2The Daily Tar Heel Tuesday, February 23, 1988
A conservative stand.
Dole's strength lies in his record, supporters say
By LAURA SUMNER
Staff Writer
Coming into today's Minnesota
and South Dakota presidential con
tests, Republican candidate Sen. Bob
Dole is focusing his campaign on his
19 years as a U.S. Senate Republican
leader.
"Bob Dole is running on a record,"
said his daughter Robin. "He has one;
George Bush doesn't."
Although Dole finished second in
the New Hampshire primaries after
a decisive win over Bush in Iowa, his
supporters claim both as victories.
"We are very excited about what
happened in New Hampshire," said
Robin Dole. "We were 20 points
down on Feb. 8; by Feb. 16, we had
narrowed the margin to 9 points.
That's a lot of progress in eight days."
Dole is viewed as a moderately
conservative Republican who has
voted with the conservative right on
such issues as gun control and
abortion, while also advocating
programs like farm subsidies and
food stamps for the disadvantaged.
On defense issues, Dole supports
both the research and deployment of
the Strategic Defense Initiative. He
also endorses the Intermediate-range
Nuclear Force (INF) treaty, although
he was originally hesitant about it.
Critics charge that Dole's hesita-
A oka for peace in the Middle East
By AMY WINSLOW
Staff Writer
The real victims of the raging
Middle East conflicts are the Pales
tinian people, and the United States
plays a very important role in that
struggle for peace, a member of the
Palestinian Parliament in exile said
Monday night in an International
Festival speech.
"Without U.S. weapons, Israel
could not continue Palestinian occu
pation," said Hatem I. Hussaini in
his speech on "The Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict: Working for Peace."
Hussaini, a professor at Shaw
University, said he recommends
immediate solutions to the troubled
region beginning with the removal of
Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip and
United Nations supervision of free
elections for the Palestinians.
"You cannot have oppression and
peace; you cannot have occupation
and peace," he said. "Peace means
people should be free and should not
be persecuted.",
A long-tferrn goal would be to
create a situation in which the Israeli
and Palestinian people could live
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tion amounted to "playing politics,"
but Clark Reid, Dole's Southern
regional press secretary, said, "Bob
Dole is not going to blindly accept
something that he can't be sure about.
That's just smart."
On other foreign policy issues.
Dole advocates aid to the contras,
and although he supports the Arias
Peace Plan, he said he believes it
"inadequately addresses U.S. policy
concerns." He is a consistent suppor
ter of the Reagan administration's
reflagging of Kuwaiti oil tankers in
the Persian Gulf while also urging
that the financial burden of patrolling
the area be shared by other allies.
On domestic matters, Dole has
called the federal deficit "the biggest
single threat." He has said that the
way to reduce the national debt is
not by raising personal or corporate
income taxes, but by an across-the-board
freeze.
"Bob Dole has said that he would
definitely veto any rise in personal
income tax," Reid said. "He favors
a budget freeze for every federal
program including defense
except those that affect the most
vulnerable groups in society, such as
together equally in "the birthplace of
three religions that stress the same
theme peace and justice," Hussaini
said.
Wars in the Middle East stem from
a combination of reasons, he said,
including economic and spiritual
differences, power struggles and the
corruption of power.
"It's difficult to speak of peace in
a time of war and conflict," he said.
Instead of shipping weapons to
every area in conflict, the United
States should use economic and
diplomatic pressures to force change
in troubled regions in the world,
Hussaini said.
The Reagan administration has
neglected the Middle East issue and
is pushing continued conflict, he said.
"He (Reagan) shouldVe done some
thing in his first term," he said. "Now
it's too late."
Although this is a very ugly aspect
of American foreign policy, he has
faith in the U.S. government, Hus
saini said.
The real issue is the insecurity of
the Palestinian people, and that
security cannot be obtained through
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social security."
Dole is running on a record of
experience, but it is that record, along
with old stories about Dole being a
"hatchet-man," that has caused some
commentators to speculate on the
rumored "dark side" of his nature.
