WEATHER TODAY: Cloudy; high mld-60s WEDNESDAY: Variably cloudy; high 65-70 ON CAMPUS AMAZING ASIMOV: Incomparable Isaac leaves a legacy page 3 LICENSE GRANTED: Binkley Baptist OKs gay preacher CITY, page 3 SportsLine (f USILA LACROSSE VOllWJ 1. Syracuse 6-i 2. North Carolina 5-2 3. Towson State 5-0 4. Loyola, Md. 6-2 5. Johns Hopkins 3-2 6. Princeton 5-2 7. (tie) Brown 6-1 Maryland 5-2 9. Virginia 4-3 10, Army 5-1 IJ Sergei Khrushchev, son of Hjr iailg Bar Serving the students and the University community since J 893 former Soviet leader, to speak at 8 p.m. In Hanes Art Center. SARR to show tape of Sister Snjah's speech with discus sion to follow at 7 p.m. In BCC 100th Year of Editorial Freedom Est. 1893 C 1992 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Volume 100, Issue 22 Tuesday, April 7, 1992 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NmWSporuAru 9624245 BuancWAdmtiiiiif 962-1161 IBM Campus leadership roles to Heyd cleans office, leaves role as SBP By Steve PoM University Editor Matt Heyd worked quickly Sunday to finish up one of his last tasks as student body president cleaning out his office. The decorations were off the walls. The office was dotted with stacks of manila folders and boxes of papers, each probably detailing an important event from this school year. "After Tuesday, I'm gone," said the senior political science and history ma jor from Charlotte as he picked up a folder from one stack only to put it back down on another stack. "Between being both (student con gress) speaker and SBP, it's been a busy two years, and I'm looking forward to not being busy." But even in the waning hours of his presidency, Heyd was busy , and it didn ' t seem like a break was coming in the future. He answered phones, helped friends who wandered in and out of his office and kept stacking folders. When he began to reflect on his term as student body president, however, he would stop in his tracks. Heyd plopped a thick blue binder on the desk and opened it to the front page. "What really surprised me was the num ber of letters I've written," he said, flipping through the pages of the binder. "I've kept every letter ever written to me," Heyd added. "It's interesting to see what people had to say during dif ferent times of the year." Yes! Laettner's Duke career finally over; Devils win NCAA title The Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS History didn't come easy for the Duke Blue Devils. Nevertheless, history they made, en ergized at last by their star, Christian Laettner. They became the first team in 19 years to repeat as NCAA champions Monday night with a 71-51 victory over Michigan's Fab Five freshmen. Not since UCLA ended a seven year reign as national champions in 1973 had a team managed to win two in a row. Duke did it the hard way, with national player of the year Laettner struggling for the second straight game and another starter hobbled by injury. Laettner, who personally lifted the Blue Devils to two of their five straight Final Four appearances with buzzer beaters, rebounded from his worst half of the year to lead a closing 23-6 Duke charge. After missing six of eight shots and making a season-high seven turnovers in the first half, Laettner finished with 19 points and seven rebounds. Duke's defensive pressure, mean while, limited Michigan to only 20 second-half points on 29 percent shoot ing. It was the Wolverines' lowest point total in eight years. Three decades later, families of POWMIAs still By Eric Lusk Senior Writer ' It has been more than 24 years since two Fort Bragg military officers ap peared at her door, but Mildred Johnson still is searching for answers regarding the fate of her son. "Circumstances point to the fact that he was taken prisoner of war," said Johnson of Rocky Mount. "It's highly possible that he and others could be alive. But after 24 years (in captivity), what would a man be like?" Her son, Sgt. William "Darrell" Johnson, was last seen alive Jan. 19, 1 968, during a firefight with North Viet namese troops near the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a heavily fortified North Viet namese supply line running through Laos and Cambodia. :-. " . iiWjM''aaiiiiifflnifii m arm " iLniiiMinr-r-r ':mr .rr .Mimmmit John Moody (left) and And it's been an interesting year for Heyd. His term began with protests on the steps of the General Assembly in Raleigh to stop budget cuts. It ended Grant Hill had a terrific all around game for Duke with 18 points, 10 re bounds, five as sists, three steals and two blocks. Thomas Hill added 19 points and seven rebounds for the B lue Devils. Guard Bobby Hurley had nine points and seven assists and was named Outstanding Player of the Final Four. However, it was Laettner's long distance shooting that sparked Duke, which trailed 31-30 at halftime. Laettner's 3-pointer 44 seconds into the second half gave Duke the lead for good, 35-33. Another 3-pointer by Laettner with 1 1 :05 left gave the Blue Devils a 46-39 lead, and they took off from there. Coach Mike Krzyzewski became the ninth coach to win more than one national championship and just the fifth to win them consecutively. His career record in the NCAA tourna ment is 33-7, an .825 winning per centage which ties him for fourth place with UCLA's John Wooden. Chris Webber led Michigan with 14 points and 1 1 rebounds, while Jalen Rose added 1 1 points for the Wolver ines. T w, TUESDAY After discovering that enemy troops greatly outnumbered their unit, Sgt. Johnson'scompany decided to pull back from the fighting. As American soldiers retreated, Sgt. Johnson heard English speaking voices coming from a ravine and went in to investigate. He never returned. Sgt. Johnson was one of six men from his platoon listed as missing in action after that conflict with the North Vietnamese. Search operations of the battle area conducted after the war have recovered everyone's body except his. But his mother keeps hoping. "If he isn't alive, the North Vietnam ese have