4The Daily Tar HeelWednesday, February 27, 1991
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Former Communist
leader's trial begins
SOFIA, Bulgaria Todor Zhivkov,
Bulgaria's Communist leader for 35
years, went on trial Monday on charges
of misappropriating state funds and
handing out cars and homes to friends
and cohorts.
Zhivkov, 79, is the first leader of a
former Eastern Bloc country to stand
public trial since a wave of revolutions
threw out Communist rulers in 1989.
After the first day of the proceedings,
he scorned the court and insisted he was
innocent.
"For one full month, I and witnesses
were questioned without a defense at
torney, and now the court has decided to
launch this trial," Zhivkov told report
ers. "That's lawlessness."
About 100 demonstrators gathered
outside the courtroom, some shouting
"Punishment!" As heentered the packed
courtroom, Zhivkov took the flashes of
camera lights calmly.
He is scheduled to testify Tuesday.
Nearly 250 prosecution witnesses were
scheduled to testify in the trial, which is
expected to last four to six weeks.
One of his lawyers, Reni Tsanova,
said the prosecution seeks a sentence of
10 to 30 years in prison.
3-state drug bust nets
thousands of suspects
ATLANTA A three-month crack
cocaine investigation in Georgia, Florida
and South Carolina resulted in 13,593
arrests and the seizure of $25.5 million
worth of drugs, officials from the three
states announced Tuesday.
"This historic crack attack may well
be the largest coordinated drug bust in
the history of law enforcement," Georgia
Gov. Zell Miller said.
The investigation dealt "a devastat
ing blow to drug production, distribu
tion, smuggling and trafficking facilities
from Key West to Atlanta and to Myrtle
Beach," Miller said.
Authorities said 272 sheriffs in the
three states participated in the arrests
and drug seizures. They also seized 649
vehicles, four boats, one plane,
$2,368, 1 69 in cash, and 1 ,200 firearms
and miscellaneous weapons, totaling
$7,603,000 in value.
In a four-day drug sweep conducted
last week, officers used traffic stops to
search vehicles for drugs along high
ways from Miami to the N.C. border.
The effort will not curtail the crack
cocaine epidemic entirely, but "it will
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director of the Georgia Sheriffs Asso
ciation. Czechoslovakia moves
to market economy
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia Par
liament on Tuesday approved landmark
legislation to end 40 years of state control
over the economy with a vote to hand
overall nationalized industries to private
investors.
The law is the most important in the
government's ambitious program to
transform the country's economy from
Communist control to a market-oriented
system.
"It is an all-out attempt to get rid of...
state ownership of industry and the only
way to solve this enormous problem,"
Deputy Finance Minister Dusan Tr iska,
architect of the legislation, said in an
interview Tuesday.
All 4,500 industrial enterprises val
ued at $130 billion should be available
to domestic or foreign private investors
by year's end, he said.
Finance Minister Vaclav Klaus called
the draft law a"historic document" when
he presented it to parliament Thursday.
Judge rejects appeals
to sell condoms to Irish
DUBLIN, Ireland An appeals
judge on Tuesday upheld the conviction
of the Irish Family Planning Association
for illegally selling condoms in a record
store and raised the penalty.
"You got off lightly," Circuit Court
Judge Sean O'Hanrahan told the asso
ciation after increasing the fine from
$700 to $875.
The association was found guilty of
selling condoms at a safe-sex informa
tion booth at the Irish Virgin Megastore
after a police officer bought a packet in
January 1990.
Irish law requires condoms to be sold
only in pharmacies, family-planning
clinics and other health outlets to people
over 18.
Virgin Megastore owner Richard
Branson, who told the judge that profits
from the sales at his store go to AIDS
research, appealed to the Irish govern
ment to change the "archaic law."
'To be honest, I think it is an utter
disgrace that in the 1990s the laws of
Ireland will be responsible for the deaths
of thousands of young people," said
Branson, who also owns Virgin Air and
Virgin Records.
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Tar Heel notebook
Men's Basketball
Nearly half of UNC's 1.500 wins have come
underthe reign of head coach Dean Smith (709-207)
... The win over Clemson pushed UNC's record
against the.Tigers in Chapel Hill to an unblemished
36-0 ... UNC moved up two notches in this week's
AP Poll to No. 4 in the nation ... Rick Fox had five
steals against the Tigers, raising his career total to
1 84 and moving him past Mike O'Koren ( 1 83) to
third on the UNC all-time steals list. Fox now ranks
behind Kenny Smith (195) and Dudley Bradley
( 1 90) ... Fox has led the Tar Heels in scoring 1 5 of
the last 21 games and hit in double figures 23 times
this season ... Smith will celebrate his 60th birthday
Thursday when UNC travels to Atlanta to face
Georgia Tech. Last season. North Carolina nipped
Tech 8 1 -79 in the Smith Center on Dean's birthday.
Since coming to UNC in 1961, Smith is 5-3 when
his team plays on Feb. 28 ... In 42 meetings. North
Carolina has only lost to Georgia Tech eight times.
