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Volume 93, Issue 137
Tuesday, February 5, 1991
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Greek police disarm
terrorist time bomb
ATHENS, Greece Police on
Monday dismantled a faulty time-bomb
hidden in a plastic shopping bag which
was placed outside a Citibank office in
the seaside suburb of Paleo Faliro.
A police spokesman said anti-terrorism
units and the Athens bomb squad
dismantled the device at noon. The of
ficer, who spoke on condition of ano
nymity, would not say if the bomb
outside the American bank was linked
to recent terrorist attacks in and around
the capital.
The bomb was composed of eight
sticks of TNT connected to a wrist watch
and was set to go off at 12 o'clock.
Police said it was unclear whether the
bombers wanted the device to explode
at noon or midnight but in any case
the timer apparently was faulty and
stopped by itself at 10 o'clock.
Police dismantled the device by
cutting off its battery-powered fuse.
They said that although the timer had
stopped, the bomb still could have ex
ploded. Iran offers to help in
negotiating gulf war
NICOSIA, Cyprus Iranian Presi
dent Hashemi Rafsanjani offered on
Monday to help negotiate an end to the
Persian Gulf War a move that reflects
Tehran's growing anxiety about its role
in the war and the postwar Middle East.
Rafsanjani said he was prepared to
meet with Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein and also to talk to U.S. officials
about undisclosed proposals for peace.
He added that "creating security in
the region, without securing Iran's
views, is not possible."
White House spokesman Marlin
Fitzwater said he saw little hope for
such talks. The United States has said it
would stop fighting only when Iraq
actually began pulling out of Kuwait.
Allied bombing raids
condemned by U.N.
UNITED NATIONS Secretary
General Javier Perez de Cuellar on
Monday condemned the allied bombing
raids that Jordan says have injured and
killed Jordanian truck drivers on Iraq's
highway from Baghdad to Amman.
"Jordan is an innocent victim of what
is happening," Perez de Cuellar said as
he entered U.N. headquarters. "This is
something inadmissible, why Jordan has
to suffer in a war in which it is not a
party."
"I do deplore these acts. Anything
which affects Jordan is something that I
strongly deplore," he said.
Pot grower faces
tax evasion charges
NEW ORLEANS A man accused
of growing marijuana in his house and
in a nearby cargo container could be
among the first in Louisiana to be pros
ecuted on charges of selling drugs
without paying a drug tax, police say.
State police detectives and special
operations officers were working Sat
urday with vice and narcotics detectives
when a woman offered one of the un
dercover officers some marijuana, state
police Sgt. Hamilton Mixon said.
Under the new drug law, approved
last year, authorities can seize dealers
assets if they don't pay taxes on their
drug deals. Failure t6 pay the tax also is
a criminal offense separate from laws
dealing with drug sales.
From Associated Press reports
Electric shock
Consider the costs of electric com
panies serving some apartments ..4
Fording a new stream
Assistant basketball coach reflects
on playing at UNC and in NBA 5 ,
Election edition
Read about the student candidates
for all campus elections, insert
Campus and City : .,3
Sports .5
Classifieds ...6
Comics , .....7
Opinion ..8
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From staff reports
An employee of Marriott Corp. was
arrested and charged with attempted
second-degree sexual assault Saturday
evening, according to police reports.
Michael Anthony Allen, a cook at
Lenoir Dining Hall, was arrested Sat
urday night at 6:20 p.m., the police
report stated.
Allen was charged with attempted
SBP candidates discess ptoforais
By JENNIFER DUNLAP
Assistant University Editor
Student Body President candidates
Ruffin Hall, David Henderson, Matt
Heyd and Jonathan Martin spoke to the
audience and fielded questions at the
first candidates' forum Monday night,
sponsored by the Dialectic and Philan
thropic Societies.
Martin, who was randomly chosen to
speak first, said one of his goals as SBP
was to start a student investment plan
that would set up a committee to find
sources for endowments toUNC.
Some of the funding would go to help
student services, such as the University
Career Planning and Placement Service,
he said. The remaining money could be
invested for further use, he said.
Student government should support
campus environmental groups such as
the Tar Heel Recycling Program by
helping communicate their needs to
administrators, he said. "I think that's
going to be the most effective plan."
His plan to visit residence halls
weekly would improve student gov
ernment, Martin said. "It's the student
body president's responsibility to go
out there and talk to students."
Martin will set up an advisory board
composed of two students, two teaching
assistants and two professors in each
University department. The board will
help students work out problems in the
departments, he said.
