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2The Daily Tar Heel Tuesday, September 20, 1988 . World 'andlNation.';'; ;- Fogotoye air rested! of airraigimmeinilt From Associated Press reports RALEIGH Fugitive Eddie Hatcher was arrested Monday as he and an attorney arrived on a Piedmont Airlines flight just minutes before his scheduled arraignment on charges of holding hostages at a newspaper office. Airport security officers grabbed Hatcher and frisked him in a covered passageway just outside the airplane door. A security officer guarded the door into the terminal while officers cuffed Hatcher's hands behind his back and led him to a car waiting on the tarmac. "We notified them this morning to watch all flights coming into Raleigh-Durham because we felt that with his arraignment today he might come in," said U.S. Marshal Bill Berryhill. He said marshals had no tips that he would come in Monday. Hatcher, whose hair had been cut shorter since his disappearance last month, wore a bright red shirt, blue jeans and Indian-style boots. He is charged with violating federal weapons laws and holding Soldiers open fire on From Associated Press reports RANGOON, Burma Soldiers loyal to the new military government opened fire on thousands of demon strators who surged into the streets Monday to protest a military coup. About 100 people were reported killed in Rangoon. Demonstrations also broke out in other cities, including Mandalay. Witnesses said a total of about 150 people, including 17 soldiers, have died in the violence that swept Burma after Sunday's coup. The military placed the death toll at 23 Monday, but gave no details. State capdodat'es stress mieeci for ooen meetings By SANDY WALL Staff Writer Open meetings, a topic that state candidates have seized upon recently, are necessary in the General Assembly, say the candi dates for lieutenant governor. But in the past, both candidates have either been associated with secret meetings or have advocated restrictions on the press. Democrat Tony Rand, the senate majority leader, has been Senate base budget chairman since 1985 and is a member of the "Super Subcommittee." The "Super Sub," an unofficial group of four senators and four representatives, meets in secret to hammer out budget proposals to submit to joint meet ings of the house and senate budget committees for approval. Republican Jim Gardner, a Rocky Mount businessman, said during his unsuccessful 1972 gub ernatorial bid that, as governor, he would seek restrictions on the press, because it was printing unfair New AH And You'll Love It! The Most Exciting Thing to Happen to Western Sizzlin since the Free Potato Bar. Now included in the Price of Your Salad Bar are HOT NACHOS, Tacos, Melted Cheese, Jalapeno Peppers, Refried Beans, Spanish Rice, Salsa, Sour Cream, Tomatoes and Black Olives. $J99 only IHafclheir 00 day up to 20 people hostage at The Robesonian newspaper on Feb. 1. Hatcher's sister, Ginger Clark, watched through a window as officials led her brother out of the plane and down a stairway to the waiting car. She sobbed, pounded on the window and waved in an attempt to get her brother's attention as reporters and photographers stood around her. Hatcher looked up and smiled at her. Aaron Clark, who had rented , a limousine to take his brother to the arraignment, grimaced when he saw his brother in custody. T knew it, I knew it," he said. New York attorney Ron Kuby, an associate of defense attorney Bill Kunstler, had accompanied Hatcher on the flight from Newark, N.J. Berryhill said he was "willing to give Hatcher the benefit of the doubt," and believed he was on his way to surrender when he stepped off the plane at the airport. Hatcher was being taken to the Cumberland County Jail, Berry hill said. Military commander Saw Maung engineered the newest change in power in Burma by overthrowing civilian President Maung Maung. Undaunted opposition leaders vowed that students, Buddhist monks and striking civil servants would continue to demonstrate for demo cracy. Maung Maung's whereabouts remain unknown. A Western diplomat familiar with Burma said from Bangkok, Thailand, that "We're into possibly one of the final acts now ... a naked confron tation with the army . . . Either the stories about him. But for this campaign, Rand has created a "10-point plan" to open the meetings. Those points include making the "Super Sub" official, opening all committee meetings to the public and making all docu ments public. ' A Rand spokesman, J. Barlow Herget, said Rand was the only one of the five Democratic primary candidates for lieutenant governor to issue such a plan. Rand has a reputation for open government, Herget said. Gardner's plan is to introduce a bill to make all private committee meetings illegal. All members of the General Assembly could thus be aware of committee proceedings before the vote comes to the floor, Gardner said. Gardner said Rand was "part of the problem," because Rand has offered only "lip service" to the idea of open meetings and has been a member of the "Super Sub." Because the candidates basically 324 W. Chapel mm Polish government :'' ministers step down following From Associated Press reports WARSAW, Poland The government of Prime Minister Zoig niew Messner resigned Monday after sharp criticism of its management of the economy. A lawmaker called on parliament to legalize the Solidarity Labor Federation. The resignations of Messner and all 19 government ministers were announced in a speech by Messner to the Sejm, or parliament. It