4The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, April 23, 1991
Mamie reservist sentenced for desertion
WORLD BRIEFS
Baker bids for support
of peace conference
KUWAIT CIT Y Secretary of State
James Baker headed for Damascus on
Monday in hopes of enlisting Syria's
participation in a Mideast peace confer
ence. Earlier, he bid for Soviet co-sponsorship
of the initiative and gained the
sideline endorsement of Saudi Arabia.
Baker's sessions with Syrian Presi
dent Hafez Assad and Foreign Minister
Farouk Sharaa loomed as his most dif
ficult challenge on the Arab side as he
attempts to fashion a format and agenda
for the prospective peace talks. He was
expected to return to Israel on Tuesday
in hopes of resolving its concerns about
the scope of the proposal.
Baker wants Moscow to co-sponsor
the peace talks, provided the Soviets
resume full diplomatic relations with
Israel after a 24-year lapse.
The fact that Baker was keeping his
schedule open raised a possibility that
Baker might fly to Moscow to firm up a
jointly sponsored conference, provided
he can resolve the Arab-Israeli differ
ences over the agenda and the extent of
third-party participation.
The Saudis confirmed during Baker's
meetings in Jiddah with King Fahd and
Prince Saud, the foreign minister, that
they would not participate directly in
peace negotiations though they may
take part in dealing with such side is
sues as the environment.
But Prince Saud said, "It was con
veyed to the secretary that Saudi Arabia
believes it is time to put an end to the
Arab-Israeli conflict and to achieve a
comprehensive and just solution to the
Palestinian question."
Kohl's failed promises
led to party's defeat
BERLIN Helmut Kohl's oppo
nents say he is now paying for failing to
fulfill his promises, for pushing the speed
of German unification in a way that
once thrilled Germans but only fooled
them.
The jubilant Social Democrats
claimed an election victory Sunday in
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Rhineland-Palatinate.
The outcome was the first loss in the
state for Kohl's Christian Democrats in
44 years and the party's second straight
state election debacle during this year.
In the 4 months since he won a re
sounding victory as chancellor of the
united Germany, Kohl's political clout
and public mandate have eroded at a
withering pace.
Bjoern Engholm, the Social Demo
crat leader and the chancellor's ascen
dant political rival, said Monday that
the outcome signaled "the most dra
matic decline in trust and confidence"
ever experienced by a postwar elected
German government.
"We must examine how we can bet
ter address the people," Kohl admitted,
terming the election a "bitter defeat."
Soviet Premier calls
for economic program
MOSCOW Prime Minister
Valentin Pavlov warned Monday that a
"social explosion" could occur and mil
lions of people lose their jobs unless the
country agrees on an emergency pro
gram to halt economic decline.
Pavlov said industrial production will
plummet if debilitating strikes continue,
state contracts are not met and the gov
ernment fails to adopt an economic plan.
Soviet President Mikhail S.
Gorbachev told reporters on Red Square
that he expected "serious proposals"
and criticism of the program at a pivotal
Communist Party Central Committee
meeting Wednesday.
Gorbachev has refused to resign, in
stead urging strikers to put aside per
sonal grudges and work together.
"Everyone understands it's danger
ous to play now. Now we must rise
above all these political ambitions and
sympathies," he told reporters. "Now
the fatherland, state, country and condi
tion of the people" should be foremost.
Pavlov described the dire state of the
economy in presenting the latest at
tempts to cure it. "The situation in the
country can only be characterized as a
general crisis."
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By Doug Hatch
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A Marine reservist was convicted of
desertion last Wednesday for claiming
conscientious objector status when he
refused to go to the Persian Gulf with
his military unit.
Sgt. David Bobbit was sentenced by
military court to 14 months in the brig
(the Marine prison) after pleading guilty
to charges of desertion and failure to
deploy with his unit. Additionally,
Bobbit will be demoted to private and
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involving reservists who claimed con
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Boarding school to begin wilderness training program
By Pete Simpkinson
Staff Writer
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school, located near Lenoir, N.C., will
work with the N.C. Outward Bound
School in Morganton to provide stu
dents with a week of wilderness train
ing at the beginning of each semester.
The school is changing its name to
the Morgan School at Patterson Pre
serve, honoring the Burton G. Morgan
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appear they used the military for per
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Objector status is achieved as fol
lows: After the commanding officer pre
pares a brief on the individual, the case
goes through a military chain of com
mand during which it may be turned
down at anytime. The highest level of
the process is a national board of offic
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case.
Out of the 40 cases filed since Janu
ary 1991, 15 have been approved, 13
denied and the rest are still pending.
Hands Off!, an organization based
out of the New School for Social Re
search in Manhattan, has sided with the
conscientious objectors. The organiza
tion originated when Sam Lwin, a stu
dent at the school, decided to file for
Patterson School philosophy," she said.
