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2The Daily Tar HeelFriday, September 22, 1989 World and Nation totes to By GLENN O'NEAL Staff Writer North Carolina is one of eight south ern states working to reach an agree ment for the management of hazardous wastes by Oct. 17, when Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Superfund money discontinues for states without a waste management plan. The Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) Action Committee, composed of representa tives from the eight states, met last Friday in Atlanta and worked on a draft for an agreement, said Carl Terry, public affairs spokesman for the EPA. The N.C. group is working on the ' document and is sending copies to the other states, he said. The SARA Action ' Committee will met Sept. 29 to finalize tne agreement. The governors of the states consid- - ering the agreement discussed the issue - during a conference of Southern gover nors in Wilmington, Del., on Sept. 18 ' and 19. The conference was particularly important this year because of the issue '. of hazardous waste, said David Prather, Residents seek shelter from B- From Associated Press reports CHARLESTON, S.C. Hurricane Hugo advanced faster and with renewed fury Thursday on Georgia and South Carolina as a flood of coastal residents grabbed what they could carry and fled inland on jammed highways. "We're not going to take any chances," said Lamar Davis, a bar tender on St. Simons, an island off southern Georgia, who stole a last glance at a pounding surf before leaving with his wife and 4-year-old daughter. The leading edge of Hugo, whose winds muscled up to 125 mph from 105 mph the day before, was most likely to hit between Savannah, Ga., and Char leston any time after 8 p.m. A hurricane warning was in effect between Fer nandina Beach, Fla., and Oregon Inlet, N.C. At 3 p.m., Hugo was 220 miles from Savannah and bearing down at 20 mph. It was expected to turn gradually to the north, according to the National Weather Service. The timing of the landfall was criti cal because of the storm's tidal surge, a Joint Chiefs -of Staff 1 From Associated Press reports : WASHINGTON Adm. William . Crowe Jr., retiring chairman of the Joint : Chiefs of Staff, called Thursday for an : end to sales of assault weapons and also : said the nation "might consider doing : unusual things with the military" to win I the war against drugs. I "If we want to fight it, and we want to whip it, we want to prevent it, I would suggest that it does require 'unusual measures," Crowe said in a '. wide-ranging interview with news serv . ice reporters. I President Bush has banned imported . assault weapons but has allowed sales '.' of U.S.-made versions to continue. Saying the nation has never "seen -I the fiber of our society eaten away by tan insidious, uncontrollable threat," Z Crowe suggested that in the anti-drug fight America might want to use the nir;sK4m loaaufdourroioiaavsi- (oiouroiaiSL, mm msmm mm wmmiB Polo Lunch: 11:30-2:30 (except Sat.) Sunday International Luncheon Buffet 11:30-2:30 Dinner: 5:00-9:30 Weekends: 5:00-11:00 ,1813 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd Chapel Hill located next to Brendle's All Major Credit Cards Accepted create waste control olao deputy director of communications for Gov. Jim Martin. A multi-state agree ment on the management of hazardous waste needs some work, he said. Before Gov. Martin left for the con ference, he wanted the new draft agree ment ready so he could speak with the other governors, said Victoria Voight, associate attorney general for North Carolina. Each of the eight states in EPA Region Four would have a different function in handling the hazardous waste, Prather said. North Carolina has decided to build an incinerator for the project, but a location for the incinera tor has not been chosen. The eight states discussing the agree ment are Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. By Oct. 17, a state must have a haz ardous waste plan in effect or the EPA cannot commit Superfund clean-up money to that state, Voight said. In North Carolina, there are nego tiations with the EPA on two clean-up sites, she said. If the state does not have a waste management plan in effect, the 10- to 15-foot dome of water that would feed a normal 5-foot high tide that peaks after 2 a.m. "On top of that will be waves, and so (on) ... barrier islands (in) many places the buildings will be swept clean off of those islands," Bob Sheets, director of the National Hurricane Center, said from Coral Gables, Fla. Evacuees lined up at gas stations and stripped store shelves of bottled water, bread and batteries. Officials warned coastal dwellers not to linger because gale force winds and flash floods could block escape routes. Five to 10 inches of rain is expected. The Navy moved ships out of coastal harbors to ride out the storm at sea. Army bases in coastal states moved helicopters inland or into shelters. In South Carolina, which was in a state of emergency, Gov. Carroll Campbell dispatched 400 National Guardsmen to assist a mandatory evacu ation of coastal barrier islands and shorefront. About