Matt Heyd, the second candidate to
speak, said many University officials
have claimed budget problems are be
U Missouri enters
From Associated Press reports
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia Marine
"jump jets" hammered Iraqi tanks in the
northern sands Monday, while the USS
Missouri held down a new front line
deep in the Persian Gulf the battle
ship that ended one war unleashing its
big guns to help win another.
The Iraqis warned they would fight
the Americans in the desert with "the
hit-and-run tactic formulated by our
ancestors," the Arab raiders of old.
But once again the U.S. military
machine relied on the weapons of to
morrow, waking up Baghdad with
"smart" bombs and missiles that sent
Iraqis scurrying down to basement
shelters.
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Klux Klan, talks with Chancellor Paul Hardin in Howell Hall Monday morning.
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second-degree sexual assault on a female
employee, according to police reports.
The alleged attempted assault on a
woman Allen worked with took place at
5:15 p.m. in Lenoir Dining Hall, police
said.
The woman, whose name has not
been released, also had been identified
as an employee of Marriott Corp., ac
cording to police.
yond their control. Although problems
exist, students can h raise money and set
priorities for needy areas, he said.
Students need a central information
source, Heyd said. "There's no simple
source for information on campus."
The Caroline registration system
needs improvement, he said. Thirty
two telephone lines for 22,000 students
is insufficient, and student fees that
fund the system could pay for more
lines, he said.
All students should have to take a
multicultural studies course, Heyd said.
Student disenfranchisement can be
reduced through communication with
each other and with legislators and ad
ministrators, Heyd said.
The University is facing many tough
problems, but the problems can be
countered, Heyd said. "We can be de
pressed or re-evaluate our role on how
to create educational excellence."
SBP candidate David Henderson said
he wanted to make academic improve
ments at the University with a computer
advising program so students can find
out their status with respect to fulfilling
requirements, he said.
He also wants to return full professors
to the classroom. "Certain professors at
this University make over $100,000 a
year and teach three hours. That's a
problem."
Henderson said he wanted to bring
back the Forest Theatre as a source of
cultural diversity on campus by holding
See FORUM, page 7
The situation on the ground at the
northern front remained essentially static
Monday. No new Iraqi probes were
reported six days after Iraqi troops
punched into Saudi territory and were
repulsed in a series of bloody clashes.
But the U.S. command said front
line Marines did trade fire with the
Iraqis across the border Monday, and
Marine pilots reported scoring a major
hit against Iraqi armor.
Four AV-8 Harriers, the Marines'
vertical-takeoff "jump jets," found and
attacked 25 to 30 Iraqi tanks across the
border, unloading Rockeye anti-tank
bombs.
"The results, from the initial pilot
reports, were 25 Iraqi tanks destroyed,
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Allen, 32, of 16 Riggsbee Mobile
Home Court, was released on $3,000
secured bond, police said.
Allen was unavailable for comment.
Lt. Marcus Perry, crime prevention
officer for University Police, said the
woman was not hospitalized and she
suffered no physical harm from the al
leged attempted assault.
'To me, it is an isolated incident,"
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front line
or at least burning," said Marine Maj.
Gen. Robert Johnston, chief of staff for
Operation Desert Storm.
Marine officers earlier reported that
two of their Hornet fighter-bombers
knocked out an Iraqi rocket site that had
fired on allied positions.
The Marines also said a battalion
size Marine task force opened up with
155mm artillery fire on Iraqi ground
radar and infantry positions near the
Umm Gudair oil field in southwestern
Kuwait, and Marine light armored ve
hicles exchanged cannon and small
arms fire with Iraqi troops in Kuwait.
No U.S. casualties were reported in
See WAR, page 4
Residents may have to pay
By NATARSHA WITHERSPOON
Staff Writer
Students living on the fourth floor of
Hinton James Residence Hall may have
to pay for vandalism that damaged a
fourth floor smoking lounge.
On Jan. 16, the day the Persian Gulf
War began, unknown vandals burned
furniture and carpet with cigarettes,
causing an estimated $ 1 ,000 in damage
in the lounge.
The lounge, one of two in the resi
dence hall where smoking was permit
ted, has been closed to residents since
Jan. 31.
If no one admits to the vandalism by
Wednesday, the fourth-floor residents
will have to pay for the restoration costs,
said Terrence Garrison, a fourth-floor
resident assistant.
