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WEEK I.JH Drum roll, please... See page 4 inside for the debut of The AT Chronicle's new Weekend section, which will appear every Friday. DUKE THE CHRONICLE <.ehronide.dukc.edu l____t_IU--_-_________-i DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA : 15.000 VOL. 93, NO. 72 FINAL CUT Listed below are the remaining Commissioners narrow search for hospital partner contenders for the management of G Offers to run Durham long session Jan. 13, the five Durham Regional Hospital. Three bidders—Quorum Health "We continue to believe of the five county commissioners Regional Hospital from Duke Group, Health Maintenance that the Duke option is support this list, which will be and two other organizations Associates, Tenet Health Care voted on at a Jan. 27 meeting: Corp., University of North best for the citizens of receive backing from three IN; .Carolina Hospitals and Duke the county." Durham commissioners. University Medical Center— Duke University spent 90 minutes each pre Michael Israel, Duke Medical Center By TIM MILLINGTON senting their proposals to manage Durham Regional. hospital chief executive Health Maintenance Chronicle staff writer And then there were three. Now, three of the five coun officer Associates At least, that's the message ty commissioners say they Tenet Health Care Cori some county commissioners have unofficially shortened were "no weaknesses in the presenters," said Commission are sending at the end of a the list of contenders to three, other proposals," she said, er Bill Bell, who named Duke, OUT; week that began with a apparently leaving UNC and "We just liked [Duke, HMA HMA and Tenet as his pre University of North lengthy public evaluation of Quorum out of the running. and Tenet] better." ferred options. He added that if the commissioners did choose Carolina Hospitals the competing visions of the County Commissioner "I heard the [Jan. 13] pre future of Durham Regional Becky Heron said that the sentations, and based on what to maintain the hospital as a Quorum Health Group Hospital. proposals were all excellent I was looking for, I could nar stand-alone unit, however, (Y HERON MATT ROSEN/THE CHRONICLE Over the course of a day and well prepared. There row it down to three ofthe five See HOSPITAL on page 12 • Longtime vice Twenty-five president to retire years after the at year's end decision • Much of the financial guidance legalizing of 28-year veteran John Adcock has enabled the University's academic abortion, a and research programs to flourish. NOT nationalpoll By JESSICA KOZLOV Chronicle staff writer finds support hBABY,E University Vice President and Cor porate Controller John Adcock an nounced yesterday plans to retire at for abortions— f\ Fei vxs the end of 1998 after working at the University for almost 30 years. with increased AN Adcock, whose responsibilities ^Chot< include directing restrictions financial ser KRT/PRESSUN.K vices within the Terri Collier (r.) of Gaithersburg Md., a pro-choice advocate, argues with Washington-area University com resident Jay Gaver, a pro-life supporter, outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. munity, said in a last year on the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision. statement that he is looking for ward to moving -Q ^v Y% /-p T /^v \T • Americans shift slightly on to Hilton Head, John Adcock 13 \J Jtv 1 1U IN • this most divisive of topics S.C. next year A with his wife, Melissa, who works at the University's By CAREY GOLDBERG lobbying, debating and protesting by in the second three months. And a few Center for International Studies. with JANET ELDER the camps that call themselves "pro- reasons sometimes given for choosing "I take a great deal of pride in know N.Y. Times News Service choice" and "pro-life," that schism has abortion have become less persuasive. ing that I have participated in many of Twenty-five years and nearly 30 remained virtually unaltered. In 1989, for example, when people the financial decisions that have al million abortions after the Supreme But beneath that basic divide, pub were asked whether a pregnant lowed this university to flourish over Court's landmark Roe vs. Wade deci lic opinion has shifted notably away woman should be able to get a legal the past 28 years," Adcock said in the sion, the American public still largely from general acceptance of legal abor abortion if her pregnancy would force statement. "And whoever takes this job supports legalized abortion but says it tion and toward an evolving center of her to interrupt her career, 37 percent will be very pleased with the quality of should be harder to get and less readi gravity: a more nuanced, conditional said yes and 56 percent said no; in people we have and how well prepared ly chosen, the latest New York acceptance that some call a "permit 