The Daily Tar HeelThursday, April 12, 19905
North Carolina ranks low in haardoms waste report
T By GRANT THOMPSON
Stall Writer
Only eight states are worse off envi
ronmentally than North Carolina, ac
cording to a controversial study by the
Institute of Southern Studies, a non
profit research group.
The report, released Monday, is part
of a larger study to be released this
spring.
In response to the study, Gov. Jim
Martin quickly issued a statement
suggesting that the Institute of South
ern' Studies is politically biased.
"It would be interesting to identify
the main sponsors of the institute," the
governor said in the statement.
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willing to work together to form a truly
diverse campus," Woods said.
Jim Sweet, project leader of the
Minority and Women's Affairs De
partment, said it was time for the Uni
versity to combat cultural ignorance.
"Now is the time for Indian Rights."
' f'. Woods said he was tired of con
stantly being asked about his identity.
"It costs much more than time and
money to attend this university," he
said. "It costs our soul.
"It is time for this pain to end,"
Woods said. "By hiring a Native
American faculty and senior staff, the
University can show its interest in equal
opportunities and diversity."
Hardin, who spoke briefly with the
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Ionise Bias, mother of late basketball star Len Bias, speaks against drug and
alcohol abuse Wednesday night in Hamilton Hall.
Accusations of political bias are
ridiculous, said Eric Bates, managing
editor of the institute's journal, South
ern Exposure.
"It's sad the governor feels he has to
lie about a group of citizens trying to
take an honest look at the environ
ment," Bates said. "Perhaps it brings
into question where Gov. Martin gets
his money from."
The rankings were based on four
basic indexes: environmental poisons,
public health, worker health and state
policy, Bates said. The entire South
was rated poorly, due partially to less
stringent law enforcement in the South,
among other problems.
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crowd, told them he was glad they had
expressed their concerns to him. "I thank
you very sincerely for the work that you
have done," he said. "You have given
us an important tool (the packet), with
which to work."
He and fellow administrators will
work together on the issue, he said.
"There is no excuse for inaction on this
issue," Hardin said. "I will pass on the
urgency I feel from you to my fellow
administrators."
The administration has been work
ing on a task force that would add
diversity to the University and the
community by trying to increase mi
nority recruitment and making the
campus more hospitable to minorities.
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"We have increased fines and en
forcement in the last five years," said
David Prather, deputy director of
communications in the governor's of
fice. "I would disagree with anyone who
would characterize the South as being
in a worse state environmentally than
the rest of the country," said Hagen
Thompson, spokesman for the EPA's
Southeast Region.
According to the study, the South
has become the hazardous waste dump
ing ground for the entire nation, Bates
said.
In response Thompson said, "We are
Angola accedes to negotiations,
From Associated Press reports
LISBON, Portugal Angola's
Marxist government has agreed to start
direct peace talks this month with U.S.
backed rebels to end their 15-year-old
civil war, the official Angolan news
agency reported Wednesday.
A rebel spokesman welcomed the
announcement, which followed his
side's offer Monday of an immediate
cease-fire. The guerrillas had also pro
posed talks.
An initial truce and June talks medi
ated by President Mobutu Sese Seko of
Zaire collapsed within weeks, and fight
ing has intensified in recent months.
In a dispatch released Wednesday in
Southern Bell
ness.
Directing letters to the commission
conflicted with a previous order by the
commission asking for any letters of
public opinion to be sent to the Public
Staff or attorney general.
"That is a mistake, and the memo
was written incorrectly," Collins said.
"And any correspondence should have
been directed to appropriate parties."
When Southern Bell proposed
"Caller ID" in November, the attorney
general and the Public Staff expressed
concerns about the potential public
health, safety and welfare implications
of the service. The commission then
ordered Southern Bell, the attorney
general and the Public Staff to develop
a notice explaining the service and
asking for public opinion on the matter
to be addressed to the attorney general
or the Public Staff.
The proposal was inserted in Bell's
customer telephone bills for the billing
cycle that ran through Dec. 27, 1989,
and was published in newspapers within
Bell's service territory. '
As of Feb. 16, 1990, the. attorney
general's mail was 68 percent against
"Caller ID" and 31 percent in support
of the service.
The memorandum encouraging let-
A specific date for students to expect
a Native American faculty member to
be hired could not be set, Hardin said.
"If one sets deadlines, someone will be
hired by brute force who is not neces
sarily qualified."
Accusations that spaces would not
be open for Native American faculty
because of the budget freeze were un
true, he said. "It is not necessary to add
slots," he said. "We have a natural
turnover of 200 to 250 slots each year.
Every one of those is a chance to give
equal opportunity to all persons."
