Surgery Chair Convicted of DWI China's Upheaval Sparks by MATT SCLAFANI Vanderberry's Report Concluded Physicians, Vanderberry Said
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THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1989 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 8,000 VOL. 85, NO. S2 Local 465 ratifies three-year contract By JAMIE O'BRIEN rived in Durham on Saturday ship. The vote was approxi Voting members of Local No. morning and was "very helpful" mately 90 members for the new 465 of the International Union of in smoothing out problems in the contract and three against, he Operating Engineers ratified last hours of negotiations, Ellis said. their new three-year contract said. Kahr said the tense atmo with the University Monday af Randy Strickland, a shop stew sphere during the Local 465 bar ternoon at Jack Coombs Field, ard for Local 465 and one of the gaining was typical of union ne culminating 75 hours of negotia union negotiators, said the gotiations and is usually the tions during the past month and "potential for strike was there," result of disagreements and mis- overcoming the threat of a possi but said that in the end the con communications between the two ble strike. tract was "overwhelmingly bargaining units. Although both union and Uni accepted" by the voting member See CONTRACT on page 17 ^ versity representatives charac terized the negotiations as "tense," Toby Kahr, assistant vice president for human resour ces, said "it is not how we got there but where we ended up." Kahr said there was definite danger of a strike toward the end of the negotiation period, espe cially Friday, the last weekday of bargaining. The union "made us aware they were prepared to strike," he said. Claiborne Ellis, business man ager for Local 465, said a federal mediator from the National Labor Relations Board was MATT SCLAFANI /THE CHRONICLE called in on Friday afternoon to settle a dispute when the Univer Classic kids sity asked maintenance workers MATT SCLAFANI /THE CHRONICLE Coach K chats with a young spectator during the Duke Chil to turn in their keys to campus Union shop steward Randy Strickland (center) outlining the dren's Classic Saturday. For more coverage, see page 3. buildings in case the workers de new contract before ratification. cided to strike. The mediator ar- Surgery chair convicted of DWI China's upheaval sparks By MATT SCLAFANI Vanderberry's report concluded physicians, Vanderberry said. protest outside embassy The chair of the surgery Sabiston did not have an alcohol "For him to stand up in front of department was convicted problem. younger physicians and say T Friday in Durham County Dis Vanderberry said in a tele screwed up' is important," By CHRIS O'BRIEN "It was a terrible decision trict Court of driving while im phone interview Tuesday that he Vanderberry said. In a show of support for the by the government to crack paired, according to the court spoke with individuals in the Sabiston ran off the road last student protesters in China, down on the students," he clerk. Medical Center, Durham police Nov. 20, after hosting a dinner 45 Chinese students who are said. David C. Sabiston pled no con officers and others who knew party for Medical Center alumni currently studying at the Uni The students joined approx test to the charge that he was un Sabiston. If a drinking problem at his home. He was taken to versity traveled to Washing imately 3,000 other Chinese der the influence of alcohol when did exist, it would have become Duke Hospital North where he ton D.C. to demonstrate out students from several univer he drove off the N.C. Highway apparent during the inves was told he would be charged side of the Chinese embassy. sities along the East Coast in tigation, Vanderberry said, ad 751 last Nov. 20, running into with driving while impaired. Thousands of students in carrying saigns, chanting and ding that he was "pleasantly sur two road signs and two trees. After receiving a call from China are currently staging marching outside the embassy prised" to find no evidence of al The no contest plea is viewed Sabiston, Cheek arrived at the sit-ins and hunger strikes to on Saturday afternoon. by the court exactly the same as coholism. hospital and advised him to protest corruption in their The rally was planned by a guilty plea, although the defen In addition, Sabiston is using refuse to take a blood test to government and to demand the Chinese Association of dant is not necessarily admitting the incident to educate younger See SABISTON on page 17 • reforms. On Friday, the Chi America, said Xiaoyu Lee, a guilt. nese government imposed sixth year graduate student in Sabiston received a fine of martial law in an attempt to physics. He and Li Lee heard $150 and had his drivers license restore order. about the demonstration from revoked for 60 days. The penalty "We want to try to tell the friends at the University of is in addition to having his li Chinese government that the North Carolina at Chapel Hill cense automatically revoked for struggle has gone beyond just (UNC-CH) on Wednesday. At one year when he refused to