Dole's recent "quit lying about my
record" remark to Bush brought these
charges to the surface.
But most leaders get criticism like
this, said Robin Dole. "Bob Dole has
been the Republican leader for a long
time," she said. "He's taken the heat
on a lot of occasions; that's what
leadership is all about."
Dole should make a strong show
ing in today's Minnesota caucuses,
said political consultant Charles
Black. "The moderates are lined up
behind Dole Bush is not a player
here."
There are five more contests before
Super Tuesday on March 8. The most
important of these are South Caro
lina, where on Monday Republican
Sen. Strom Thurmond endorsed
Dole, and Wyoming, the first West
ern caucus, where Dole's support is
strong, according to Reid.
The Dole campaign will not call
any of these states must-win situa
tions. "Of course we want to win all
of them, but we're not going to tell
the military, he said. The genocide
of Palestinians, which can be com
pared to the Jews in Nazi Germany,
must end before talks of peace in the
Middle East can begin, he said.
"Children are hurt most in war,"
he said. "Then they become hardened,
Speaker says Americans need moral clarity
By JACKIE DOUGLAS
Staff Writer
Amidst the moral ambiguity in
today's society, Americans are
searching for a redefinition of mor
ality in their lives, Rev. Peter John
Gomes said in a speech Monday
night.
Gomes, a professor of Christian
morals and minister of the Memorial
Church at Harvard University, lec
tured on "The Pursuit of Civic
Virtue."
The lecture was the 1987-88 Weil
Lecture on American Citizenship,
sponsored by Chancellor Christopher
Fordham and the Established Lec
tures Committee.
"There has been a re-consideration
of our approach in the pursuit of civic
virtue," he said. "There is a tremen
dous hunger after righteousness and
Automobile accident results in power failure
By LAURA DiGIANO
Staff Writer
In an alcohol-related accident, a
car traveling on Franklin Street
toward Durham caused a power
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Robert Dole
(Bush's campaign manager Lee)
Atwater where we are going to
concentrate. Hell have to find out
for himself," Reid said.
The next five contests set the stage
for a Super Tuesday showdown, and
if negative television advertising
comes south with the candidates, it
could turn into, as commentator John
Chancellor said, "a 'so's your old
man' campaign."
Dole's Southern campaign has
already started with his speech in
Charlotte last week about Bush's New
Hampshire ads, which Dole said were
untrue. North Carolina is important
for the campaign because it is the
home state of Dole's wife Elizabeth,
Reid said.
and I wonder if they will fight for
war or peace. I think they will fight
for peace if they are given the chance."
The speech was the first event in
the week-long 10th annual festival
sponsored by the Association of
International Students.
young people have a desire to return
to moral clarity.
"We have reached the point in our
society where nothing is sacred and
everything is subject to review."
Americans are looking for a rene
wal of their sense of morality, Gomes
said.
"We want standards so as to define
what is right and good, who we
should trust and how to decide who
to trust," he said.
Americans have become more
interested in the ethical standards that
govern behavior, he said
"Everyone is in the business of
talking about ethics," he said. "Either
we are a very ethical or an awfully
unethical society.
"There is an enormous concern
about how we treat each other both
in private and public relationships.
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supervisor for Duke Power
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Swaggart to face church elders
for involvement in sex scandal
From Associated Press reports
ALEXANDRIA, La. Tele
vision evangelist Jimmy Swaggart
was summoned to appear before
elders of the Assemblies of God
on Monday, one day after he
delivered a tearful confession of
sin and stepped down from the
pulpit.
An overflow crowd packed his
7,500-seat family worship center
after reports that church officials
had been given photographs pur
porting to show Swaggart and a
known prostitute going into and
out of a motel room.
The Washington Post reported
Monday, quoting a source who
spoke to a Jimmy Swaggart World
Ministries board member, that
Swaggart said he did not engage
in sexual intercourse with the
woman, but "paid her to perform
pornographic acts."
The evangelist had confessed to
a fascination with pornography
stemming from his boyhood, the
source said.
