GOP Talk Turns Ugly Before State Primary Scheduling Error Blamed
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Playing with the Pack The men's basketball team is looking for its sixth ACC win against N.C. State THE CHRONICLE on Saturday. See Sports, page 14. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 16, 1996 7 ONE COPY FREE DUKE I DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 91, NO. 97 GOP talk turns ugly before state primary By RON HUTCHESON Buchanan defended Larry N.Y. Times News Service Pratt, his campaign co-chair MANCHESTER, N.H.— man who stepped aside Thurs Conservative commentator day after it was revealed that Pat Buchanan, declaring that he had participated in 1992 he "is not an extremist," ac anti-government rally that in cused Senate Majority Leader cluded speeches by white su Bob Dole on Thursday night of premacists. trashing his reputation while "Larry stood by me when stealing his ideas. nobody else did back in 1992, In a candidate forum and I'm going to stand by marked by heated exchanges, him... He's being attacked be Buchanan also called on gun cause he supports me," owners to rally behind one of Buchanan said. "I would urge his advisers who has come the gun owners of New Hamp The eight leading GOP presidential candidates pose before a forum that turned ugly Thursday. under fire for links to white shire and America to stand The candidates debated for the last time before Tuesday's New Hampshire primary. supremacists. See DEBATE on page 6 • Scheduling error blamed for Lee's cancellation Spicer By BRIAN HARRIS the Union's Interaction Com Feb. 19. "We're undergoing the commercial in Florida was one Popular filmmaker Spike mittee and program coordina same rescheduling pains with of Lee's "major projects," it Lee will no longer be able to tor in the Office of University that," he said. had to take priority. Sneed elected visit the University on Feb. 17 Life, said that the scheduling Greg Sneed, president of 40 said that he is working with due to a scheduling conflict. conflict was the result of an Acres, said that Lee's assis Porter and Bolger to resched Lee, who was scheduled to error made by Lee's personal tant should have realized the ule Lee's visit within the chair give a talk on multicultural assistant and had nothing to conflict immediately and month. ism in Page Auditorium that do with the APB. brought it to Lee's attention. "We're shooting for Feb. 29 By LESLIE DEAK evening, will instead be work Bolger is working with The problem was only re as our first choice," Sneed The Academic Council ing on a three-day television Lee's production company, 40 vealed at the last minute, he said. "At the moment, things elected Distinguished commercial shoot in Orlando, Acres and a Mule Filmworks, added. Sneed apologized on look pretty good for that." Professor of Radiology Fla., this weekend, said Flip to find another time when Lee behalf of the company and As of yesterday, Lee was in Leonard Spicer to serve Porter, agent for southeastern can visit the University. said that the assistant is no Louisiana working on a music as its new chair during a colleges at the American Pro "We're doing everything we longer with the company. video with Michael Jackson. Thursday afternoon meet gram Bureau. The University can to reschedule," she said. "[Lee] is very good about He was expected to return to ing. Union traditionally uses the Porter said the same assis getting out and speaking at New York late last night and A faculty member in APB to book such events. tant booked Lee at another different colleges," Sneed said. will meet with Sneed to dis the departments of radiol- Melinda Bolger, adviser to college in the Northeast on He added that because the cuss the situation today. See COUNCIL on page 5 • It's the big picture, stupid Trinity junior Clem Cypra says he wants to 'stir things up' By NICO TAO Cypra, who currently works jobs istration to resolve some of these If he is elected Duke Student Gov both on and off campus, feels very problems, but he says he realizes it ernment president, Trinity junior strongly that University students are may be difficult to access the two par Clem Cypra says he will "stir things not getting their tuitions' worth, and ties. up." that students often are under-repre Concerning one of the more Currently serving as sented on this campus. "trendy" issues on campus, the new DSG legislator, Cypra says [The University] is be alcohol policy, Cypra says that such a he has noticed a funda coming a school for rich policy is needed for the University so mental flaw in the focus kids. A lot of our facilities that students comply with local and and direction of DSG meet