2The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, November 10, 1992
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Conservatives woo congressional freshmen
By Bruce Robinson
Staff Writer
EC tries to avoid trade
war with United States
BRUSSELS, Belgium European
ministers agreed Monday to seek a quick
resumption of talks with the United
States to avoid a trade war, but also
: went along with France's demand for
the European Community to prepare its
own list of retaliatory sanctions.
Italian Foreign Trade Minister
Claudio Vitalone said the 12 EC states
asked the bloc's Executive Commis
sion to draft a list of U.S. goods to be
targeted for trade sanctions if Washing
ton imposed punitive tariffs on white
wines and other EC products.
The Bush administration vowed to
impose sanctions on $300 million worth
of goods exported to the United States
' after the two sides failed to break an
impasse over EC subsidies to European
farmers producing competitively priced
grain products.
The dispute over subsidies is holding
up an overall accord between the 105
nations of the General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade.
American escapes from
four Iraqi kidnappers
KUWAIT An American bomb
disposal specialist said Monday he es
caped from four Iraqis who tried to
capture him at gunpoint in the disputed
border zone between Iraq and Kuwait.
William Smith, 36, of Yorktown,
Texas, told The Associated Press he
was running from the Iraqis, one of
whom aimed a pistol at him, when a
United Nations vehicle stopped and
picked him up Saturday morning.
Smith works with Environmental
Health Research and Testing, an Ameri
can company helping clear hundreds of
thousands of mines left after the Persian
Gulf War.
"I was scared to death," Smith said.
"I didn't think they wanted to kill me,
but I knew they wanted to capture me."
Smith said he was driving his jeep
north of the old border when a car with
four Iraqis, two of them armed and in
military uniform, stopped him and asked
him what he was doing there.
The Associated Press
Some conservative political organi
zations are holding their own orienta
tion seminars to court the U.S.
Congress's freshman class and keep
them from what they perceive as a lib
eral bias given by other sessions.
Matt Miller, director of congressional
relations for the House of Representa
tives at the Heritage Foundation, said
that in the past, new U.S. representa
tives and senators only had attended an
orientation sponsored by Harvard
University's Institute of Politics.
The Heritage Foundation, the Fam
ily Research Council and the Free Con
gress Foundation organized the New
Congress Orientation Conference to
combat the liberal bias of Harvard's
program, Miller said.
"Every year, one of the things they
are given is a taxpayer-funded trip to
Harvard," he said. "Harvard is a clear
choice if you want to continue the old
tax-and-spend policies."
Miller said the New Congress Orien
tation Conference, which is funded by
private foundations, will take place from
Dec. 1 0 to Dec. 1 2 at Annapolis, Mary
land. All 1 10 new members of Con
gress were invited, he said.
Some of the programs scheduled are
"Dethroning The Imperial Congress,"
"The Politics and Prospects of Health
Care Reform," and "How to Deal with
Lobbyists and Preserve Your Integrity ."
Speakers will include Jack Kemp, sec
retary of Housing and Urban Develop
ment, and conservative talk show host
Rush Limbaugh, Miller said.
Harvard University's John F.
Kennedy School of Government re
ceives funding from the House Admin
istration and has held the orientation
sessions since 1 972. Their program will
offer speakers from Dec. 10 to Dec. 15
at the university.
Jeff Biggs, press-secretary for
Speaker of the House Thomas Foley,
D-Wash., disagreed with claims that
Harvard ' s program was biased. "Clearly
these orientation sessions are not in
tended to be partisan," he said.
Biggs said many Republicans attend
the Harvard program and no one has
refused to attend for fear of bias.
Dick Dingman, executive vice presi
dent of the Free CongTess Foundation,
said the organizations deliberately
scheduled the New Congress Orienta
tion Conference concurrent with
Harvard's program to prevent the in
doctrination of liberal policies for new
congress members.
"Frankly, we don't see it is to their
advantage to attend the Harvard confer
ence and get all that liberal brainwash
ing," he said.
Dingman said the New Congress
Orientation Conference encouraged
freshmen to speak out and be active in
CongressTypically, a new member is
told to be seen and not heard," he said.
"We tell them the opposite."
Dingman said he thought the new
members of Congress would choose to
attend the New Congress Orientation
Conference instead of the Harvard pro
gram because the freshmen ran on a
message of reform. "Most congress
men would not want to start their ca
reers by taking a tax-funded junket to
Harvard," he said.
However, some members of the N.C.
freshman class already have committed
to the Harvard conference.
Sheryl Perry, press-secretary for Eva
Clayton, who was elected as a U.S.
representative for North Carolina's 1st
District, said Clayton was planning to
attend the Harvard conference. Melvin
Watt, who was elected to represent 1 2th
District, also is planning to attend that
conference.
Perry said the conference was part of
a orientation series Clayton would be
attending from now until January.
"She is going to a regional confer
ence, a leadership institute at Atlanta,
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,"
she said. "She will learn the general
way a congressional office operates."
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ence of about 100.
The Loreleis proved Friday that they
are 1 5 women with tremendous musical
flexibility.
Their music varied, including selec
tions such as Motown tunes and a Bonnie
Raitt number.
But even more impressive was their
endeavor to tackle songs originally sung
by male artists. For example, with a
female lead vocal, Phil Collins' "Hold
On My Heart" took on a light, soothing
quality that carried the listener into the
melody.
On the other hand, their rendition of
the Doors' "Touch Me" didn't work as
well. It was difficult to hear the vocalist
above the background melody, and even
more difficult to appreciate Jim
Morrison's tune an octave higher than it
was meant to be sung.
The Loreleis blasted to the past with
Aretha Franklin's soulful "Chain of
Fools" an audience favorite and
the Jackson 5's "I Want You Back."
These songs were lively and upbeat,
and it was great to see performers en
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did.
The Loreleis are to be applauded for
their rendition of the Grateful Dead's
"Uncle John's Band." Although I ques
tion whether anyone should try to sing
the Dead but the Dead, the Loreleis'
version stuck in my mind as one of the
show's highlights.
Other bright points included
Meatloaf s 'Two Out of Three Ain't
Bad," which seemed as if it were meant
to be sung a capella, and "Amazing
Grace," a song well supported by a
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