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Nine survivors found in
French plane wreckage
BARR, France Hearses and am
bulances ferried bodies through this vil
lage Tuesday to an assembly hall in
wh ich grieving relatives waited to iden
tify loved ones killed in a plane crash
that claimed 87 lives.
Only nine people including a 13-month-old
baby and a 9-year-old boy
are known to have survived Monday
night's crash of a jetliner bound from
Lyon to nearby Strasbourg.
The cause of the crash is not known,
and afive-membercommission has been
named to investigate.
The French news agency Agence
France-Presse.citing informed sources,
said the aircraft made an abrupt 2,000
foot drop on its approach to the
Strasbourg-Entzheim airport..
But survivors focused on a frightful
10 to 15 seconds of plowing through
trees and a four-hour wait for rescue in
20-degree weather.
"We were ready to land, we had on
our seat h . and then I realized we had
hit something,'' said Pierre Cota. He
said passengers on the Air Inter flight
had no warning of the crash
About 1,000 people searched the
crash site Tuesday, but officials held
out 1 ittle hope that more survivors would
be found.
The Airbus A320, produced by the
European aviation consortium Airbus
Industrie, can carry up to 179 passen
gers. The plane that crashed carried 90
passengers and six crew members.
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Georgian loyalists fight
to restore president
MOSCOW Forces loyal to de
posed President Zviad Gamsakhurdia
battled supporters of the coalition that
ousted him near Zugdidi in western
Georgia on Tuesday.
A senior member of the ruling Mili
tary Council, Dzhaba Ioseliani, had
given Gamsakhurdia supporters in
Zugdidi until 8 p.m. Tuesday to lay
down their arms. It wasn't clear if there
had been a move against the city after
the ultimatum passed.
Gamsakhurdia, popularly elected last
May and ousted Jan. 6 after fighting in
Tbilisi, has called for a movement of
resistance to restore his government.
Most of his supporters are gathering in
the western area of the republic.
About 10,000 Gamsakhurdia loyal
ists rallied in the Black Sea port of Poti,
about 30 miles from Zugdidi, Tass said.
They said they would bar Military Coun
cil forces from entering the Black Sea
city, the agency reported.
Gamsakhurdia has not been seen in
public since he returned to Georgia on
Jan. 16 after a 1 0-day exile in neighbor
ing Armenia.
His exact location was still unknown,
but Russian television reported that he
had traveled from the Black Sea resort
of Sukhumi to Zugdidi, about 1 50 miles
from Tbilisi, Georgia's capital.
Talks between representatives of the
Military Counciladn the Gamsakhurdia
loyalists have gone nowhere.
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Candidates reveal election strategies
Rep. Wicker stresses educational and environmental reforms
By Jason Richardson
Staff Writer
The next N.C. lieutenant governor
must provide effective and strong lead
ership in order to regain voter confi
dence, said N.C. Rep. Dennis Wicker,
D-Lee.
In a speech before the UNC Young
Democrats Tuesday night, Wicker said
his 1992 campaign for the state's second-highest
elected office would focus
on restoring publ ic faith in government.
"Leadership is taking a position and
working for the solution to a problem,
not trying to find ways to avoid it,"
Wicker said. "What people want ... are
leaders that are willing to tell the truth."
Wicker, a Sanford native, is serving
his sixth term in the N.C. House and his
second term as majority leader.
Helping to improve education, pre
serving the environment and guaran
teeing abortion rights will be the three
major tasks facing the next lieutenant
governor. Wicker said.
"There is no more meaningful op
portunity for our people in this state
than in education," he said. "There is no
greater dominant issue than what'shap
pening in cur public schools."
Sizemore advocates legislative
By Rebecah Moore
Staff Writer
Trip Sizemore, Republican candidate
for lieutenant governor, said he was
prepared to stand up to the Democratic
Party-controlled General Assembly to
fight for much-needed state reform.
Sizemore, who spoke to UNC Young
Republicans Tuesday night, said he
advocated term limits for state legisla
tors, more local involvement in educa
tion and veto power for the governor.
"I think the state has a future,"
Sizemore said. "I have five children
who will be part of that future, and I
want to make sure that the future they
have in the state is a bright one."
After serving three terms in the state
legislature, Sizemore said he supported
term limits for members of the state
House and Senate.
"I think (legislators) ought to be lim
ited to three- or four-year terms, then go
back home and listen to what the com
munity is saying about their govern
ment," he said.
Sizemore said he endorsed session
limits in the General Assembly to en
sure government efficiency.
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Local school districts must be al
lowed to make their own policy deci
sions, he said.
"We need to start talking about try
ing to localize school-based decisions,"
Wicker said. "Sometimes the flow from
Raleigh down to the local areas has not
Trip Sizemore
serve in Raleigh from January through
August, they often lose touch with their
communities' needs, Sizemore said.