take the students," said Li Lee, a first, most students were un a chemical test after his accident graduate student in the litera sure about attending. in November. ture department and former "But on Friday, when we Lewis Cheek, Sabiston's attor president of the Chinese Stu heard the news about martial ney, said Sabiston's no contest dent Association at the Uni law, people were so angry that plea reflected a desire to put the versity. Lee was a professor at they felt they had to do some matter behind him as rapidly as Peking University before com thing," Xiaoyu Lee said. possible. ing to Duke in the fall of 1986 Lee and Lee said their mes "Dr. Sabiston didn't think the to get his doctorate in litera sage was definitely heard by University community or anyone ture. See CHINA on page 18 • was going to benefit by a trial," Cheek said. After the arrest, the North Carolina Board of Medical Exam iners asked Robert Vanderberry Inside Weather to determine if Sabiston has an alcohol problem. Murder, they wrote: The Believe me now: Hans Vanderberry runs the North MATT SCLAFANI /THE CHRONICLE spanking brand-new Duke and Franz will become flabby Carolina Health and Effective Hinterland Stage Company has got a play girlie-men as they pump up ness Program, which deals with for you to see. For poisonings their A/C while the highs George Buchanan's watercolors and oil techniques will be health problems that affect doc and intrigue, see page 3. climb to the upper 80s today tors, including alcoholism. displayed until July 28 in the East Campus Library. PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, MAY 25,1989 World & National Newsfile Wright bargaining for resignation, sources say Associated Press ByJIMDRINKARD word on whether the Speaker would seek House limits on outside income through Associated Press Trump deal approved: A federal re-election from his Fort Worth congres bulk sales of his book, "Reflections of a WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker sional district in 1990. Public Man." bankruptcy judge on Wednesday ap Jim Wright, his political career of 35 Other sources said the deal involved proved developer Donald Trump's years in shambles, bargained through dropping conflict-of-interest charges that agreement to buy Eastern Airlines' One congressman familiar with the lawyers Wednesday to resign his leader Wright accepted gifts of housing and a car profitable Northeast shuttle for $365 talks, speaking on condition of anonymi ship post in exchange for the dismissal of and salary for his wife. If those charges million after a rival suitor withdrew its ty, said a majority of the ethics committee some of the ethics charges confronting were dropped, Wright could step down as buyout proposal. favored some sort of negotiated set him. early as next week, the sources said. tlement. But the ethics committee ad Wright denied that he was considering But sources said the committee was not journed late Wednesday until June 1 Chinese students camp: The stepping down and issued a statement receptive to any arrangement that would without acting on Wright's case, and sour thousands of youths camped in saying he would "press ahead" with his clear Wright of charges that he evaded ces said the negotiations were continuing. Tiananmen Square are only the most defense. Even so, Democrats were looking visible portion of an increasingly radi beyond his departure to selection of a suc- calized student population that is or ccessor — and apparently closing ranks ganizing for a long-term political behind Majority Leader Tom Foley of New evidence in Iowa explosion struggle. Washington. Wright's representatives shuttled NEW YORK (AP) — Navy investigators scapegoats for an explosion investigators Soviet initiative: New arms con through a daylong series of meetings with have found evidence to support the possi cannot otherwise explain. trol proposals by Mikhail Gorbachev key members of Congress in a bid to nail bility that murder or suicide was involved Truitt has denied any blame for the ex put pressure Wednesday on President down an unprecedented agreement strip in the explosion that killed 47 sailors plosion, and has said that in response to Bush to come to terms with a series of ping him of his post as leader of the House aboard the battleship USS Iowa, NBC investigators' questions, he denied a ho eye-catching Soviet moves. and second in line of succession to the News reported Wednesday. mosexual relationship with Hartwig. presidency within a week. The extraordi NBC quoted unidentified Navy sources NBC said that because the Navy has Students in Solidarity: students nary drama of political abdication over as disclosing "some disturbing facts" failed to find an accidental cause for the voted Wednesday to end a university whelmed normal business at the Capitol, about a surviving sailor who stands to col explosion, it believes it may have been sit-in against government refusal to even though it was played out almost ex lect $100,000 from the insurance policy of caused deliberately through placement of legalize their independent union, and clusively behind closed doors.