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THE CHRONICLE MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1990 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 85. NO. 112 Communists Duke stunned by Tar Heels in Cameron finale challenged in King Rice scores 20 points in 87-75 Carolina upset Soviet vote By BILL KELLER By BRENT BELVIN Tournament Friday in Charlotte. N.Y. Times News Service For most of his three years in On an emotional level, the loss MOSCOW — Voters in the the Atlantic Coast Conference, also sent the three Blue Devil se Slavic heartland of the Soviet North Carolina junior point niors — Robert Brickey, Phil Union went to the polls on guard King Rice has been the Henderson and Alaa Abdelnaby Sunday in an exercise of lim target of abuse from fans around — out on a down note. ited democracy that pitted an the league, and even from the "They outplayed us, and they array of grass-roots chal Tar Heel faithful. When Rice sets won," said a displeased and suc lengers against the vast Com foot in Cameron Indoor Stadium, cinct Duke head coach Mike munist Party patronage net however, he turns into a world- Krzyzewski after the game. "I work. beater. apologize to our fans, especially Pro-democracy groups said Last year, Rice contributed 14 the ones who camped out in line on Sunday night that based on points and seven assists in an for so long. Based on the last two early, sketchy returns, they upset of then undefeated and practices, I thought we were were hopeful of ousting the top-ranked Duke. Sunday after going to have an unusual effort, old guard communist rulers of noon in Cameron, Rice elevated and we didn't." Moscow, Leningrad, and other his game to a higher level, pour UNC used a 10-0 run late in cities, and of creating bastions ing in 20 points and dishing out the second half to break open a of political and economic free eight assists as the Tar Heels tight game and reduce the Blue dom. rode a second-half spurt to a 87- Devils to desperation three-point More than a million seats in 75 victory over the Blue Devils. attempts and fouling in the last local and republic councils With the loss, Duke dropped to two minutes. and assemblies were at stake 23-7 and finished 9-5 in the con With Brickey on the line for in the Russian republic, the ference for the fourth-straight the second of two free throws Ukraine, and Byelorussia, year. More importantly, Duke with 6:43 remaining, Duke three republics that account lost a chance to tie Clemson for trailed by three, 68-65. Brickey for most of the Soviet land the top spot in the ACC regular missed the second free throw, but JIM JEFFERS/THE CHRONICLE mass and for 70 percent of its season and participate in a coin Duke got a loose-ball rebound. Neither freshman point guard Bobby Hurley or his Duke team population. flip for the right to play eighth- When freshman Thomas Hill mates could stop guard King Rice and North Carolina win for See SOVIETS on page 11 • seeded Wake Forest in the ACC See UNC on page 1, SPORTSWRAP • the second-straight year in Cameron. Antimatter wins comics election Law School agrees to By CRAIG WHITLOCK percent. Antimatter, by Engineering ju The final results were probably nior Rob Hirschfeld, squeaked distorted, however, because of pay dues, join GPSC out a narrow victory over Mother the theft of one of the four ballot Goose and Grimm in a scandal- boxes on campus. Sometime be plagued campus comics election tween late Thursday evening and By JOHN HARMON Union. "They posted flyers, Friday. Friday afternoon an unidentified In a reversal of a referen sent out information sheets, Antimatter, which took 26.8 trickster pilfered the box at the dum considered two years ago, and Rodney Freeman [Univer percent of the vote, will continue Medical Center precinct in law students voted last week sity Union chair! spoke to the its run in today's paper after ap Davison Building. to join the Duke University student body. Overall, stu pearing alongside nine syndi The box was never recovered, Union and the Graduate and dents were more informed cated strips for the past week. and it is unclear how many, if Professional Student Council about what the Union had to Mike Peters' Mother Goose and any, ballots were deposited in it. (GPSC). offer." The referendum was Grimm came in a very close sec Some votes appearing in the Dara Grossinger, a second- originally proposed two years ond, only 16 total votes behind Bryan Center complained that year law student and adminis ago but did not pass. Antimatter. The Quigmans, by the Medical Center polling sta trative vice-president of the Representatives from the Buddy Hickerson, finished a tion was non-operational. Duke Bar