The Daily Tar HeelThursday, September 7, 19893
Problems hamper Polish' advances
Campus Police Roundup
In Chapel Hill:
Police received a report Tuesday
at 4: 19 a.m. that an unidentified male
was kicking at the door of the Beta
Theta Phi fraternity house on South
Columbia Street. Jerry Rogers, a
Chapel Hill resident, filed the com
plaint. When officers arrived at the frater
nity house they found several males
on the front porch of the residence.
After questioning them, the officers
decided that no further investigation
was necessary.
Fletcher Scurlock of Chapel Hill
reported Tuesday evening that three
females had harassed him at the inter
section of West Franklin and Rober
son streets. Officers were sent to the
intersection, but were unable to lo
cate the women.
Sue Anderson of Chapel Hill
contacted police Tuesday and re
ported that an unidentified male had
exposed himself to her at the post
office on South Estes Drive.
Anderson told officers that as she
was leaving the post office, a man in
a red vehicle pulled up beside her car.
The woman soon noticed the man
was masturbating. The man had fled
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CP&L lays off workers, shuffles jobs
By GLENN O'NEAL
Staff Writer
Five hundred Carolina Power and
Light (CP&L) workers lost their jobs
last week, and another 220 workers
face reassignments andor relocations
becau.se of the utility company's reor
ganization. The 220 workers who face reassign
ments h ave five working days to decide
if they wish to accept the new positions.
Attempt ing to avoid rate increases, the
company also dismissed 1,000 con
tractors is part of the job reductions
that took ,place last Monday.
"Once 'we completed the (Shearon)
Harris plant in 1987, that brought to an
end a 20-ye ar period of building gener
ating plants," said Kyle Hampton,
CP&L spok esman. "The 20-year pe
riod was a challenge to design, engi
neer and build power plants to serve the
electricity netids of our customers."
In January, CP&L began an organi
zation analysis of the company and its
personnel, he sa id. Managers and super
visors evaluated all aspects of the
company and the number of workers
needed to do the work in the 1990s.
Tanker collides
From Associated Press reports
STOCKHOLM, Sweden An oil
tanker trying to avoid a crash with a
Soviet fishing trawler Wednesday
veered into another Soviet boat, which
sank in the chilly B altic and killed all
15 crewmen, officials said.
One of the Soviet fishermen was
pulled from the sea al ive after the acci
dent but died as he was flown to a
hospital. The coast guaird and navy gave
up the search for the other 14 crewmen
eight hours after the accident, saying
there was no hope of finding survivors
in the 55-degree water.
Coast guard Cmdr. 'Topi Jarainen
called it the worst maritime accident in
the Baltic since World War U.
The 6,000-ton Finnish oil tanker
Tebo Star, en route to Amsterdam with
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the scene before the officers arrived.
Officers responded to a report of
a disturbance at 1 1 1 Merritt Mill Road
Tuesday. Upon arriving at the scene,
police discovered evidence of an at
tempted robbery and assault. Mark
Garriga was struck when a man at
tempted to rob him. Police found a
suspect, but the man ran when offi
cers attempted to question him.
Carrboro police officers later
stopped the suspect and took him into
custody.
Police were called to the Kron
Building at 725 Airport Road Tues
day morning when it was discovered
that the building had been broken
into and several items were missing.
No suspects have been identified, and
police have no estimate of the value
of the stolen property.
Several Chapel Hill residents
were the victims of vandalism Tues
day. Police received seven separate
reports from across town of vandal
ism to homes, cars and businesses.
All of the complaints reported find
ing broken windows, and several
residents found small metal pellets at
the scenes.
compiled by Charles Brittain
By GLENN O'NEAL
Staff Writer
Former state Sen. Bo Thomas has
announced his candidacy for the Demo-1
cratic nomination in the 1990 U.S.
Senate race against incumbent Jesse
Helms, and Thomas stopped in Chapel
Hill Wednesday during his first round
of campaigning.
"We need a senator for North Caro
lina," Thomas said. The nomination
will be decided during the Democratic
primary the first Tuesday in May.
"I am seeking the opportunity with
all my energy to take (Helms) on," he
said. "I want to be the Democrat that
gets to scalp and send him back to
Hayes Barton (in Raleigh).
"Senator Helms is from North Caro
lina elected from North Carolina
three times. He supports dictators in
Chile, Argentina, South Africa ... "
Thomas, a former state senator from
The study designated the positions
that were "outplaced" last Monday as
nonessential, he said. The eliminated
positions ranged from clerical workers
to workers in administration, engineer
ing, computers and accounting.
