2The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, March 1, 1988
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From Associated Press reports
PANAMA CITY, Panama A
general strike called by opponents of
Panama's military regime faltered
Monday, with transportation and
most commerce proceeding
uninterrupted.
But the strike, called to press for
the resignation of strongman Gen.
Manuel Antonio Noriega, appeared
somewhat more effective in industry.
Intimidation, censorship and an
apparent lack of faith in the effec
tiveness of mass action conspired
against the strike's success. The fact
that Monday was payday also hurt
the strike call.
"There's fear," said a middle-aged
bank employee as he stepped from
a bus early Monday. "We lack unity
to confront these people who have
all the arms."
Governor's impeachment trial begins
From Associated Press reports
PHOENIX, Ariz. The Arizona
Senate on Monday opened the first
impeachment trial of a governor in
six decades, while an attorney for
Gov. Evan Mecham implored it to
reject the charges against the first
term Republican.
"This man hasn't dipped his hands
into public funds," attorney Jerris
Leonard said. "He hasn't ripped off
the treasury. He hasn't committed
high crimes in office, and I urge you
to dismiss these articles of
impeachment."
Attorney Paul Eckstein, one of the
prosecutors, responded that even if
it turned out that Mecham didn't
Sooth African police
From Associated Press reports
CAPE TOWN, South Africa
Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu
and other religious leaders from all
races were arrested Monday while
kneeling near Parliament with a
petition against government bans on
anti-apartheid groups.
Members of a procession Tutu and
his colleagues had led recited the
Lord's Prayer as police sprayed them
with jets of water and loaded them
into vans. ' ' '
All the detainees were freed in a
few hours and the churchmen said
News agency reports violence in Soviet Union
From Associated Press reports
MOSCOW "Hooligans" went
on a rampage in a city in Azerbaidz
han, Tass reported Monday. An
Armenian dissident said "thugs" beat
and knifed Armenians as the ethnic
hatred kindled by a territorial dispute
spread in the Caucasus republics.
A Soviet deputy prosecutor general
said over the weekend that two people
For the Record
In the Feb. 26 story, "UNC group
discusses peace proposals for Central
America," the story should have read
that in El Salvador, 73 percent of the
land is allocated to 7 percent of the
farms, according to Carlos Cerezo.
The Daily Tar Heel regrets the error.
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"The people don't have means to
resist," said a female domestic
employee who was walking with him.
Like all those asked, they spoke on
condition of anonymity for fear of
reprisals.
Noriega, commander of the
Defense Forces, has been charged in
the United States with involvement
in the smuggling of Columbian
cocaine and with allowing narcotics
traffickers to launder profits in
Panamanian banks.
Last week President Eric Arturo
Delvalle ordered him to resign. But
on Friday, Noriega engineered a vote
in the National Assembly, dismissing
Delvalle.
Delvalle fled from house arrest
Saturday and remained in hiding
Monday, defying Noriega's order that
he leave the country.
violate state laws, his conduct would
be "grossly offensive to the people of
this state.
"The articles of impeachment . . .
cry out for conviction," Eckstein said.
He urged speedy resolution of a raft
of pending motions to allow testim
ony to begin.
Mecham, who was not required to
be present when the senators con
vened, stayed at the suburban Glen
dale offices of his "government in
exile," and an aide said he wasn't sure
Mecham watched the proceedings on
television.
Mecham spent the morning meet
ing with supporters, spokesman
Tanner Brown said.
they would continue protests regard
less of the consequences. Their
petition referred to an order last
Wednesday prohibiting political
activity by 18 major anti-apartheid
organizations.
Riot police blocked Tutu and two
dozen other clergymen who were
wearing robes and holding Bibles, as
they tried to march toward Parlia
ment from nearby St. George's
Cathedral, the main Anglican church
in central Cape Town.
They knelt and linked arms as a
policeman called through a bullhorn
in another region of Azerbaidzhan
had been killed in "disorders" sparked
by Armenian demands that a part of
Azerbaidzhan be reattached to the
republic.
Street demonstrations, in which
some witnesses said more than 1
million people participated, took
place in the Armenian capital of
Yerevan last week to call for the
annexation of the Nagorno
Karabakh region in Azerbaidzhan,
whose 157,000 inhabitants are mostly
Armenian.
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
appealed Friday to the people of
Armenia and Azerbaidzhan for "civic
maturity," but state-run media
reports and accounts reaching dissi
dent circles in Moscow on Monday
indicated he had failed to quell the
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Along downtown's Central Avenue
on Monday, more than 80 percent
of the stores were open. Some
businesses kept shutters or security
grates pulled down over show win
dows, but their doors were open and
clients came and went.
Some Panamanian banks were
closed, but international banks were
open, as were government offices.