At a floor meeting last week residents
Students draft
By BRIAN G0LS0N
Staff Writer
Members of the student governments
of UNC-CH and N.C. State University
met Thursday to draft a resolution to
send to the N.C. General Assembly
offering solutions to university problems
caused by state budget cuts.
Four UNC students and 14N.C. State
students attended the two-hour meeting
in Raleigh.
The purpose was to create a joint
statement from the two student bodies
to let the General Assembly know how
students feel about the budget cuts and
to make a resolution of suggestions to
alleviate some of these problems," said
Spence Wright, UNC Student Congress
Dist. 10 representative.
The resolution proposes five ways
the General Assembly can aid state
making other plans.- John Lennon
said Chris Derby, director of Carolina
Dining Service.
The incident was employee-related,
Derby said.
'To my knowledge, it is the first time
in five or six years that an incident like
this has occurred," he said.
Students should not be concerned
about their safety in the dining hall,
Derby said.
Heyd, David Henderson and Jonathan
Committee
about pressing charges
By STEVE POLITI
Staff Writer
Members of the Committee for
Peace in the Middle East said Monday
they had not decided if they would
take legal action against the College
Republicans for Saturday night ' s water
balloon attack.
Pressing charges against the College
Republicans would be the responsi
bility of the people present in the Pit at
the time of the attack, committee
member Holly Flood said.
Holly Pierson, student attorney
were told they could pay as much as $ 1 5
to $20 if the vandals weren't found.
Some fourth-floor residents said they
should not be forced to pay for the
repairs since students from throughout
the residence hall used the smoking
lounge.
Rubin Patel, a fourth-floor freshman
from Baton Rouge, La., said, "I'm upset
about the situation, but I don't feel it's
my responsibility to pay for it.
"First of all, the lounge is one of two
smoking lounges in the building, it could
have been any smoker in the building,"
he said. "Secondly, my roommate and I
never go to the lounge. Why pay for
damages when you don't use the room?"
The area director and assistant area
directors did not return telephone calls.
According to the housing contract
book for undergraduates, Hallways and
resolution for budget woes
universities suffering from a lack of
funds:
B greater flexibility in the budget at
the university level
B reallocation of funds within the
state budget
B a referendum for a statewide lot
tery with earnings going to education
B creation of an education trust fund
B and re-evaluation of the current
levels of taxation.
Tonya Alford, UNC Student Con
gress Dist. 12 representative, said she
organized the meeting after Donald
Boulton, UNC vice chancellor of student
affairs, suggested that Student Congress
members voice their concerns about
budget cuts to North Carolina legislators.
Alford said after her suggestion of a
joint meeting with N.C. State student
leaders achieved widespread support in
The matter had been turned over to
the proper authorities, he said. "At this
point, I consider it a police matter,"
Derby said.
Kathleen Benzaquin, assistant dean
of students, said she did not know of any
other reports of sexual assaults this se
mester on campus. She said she was
unaware of any other sexual assault
incidents involving employees.
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Martin answer questions at a forum
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general, said she could not comment
on whether the Honor Court would
take action against the College Re
publicans for throwing water balloons
at the Peace Village in which students
were camping Saturday night. The
students had been sleeping in the vil
lage since Tuesday night.
The Honor Code states that if a
group of students have a fear of im
minent danger from another group, it
can be considered an assault and a case
See COMMITTEE, page 4
for vandalism
Highrises, "when individual responsi
bility cannot be establ ished, the residents
of the floor, suite, wing or entire hall
become collectively responsible for
restoration costs when such collective
responsibility is supported by the area
director, in consultation with the
building president, the area governor or
their government designee."
Wayne Kuncl, director of University
housing, and Al Calarco, associate di
rector of University housing, said they
had not been informed of the incident.
Lisa McLamb, a junior from
Goldsboro and a fourth-floor resident,
said, "I think it's unfair, and who knows
if someone on this floor did it?
"It irritates me. It's ridiculous for
people to vandalize, and it'spunishment
See VANDALISM, page 4
Student Congress, she and Leslie
Powell, speaker of N.C. State's Student
Senate, organized the meeting.
General Assembly members were
invited to Thursday's meeting but none
attended, Alford said. She was disap
pointed, but was not surprised because
Thursday was the first day of the Gen
eral Assembly's 1991 session, Alford
said.
UNC Student Congress members said
the resolution would be sent to Gov. Jim
Martin, U.S. Sens. Terry Sanford and
Jesse Helms, and leaders in the General
Assembly.
"One thing everyone (at the meeting)
seemed to like was the idea of a state
lottery to support education," Alford
said. X
See ASSEMBLY, page 4