2The Daily Tar HeelThursday, February 25, 1988
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mh calls for expaesioe
off Reagan's domestic policy
By STACI COX
Staff Writer
Vice President George Bush has
had an up and down campaign,
'suffering a disappointing third-place
finish in the Iowa caucuses but
rebounding with a strong victory in
the New Hampshire primaries,
v As he takes his revitalized cam-
paign South for the Super Tuesday
primaries March 8, he is calling for
domestic policy expansions from the
Reagan era as well as national defense
increases.
; Bush supports the lntermediatc
range Nuclear Force treaty, but sees
it only as a beginning to improved
Soviet-U.S. relations. He feels the
Ireaty is a measure of Soviet sincerity,
Svhich will serve as a plan for further
5iegotiations.
Bush supports aid to the contras
In Nicaragua and would make such
Jundine government policy. He has
tailed Nicaraguan President Daniel
lOrtega a Marxist-Leninist who
threatens democracy in surrounding
Countries.
C : "The vice president has some
Treservations about the Arias plan,"
Osaid Bret Wacker, deputy director of
;lxesearch for Bush. "The plan tells
supporters of freedom fighters they
; "can't send arms (to the contras), but
Imvestiffsitioe off RDU crash coeliiraes
By HELLE NIELSEN
S$ff Writer
l Although several planes of the type
tEat crashed outside Raleigh
Durham Airport Friday were
involved in accidents recently,
nothing indicates a common problem
with the planes, investigators said
Wednesday.
I Fairchild Metro II and 111 planes
crashed in Durango, Colo., in Jan
uary and at Dulles International
Airport in Washington, D.C., in
December, in addition to the Metro
III that crashed at RDU, officials
with the National Transportation
Safety Board (NTSB) said.
- l"We are always very sensitive to
similarities in accidents," said Alan
Pollock of the NTSB. "But there is
? "vay to speculate whether these
idents) were related. We have no
Dllock said further investigations
of the accidents will determine if the
NTSB will recommend action against
the planes.
v,Two crew members and 10 pas
Robertson apologizes to Bush campaign
By TAMMY BLACKARD
taff Writer
; Presidential candidate and former
.jelevangelist Pat Robertson said
;Vednesday that Vice President
; George Bush's campaign had not
produced any religiously biased
: television commercials and ads, as he
I had said Tuesday, and that he was
". Vnisquoted in his statement suggesting
tthat political motivations lay behind
ftfie timing of sexual misconduct
allegations against televangelist
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the Soviets can (send arms to the
Nicaraguan government)."
Bush would work for a continual
dialogue with the Soviets to maintain
peaceful competition. He does not
support complete disarmament but is
willing to meet any Soviet proposal
for a weapons decrease.
"We cannot assume that world
domination is not part of their (the
Soviets') political theory," Wacker
said.
Bush believes that a "Star Wars"
defense system is an excellent deter
rent of war and supports funding for
the Strategic Defense Initiative
research to decide the possibility of
deployment. He maintains that the
Soviets have been working on their
own space defense program since the
early 1970s and are far ahead of U.S.
technology in this field.
Bush's domestic policy closely
resembles Reaganomics, which he
wants to expand and improve.
Bush supports the Prospective
Payment System, which slowed the
rise of hospital costs payed by
Medicare, and would expand the
program to outpatient services. He
sengers were killed when Flight 3378
crashed shortly after takeoff from
RDU en route to Richmond, Va.,
Friday night.
The plane took off normally and
was several hundred feet up before
it descended, hitting the Brier Creek
Lake and proceeding into the trees
on the shore, said Barry Strauch,
NTSB head investigator.
The plane was destroyed by the
impact and a small fire, which ignited
when the wings tore from the plane
and caused a fuel spill, he said.
The investigators have not deter
mined what caused the plane to crash,
he said.
"We have not found anything that
would suggest why the plane went
down," Strauch said. "The mainte
nance history appears to be good."
Steven Meeham, a spokesman for
AVAir, which owns the commuter
system, said the plane had no unusual
mechanical problems.
Meeham said the fact that Fair
child Metro planes make up about
Jimmy Swaggart.
Robertson had originally accused
Bush's campaign of engaging in "dirty
tricks." hinting that he or some of
his other political opponents may
have had a hand in the release of the
Swaggart story two weeks before
Super Tuesday.
But Bush and others involved in
his campaign denied the charges,
saying they had nothing to do with
the release of the Swaggart story.
