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COMICS! COMICS! COMICS! SEE PAGE 14! THE CHRONICLE MONDAY, OCTOBER27. 1986« DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL-82, NO. 40 Major speakers can not fund Nobel prize-winning Wiesel By SHANNON MULLEN to make it happen. A person of his stature An effort to bring 1986 Nobel Peace ought to have the backing of more than Prize laureate Elie Wiesel to campus this one group." spring has ended, principally because the "We wanted him to come but we didn't financially strapped Major Speakers have the money," said Major Speakers Committee was unable to help sponsor his chair Elisa Long. The group's budget in appearance. cludes only $1,600 for use in co-sponsor Duke Hillel, a Jewish student group, ing events, she said. asked the committee in September to con Dan Cohen, a member of Hillel who tribute between $4,000 and $6,000 toward made the request to Major Speakers, said the approximately $7,000 fee Wiesel there was little hope of bringing Wiesel to receives for speaking engagements. But campus without substantial support from Major Speakers was already committed to the committee. "[$7,0001 is a relatively appearances this year by Star Trek actor high price tag for a speaker," he said. Leonard Nimoy Nov. 10 and Sen. Gary "Hillel does not have that kind of Hart Jan. 27, and turned down the re funding." quest. Both of those speeches were ar ranged last year and will cost the commit Fischer, too, was doubtful Hillel could tee about $7,000 apiece. come up with enough money from other Wiesel, a survivor of two Nazi concen sources to bring Wiesel here this year. He tration camps and a prolific American said Major Speakers was the only group writer on the Holocaust, spoke here in 1979 whose support for events often involves through the support of several campus thousands of dollars, but understood that groups. "We were looking to be a catalyst the committee had previous commit JANE RIBADENEYRA/THE CHRONICLE to start another grouping like that," said ments. "I'm disappointed," he said. "I With Love, the devil Rabbi Frank Fischer, Duke Hillel di learned that you've really got to get them Two young fans snag a Blue Devil autograph during Saturday's Blue and rector. "We were willing to do the legwork [the committeel a year in advance." White basketball game. Newsboy hawks for extra, extra time /_W '• *• By NADINE d'EPREMESNIL Wearing a cap that says "Fight crime, shoot first" commerce clause of the Fair Labor Standards Act of Phillip Curtis sells newspapers six days a week from a 1938. Randolph Bazemore, compliance officer in the narrow median in Wellons Village to passers-by at Hol- wage and hour division with the U.S. Department of loway Road and Miami Boulevard. Curtis started the job Labor, paraphrased Section 13 (D) of the act: "even almost three years ago. He is now 14. though the employer is subject to the requirements of the fair labor standards act, employees who deliver _i According to Curtis, selling the papers is hard work. papers to the consumer are exempt from both minimum "It's very hard on the feet and in the summer wage, overtime and child labor provisions." twtn time . you're always sweating " said Curtis. "I'm tired, W.J"'": *&_*r"'' . but when I get home I rest... I sit down, eat dinner, Generally, anyone under 18 working in North fit watch a little bit of T.V." His mother, Annie Hicks, is Carolina must apply for and receive a youth employ 1 proud of him. "He's been doing a terrific job because no ment certificate issued by the county department of so matter how cold or how rainy, he goes." cial services, but an exception to the state law allows 12 . -»«_?***** Selling newspapers has been "a first job" for many and 13 year olds to work without a permit if they are young people, but the challenges Curtis and his fellow selling newspapers to consumers outside of school, ac cording to Tom Harris, director of the wage and hour workers face are hardly child's play. Hicks said Curtis W had to learn "to deal with the public ... He amazed him division of the North Carolina department of labor in self that he could deal with [prejudiced peoplel." She Raleigh. said Curtis must occasionally cope with white people "We've been told that they have to be 12 years old who harass him or won't buy a paper because he is before they can work," said Edward Purdie, Curtis' boss. black. Hicks said Curtis "has realized that that was Purdie talked to Hicks about the possibility of Curtis be ML___ •_. their right." Curtis agreed. "I'm used to