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2The Daily Tar Heel Wednesday, December 2, 1987 Waste site panel may offer Mceetives By LISA WYNNE Staff Writer Although public opinion does not decide the site for a hazardous waste disposal facility, an incentives pro gram would help offset the hosting community's burden, a Hazardous Waste Treatment Commission spokeswoman said Tuesday. Although the commission did not offer incentives during the initial selection process, it would like to offer some compensation to the commun ity that is chosen, said Kathy Neal, the commission's public information officer. "Some people will say, 'Gee, that's just a bribe, but it seems appropriate to provide incentives to offset the burden," she said. In November, the commission ruled out the last of its more than 500 potential sites for the facility. This Committee to examine state sports laws By HELLE NIELSEN Staff Writer Prompted by concern about illegal activities in college athletics, the N.C. General Assembly has established a sports law research committee to determine if colleges need further athletic legislation, the committee chairman said. "The committee will look at all issues of laws pertaining to sports from the college level on down," said state Rep. George Miller, D-Durham, committee chairman. The bill to establish the sports law commission, passed during the Assembly's 1987 session, did not specify the issues the committee should study. "We will leave it open to the committee members to determine that," said state Rep. Henson Barnes, Activist author James Baldwin From Associated Press reports ST. PAUL DE VENCE, France Black author James Baldwin, who became an articulate and sometimes angry voice decrying racism in the United States through his novels, plays and poetry, died of stomach cancer at the age of 63. His best known works include "Go Tell It on the Mountain," "Notes of a Native Son," "Evidence of Things Not Seen," and most recently, "Har lem Quartet." You Can Make It A Carolina Christmas! Carrying Too Many Things Home? LET US HELP! We Will Wrap and Ship Your Presents Anywhere! Open Monday-Saturday 9:30 am-9:00 pm (OAMBOESfl. PRIME 151 East Franklin Street, Dow ntown Chapel Hill 942-0127 last option was a site on the line between Davidson and Rowan coun ties. The commission eliminated the site in part because some commission members wanted a larger and more remote site. But extensive public protest also contributed to the deci sion, said Hope Lucas, community relations coordinator for the Gover nor's Waste Management Board. The board is reviewing the commission's plan to see if it will meet North Carolina's needs. "We are all users and often pro ducers of hazardous wastes, and it is up to us to create a disposal system," Lucas said. "There are no absolute guarantees, but we can construct the best place possible." Lucas said a comprehensive incen tives package might quell future public disapproval. In order to offer a compensation D-Wayne, committee co-chairman. The committee has yet to hold its first meeting, but Miller mentioned Dec. 16 as a possible date. The original bill, introduced by Miller to the N.C. House of Repre sentatives, cited violations of the National Collegiate Athletic Associ ation's regulations, including booster club payments to recruits, bribery around athletic events and point shaving (deals between athletes or coaches about the outcome of a game) by colleges in other states. But Miller said he did not expect to discover illegal activities in N.C. college athletics. "We will study these issues without any preconceived notions," Miller said. "We will examine if there are any abuses of the system, and if so, well see what to do. We just want France was Baldwin's adopted country and he lived there for 40 years, the last 16 in St. Paul de Vence. For the man who once urged blacks to go out and kill whites, France was "a refuge away from the madness of America." In Chicago, the Rev. Jesse Jackson called Baldwin "a great source of inspiration for that generation ... a prolific and sensitive writer ... a great advocate of personal and racial freedom." t mmx ' A i I 4 A Vv iv ( : X if? JS (i i If 'r- t I rSXI And Save Some Money! Buy One Item and Get the Second Item At 8 ?7ne8 (only on selected items) program, the N.C. General Assembly must approve its financial and legal aspects, said Linda Little, the waste management board's executive director. The board will probably release the results of its review of the plan sometime in Januaiy, Little said. She said a good incentives package would offer services such as an emergency response network and adequate roads to help the commun ity deal with the possible hazards of a waste disposal facility. "People who sit down and think through the issue will have to weigh out the benefits and costs" of hosting a hazardous waste disposal facility, Lucas said, adding that a comprehen sive incentives package might balance the two. Lucas said the commission should use other means of promoting public to make sure we're on top of the subject." UNC Assistant Director of Athlet ics Dick Baddour said he did not see a need for a study of illegal activities. "(UNC-CH) coaches are very aware of what NCAA (recruitment) regulations are and always have been and will be committed to abide by those," Baddour said. "And the coaches spend a good deal of time speaking to players about the rules." Baddour said he was not aware of any violations of NCAA regulations ever at UNC. State Rep. Joe Hackney, D Orange, a committee member, said he is concerned with violations involving sports agents. Many sports agents sign contracts with athletes in violation of NCAA regulations, causing the athletes to lose their Maya Angelou, author of "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings," said in a telephone interview, "I think he will be remembered as one of the great writers of the 20th century ... I think that he will be remembered for his courage, an incredible courage, at once to see and then the courage to say what he saw." Baldwin's only French literary prize came posthumously. The Asso ciation for the Renewal of Franco American Friendship on Tuesday interest in the project in addition to the incentives. The commission is now consider ing new areas as