2The Daily Tar HeelWednesday, October 18, 1989
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From Associated Press reports
. SAN FRANCISCO A cata
strophic earthquake rocked Northern
California on Tuesday, killing more
.than 50 people, caving in a section of
the San Francisco Bay Bridge and
causing widespread damage.
, The quake, which registered 6.9 on
the Richter scale, forced the evacuation
of 60,000 fans from Candlestick Park
where they waited for Game Three of
the World Series to begin. There were
no major injuries reported at the sta
dium. Three hours after the 5:04 p.m. PDT
quake, the magnitude of the disaster
began to emerge as reports came in of
widespread death and destruction.
Lt. Gov. Leo McCarthy said that a
section of Interstate 880 in Oakland
had caved in, killing at least 40 people
in their cars.
"The rubble is so bad that they still
don't have an accurate account of the
fatalities," McCarthy said.
Six people were crushed to death in
their cars when part of an old four-story
brick building toppled onto the vehicles
on Bluxome Street in San Francisco,
said Police Lt. Jerry Kilroy.
The California Highway Patrol said
six were killed in the collapse of part of
the City Garden Mall in Santa Cruz.
One person died of a heart attack and
four people were injured in San Jose,
50 miles south of San Francisco, ac
cording to Willis Jacobs of the National
Earthquake Information Center in
Golden, Colo. Mayor Art Agnos' press
secretary, Eileen Mahoney, said that as
many as 20 people had been injured at
a fire in the Marina section. Another
fire was blazing near downtown
Berkeley.
The quake, which apparently was
centered about 10 miles north of Santa
Cruz, was felt for hundreds of miles,
from Reno, Nev., 225 miles to the
northeast to downtown high-rise build
ings in Los Angeles. .
A major fire was blazing in the area
near the library at the University of
California at Berkeley. A huge plume
of smoke was visible for miles.
Hundreds of people fled Bay Area
Rapid Transit subway and elevated
stations in San Francisco and East Bay
suburbs, and the system was shut down.
Portions of a shopping mall report
edly collapsed in San Jose, south of San
Francisco, and searchers were digging
in the rubble for possible victims.
Televised footage of the bridge
connecting Oakland and San Francisco
showed that a 30-foot section of the
span's upper deck had collapsed onto
the bottom level.
At City Hall in San Francisco a radio
reporter told listeners, 'The entire build
ing started to shake ... you could hear
people yelling and screaming all over
the building."
She said there were "obvious prob
lems" at the health department across
the street. "Water was literally gushing
out of the building from a window on
the second floor," the unidentified
reporter said.
Citizens of Marin, north of San Fran
cisco, were warned io shut off their gas
because the smell of gas was all over
town.
East Germain leader's role io question
From Associated Press reports
BERLIN East Germany's ruling
Politburo held a meeting Tuesday that
could determine the fate of Erich
Honecker, the 77-year-old leader whose
stern rule has been challenged by mass
emigration and pro-democracy protest.
' Demonstrations were reported in five
cities on the eve of the regular weekly
"meeting, including a march by 120,000
people in Leipzig that was the largest
"protest since East Germany was founded
40 years ago.
In West Germany, the mass-circulation
newspaper B ild reported late Tues
day that a special session of the Com
munist Party Central Committee had
been called for Wednesday.
Quoting party sources it did not
identify, Bild said Honecker would be
"pressured" to turn over leadership of
the party "to younger hands. ' ' Honecker
also is East Germany's head of state.
Secrecy surrounded the Politburo
meeting and there was no indication
when news might emerge from it.
The flight of tens of thousands of
East Germans and protests that began
early this month have been the most
visible signs of growing opposition to
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Honecker, who has presided over an
authoritarian regime for 18 years.
Pfo-democracy activists estimated
the Monday night throng in Leipzig at
more than 120,000, but West
Germany's ZDF television network
quoted witnesses Tuesday as saying
the number of marchers was closer to
150,000.
Chants of "Freedom!" and "Democ
racy now!" rose from the throng and
marchers shouted "We're staying here ! "
Most protesters in East Germany have
been people who do not want to emi
grate and who demand reform at home.
ARD television of West Germany
said thousands also marched Monday
night in Magdeburg, Plauen and Halle.
About 3,000 pro-democracy activ
ists held a vigil in an East Berlin church
Monday night. Security on the capital's
streets was increased, but no incidents
were reported.
Three men were given prison terms
for vandalism, illegal assembly and
resisting arrest Oct. 4-5, when thou
sands of people tried to board trains at
Dresden that carried East German refu
gees to West Germany from Czecho
slovakia and Poland.
Two got more than three years and
the third received four years, said the
official news agency ADN, which re
ported the convictions and sentences
Tuesday.
Mayor Wolfgang Berghofer of Dres
den told 10,000 protesters from a City
Hall balcony Monday night, speaking
through a megaphone, that he was pre
pared to continue dialogue with reform-minded
groups.
