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Turkey mourns sailors
killed by U.S. missile
ANKARA, Turkey Turkey
mourned five sailors killed during na-'
val exercises with the United States in
an accident a military official suggested
could have been caused by human er
ror. The Turkish ship's commanding of
ficer, Capt. Kudret Gungor, and four
crew members were killed late Thurs
day when a missile was fired from the
aircraft carrier Saratoga in the Aegean
Sea. Eleven others were injured, four
seriously.
A U.S. military source in Washing
ton said the Sea Sparrow missile could
have been fired accidentally during a
check of its launch system. The Wash
ington Post and The New York Times
also reported Friday that human error
might have been responsible.
The source, who spoke on condition
of anonymity, said the weapon could
have been launched in a surface-to-surface
mode, which has a four-mile
range. The Saratoga was about three
miles from the Turkish vessel.
The Anatolia news agency quoted
Vice Adm. Philip Durr, speaking Fri
day aboard the Saratoga, as saying that
the ship's Sparrow air-defense system
previously had fired prematurely but
never caused a fatal accident.
Durr said that during a battle, the
RIM-7M missile that blasted the
Muavenet during the NATO exercise
would be locked onto a radar-identified
target and would fire automatically.
During exercises, the weapon sys
tem could be fired manually, Anatolia
quoted him as saying.
But U.S . Navy Capt. James Mitchell,
chief of information for allied forces in
southern Europe, said that "no missile
was planned to be fired or directed to be
fired."
Mitchell, in a telephone interview
with The Associated Press, made no
comment about possible human error.
In Washington, the Pentagon declined
comment.
Both the Post and the Times reported
it was unlikely that mechanical failure
caused the missile strike.
Brazilian prison riot
kills 111 inmates
SAO PAULO, Brazil Human
rights activists and inmates' relatives
accused police and riot troops Sunday
of committing a massacre when they
stormed Carandiru Prison to put down
an uprising.
Police have denied such accusations,
saying 111 prisoners were killed mainly
by other inmates when a gang fight
turned into a riot Friday at the vastly
overcrowded complex.
But inmates' relatives and others have
said they suspect the death toll might be
higher and that the hundreds of police
and riot troops sent in to put down the
violence did most of the killing.
Flavio Augusto Saraiva Straus, of
the Sao Paulo Bar Association's human
rights commission, said police "massa
cred the prisoners."
"It's all part of state government's
official policy of shoot first and ask
questions later. Police do this on the
streets and in the prisons," he said.
Sao Paulo Police Chief Hermes Cruz
denied such accusations.
"I refuse to accept the possibility that
a massacre was committed because our
philosophy is always to act on the de
fensive," he said.
The prison, which holds 7,500 in
mates but is built to hold 4,000, has long
been criticized by human rights groups.
Relatives returning from visits with
inmates inside the prison Sunday re
counted stories of mass executions. They
spoke on condition of anonymity for
fear of retribution against prisoners.
Outside the prison, a crowd of angry
relatives chanted "Murderers," while
others sobbed at news that their family
members were among those killed.
According to Sao Paulo state secu
rity director Pedro Franco de Campo,
more than 300 riot troops with shot
guns, pistols and machine guns raided
the five-story cell block No. 9 in the
squalid prison, Latin America' s largest.
They quelled the riot in less than
three hours, he said.
Cruz said 111 inmates were killed
and 32 riot troops wounded, nine of
them shot.
He said prisoners were armed with
13 handguns, pipes and homemade
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Israeli plane crashes,
causes Amsterdam fire
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands An
Israeli cargo jet with engine trouble
crashed into an apartment complex Sun
day night shortly after takeoff and trig
gered a firestorm that raced through a
crowded suburb.
At least 12 bodies were recovered,
but Dutch television said police feared
as many as 200 people might have died.
The El Al Boeing 747 carried a three
man crew and one woman passenger,
the carrier said.
The pilot was trying to wrestle the jet
back to Schiphol Airport when it
slammed into the nine-story apartment
building, spewing flames and burning
wreckage over a wide area of
Duivendrecht.
Residents searched frantically for
family members in the hellish land
scape of fire, smoke and chaos. Some
people jumped out of the windows of
their apartments to escape the inferno,
radio reported.
The fire was under control but still
burning five hours after the crash.
Airline officials dismissed early sus
picion of a terrorist strike, which could
have jeopardized sensitive Middle East
peace talks.
Yisrael Cherbin, cargo manager for
El Al in Amsterdam, said the plane's
captain reported problems with two
engines after takeoff and asked to return
to the airport, about 10 miles south of
Amsterdam.
