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4The Daily Tar HeelMonday, February 24, 1992 1 ,CN- IWORLDBRlr Brown, Tsongas lead pack in Maine caucuses PORTLAND, Maine Upstart Jerry Brown and Paul Tsongas battled for victory in Maine's caucuses on Sunday in an impossibly close race that re flected the unpredictable campaign for the Democratic presidential nomina tion. 'The lead between Tsongas, a former U.S. senator from Massachusetts, and Brown, former California governor, flip fldpped fourtimes as the long count was tallied from 665 precincts across the state. At one point, with 78 percent of the vote tallied, they were dead even. An uncommitted slate of delegates, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton and the rest of the field followed. U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, who was running last, said the "larger story is Brown doing extremely well. . . ; That's a pretty fragi le mandate com ing out of New Hampshire" forTsongas. ; Maine voted as the campaign moved on relentlessly. All five of the Demo cratic contenders headed for South Da kota for an evening debate two days before Tuesday's primary. That ballot ing shapes up as a struggle for survival for Kerrey and U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa. ;Win or lose in Maine, the results were a blow to Tsongas, who is strug gling to maintain the momentum he gained with his victory in the New Hampshire primary Tuesday. ; And win or lose, the results were a triumph for Brown, who finished last among the five major contenders in Nfcw Hampshire and who has been de rided as a gadfly making a hopeless quest for the nomination. Republicans have until April 1 to hold their caucuses, although several precincts were doing so on Sunday. The delegates selected in these meetings w$re unpledged, but GOP challenger Patrick Buchanan made little effort to contest President Bush in the state. Citing unofficial tallies from 200 communities that have voted in recent weeks, the state Republican Party gave Bush 875 of the first 990 delegates chosen. With 91 percent of the state's 665 precincts reporting, these were the re turns: Brown, 30 percent; Tsongas, 29 percent; uncommitted, 16 percent; Clinton, 15 percent; Harkin, 5 percent; and Kerrey, 3 percent. 41'20 Copies Good on plain white 812x11 sell service and autofeed copies. Good until April 30, 1 992. ft CO. COPIES Open 7 days a week Til 1 0 pm Weekdays On Franklin Street next to The Parlor 967-6633 YOUR TAKE As an officer in the U.S. Navy, you'll command your own future. You'll join top flight people working with the best in their field. And have the opportunity for world-wide travel. Navy leadership and executive management training go hand-in-hand to prepare you for an exciting role as a Navy Officer. 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Putting aside several explosive distractions, Is raeli and Arab negotiators were poised Sunday to resume Mideast peace talks under the supervision of an increas ingly restless Bush administration. The fact that Israel, Syria, Palestin ian Arabs, Lebanon and Jordan all agreed to send delegations here indi cated a joint commitment to negotia tions even though talks have been in conclusive. The parties have not been sidetracked by a flare-up of fighting in southern Lebanon, a squabble over Israel's de tention of two Palestinian negotiators and Israel's difficult negotiations with the Bush administration about its re quest for $ 10 billion to absorb refugees. While holding talks with a joint Pal-estinian-Jordaniandelegation, Israel will resume simultaneous discussions with Syria and with Lebanon. Although Israel is willing, in prin ciple, to extend limited self-rule to Pal estinians on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip, its disagreements with Syria and Lebanon are sharper. Syria wants to recover the Golan Heights, lost to Israel in the 1967 Six Day War, while Lebanon seeks Israel's ouster from a security zone on Leba nese territory that shields Israeli vil lages from guerrilla attacks. Israel's primary negotiation objec tive is to gain recognition from the Arabs. Only Egypt, in a 1 979 treaty, has taken that step. Pro-communist rally draws 15,000 Russians MOSCOW Amid the most vio lent unrest in Moscow since the Soviet Union 's demise, thousands of pro-communist demonstrators rallied Sunday, clashing with police and pelting them with near-worthless kopeck coins. At least 30 people were reported injured. "Down with the Russian govern ment!" shouted some protesters. Wav ing red Soviet flags, they tried to break through police lines to march toward the Kremlin in defiance of a ban on such gatherings in the city center. About 10,000 police were deployed, and the crowd of 7,000 demonstrators eventually grew to about 15,000, the Interior Ministry reported. The anti-government rally adds to pressures on Russian President Boris Yeltsin, whose economic reforms have sent prices soaring across the Common wealth of Independent States. The Associated Press B OYD NCOME AX ERVICE BOYD INCOME TAX SERVICE, INC. PRIVATE, CONFIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS FREE ESTIMATES - AFFORDABLE RATES 100 EUROPA DR, SUITE 211 HOURS: 9-5 M-F; 9-12 SAT DEGREE WILL YOU PLACES. ,, fetli I ,- v,tmmammmnml' nin minim I Hill I llllll I NCSU senior making education issues By Tara Duncan Staff Writer Don't let his boyish grin, political science books and busy schedule fool , you Dave Holm is not your average college student. Holm, a N.C. State University politi cal science major from Raleigh, an nounced his candidacy for the N.C. House of Representatives two weeks ago. Holm faces Randy Yale in the , state's May 5 