombing
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ire
land The Irish Republican
Army Monday admitted planting
a bomb that killed 1 1 civilians and
injured 63 but said the device was
intended to kill security forces and
went off prematurely.
In a statement issued to news
agencies in Dublin, the outlawed
nationalist guerrilla group said it
deeply regretted Sunday's
bombing.
The statement said an IRA unit
planted the bomb with the aim of
killing British soldiers and North
ern Ireland police, but had not
triggered the radio-controlled
device.
Instead, it said, a British army
"high frequency scanning device"
had triggered the bomb.
Crocodile found in sewer
MADRAS, India A huge
crocodile crawled out of a sewer
in a crowded street Monday and
was overpowered when authorities
stuffed burlap sacks in its mouth.
People tried to kill the seven-foot-long
creature with stones
when it emerged.
tion Group, an environmental group,
complained that the expansion set a
bad precedent for other Long Island
landfills,' and blocked the' agreement
with a court order, he said.
In an attempt to prevent an agree
ment and keep its huge profit, WAC
said over 50 percent of the garbage
belonged to New York City, and the
town of lslip withdrew its offer,
heaving the garbage burden on New
York City, Reaven said.
Denying the reports, N.Y. Mayor
Ed Koch said the city generated only
5 percent of the garbage and refused
responsiblity for more than that
amount, Reaven said. Harrelson,
under pressure from the barge's
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ducer of broadcast journalism and
radio, television and motion picture
majors," he said. "This is good
experience for them."
Junior Adam Reist, producer of
"General College," said many stu
dents who major in Radio, Television
and Motion Pictures do not get
experience before they graduate.
STV offers a good opportunity for
students to gain practical experience
while still in college, Reist said.
STV members hope to expand
their programming in the future.
Harris said they hope eventually to
broadcast 24 hours a day.
Among the planned projects is
"Sports Talk," a program covering
non-revenue sports such as fencing
and swimming.
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The beast retreated into the
sewer but kept baring its teeth at
passers-by, causing panic through
out the street, witnesses said.
A man who was involved in the
capture said the crocodile prob
ably strayed out of the Cooum
Canal and into the sewer.
Soviets to rewrite criminal code
MOSCOW The Soviet
government announced Monday
that it is rewriting its criminal code
to abolish internal exile as pun
ishment, narrow the list of death
penalty offenses and shorten the
maximum prison term from 15 to
10 years.
The proposed overhaul of the
nation's 30-year-old criminal code
by a government review commit
tee was discussed by Justice
Minister Boris Kravtsov in an
interview with the official Tass
news agency.
The proposed changes were
called for under Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev's "peres
troika," or restructuring of Soviet
society, according to Tass.
Any new criminal code would
have to be approved by the
Supreme Soviet, the nominal
parliament, on the recommenda
tion of the Communist Party
Central Committee.
Dole announces presidential bid
RUSSELL, Kan. Senate
Republican Leader Bob Dole
formally opened his presidential
bid on Monday, pledging that if
elected, he will sit down with
congressional leaders "as long as
it takes" to hammer out a balanced
budget plan.
In his announcement speech,
Dole took subtle swipes at chief
rival Vice President George Bush,
extolling the Reagan administra
tion's record but adding, "It's not
something to run on. It's some
thing to build on."
Dole's announcement rounds
out the presidential field of six
Democrats and six Republicans.
owner to return it, said he would
unload 5 percent of the trash on the 1
city's docks, but a police stakeout '
prevented him, Reaven said. "
Finally, New York and lslip agreed
that New York would burn the trash
and lslip would bury the ashes in its
landfill, but before the cities could act,
incinerator employees, afraid of
catching AIDS, refused to work until
the garbage was tested, Reaven said.
An EPA investigation found no
danger in the garbage, and in Sep
tember New York burned the garbage
and lslip buried the ashes, all at the
expense of WAC, Reaven said.
The unbelievable sequence of
events surrounding the barge illus
trates the problems the United States
faces in waste disposal, Reaven said.
"Don't look to science to solve the
problem, because for every two
experts you have three opinions,"
Reaven said.
Morality and ethics must govern
the handling of waste disposal, and
Americans cannot leave this problem
for their children to deal with, Reaven
said.
For the Record
The article "Publication chain buys
Chapel Hill Newspaper," in Mon
day's paper said, "With the addition
of The Chapel Hill Newspaper, the
chain owns 22 newspapers in 12 states
with a total daily circulation of
580,000." The sentence should have
said 23 newspapers. The DTH regrets
the error.
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