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2The Daily Tar Hee! Wednesday, February 1, 1989 World and Nation Jy&y selection difficu It In North tra From Associated Press reports WASHINGTON Oliver North's Iran-Contra trial quickly ran into jury-selection trouble Tuesday, and the judge said there could be prob lems with "triability of the case" because so many people had seen or read of North's testimony in congres sional hearings. U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell said only 16 of the first 54 prospective jurors indicated on ques tionnaires they weren't exposed to North's congressional appearances. The former White House aide testi fied to House and Senate investigat ing committees in 1987 under a grant of limited immunity from prosecution based on his testimony. During an afternoon court session, two of the 16 were declared qualified Nicaragua airplane hijacker arrested' at Costa Clica airport From Associated Press reports SAN JOSE, Costa Rica A Nicaraguan Indian exiled in Colom bia hijacked a domestic airliner with 122 aboard to Costa Rica on Tuesday by threatening to set a passenger afire with gasoline, officials said. A passenger said the copilot over powered the hijacker, who was carrying two orange juice cartons of gasoline with wicksvjust before the plane landed. An anti-terrorist squad arrested the hijacker, and three other people were detained after the Ace airline Boeing 727 touched down at an airport near the capital, said Interior Minister , Carlos Disanti, who declined further comment. . . The Red Cross treated some pas sengers for shock, officials said, but no other injuries were reported. Public Security Minister Hernan Garron said the hijacker was iden tified as Alvin Antonio Siu, a Miskito Indian living on San Andres Island. He was being questioned to deter mine why he hijacked the plane, which officials in Colombia said had 116 passengers and a crew of six. The hijacker commandeered the flight about 11 a.m. EST, 10 minutes after it took off from the island on a flight to Medellin, Colombia's second largest city. It landed in Costa Rica about noon. "The hijacker during the flight told the pilot, Jaime Perez, he would burn a passenger alive if he did not divert the flight to Costa Rica," said Costa Rican air traffic controller Carlos Paniagua. A man on the plane said the cabin door was open and passengers could hear the conversation. "He spoke with the captain and told him to divert the plane to any Central American country, Jamaica or Miami, but the captain convinced him to land somewhere close because of lack of fuel," said Humberto Campos, a passenger sitting toward the front of the plane. When the hijacker, clad in jeans and a blue shirt, looked out one of the cabin windows shortly before landing, the copilot overpowered him and took the cartons away, he said. Disanti did not say what, if any, action the Costa Rican squad took. Communists hate God, Quayle says From Associated Press reports WASHINGTON Vice Presi dent Dan Quayle told religious broadcasters Monday that the Soviet government system, rooted in "hatred of God, has brought much evil into the world. He quoted communist revolution " leader Vladimir Lenin as saying the , idea of god is "unutterable vileness "... of the most dangerous kind. "That was Lenin and unfortunately ' his gospel is still actively pursued in the Soviet Union," Quayle said. Quayle made his comments in a speech to the annual conference of the National Religious Broadcasters. "How did the Communist Party gain such appalling confidence in its own wisdom, indeed, its own omnis cience? I think the root of the matter all comes back to a hatred of God, to a rejection of the entire concept of a religious system," Quayle said. He contrasted the Soviet and American revolutions, saying that founders of the United States had a "belief in the existence of a creator whose laws have placed irrevocable limits on the power of the state." "Look how much good has come into the world as a result of the first revolution and how much evil has entered the world because of the second," Quayle said. White House press secretary Mar lin Fitzwater said Quayle's comments were, not inconsistent with adminis tration policy. j vQJlJ JUL L3LiL B HE? HE1 lo o 1 o j I ry c EL (7ni(Tn7nrAnr? - :'0" r- r It f you work for the University or Memorial Hospital, you can qualify for FREE checking at The Village Bank with no minimum balance, and no monthly fee. Simply sign up for direct deposit of your paycheck, open your checking account, and you're all set. Here's what you'll get: No minimum balance requirement o No service charges o Set of 200 free (wallet-style) personalized checks Saturday Banking hours o And RELAY, our teller machine network that lets you get cash all over To sign up, simply stop by any of our six Village Bank offices. Our most convenient location to campus is just Y2 block off Franklin Street at 113 N. Columbia St. Start getting FREE checking today. It is absolutely, positively, the only way to bank. Village Bank to be in a pool of people who eventually will be considered for jury duty. One of them, a retired postal clerk, said she paid as much attention to North's televised testimony as she paid to "the Three Stooges." Still, North's lawyers objected to her selection, noting she said she turned on her television during North's testimony but said in her questionnaire she had seen none of the hearings. The other person declared quali