GOP primary. "My philosophy is that we have got to make education our top priority," said Holm, who is running for the 63rd District seat presently held by five-term incumbent Peggy Stamey, a Democrat. "It is a legitimate place for the govern ment to be. "We raise taxes, but we also raise the price of university tuition. Some of last year's tuition increases didn't even go back to the universities." Holm said he was worried about edu cation on all levels, not just in the UNC system. "In the grades K-1 2, there is no accountability," he said. One of Holm's greatest concerns is the state's proposal to remove the Cali fornia Achievement Test, which gauges student performance in relation to other students tn the same grade, from the ECU grad student By Karen Lakey StaffWriter William Thorpe believes students should be active in the political process. Thorpe, an East Carolina University graduate student campaigning for the governor's mansion, hopes that by seek ing public office, he will inspire many young voters to take an active role in state politics. "I'm trying to be the Joseph McNeil of 1992," Thorpe said Sunday. "Joseph sat in at a lunch counter in Greensboro in 1 960 and inspired a whole generation of students. "I want to celebrate Black History Month by making black history." Thorpe, who said he would file with the Democratic Party for governor later this week, sees himself as a pioneer in the voting history of young Americans, like predecessors who took part in the 1960s civil rights movement. "One of my goals is to increase the involvement of students in the political process," he said. "I want raise the people's hopes and get them to involve themselves in the political process." Thorpe is the son of Bill Thorpe, a former Chapel HillTown Council mem- SPECIALISTS IN TAXES FOR FACULTY & STUDENTS 932-9112 EVENINGS BY APPOINTMENT North Carolina secondary education plan, he said. North Carolina pays $800,000 annu ally ' the CAT, but state legislators rece have proposed replacing the tests ith a N.C. Achievement Test. The new state tests could cost as much as $6 million to develop and imple ment. Because almost every state uses the CATs, N.C. students would be at a disadvantage if they were given a dif ferent achievement exam. Holm said. "What do students do when they move out of North Carolina?" he said. "The CATs have economies of scale and are a good judgment of skills." Holm said he first considered cam paigning for the General Assembly last summer while interning in the office of Lt. Gov. Jim Gardner. "Everyone in Raleigh is talking about the new redistricting (plan), and it gave me the idea of running for the General Assembly," he said. The revised 63rd District comprises Cary, Morrisville, two Durham County precincts and western Wake County, including the NCSU campus and most waging protest campaign with hope of inspiring young voters Ef ) North Carolina ber who lost his 199 1 bid to recapture a council seat. "I think he's very talented," the elder Thorpe said of his son. "But I think he's trying to make a statement more than anything. The world is open to him I've told him that since day one." William Thorpe, who is working to ward a master's degree in history, was president of his senior class at Chapel Hill High School in 1985. Voter apathy, especially among col lege students, is the major problem Thorpe said he hoped to tackle through his candidacy. By visiting different high schools and UNC-system schools, Thorpe said his campaign would work to raise the number of student voters. Increased stu dent participation is as important as an actual electoral victory, he said. Although Thorpe, under N.C. law, is too young to serve as governor, he said he considered his campaign a legiti-" mate attempt to gain votes. "I will define victory by my own Hate said. "You send a message to white America. It's a covert strategy." Davis-McCoy said North Carolina was home to the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux K Ian, Confederate Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the Populist Party. "There are 13 groupings of those factions in our state," she said, calling them the invisible empire. Davis-McCoy recapped the follow ing eight Orange County hate crime incidents reported to NCARRV in 1991: Dispatchers for 91 1 delayed relay ing a report of two intoxicated black 10 Visits $35.00 20 Visits $60.00 Open 7 days a week Til 10 pm Weekdays On Franklin Street next to The Parlor 929-5409 Don't Be MISERABLE SPRING BREAK Tents for Sale or Rent Sleeping Bags for Hotel Room Floors Solar Showers for those who can't get a hotel Surplus Sid's Military Surplus 302-A E. Main St. Carrboro top priority in bid for General Assembly off-campus student apartments. Holm said he thought he had an advantage over Stamey in the district's four new precincts, which are home to a younger group of voters. "I think I'm going to win this," he said. "It's a redrawn district. It is a district of young people, and I still re late to them. It's the kind of families that I grew up in." Stamey, the early front-runner in the 63rd District campaign, said she did not know much about Holm, but she did know that she would be -challenged in this year's elections. "I am not acquainted with Holm, but you always expect to have an oppo nent," she said. Yale, Holm's Republican primary opponent, is a 31 -year-old insurance agent from Cary who filed last Thurs day. Those who have worked with Holm at NCSU said that he considered him self a legitimate candidate. "I think he has a good chance," said NCSU Student Body President Ed Stack. "He wouldn't go after it, if he didn't have a chance." Holm serves as an ad ministrative assistant in