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^H 15 in a row *5 TJie football team dropped its 1 >th THE CHRONICLE \\al*e Potent See SPORTSWR* p-pj! I . MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1997 ONE COPY FREE DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 93, NO. 39 Marlins snag a World Series TODAY, crown, 3-2 • Following an 11-inning thriller, MUCH the five-year-old Marlins become the youngest team ever to clinch the World Series championship. MORE is By BEN WALKER Associated Press MIAMI — The Florida Marlins got their money's worth, and so did base ball fans. In a Game 7 that got more thrilling with each pitch, the Marlins delivered IN OUR the World Series trophy they spent nearly $100 million to capture. But it was the way the won it that not even ff billionaire owner Wayne Huizenga KERRY GARLAND/THE CHRONICLE could have bargained for. Peres was displaced by Benjamin Netanyahu in the June 1996 election. Down to their last at-bat, the Mar HANDS lins sprung to life just in time, beating the long-suffering Cleveland Indians 3- Former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres chases from afar his nation s dream for peace 2 Sunday night on Edgar Renteria's RBI single with two outs in the bottom s a life-long leader in Israel's fight for peace "Everybody is for By JESSICA KOZLOV ofthe 11th inning. took the podium last night, the audience lis peace, but not every- Chronicle staffwriter While the five-year-old Marlins be tened. As he talked about the special ingredi- body is for paying the came the youngest expansion team to A. ents for peace, but not the recipe itself, they costs of peace," Peres said. "For peace, you need a ma win a championship, the Indians only paused to think. And as former Prime Minister of Israel jority, but for war you do not. Yasser Arafat's experience added to a half-century of heartbreak. Shimon Peres weighed the promises made and the has been as the leader of a revolution instead of the Cleveland was just a double-play prices paid in the search for peace, all 300 people in the husbandry of a state. But he is the first Palestinian who grounder away from its first champi room understood. was willing to turn from weapons to negotiations. onship since 1948, but Craig Counsel's Addressing Israelis and non-Israelis, Americans and "There have been five wars in 50 years; We have de- sacrifice fly in the ninth tied it at 2. non-Americans alike at the Geneen Auditorium in the monized each other.... If I compare today's Israel with The wild-card Marlins then took ad Fuqua School of Business last night, Peres discussed the the Israel 40 years ago—then, war and peace was not vantage of an error by second baseman peace process in Israel—a race he has been publicly entirely in our hands. Today, much more is in our Tony Fernandez to score the winning running since he was 16 years old. hands, and we tried to gain our strengths so we should run on Renteria's bases-loaded hit. The very nature of war and peace, he said, are at the be able to negotiate out of war." "I • guess every little boy imagines crux of finding a solution to a problem that predates the this might happen at one time. It's a state of Israel itself. See PERES on page 13 See SPQRTSWRAP page 5 • University program pairs Durham school children with mentors Duke participants praise program's Parents' reactions ability to change lives of area children to program remain This is the first installment lows members ofthe Universi varied of a five-part series featuring ty community to adopt the sib community outreach efforts be lings they always wanted. By AMANDA STOLZ tween Duke and the city of In a program similar to Big Chronicle staff writer Durham. Each installment is Brothers/Big Sisters of Ameri Parents and children in comprised of two articles: The ca, VFY invites volunteers volved in Volunteers for Youth first focuses on Duke's efforts from all areas of the Universi seem to have mixed sentiments and the second analyzes the ty to serve as role models for about the success of the pro benefits experienced by the local children by taking them gram: Some praise the program community. Tomorrow's in on day-long or overnight trips for the volunteers' influence on stallment will examine the and helping them in school. their children, and others com America Reads program. University members inter plain that the volunteers do not ested in volunteering their live up to parents' expectations. By LIANA ROSE time go through an application Some of the variations in Chronicle staffwriter and interview process. The parents' reactions may be at Volunteers for Youth—the CSC then matches the volun