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Royal scam Does Prince's new album live up to his funky THE CHRONICLE legacy? See R&R. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24,1991 © DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 87, NO. 38 Public Safety makes arrest in flasher case From staff reports rested him, said Chief Robert Duke Public Safety arrested a Dean of Public Safety. Hillsborough resident Friday sus Moore was subsequently iden pected in three cases of indecent tified by both freshmen as the exposure on campus. person who exposed himself to Gary Boyd Moore of Economy them, Dean said. Motel at 1807 Interstate High A similar incident occurred Oct. way 86 was charged with inde 10 at the same location. Two stu cent exposure, invalid car regis dents reported seeing a man walk tration and invalid car inspec ing around naked from the waist tion. down at 1:25 p.m. Both students Moore is being held at the positively identified Moore, Dean Durham County Emergency Jail said. on a $5,500 secured bond. He had The student involved in another not made bond as of Wednesday indecent exposure incident on Oct. afternoon. 15 did not want to press charges, Earlier Friday two freshmen but the description she had given reported to Public Safety that a Public Safety matched Moore, man had dropped his pants and Dean said. exposed his genitals to them. The Oct. 15 incident occurred The incident occurred behind behind the Gross Chemistry Trent Dormitory on North Cam building on Science Drive. pus at 10:45 a.m. Friday, in the The student reported that a area by Flowers Drive and Erwin man following her dropped his Road. pants and exposed his genitals. DADE VAN DER WERF/ THE CHRONICLE Using the description provided by the freshmen, a Public Safety Moore is scheduled to appear Relaxing in comfort? officer spotted Moore by the In before the criminal division ofthe This student seems remarkably at ease in what have to be the most uncomfortable chairs on tramural Building on West Cam Durham County District Court campus. pus at 11:13 a.m. Friday and ar on Oct. 29. First year Divinity student dies from cocaine overdose By MICHAEL SAUL preliminary tests, McCants Divinity School and planned to McCants was a member of the in Bamberg, S.C. at 2 p.m. on Eugene Marion McCants Jr., a passed out, said Jim Adcock, coro beordainedin 1994, saidMaurice Black Seminary Union, a student Saturday. first year Divinity School student, ner of Orangeburg County. Ritchie, associate dean of stu group in the Divinity School. McCants was born on Sept. 19, died Sunday from an overdose of Nurses and doctors found him dent life for the Divinity School. McCants majored in sociology 1964 and is survived by his mother cocaine. unresponsive with no blood pres "He had a pleasing personal and received his undergraduate Justine McCants and his three McCants, 27, was drivinga 1989 sure or pulse, said Elizabeth ity," said Justine McCants, his degree at Voorhees College in sisters: Sharon Manigeult, Nissan on a residential street in Herniman, supervising nurse. mother. "He was a very well-liked South Carolina in 1988. Miriam James and Charlotte Orangeburg, S.C. at 2:30 a.m. The emergency room staff per person who liked singing and do McCants is to be buried at Mt. Golson. Eugene McCants, Sr. died when he lost control of his car and formed car ing church Carmel United Methodist Church in October of 1985. hit a utility pole, said Major Jo diopulmonary work." seph Keitt of Orangeburg Police. resuscitation, He planned The Orangeburg coroner's of but they were to go to law fice determined that McCants was unable to re school and Landfill search ends; not injured in the accident, but vive him, then seek a died from a full cardiac arrest Herniman ministry, said caused by the cocaine overdose said. Robert Scott, a and the high level of alcohol in his McCants first year Di City will export waste body. was pro vinity School The police report described the nounced dead student and By PEGGY KRENDL percent satisfied but everyone sequence of events: at 4:55 a.m. He McCants' The search for a county got a piece of pie," said Jackie When Orangeburg officers ar died from a full roommate. landfill site is over, but many Brown, president ofthe North rived at the scene, McCants was cardiopulmo "He wanted of Durham's waste disposal east Neighborhood Associa conscious. McCants spoke inco nary arrest. to help human questions haven't yet been tion, a group that formed in herently and then began using The ity," Scott said. answered. order to prevent a landfill from profane language. coroner's office "I'm not wor The Durham City Council being located near its neigh While officers questioned him, conducted an ried where he decided Monday night to