one-fifth of the state's 3.1 million residents live in eight coastal military in new ways. "That doesn't appall me," he said. He said he could not outline the Pentagon's role in great detail, noting the military's plans were currently being worked out at the command of Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. But he said U.S. forces will not be drawn into anti-drug combat overseas, and that Pentagon officials are not inter ested in shooting down unidentified aircraft suspected of ferrying illicit narcotics into the country a possibil ity suggested by some in Congress. Crowe said he finds the drug threat so severe a problem he could foresee an expanded role for the U.S. military overseas in fighting international drug traffickers. "Perhaps that function will grow," Crowe said of the use of military train ers and advisers in the Andean nations Experience the magic of Marco Polo's where the West meets the East A unique restau rant among the Triangle cities, decorated to reflect the travels of Marco and the authentic cuisines from those countries he visited. Let Us Host Your Next Christmas Party! Please Bring Your ' Friends for a Lavish International Sunday Buff ett Egg Plant Parmagiana Shrimp Vegetables Chicken Picante Beef Broccoli Curry Chicken . Spring Rolls Shrimp Coctail Prime Rib 6 mixed salds fresh fruit & dessert AllYouCanEat$7.95 children under 10 half-price Please call Ad Talk 1-800-634-8448, then 1519 after tone for more information contracts will go on hold. One of the projects provides for the cleanup of a number of pesticide sites in Aberdeen at a cost of $1 1 million, Voight said. The other project is called the Cape Fear Wood Preserving site, with a cleanup cost of $15 million. The state would be required to pay 10 percent of the costs for both of the clean-up sites, she said. Six of the eight states have signed a commitment to a regional approach, Voight said. Georgia and Kentucky have not signed a commitment, but they have been involved in the negotia tions, she said. In Tuesday's Atlanta Constitution, Georgia Gov. Joe Frank Harris said his state would sign the agreement to coop erate in the hazardous waste plan, Terry said. Wallace Wilkinson, governor of Kentucky, has said he wants to see what comes out of the upcoming public hearings when Kentucky residents express their viewpoints before he makes any commitments, said Doug Alexander, press secretary for the governor. counties. By early afternoon, the windswept streets of the resort island of Hilton Head were deserted. Stores were forti fied with boards, and most homes were empty. State troopers guarded the island's entrance. "We brought our photo albums and our important papers," said Pat Bross, who had stopped for gas while heading from Hilton Head to Augusta, Ga. The Georgia Emergency Manage ment Agency opened shelters and ad vised about 142,000 people more than 95,000 of them in Chatham County to leave their homes. Gov. Joe Frank Harris declared a state of emergency in six counties. The state's biggest shelters were opened at Georgia Southern College in Statesboro, with room for 15,500, and the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Dublin, where officials said nearly 19,000 could be housed. Coastal school systems canceled class for the rest of the week. Hugo was upgraded to a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale -chairman, under Bush's anti-drug strategy. "If what we are doing now is effective, they may want more of it." On the domestic front, Crowe cited several areas where the military role can be expanded in order to fight the flow of drugs across U.S. borders. "If we don't have control, it's our own fault," the admiral said in an inter view with The Associated Press and Reuters. Crowe is scheduled to retire Oct. 1 after 43 years in the military. The 64-year-old former submariner is wrap Proposal suggests shorter death penalty process From Associated Press reports WASHINGTON A committee appointed by Chief Justice William Rehnquist called Thursday for stream lining death penalty appeals to assure swifter executions, but only after con demned murderers get more legal help. The proposal was promptly de nounced by civil liberties lawyers who accused Rehnquist of stacking the committee. "They want to be able to kill more people faster," said Mary Broderick of the National Legal Aid and Defender Police making procedures." The entire grievance process is weighted against the employees, Ed wards said. Administration officials team up to keep officers' complaints from reaching upper-level officials, she said. Edwards also claims that Univer sity police administrators practice re prisals on officers who file complaints or try to talk to upper-level officials. 