The outdoor programs in Morganton
and in nearby national forest areas will
help to "develop leadership potential,
increase student confidence and esteem
and build a sense of camaraderie and
team spirit," Wall said.
Students will operate the Patterson
Preserve, a stretch of farm and timber
land of more than 1600 acres.
"The kids can become involved in
the business aspect and manage part (of
the preserve)," Iona Brigham said.
The school will combine 20 previ
ously enrolled students with 60 new
students for the upcoming academic
year. Additional efforts to recruit tal
ented students will not interfere with
"Massachusetts' only natural re
source is the intelligence and skills of its
work force," Polidori said. "We don't
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ours is a state historically renown for
the intellectual capacities of its popula
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conscientious objector status and was
denied.
"The real issue is ... whether the
Marine Corps treated their conscien
tious objector applications with fair
ness and according to procedure from
the beginning," said Melissa Ennen, the
Hands Off! senior counselor in Camp
Lejeune.
Ennen strongly supports Bobbit,
charging that the sentence issued to him
was too harsh.
"David Bobbit himself is willing to
go to jail, and he's in jail, for his be
liefs," she said.
Most of the remaining 1 6 cases, how
ever, are contested courts martial in
which the soldiers are pleading "not
guilty" to their individual charges.
"Those cases should be quite inter
esting," Ennen said.
the existing programs for students suf
fering from language disabilities such
as dyslexia, Wall said.
Most of the students at the school live
in North Carolina, but the student body
represents much of the Southeast, in
cluding Florida, Iona Brigham said.
All faculty members will live on cam
pus in an effort to create a community,
family-type environment. Some of the
faculty will carry over from the staff of
the Patterson School.
The school maintains an emphasis
on Christian values and education, Wall
said. "Students will assemble daily for
worship and meditation, and commu
nity projects will be part of the curricu
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that we're going to hit rock bottom
before we start going back up the ladder
again," Gagne said.
There have been rumors among state
college institutions that Gov. Weld pro
posed completely shutting down five
college campuses in the public school
system. The governor's office denies
these rumors.
"He has never said he will close five
campuses," said Virginia Buckingham,
the governor's assistant press secretary.
"He said he might close or consolidate
some, but the legislature never acted on
his proposal, so nothing will be done for
the upcoming academic year."
Weld wants to do away with the
traditional board of regents, which now
governs higher education within the
state, and replace ij with what critics
call "an educational czar."
The so-called "czar" would serve as
an adviser to the governor not only for
college-level education, but also for
kindergarten through high school.
The board of regents is opposed to all
of Weld's measures, said Terry Zoulas,
public affairs director for the Mass.
board of regents.
"The board is part of the solution and
not the problem," he said.
Some student leaders aren't too fond
of Weld's proposals, either.
"I think the board of regents is a
necessity to higher education," Gagne,
said. "They have a much better grasp on
what is happening on the campuses than
one person sitting in Boston."
Others think Weld is showing lim
ited foresight with his proposals."You
can have whatever kind of structure you
want, and if you're not going to fund it,
then it's a joke," Polidori said.
P.C.
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"I think that clearly there are faculty
members in some institutions who have
strong ideological positions and use the
classroom to advance these positions.
"We don't have a problem with fac
ulty members expressing opinions, as
long as they don't force them on stu
dents. Students have the freedom to
give opinions and question opinions.
The classroom should not be used for
indoctrination," Cell said.
The most familiar aspect of P.C. is
the use of euphemisms.
At Sarah Lawrence in Pennsylvania,
students spell women as "womyn" to
promote gender equality.
TheOfficeof Student Affairs at Smith
College made a list of 10 types of op
pression "Look-ism" constructs a stan
dard for beauty, and requires students to
avoid noticing if someone is more
attractive than another. "Able-ism" in
cludes calling handicapped 'differently
abled,' so as not to imply inferiority.
Hildebolt said P.C. may be growing,
but most people at UNC are only slightly
aware of it.
"P.C. is a kind of jargon that hasn't
sifted into the general population yet,"
he said. "People are aware, but students
are being affected by it and don't realize
it yet."
Laura Anderson, minister of infor
mation for the BSM, said P.C. could be
negative in that it seemed to be a trendy
ideal, but if it made people aware of
society's problems, it could be positive,
however short-lived.
"If someone is making groups aware,
it is important, even if the motives are
selfish," Anderson said. "I'll take help
wherever help is given."
Anderson said the BSM was not P.C.
"I would hate to associate a long
standing organization like the BSM to
something trendy," she said. "Our mean
ing and motivation runs much deeper.
"It will take more than one year, or
one season, to remedy the problems of
different groups on campus," she said.
"It will take a lot of long-term work."