trans borhoods. McCants reported someone had investigation is at in the af fer Durham's trash out of the "We shouldn't take our trash to determine terlife." county, ending almost two attempted to rob him and people SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE to another county," said coun had thrown rocks and shattered the cause of Although years of searching for an in- cil member Sandy Ogburn who his car windows. death. "The re Eugene McCants McCants was county site. voted against the transfer sta The front windshield, the rear port showed no only at the The decision, which passed tion. "I realize Durham's op window and the side rear win trauma to the body from the acci University for two months, sev 8-5, will require the city to tions are narrowing to amass dows were shattered. dent and no illness—he was in eral Divinity School professors build and operate a transfer land for a landfill, but we do When the cursing escalated, the perfect health," Adcock said. observed his genial personality station in Durham County. have suitable sites for a land officers arrested McCants on The investigation suggested and desire to learn. Garbage trucks would bring fill [in-county j." charges of disorderly conduct. that this incident was not "He was a delightful guy, with trash to the transfer station A transfer station will pro The officers had to physically McCants' first experience with a great deal of interest and asked where it would be sifted vide jobs to city residents and restrain McCants to cuff him. cocaine or alcohol, he said. lots of questions," said Ted through by workers for recy prevent businesses or neigh Before the charges were for The coroner's office spoke with Cambell, assistant professor in clable material. Trucks would borhoods from being affected mally filed, McCants was taken witnesses who reported seeing the Divinity School. "He was very then take the garbage to an by a county landfill, Brown to The Regional Medical Center Adcock ea 'ier that night in a funny and easy to get along with." existing landfill outside the said. in Orangeburg at 4:32 a.m. high crime urea known for drug "He was very excited about county at a location yet to be If the city hires a private While the staff in the emer dealing, Adcock said. minority life," said William decided. company to haul waste to the gency room was taking his tem McCants was enrolled in the Turner, director of black church "No one is going to be 100 See LANDFILL on page 6 • perature and performing other master of divinity program at the affairs. PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1991 World and National Newsfile Shamir leads Israeli team to peace talks Associated Press By CLYDE HABERMAN size our determination at the highest level Don't worry,they're pros: The N.Y. Times News Service House on Wednesday overwhelm to search for peace." ingly approved a $151 billion high JERUSALEM — In a move likely to The conference invitations, sent last way and mass transit bill, brushing guarantee a hard-line Israeli delegation to week by the United States and the Soviet aside complaints that it is studded the Middle East peace talks, Prime Minis Union, called for negotiations at the "min with wasteful and unneeded projects. ter Yitzhak Shamir bumped aside his rela isterial level," which in diplomatic locu tively dovish foreign minister on Wednes tion suggests no higher than foreign min Family is finally united: He day and announced that he would person ister. Thus far, no Arab head of govern ment has said he would attend the confer called her sweetheart and she called ally head the negotiating team going to ence. him daddy. It was a tender moment Madrid next week. when former hostage Jesse Turner After the rebuff by Shamir, the foreign Political experts here saw the prime met his 4-year-old daughter for the minister, David Levy announced that he minister's move partly as an attempt to first time on Wednesday. would not attend the conference at all. thrust himself to center stage, an act espe According to several officials, Shamir also cially alluring to him since it comes at the Cold war thawing: in a step told Levy, that he intended to name an expense of Levy. toward reconciliation with Hanoi Israeli settler from the occupied territo There is little political love lost between after decades of hostility, Secretary ries to the delegation. the two men. Moreover, Levy has been of State James Baker III said An Israeli freeze on settlement activity enthusiastic about the peace process all is expected to be an early Arab demand at along, a distinctly minority view in Wednesday that the United States Yitzhak Shamir is ready to begin talks on normaliz the conference and the United States has Shamir's government and his Likud Party.