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Shots fired at U.S.
embassy in Bonn
BONN, Germany Shots were fired
Wednesday night at the U.S. embassy
in the Bad Godesburg district of Bonn,
police said. No injuries were reported.
ARD television said an initial in
vestigation indicated machine-gun fire
was involved in the shooting, and that
several bullets struck an outside wall of
the U.S. building.
Police in Bonn confirmed shots had
been fired in the vicinity of the embassy,
and that the incident was under inves
tigation. Dozens of police converged on the
area and cordoned off the embassy,
with submachine-gun-toting police
keeping reporters and the curious back
from the building.
U.S. embassy spokesman Cornelius
Walsh said he knew only that an "inci
dent had occurred" near the embassy,
and that he was still checking with Bonn
police to get details.
"I want to emphasize that no one was
injured," Walsh said when contacted by
telephone in Bonn. He said he could not
immediately provide any other details.
Gulf peace initiatives
continue in Moscow
MOSCOW Iraq's foreign minis
ter will meet in Moscow with President
Mikhail Gorbachev to pursue talks to
end the Persian Gulf War, and a top
Kuwaiti diplomat arrived Wednesday,
Soviet officials said.
Elsewhere, the foreign ministers of
Iran and Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan's
prime minister, flew to Geneva on
Wednesday. Diplomats would not say
whether the visits were linked to a peace
initiative, but Iran has been actively
seeking an end to the war.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz is
to arrive Sunday and will meet with
Gorbachev the following day, Soviet
officials said. It will be the first visit to
Moscow by such a high-ranking Iraqi
official since the war began.
The visit follows adiplomatic mission
to Baghdad this week by Gorbachev's
envoy, Yvegeny Primakov.
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein told
Yvegeny Primakov that Iraq was ready
to cooperate with the Soviets in their
efforts to reach a settlement, Baghdad
radio reported.
36 die in church
disaster in Mexico
MEXICO CITY At least 36 Ash
Wednesday worshipers died when
crowds tried to cram into a church famed
for a religious icon believed to have
miracle-working powers.
About 25 people were injured in the
crush at the Sanctuary of Our Lord of
Chalma about 40 miles south of Mexico
City, said Carlos Mota, a spokesman for
the state of Mexico government in
Toluca.
"Some people were trampled and
others suffocated inside the church in
the atrium," he said.
Mota said at least 3,500 worshipers
were at the Mass and authorities had
trouble finding enough ambulances to
carry the injured to hospitals.
The hilltop sanctuary draws Ash
Wednesday pilgrims from all over the
nation to pray before an icon of the
crucified Jesus.
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning
of Lent, which culminates with Easter
celebrations.
From Associated Press reports
Moot suit
Moot court team finishes second in
national competition ...2
Back in the saddle again
The Chapel Hill Classic Criterium bike
race will return in April 3
Recounting romance
Valentine's Day stirs memories of
love's best and worst . 4
Campus and City 3
Arts and Features.,... ...4
Sports ...5
Classifieds 6
Opinion . . 8
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By ELIZABETH BYRD
Senior Writer
UNC-CH athletes had the highest
graduation rate in the UNC system in
1990, almost equalling the rate of the
University's overall student body, ac
cording to a revenue sports study re
leased Friday by the N.C. Board of
Governors.
Seventy-six percent of student-athletes
who entered the University in 1 985
had earned degrees by last August,
compared to an overall graduation rate
peaker warns of
By BIRCH DEVAULT
Staff Writer
North Carolina will suffer a race war
by 1992, said Linda Shealey Williams,
community educator for North Caro
linians Against Racist and Religious
Violence.
"Race relations are quickly deterio
rating in North Carolina, and Orange
and Guilford counties have the highest
percentage of hate violence," Williams
said.
Harvey Gantt's race for the U.S.
Senate might have sparked this upsurge,
including four incidents of hate violence
at UNC, Williams said.
NCARRV was formed in 1984 by
Statesville residents who were re
sponding to Ku Klux Klan attacks in
their city, she said.
"The Klan has always been our big
gest adversary," Williams said.
With countless factions and as many
as 1,000 supporters in North Carolina
alone, the Klan is quite powerful, Wil
liams said. But NCARRV has a file on
each one of these members as well as
photographs of almost all Klan activi
ties in the state, she said.