information that they could THE END (for now) 'Foundation's DTHTodd Barr Matt Heyd share a laugh with protests on the steps of the South Building in the recent push for a free See HEYD, page 2 Flier spurs CGLA member's ByMarcyJ.Walsh Staff Writer Recent fliers circulating on campus that Carolina Gay and Lesbian Associa tion leaders belie ve express homophobic views have prompted a member to file a complaint with University Police. "I'm deeply offend I feel violated by these series of fliers," said Kathy Staley, a junior from Concord. "I know someone who is now afraid to go out side and let it be known about their homosexuality." The first three fliers found on cam pus did not advocate violence, but two Suspect at By Malle Carpenter Staff Writer Chapel Hill police are continuing their search for a man who reportedly raped a woman in her apartment in the Franklin Street-Estes Drive area early Saturday morning, according to a state ment released Monday. A Chapel Hill woman told police that a black man carrying a knife entered her apartment and raped her around 6 a.m. Saturday, according to police reports. The woman reported the incident to police at 7:15 a.m. Saturday, reports state. The police department has released a composite drawing of the suspect, who is described as a 5-foot-8-inch, muscu give to me," she said. "If my son is dead, I'd rather know it." It's been more than 1 9 years since the United States pulled out of the Vietnam War, and the question of whether living Americans remain in captivity in South east Asia continues to loom as a com plex and confusing issue. Weeks before signing a truce with Vietnam in January 1973, President Richard Nixon promised he would work to bring all American POWs back to U.S. soil and would attempt to obtain a full accounting of all those listed as missing in action. But in April 1973, the White House closed the books on most MIA cases and declared that no Americans were left in captivity. A March 23, 1977, U.S. Presidential Commission Report re peated these claims and stated that "there Moody plans for new year as president ByTeeshaHolladay Staff Writer John Moody will take over a big office in Suite C today a big office for an enormous task: presiding over the University as the new student body president. With a busy term ahead of him, the junior chemistry major from Greens boro is trying to take things in stride and slowly start making some changes. "I guess it starts with goals," Moody said. "My goals are totally different than the other candidates, and I think that makes a big difference in the way I'm going to go about making things happen." With a new administration comes changes, and Moody has a few in mind. "I'm attempting to set things up dif ferently," he said. "I want to break up the old system of committee after com mittee and make sure everybody is do ing something for a particular task in stead. "By setting up a more task-oriented system, I hope to get much more ac complished," he said. Moody will face the monumental task of choosing his appointees for dif ferent government committees. "The people you have working with you are what's really important," he said. "I'm setting up interviews now for the people who have submitted applica tions for the various areas of student government." And Moody's criteria for his cabi- fliers left inThe Daily Tar Heel's letters to theeditor box this weekend did, Staley said. The two fliers stated (with errors included): "Faggot HomocideKill All You CanApril 8, 1992No Limit's," and "Pant's DayIf You Think Faggotry Is A CrimeWear Pant'sApril 8, 1 992." The third flier, titled "Newspaper Story Prompts SUCMBLA (Siblings United and the Carolina Man-Boy Lov ers' Association) to Organize Rally," was submitted as a letter to the editor and was posted next to fliers advertising the CGLA's rally, which is scheduled for noon today in the Pit. large in Chapel Hill lar black man in his early 30s. The woman said her assailant had smooth skin and wore square, wire-rim glasses, according to police reports. Police spokeswoman Jane Cousins said Monday police were investigating an incident, possibly related to the re ported rape, that occurred earlier Satur day at Kingswood Apartments. Kimberly Sisko, of G-3 Kingswood Apartments, said she told Chapel Hill Police that a man followed her from the parking lot of the apartment complex to her apartment at 3:49 a.m. Saturday. Police reports state that officers ar rived at the scene a few minutes after receiving Sisko's call but found no sus pects in the parking lot. Cousins said the incident may be is noevidence to indicate that any Ameri can POWs from the Indochina conflict remain alive." Since then, the government has changed its position, and more than 2,200 Americans remain listed as MIA. "We have seen no concrete evidence that there are people still alive in a captive situation in terms of American POWs... butl'm not saying no one has been left behind," said a staff member of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Com mittee, who spoke on the condition on anonymity. "What (the government) is looking for is proof of their deaths, otherwise they have to assume they are still alive." William Crawford, who is publisher of Military Living magazine and who served three tours in Vietnam during the 1960s and 1970s, said he heard Edge' by Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) change hands S tudent-elected leaders to take oaths of office today in the Pit Nextyear'sstudent leaders will take their oaths of office today at 3 p.m. in the Pit. The outgoing and incoming offic ; ers from several campus groups, in cluding student government. Resi dence Hall Association, Carolina Ath letic Association and the Class of 1 992, will be on-hand for the inauguration. After the inauguration, the follow ing new officers officially will start their terms: n John Moody will replace Matt s Heyd as student body president net? "Personal character is the most im portant thing for me," he said. "I