fied, a young mechanic, said he knew nothing about North. Gesell also heard arguments on how exposure to North's earlier testimony should affect qualification or disqualification of potential jurors. John Keker, the head of the prosecution team, argued that the question should be whether a poten tial juror can be fair and impartial, not whether the person was exposed to North's testimony. In that testi mony, North detailed instances of misleading Congress and altering and shredding documents as well as other matters for which he is now charged with crimes. North attorney Barry Simon said anyone who was exposed to North's testimony should be disqualified, even if the person remembers nothing about it. Simon said jurors could experience "sudden recall" as the trial progresses and details of the case against North are presented and that therefore "all the work is for naught" in attempting to select a fair and impartial jury. North's trial on charges of lying to Congress, shredding evidence and conspiring to commit tax fraud "arises following a period of fairly intense publicity on television, news papers, magazines" which will con tinue, Gesell said. He quickly excused the first five prospective jurors after all said they had been exposed to North's 1987 testimony. North's attorney, Brendan Sulli van, also sought to rule out as jurors anyone who in recent days had seen North's congressional testimony replayed in news reports as the trial start neared. Military refueling jet crashes at Texas base; at east 1 7 dead From Associated Press reports ABILENE, Texas A military refueling jet bound for Hawaii with 19 people aboard crashed in a ball of flames on takeoff Tuesday at Dyess Air Force Base, killing at least 17 people, the Air Force said. "I heard the plane as it was coming down," said Skeet Jackson of Abilene. Engines were back firing and missing. It curved off to the left and crashed. And then I saw the ball of smoke and fire go up." The wreckage burned for more than an hour after the crash. At least 17 people were killed, said Lt. Col. George Peck, a spokesman at Strategic Air Com mand Headquarters at Omaha, Neb. It was the second crash at Dyess in less than three months. A B 1B bomber crashed there Nov. 8. The four-man crew safely bailed out. Winter heads south The record cold air that stunned Alaska swept into the lower 48 states Tuesday, dropping temper atures in Montana by more than 70 degrees, and the weather system keeping Alaska cold intensified to a North-American record. Blowing snow dropped visibility to zero, closing schools in Mon tana and North Dakota and briefly shutting down a Minnesota highway. Balmy weather that set records for warmth in many cities ended abruptly in Montana, where Great Falls dropped to 10 degrees below zero Tuesday morning, after Mon day's record high of 62, the National Weather Service said. Cold air from Siberia was trapped over Alaska by a dome of extremely high atmospheric pressure. Hatcher, Jacobs file suit RALEIGH Two Tuscarora Indians Tuesday asked a federal judge to block their extradition and prosecution on 14 state News in Brief charges of kidnapping stemming" from last year's - takeover of a Lumberton newspaper. The suit, filed in federal court ' by Eddie Hatcher, Timothy Ja-' cobs and the Robeson County Defense Committee, names Gov. Jim Martin, Attorney General Lacy Thornburg, SBI Director' Robert Morgan, Superior Court' Judge Joe Freeman Britt, Robe-' son County District Attorney' Richard Townsend and Sheriff Hubert Stone, as well as deputies ' and SBI agents, as defendants. The suit shows that the people of Robeson County "are a changed people," defense attorney Lewis Pitts told a crowd of about 50 people at a news conference in front of the county courthouse in Lumberton. But Thornburg said the state did not intend to stop pressing for the extradition of the two Indians. Exporter held secret papers NEWARK, N.J. A Korean American businessman charged with trying to export nerve gas also held classified documents reveal ing the United States' capability to intercept enemy communica tions, the government disclosed Tuesday. Papers filed in U.S. District Court by prosecutors fighting the release of Juhwan Yun on $2 4 million bail gave new details on , the documents, which Assistant U.S. Attorney Anne Singer earlier : said were found on a desk at Yun's import-export business. "Revelation of the information would not only compromise spe- - cifics of our EW (electronic war fare) capabilities but would also- reveal details of our knowledge of enemy threat," said a memoran dum written by Navy Capt. M. Oetinger, vice director of the Pentagon's Joint Electronic War . fare Center, to the U.S. Customs Service. Les has his own apartment Sid lives in Granville Towers Les avoids a trip to campus by studyins at home. Sid studies in Granville's large, quiet study lounse. pp Les spent more money on duct tape than on books. When Sid has a problem, he knows mainte nance will be there promptly. (DUMPSTEft) , Les's exercise resimen consists of taking his trash to the dumpster. Sid works out in Granville's convenient weisht room. Les doesnt have much to do when the Nerf hoop is broken. The Spectator magazine chose Granville's basketball court "Best in the Triansle". Granville Towers WML GRANVILLE TOWERS ecause YouVe Got Enough To Worry About University Square Chapel Hill 929-7143 t ft OFFER EXPIRES Feb. 16, 1989 Member FDIC
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