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Volume 8, Issue 133
Wednesday, January 33, 1991
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shot while in Kuwait
AMMAN, Jordan A ranking
member of the Palestinian parliament-in-exile
was assassinated in Kuwait
today, a senior PLO official reported.
Refiq Shafie Kiblawi, the assistant
deputy speaker of the Palestinian Na
tional Council, was shot as he was
leaving his house in Kuwait by men
who fled in a Volkswagen car, said
Salim Zaanoun, deputy speaker for the
council.
I Zaanoun said there was no indication
who was responsible for the attack.
It was the second assassination of a
top Palestinian official this month.
New interim leader
installed in Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia A new
interim president was inaugurated in
Somalia in a brief, simple ceremony
Tuesday as rebels pressed the search for
the nation's former dictator and the
remnants of his army.
Ali Mahdi Mohamed,-52, a hotel
owner who was instrumental in orga
nizing opposition to ousted President
Mohamed Siad Barre, took the oath of
office in an unadorned waiting room of
Mogadishu's police headquarters.
A few hours later, Radio Mogadishu
announced that Mahdi had appointed
the prime minister of the ousted regime,
Umar Arteh Ghalib, as his own interim
premier with the task of forming a new
government for this Horn of Africa
nation.
Mandela, Buthelezi
call for cease-fire
. DURBAN, South Africa Black
leaders Nelson Mandela and
Mangosuthu Buthelezi put their politi
cal rivalry on hold Tuesday and ordered
warring supporters to stop fighting and
work together to end apartheid.
The two old friends, meeting for the
first time in 29 years, reached a cease
fire accord after nine hours of talks in
Durban, an area hard-hit by fighting
between Mandela's African National
Congress and Buthelezi's Inkatha
Freedom Party.
"We call on all people of the ANC
and IFP ... to cease all attacks with
immediate effect," said a joint statement
read by Mandela.
Whether their peace call will end the
fighting remains in doubt.
Both men have previously made in
dividual pleas for a stop to the bloodshed.
Salvadoran air force
receives U.S. aid
ILOPANGO, El Salvador The
United States delivered three A-37 jet
fighter-bombers and six attack heli
copters Tuesday to the Salvadoran air
force, which has suffered heavy losses
to guerrilla attacks in recent months.
The A-37s were inscribed with the
names of the three U.S. servicemen
killed when rebels shot down their U.S.
Army UH-1H helicopter.
; Warrant Officer Daniel Scott, the
pilot, died in the Jan. 2 crash, but leftist
rebels have admitted their forces later
murdered Lt. Col. David Pickett and
Pvt. Ernest Dawson, who had been in
jured in the crash.
The rebels say they will put two of
their fighters on trial for what they have
acknowledged is a war crime.
In addition, the rebels have shot down
two Salvadoran air force helicopters
since November and damaged others.
From Associated Press reports
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We must believe
By MICHAEL WILKINS
Staff Writer
Virginia Gov. Lawrence Douglas
Wilder, the nation's first elected African-American
governor, will deliver the
keynote address at University com
mencement exercises May 12.
Wilder will be the second African
American to speak at commencement
exercises in the University's history.
Elizabeth Koontz, former U.S. deputy
assistant secretary of labor, spoke at
graduation in May 1972.
Ben Howell, co-chairman of the se
nior class commencement committee,
said the committee learned in Decem
ber that Wilder had agreed to speak, but
the group decided to postpone an
nouncing the news to satisfy Wilder's
scheduling office.
Howell, who was "very excited" to
get Wilder as the graduation speaker,
said, "You can't get much bigger than
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By JENNIFER DUNLAP
Assistant University Editor
Part-time faculty members in the
School of Journalism and Mass Com
munication may teach fewer classes
next year because of budget cuts.
A Jan. 1 4 memo sent to the part-time
faculty members from Richard Cole,
dean of the journalism school, stated,
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By BRIAN G0LS0N
Staff Writer
Budget woes have led to problems
attracting distinguished faculty to the
University, but Professor Genna Rae
McNeil, a noted scholar of African
American history, decided to leave her
post as chairwoman of the history de
partment at Howard University to return
to UNC.
McNeil, who received her doctorate
and master's degrees from the Univer
sity of Chicago and her bachelor's from
Kalamazoo College in Michigan, re
turned to the University's history de
partment after an absence of more than
10 years.
Misplaced election posters
By SHANNON 0'GRADY
Staff Writer
Students posting election campaign
materials should respect campus prop
erty and instructional facilities, Richard
Cole, dean of the School of Journalism
and Mass Communication, said Tues
day. Campaign posters for this spring's
elections have already caused damage
to the newly painted walls in Howell
Hall's auditorium, Cole said.
"We just spent $3,000 to have the
auditorium repainted, and when you
take those things down, pieces of paint
come off," he said. "In these days of
tight budgets, we don't have the money
to keep repainting."