Forest Hall, secretary-treasurer
of the Assemblies' Louisiana
District, told Swaggart's congre
gation: "In the opinion of the
officers of the Louisiana District,
he has shown true humility and
repentance and has not tried to
blame anyone else for his failure."
Ministry officials refused to
comment on the future of Swag
gart's television program.
Captors release tape of hostage
BEIRUT, Lebanon The
kidnappers of a U.S. Marine
officer released a videotape Mon
day in which he recited their
demands, including withdrawal by
Israel from its border "security
zone" in south Lebanon.
We are all very aware."
America is experiencing a pro
found crisis because moral standards
are vague and ideas about appro
priate values are ambiguous, Gomes
said.
"As American citizens, we find it
increasingly impossible to trust our
neighbor, ourselves, our government
and our society," he said. "We stand
between an age that has died and an
age that has not yet been born."
Gomes said Americans must con
tinue to search for civic virtue, or
integrity in social relationships.
"The pursuit of civic virtue is
unfinished business," he said. "We
cannot look into the past for a role
model to follow because it has never
been achieved.
"The place for it to be pursued is
the present, and the place to find it
Southern Pines, was driving his 1982
Nissan on Franklin Street when he
failed to negotiate the curve just
beyond the intersection with Bound
ary Street, police said.
The car traveled across four lanes
and jumped the curb. After heading
down a 4-foot embankment, the car
crashed into a large tree around 1 a.m.
The tree was uprooted and fell on
power lines, causing the seven-hour
power outage.
"The tree caused one of our lines
to break and shorted out the others,"
Ray said.
Many Battle Park and Glendale
area residents were without power
until 7:49 a.m. Saturday, Ray said.
"It is unusual for an accident to cause
such a long power outage, but
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Lt. Col. William Higgins, who
appeared to be reading from a text
written by his captors, said Pres
ident Reagan "has to take respon
sibility for the crimes he has
committed against the oppressed
people in the region."
Higgins was abducted last Wed
nesday on a highway south of
Tyre, the ancient port 50 miles
south of Beirut.
A group calling itself the Organ
ization of the Oppressed on Earth,
which claimed responsibility for
the abduction, released the 70
second tape.
Higgins is commander of the 76
man Observer Group-Lebanon
attached to the U.N. Interim Force
in Lebanon, or UNIFIL, the south
Lebanon peacekeeping force.
Mudslides endanger homes
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil
A deadly mix of rock and mud
threatened hillside homes during
a fourth day of violent rains
Monday which have killed at least
75 people in the Rio area.
Civil defense officials warned
that huge boulders and rain
loosened earth on many hillsides
presented an extreme risk of new
avalanches, particularly in the
crowded shantytown slums that
line the hills.
In the working-class north Rio
district of Abolicao, rescue
workers used sledgehammers and
spikes to break up concrete slabs
of a three-story apartment bulding
that collapsed under a mudslide
Sunday night, killing at least nine
residents.
is the future. History is not the
solution.
"The pursuit of virtue is easy to
say; however, we must remind our
selves of the complexity of the issue.
There is no solution to be recovered
from the past."
Gomes said it is urgent that Amer
icans continue to search for civic
virtues and for moral standards to
govern their lives.
"We have to ask the question: Will
we suffer internal decay rather than
destruction from external factors?" he
said.
"The best days of the republic are
always in the future, and our ideal
goals are yet to be achieved in the
American experience.
"The pursuit of civic virtue is the
only enterprise worth holding onto
of all the things we cling."
tree was difficult to remove safely,"
he said.
Saunders and his two passengers,
Edgar Vaughn, 19, of Raleigh, and
Brent Eischen, 21, of Sanford, were
immediately taken to North Carolina .
Memorial Hospital for treatment,
according to police reports. None of
the three was wearing a seatbelt.
Saunders was cited for driving left
of center and driving while impaired,
police said.
For the Record
In Monday's paper, April 4 was
incorrectly listed as a student holiday
for Easter Monday. The actual
holiday is on Good Friday, April 1.
The Daily Tar Heel regrets the error.
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