The Yellow Jackets, however, have won the last
two contests in the AlexanderColiseum ... In Tech's
win over the Tar Heels earlier this year, Malcolm
Mackey grabbed 17 rebounds, the most by any
UNC opponent this season ... Tech has only swept
the Tar Heels once, in 1984-'85 when Mark Price
led the Yellow Jackets to three wins over UNC ... In
the last six games, Brian Reese is 1 5 of 20 from the
field (75 percent). During that stretch, he has scored
34 points in just 46 minutes of play ... King Rice
continues to take good care of the basketball. In the
last 20 games. Rice has only 38 turnovers. That's
compared with the 19 turnovers he had in the first
five games of the season.
ROBERT BROWN
Women's Basketball
Go figure. In a span of four home games to
conclude the regular season. North Carolina lost to
Duke, who finished fifth in the conference at 6-8,
and to Georgia Tech, 3-11 and seventh in the
league. But the Tar Heels played their best basket
ball and won against Maryland and Clemson.Those
teams finished second and fourth in the ACC,
respectively, and both had winning records ... UNC's
58-54 victory over Clemson Sunday was its first
over the Tigers since the 1986-'87 season ... The
ACCToumament starts Saturday at the Cumberland
County Arena in Fayetteville. The Tar Heels (2-1 2
in the ACC, 12-15 overall), seeded last in the
conference, draw an assignment against regular
season champion Virginia. Even the most optimis
tic of supporters have to rate UNC's chances as
very slim. The Cavaliers are ranked No. 1 in the
country, have won all 14 of their conference games
and finished 26-1 overall. In their two meetings this
season, the Wahoos won 92-67 and 97-60 ... North
Carolina's last tournament victory came in 1987
when the Tar Heels knocked off Georgia Tech 64
54 ... Senior Kim Oden finished with strong per
formances in her last games at Carmichael Audito
rium. Oden scored 1 3 against Georgia Tech and 1 2
against Clemson to bring her average up to 9. 9
unts per game ... Freshman Tonya Sampson
Baseball sneaks away, 10-9
Staff report
CONWAY, S.C. The UNC base
ball team avenged an opening day loss
and head coach Mike Roberts came
within one step of win No. 500 Tuesday
as the Tar Heels edged Coastal Carolina
10-9 in 10 innings.
Freshman shortstop Keith Grunewald
. singled home the winning run with two
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wound up the regular season leading the Tar Heels
in scoring with 14.7 ppg. Other Tar Heels to
average in double figures were forwards Heather
Thompson (11.1 ppg) and Le Ann Kennedy ( 1 0.3
PPg)-
DAVID J. KUPSTAS
Gymnastics
The Tar Heels return home for a tri-meet with
Longwood College and Navy Sunday at 1 p.m. in
Carmichael Auditorium . In last Friday's tri
meet in Raleigh, UNC compiled its highest away
meet score of the season with a 184.45 score ...
Last week's tri-meet saw New Hampshire's Lori
Brady tally an astounding 9.95 to win the vault ...
UNC finished second on the vault with a 46.50
mark, with no Tar Heel scoring lower than 9.2.
The vault is usually the Tar Heels' weakest event.
WARREN HYNES
Swimming
North Carolina had eight women named to the
1991 AU-ACC team based on their performances
at the ACC Championship Meet Honored were
Jill Benda. Cathy Burgess, Melissa Douse,
Jenny Huber, Susan Leupold, Heather
Nottingham, Sarah Perroni and Hannah Turlish
... Benda. a senior from Raleigh, completed a
string of four straight All-ACC seasons ... Tar
Heels who have yet to qualify for the NCA As have
one more chance when UNC hosts the Tar Heel
Invitational Friday ... North Carolina then turns to
NCAA competition. UNC divers compete March
15-16 when North Carolina hosts the NCAA Zone
B Diving Championships. Women swimmers
compete March 21-23 in Indianapolis, Ind., while
the men hit the water March 28-30 in Austin,
Texas.
MATT JOHNSON
Wrestling
The Tar Heel grapplers won 9 of their last 1 1
meets en route to a 14-7 final regular season
record. Head Coach Bill Lam appears to have his
squad peaking at just the right time, as the team
heads toward the ACC Tournament ... The 20th
ranked North Carolina team will serve as host of
the tournament Friday and Saturday in Carmichael
Auditorium. Matches begin at 1 p.m. Friday and
noon Saturday ... UNC registers a 5-1 ACC record,
giving it the second seed in the tournament behind
Clemson, which comes in undefeated in the con
ference and provided the only blemish to the Tar
Heels' ACC record ... North Carolina will be led
into the tournament by standouts Ty Moore. Pete
Welch, Shane Camera and Doug Roemer.
Moore, a promising freshman, boasts a 19-4-1
record. He leads the team with eight pins this year
... Welch, ranked eighth in the nation at the 1 58
pound level, has won his last 15 matches en route
to a 30-6 personal tally ... Camera has been a force
at 167 pounds and has built a 24-6-1 record,
winning his last six . Roemer has a 1 9-1 0-1 mark
and has won 10 of his last 1 1.
