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Partly cloudy High 50-55 Friday: Rain High in 40s WELCOME BACK!!! Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Volume 98, Issue 120 Thursday, January 10, 1990 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewsSportsArts BusinessAdvertising 962-0245 962-1163 Q) 0 G fr a w Geneva talks' failure spurs new efforts : PARIS New diplomatic initiatives by France, the European Community and possibly the United Nations gained momentum Wednesday after U.S.-Iraqi talks failed to bring a breakthrough in the Persian Gulf crisis. The European Community proposed high-level talks with Iraq. France pledged a last-ditch diplo matic effort to avoid war. And officials at the United Nations said Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar stood ready to travel to Baghdad for talks. Pope John Paul II urged prayers for peace "in these so critical days." The talks in Geneva between Secre tary of State James Baker and Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz had been billed as the last, best hope of resolving the crisis. But Baker emerged from six hours of talks with a gloomy assessment. "Regrettably, I heard nothing today that suggested to me any Iraqi flexibil ity whatsoever," he told reporters. Remaining diplomats to leave Iraq Saturday GENEVA All U.S. diplomats will leave Baghdad on Saturday, three days before a U.N. deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait, Secretary of State James Baker said Wednesday. Baker told reporters that Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz assured him during their more than six hours of talks here that the five remaining diplomats would be allowed to leave then. Saturday is the day Iraq had proposed for a meeting between Baker and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The United States rejected the date as being too close to the U.N. deadline. Baker said U.S. contacts with Iraq would continue until Saturday. Deep change in store for banking system WASHINGTON The Bush ad ministration is working furiously to finish the most massive overhaul of the nation's banking system in a half cen tury in hopes of avoiding a taxpayer bailout that could dwarf the savings and loan cleanup. The proposal, which President Bush plans to present in his Jan. 29 State of the Union address, is designed to halt banking' s long decline and end the wave of failures and loan losses that have undermined national economic health. With less than three weeks to go before Bush's speech, officials have yet to make key decisions. But Bank of New England Corp.'s failure last week end lent new urgency to the effort. l60 foreigners escape Somalian violence NAIROBI, Kenya Two Italian planes and a warship rescued more than 160 foreigners from Somalia's capital Wednesday, and President Mohamed Siad Barre appealed for peace. - Rebel groups, meanwhile, rejected an Italian peace plan because it would allow Siad Barre to stay on as a figure head leader. In a broadcast monitored in Nairobi, Siad Barre told of "huge problems" resulting from 1 1 days of fighting be tween the rebels and government. Rebels say the capital is littered with decom posed corpses and rife with disease. The rebels have said more than 1 ,500 people have died in the fighting. From Associated Press reports National town meeting? Local meeting on Persian Gulf crisis, to be aired on "America Tonighf.3 Doc prescribes TLC Student Health physician relates well to student patients 6 Slews of stats A boxscore recap of every men's basketball game over the break ....9 Campus and City 3 Features , 6 Sports 9 Classifieds 10 Comics 11 Opinion 12 1990 DTH Publishing Corp. AH rights reserved. QMED3 The success of any great moral enterprise does not CoiniMiouissiioiii reveres edict mi Keith Supervisors admit housekeepers may join NAACP By S0YIA ELLISON Staff Writer Housekeeping supervisors who told employees that they would be fired if they discussed the NAACP at work have admitted they cannot stop em ployees from talking about or joining the organization. Several housekeepers said they were told in a Dec. 1 9 meeting that they could not join or discuss the NAACP because the University employee handbook for bids affiliation with political organiza M inority scholarships thought safe despite threatened policy change By ELIZABETH BYRD Senior Writer Despite a scare from the U.S. Edu cation Department last month, financial aid for minority students appears to be safe for the time being, University and U.S. government officials said Wednesday. ' In early December, Michael Wil liams, head of the Education Department's civil rights division, an nounced that it was illegal for any uni Suspect in shootings indicted for murder ByCULLEN D. FERGUSON City Editor Luis Antonio Olivera Rodriguez of 43 Sheffield Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y., was indicted on two counts of first-degree murder by an Orange County Grand Jury Tuesday. Rodriguez is suspected of fatally shooting Barbara Cindy Quirindongo of Brooklyn and Loreda Yvette Burnett ofCarrboro on Dec. 1 1. A third