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SCUD hits deserted
section of Israel
AP editor's note The Israeli mili
tary censor ordered the location of the
site struck by the missile deleted from
this story.
JERUSALEM A SCUD missile
fired from western Iraq struck a de
serted site in central Israel on Monday,
causing no damage or casualties, the
army said.
Reporters in Tel Aviv said they heard
several explosions, apparently from the
firing of U.S.-supplied Patriot air de
fense batteries and the incoming missile.
It was the 12th attack on the Jewish
state by Iraq since the gulf war started
on Jan. 17. A total of 32 SCUDs have
been fired, Israeli officials said.
The sirens warning of the attack
sounded at about 7 p.m. About two and
one-half hours later, there was a second
alarm, but it was quickly canceled.
; Chief army spokesman Brig. Gen.
Nachman Shai said the second alert was
issued because another launch was de
tected, but it was not aimed at Israel.
Later reports said a Patriot missile de
stroyed a missile fired at Saudi Arabia.
; Shai said the missile that struck Israel,
like all previous ones, carried a con
ventional warhead.
W. Mandela pleads
not guilty to charges
I JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
Winnie Mandela pleaded innocent
Monday to kidnapping and assault
charges, but the trial was suddenly halted
when prosecutors said a key witness
one of the alleged victims had been
abducted.
"I cannot expect my witnesses to
come in here if their lives are in danger,"
State Prosecutor Jan Swanepoel told
the stunned court Monday morning af
ter Mrs. Mandela and three co-defendants
entered pleas of not guilty.
The case was adjourned until Tues
day while police investigate the disap
pearance. Mrs. Mandela looked composed as
she listened to the reading of the four
kidnap and four assault charges.
"I'm not guilty," Mrs. Mandela told
Justice M.S. Stegmann.
The co-defendants pleaded innocent
to the same charges, which allege they
participated in the kidnapping and as
sault of four young men in Soweto in
December 1988.
Gorbachev wants to
end pact military role
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia So
viet President Mikhail Gorbachev wants
to convene a high-level Warsaw Pact
meeting to discuss scrapping the
alliance's military role by April, CTK
news agency reported Monday.
The news agency reported President
aclav Havel had accepted the proposal,
contained in a letter given to him
Monday by Soviet Ambassador Boris
Pankin.
Czechoslovakia and Hungary both
invaded at one time by Soviet-led pact
.'forces to crush reform movements
have for months sought dissolution of
the pact's military structures by June
and a complete abolition of the alliance
early next year.
Poland, which led the 1989 demo
cratic reform movement that overturned
four decades of Communist rule
throughout most of Eastern Europe,
supports dissolving the pact. Romania
and Bulgaria also want to dissolve its
military role.
From Associated Press reports
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Tuesday, February 12, 1991
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By ASHLEY FOGLE
Staff Writer
Provost Dennis O'Connor and
members of the Network for Minority
Issues (NMI) met Monday to discuss
the possibility of incorporating a
multicultural perspective into the ex
isting curriculum requirements.
NMI, a Campus Y committee, pro
posed that all undergraduates be required
to fill three of their General College or
Arts and Sciences perspectives with
non-European courses.
Matthew Stewart, NMI co-chairman,
said the proposal was created in response
to charges that the curriculum at UNC is
not diverse enough.
O'Connor said he felt the proposal
was workable.
Check it out
Members of Phi Kappa Sigmaf raternity present a check
to the American Diabetes Association. The fraternity
MHA endorses PeelerPoms
By JENNIFER DUNLAP
Assistant University Editor
The Residence Hall Association's
governing board voted 5-2-1 to endorse
Scott Peeler and Christy Pons for RHA
co-presidents.
The Mangum Residence Hall repre
sentative, whose vote counts as one
eleventh of a vote, also voted for Peeler
and Pons. Peeler, Pons and challenging
candidate Charles Streeter participated
System vice president has heart surgery
From staff reports
Felix Joyner, vice president for fi
nance at the UNC-system's General
Administration, was listed in good
condition at UNC Hospitals Monday
following emergency quadruple bypass
surgery.
Bush meets
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON President Bush
huddled Monday with top military ad
visers, just back from the war zone,
about a possible ground attack against
Iraq. The White House contended that
Saddam Hussein was reaping dividends
even from Mikhail Gorbachev by
exaggerating civilian casualties.