really want to get away from relying so much on experience instead of what really counts in getting things accomplished. "It's not that experience isn't required at all," he said. "I just want to make sure that it isn't the only thing I look for in an applicant." As far as his own personal sanity, Moody remains confident that he'll be able to survive, he said. "You can ask anyone who's around me a lot, I'm usually viewed as some one who's stressed anyway," he said. "I'm always doing something, so I know I'll be able to handle this. It will be an incredibly tough task, but I've always spread myself thin, sometimes too thin. "Right now, it's finally sinking into my system," he said. "I've got to handle everything from the largest campus is sue to figuring out how to get coffee in my own office. It's going to be tough." The new student voice busily is pre paring his message. Matt Stiegler, a CGLA member, said the CGLA rally originally was planned for the LesbianGay Awareness Week but was canceled because it conflicted with a Graduate Students United rally. The rally was rescheduled after a fliertitIed"IncestPedophila Awareness Week" circulated aroundcampus, and a CGLA flier posted on a Cobb resident's door was defaced during LesbianGay Awareness Week. University Police could not be reached for comment Monday night. Hugh Singerline, editor of the CGLA newsletter Lambda, said some of the fliers were satirical statements designed related to the rape reported three hours later. Sisko said Monday the composite photo of the rape suspect looked like the man who followed her. 'The photo was close, and he wore thick glasses," she said. The man wore soft-soled shoes and was trying to approach her from behind, Sisko said. "He was trying to sneak up behind me and kiss me off-guard," she said. "He was trying to get something that night." Cousins also said police were con sidering a possible connection between Saturday's incident and eight unsolved rapes which have occurred in Chapel Hill and Durham since 1986. searching for answers rumors in 1961 that French soldiers still were being held in captivity, although France pulled out of Vietnam in 1954. "I had a sergeant first class, and the last time I saw him, I saw him through the binoculars with a rope around his neck," he said. "(The Vietnamese) were using him to carry ammunition." Crawford said the government should work for a full accounting of MIAs, regardless of whether the Vietnamese were holding living Americans. "The current issue is, we want our prisoners back; if they are not alive, we want their remains back," he said. "The families are, of course, hanging on to anything they can. Most of the families are realizing the (Department of De fense) is declaring them dead." Dolf Droge, who served as a Na tional Security Council member under CharlesStreeterwilltakethehelm of the RHA from co-presidents Scott Peeler and Christy Pons. Tracy Kirincich will replace An thony Doll as CAA president. Bob Paty and Elizabeth Mitchell will take over as senior class president and vice president, replacing Mike Ferguson and Jay Dunn. Students who are filling other offices, including student body vice president, treasurer and secretary will . be sworn in. "I guess the main thing is that I want people to see me as someone who wants to get things done," he said. "Not many personal motivations are involved with what I do. I stand for what is right for the students of UNC. "Geez, that sounds like something somebody else would say. Did it sound right? I'm just getting used to this." Moody now is gathering as much information as possible about the stu dent concerns he must face in the up coming months, including the issues of housekeeper pay raises, a free-standing black cultural center and University funded health insurance for graduate student employees. "Right now, I'm in a huge information-gathering process," he said. "I've been meeting with the various groups to discuss their concerns in order to repre sent each of them in the best way pos sible." Along with these key concerns. Moody plans 'o turn many smaller cam- See MOODY, page 2 complaint to prompt others to see the CGLA as a ridiculous organization. "If I were a betting man, I would say (SUCMBLA) doesn't exist," he said. "It seems to be someone who is listen ing to what we've said." Some of the quotes on the flier were nearly verbatim to those he has seen in the past, Singerline said. But Stiegler said the fliers would not be the focus of the rally. 'The fliers are just one aspect of what's going on around this campus," he said. "There's enough hate on this See CGLA, page 5 rape case "Rapes tend to be repeated," Cousins said. "Anytime a rape is reported, we always go back to old records." Cousins said more rapes had been reported in Chapel Hill since January than were reported in the beginning of 1991. "There were 16 rapes reported in all of 1 99 1 , and 9 so far this year," she said. Reported rapes are only a small por tion of rape incidents that occur in the area, Cousins added. "The reported incidents are only the tip of the iceberg. That's nothing to predict the trend in rape incidents." Durham crime analyst Michael Byers said reported rape incidents in Durham have steadily increased in the past few years. presidents Johnson and Nixon, said he believed American soldiers remained in captivity in Vietnam, Laos or possi bly in the former Soviet Union. "Men are alive," said Droge, now a radio talk show host. "This is a shame ful thing for the administration when George Bush himself was missing in action. When you send men into harm's way, you have an obligation to go look ing for them." Bush was shot down during World War II and was briefly listed as missing in action. Droge said the government had been involved in a dramatic cover up of the POWMIA issue. The precedent to cover up U.S. failures in wartime was solidi fied during World War land World War See POWMIA, page 2

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