was the first time in Poland's postwar history the entire govern ment stepped down. Messner said the resignations would make it easier for parliament to make "proper deci sions" about the government's future. Messner, prime minister since 1985, defended the government's performance but conceded "mishaps" in not standing up to inflationary wage demands. Inflation caused a wave of labor strikes in April. A second wave in August ended when authorities and Solidarity leader Lech Walesa agreed to hold broad-based talks next month that may include the topic of legal izing Solidarity. Under Poland's system, the Com munist Party led by the Politburo is the actual seat of power and appoints the government through its majority protesters students win or the army wins." The soldiers were trying to enforce a ban on public gatherings imposed immediately after the coup by Saw Maung, the defense minister before the coup and a right-hand man of former President Sein Lwin. Sein Lwin resigned Aug. 12 after riots in which hundreds of protesters report edly died. , Protesters blame the country's sole legal party, the ruling Burma Socialist Program Party, for 26 years of repression and economic ruin. Other analysts believe the military may have acted to simply assert its traditional agree, Gardner said he believes openness is "not a partisan issue, it's a fairness issue." Although the Legislature is overwhelmingly Democratic, Gardner said he could convince the Senate to pass his bill because his election would "send a message to the Senate." Gardner said his stand now on press restrictions does not contra dict his previous comments, because they were made "in the heat, 20 years ago." Openness may not be an issue to most voters, however. Jack Betts, editor of Insight magazine, said he couldn't tell if it mattered to voters, but that it "should be an issue." Legislators have made some progress in opening the commit tees, but it has come slowly, Betts said. Roy Parker, editor of the Fayetteville Times, said the issue was "good politics to jump all over." Rosemary St. Hill 942-1 81 6 criticism in parliament. The government is responsible for executing the party's goals. The party leadership has main tained that its goals for reforming the economy and political system have been correct but the implementation by Messner's government has been faulty. Recent articles in the Soviet press also have criticized the Polish government. The outlawed Solidarity federation "should regain its proper place in the trade union movement," Ryszard, Bender, independent parliament member from Lublin, said during a debate in parliament on the economy and government. ' "Apart from associations, apart from Solidarity . . . there is also a need to have new political parties," he said. It was apparently the first call in parliament for legalizing the union since Solidarity was suppressed in 198 1 by the imposition of martial law. Bender urged Poland's leader, Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, to make a joint statement with Walesa, "the first Nobel Peace Prize laureate in Polish history," concerning Poland's "most vital interests." Jaruzelski smiled slightly but had no other visible reaction to the remarks. in Burma authority. Reports indicated soldiers shot at mostly unarmed protesters near the main government administrative building, the U.S. Embassy, Sule Pagoda and Rangoon General Hos pital. An Asian diplomat said 67 people were admitted Monday at Rangoon General Hospital. Witnesses said corpses were taken away by military trucks while resi dents dragged some of the dead and wounded into their houses or put them in three-wheeled taxis to be taken to hospitals. Oukakos supporters optimiisfafc-:, after campaigner, rejoins teamm i BySTACICOX Assistant State and National Editor The return of John Sasso to the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis caused some controversy at first, but many Democratic observers agree the Dukakis campaign has been on the upswing since Sasso's return. "We've had a very positive eight or nine days," said Tripp Jones, assistant press secretary for Dukakis. Sasso came back as the vice chairman for the campaign. Republicans, however, don't see it that way. Dukakis promised he would have nothing more to do with Sasso when Child care But Browne said just getting them a high school education is not enough. The quality of high schools in general must be improved for a diploma to mean much in an increas ingly more technological job market, she said. "Let's face it all high school educations are not the same," Browne said. Many industries have been com piling the same figures for years as those the institute published, and the results have probably kept many high-paying industries out of the state, Niblock said. "Industry site location people have A DO YOUR PRINTS MEASURE UP? QUALITY 4x6 in if PHOTO LAB J L ,r i Li . nnA QeU Nicaraguan factions discuss resuming peace negotiations From Associated Press reports GUATEMALA CITY Representatives of the Nicaraguan government met with rebel leaders Monday for the first time in three months, but both sides remained sharply divided on ways to end seven years of civil war. The leftist Sandinista govern ment 'and the U.S.