"The propaganda and P.R. battle is
where Saddam is scoring his points,"
presidential press secretary Marlin
Fitzwater said.
Referring to Gorbachev's weekend
criticism concerning civilian losses in
Iraq, Fitzwater said, "It's disturbing to
find this evidence that somebody's
buying it."
Bush called in Defense Secretary
Dick Cheney and Gen. Colin Powell,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
for a report on their weekend talks in
Saudi Arabia.
Cheney and Powell returned Sunday
night after conferring with Gen. Norman
Schwarzkopf, the allied commander,
and battlefront officers on a possible
ground and amphibious assault against
Iraq's entrenched army.
Fitzwater said there was no indication
a decision would be made "on when we
might or might not start a ground of
fensive." In a ground war, allied forces would
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T don't have any deep substantive
difficulties with the proposal," he said.
"I think the students are trying to develop
a vehicle by which cultural differences
can be explored. It's difficult to take
issue with that."
Deepthiman Gowda, NMI co-chairman,
said the proposal would not nec
essarily add more courses to existing
requirements. Courses considered to be
multicultural could be used to fill any
perspective requirement except the non
Western history perspective.
"The (multicultural) requirements
can overlap with existing requirements,"
he said. "For example, you could take
an African-American literature class to
fill your literature perspective."
The administration has expressed
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Peeler said he and Pons were happy
about the endorsement. "Obviously, it
was really nice to have an organization
really involved with the issues to give
you the nod."
Pons said she agreed. "It was defi
nitely positive feedback for us."
Streeter said he thought the last
minute endorsement was unethical. "I
really feel hurt," he said. "I think they
The surgery was performed Thurs
day, after Joyner suffered a heart attack
early Wednesday morning, members of
his staff said.
He was taken to the hospital
Wednesday at 3:20 a.m. after his wife
reported he was having respiratory
with military advisers
risk heavy losses from Iraq's military,
which is equipped with some of the
world's best tanks and artillery, as well
as with chemical and biological weap
ons. Many members of Congress want
Bush to hold off on a ground war while
continuing to hit Iraq from the air.
Bush also began a flurry of meetings
with defense ministers of allied coun
tries. He met in the Oval Office with Israeli
Defense Minister Moshe Aarons to
discuss the impact of the war on his
country. The meeting was punctuated
by a chilling message to Aarons that air
raid sirens were wailing in Israel,
warning of a missile attack.
"We evidently had a SCUD hit in
Israel that took place only a few minutes
ago," Aarons told reporters afterward.
He said there was significant damage to
civilian centers from earlier attacks.
"We see sites of destruction in Israel
that have not been seen in Western
countries since World War U," Aarons
said.
On Tuesday, Bush will meet with the
defense chiefs of Britain and France.
Britain has sent 40,000 troops to the
gulf and France has committed 20,000.
Fitzwater said the meetings did not
signal that a ground battle was imminent.
Putting aside the formality of the
Oval Office, Bush met with Cheney and
Chapel Hill,
approval forthe idea, if not the details of
the proposal, Gowda said. Under the
terms of the proposal. Chancellor Paul
Hardin and Gillian Cell, dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences, were re
quired to grant approval in principle by
Feb. 11.
Cell said she was in favor of the
proposal, and committee members said
Hardin also favored the proposal. Hardin
was not available for comment because
he was out of town.
The next step will be to form a
committee of students and faculty to
consider the specifics of implementing
a new requirement. NMI will provide
names of students to serve on the
committee, and Cell will select faculty
members. The committee should be
DTHDebbie Stengel
$3,500 in November during the annual
did this at the last minute because I got
the two major endorsements." The Daily
Tar Heel and the Black Student Move
ment endorsed Streeter for RHA presi
dent. RHA President Gretchan Diffendal
said she did not know why the motion to
endorse a candidate came up the night
before elections.
See RHA, page 9
difficulty, according to a Chapel Hill
Police report. Joyner was at home at the
time of the heart attack.
Members of Joyner's staff said he
should be released from the hospital
later this week. They said they did not
know when he would return to work.
Powell in the relaxed setting of the
presidential residence. Cheney, on the
return trip to Washington, told reporters
there was "still a lot of potential out
there" for more air strikes against Iraq.
