R&R returns - with a new look Reviews you can use. An expanded entertainment calendar. Movies. Music. Art. Join us and Jesse inside. THTHURSDAY. AUGUSET 30 . 199CHRONICL0 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTEH CAROLIN A CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 86, NO. 5 UNC students protest budget cuts University taps Burness By LEIGH DYER CHAPEL HILL — Drop-add for new senior VP post problems were compounded at UNC-Chapel Hill and North Carolina's 15 other public By MATT SCLAFANI Burness will play a role analo­ universities this week by a con­ In a reorganization of Uni­ gous to that of the University troversy over budget cuts. versity relations, the Board of Counsel, who advises the The General Assembly slashed Trustees has approved John president on legal matters. the UNC system's budget after a Burness for the new position Burness replaces David $336 million state budget short­ of senior vice president for Roberson, who has been act­ fall this year. The result: UNC- public affairs. ing director of university rela­ Chapel Hill lost nearly $55 mil­ Burness will advise Presi­ tions since Vice President lion, 5 percent of its total budget. dent Keith Brodie directly on Leonard Pardue resigned in Many fear more cuts are coming. how University decisions will 1989. Roberson will continue The cuts are creating crowded be perceived by the public and as director of Duke News Ser­ classes for students and inspir­ various government leaders. vice under Burness. ing graduate students and stu­ The new vice president is "At a time of increasing dent government leaders to currently vice president for pressure and demand on the university relations at Cor­ nation's leading research protest the action this week as CLIFF BURNS/THE CHRONICLE classes begin. nell. He will take office in Jan­ universities, this new position Members of the UNC-Chapel UNC students protesting during drop-add proceedings. uary. carries important respon­ Hill group Graduate Students Student government leaders thing they can get." The new position marks a sibilities for managing Duke's United braved temperatures in staffed tables near the gym's exit Wednesday was the final day major shift in public relations external relations and for ad­ the upper-90s Wednesday and and encouraged students to par­ ofthe protest. But the action was for the University. Burness vising me, the University picketed in front of Woollen ticipate in a letter-writing cam­ only a precursor to a larger will link public and govern­ trustees and other University Gymnasium, site of drop-add. paign to the General Assembly. protest — called "Save UNC ment relations for the first officers on a wide range of pol­ About 15 members circled in Throngs of sweaty, frustrated Day" — planned for Sept. 11. time, said University Secre­ icy issues," said Brodie in a front of the entrance of the gym. undergraduates who waited up Students leaders hope to hold a tary Allison Haltom. Haltom press release. They carried signs reading "GSU to three hours for a course, only rally, followed by a forum featur­ chaired the search committee "In selecting John Burness Fights Budget Cuts" and "Lost: to find it closed, were eager to ing members of the General As­ for the position. from more than 300 candi­ $55 million. When found, return voice support for the protest. sembly. Burness will play a direct dates, we have been fortunate to UNC." "It was crazy in there," said "This sets us up for that role in policy making with to acquire the leadership of a Brodie and other officers of They also handed out fliers ex­ Bill Hildebolt, UNC-Chapel Hill event," said Cindy Hahamovitch, nationally recognized public the University. Haltom said plaining the consequences of the student body president. "People one of the organizers of the See BURNESS on page 4 )• budget cuts. were just scampering for any­ See PROTEST on page 4 ^ Neighborhood intensifies fight against landfill By BEAU DURE showing a disparity between Falls Lake, a major source of Ra­ association, said the county's) A group opposed to a potential Durham County maps and other leigh's drinking water. The Wake map ofthe Falls Lake region con­ location for a new Durham land­ maps of the area, claiming that a County Board of Commissioners tained "very serious mapping er-1 fill escalated the battle over the waterway near the proposed voted this summer to request the rors" as shown by the group's controversial site on Wednesday. landfill had been drawn incor­ Durham city and Durham county field observations and maps by j The Northeast Neighborhood rectly on the county map. governments to withdraw the the U.S. Army Corps of Engi­ Association announced that the The announcements came at