Mary Jo Harris, elections board
chairwoman, said candidates must fol
low strict rules about posting campaign
materials. Candidates must use masking
in luck. For how else can we explain
he is."
He said he is pleased to see an Afri
can American as the speaker.
"Ever since I've been here, it's been
white males," he said. "The University
administration was very much behind
and supportive of the decision to invite
Wilder to speak. (Chancellor) Paul
Hardin stressed getting a diversity of
speakers to come to UNC."
Laura Anderson, co-chairwoman of
the senior class commencement com
mittee and Black Student Movement
minister of information, said selecting
this year's speaker had an added chal
lenge. "We knew that we wanted it to be
something special, so we looked at the
problem backwards," she said. "First,
we asked ourselves how did we want
people to react after commencement to
the speaker and what did we want them
to leave with."
;et cete may reduce part-time
"There's no doubt at all that some cuts
must be made in the overall budget for
part-time teachers and also for graduate
assistants."
The memo also stated that all full
time faculty would be returning next
semester, which means no extra funds
will be available, adding to the budget
squeeze. "No one knows how bad the
off Mrican-Americaiii history retarns to UNC
After obtaining her doctorate and
master's degrees, McNeil taught at
Roosevelt University in Chicago, and
then worked as an assistant history
professor at UNC throughout the 1 970s.
Originally, McNeil was a visiting
assistant professor at Howard, but ulti
mately she became an associate history
professor and served as chairwoman of
the department for three years.
This semester she is teaching two
courses at UNC: History 22, which is
U.S. history since 1865, and History
166, which is African-American history
since 1865.
Colin Palmer, chairman of the UNC
tape for posting materials on walls.
They also are asked not to post mate
rials on acoustical panels, blackboards
or anywhere that interferes with teach
ing or with the natural flow of campus
traffic, she said.
"In the classrooms, campaign mate
rials are supposed to be posted on the
bulletin boards," Harris said.
Joseph Flora, English department
chairman, said some instructors had
found campaign posters on blackboards
in Greenlaw Hall. "Clearly, posters
should not disturb the educational pro
cess or mar the building in any way,"
Flora said.
Harris said campaign materials that
distract teaching could be removed by
the instructor.
"If they take them down off of places
that interfere with teaching, the de
partment needs to keep them and write
The committee members also con
sidered the national status of potential
speakers.
"In the end, Governor Wilder was
the one who fit the criteria," Anderson
said.
Wilder, who is the grandson of slaves,
was named after Frederick Douglass
and poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar. The
governor served in Korea with the U.S.
Army and was awarded the Bronze Star
for heroism in ground combat.
He graduated from Virginia Union
University in 1951 and earned a law
degree from Howard University in 1 959.
Wilder began his political career in
1 969 when he was elected to the Virginia
Senate. In 1985, he was elected lieu
tenant governor of Virginia. Wilder has
been mentioned as a possible U.S.
presidential contender in the 1992
elections.
Gabriele Bowers, a senior from
situation will get," the memo stated.
Cole said Tuesday that he wrote the
memo to inform the part-time faculty
members of the possibility that they
may be teaching fewer sections.
Provost Dennis O'Connor said he
told administrators to be careful about
making commitments for next year
because no one knows what the state
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Harris watches. The trio took advantage of Tuesday's
gorgeous 60-degree weather in the Forest Theatre.
history department, said, "We are very
happy and pleased that we could entice
her back to Chapel Hill."
McNeil's emphasis on the history of
the twentieth century and the civil rights
movement will play a major role in the
graduate program, Palmer said. McNeil
will be teaching graduate courses next
semester.
Several reasons led to McNeil's re
turn to Chapel Hill, including the re
search opportunities available at UNC
and the Research Triangle, the distin
guished faculty in the history depart
ment, the expanded role of the civil
rights movement in the graduate pro
cause damage
on there where it was found," she said.
"They cannot, by any stretch of the
imagination, throw them away."
Illegally posted materials should be
returned to the elections board, Harris
said. Candidates can be fined for post
ing materials in inappropriate places.
Junior Ruffin Hall, who has posted
announcements for student body presi
dent, said about 200 of his posters had
been taken down in campus buildings.
None of the posters has been returned to
the elections board or to anyone else,
Hall said.
"As far as I know, they (department
officials) are taking them down and
throwing them away," he said.
Mike Ferguson, who has posted an
nouncements for the senior class presi
dent race, said he was unaware of any
See POSTERS, page 7
the success of those we don't like?
Chicago, said Wilder's selection pleased
her for two reasons.
"I'm glad that he's not random," she
said. "People have complained in the
' past about the speakers and their rel
evance. He seems more in the limelight
and more prominent."
Wilder's presence on campus would
be an inspiration to African-American
students, Bowers said.
"It's really good with all of the rac
ism on campus because it gives the
African Americans on this campus hope
that it may not be as bad as it looks," she
said. "This by no means should smooth
everything over."
Senior Tracy Marsh said he was
surprised Wilder was selected as the
commencement speaker.
