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1 fct of Volume 99, Issue 10 Iraqi s8 (3)IH 0 -Nn 0 The Associated Press WASHINGTON One day after halting the war, President Bush an nounced Thursday that Iraq had promptly agreed to talks on a permanent cease-fire and the return of prisoners of war. "We are going to get back our POWs, and we're going to do it fast," Bush declared. With the guns silent in the Persian Gulf, the administration said Secretary of State James A. Baker III will fly to the Middle East next week to begin charting the region's postwar future. He will stop in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria and Israel, as well as in Turkey. Baker also will go to the Soviet Union, which tried and failed to broker a peace agreement to avert the ground war. As long as Saddam Hussein remains in power in Iraq, the administration will urge the U.N. Security Council to maintain a ban on all weapon shipments to that nation, officials said. Bush met with the ambassador of newly liberated Kuwait and then went to the Rose Garden to announce Iraq's willingness to discuss peace terms set out Wednesday night in his announce ment of a conditional cease-fire. Crimmal justice By Shannon O'Grady Staff Writer Criminal justice classes are being canceled for freshmen and sophomores because of continuing budget cuts. Gordon Whitaker, acting director of educed BiircSiases By Stephanie Johnston University Editor UNC's library system has dropped 41 places in the last five years in a ranking of 107 national research li braries, said Larry Alford, associate University librarian for planning and finance. The library was ranked 10th in ex penditures for books among the 107 :w:v:-:-: f u 4 fjt Fetch and catch lllll . if w IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISIH jJ -; Junior Tracey Ratz enjoys a warm Thursday afternoon in McCorkle Place with her Rottweiler, Newt, as he returns with a ball she threw to him. A lie can travel Friday, March mm. He said Baghdad had taken a first step by agreeing to name military commanders to talk with U.S. led allies, con Persian Gulf War cerning the battlefield arrangements to make the pause in fighting permanent. "We will go promptly back to them with the ar rangements; when and where," Bush said. He said the meeting will take place very soon. Bush said that .the return of POWs and seized Kuwaitis will be a primary subject "and we expect a prompt repa triation of them, Kuwaiti detainees and others." Forty-five Americans are missing, and at least eight are believed to be Iraqi prisoners. Bush skirted reporters' questions about whether he will insist on pros ecution of Saddam for war crimes. "We're not going to get into that," Bush said. "These matters will all be discussed in appropriate forums." With the fighting over, prospects were the criminal justice curriculum, said Thursday that criminal justice classes would be offered next fall only for juniors and seniors who needed them to graduate. The approximately 60 freshmen and sophomores in the program will have to libraries in the Association of Research Libraries in 1985-86. Although the as sociation has not released the 1989-90 ranking, a spokesman told him the University was ranked 5 1 st, Alford said. The ranking is based on the number of books purchased by all of UNC's libraries, but does not include serials. The drop in ranking can be attributed to budget cuts and decreases in the purchasing power of the dollar abroad, l I-iiiii 1 1 n'fnf li DTHKevin Chignell halfway around Serving the students and the University community since 1893 1, 1991 to ttalk 71 o raised for bringing troops home. White House press secretary Martin Fitzwater said a pullout might begin in days, but cautioned that "it took seven months to get in, it's going to take a lot of months to get out. "But we're going to start a steady withdrawal." Some 537,000 Americans are stationed in the gulf. Bush said the end of the 43-day-war brings "a great day for all Americans." To visiting French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas, Bush said, "You come here on an exciting day for all Ameri cans." Separately, Kuwait's ambassador to the United States, Saud Nasir al-Sabah, told Bush "you'll go down in history as the great liberator of my country." At a news conference earlier, he said allied countries will be first in line for billions of dollars of contracts to rebuild Kuwait, shattered by seven months of brutal Iraqi occupations. Bush met Thursday evening with the Saudi ambassador, Prince Bandar, who prai sed America' s armed forces and the president's leadership. See WAR, page 3 classes change their academic plans, Whitaker said. Gillian Cell, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, will notify students next week about the curricula changes, he said. Cell was out of town Thursday and could not be reached for comment. hurt library raiiMii Alford said. "The vast majority of the library funds comes from the state," he said. "We've received no new money, or very little, from the state." James Govan, University librarian, said the new ranking was a shock. "We are incurring woes we will never get over," he said. "Stuff simply won't be there for us to go back and get." The rankings are taken seriously by the "educational world," he said. "It means something very seriously for the University. In truth, the faculty and graduate students aren't going to be as interested in coming here." Alford said although the library had received little additional funding from the state, the costs of books had increased in the last five years. In 1 984-85 the library bought 8 1 ,000 books in the arts and humanities. In 1989-90 it bought only 35,000. Since 1 986-87 the price of serials has increased 41 percent and the cost of books 29 percent, Alford said. But the library's materials budget has increased by only 5. 