Bush said Wednesday that Robertson
would not cut Social Security but
would promote optional enrollment
in private medical plans other than
Medicare, which could remove some
of the financial burden Medicare
faces.
Bush has a five-point agenda for
economic reforms: reducing the
capital gains rate, implementing a
presidential line-item veto over
congressional economic policy,
multi-year budgeting for defense,
creating more free trade amendments
like the U.S.-Canada agreement and
improved education to prepare
workers.
. Bush would like educators to
require higher academic standards
and would have them emphasize
English, science, math and history.
He advocates annual or semiannual
testing for students, beginning in
elementary school and continuing
through high school.
"Education is the high point of the
vice president's message," Wacker
said. "Lack of education is the
beginning of all the major problems
of our society.
Bush would increase funding to
Head Start and Chapter One pro- overlooked by federal loan and
grams to assist the poor and attack scholarship programs but can't corn
illiteracy early in a child's life. pete with the prices the rich can pay
Bush supports competency tests of for education," Wacker said.
50 percent of commuter planes
nationwide could explain why the
Metros were involved in several
accidents.
"If a commuter plane has a prob
lem there is a pretty good chance it
is going to be this one, based on that
statistic," Meeham said.
On-site investigations of the acci-
dent are expected to end by Friday,
Strauch said. Remnants of the plane
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON President
Reagan said Wednesday night "we've
never let up and we never will" in
efforts to win freedom for American
hostages in Lebanon and said if
Republican presidential contender
Pat Robertson knew anything of their
whereabouts, it was "very strange"
that "he kept it to himself."
At a nationally televised news
conference, Reagan also said he had
should "provide proof by sundown
or offer an apology," said Barbara
Pardue, Bush's campaign press
secretary.
Robertson said Wednesday in a
press conference that he never
intended to accuse the vice president
of being involved and he had no
knowledge of current or future
religiously bigoted television com
mercials produced by the Bush
campaign.
There was never a link between
Bush and the Swaggart story, said
Scott Hatch, Robertson's national
press secretary.
The General Council Headquarters
of the Assemblies of God in Spring
field, Mo., and the Louisiana District
Council of the Assemblies of God
have asked Swaggart to refrain from
making any public comments, said
Barbara Klein, a spokesperson for
Jimmy Swaggart Ministries in Baton
Rouge, La. Officials still do not know
who released the information about
Swaggart, she said.
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new teachers and merit pay and
special recognition to reward excel
lent teachers. He also stresses
improved administration, private
businesses providing job training and
increased parent involvement.
Bush would create a college savings
bond program to provide tax-free
interest for college expenditures. For
families who cannot afford bonds,
Bush would increase federal funding
of work-study and low-interest loan
programs.
This savings plan would mainly
help the middle class, which has been
will be sent to the NTSB in Washing
ton, D.C., for further investigations.
The training and the physical con
dition of the crew will also be
examined further, he said.
"We are not doing anything unusu
al," Strauch said.
RDU Public Affairs Manager
Teresa Damiano said it could take
up to a year before any conclusions
on the cause are reached.
an bashes Robertson in TV speech
"every confidence" in the personal
integrity of embattled Attorney
General Edwin Meese. But he said
he could r ot comment on reports of
the investigation of Meese's role in
a proposed Middle East oil pipeline.
In a session with reporters that
blended international affairs with the
domestic presidential campaign swirl
ing around him, the president con
firmed anew that Vice President
George Bush expressed reservations
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Officials change preliminary site selection date
By LAURA FRANCIS
Staff Writer
The preliminary selection for the
$4.4 billion superconducting super
collider site has been moved from
July to November, Department of
Energy (DOE) officials said
Wednesday.
Jeff Sherwood, press officer of
the DOE, said . the department
would publish in August a draft
Environmental Impact Statement
that the Envionmental Protection
Agency will have 45 days to review.
The DOE will then have two
months to sponsor debates on the
super collider at the sites being
considered.
The superconducting super col
lider is a proposed 53-mile, 175-foot-underground
tunnel 10 feet in
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squelches opposition groups
From Associated Press reports
JOHANNESBURG, South
Africa The government on
Wednesday banned political activ
ity by 18 opposition groups,
including the nation's largest anti
apartheid organization and its
biggest union federation, in the
most sweeping crackdown in a
decade.
Anti-apartheid activists had
anticipated a crackdown this year,
suggesting that P.W. Botha's
National Party government would
seek to blunt criticism from the
extreme right in advance of par-
liamentary by-elections next week.