He refused, however, to talk with the
pro-democracy New Forum, a relatively
new organization that has united the
East German reform movement.
Senate approves $9 million
to aid Ortega's election foe
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON Under heavy
White House pressure, the Senate
moved ahead Tuesday on President
Bush's proposal to send $9 million to
boost the chances of Nicaragua's
struggling political opposition in next
February's national elections.
Senators voted 74 to 25 to limit
debate on the issue, heading off a
threatened filibuster, then began to
deal with a series of amendments to
the package, which was passed by the
House Oct. 4 263 to 156.
Bush has sought the money as a
way to "level the playing field" for the
coalition of parties opposing leftist
President Daniel Ortega's re-election
bid. He met earlier Tuesday at the
White House with GOP senators to
drum up support for the package.
Presidential spokesman Marlin
Fitzwater called the Feb. 25 elections
"the last crucial shot at getting repre
sentative democracy in Nicaragua."
Soviet prisoners reduced
LONDON The Soviet Union's
attitude toward human rights has
improved dramatically, and most
political prisoners have been freed,
although abuses persist and the pic
ture is "deeply confusing," Amnesty
International says.
In a report published Wednesday,
the worldwide human rights group
says its list of Soviet citizens impris-
News in Brief
oned for non-violent exercise of their
human rights decreased from 600
three years ago to about 90 in July.
An Amnesty International delega
tion was allowed into the Soviet Union
for the first time last March, and found
that "the Soviet perspective on hu
man rights has shifted dramatically
since 1986," the report said.
"The most promising prospect for
long-term reform is a major review of
law ... apparently aimed at bringing
Soviet law into line with international
standards."
Successor must oppose abortion
WASHINGTON President
Bush's personal physician says he'd
like to be U.S. surgeon general, but is
out of the running because he dis
agrees with the president on abortion.
"I would love the job," Dr. Burton
Lee III said in an interview Tuesday.
"But I couldn't take it if that had to be
my position. I wouldn't be able to
work effectively and I couldn't do
what the president wants that guy to
do. So I would have to say xno.'
"I think it's wrong," Lee said of the
abortion litmus test.
"But what the hell, a lot of people
think it's wrong."
McKinley
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mony of McKinley's first witness, Joe
Straley, UNC professor emeritus of
physics and community activist. The
court allowed Straley to read a resolu
tion adopted by leaders of the Commu
nity Church of Chapel Hill acknowl
edging McKinley's activism.
For the Record
Peta
McKinley also called Jones and
Diana McDuffee, a UNC employee at
the Institute for Research in Social
Science and chairwoman of the Caro
lina Inter-Faith Task Force on Central
America, as witnesses.
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In Tuesday's article "Hiring hold on
faculty at seminary," the location of the
Southeastern Baptist Theological
Seminary was incorrectly reported. The
school is in Wake Forest, N.C.
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Q. Can an eye doctor charge patients an extra fee for releasing eyeglass prescriptions?
A. No. It is illegal for an eye doctor to charge their patients any fee in excess of their normal examina
tion fee as an extra charge for releasing or giving the patient a copy of their eyeglass prescription.
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and Use Committee meetings to the
public, and honestly evaluating its use
of animals and making a commitment
to phase out animal use.
PETA urges people to write to Har
din saying they won't donate any money
to UNC until these things are imple
mented. "Several donors have already
decided not to give because of PETA
and (UNC's) Students for the Ethical
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about anything (on campus)."
Bibbs said a Marriott agreement with
Franklin Street merchants would re
quire setting up card-reading machines
in the stores. "Businesses could use
card-reading machines instead of
vouchers. This would be much more
profitable to Marriott because they
wouldn't have to go through the vouch
ers later and take the money off the
meal cards. It could work like the Cir
cus Room, where students can use their
meal cards, but it's not run by Marri
ott." Student Body President Brien Lewis
said the plan might prove useful to
many students. "I haven't seen any
thing on paper yet. I've only heard
about the plan. It sounds like a great
idea, but it's still so much in the idea
phase that I can't tell how it will work."
Gina Graham, a freshman from
Fayetteville, said she would enjoy the
variety of using her meal card on Fran
klin Street. "Chase food is really bor
ing, but with a meal plan you have to eat
there. It would be great to be able to eat
at the Rat and put it on my meal card."
Greg Jones, a sophomore, said he
thought it might be a good idea. "The
meal card would mean students
wouldn't have to carry any cash. Not
that carrying cash is a problem for me
I don't have any."
Eddie Williams, owner of Time Out,
said he would like to participate in the
meal card service. "I would love to be
included, especially since I'm one of
the few people open 24 hours."
Williams is willing to adapt to fit
into student government's plans, he
said. "I'd be willing to do it however
they want me to."
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