The plane flew over a lake to dump
fuel and crashed on the turn to make a
new approach to Schiphol, one of
Europe's busiest airfields.
"It is most likely that something went
wrong with two motors on one side of
the plane," said Amos Amir, deputy
director general of El Al, speaking to
Israel army radio..
Earlier, a Schiphol air traffic control
official unaware of the mechanical prob
lems said a bomb was the suspected
cause of the explosion.
Iraqis outraged at U.N.
ruling to seize assets
BAGHDAD, Iraq Iraqis reacted
with rage Saturday at a U.N. decision to
seize Baghdad's assets, but many also
felt a sense of helplessness.
"The Security Council's decision is
an illegal act of confiscation, a modi
fied form of bank robbery Texas style,"
Information Minister Hamed Yousef
Hamadi said in a statement.
The Security Council on Friday voted
to seize an estimated $1 billion of Iraqi
oil money abroad to compensate vic
tims of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and
pay for U.N. weapons inspections.
Britain' s U.N. ambassador, Sir David
Hannay, said the "resolution will cer
tainly ensure that they don't get away
from the council's wishes."
"But I think all those statements are
frankly beside the point.
"But I suspect that they know more
about bank robbery than I do," he added.
The vote marked the first time the
United Nations has decided to seize a
nation's money. The cash, most of it in
the United States, will also be used to
pay for humanitarian aid to rebel Kurds
and Shiite Muslims in Iraq.
Fourteen of the 15 U.N. Security
Council members supported the resolu
tion. China abstained, as it has in sev
eral council measures against Iraq.
Iraq had proposed another source for
compensating the war victims and fi
nancing U.N. operations by allowing
Baghdad to break a U.N.-ordered trade
embargo and sell $4 billion in oil..
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N.C. industries emit
By Tara Duncan
Staff Writer
According to a report released by the
Public Interest Research Group, a net
work founded by Ralph Nader, N.C.
manufacturers released 89.5 million
pounds of toxic air pollutants into the
environment in 1990.
The figures, compiled by PIRG from
toxic release inventory reports, which
each company is required by law to file
each year, show that the chemical, fur
niture and plastic industries are most
responsible for air pollutant emissions.
"Discharges of toxic chemicals into
the air usually represent the most direct
health threat because breathing polluted
air is the principal means of human
exposure to those pollutants," the report
stated.
Although the cited industries are pro
ducing large amounts of air pollutants,
none of the companies are operating
illegally, said Debbie Crane, public in
formation officer for the N.C. Division
of Environmental Management.
UNC student-athletes
By Kurt Raatzs
StaffWriter
Recent calls by the UNC Black
Awareness Council for student-athletes
to become involved in campus politics
have had little effect on other cam
puses, and state university officials are
divided as to whether the UNC free
standing black cultural center move
ment would affect their schools.
Roberto Bryan, head of the
Panhellenic Council at East Carolina
University, said ECU athletes did not
participate as fully in campus politics as
their UNC counterparts.
"We don'treally see athletes involved
Germany desires U.N.
Security Council seat
By Steve Harris
Staff Writer
Reflecting Continuing change in post
Cold War international relations, dis
cussions on reforming the U.N. Secu
rity Council recently have surfaced in
the international community.
On Sept. 23, German Foreign Minis
ter Klaus Kinkel told the U.N. General
Assembly that Germany would like to
have a Security Council seat if reform
ing the council ever was considered.
Currently, the five permanent mem
bers of the Security Council who have
veto power are France, the United States,
Russia, the United Kingdom and China.
With the exception of China, member
ship of the council was decided shortly
after World Warn.
A high-ranking German official at
the United Nations in New York, who
requested his anonymity, stressed that
Germany would not actively pursue a
Security Council seat, but he said de
bate on reforming the Security Council
was inevitable.
JoEllyn Fountain, a UNC political
science teaching assistant, said, "Ger
mans are always going to say that they
are not seeking a (Security Council)
seat, but most people suspect that they
will."
George Parker, a U.N. spokesman,
said, "(Germans) are not going to actu
ally lobby for it. They're going to bide
their time for a while."
The German official said that with a
Security Council seat, Germany could
help peacekeeping efforts in the areas
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"No one is ever going to shut down
industry," she said. "We all wear clothes,
drivecarsandeat food. Very few people
live in cabins without any running wa
ter or electricity.
"Because this is true, there have to be
levels and regulations on pollutants.
Every industry in North Carolina has to
have an air quality permit to operate."