-backed rebels, known as contras, began a two day conference as a preliminary step to resuming the high-level peace talks that collapsed on June 9. The rebels recently proposed that high-level talks resume Sept. 26, but the two sides disagree on a location. Nicaragua is willing to resume talks, but they must be held in Managua, said Victor Tinoco, Nicaraguan assistant foreign min ister and the head of the Sandinista delegation, at a news conference before Monday's meeting. The rebels have opposed hold ing the talks in the Nicaraguan capital and have said high-level negotiations cannot resume until the government releases more than 40 anti-government demonstra tors arrested in July. A fragile March 21 cease-fire remains in effect in Nicaragua, but each side accuses the other of violating the truce. Homeless children numerous WASHINGTON At least 100,000 of America's children are homeless on any given night, and that doesn't include those who have run away from home or been kicked out by their parents, the National Academy of Sciences estimated Monday. While male alcoholics and former mental patients still make up a large portion of the homeless, the fastest growing group of people with no place to live are children under 16, said the acade my's Institute of Medicine. "The committee feels strongly that the growing phenomenon of homeless children is nothing short of a national disgrace that must be treated with , the urgency that such a situation demands," the he fired him after Sasso admitted he had a role in the release of a videotape of Joe Biden plagiarizing a speech, but has gone back on his word, said Bill Graham, chairman of the N.C. campaign for Republican candidate George Bush. "If I were Susan Estrich (the Dukakis campaign manager who replaced Sasso) I'd tell them they could have their position back," Graham said. "It's like a slap in the face to the whole staff." But Jones said Sasso's position was created for him so that it does not encroach on the power of any existing member of the campaign. "Susan Estrich called it (Sasso's from page 1 known what we've been ignoring for years," he said. 'Higher paying industries that are moving into the state often find it necessary to bring their own people, Browne said. But there could be an ultimate advantage to the influx of new people. . - "These new people are used to and will demand higher standards of service, which could eventually benefit the poor," she said. The report's findings were not all negative, Niblock said. Standardized test scores in 1987 were u$, and infant mortality rates, while still higher than the national average, were down. PRINTS. . . OUR STANDARD SIZE! ! ! Stop in for a Trial with no Error! Bring in this ad & receive $2.00 OFF We also process 938-88 H 3 1 33 W. Franklin in University Square News in Brief report said. One recommendation aimed directly at helping children pro posed that federal support for enriched day care and Head Start programs should be expanded and coupled with outreach efforts to make homeless parents aware of help available for their children. Free-trade bill nears approval WASHINGTON The Senate neared approval Monday of a landmark free-trade agreement with Canada phasing out tariffs on the $131 billion worth of goods that cros,s the northern U.S. border each year. "This agreement is positive for both nations, and it is a boost for the world trading system," Sen. Daniel Moynihan, D-N. Y., told the Senate as it prepared to vote to send the measure to President Reagan's desk. It would open the door f r a 10-year phaseout of U.S. t- iffs and various other trade curbs if political problems on the Cana dian side are resolved. In Canada, the House of Com mons has passed a bill to start the tariff phaseout, but majority Liberals in the Senate have bottled it up until Prime Minister Brian Mulroney calls new elections. Mulroney is expected to call elections within a few weeks. Defeat for his Conservative party could doom the plan in the new Parliament. Stock market takes slide NEW YORK Stock prices turned downward in quiet trading Monday, giving up some of last week's gains. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials, up 29.34 points last week, fell 17.07 to 2,081.08. Declining issues outnumbered advances by about 3 to 2 in nationwide trading of New York Stock Exchange-listed stocks, with 584 up, 885 down and 472 unchanged. return) a familv reunion " he said. Dukakis' proposals for a new. education loan program, the creation, of. a cabinet-level Environmental Protection Agency position and. riin'i luc ii v w 1111 niivri nr mil rip rr n 1 r u 1 i- - WAAVWWVW Wft-lUWn.tJ VU IWdll 11U T W LI' ft ft, ftliW nmnrrat'c am no ion i4K q r V" rn track, Jones said. But Sasso is not solely responsible for Dukakis' tur- naround, he said. ; : uur upswing is me resuu oi gooa campaigning all over the country," Jones said. "This is a 50-state campaign." But Bush supporters and the average voter probably don't see any auierence in tne uuKaias campaign, Graham said. The Dukakis campaign has hprnmc n mivturp rf rffVncf nnH defense since Sasso's return, said: UNC political science professor; Merle Black. Dukakis represents the: Ant rfto rrxj onrl muct mrt r ocrtne why the Democrats should be in power again, he said. hvents like riding in the tank last week aren't going to help," Black said, referring to a recent tank ride Duka kis took in Michigan to emphasize his knowledge of defense issues. "That was ridiculously stupid, and I hope Sasso wasn't involved in that." Sasso's influence is more likely seen in the release of specific proposals than in photo opportunities, he said. While Graham attacked the tank ride, he defended such photo oppor tunities on the whole. 8c print pro 120 We use Kodak paper & chemicals!
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