Stack's office. Stack said that although the core of Holm's support would come from the NCSU campus, Holm and his support- agenda if students get out and regis ter and make a difference," he said. "I want to make a difference." In recent state and national elections, students have failed to vote in large numbers because they have felt alien ated by the political system, he said. "Most students feel there is no one to vote for," he said. "I represent openness and options for a much better state. I am more of a protest candidate. I'm just a worker out in the field. "There are 100,000 students in the UNC system. If they feel they have someone to vote for, they can have a profound impact on public policy." Thorpe said he had gone door to door to encourage people to register and to cast ballots during elections. More than 100 people have registered because of his efforts, he said. "I want to show others that they can do the same thing I am doing and have a profound impact on local politics," Thorpe said. "That's the point to encourage the other Mark Chiltons and William Thorpes out there to make a difference in their own community." ' Chilton, a UNC senior who won a seat on the Chapel Hill Town Council in November with strong student support, men walking on a highway near Hillsborough, in danger of being struck by cars. The dispatchers reportedly joked on the radio about the men's race. Both men were struck by cars, and one was killed. Someone assaulted two homo sexual men in downtown Chapel Hill a few doors down from a bar frequented by homosexual men. UNC students spray-painted slurs attacking Martin Luther King on an nouncement boards. Someone wrote a racist slur about a University employee on a wall near a campus library. Two UNC students received ha rassing and sexually explicit calls after a publication identified one as a gay activist and the other as a bisexual. A homosexual man reported that someone threw a picture of a Klansman holding a cross into an apartment under construction in Chapel Hill and also wrote a homophobic slur on the roof of one of the buildings underconstruction. People in line to see a film about African and Latin-American homo sexual men were subjected to slurs and obscene insults from passersby. A black family found a racist slur painted across the driveway of their Chapel Hill home. "More than five of these incidents should send alarming signals to our community," Davis-McCoy said. "Our e LFOllg Wisdom to IK ft 1 What lessons must you learn in this life & how will it impact your career choice? How do you get in tune with your particular vibration so that your life will be easier, happier & more productive? For your numerological report based on an analysis of your name &. birthdate, print your name as written on your birth certificate, address, city, state, zip & birthdate (monthdayyear) & send along with your phone number &. a check or money order for $10.52 to: BMF & Associates, 613 Guy Walker Way, Durham, NC 27703. Allow 10 days for receipt. 1 llllll II I IU.IUHU ,... .,,..-!.!, ,! Dave Helm ers felt confident they could carry the entire district. '. Holm said that despite his youth, he was the best candidate in the 63rd Dis- rrirf "I know I am younger than most of the General Assembly," Holm said, "But I think I can toss in some new ideas that will help North Carolina." said Thorpe's attempt to encourage younger voters was admirable. "I think he'll achieve a lot of his real goal," he said. "The point is, you don't have to be 40 to vote." Chilton said college students should take an interest in local politics. "There are 15,000 to 1 6,000 students in Chapel Hill with every bit as much right to claim Chapel Hill as anybody else," he said. "Students have usually been underrepresented in town govern-' ment." Traditionally, young people do not participate in elections because the po-: litical process is unfamiliar to them, said Carmine Scavo, ECU professor of Students might be reluctant to vote in local elections while at school because . they only live in a college town part of the year, he said, Thorpe said encouraging people to vote meant getting them interested in politics and involved in all aspects of the lawmaking process. "I see young voters as gold nuggets throughout the state waiting to be mined," he saidVIt's not just-about -voting. It's about lobbying the legisla tors, too." ' ' 1 from page 3 local leaders haven't spoken out vehe mently about their opposition to vio- '. lence." : Brittian said many people incorrectly -thought hate crimes were isolated inci- . dents. "People don't want to admit that racism is still a very large part of our culture." Davis-McCoy said NCARRV pro vided forums and training to commu nity groups to educate the public about racist issues and crimes. The group also advocates stronger legislation to deter these crimes, she said. A number of laws were passed in 1991 to help deter hate crimes, Davis McCoy said. An N.C. statute established ethnic intimidation as a crime punishable by a maximum of two years in jail or an unlimited fine, she said. An existing N.C. statute was amended to allow judges to consider racial, reli gious or ethnic discrimination when sentencing, Davis-McCoy said. An amendment to the Civil Rights Interference Act now gives victims the right to bring civil suits if they have been intimidated because of their race, religion or ethnic origin, she said. "Being able to turn the tide on hate violence in North Carolina is in our capacity," Davis-McCoy said. "All of : us are impacted and hurt, and as the possibility for victimization continues, ' no one is exempt." ' now Thysel numerology.
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