"We are hoping by reorganizing our
company and by work' force reduc
tions, it will be several years before we
will go for a rate increase," Hampton
said.
The company is expected to save
$70 million by late next year as a result
of the reorganization, he said. The
amount of money the company will
save depends on the length of sever
ance pay to the former workers. The
length of severance pay can range from
17 to 61 weeks.
"We would expect our customers
will not see any difference in service
level," he said.
The layoff probably won't affect
services, said Robert Gruber, execu
tive director of the public staff of the
Utilities Commission, which represents
rate payers. "The services needed to
operate the plants will not be curtailed.
"(The layoff) can only help rates,"
with Soviet trawler; 15 dead
a cargo of crude oil, crunched into the
trawler Ladushkin just after midnight
in fair weather and moderate seas.
Veikko Hintsonen, of the Suomen
Petrooli shipping company, which
operated the tanker, said in Helsinki
that the ship veered to avoid a collision
with another Soviet trawler when it hit
the Ladushkin.
The Tebo Star was not seriously
damaged, he said.
The 75-foot-long trawler sank within
minutes, said Waldemar Berlin, head
of the coast guard rescue operation.
"I've worked here for 30 years, and I
can't recall a more serious accident,"
he said.
Berlin said most of the Soviet crew
men probably were in their bunks asleep
when the tanker hit their ship, 28 miles
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Editor's note: This is the final article
of a two-part series.
By STACI COX
Staff Writer
The historic upheaval in Poland this
summer left most outsiders stunned,
but experts warn the new government
is fragile.
"You get the feeling they've got
limited time," said Robert Rupen, UNC
professor of political science. "They'd
better get some results fast or it's going
to sour."
After several months of intense
negotiations, the Polish Communist
Party, agreed to legalize the workers
union, Solidarity, and to allow partially
free elections. The elections ended in a
landslide victory for Solidarity. Subse
quent power struggles yielded the first
prime minister with popular support
Solidarity member Tadeusz Mazow
ieki since Nazi occupation in the
1930s.
. Although Solidarity holds the ma
jority in parliament, important cabinet
and leadership positions will be shared
with the Communists, pommunist Party
members will serve as president, min
ister of defense and minister of internal
affairs.
for U.S. Senate seat
Hendersonville, made his final deci
sion to run for the U.S. Senate seat
about six to seven weeks ago, he said.
Thomas said he had a lot of support
in the mountains for his nomination
bid. He said support from the party
leaders was difficult to evaluate, but he
added that he did not expect enormous
support from them.
The environment and education will
be two issues important in his cam
paign, he said.
In the next 50 years, 123 creeks in
the mountains will be judged acidic, he
said. Those creeks will be dangerous to
wildlife and humans. Thomas also cited
water pollution in the Triangle from
industry as another cause of concern.
A national commitment to education
will mean working on such issues as
funding, lengthening the school year
and upgrading curricula to make sure
high school graduates will be competi
he said. "(CP&L officials) claim it will
save $70 million a year that will keep
them from seeking a rate increase."
The layoffs covered the CP&L serv
ice area in North and South Carolina,
but approximately half of the jobs were
in the Raleigh area.
Most of the workers who lost their
jobs will be rehired in 30 to 60 days,
said Chris Shields, director of public
information for the N.C. Employment
Security Commission.
The loss of jobs will cause a ripple in
the labor force of the Triangle, said Jim
McMahan, manager of the Raleigh
office of the Employment Security
Commission. But most of the workers
will be absorbed very easily, he said.
The unemployment rate for the area
is 2.6 percent, he said.
Hampton said the company was
doing everything it could to help em
ployees find another career. The com
pany will set up a center for employees
to make telephone calls, polish inter
view skills and work on resumes. CP&L
also will sponsor a job fair for employ
ees who were laid off.
southwest of the Swedish island of
Gotland.
The Swedish navy pulled three heli
copters and four vessels from war games
being held nearby to help in the rescue
effort.
The Ladushkin was resting on the
seabed 50 yards below the surface,
Berlin said.
Jarainen said accidents involving
trawlers and tankers are rare, but fish
ermen on Gotland island said passing
tankers sometimes do not pay enough
attention at night when trawlers are at
anchor.
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"The Communists are essentially in
control of the military and police,"
Rupen said. 'That could be danger
ous." But the real danger to the new gov
ernment is the internal economic diffi
culties that must be faced to maintain
support, he said.
"These people are in desperate straits
right now," said Madeline Levine, a
professor of Slavic languages. "Basic
foods like fruit and sausage are almost
impossible to get. Medicine is hard to
come by. We're not talking about lux
ury items."