are third-rate, and the state laws. Other universities have ings. food prices are outrageous returned to open distribution of alco "People go to meetings, ly high. I'd just like to see hol on campus, and he says the Uni and they spend a couple oft where all the money gets versity may do so in the future. In im DAVID PINCUS/THE CHRONICLE hours there debating the most mind wasted," he said. The University is plementing the current policy, Clem Cypra less things and never really getting stagnating everybody with all the new however, Cypra says he feels the Uni down to the details... Nobody seems to policies, and everybody just overlooks versity could have done more to in have been consulted in the process. look at the big picture," he said. "I a lot of the other things. This school clude students in the decision-making Because the University failed to do think I can look at the big picture. I seems to be filled with people who just process. so, a large number of students are think I can be strong-willed enough to do what is trendy at the moment." Similarly, he agrees with the estab dissatisfied, he said. "I think if you make sure that it prevails, or at least Cypra promises to work closely with lishment of the current residential tell people what is going on, then find out why it fails." the Board of Trustees and the admin policy, but says more students could Sea CYPRA on page 13 • THE CHRONICLE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1996 World and National Newsfile Yeltsin launches reelection campaign Associated Press Helicopter crashes: A techni By MICHAEL GORDON a true believer, Zyuganov spoke vague The growing field also includes cal failure caused a Turkish mili N.Y. Times News Service ly of limiting the privatization of the Grigory Yavlinsky, an economic re tary helicopter to crash into the MOSCOW—Casting himself as Rus economy and restoring Russia as a former, and Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a Aegean Sea Thursday. At least sia's best hope for protecting democra great power. strident nationalist. Other possible nine were injured, and five others Other communist speakers, howev candidates include Aleksandr Lebed, a are still missing. cy and market reforms from a lurch back to the past, President Boris er, made no secret of their hostility to retired general, and possibly Mikhail Yeltsin announced on Thursday that ward the West. Pro-Stalin literature Gorbachev, the former Soviet presi Ruling postponed: Saying he he would seek a second term in the and books with anti-Semitic references dent, whose popularity in Russia is mi needs time to review the possible presidential election in June. were on sale outside the meeting hall. nuscule. penalties that he could impose, a His declaration amounted to the for The dual announcements on Thurs To qualify, each candidate must col federal judge Thursday postponed mal opening of a campaign that, ac day marked the start of what promises lect at least 1 million signatures before a ruling in a Federal Election to be a bitterly fought, raucous cam April 14. The election itself is expected Commission lawsuit against cording to every measure of public opinion, could well bring back to power paign over the future of economic and to be a two-phase process, with a run- GOPAC, an organization once political reforms. See YELTSIN on page 7 • chaired by House Speaker Newt the Communists Yeltsin ousted five Gingrich. years ago. His voice croaking with hoarseness after a rash of campaign appearances Tanker runs aground: The in his home town of Yekaterinburg, Police in London destroy Liberian oil supertanker, the Sea Yeltsin—himself once a member ofthe Empress, ran aground in western Communist Politburo—told supporters Wales on Thursday, leaking more that he alone could head off a commu explosive, IRA suspected than 1.8 million gallons of oil. It nist victory and continue Russia's po was the second time in four litical and economic reforms. months that a tanker ran onto He also promised a solution within By SARAH LYALL $230 million in damage. rocks in western Wales. months to the unpopular war in Chech N.Y. Times News Service Experts said that Thursday's bomb nya, without suggesting what it might LONDON—Responding to tele scare was a clear sign that last week's be. phone warnings that used Irish Repub explosion was not an isolated incident, Even as Yeltsin spoke, the Commu lican Army code words, the police on and that the IRA was prepared to re Weather nists were lampooning him as a weak Thursday destroyed a bomb that had turn to its policy of sustained terrorist rival and celebrating the nomination of been left in a telephone booth in the attacks in London.