The strike call was issued Friday
by the National Civic Crusade, an
alliance of 200 political, labor,
professional and business groups that
has been campaigning since June for
Noriega's ouster. Opposition leaders
say they want the strike to last until
Noriega steps down.
After his dismissal by the Legis
lative Assembly, Delvalle also called
for a nationwide strike.
Opening his shop downtown, the
His absence was not mentioned
during the proceedings on the Senate
floor.
Mecham, a 63-year-old auto dealer
who won the election after five tries,
is accused of "high crimes, misdemea
nors and malfeasance in office."
Twenty-three articles of impeach
ment approved by the state House
alleged three broad areas of misdeeds.
The articles said Mecham concealed
a $350,000 campaign loan, wrongly
loaned $80,000 from his protocol
fund to his car dealership and
obstructed justice by discouraging a
public official from cooperating in the
investigation of an alleged death
threat to a grand jury witness.
arrest religious leaders in peace protest
that the gathering was illegal. Officers
escorted the protesters into vans as
others aimed jets from water cannons
at scores of protesters who remained
on the sidewalk praying and singing
an African hymn.
After being told at a police station
that charges might be filed later, the
white, black, mixed-race and Indian
clergymen were freed. They held a
news conference at St. George's,
which was surrounded by policemen.
"We are not defying the law," said
Tutu, the black foe of apartheid who
dispute.
The official Tass news agency said
a "group of hooligans provoked
disturbances" Sunday in the indus
trial city of Sumgait, 1,150 miles
south of Moscow on the Caspian Sea.
The Tass dispatch on the unrest
in Sumgait was the first official report
of civil disturbances in the Soviet
Union since it reported that 3,000
people rioted in Alma Ata, capital
of the Central Asian republic of
Kazakhstan, in December 1986. Two
people died and hundreds were
injured in those riots.
Tass gave no indication what led
to the violence in Sumgait, a chemical
and steelmaking center that is Azer
baidzhan's most important industrial
city after its capital, Baku.
A Moscow-based dissident said the
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owner of a candy store said he did
not support the strike because he
distrusts the Civic Crusade.
"It's not that we support Noriega,"
he said. "But who are these others?
Oligarchs who robbed Panama for 60
years."
He said Noriega's regime was
"corrupt, like all governments. But it
has understood better than previous
governments the needs of the small
businessman. I prefer to remain with
a known evil than risk myself with
these others."
Panama Canal authorities said
operation of the waterway was
"completely normal."
The stoppage was supported by the
Industrial Workers' Union of
Panama and most factories in the
industrial zone were closed.
If convicted by the Senate,
Mecham would be removed from
office and could be permanently
barred from holding elective office.
He is the first U.S. governor to be
impeached since 1929, when Huey
Long of Louisiana and Henry John
ston of Oklahoma were impeached.
Long was never tried; Johnston was
removed.
Mecham also faces a March 22
criminal trial on six felony charges
of concealing the campaign loan and
a May 17 recall election.
Mecham, a political outsider, has
drawn criticism for comments which
critics considered slurs against blacks,
homosexuals, Jews and Japanese.
won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize. "We
are obeying God. We also obey God
every day.
"In the past, it was possible for
people to say it was the usual rabble
rousers demonstrating. They can't say
it anymore. It's the church."
The Rev. Allan Boesak, mixed
race president of the World Alliance
of Reformed Churches, said the white
authorities would view the protest as
"an act of subversion.
"We told the South African
government that we had decided we
would be obedient to God," he said.
disturbance was sparked by tensions
between Azerbaidzhan's dominant
ethnic group, the Azeris and Armen
ians. Azeris are predominantly Mos
lem, while Armenians are predomi
nantly Christian.
"Thugs in Sumgait went up to
people and asked them if they were
Armenian or not," said Sergei Gri
goyants, who is of Armenian origin.
"They started to beat up people who
said they were Armenian. Several
people were knifed."
Grigoyants, who said he had
received information on the unrest
from sources in Yerevan, said appar
ently no one was killed in the Sunday
fracas. He said "several dozen" Azeris
reportedly were involved in the
attacks.
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Iranian news agency reports
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From Associated Press reports
NICOSIA, Cyprus Iraq said
it retaliated for pre-dawn missile
attacks on Baghdad by firing long
range rockets into the heart of
Tehran Monday. Iran reported 16
people killed in the bombing of
a hospital.
The official Iraqi News Agency,
monitored in Nicosia, said its
gunners fired five surface-to-surface
missiles into Tehran after
two similar projectiles had
exploded in Baghdad, killing and
wounding "many civilians."
Iran's Islamic Republic News
Agency, also monitored in Nico
sia, said in urgent dispatches that
"two loud explosions" were heard
after nightfall in Tehran and "there
may have been casualties and
damage."