a site from consideration. neers, the U.S. Geological Sur­ group has retained a lawyer to press conference held in the The site had been selected by vey and others. give legal advice to the group Omni Hotel in downtown Dur­ the city for an extensive on-site The county map cut off three- and possibly fight the city in ham. evaluation, the only site chosen quarters of a mile from one j state or federal court. The law­ The proposed site is a 780-acre from a group of 11 to receive such branch of the lake, Clark said. yer, Raleigh attorney Andrew Ol­ location just northeast of Dur­ treatment. The city notified all The other maps show that thej sen, has worked in matter of en­ shore of the lake is three-quar­ ham's city limits, close to Inter­ residents near the site of its in­ CLIFF BURNS/THE CHRONICLE vironmental law for nearly 15 state 85. The site passes within a tentions at the time. ters of a mile from the proposed years. mile of Ellerbee Creek. Jim Clark, president of Save landfill site. "That three-quar- Attorney Andrew Olsen The group also displayed maps The creek is a tributary of the Water and a member of the See LANDFILL on page 6 OPEC agrees to a sharp increase in oil production By YOUSSEF IBRAHIM tures market trading in response N.Y. Times News Service to the OPEC decision, with the After weeks of deliberations, contract for October delivery the Organization of Petroleum down'$1.96 to $25.92 a barrel on Exporting Countries authorized the New York Mercantile Ex­ its key oil producers Wednesday change. That brought its decline to begin pumping all the oil they for the week to $4.99. Gasoline can immediately, averting a and heating oil also retreated.) feared world shortage that has sent prices surging on world markets. Despite the extensive haggling in the negotiations that began The OPEC decision is expected here Saturday, the OPEC to add some 4 million barrels a decision was expected in view of day to current world oil supplies, the intense international pres­ making up for nearly all the oil sure that followed the spectacu­ MARK WASMER/THE CHRONICLE exports lost as a result of the lar rise in oil prices from $14 in commercial embargo imposed on early May to above $30 last Move it or lose it Iraq and Iraqi-occupied Kuwait week. Another truck claimed by the infamous Chapel parking lot by the United Nations. Both industrialized and Third (Oil prices fell sharply in fu­ See OPEC on page 2 • PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1990 World and National Newsfile Kuwaiti guerillas kill Iraqi troops by hundreds Assooalec-T'res^^^^ By KEITH BRADSHER before the security forces were over­ Some Iraqi soldiers have sold their as­ Mohawks cooperate: Masked N.Y. Times News Service whelmed by Iraqi troops or forced to sault rifles to Kuwaiti citizens, several Mohawks on Wednesday helped sol­ Small guerrilla bands in Kuwait have retreat to Saudi Arabia. Kuwaiti exiles said. The going price for diers tear down barricades set up killed or wounded a couple hundred They don't have much to face the an assault rifle is $100, while Iraqi tank seven weeks ago to block the Merrier Iraqi troops and have destroyed a handful tanks, the Kuwaiti noble said in a tele­ crews have accepted up to $1,000 to aban­ Bridge to the island of Montreal, of tanks and more than 20 trucks and phone interview on Sunday from Taif, don their vehicles long enough for them to avoiding a bloody confrontation. small military vehicles, a U.S. govern­ Saudi Arabia, where the Kuwaiti govern­ be burned, said Nasser al-Rashed, a Ku­ ment official says. ment-in-exile has been established. waiti exile in Riyadh whose cousin, also Hostages still captive: u.s. of­ The official, who has access to official Guerrillas have organized at the neigh­ in Saudi Arabia, visited the Kuwaiti bor­ ficials rushed to Jordan's border with reports on developments in the region, borhood level, and their activities have der on Tuesday and spoke to recent arriv­ Iraq on Wednesday to greet Americans spoke on Tuesday on condition that he not been limited to shooting an occasional als. leaving Iraq, but no sign emerged that be identified. Iraqi soldier, burning vehicles, buying Saddam Hussein had carried out his He said most of the casualties had been Iraqi weapons and putting up protest Kuwaiti guerrillas shot the drivers of pledge to free Western women and sentries or other soldiers caught alone or posters, the Kuwaiti noble said, adding two Iraqi trucks last week and then children. in small groups. Iraqi soldiers do not ven­ that the guerrillas were trying to carry burned the vehicles, said a Kuwaiti ture into parts of Kuwait City because of out attacks in less populated areas away teacher in Zilfi, Saudi Arabia.