The Congress of South African
Trade Unions and several of the
affected organizations said they
would consider legal action to
challenge the regulations.
Violence continues in Gaza Strip
JERUSALEM West Bank
villagers burned the home of a
fellow Arab accused of helping the
Israelis and lynched him Wednes-
day after he fired on the crowd,
killing a 4-year-old boy and
wounding 13 people, security
sources said.
Israel radio called the event "a
serious escalation" of 1 1 weeks of
violence in the occupied West
Bank and Gaza Strip.
Secretary of State George
Shultz will arrive in Jerusalem on
Thursday to discuss a new U.S.
plan for ending the unrest and
reviving negotiations for Middle
East peace.
Supreme Court reverses award
WASHINGTON The
Supreme Court expanded signif
icantly the legal protections for
parody and satire Wednesday as
it overturned a $200,000 award
evangelist Jerry Falwell had won
against Hustler magazine and
publisher Larry Flynt.
during the Iran-contra affair. But he
reufsed to say precisely what Bush
had told him.
Reagan said he didn't want to
become involved in the GOP nom-
ination fight, but he showed plenty
of zest when it came to bashing the
Democrats vying to succeed him. To
hear them, he said, "we're in an
economic slump" suffering from a
variety of ills. "At the moment none
of those things are true," he said.
collider
diameter which would be used to
study the effects of high-speed
collisions of protons and smaller
matter. North Carolina and six
other states, Tennessee, Texas,
Illinois, Michigan, Arizona and
Colorado, are under consideration
for the location.
Susan Dakin, scientific writer for
the super collider at Gov. Jim
Martin's office, said that the delay
in site selection doesn't change the
state's deadlines. By March 15,
state government writers from each
of the seven states must submit
environmental information in
areas such as land and water
resources and socioeconomics.
Martin's office hired Edward
Forgotson, a Washington, D.C.,
lawyer, to lobby for the N.C. site
For the Record
In Friday's story, "UNC faculty
criticize system's drug policy," Craig
Calhoun, associate professor of
sociology and author of the faculty
resolution, was misquoted. Calhoun
said there is no strikingly new drug
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The justices ruled unanimously
that "emotional distress" lawsuits
filed by public figures targeted by
such spoofs should be as difficult
to win as libel suits.
"Outrageousness in the area of
political and social discourse has
an inherent subjectiveness about
it which would allow a jury to
impose liability on the basis of the
jurors' tastes or views," Chief
Justice William Rehnquist said,
adding that such results are con
stitutionally impermissible.
Panel urges funds for AIDS
WASHINGTON The chair
man of a White House commis
sion recommended Wednesday
that federal and local governments
spend an additional $20 billion
over the next decade to fight AIDS
among drug abusers.
Retired Navy Adm. James
Watkins, head of the AIDS corn-
mission appointed oy President
Reagan last summer, acknowl
edged that the call for such massive
spending on drug addicts might
prove controversial.
But he said 200 hours of tes
timony from 350 witnesses has left
the panel convinced that the
deadly disease is spreading most
rapidly among the nation's esti
mated 1.3 million intravenous
drug abusers and their sexual
partners.
Watkins noted that some health
leaders are estimating 10,000 to
20,000 infants could be infected
with the AIDS virus three years
from now as a result of sexual
unions involving drug addicts who
can easily spread the disease
among themselves by sharing
contaminated needles.
It was Reagan's first news confer-
ence in four months, and he passed '
up several invitations to criticize
Israeli action against Arab protesters IJ
on the occupied West Bank and Gaza $
Strip.
On other matters, Reagan said-
Secretary of State George Shultz had X
given him an "encouraging" report on
his just-completed trip to the Soviet.''
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since last spring, Dakin said.
"This large governmental project
will be a tremendous advantage for
North Carolina," Dakin said. "It
will allow this area to plan for
orderly controlled growth. We feel
that we are one of the best of the
seven choices for this project."
The DOE will issue its final
statement of choice in January.
"The postponement may be an
attempt of the DOE to keep up
political support for the whole
project," Dakin said.
But Sherwood said the delay is
an attempt to get more varied
opinion from the public and envir
onmental agencies.
"The delay from July to January
has nothing to do with politics,"
Sherwood said.
policy at UNC-CH to motivate the
adoption of a new drug policy, and '.
the policy should not be standardized
for all 16 UNC-system campuses,
The Daily Tar Heel regrets the
error.
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