possible sites, but it will not release the locations until more information is gathered. The commission will probably choose a site by June, when the General Assembly meets, Neal said. The commission applies detailed guidelines to determine potential sites, making it useless to upset a community when it may be ruled out in the early selection stages, Neal said. After initially selecting a field of sites based on plans for land use, the commission begins to apply the guidelines, which include considera tion of the depth of the water table, the supply of natural gas, and the proposed facility's distance from ponds and lakes and from hazardous waste generators in the state. NCAA eligibility. "The biggest thing happening in other states right now is athletic agent registration laws," said Lynwood Jones, the legislative counsel for the sports committee. Five states have such laws, which require any sports agent to register with state authorities, and several others are considering similar laws, Jones said. Hackney introduced such legisla tion to the N.C. General Assembly in the 1987 session, but the bill did not pass. Barnes said spectator behavior may also be an issue. The concern stems from a riot at a Sept. 5 football game between East Carolina Univer sity and N.C. State University in which more than 50 people were injured. dies at 63 awarded its first prize to Baldwin for his contribution to arts and letters, business and politics. In 1986, President Francois Mit terrand named him to the Legion of Honor, France's highest honor. "Getting this award from the coun try that I adopted means France has adopted me," Baldwin later said. His concern for blacks in the United States never wavered, although his advocacy of violence waned. r Officials investigate cause of failed Korean Air flight From Associated Press reports MANAMA, Bahrain A mys terious Asian couple took suicide pills Tuesday just before being questioned about a South Korean jetliner that disappeared over Burma and may have been bombed. Officials said the couple boarded Korean Air flight 858 at Baghdad, Iraq, where it originated Sunday, and got off at Abu Dhabi before the Boeing 707 headed across Asia toward Seoul with 1 15 people aboard. It vanished near the Burma Thailand border, before a sched uled refueling stop in Bangkok. Officials in Seoul said there were strong suspicions a bomb des troyed the aircraft. South Korea's government broadcasting service said investi gators were checking possible links between the mystery woman and Chosen Soren, an organization of Koreans living in Japan that supports communist North Korea. Army blamed for Haiti violence PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti U.S. observers on Tuesday blamed the army for the terror campaign that thwarted elections, and some leading presidential candidates vowed to boycott any balloting supervised by the military-led junta. Calls increased for multina tional intervention to oversee national elections the government claims it still intends to hold before a Feb. 7 deadline. Most Haitians distrust the government, which dissolved the autonomous Provisional Electoral Council Sunday after voter targeted violence forced it to call off the nation's first free elections in 30 years. As polls opened Sunday, at least 34 people were killed and 75 wounded when gunmen and sol diers set fire to polling stations, confiscated ballots and attacked voters with guns and machetes. Battle over mayor's successor CHICAGO Hundreds of chanting demonstrators jammed City Hall on Tuesday evening in a bid to stall the vote on a successor to the late Mayor Harold Washington and boost We are looking for top UNC We seek individuals who have strong leadership and analytical skills, who are independent creative thinkers and who are motivated by competition, results and achievement like so many UNC graduates who are now Lord & Taylor executives. These recent UNC graduates are now entrepreneurs running a business within a business. They are part of our growing Executive Management Team. Find out why they chose to loin Lord & Taylor, America's most prestigious specialty store. Brian Davis Leigh Kempson Jack Zacharius Chris Kuhr Bryson Coffey Kelly Walker Meet these and other executives at our reception: Date: Today, December 2nd Place: - Carolina Union, Room 211 Time: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Bring your resume, if it is ready. News in Brief chances for retaining his agenda. Meanwhile, a government reform group filed a lawsuit seeking a court order to halt the evening city council meeting that would bring selection of an acting mayor. Earlier in the day, the council eulogized Washington in an atmosphere thick with political intrigue as aldermen twisted arms and counted votes in the battle to' succeed the city's first black mayor. Cubans continue negotiations ATLANTA Negotiators for 1,110 Cuban inmates holding hostages at a federal prison reached "substantial agreement" with government representatives Tuesday on a number of issues, a government spokesman said. A one-hour negotiating session was "considerably more encourag ing than others we have had over the last few days," the spokesman said in a statement. The inmate leaders took the proposals to the rest of the detain ees, who are fighting plans to deport them back to Cuba, and another negotiating session was scheduled for later in the day, the spokesman said. Reagan calls for 'true peace' JACKSONVILLE, Fla. President Reagan pledged on Tuesday to "keep right on march ing" toward further arms agree ments after next week's expected treaty signing, but he said the United States must not be lulled into a new period of detente allowing a secret Soviet military buildup. "More than a decade ago, there was a warming in U.S.-Soviet affairs that we called 'detente.' But while talking friendship, the Soviets worked even faster on the largest military buildup in world history. They stepped up their aggression around the world. They became more repressive at home. We do not want mere words. This time we're after true peace," Reagan said. students. UNC '87 UNC '87 UNC '87 UNC '86 UNC '86 UNC '84 Asst. Buyer Asst. Buyer Asst. Buyer Dept. Manager Dept. Manager Senior Asst. Buyer )
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