Baghdad contended that the air strikes
had killed or wounded thousands of
Iraqi civilians. The accusation took on
greater weight because of a weekend
statement by Gorbachev that the air war
was assuming "an even more alarming
and dramatic scope" and threatened to
exceed the U.N. mandate of simply
liberating Kuwait.
'There is extensive effort by Saddam
Hussein to try to paint a picture of great
civilian losses," Fitzwater said.
He acknowledged that there has been
"collateral damage" but said, "We don't
think it's been very extensive.
"But he has had a very extensive P.R.
effort, and it's disturbing to find this
evidence that somebody's buying it,"
Fitzwater said, referring to Iraq's con
tentions and to Gorbachev's statement.
Moreover, he said that about 60
percent of the questions asked by jour
nalists at the White House focus on
civilian losses. "That would indicate to
me that he (Saddam) is having some
success," the spokesman said.
Defending the allies' bombing.
See BUSH, page 9
North Carolina
formed in about a week, Cell said.
Gowda said once the committee was
in place, it would assess the present
curriculum and define what was meant
by a multicultural requirement. The
process should take one year, he said.
The final proposal will be submitted to
Hardin and Cell in February 1992, and
administrators will have two weeks to
accept or reject it.
Once the recommendation is made
by the committee, the proposal must be
approved in a general meeting of the
College of Arts and Sciences faculty,
Cell said. From there the proposal will
be considered by the administrative
boards of the General College and the
College of Arts and Sciences, and the
Faculty Council.
Martin stands by
tuition orooosaJl
By LAURA WILLIAMS
Assistant University Editor
Gov. Jim Martin said in a press release
Monday that he would continue to back
his plan for a change in the UNC-sy stem
tuition policy, despite the Board of
Governors' strong reaffirmation of the
present policy at its meeting Friday.
"I am very proud of our public uni
versities, and my tuition proposals would
not divide or damage the system," the
release stated. "With the current tuition
arrangement, the middle- and lower
class taxpayers subsidize more than their
share of public education costs for
people who can afford higher tuition
rates."
In his Jan. 3 1 State of the State ad
dress, Martin proposed a new tuition
policy to help raise up to $28 million for
the troubled universities. Under the
proposed plan, each university could
set its own tuition rate based on those of
comparable institutions, within "state
limits.
The BOG and the N.C. General As
sembly now set tuition rates for all the
schools.
Critics of Martin's plan, including
UNC-system president CD. Spangler
and former president William Friday,
have said the new policy would make
some schools too expensive for many
students to attend.
Spangler said changing the tuition
policy during a time of financial crisis is
not the answer. "It's not that the Uni
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Gowda said he was optimistic about
the ultimate success of the proposal.
"I see no reason why this should not
be a successful proposal," he said.
"We're not asking for much here. I
think we got across to the provost that
we have much faith in the administra
tion. It's not us against them."
Donald Boulton, vice chancellor for
Student Affairs, agreed.
"I think there will be support for it,"
he said. "I'm sure the faculty will take a
good hard look at it. As an institution we
are dedicated to multiculturalism
through our curriculum, programs or
the Black Cultural Center."
Student involvement such as that of
See NMI, page 5
versity has failed," he said. "We have
succeeded."
Spangler agreed that the 1 6 univer
sities were already unequal because
students from more affluent back
grounds attend UNC and NCSU. "Ev
ery year it is a little less so," he said.
"We're making progress in that area."
Nancy Pekarek, a spokeswoman for
Martin, said each school could set aside
a certain amount of the revenue
Martin proposed 25 percent to be
used for student financial aid according
to how many students need aid.
"It's an improper concept," Spangler
said about the proposed tuition change.
"I was pleased that the Board of
Governors reaffirmed their policy on
low tuition," he said. The policy is im
portant to the history of the universities,
he said.
Spangler called the 25 percent allot
ment a safety net that would not help
students afford an education.
Martin said he wanted to present his
plan to the BOG Friday, and he said he
hoped he could do so later. "Certainly,
it is an issue that deserves lengthy de
bate." Spangler said he was against chang
ing the tuition policy because many
students might have trouble paying tu
ition. "We have a state that's poor. We
have for years realized at the University
that we were not a wealthy state."
See BOG, page 9
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