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HIT in PP Serving the students and the University community since 1S93 Thursday, June 15, 1989 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewsSportsArts 962-0245 BusinessClassifieds 962-1163 TtLODttooim ho Ike obbyio hots Raieo By SARAH CAGLE Assistant Editor RALEIGH UNC-system lob byist Jay Robinson and student lead ers from UNC and N.C. State Uni versity continued efforts Friday to lobby N.C. state legislators to avoid a major tuition increase for the UNC system. A Senate subcommittee last week proposed an 8.5 percent increase for in-state tuition and an 8.5 percent tuition increase for out-of-state stu dents for each of the next two years. The House proposed a 20 percent increase for in-state students and a 15 percent out-of-state tuition in crease. Brien Lewis, student body presi Local author discusses cootroveirsial book By JIMGREENHILL Staff Writer Local writer David Drake, co-author of Rep. Newt Gingrich's book "Window of Opportunity," told The Tar Heel in a June 8 telephone inter view: "It was a real deal that I went into with the intention of making a lot of money, and so far as I know, so did everybody else involved." Gingrich, the minority whip and Inside Two reporters expelled from China 2 Bush vetoes minimum wage increase 3 Police form task force to combat recent assaults 4 Student court undergoes training 6 Bob Mould rebounds with new album 9 Film profiles early sex-and- politics scandal 10 Pro wrestling: real or fake? Joe Bob knows 13 UNC golfer Burton aptly named for his sport 15 U.S. Embassy in Beijing not helpful in time of crisis 19 dent, and speaker of congress Gene Davis held a press conference in front of the legislative building Friday along with Brian Nixon, student body presi dent of N.C. State, and Brooks Raiford, president of NCSU's stu dent senate. The student leaders said they sup port the Board of Governors' pro posed 8.5 out-of-state tuition increase for the next two years rather than the House or the Senate subcommittees' recommendations. "Before we begin balancing the budget on the backs of North Caro lina residents attending public uni versities, other sources of revenue See LOBBY, page 8 second-ranking Republican in Con gress, filed the complaint against for mer House Speaker Jim Wright, D Texas, that led to Wright's May 31 resignation. The deal surrounding the publica tion of the book is at the center of a House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct investigation into the finances of Gingrich, R-Ga. Gingrich formed a limited part UNC student recounts China terror By JIMGREENHILL Staff Writer Student leaders protesting in Bei jing, China, were sought out and sys tematically executed, said junior Morehead Scholar Bowen Vander berry, in a June 8 telephone inter view with The Tar Heel from a To kyo hotel. "(The army) went into (Tian anmen) Square and over the loud speaker asked to see the leaders that were there. They were just shot on sight," she said, recounting descrip tions she heard of the military crack down. "I didn't see anybody killed," Vanderberry said, "(but) I saw enough to scare me half to death." Vanderberry was traveling with Hope Carlson, also a junior More head Scholar. The two, who were Tar HeelEd Matthews UNC Student Body President Brien Lewis outlines student opposition to tuition increases Friday nership to finance the book and raised 5105,000 from 21 conservative sup porters, according to a June 12 Time magazine report. The book sold 12,000 copies and investors turned their losses into tax write-offs, the magazine said. "Newt did the original draft," Drake said. "He's a very hard worker. ... He would hammer out huge quan tities of material, and I would hack it down to a reasonable size." accompanied by two friends who are not students at the University, were in the third week of a four-week visit to China. The summer travel experi ence is part of the Morehead Schol arship program. A third Morehead Scholar, Kirk Martsen, was concluding study in Beijing (see column, page 19). "Even what we saw in Beijing was like the calm before the storm," Van derberry said. "This is just the tip of the iceberg. I think there's a long way to go before this is over." The Chinese government was embarrassed by the students' statue of a goddess of democracy and the widespread support of the people for the students' cause, she said. The government started a crackdown that got out of hand. "The students played by the rules "One of my regular publishers was at a science fiction convention and heard Newt speaking on space policy and said 'There's a book in that man'," said Drake, who lives in the Rolling wood subdivision west of Carrboro. The publisher, Jim Bacn, ap proached Drake. "Jim was very high on the notion," said Drake, who usu ally writes fiction. Drake, a full-time writer since 1981, has lived in the Triangle area since 1967. when it first started," Vanderberry said. "When they started to go over the line, the government just freaked." The Chinese that Vanderberry spoke with said they were scared. They also said they were upset that the four women were seeing their coun try in this condition. "(They were) appalled that it had come to this," she said. She said the government crack down on the students will be effec tive because, despite the size of the country, "it's hard to hide in China." Everyone knows what everyone else is doing, she said. Many Chinese visitors to Vandcrbcrry's hotel room would enter on a pretext when they were actually just watching her, she said. The Chinese government is also helped by the poor communication "It looked like it might be a fabu lously successful thing," said Drake, who graduated from Duke Law School in 1972 after a tour of duly in Vietnam. "It was a gamble that didn't pay off." Gingrich's wife, Marianne, admini stered the partnership and co-signed checks with Jim Bacn, Drake said. "Marianne made ten grand off it and See AUTHOR, page 5 between different areas of the coun try, Vanderberry said. The women first visited Tiananmen Square when they arrived in Beijing May 31, three days before the mili tary began firing on the protesters. "It was a beautiful night. It had just rained and it was clean. It was like a carnival just ending. We felt everything was just ending," Van derberry said. . The next day, there were many television cameras and journalists and a lot of trash, Vanderberry said. She walked around the square soaking up the atmosphere and tak ing pictures, including one of the statue students had fashioned that bore a striking resemblance to the Statue of Liberty. See CHINA, page 7
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