The KKK's activities include tire
slashing, hound hanging and police
officers delivering death threats, Wil
liams said. Even the NCARRV is sub
ject to this violence, she said.
"Our director, Christina Davis
McCoy, was approached by a police
officer who informed her of a relative's
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employees allege
By ASHLEY FOGLE
Staff Writer
Nineteen University employees filed
a grievance this week charging that
housekeeping workers face racial and
gender discrimination in pay and must
endure poor working conditions.
The details of the grievance were
outlined in a letter sent to Herbert Paul,
Physical Plant director.
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of 77 percent for that year. The average
rate of graduation for UNC-system
athletes was 47 percent.
UNC-CH's position at the top of the
academic heap is nothing new, and the
numbers are only getting better, said
Dick Baddour, senior associate director
of athletics. "Our coaches recruit people
committed to doing well academically,"
he said.
The percentage of football players
graduating has jumped nine points in
the past two years to 72 percent, far
death. The information turned out to be
false and the police officer (was) a
member of the Klan," Williams said.
NCARRV began to get funds from
organizations such as church groups
and large corporations in 1 985 and now
has 600 members in the state.
"We have so many programs, in
cluding victim assistance (and) a
newsletter, and we publish reports on
racist and religious violence. We also
have a toll-free number for victims to
report their difficulties. We then use
that information to find the proper
channels for assistance.
"We are a national model for other
organizations and we are the first of our
kind," Williams said.
In 1990, 78 incidents of hate activity
were reported in North Carolina, but
three or four times as many are not
reported because of fear tactics most
hate groups use, she said.
The incidence of violence in North
Carolina public schools increased 51
percent during the 1989-1990 school
year, she added.
"White students have become more
militant, and parents and teachers have
become more ignorant of the possibili
ties for racial tension and violence in
their schools," she said.
To battle apathy in schools,
NCARRV sponsors a youth agenda and
programs designed to "break the cycle
See WILLIAMS, page 4
William Morris, the attorney repre
senting the employees, stated in the
letter, "The University pay structure
discriminates along racial and sexual
lines. This structure perpetuates a dis
criminatory hiring and employment
pattern and practice that reflects the
vestiges of slavery and women's op
pression." Housekeeping employees' rights are
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above the UNC-system average of 34
percent.
The University's adjusted graduation
rate is 90 percent, football coach Mack
Brown said. That rate excludes penal
ties for players who transfer to other
schools, leave college early to begin
professional careers, or leave the Uni
versity for other reasons while in good
academic standing. This adjustment is
commonly used by NCAA officials in
compiling such statistics, Brown said.
Much of the credit for UNC-CH
deteriorating race
Linda Shealey Williams speaks Wednesday in the Student Union as
racial, sexual discrimination
violated by the housekeeping manage
ment, Morris said. "Presently, these
employees work under conditions where
there is a total lack of control, autonomy
or accountability given to employees
by management," he said in the letter.
He cited examples of employees
being denied copies of their time sheets,
supervisors writing employees up
without following the proper procedure
BSM discusses Heyd endorsement
By WARREN HYNES
Staff Writer
The Black Student Movement Cen
tral Committee's endorsement last week
of Matt Heyd for student body president
was supported in a BSM general body
meeting Wednesday.
Sabrina Evans, BSM president, said
she was concerned some members were
disappointed that the committee did not
endorse Jonathan Martin, an African
American SBP candidate.
"Are we supporting black students or
(a) black student?" Evans asked. "That's
not to say that we're not going to sup
Elections Board readies
By JENNIFER MUELLER
Stan Writer
The Elections Board is busy vali
dating results from this week's student
election and preparing for Tuesday's
runoff. Chairwoman Mary Jo Harris
said.
All results must be validated by Fri
day, she said. Many positions, includ
ing those of student body president and
Graduate and Professional Student
Federation president, will be decided
Tuesday in the runoff elections.
Student Congress seats in Districts
Civilian casualties heavy in
From Associated Press reports
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia Allied
warplanes, in a pinpoint bombing that
sent shock waves far beyond Iraq, de
stroyed an underground shelter in
Baghdad on Wednesday, and officials
there said 500 civilians were killed. The
United States called it a military com
mand center, not a bomb shelter.