Association, attri Union and GPSC approached respectable third with 20.8 per The other three ballot boxes BOB KAPLAN/THE CHRONICLE buted the passing of the refer the Law School's governing cent ofthe popular vote. No other contained a total of 932 votes, a Rob Hirschfeld savors the endum to publicity by the See DUES on page 4 • strip finished with more than 10 See COMICS on page 11 _• sweet taste of victory. Cortez again refuses to come back to Durham for trial By CRAIG WHITLOCK North Carolina on nine counts of business in Deerfield Beach, Fla., Cortez appeared before Ross Mauro Cortez enjoyed the life embezzlement and one count of where he was found working as a without an attorney or a public of an aristocrat during a two- obtaining property under false reservations clerk. defender. He indicated, however, year tenure at the University, pretenses. Since his arrest, Cortez has that he has hired a private law but now he is fighting to stay Known as Maurice de been under lock and key in Pom- yer, although no attorney for away from Durham. Rothschild, Cortez bamboozled pano Prison. On Feb. 9, he Cortez was registered with the Cortez declined for the second the University community into refused for the first time to waive court as of Friday, Reyst said. time Friday to waive his extradi believing he was a wealthy his extradition rights, a proce The Durham County district tion rights in Broward County French baron with close connec dure he repeated Friday. attorney's office is in the process Circuit Court. He is wanted in tions to the elite and famous dur Judge Dale Ross then granted of completing paperwork neces ing his Duke career as a continu the State of North Carolina a 60- sary to bring Cortez back to ing education student and frater day extension to appeal to Flor North Carolina, said Eric Evan nity brother. ida Gov. Bob Martinez for the ex son, a county assistant district Weather Cortez really is a 37 year-old tradition of Cortez, said Dee attorney, on Thursday. son of Mexican-American par Reyst, head ofthe fugitive unit in Evanson said he had signed Hide the bikini: Don't get ents from El Paso Texas, an Broward County. Another hear some documents early last week decked out for Spring Break Army veteran, pharmacy worker, ing has been scheduled for May that were being passed on to just yet. Tomorrow, cloudy and now, a trapped fugitive. He 2, the deadline for North Gov. Jim Martin, who must file with highs near 60. was arrested Jan. 31 by Broward Carolina to seek extradition, she the extradition request with SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE County police at a rent-a-car said. See CORTEZ on page 11 • Mauro Cortez PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1990 World & National Newsfile Associated Press Chamorro will gradually cut Nicaraguan army U.S. SOldier killed: An American By MARK UHLIG defeat of President Daniel Ortega soldier in Panama City, Panama, died N.Y. Times News Service Saavedra and the Sandinista National of injuries suffered in a grenade attack MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Despite cam Liberation Front, Chamorro repeatedly on a discotheque, and six U.S. ser paign promises to "send all the weapons denounced Sandinista leaders for build vicemen remained hospitalized, the to the bottom of the sea," President-elect ing Central America's largest military for U.S. military said Sunday. Violeta Barrios de Chamorro will only ce. gradually reduce Nicaragua's military, The Sandinista People's Army and the Kohl nixes Polish border: Chan and she has backed away from plans to uniformed security forces include about cellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany is abolish the army entirely, her advisers 65,000 active-duty troops, backed by an embroiled in controversy over his re say. extensive array of Soviet-made weapons fusal to categorically accept the Polish- Speaking in interviews over the last and large trained reserves. German border set at the end of World few days, the advisers have indicated that The Sandinistas say they needed the War II. Chamorro will concentrate on reducing army to battle the American-supported the political orientation of army officers Contras during eight years of civil war. Soviet city quarantined: Secu and on creating a professional corps of sol But opposition leaders now assert that rity forces reportedly sealed off a city diers that will be divorced from partisan after years of conflict and bloodshed, a near the Uzbek capital of Taskhent in ship. sizable army must be maintained to UPI PHOTO the Soviet Union on Sunday following "We're trying to change the country protect the stability of the new govern clashes with demonstrators.