1998, only 25 percent said yes and 70 they are to do the job. We've been able Times/CBS News Poll shows. but discourage" model. percent said no. Similarly, in 1989, 48 to attract people with extraordinary At base, the country remains irrec Almost half of those polled said it percent thought an interrupted educa skills in the financial and analytical oncilably riven over what many con was too easy to get an abortion these tion was enough to justify a teen-age departments of the University." He sider the most divisive American issue days. Public support for legal abortion girl's abortion; that dropped to 42 per was out of town Thursday, and could since slavery, with half the population plummets from 61 percent if it is per cent this year. not be reached for an interview. considering abortion murder, the poll formed in the first three months of a Support remained overwhelming, Adcock joined the University as di- found. Despite a quarter-century of woman's pregnancy to only 15 percent See POLL on page 9 • See ADCOCK on page 19 • • DRAYER OFFERS NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS: COMMENTARY, PAGE 15 • DUKE PREPARES FOR CLEMSON ONSLAUGHT: SPORTS, PAGE 21 THE CHRONICLE • PAGE 2 WORLD AND NATIONAL FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1998 Newsfile Indonesia announces major economic reforms From wire reports Q Created under international ground zero that Suharto agreed to the press conference at his house, as chick Spymaster jailed: More than new, more stringent terms. Despite a ens clucked in the background. eight years after the collapse of the pressure, the agreement with the promise of $40 billion in aid from the The challenges confront virtually all Berlin Wall, and two failed attempts International Monetary Fund IMF in October, the crisis had grown in Indonesians, from the millions of work to put Markus Wolf behind bars, a recent weeks. ers who will lose their jobs to the cor court in Frankfurt jailed the former will end monopolies and lessen The country's currency has plum porate giants who will lose their mo East German spymaster Thursday governmental economic control. meted in value, foreign investors have nopolies; from the farmers who will for refusing to identify an agent he fled, citizens have begun to panic as have to cut down on their meals to the ran in the Cold War. By SETH MYDANS prices climbed, and calls for Suharto president himself, who has now staked N.Y. Times News Service to end his 32-year reign have risen in his future on an economic revival. DogS tortured: The American- JAKARTA, Indonesia — The fourth- volume. The military has said it stands led team recently banned by Iraq largest nation in the world began a new "I feel relief, but also I am aware ready to quell outbreaks of violence as had been pursuing leads raised in a and risky chapter in its history Thurs that there are great challenges ahead prices rise, factories are forced to close, 1995 U.N. raid: pictures showing day when President Suharto announced that need to be faced," the 76-year-old and the ranks ofthe unemployed swell. beagles writhing in agony from wide-ranging economic reforms that, if president said Thursday in a rare See INDONESIA on page 8 *• chemical and biological agents and a carried out, would overturn the coun human arm covered with lesions. try's entrenched ways of doing business The photos were found on a chicken and curb its economic growth. ranch owned by a son-in-law of Sad Capitulating to international pres Clinton rises to defend labor dam Hussein. sure, Suharto signed a remarkably specific agreement with the Interna Geezer launched: in a wonder tional Monetary Fund that requires chief against foreign accusers of aeronautics and geriatrics, Sen. him to dismantle the monopolies, the By STEPHEN LABATON too, appeared before television cam John Glenn,' the first American to family-owned businesses and his iron N.Y. Times News Service eras to deny any wrongdoing, before orbit the earth, has won his cam control of the economy that have WASHINGTON — The Cameroon flying with Clinton to New York for a paign to be rocketed back into space marked his 32 years of rule. businessman who has accused Labor day of politicking. at the age of 77, NASA officials and It was his second agreement with Secretary Alexis Herman and his for The defense of Herman and the coun experts said Thursday. the IMF in four months—the last of mer business partner Vanessa Weaver tercharges came a day after reports that which he almost completely abrogat of influence peddling was accused the Justice Department was consider ed—and some analysts remain pes Thursday by Weaver's lawyers of a ing whether to appoint an independent Weather simistic about the nation's outlook de host of misdeeds, including sexual ha counsel to examine accusations by the Friday spite Suharto's dramatic concessions.