Air quality permits are based on how
much of a pollutant an industry can emit
without harming the environment or the
public's health, Crane said.
"North Carolina has tight air toxin
standards that comply to property stan
dards," she said. "Any person living in
the area can't have a one-in-one-million
chance of getting cancer."
PIRG argued that these chemicals
were dangerous and should not be per
mitted. "Many of these chemicals pose seri
ous health risks and should not even be
permitted to be released into the envi
ronment," said Steve Blackledge, di
rector of the N.C. office of PIRG.
"Of greatest concern to the public are
in anything politically , or anything other
than sports that's it," he said.
Bryan attributed this lack of partici
pation to the general situation of ath
letes on the ECU campus.
"Our athletes are not involved in
campus issues. They've got everything
set for themselves," he said. "They're
not really worried about anything on
campus because they're always taken
care of."
Bryan, who is a member of a com
mittee in support of upgrading ECU'S
multicultural center, said athletes at the
university had not unified in support of
his committee the way the BAC had
supported the free-standing BCC move
of economic cooperation and human
rights.
The official also said giving Ger
many a Security Council seat would
allow the country to assume its interna
tional responsibilities in accord with its
economic and political status.
Fountain said, "(Germans) want to
remain entrenched in international or
ganizations." Japan also has indicated that it would
like a Security Council seat, and several
plans have been discussed unofficially
in diplomatic circles.
One idea, dubbed the Brazilian Plan,
would provide Germany, Brazil, India,
Egypt, Nigeria and Japan with seats
without veto power. Another proposal
would merge the British and French
seats into a European Community seat.
The German official said that an EC
seat was politically impossible for the
near future but that these plans would be
discussed when reform took place.
Although the EC has yet to imple
ment common foreign and security poli
cies as provided for in the Maastricht
Treaty, the European unity pact signed
by the 12 EC countries last December,
some officials already are discussing
the possibility of having an EC seat.
"The European Commission (the
executive branch of the EC) would like
to see a single EC seat on the Security
Council," said Chris Matthews, an EC
spokesman at the United Nations.
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toxic air pollutants
the significant releases of toxic chemi
cals that are known to cause or sus
pected to cause cancer and birth de
fects," he said. "These must not find
their way into our air."
PIRG's goal is to pass nationwide
legislation that could limi or reduce the
use of the most dangerous pollutants,
Blackledge said. A bill called the Com
munity Right to Know Act is currently
before Congress but probably will not
get passed before their recess, he said.
The bill, co-sponsored by U.S. Rep.
David Price, D-N.C, would give citi
zens the right to know more about envi
ronmental issues that involve them and
also would give the Environmental Pro
tection Agency more power to enforce
air emission standards.
According to PIRG findings. North
Carolina ranks ninth in the nation in the
release of chemicals that are known or
suspected to cause cancer.
However, the N.C. Division of Envi
ronmental Management argues that the
state is recognized by the EPA as hav
ing leading air and water control per
more active
ment at UNC.
However, Bryan said the example
being set by the UNC movement would
benefit ECU in the long run.
"I'm sure what's going on (at UNC)
will have an effect," Bryan said. "Those
concerned with the issues on this cam
pus ... it's having an effect on them. It
shows that students can make a differ
ence." Zeke Creech, student government
president at Wake Forest University,
said athletes in non-revenue sports were
more likely to be politically involved on
campus and were perceived as being
"more a part of the general campus
community."
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industries in accordance with their per- ":
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One of the top 10 emitters in 1990 r
was Mallinckrodt Specialty Chemicals
Co., located in north Raleigh. The com
pany paid a state penalty last year for s
excessive air release and is under a r
consent decree to bring its emissions ;
within state and federal regulations.
Crane said. ,
"That is what our job is, and it works
because they are now putting in new ;
equipment to solve the problem," she
said.
Many of the other top 10 companies-,,
cited for air pollution are making-;
changes to decrease emissions. , , ;
"You have to realize that the PIRG ;
study used figures from two years ago
and that we've made a lot of changes in
those two years," said Bob Carroll, pub-. .
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Board Co. in Riegelwood. In 1 990, Fed-. M
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"In general, at Division I schools, it's';"
very tough for student-athletes to get'
involved," Creech said.
Creech also said two factors would'''
prevent the BCC movement at UNC1'-'
from having a lasting effect at Wake'
Forest.
Because there is "not a great amount
of communication" between the twoy
schools, students at Wake Forest are
"not aware" of the issues involved,"
Creech said.
Creech cited past athlete exclusion
as another reason for the absence of jj
athlete participation in campus politics.
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