'They're doing everything they can to make me upset, to make me quit, to make me get violent," she said. "They've been doing everything they can to make things bad for me." Edwards said she didn't believe the Speeding Ticket on 1-40? Just Couldn't Say Ho? D.W.I. On Franklin Street? Iffabbed Using A Fake I.D.? Protect your legal rights & insurance premiums p Call I Orrin Bobbins, Attorney at Law j 968-1885 J (Clip this ad for a $50.00 discount on your fee.) D ri jj E3 E3 "" 3 3 E3 E3 CS E3 E3 E3 e0 Mississippi has not committed to a proposal for a facility that fits the three categories that Alabama and South Carolina have set forth for a buy-in into the agreement, Voight said. The three categories are land disposal, incinera tion and aqueous treatment. Missis sippi has suggested building a facility but has not said what category the facil ity would fit, she said. It has been suggested that Missis sippi wants to build a metals recovery facility, but that use may not be ac cepted by the other states, she said. South Carolina and Alabama have available landfill space, she said. "Therefore, they are key to a regional agreement. They have considerable clout in negotiations." Congress passed the Superfund Admendments and Reauthorization Act in 1986, Terry said. The act will require states to handle hazardous waste in their state for twenty years, he said. "The EPA's number one priority is source reduction to reduce waste," he said. "It is the state's decision to determine what type of facility they will have." yygo of strength, indicating it was powerful enough to cause extensive damage. Only two storms of category 5 the highest have hit the United States this century: the 1935 Labor Day hurri cane that killed 600 people in the Flor ida Keys and Hurricane Camille, which devastated the Mississippi coast in 1 969, killing 256 and causing $1.4 billion damage. Meanwhile, the vanguard of 1,100 soldiers dispatched by President Bush entered the U.S. Virgin Islands at St. Croix, which was pummeled by Hugo and then hit by a looting frenzy and lawlessness. Local police and the National Guard plundered stores with machete-wielding gangs and escaped prisoners, creat ing "chaos and near anarchy," accord ing to Adm. William Crowe. Presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said the situation had im proved. . The Virgin Islands was declared a disaster area, which entitles victims to receive loans for rebuilding and other federal relief. supports halt of weapons sales ping up two terms as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, where he served as the principal military adviser to the president and as the Pentagon's top rrfilitary leader. Crowe said the nation's civilians must consider curbing some of their beloved freedoms if the drug problem is to be eradicated. "Certainly if the threat is as grave as many people picture it to be, the United States can't fight a threat that serious and be normal," he said. Crowe said certain elements in our Association. Retired Supreme Court Justice Lew Powell, who heads the committee, said, "The hard fact is that the (capital pun ishment) laws of 37 states are not being enforced by the courts. "I respect those who argue for out right abolition of death punishment, but it seems irrational to retain the penalty and frustrate its fair implemen tation." Ironically, Powell said he would vote to abolish capital punishment if he were a state legislator, contending, "It has present situation could change with the present administration. "Nothing will change until we have somebody in the administration who cares about the officers themselves who do the work. We just want someone who will understand our problems and listen to our side." Officers can't get their complaints heard by upper-level administration officials, forcing officers to take these matters to the media, Edwards said. "Everything needs to be so public because (Chancellor Paul) Hardin and Tuchi have their doors closed to us. They only hear one side of the story D 0 Q Q D 1 9 students die after school ! i bus plummets 40 feet into pit From Associated Press reports ALTON, Texas A bus crowded with youngsters on their way to school Thursday plunged more than 40 feet into a water-filled pit after being struck by a delivery truck. . Nineteen students were killed and 65 other people were sent to hospitals. Dazed students scrambled out of the submerged bus and stood on it, screaming for help. Rescuers dove in 1 2 feet of water to pull out survivors and the dead trapped in the bus. Passersby pulled youngsters out of the bus, as notebooks and school papers floated on the water. Four boats, firefighters from six depart ments and about 10 divers helped in the rescue. "They were just trapped," said Al Nye, a diver who pulled seven bod ies from the bus. "We had to break the glass of the windows to get in." The driver had picked up his last student en route to nearby Mission High School when the bus collided with a soft-drink truck about 7:40 a.m. at an intersection just east of Alton, just north of the U.S.