Gephardt Outlines Issues for Students Two Buses Collide on Campus
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Indianapolis Mike Krzyzewski need a near-perfe< THE CHRONICLE Sports. TUESDAY. MARCH 26.1991 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. SS, NO 120 Gephardt outlines Two buses collide on Campus Drive By MICHAEL SAUL said George Morton, the DU 257 Marshall claims the brakes Two University buses crashed driver whose bus was hit. were not working properly, but issues for students Monday at 11:27 a.m. on Campus The windshield on Marshall's he asserts he was 15 yards away By JASON SCHULTZ Drive between the overpass for bus was shattered, Schwab said. from the other bus. the expressway and Swift Ave. Morton was taken to the Prior to this accident, Marshall House majority leader Ri causing only a few injuries. emergency room for x-rays. He is has hit two other buses and he chard Gephardt foresees an Both buses were traveling to currently taking medication for capsized a University transit Arab-Israeli peace treaty, ef sprained muscles in his neck, he automobile after making a sharp ficient private health care, a ward West Campus, when the first vehicle, DU 257, a tandem said. Morton will not return to turn around a corner, said new energy policy and the work until Friday. Michael Yochelson, University national deficit as the major bus, stopped because a tractor was impeding its path. The second Morton said the students transit student supervisor. issues facing American politics "I don't know how long it takes in the 1990's. bus, DU 499, crashed into the evacuated the bus directly fol first bus, causing $1400 in dam lowing the crash. "I was worried to stop a bus. I basically have the Gephardt, a representative age, said David Majestic, director about the students... some ofthe feel of it, but with a packed bus I from Missouri who ran for the of University transportation ser girls near me were screaming and don't," Marshall said. Democratic presidential vices. hollering." Marshall claims the situation nomination in 1988, spoke to Marshall said he was guiltless could have happened to anyone. Dean Robert Wilson's class Reginald Marshall, the second driver, was deemed negligent by and the accident occurred because "Accidents happen. It's not like I Monday morning in the Bryan of unforeseen circumstances. was going 80 mph. I saw his Center. Duke Public Safety, according to Sgt. James Schwab. Disciplinary "I don't know exactly what breaks so I put mine on. I'm a safe He began the lecture re MARTY PADGETT/THE CHRONICLE action will be taken by the safety happened. [Morton] stood on his and careful driver. I never got counting his recent visit to the office, Schwab said. brakes and I was coming up on into an accident before the [Duke] Middle East, specifically Saudi Richard Gephardt "It was a big crash. The bus hit him," Marshall said. "My bus was job," he said. Arabia, Kuwait, Southern filled to capacity and I couldn't battle. "Nobody can tell you the left side of the bumper and Marshall, a N.C. State student, Iraq and Israel. The destruc busted the fiberglass on the bus," stop on time." tion of the oil wells stunned today who will end up con See CRASH on page 5 • him. "It's one thing to talk trolling Iraq." Gephardt about it, but it's another thing wants our troops home and to see 500 oil wells on fire with out of internal conflicts in the flames shooting up 300 feet in Middle East. ASDU approves club coach salaries the air." He does foresee some Kuwait City itself was settlement to the Palestine- By DOUGLAS BUSH be able to pay a coach. Currently bathed in oil and fumes. "At Israeli conflict that has raged ASDU passed on Monday night some clubs have difficulty consis noon, there was so much in the on for years. "I am a bit more an amendment to the sports club tently obtaining a coaches. These air, it looked like midnight. hopeful than I ever have been, bylaws which would allow club clubs hope that paid coaching You blow your nose and it's but it will not happen sports teams to pay their coaches. positions will make it easier to oil." Gephardt felt the pollution quickly." The amendment, passed by the attract a coach. presented a health danger to Gephardt said the source Sports Club council, a group of All money for the coaches will U.S. troops stationed in the of his new optimism came club team presidents, must now be paid for by fund raising by the area. from talks with the Israeli be passed by the Athletic Council, individual clubs. Each club would He also talked about the and Palestinian leaders. The the body which governs all Uni decide on which coach, if any, political devastation in Ku Israelis, he said, do not have versity athletics, to go into effect. would be hired, and what the wait. There are three groups the financial resources to The proposal was not passed coach would be paid. Coaches vying for power, he