Woods said students still needed to
fight for a Native American faculty
member to be hired by 1 992. "Let's still
push for that goal," he said. "Let's
talking about apples and oranges. These
are carefully regulated, engineered
landfills, not dumps."
Although the South has more waste
sites, Thompson said, these sites are
not necessarily dangerous.
"The EPA has a national priority list
of hazardous waste sites which consid
ers numerous factors such as threat to
groundwater, proximity to population
centers, and type of contaminants,"
Thompson said. "We (the Southeastern
Region) ranked third out of 10 nation
ally in the number of these priority
sites."
"Certainly North Carolina has be
Lisbon, the .ANGOP news agency
quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Ve
nancio de Moura of Angola as saying:
"Probably this month (and) next month,
representatives of the Angolan govern
ment and elements of UNITA will meet
to discuss the internal problem." The
rebels of UNITA, or National Union
for the Total Independence of Angola,
are led by Jonas Savimbi.
The Angolan news agency quoted
sources in Luanda, Angola's capital, as
saying initial direct contacts would be
held in Portugal, with later talks in the
West African archipelago of Cape
Verde. Angola, in southwestern Af
rica, is a former Portuguese colony that
ter writing was dated Feb. 7. From Feb.
16 to Feb. 20, the attorney general
noticed that the tone of the comments
had changed dramatically, and for the
first time, the letters in support of "Caller
ID" began to outnumber those against
it.
Additionally, the attorney general in
late February received an anonymous
communication from a Southern Bell
employee who described systematic
company meetings used to urge em
ployees to generate letters supporting
"Caller ID."
Many of the pro-"Caller ID" letters
"in appearance (typeface and station
ery) and tone, bear a striking resem
blance to each other and to the 'proto
type' letters, suggesting that they may
have been prompted by the Freedman
memorandum," Attorney General Lacy
Thornburg said on Feb. 20.
Because this "orchestrated-letter
writing ... contaminated" the genuine
public opinion, the Public Staff, sup
ported by the attorney general, requested
on Feb. 19 that the Utilities Commis
sion require Southern Bell to disclose
all letter-writing activities and cease
activities presenting anything other than
the personal opinions of the writers to
the commission.
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make sure those slots are filled by Native
Americans."
Jimmy Burns, member of the Minor
ity and Women's Affairs Department,
said he was not sure Hardin was ready
to attack this issue. "I think Chancellor
Hardin has a commitment to improve
ment, but I do not think it is a substan
tial one," he said. "He is straddling the
fence on the entire issue."
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come more aggressive in its solid waste
and hazardous waste facilities," said
Donald Willhoit, director of the Health
and Safety Office.
Although the study took into ac
count the varying sizes of state popula
tions, Donald Francisco, lecturer in
Environmental Sciences and Engineer
ing, raised other questions about the
study. "There are lots of states that
don't have anywhere near the popula
tion density which we do, so they will
naturally be cleaner."
"It is difficult to argue statistics,
because we (the governor's office)
gained independence in 1975.
A UNITA spokesman in Lisbon,
Norberto de Castro, said he had re
ceived no official confirmation of the
ANGOP report, but he welcomed the
government proposal.
He said it was a sign the government
"understands the situation." "For us,
any date will do" for talks, de Castro
told The Associated Press.
A spokesman for the Portuguese
Foreign Ministry said his country would
be prepared to play host to the talks but
had received no official confirmation.
The stalemate has apparently put
pressure on hard-liners from both sides
to give up the idea of military victory
Southern Bell agreed to investigate
the letters and identified 412 letters
written by its employees in support of
"Caller ID." Southern Bell then asked
that the commission deny the motions
of the Public Staff and the attorney
general.
"There is nothing unethical about
this practice, which, indeed, is the reac
tion of any responsible corporation to a
situation of this type," Southern Bell
reported in its response to the motions
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haven't had a chance to really look a
the study yet," Prather said. "I don?
think the study is totally accurate, bifcv,
there are some problems that need to be
addressed."
'There' s always some question about
the validity of statistics," Bates said,
"but these are probably conservative' t
figures. Things are probably worse their
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to improve the environment is for citi-j
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cease-fire
and return to the negotiating table. !
In addition, the superpowers, eager
to end one of the last vestiges of the
Cold War, have been pushing both sides
to make peace. U.S. aid to UNITA is
reportedly $50 million or more a year
and Western experts put Soviet aid to
the Angolan government much highen
Angola agreed in a 1988 U.S.-brok-ered
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of the Public Staff and attorney genr
eral.
The attorney general renewed his
motions for a formal investigation if)
March and later filed for further re
sponse. Southern Bell filed response$
during that month both to the attorney
general's motions and response.
"Due to the controversy, we are very
sorry that the whole public perception
(of Caller ID) has been misrepresented,"
Collins said.
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