1 percent in the last four years and not at all in the last two, he said. In addition, $429,000 of the money allocated to buy books in 1988-89 re verted back to the state and $200,000 reverted this year. istory students ask for department By Burke Koonce Staff Writer The co-presidents of the Graduate History Society asked history depart ment advisory committee members Wednesday to cooperate with graduate students in facing expected cuts in the department's budget. Although the committee briefly ad dressed a list of demands drafted, by GHS members, the discussion focused on the need for department unity to withstand the cuts, said James Crawford, GHS co-president. Committee member David Griffiths said the cuts would be especially tough on the graduate student program, which is already the most vulnerable part of the budget. "The department is certainly aware of their situation," he said. Crawford and GHS Co-president Debra Holden met privately with Colin Palmer, history department chairman, for about 30 minutes before they stated their concerns to the other committee the world while Chapel Hill, North Carolina i f0 f 2 ft n AV v The last word Sergei Ponomarjev, a Soviet trade representative to the United States, discusses Soviet economic reform measures Thursday linniitecl The criminal justice curriculum does not have enough money to fund both introductory and advanced courses, he said. "It seemed to be most prudent to make sure that students who are in the program get the courses they need to According to a report submitted to the Faculty Council last week by the Library Administrative Board, a mini mum of $1.5 million would be needed to restore the library's losses in books during the last five years. The library buys about 40 percent to 50 percent of its books from abroad, therefore the devaluation of dollar in recent years also has contributed to the decrease in purchases, Alford said. "Less research and foreign language materials are being bought," Alford said. "The changes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the last year and a half have resulted in an increase in materials available from these countries. Often when they have small press runs, if you don't get it right away, you won't get it." The lack of these materials will hurt the University 20 or 30 years from now when people want to research recent historic events but cannot obtain the needed materials at UNC, he said. Although the price of books and technology has increased, expenditures have decreased, Alford said. Library expenditures in 1989-90 were $16,097,662 for all the libraries on campus. This figure represents a de See LIBRARY, page 2 cooperation members. After the meeting, Crawford and Holden told a group of about 40 graduate students in the history department office that advisory committee members were responsive, but that the budget outlook appeared grim. "I'm not that optimistic," Holden said. "I don't think things are going to get better anytime soon." Crawford said, "They were very re sponsive. We were very appreciative that they would let us speak in such an impromptu manner." GHS members' actions were spurred by a memorandum graduate history students received Tuesday. The memo stated that about 20 teaching and re search assistant positions would be cut because of a decrease in available sal ary. The problems graduate history stu-' dents face also will have a negative impact on undergraduate students, See HISTORY, page 2 the truth is putting on its shoes. Iby kiclgdt crisi graduate as anticipated," he said. Donna Lefebvre, a criminal justice lecturer, said facing changes in the de partment was difficult. "It is just a nightmare because there is so much uncertainty, especially for the students," she said. "It is definitely Inadequate n lorces vuaBTBoro stiop to close,. owner says By Peter F.Wallsten City Editor The owner of a downtown Carrboro store has decided to close down be cause he feels police do not provide adequate protection in the evening. Flashback, located at 102-A W. Main St., will close March 31, store owner David Jimenez said Thursday. Jimenez called the Carrboro police to talk about' security after last Thursday 's shooting death of Inter nationalist Books owner Bob Sheldon and Friday's burglary of Archive Records at Carr Mill Mall. Forum evaluates By Birch DeVault Staff Writer Participants in a passfail forum Thursday night made valid, helpful ar guments, said Dietrich Schroeer, chairman of the Faculty Council's Educational Policy Committee. "The purpose of the meeting was to discuss passfail's importance to stu dents, and I believe it achieved that end most successfully," he said. The committee ha been researching the reasons students take classes pass fail and will present their recommen dation about the program to the Faculty Council in early April. Schroeer outlined several alternatives to passfail, including completely dropping the option. Other alternatives are a target grade plan created by Stu dent Body President Bill Hildebolt, an option to allow departments to el iminate passfail, a requirement that students declare classes passfail earlier, and the creation of a list of passfail students to be distributed to faculty members. Hildebolt said committee members could not combine the options because they were mutually exclusive. .Joey Graham, a student who helped Hildebolt design the target grade option, said he opposed requiring students to declare classes passfail early. "It is hard to gauge your performance in a class before you take it, and if a student does declare passfail before attending a class, it means he prev iously decided this and is not necessarily go NewsSportsArts 962-024$ BusinessAdvertising 962-1163 X-.v . . .. DTHSarah King night in the Union as the last speaker of International Festival Week. See story, page 3. worse for the students." The future of the program is uncer tain, she said. "I have no idea what will happen. If there is some money left over, I hope it will be able to continue." See JUSTICE, page 2 security In Friday s incident, someone took $6,200 worth of merchandise from Archive Records, including 350 compact discs, said Capt. Ben Callahan of the Carrboro Police De partment. The burglary happened at about 10 p.m. and took eight minutes. Jimenez said he decided to close his store which sells t-shirts, posters and Guatemalan imports, after a frustrating phone conversation with a detective at the police department, T was told that unless they get more manpower, they couldn't do any See FLASHBACK, page 7 passfail options ing to slack off," he said. With the target grade option, students would set a grade they thought they See FORUM, page 2 IS& lMb 0m lliinii CAMPUS AND CITY Campus literacy program receives $40,000 in grant money 3 FEATURES Rapper KRS-ONE challenges students to look at themselves 4 SPORTS UNC leaves Georgia Tech a ramblin' wreck in vital 91-74 win 5 World 4 Classifieds 6 Comics 7 Opinion 8 WEATHER TODAY: Partly cloudy; high 70s SATURDAY: Cloudy; high mid-70s 1991 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Mark Twain rail
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