woman was wounded in the incident and was transported by taxi to a nearby hospital. . Police said drugs may have played a role in the shootings. "Drugs were found at the various DTH seeking writers, photographers, copy editors So you're not happy with the new telephone registration system that was supposed to make your life easier? So you didn't get that class that you have been trying to pick up for three semes ters now? Just have those new semester blues? Come join the DTH! We are looking for some talented, hard-working and creative souls who have some extra time and want to get some experience writing for a daily paper. Experience or a journalism major is not required, but awards case OA , i p r-"3nnnrr"-- ......... DTH file photo Edwards tions. The employees, who asked that nei ther they nor their supervisors be iden tified because they feared retaliation, said the supervisors told them they could not talk about the organization, even during breaks, because they were being paid during that time. One housekeeper said the meeting took place after some employees dis cussed contacting the NAACP because of "unfair working conditions.'' After the contents of the meeting versity receiving federal funding to re serve scholarships solely for minority students. Such an interpretation of government policy, if implemented, would signifi cantly affect scholarship programs at many schools, including UNC-Chapel Hill. The declaration met with outrage from members of the Bush administra tion and members of both parties in Congress. Some officials called for scenes of the crime," said Jane Cousins, Chapel Hill police planner. The shootings probably occurred after a drug deal went bad, police officials said. Rodriguez was arrested shortly after police received his name and description from Celenia Garcia, the third woman involved in the incident. Garcia was shot in the leg the same night the other two women were killed. Rodriguez was picked up in Fairfax, Va., after police received a tip that he was on his way to New York. He was subsequently charged with two counts of first degree murder and one count of we do ask that you prove yourself wor thy. Come to one of the following in terest sessions to pick up an application to be a writer or take a copy editing test: Monday, Jan. 14 at 4:30 p.m. in Student Union rooms 208 and 209 or at 8:30 p.m. in Studert Union rooms 205 and 206. We need writers for all desks: Uni versity, statenational, city and features. Writers will be asked to write a story and meet deadline. Those wishing to be copy editors on the news desk should By STEVE P0LITI Staff Writer The State Personnel Commission reversed an administrative law judge's earlier ruling when it found Dec. 18 that the University did not discriminate against University police officer Keith Edwards in promotion practices. The three-page decision submitted by Richard Lee, director of the com mission, said the decision to promote another officer instead of Edwards was "a legitimate, non-discriminatory business action." The decision also stated that Edwards failed to provide information indicating that the University's deci sion not to promote Edwards to the position was "a pretext for illegal discrimination on the basis of her race, her sex, or her race and sex." Alan McSurely, Edwards' attorney, said the commission's decision was identical to the position the University had held throughout the case. "Their decision said that the ser geant position, that Keith was by far the most qualified for, which they gave to a white male officer with less experience, was really not a promotion because they were not giving him a pay raise for six months down the road," McSurely said. Administrative Law Judge Delores Nesnow ruled in favor of Edwards in July. She awarded reasonable attorney fees to Edwards and ordered the University to promote her to lieuten ant in the campus police department for four months. The University ap pealed the judge's decision to the state personnel commission. Edwards said she knew earning a favorable decision from the State See EDWARDS, page 11 were reported in several local newspa pers, employees said the supervisors told them they could not take any action against them for joining the organiza tion. Charles Davis, University house keeping assistant administrator, told The Chapel Hill Newspaper that he did not know that the meeting occurred and was not familiar with the policy banning affiliation with political organizations. But James Brittian, president of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro chapter of the legislation preventing such a measure from passing. A week after the Education Depart ment announcement, White House Chief of Staff John Sununu called for a reversal of the ruling. But as of Jan. 9, the White House had not declared an official po sition on the matter, said Rachel Perry, press secretary for Rep. David Price, D N.C. See SCHOLARSHIP, page 11 assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury with intent to kill. A small amount of crack cocaine was confiscated from Rodriguez after police discovered