said, the continue their arms race with until an alternate plan, sponsored typically are paid $1,500. Palestinians, the pro-monar the surrounding Arab na by Leroy Skinner, director of Concerns brought up by Skin chy Kuwaitis and the pro-de tions; instead, they are di intramurals, sports clubs and ner include the ability of certain mocracy Kuwaitis. Gephardt verting efforts to assimilate recreation, was incorporated into SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE clubs to raise enough money to expects the pro-monarchs to the millions of Soviet Jews the amendment. Skinner's plan hire a coach. Clubs currently raise retain power and reestablish who are immigrating every called for sport clubs to be pro Seth Krauss 65-70 percent of their budgets. the Emir as leader. year. vided with week-long instruc jeopardize the student-run con The salary of a coach would re As far as Iraq is concerned, Domestically, the budget tional clinics, either at the Uni cept of club sports. All clubs are quire a 20 percent increase in Gepardt briefly mentioned challenges American politi versity or elsewhere, to be paid now completely student-run and fund raising. While Skinner feels Saddam Hussein's downfall cians the most. Gephardt re- for by the sports club office. may not pay their coaches. Teams that some clubs would have no and the resulting political See CLASS on page 6 • Debate on the issue centered that need coaches to practice le trouble raising the additional on whether paying coaches would gally, like club football, pushed to See ASDU on page 7 • President of Turkey to visit campus today From staff reports Turkish media and political op Turkish President Turgut Ozal position parties. In addition, Ozal will speak on "Turkish-U.S. rela must try to soften the blow the tions and Turkey's role in the Turkish economy suffered as a new world order" today at 3:30 at result of his stance; estimates the Reynolds Industries Theater place Turkey's financial losses at in the Bryan Center. as much as $9 billion. Secret Service officers have Ozal is pressing the Bush ad been on campus for several days ministration to increase his preparing for Ozal's visit. The country's economic and military amount of terrorist incidents has aid and reduce restrictions on risen in Turkey since Ozal's con Turkish goods, particularly tex troversial decision to contribute tile products. to Operation Desert Storm. At least one U.S. citizen and one Turkey is the sole NATO mem high-ranking Turkish security ber in the Middle East, and has MARTY PADGETT/THE CHRONICLE adviser have been killed. assisted Western powers in op erations involving Turkey's Torched Ozal has also had to contend neighbors in the past. And not by Chris Corchiani. The SAE bench sits as a testament to the destructive power of with other fallout from his deci Ozal's speech is sponsored by celebrating Duke students. sion to stand against Iraq. He has the Institute for Policy Sciences faced intense criticism from and Public Affairs. World and National Newsfile Saddam's forces strengthen hold in Iraq Associated Press By PATRICK TYLER planes, Pentagon officials said. the insurrection from Baghdad's attempt Saddam has billions: A joint N.Y. Times News Service Tracking helicopters is somewhat more to quash it. U.S.-Kuwait investigation has found WASHINGTON—Administration offi difficult because they fly at low altitudes, "We have the threat out there," one that Saddam Hussein's family cials said on Monday that President officials said, but they expressed confidence official said, referring to the helicopters, skimmed $10 billion in oil profits Saddam Hussein may be close to crushing that they could shoot down the gun ships if "but at the same time we do have the since 1981 and bought nearly $1 the rebellion against his authority in ordered to do so. problem of not getting involved in their billion worth of shares in public com southern Iraq. The officials, monitoring The administration's explanation on internal affairs." panies. intelligence reports from the region, also Monday of its policy on Iraq's use of the Unlike the Reagan administration, predicted that he would then prevail over helicopter gun ships was called "murky" which gave Afghan rebels American-made War yields profits: The United the Kurdish uprising that still threatens by one official, who reflected the unresolved Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to shoot down States could turn a profit on the Baghdad's control over northern Iraq. policy questions among President Bush's Soviet helicopter gun ships, the Bush ad Persian Gulf War if allied pledges The Iraqi leader strengthened his posi senior advisers on how deeply American ministration is indirectly aiding the rebels are paid in full and the war's costs tion as the Bush administration debated air forces should get involved in protecting without acknowledging it, officials said.