By nightfall, 14 hours after the pre
dawn attack, crews were still pulling
charred bodies, some of them children,
from the demolished structure, an As
sociated Press correspondent reported
from Baghdad. Distraught relatives
irresistibly desired. Robert Frost
football players' recent academic suc
cess goes to the University's academic
support programs and the emphasis the
University places on academics, Brown
said.
Freshmen are required to spend 10
hours a week in study hall, he said.
"We're very unique here. We have
young people miss practice because of
a study session."
Besides graduation rates, the report
compares 1990 freshman SAT scores
and the numbers of admission excep
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and employees being asked to perform
duties assigned to other departments.
Charles Davis, University house
keeping assistant administrator, said he
had not seen a copy of the letter.
"No one has contacted me formally,"
he said.
Paul could not be reached for com
ment Wednesday.
Morris said Wednesday that com
port a black student, but that has to be in
line with what our agenda is."
Most of the members who spoke at
the meeting said they supported the
committee's decision.
"I think people are making it a racial
issue and not considering the qualifi
cations as far as the BSM is concerned,"
said Latonya Brown, a sophomore from
Whiteville.
Brown said she thought the central
committee did the best it could in making
an endorsement.
"I think in the light of everything
that's going on, the central committee's
17 and 18 were not released last night
because of a computer error, Harris
said. The ballots had to be tallied by
hand.
"It was basically a problem of time,"
she said.
Winners in District 17 were Elliot
Zenick and LaTasha White. Winners of
the District 18 seats were incumbents
Daryl Grissom and Carl Clark.
The area governor results for
Morrison also were not released last
night because of computer problems,
Harris said. Tina Re won with 1 95 votes.
crowded the smoke-filled streets.
Iraq's health minister, Abdel-Salam
Mohammed Saeed, described the pre
cision bombing as "a well-planned
crime."
But the U.S. command in Saudi
Arabia, and later the White House, said
the subterranean concrete facility had
been positively identified and accu
rately targeted as an Iraqi military
command-and-control center.
"We don't know why civilians were
at that location," said Marlin Fitzwater,
President B ush's spokesman. American
officials blamed Iraq's leadership for
tions made for freshmen football and
basketball players in 1 5 of the 1 6 UNC
system schools. (The N.C. School of
the Arts does not have a revenue sports
program.)
Of 88 exceptions UNC-CH allowed
this fall, 14 were athletes, 1 1 of whom
play revenue sports. The University had
the highest number of revenue-sport
exceptions, followed by N.C. State with
eight.
See ATHLETES, page 7
relations
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a part of Race Relations Week
munication was the key to addressing
these problems.
"We need to find some kind of forum
where they (the employees) will be able
to speak openly and candidly without
fear of retaliation and address issues
that are close to them," he said. "We're
trying to establish that these people are
See GRIEVANCE, page 7
hands were tied," she said. "I do think
that they had good intentions. I don't
think they intended for their endorse
ments to be those of the general gov
erning body."
Evans said after the meeting that it
was only natural for an organization's
members to support various candidates
for student offices.
"Some members were in support of
the central committee endorsement and
some members weren't," she said.
"There's nothing more we can say about
See BSM, page 7
for runo
There were five write-in candidates
in District 20: E.L. Flake, Tony Walker,
Brannon Cashion, Marion Smith and
Kristin Parks. Each received one vote.
Harris said their participation in next
Tuesday's election depends on the
candidates' eligibility and whether they
turned in their finance information to
the Elections Board by 5 p.m.
Wednesday.
Jennifer Manning, Elections Board
vice chairwoman, left the tallying early
See ELECTION, page 4
shelter attack
the tragedy, saying it had put civilians
"in harm's way."
The AP correspondent, Dilip
Ganguly, inspected the ruins with other
journalists and said he saw no obvious
sign of a military presence.
Coupled with continuing civilian
deaths elsewhere, the Baghdad bomb
ing was sure to inflame an international
debate over the war's costs and tactics.
Another new report of civilian ca
sualties came from Jordanian refugees
who reached their homeland Wednes-
See WAR, page 7
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