it when he was searched, police officials said. The first body was found after police responded to a call at 75 1 Pritchard Extension Apartments. Police found Burnett's body lying in the parking lot at around 1:45 a.m. The second body was found later that morning when police stopped to investigate Burnett's abandoned car that was parked at the See SHOOTINGS, page 11 plan to take the copy editing test follow ing the 4:30 p.m. meeting. Those who wish to write sports should attend the meeting, but also contact sports editor Mark Anderson at the DTH office. Fu ture photographers should contact pho tography editors Grant Halverson or Kathy Michel at the DTH; darkroom experience is required. We are also lopking for new colum nists. Interested writers should submit three samples of their work to the DTH office by Jan. 17 at 5 p.m. depend upon numbers. William Lloyd Garrison Airport employee ffle suit By MATTHEW EISLEY Assistant University Editor An African-American, 13-year em ployee of the University's Horace Williams Airport has filed a lawsuit against the airport's manager alleging racial discrimination and defamation of character, court records show. In the lawsuit, filed Dec. 26 in Orange County Superior Court, Paul Fearrington Jr. said Paul Burke, the airport manager, and other unnamed University em ployees discriminated against Fearrington on racial grounds when considering him for job promotions and salary raises between 1979 and 1989. The lawsuit accuses Burke of telling Fearrington he was operations supervi sor, but keeping his actual employment classification "general utility worker" and paying him an unfairly low wage. Fearrington, who was reclassified as labor crew leader last March, has acted as deputy airport manager since 1979, the lawsuit states. The lawsuit also alleges that Burke made racist and untrue remarks about Fearrington during a December 1989 conversation with an airport employee who was a friend of Fearrington. Burke's alleged comments hurt Fearrington's ability to raise money for youth activities he organized, the law suit states. Fearrington is seeking at least $10,000 for defamation, unspecified back pay plus interest appropriate for the position of deputy manager, un specified compensatory and punitive damages and attorney fees. Burke declined to comment about the lawsuit. Laurie Charest, associate vice chan cellor for human resources, did not re- NAACP, said several people had com plained to him. 'Three different people from three different groups (areas of campus) said they heard the same thing from three different supervisors," he said. University officials have not given him a statement about the NAACP's political status, but he will demand such a statement, Brittain said. Action should be taken against the people who issued the statement, he said. "I think that if someone issued those orders to them they should be reprimanded ... in fact, I think they should be terminated because that's violating constitutional rights." He plans to meet with University Book binge ' 'W", 1 " I ' f i Hints & '' I -t'l f Ipyj . h ' M) '"Sr 4 i - ; ' I Kk l " I YH i J? T John Brady, a sophomore from Rocky Mount, peruses the Italian textbook section in the Student Stores Wednesday afternoon. allegiii; ton Suit seeks: - At least $10,000 for defamation - Unspecified back pay plus interest - Punitive damages turn telephone calls Wednesday. Fearrington was not able to comment at the time when reached by telephone Wednesday. His lawsuit states that B urke's alleged discussion with Fearrington's friend Lome Long was intended to impugn Fearrington's morality and his ability to handle money, a key part of his job at the airport and the youth activities he organized. The suit also states that word of the alleged conversation spread and de famed Fearrington's character, damag ing his ability to raise money for the youth activities. Fearrington and his family subse quently suffered emotional distress, the suit states. It names "other unknown employees" of the University who allegedly denied Fearrington his legal right to be free of racial discrimination, but gives no clues about who they might be. It says those people are not presently identifiable. Fearrington's lawyer, Alan McSurely, could not be reached for comment. McSurely is representing several other employees who have filed grievances against the University. officials Friday to discuss the incident, Brittain said. He also wants to meet with officials to present documentation about the housekeeping staff's poor working conditions. Harold Wallace, vice chancellor of University affairs, said he was not aware of all the facts surrounding the incident because he was out of town at the time the meeting took place and has not been contacted by Brittian or any of the housekeepers involved. "If I don't here from either party soon, I'm going to take the initiative and at least talk to the NAACP and see what their concerns are," he said. "I've never viewed them (the NAACP) as a partisan political organization." DTHKathy Michel
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