all that kind of coming a 'streethawk' and asked her permission before stuff [discriminationl," he said. "Everybody around here Curtis started working. Hicks had to prove "that he was gets picked on, so nobody pays any attention to it." 12 years of age and that I was giving him my permission I to go to work." Curtis has been robbed four times while selling Sp "I am self-employed and basically so is Phillip," said papers, he said. During the first robbery, Curtis said he HI was threatened with a knife and now prepares to defend Purdie. Although Curtis is an unsigned, independent himself. "Sometimes I carry my own knife or a stick. I employee, with no legal binding to the company that owns the Herald and the Sun, Purdie has a contract keep bricks around me all the time [now]." The most vio JILL WRIGHT /THE CHRONICLE with that company for 75 percent of street sales in Dur lent incident occurred last winter when two boys Phillip Curtis hawks newspapters in Wellons Village demanded fifty cents from Curtis. "Some guy with a ham. Curtis receives a pay check from Purdie based on a come rain, snow, sleet or sunny skies. razor blade cut my jacket. His brother threatened me with a razor blade, and I was carrying a brick, and I threatened to bash his head in if he used it [the razor bladel against me," he said. Comic Relief Weather Curtis' threat scared them off but his mother said the Every day this week we will run nine comics vying boys ruined the jacket by ripping the arms and the back. for Shoe's spot, which some readers feel is wearing BMW Glut: No, seriously, who needs a tuition hike? "He was proud because he had purchased the jacket thin. Take your time and read each one carefully. Just ticket cars during Homecoming. Those weren't himself," she said. Decide which one you would like to see daily in The beat-up VW vans in this weekend's Ye Olde Gothic Car Although some of the streetside newsboys, called Chronicle. Then, on Tuesday, Nov. 4 (Election Day), Lot; anyone who can afford a hat-or-sack can give a little streethawks, appear to commuters to be too young to youTi be able to vote for your favorite, and for those of more in yellow envelopes. Wear a yellow tie under partly work, exemptions in state and federal laws permit the you who don't like to break with tradition, Shoe will cloudy skies today, with a temp in the mid-70's. Reeboks streethawks to work. also be on the ballot. tomorrow, in the same conditions. The Durham Morning Herald and the Durham Sun fall under the jurisdiction of federal laws as stated in the Today's special comic section appears on page 14. —— -—-• — : Page 2 THE CHRONICLE Monday, October 27,1986 Our Town Reagan redux Barbs fly over President's N.C. return ByJOHNFLESHER remarks as "political rhetoric." Associated Press Reagan decided Saturday to address a RALEIGH — President Broyhill rally Tuesday afternoon at decision to make a third campaign ap Douglas International Airport in Charlot pearance for Sen. Jim Broyhill shows that te. The rally will start between 4 p.m. and the Republican incumbent's campaign is 5 p.m., Ms. Brewer said. "faltering," Democratic nominee Terry The rally will take place in the Sanford's chief strategist said Sunday. Thurston Aviation Hangar. Broyhill, Gov. But a Broyhill spokeswoman said San Jim Martin and Rep. Alex McMillan, R- ford was "jealous" because he had no com N.C., will be on hand, said state GOP parable Democratic heavyweight to spokesman Chris Shields. stump for him in North Carolina, and The president had not been expected to that his own campaign was "stagnant." pay another pre-election visit to North Results of a Charlotte Observer poll Carolina after his Oct. 12 speech in Ra released Sunday showed the race in a vir leigh. In June, he spoke at a Broyhill tual dead heat, with Sanford leading by a fund-raiser in Greensboro that netted .statistically insignificant 2 percentage $620,000. points. But Broyhill decided to ask that the, In a prepared statement, Sanford cam president return once more, and tried for' SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE paign manager Sam Poole said Broyhill several days last week to get him on the Crank it up had failed to demonstrate that he had telephone. He finally reached White The Shearon Harris nuclear plant will begin loading 90 tons of fuel this much influence with the president, House Chief of Staff Donald Regan on week, as part of the low power testing that it was finally licensed for on despite Reagan's support of Broyhill's Saturday, and when Regan informed the Friday.