"I'm always excited to see top Afri
can Americans coming to a majority
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legislature will decide to do about the
budget.
"I'm really concerned about how the
University and the state are going to
respond to a budget shortfall, and I hope
that plans are made sooner rather than
later," he said.
Cole said that journalism school ad
ministrators had the same budget in
Prisoners placed in
possible attack sites
From Associated Press reports
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia One
of Iraq's "human shields" captured
allied pilots was killed in a Baghdad
air raid, the Iraqis said Tuesday. Other
Desert Storm fliers struck anew across
Iraq and reportedly stopped an Iraqi
armored convoy dead in its tracks.
The Iraqis countered with an
unverified report that their forces knifed
12 miles into the Saudi desert and killed
"large numbers" of enemy troops before
withdrawing.
Refugees fleeing to Jordan told of
non-stop bombardment, "fire every
where" and civilian casualties in Iraq.
"It is really hell," one woman said.
The U.S. command still seemed
puzzled, meanwhile, by the getaway
flights of Iraqi warplanes to Iran. But an
American general warned the Iraq is that
if they tried to return to their home
bases, "we'll get them."
The Iraqis, who claim to hold more
than 20 downed pilots, said Jan. 2 1 they
were dispersing the prisoners to potential
target sites in an effort to ward off allied
air attacks.
It was a repetition of President
Saddam Hussein's pre-war "human
shield" tactic, when he sent Western
civilian hostages to strategic sites. They
gram and the strong relationship be
tween the history department and the
African-American curriculum.
"I was also interested in the chal
lenge of the large survey class and the
opportunity to introduce first and sec
ond year students to major themes and
trends in U.S. history," McNeil said.
She encourages each of her students
to set an appointment to meet outside of
class.
"I meet with them for several rea
sons," McNeil said. "I want them to
know that I am concerned for them as
individuals. I want to assist them in
learning as much about U.S. or African
Candidates' Update
Candidates running for student body
president, Residence Hall Association
president, Daily Tar Heel editor,
Carolina Athletic Association presi
dent, Student Congress seats and senior
class offices should plan to have their
pictures taken for announcements im
mediately following the mandatory
candidates' meeting Thursday.
Reporters covering the election wil 1
arrange an interview time for an
nouncements then. Anyone failing to
arrange a time or stay for pictures will
not be given a make-up time.
SBP, RHA, DTH, CAA and senior
class presidentvice president teams
should turn in two copies of their
platforms to the DTH letter box by no
later than 5 p.m. on Feb. 1 . They should
be no longer than 500 words. An
nouncements and platforms will run in
a special elections insert in the Feb. 5
edition of the DTH.
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formation as other schools at the Uni
versity, but that he wanted to warn the:
faculty of what could occur. "I'm being
safe rather than sorry." I
John Turner, dean of the School of
Social Work, said his school had not
planned any faculty cutbacks for next
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were later released.
On Monday, Iraqi broadcasts said an
unspecified number of prisoners of war
had been wounded in air raids. On
Tuesday, the official Iraqi News Agency
said one was dead.
"One of the raids hit one of the de
partments of the Ministry of Industry,
killing one of the captured foreign pilots,
who had been evacuated to that de
partment," the agency report said.
Iran's news agency quoted Baghdad
Radio as saying the victim was an
American. But no Iraqi broadcasts
monitored by The Associated Press
mentioned the nationalities or identities
of any of the reported victims, and the
reports were otherwise unconfirmed.
Fifteen Americans are listed as
missing or as prisoners.
The Geneva Convention on treatment
of PO Ws to which Iraq is a signatory
prohibits placing prisoners at likely
target areas. The U.S. government has
denounced Iraq's handling of the cap
tured pilots, and on Tuesday the State
Department said it was summoning
Iraq's ranking diplomat in Washington
"to raise concern" about the pilots.
The Iraqis sought to shift the blame
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American history as possible so that
their understanding will inform their
conduct. My hope is that the students
whom I teach will think critically about
the traditions, the themes, the trends in
history and then choose to make history
themselves."
Her mentors and role models are
scholar-activists who use their knowl
edge and influence to offer historical
perspective and insight in areas such as
human rights to their communities,
McNeil said. -
"It is in that tradition that I hope to
make a contribution to UNC and to the
Triangle area." :
If candidates have questions about
this procedure, they should either come
by the DTH office in the Union and
ask the receptionist for information or
call Laura Williams at 962-0245.
The DTH will print two letters of
endorsement for each SBP, RHA,
DTH and CAA candidate, and one for
each senior class team. The letters
should be 300 words or less, typed,
double-spaced, etc. They are due in
the DTH letter box by noon Feb. 4.
Each letter can only be signed by two
people; placing names in the middle
of the text to try to get around this will
disqualify the letter.
The editorial board will hold in
terviews with SBP, RHA, DTH and
CAA candidates on Feb. 9 before
making endorsements. Candidates will
be given five minutes to speak, and
board members will ask questions
about their platforms and campaigns.
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