Shultz awaits response on plan
JERUSALEM Secretary of
State George Shultz neared the
end of a peace mission Monday
with inconclusive responses from
Israel and the Arabs on his plan
for negotiations this year on a
Middle East settlement.
Final word from Jordan, the
key Arab country, awaited a
meeting Tuesday with King Hus
sein in London, but the king
clearly was no longer pressing the
Palestine Liberation Organization
to form a joint delegation.
Israel was divided between
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's
conservative Likud bloc, which
opposes the Shultz idea of trading
land for peace, and the center-right
Labor Party of Foreign Minister
"That is a higher law to us."
In the petition addressed to Pres
ident P. W. Botha and Parliament, the
churchmen said in part: "No matter
the consequences, we will explore
every possible avenue for continuing
the activities which you have pro
hibited other bodies from taking."
The Rev. Khoza Mgojo, head of
the Methodist Church, said the
petition would be mailed to Botha.
The document was drenched in the
confrontation.
State Department spokeswoman
Phyllis Oakley said the United States
Candidates visit
From staff reports
Presidential campaigns invade
the Triangle today as Sen. Bob
Dole of Kansas speaks at the
Bryan Center at Duke University
at 8 a.m., former Sen. Albert Gore
Sr. meets with students in the Pit
at 12:15 p.m. after teaching a
political science class and former
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interim chief.
"He is a sensitive, people-oriented
man who is in touch with the com
munity," Taylor said.
Mayor Jonathan Howes said the
selection of Gold was a timely move.
Naming Gold as police chief removes
any uncertainty in the department
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Anti-drug conference begins
WASHINGTON Nancy
Reagan said Monday that casual
users of drugs are an "accomplice
to murder" because they help
finance traffickers willing to com
mit brutal crimes to keep supply
lines open.
Kicking off a White House
Conference for a Drug-Free
America at which the federal
government's anti-drug efforts
were criticized, Mrs. Reagan
dramatized her "just say no"
campaign with a speech focusing
on those whose lives have been
ruined by drugs.
"With all the headlines about
how we're losing the drug war, let's
keep in mind the progress weVe
made," President Reagan told
conference participants at a local
hotel as a warmup to Mrs. Rea
gan's speech.
"But as significant as stopping
smugglers and pushers is, ending
the demand for drugs is how, in
the end, well win," the president
said.
Mrs. Reagan picked up the
subject there, saying that while
progress has been made, "many
ignorant ideas persist. And one of
the worst is the casual user's
justification that drug use is a
victimless crime, that drugs don't
hurt anyone except the person
who's using them."
condemns "the forceful repression of
peaceful demonstrators. By criminal-'
izing and suppressing the exercise of
basic political and human rights, the
South African government is shutting
off avenues for nonviolent change."
Two American diplomats attended
a service Tutu conducted at St.
George's before the march, the U.S.
Embassy said. v
At the service, Tutu and other
ministers said churches would con
tinue the work of the banned organ
izations against apartheid.
N.C. campuses
Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado -
appears in Great Hall at 2 p.m. '
Dole will speak for 45 minutes '
on a variety of campaign issues,
followed by a press conference. ;
Hart will speak for 30 minutes,
with time to meet with students -
and press afterward, before going
to eat dinner on Franklin Street. '
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and will help clarify responsibilities
in the department, Howes said.
"I think the town has made a good
choice," Howes said. "Gold has done
a good job as acting chief and is a
top-level professional." -
Taylor said the search for a director
of public safety, who will oversee both
the police and fire departments, will
continue.
The director will be responsible for
more than 40 public safety personnel
and their training. He will also
coordinate community education
services concerning fire and crime
prevention, Taylor said. :
"The naming of a permanent police
chief is consistent with our objectives
for the public safety program and I
am very confident in Arnold Gold s
abilities," Taylor said.
A formal swearing-in ceremony for
Gold will be held at 10:30 a.m. oh
Thursday, March 3, in the Chapel
Hill Municipal Building located on
Airport Road. The ceremony is open
to the public.
Parking ,rom
"There are many problems with the
transit system," Sipe said. "The buses
stop running at very early hours and
they don't run to all the places they
should." T
Claude Swecker, associate vice
chancellor for facility management,
said the price increases were
necessary. I;
"If we want to continue to provide
parking and the transit system, these
increases are necessary," he said.
"They are the only source of revenue
the parking service has." I
Lawrence Slifkin, alumni distin
guished professor in physics and
astronomy, said that instead "of
raising parking prices, the Rams Club
(Educational Foundation) should be
required to pay for University park
ing during athletic events.
The Rams Club thinks it shouldn't
have to pay for parking because it
built lots on South Campus, Slifkin
said.
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