JAY EXUfl
outs in the top of the 10th frame. The
win lifted UNC's record to 6-1 on the
season. The Tar Heels have not lost
since a 12-5 setback to the same Chan
ticleer squad Feb. 14 in Conway.
The win provided Roberts with 499
career victories. He is in his 14th season
as UNC's head coach.
Paul Shuey, 3-0, picked up the win.
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2 UNC football players
ineligible for spring term
ByNeilAmato
Assistant Sports Editor
UNC football players Julius Reese
and Craig Brown did not pass the re
quired number of courses in the fall
semester to be invited back to the Uni
versity for the 1991 spring semester,
according to UNC head football coach
Mack Brown.
Reese, a sophomore starting wide
receiver, and Brown, a redshirt sopho
more tight end and special teams player,
are not enrolled at the University this
semester because of academic difficul
ties in the fall term. But Brown did say
he thought both players, who will not
participate in spring practice, would be
eligible to play football next fall.
The Feb. 6 announcement of the two
temporary academic casualties came
two days before the UNC Board of
Governors released information on the
graduation rate of student athletes in the
UNC system. By August, 1990, the
football team also had an adjusted
graduation rate of 90 percent for players
who entered UNC in the fall of 1985.
The adjusted rate, used by the NCAA
for compiling graduation numbers, does
not include athletes who transferred to
other schools, began professional ca
reers or left school for other reasons, as
long as they left the University in good
academic standing.
"If they come back, we want to work
with them first of all to make sure they
get their degree," Brown said.
John Blanchard, director of Athletic
Academic Affairs, said a student must
meet the requirements he or she didn't
fulfill in the previous semester to be
eligible to re-enter the University.
Blanchard, whose staff at the Kenan
Field House oversees the academic
progress of all student athletes, said the
re-entry process for a previously enrolled
student was different than the enrollment
of an incoming freshman.
He said if a student didn't have the
required minimums (a 1 .5 GPA and 24
hours passed) after three semesters, the
Sports on TV
Wednesday, February 27
7:00 p.m. College Basketball: Seton
Hall at Connecticut; ESPN
7:35 p.m. NBA Basketball: Atlanta
Hawks at Philadelphia 76ers; WTBS
9:00 p.m. College Basketball: Clemson
at Duke; ESPN
10:30 p.m. NBA Basketball: Charlotte
Hornets at Sacramento Kings; 22
student would have to reach that stan
dard before he or she would be eligible
to re-enroll.
"The only thing that I can really say
is that neither is a student this spring,
and we have hopes that they can rejoin
the team if they get their academic work
done for the summer," Mack Brown
said.
Brown said Blanchard told him "quite
a number" of UNC students drop out for
a semester and come back the next
semester.
Tar Heel athletes had the highest
graduation rate in the UNC system in
1990. Seventy-six percent of student
athletes had graduated in that five-year
period, compared to a 77-percent rate
for students not participating in a varsity
sport.
North Carolina placed six football
players on the ACC All -Academic
Team, the highest total in the conference.
The members were junior kicker Clint
Gwaltney, junior linebacker Dwight
Hoi Her, junior defensive back Doxie
Jordan, senior offensive lineman Kevin
Donnalley, and senior defensive line
men Alex Simakas and Dennis Tripp.
AP Top 25
Team Record Pts Prv.
1. UNLV(63) 25-0 1,575 i;
2. Ohio St 24-1 1.503 2
3. Arkansas 27-2 1.455 3
4. North Carolina 21-4 1,346 &
5. Indiana 23-4 1.277 4
6. Syracuse 24-4 1,269 5.
7. Arizona 22-5 1.198 9.
8. Duke 23-6 1,108 7
9. Utah 25-2 1.042 10
10. Kansas 20-5 1.012 8
11. N. Mexico St 21-3 822 15
12. Oklahoma St. 20-5 772 16
13. Kentucky 20-6 667 12
14. Southern Miss. 20-4 708 11
15. Nebraska 23-5 664 14
16. UCLA 20-7 637 17
17. St. John's 19-6 630 18
18. LSU 19-7 589 19
19. E. Tennessee St. 24-4 472 13
20. Seton Hall 18-7 358 24
21. Princeton 20-2 317 23
22. Pittsburgh 19-9 165 22
23. Mississippi St. 18-7 158 21
24. Alabama 17-8 129
25. Virginia 19-9 105 20
Other receiving votes: N. Carolina St. 84
Texas 84, Georgetown 48, Georgia Tech 48,
Illinois 43, N. Illinois 16, New Orleans 14,
New Mexico 1 3, Fordham 1 0. Michigan St. 6.
Furman 5, Iowa 5, Ball St. 4, DePaul 3,
Arkansas St. 2, Brigham Young 2, Cincinnati
2, E. Michigan 2, Pepperdine 2, Wake Forest
2, Houston 1 , Southern Cal 1 .
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