-Mexico border. AIDS vaccine may hasten disease WASHINGTON An immune system desperately battling the AIDS virus may actually hasten its own death by disabling cells in the body's army of disease fighters, a researcher said Thursday. Dr. Michael Hoffman of the Sloan Kettering Institute said in an inter view that experiments in his labora tory showed that an antibody made by the immune system helped dis able key cells in the body's defensive system, thus . contributing to the immune deficiency that kills AIDS victims. Hoffman said the finding, to be published Friday in the journal Sci ence, suggested that some types of vaccine against the human immu nodeficiency virus, or HIV, that causes AIDS, could actually help the disease instead of conquer it. . "In terms of vaccination, our data provides some alarming news be cause you would have to realize if you immunize (with a vaccine) you also produce antibodies that might society "want drugs to go away, but they don't want the quality of their rights eroded." The admiral, asked about the prolif eration of guns in society, said, "I've never objected to measures that make you register your guns. I think the most reasonable position seems to be that we should generally know where the guns are, and who owns them, and if you own a gun you shouldn't insist on owning it clandestinely," he said. Asked if he believed that the sale or purchase of assault weapons should be not deterred murder." The United States has the highest murder rate of any nation and is the only democracy that has the death penalty, he noted. Powell said the aim of his committee's report is to reform a sys tem that encourages endless legal maneuvering, years of delay and fren zied, last-minute moves to stave off execution. The committee report was submitted to the U.S. Judicial Conference, the policy-making arm of the federal courts. the administration side. So we have to go to the media to get our story out. There are problems which should catch their attention, but haven't so far." Edwards said that she had tried re peatedly to meet with Tuchi to have her grievances heard, but that they had never met. Tuchi said that he had heard reports that Edwards wanted to meet with him, but that she had never shown up for the appointment. Tuchi would not com ment further on the Edwards case. Much discontent exists in the Uni versity police department, Edwards said, but most officers wont't file a o AK Day 310 West Franklin Mj3hA.tM 3 0z -Buckete News in Brief be rather harmful," he said. "Among the antibodies that an HIV-infected individual produces,' there are some that are harmful and actually participate in the immune system's own destruction." An AIDS vaccine, Hoffman said,; "could cause exactly what you want to prevent immune deficiency."; U.S., USSR go to Mars -- sort of; MARS, Pa. It's official. U.S.j and Soviet spacemen are going to; Mars, and the Martians can't wait to; greet them. ! That's Mars, Pa., 16046. U.S.A.j Earth. : Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krika-j lev arrives in Mars on Monday, by jetliner and car, for an eight-day visit' to this community of about 1,800; humanoids about 25 miles north of Pittsburgh. Krikalev, 31, a flight engineer, spent five months on a Soviet-French Soyuz mission that ended in Aprilj He will be joined Wednesday by Navy Lt. Cmdr. Mario Runco Jr., a NASA astronaut who is awaiting assignment to a space shuttle flight. The spacemen's mission is to teach Martian children about space and Soviet-American friendship at school lunches and assemblies. ; Organizers say it's just like Mar tians, as some residents call them selves, to do something spacey like this. Economy grows slowly ; WASHINGTON The economy grew at a moderate 2.5 percent pace in the second quarter, down some what from the first quarter but strong enough to stop any new predictions of imminent recession, the govern-t ment said Thursday. The Commerce Department re ported that April-June growth in the gross national product compared with a 3.7 percent gain in the first three months. The second-quarter GNP had been revised downward 0.2 percent age point from the 2.7 percent growth estimate a month ago. allowed, he responded, "I don't think so." Asked which rights American rhust think about curbing, Crowe shot back, "Search and seizure. The most simple one is random drug testing ... that is what has allowed us to bring down the usage so heavily in the military." . On cutting the amount of drugs en tering the nation by air, Crowe said he believes it is "perfectly proper", for pilots flying in from the Bahamas to file flight plans and to be heavily fined if they don't. The conference postponed any action on the report and any recommenda tion to Congress until its 28 judges reconvene in March. The committee recommended that states enact laws to limit death row inmates to two rounds of appeals in state and federal courts. , One round would challenge a ver dict directly; a second would be based on alleged violations of the condemned individual's rights. The current system permits succes sive rounds of appeals. ,x from page 1 grievance because they know it's a hopeless process. "Everything is blamed on the offi cers. We need new management. All of the officers agree we need a new ad ministration, and a new system for resolving internal grievances." Edwards has employed a lawyer to represent her since 1987, even though it strains her income. ' "It's a struggle to stay in the fight, but it's worth it. All I want is to b treated like a human being, but ydp don't get that unless you're a supervi sor." Friday o Street 933-3767
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