Inflation has been out of control in
Poland for decades, and access to for
eign currency makes a tremendous
difference in standard of living, she
said.
"The need for hard currency cuts
class lines," Levine said. "Even the
very wealthy try to depend on foreign
money to survive. The worst strain is
on those with no access to hard cur
rency." tive, he said. An outrageous number of
high school students are not prepared
for college, he said.
Thomas attended Duke University
but withdrew in 1951 to enlist in the
Army during the Korean War. He saw
combat in an artillery unit and eventu
ally became a sergeant. Thomas also
commanded the National Guard unit in
Hendersonville, he said.
Thomas heads an international fruit
and vegetable business.
He was appointed to the state Senate
in 1979 and elected in 1980. He has
since served four full terms.
He was the Democratic Party chair
man of the 1 1th Congressional District,
and he has been on the Democratic
Party's state executive council.
Thomas was also chairman of the
Senate Finance Committee, Ways and
Means Committee and Appropriations
for General Government Committee.
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Les generally eats his meals at the "Happy
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Les spent last Saturday looking for his ex
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The dollar is equal to about 8,000
zloty, the Polish monetary unit, she
said.
Fiscal mismanagement during the
first 15 years of Communist rule led to
new leadership which promised to
rebuild the economy, mostly through
the use of Western loans. Many of the
projects were on a huge scale and had
to be abandoned before they were ever
completed.
"The international oil crisis was a
terrible blow to Polish planning," Jo
sef Anderle, a professor of history,
said. "The Soviets saw a chance to sell
their oil to the West at much-needed
profits, and Eastern Bloc countries like
Poland were left to flounder in the
skyrocketing world market."
Strikes and riots had broken out
across Poland by 1976, and the gov
ernment made back-breaking conces
sions in hopes that production would
increase and Poland could compete on
the world market.
"Huge structures were left to liter
ally rust out," Levine said. "A lot of the
problems today stem from that time
and the greed of Western bankers. They
made huge loans that everyone knew
could never be paid back without de
stroying Poland and the Poles
jumped at the chance for easy money."
Because so much money was squan
dered during the 1 970s, most countries
are very conservative about the num
ber and size of loans they will offer the
new government, Rupen said.
"The Poles are waiting to start
making changes until they get finan
cial aid, and America is waiting to see
some changes before making any large
commitments," Rupen said. "The new
government can't afford to wait long
or their chance to make a difference
will be gone. It's a waiting game in
which both sides need to be cautious,
but inaction is the double-edged
sword."
A serious setback to immediate
action by the Polish government is the
difficulty of prioritizing needed
changes. Aside from its economic
woes, Poland has some of the worst
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pollution problems in the world. The
quality of medical care is also severely
lagging.
4There is virtually no clean water
left in Poland," Levine said. "Some of
the water is so polluted, industries down
river from each other can't even clean
the water up enough to use it for manu
facturing purposes."
Only 10 percent of the water in Po
land is suitable for drinking.
Air pollution is also out of coritrol,
and soil contamination has reached the
point that produce cannot pass tests for
toxin levels in foreign markets. In
addition, acid rain is eating away at the
centuries-old art and architecture of the
nation.
Medieval practices such as the
dumping of all of Warsaw's raw sew
age directly into rivers and open burn
ing of toxins have made the environ
mental problems worse.
"A real focus of anger is the dramatic
increase in the rates of cancer and res
piratory disease, especially among
children," Levine said. "Frankly, with
the amount of money they're likely to
get, the Poles are going to have to
decide whether to maintain current low
technology of manufacturing and use
funds for scrubbers and cleaning up
their environment, or accept they will
have a declining life expectancy over
the next several decades and hope the
technological advances can relieve and
restore the environment."
While the new government sorts out
its priorities, most observers will keep
a watchful eye on Communist reaction
to the rate and scope of changes.
"Solidarity is no longer completely
unified, and faction politics could start
affecting the decisions very soon,"
Rupen said. "In these circumstances,
it's easy to be suspicious of Communist
motives in sharing power. They may
well be trying to get Solidarity to take
the responsibility for the worsening
economic crisis."
If improvements get under way and
are successful, the likely end result
would probably be some form of a
socialist government, he said.
Sid lives in
Granville Towers.
Sid's place is furnished. Everything he
needs is there when he moves in.
Sid's meals are cooked for him, and he
can dine anytime, even on weekends.
Sid had enough money to go on a real
date. At Granville you're only respon
sible for your room and board.
Sid's bathroom is cleaned for him weekly,
and campus is within walking distance.
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