tributed to how they gauge suc only student-mentoring pro teers with community children KELLI SHERAN/THE CHRONICLE cess. Although some use their gram affiliated with the Com based on their personalities children's academic perfor- Ley] James (I.) crosses campus with his mentor, Trinity junior E munity Service Center—al See VFY on page 14 • See PARENTS on page 15 • Bohmfalk. • WOMEN'S SPORTS LEAGUE PROPOSED, PAGE 3 • DID YOU SUCCESSFULLY MILK YOUR PARENTS?: COMMENTARY, PAGE 9 THE CHRONICLE • PAGE 2 WORLD AND NATIONAL MONDAY. OCTOBER 27, 1997 Newsfile Protests expected for Chinese president's trip Associated Press By STEVEN ERLANGER Iran, reducing threats to U.S. naval Controls reviewed: The U.S. ing is to provide a new beginning for N.Y. Times News Service ships in the Persian Gulf and helping what they concede has been the single Transportation Department has an WASHINGTON — When President to mute Republican criticism of most badly handled foreign policy of nounced a review of controls over bag Jiang Zemin meets President Clinton Jiang's visit. Clinton's presidency. gage shipped via air services. There Wednesday in the first state visit of a But the once-feverish discussions In a speech on Friday, Clinton re was an incident earlier this month in Chinese leader in a dozen years, there about getting China to open its mar iterated the need for broad engage which pesticide shipped as passenger is likely to be a nuclear agreement kets to foreign competition, especial ment with China-"expanding areas baggage leaked aboard a jetliner. and possibly one to provide U.S. assis ly with state-owned enterprises that of cooperation, dealing forthrightly Coup attempted: Surname's tance to clear China's air pollution are attempting a perilous transition with our differences" in order to "ad president said Sunday that his secu from its coal-fired power plants. to private ownership, have all but vance fundamental American inter rity forces foiled a plot to topple his There will be talk of a new age of stalled—and with it, China's hopes ests and values." government, arresting 11 suspected economic cooperation, greased by at that this summit meeting would But his defense of this visit by coup leaders. President Jules Wij- least $4 billion or more in freshly speed its entry into the World Trade Jiang seemed passionless, and his denbosch said the group had origi signed deals, more than half with Organization. critics are bound to argue that Clinton nally planned to seize the govern Boeing. In other areas, progress will be at will not get enough in return for end ment on Sept. 27, but had delayed Naturally there will also be plenty best incremental, senior officials say, ing America's diplomatic quarantine the attempted coup. of food and plenty of champagne. And and the main importance of this meet See CHINA on page 6 • the White House will declare, as its top officials have been saying for Explosion kills: One person was weeks now, that the main accomplish killed, and 30 people injured in two Angola agrees to withdraw its explosions in New Delhi. No one ment of this summit meeting is that it claimed responsibility, the fifth of a is happening at all. series of recent explosions in New But that declaration is making a troops from Congo Republic Delhi. Shaheed Khalsa Force, a lit virtue of necessity, senior administra tle-known group that claims to be tion officials privately admit, because By JAMES MCKINLEY Congo "as soon as possible," perhaps fighting for a separate state for the months of frenzied pre-summit ne N.Y. Times News Service as early as next week. India's minority's Sikhs, claimed re gotiations between Chinese and U.S. KIGALI, Rwanda — Angola Diplomats, who spoke on the condi sponsibility for blasts in another officials have produced significantly promised Sunday to pull its troops out tion of anonymity, said Richardson marketplace. less than once hoped. of the Congo Republic, where a civil had delivered a message from the The agreement to get China to re war has been raging, after the U.S. White House that U.S. aid to Angola duce its dangerous exports of nuclear representative to the United Nations, would be in danger if the troops re expertise will be the substantive cen Bill Richardson, met with the Angolan mained in the Congo Republic. "We Weather terpiece of Wednesday's meeting, and foreign minister and threatened to cut leaned on them pretty hard," one Tuesday it will clear the way for billions of dol off aid, diplomats said. Washington diplomat said. High: 65 Partly cloudy lars in sales of U.S. nuclear power Richardson, who was in Angola on On Oct.

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