This lack of contact with constituents
hinders a legislator's ability to repre
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"Everyon e liked him."
Catherine Brown, one of Johnson's
co-workers at the hot line, said he worked
for several years as an information spe
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Teachers must be allowed to spend a
majority of their time teaching, rather
than wasting time on administrative
tasks, he said.
"I'm concerned about what's going
on with disruption in our classrooms,"
Wicker said. "We're not letting our
teachers teach."
State leaders need to improve and
expand higher education programs.
Wicker said. Strengthening state com
munity colleges would enable North
Carolinians to compete for more higher
level jobs, he said.
Community colleges should teach
basic learning skills in reading and writ
ing to educate the state's high number
of illiterate residents. Wicker said. Rais
ing teachers' salaries to the national
median level also would help improve
the state's quality of education, he said.
Above all, N.C. government must
concentrate on guaranteeing an adequate
education for all children, regardless of
socio-economic background, he said.
"It is the responsibility of the Gen
eral Assembly to provide every child
with the opportunity to get an educa
tion," Wicker said.
To avoid the need for more landfills.
term limits, veto for governor
sent his district, he said.
"I'm afraid we are going to a full
time legislature which will have to be
paid more ... and will stay in Raleigh
year-round," Sizemore said. "I think
this is bad for North Carolina. We are
better operated as acitizen government."
Sizemore bases part of his platform
upon improvement of the state's oft
criticized education system.
"I've seen a deteriorating in our pub
lic education system," he said. "We're
not doing what we'd like to see done
with our children. We're spending a lot
of money on it, but we're not getting
back from that investment what we
would like to have."
Involving parents in more educational
decisions will boost the quality of edu
cation the state has to offer, Sizemore
said. Students also should have the op
tion to attend schools in their own neigh
borhoods, he said.
"Most parents would like their kids
to go to school closer to home, and
neighborhood schools are the way to
go," Sizemore said.
Because North Carolina is the only
state that prohibits its governor from
cialist. The nature of Johnson's job
showed he was concerned about pro
moting AIDS awareness. Brown said.
"He answered phone calls for the hot
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the state needs to focus on cleaning up
the environment and preserving natural
resources. Wicker said.
"I have been a strong voice for a
strong, healthy, clean environment," he
said. "Why do we need more landfills?"
Wicker said he supported compre
hensive health care for all North Caro
linians. The U.S. Congress has debated
implementing anational healthcare plan
that would provide medical care for all
citizens.
"As yourlieutenantgovernor.I would
also be a voice and advocate of a na
tional health care plan for this country,"
Wicker said. "We're one of the most
industrialized countries in the world,
and yet we can't provide a health care
plan for our people."
Although the battle about abortion
rights has not ended at the federal level.
Wicker said that as lieutenant governor
he would reject any state efforts to make
abortions illegal.
"My record is clear that I am strongly
pro-choice," he said. "In the event that
the Roe vs. Wade decision is over
turned by the Supreme Court, as your
lieutenant governor, I will tight for the
state of North Carolina to allow women
to have a choice."
using a form of veto power, Sizemore
advocates granting the veto to the state's
highest office. The governor is forced
now to "sit back and watch" as deci
sions are made, he said.
"Without the veto, the governor just
sits by and says 'Well, the legislature
did it,' and there is really no account
ability for the executive branch to be
involved in the Senate," Sizemore said.
Sizemore predicts that more Repub
licans will win legislative seats this
year, possibly obtaining a long-awaited
majority. He said he did not see the
Democrat-controlled legislature as an
obstacle in his bid for election.
"There is a real change taking place,"
Sizemore said. "A real two-party sys
tem is emerging (in N.C. government).
If we stay at it, gradually but clearly,
there'll be a majority change in the
House or Senate, or both."
In light of the recession, Sizemore
advocates moving back to a zero-based
budget system to improve the state's
economy. A zero-based system allo
cates money to agencies based on their
yearly need, rather than reviewing the
previous year's budget and adding to it.
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line," she said. "He provided informa
tion to people who called in."
Joseph Smith, this year's CGLA co
chairman, said he did not know Johnson
personally, but Johnson's death was a
loss to the community.
"Anyone who is put through the tor
ture and the anguish and then finally
succumbs it's heartbreaking," Smith
said. "I know so many young people
who are HIV-positive, and it's like the
sense of what they've accomplished is
just lost."
CGLA actively promotes AIDS
awareness on campus, Smith said. "Our
office is just one big source of informa
tion on safe sex and AIDS."
Johnson's friends said he was well
liked and would be missed by many.
"He was one of the most sensitive
people I've ever known," Hipps said.
"He cared about other people that
was his main concern to the very end.
"Once he moved home (from the
hospital), he joked and laughed. He was
an amazing person with a wonderful
sense of humor."
A memorial service is planned for
3:30 p.m. Sunday at York Chapel in
Durham.
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