Student Charged with DWI Blue Devils Lose in Home Opener, 38-13

Toppling the Terrapins The field hockey team made huge strides Friday as they upended No. 2 THE CHRONICLE Maryland. See MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. 1996 REE DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 92, NO. 11 Student Blue Devils lose in charged home opener, 38-13 with DWI By JONATHAN GANZ play, however, was where Two games into the football Duke certainly put its worst season, it is becoming readily foot forward. By BRIAN HARRIS apparent that the toughest op The Blue Devils gave up The Duke University Police ponent the Blue Devils face large numbers on kickoff and Department arrested Trinity ju this season may be them punt returns, including a 51- nior Lyndon KingAllin, 20, early selves. yard punt return for a touch Thursday morning and charged Duke made numerous mis down to Brian Musso. They him with driving while intoxi takes on offense, defense and also had a field goal attempt cated, according to an arrest re special teams that contributed blocked that would have cut port filed Thursday with the heavily to the Blue Devils' 38- the Wildcats' lead to two Durham County Magistrate's 13 loss to Northwestern. points and fumbled two kick- Office. DUPD later charged "We just didn't do the offs, recovering one of those Allin with hit and run, as he al fumbles themselves. legedly attempted to leave the things that we needed to do," scene of an accident on Flowers Duke head coach Fred Gold Still, with all of its mis Drive. smith said. "We made too takes, Duke was in the game many glaring mistakes.... until Northwestern showed Cpl. Davis Trimmer of DUPD We've got to be a better foot the 29,312 fans in attendance arrested Allin at approximately ball team than this. We're cre at Wallace Wade why it went 2 a.m. Thursday morning on TOM HOGARTY/THE CHRONICLE ating a lot of our problems." to the Rose Bowl last season— Erwin Road near Flowers Drive. On offense, the Blue Devils a vaunted power running Trimmer came upon Allin's 98 percent funk! had one fumble and two costly game. bronze, two-door Ford Mustang interceptions. The defense had Maceo Parker adds his 1 percent jazz, 1 percent blues and With 13 minutes left in the on the side of Erwin Road while several breakdowns on its side third quarter, Northwestern on a routine patrol. Trimmer in 98 percent funk to the Bull Durham Blues Festival. of the football. Special teams dicated in the arrest report that, See SPORTSWRAP, page 6 • "Mr. Allin was involved in an ac cident and had a strong odor of alcoholic beverage on hira." Reading from Trimmer's re Durham unemployment rate bests nation port of the incident, Capt. Charles Nordan of DUPD said that Trimmer interviewed Trini By BEN VON KLEMPERER marking the third consecutive bly still stay below 3 percent," force is employed in business ty junior Carla l^anklin—a wit As national unemployment month that number had re said Pat Shurtleff, director of es of less than 50 employees, ness at the scene who alleged hit a seven-year low of 5.1 per mained below 3 percent. That research at the Durham Shurtleff said, making mass that her car had been hit by cent last month, Durham number puts the city employ Chamber of Commerce. "As firings and hirings rare in the Allin's while both were driving seemed to be heading for an ment rate far ahead of those always we're below the state area. "It's a question of "Where on Flowers Drive. Trimmer said even more impressive trend. for the state and for the coun and national average. We would it hit?,™ she said, gaug in his report that after talking For the first.two quarters of try. With construction creat have a stable employment ing that a nationwide reces with Franklin, he approached this year, the City of Medicine ing more area jobs over the area and we're very diversi sion might not hit Durham as Allin's car and smelled alcohol. has been bullish on jobs. summer, employment figures fied." acutely as it would other are expected to remain consis areas. Trimmer then asked AUin to According to the North One explanation for steady Carolina Employment Securi tent when statistics for July employment is that the city She added that the city's step out of his car and walk to and August are reported, area Trimmer's patrol ear. Trimmer ty Commission, only 2.8 per seems to be detached from na labor force is relatively diver cent of the labor force was un analysts say. tional job trends. About 93 sified between research, tech- said that Allin wavered while percent of Durham's labor See DURHAM on page 6 • See DWI on page 7 > employed in June of 1996, "[The numbers] will proba Spectrum presidents alter focus of group By NICO TAO reconcile differences and focus Known in the past for its on activities that will bring often controversial stances on people together, she said. campus issues, this year Spec Leaders point to an incident trum Organization has two years ago as an example of changed its philosophy to be their reasons for change. A fra come more proactive. ternity party called "South of An organization which aims the Border" attracted much at to address issues surrounding tention from multicultural race and ethnicity on campus, groups such as Spectrum, who Spectrum is shifting away argued the theme was racist from a highly aggressive atti and was insulting to certain tude in dealing with such is ethnic communities. sues, said Trinity senior Sathyanarayana said that Sheela Sathyanarayana, co- Spectrum's confrontational ap president of the organization. proach yielded only negative Instead, leaders of the group results. "[The incident] got KERRY GARLAND/THE CHRONICLE are planning to try harder to See SPECTRUM on page 14 • Spectrum co-presidents Sheela Sathyanarayana and Adithya Cattamanchi. THE CHRONICLE MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 16, 1996 World and National Newsfile Clinton targets tax cuts for middle class Associated Press Survey conducted: According By TODD PURDUM taxes are one of the Republicans' few Sunday, lambasting the Republican to a survey of the health of the N.Y. Times News Service strong issues, though polls also show record on the environment, taxes, ed world's population by internation INDIANOLA, Iowa—Blending a the public is deeply skeptical of Dole's ucation and crime and touting his al experts, non-communicable dis prairie populist's fervor with a New ability to deliver on his plan. So Clin own. eases and accidents are quickly re Democrat's fiscal decorum, President ton misses few chances to attack the With a hand-painted backdrop of a placing infectious diseases and Clinton pledged Sunday that bis was Republican proposal as likely to "ex Madison County-style covered bridge malnutrition as leading causes of a party that could be trusted with plode the deficit" and force higher in and bulletproof barrier of hay bales premature death and disability people's money and to balance the terest rates that would only hurt tax behind him, Clinton vowed for the worldwide. federal budget while providing target payers in the end. umpteenth time to lead the country ed tax cuts to help the middle class. Campaigning here in the middle of into the 21st century." Legislation supported: House "I'm telling you, folks, there is a middle America, Clinton offered his At another point, the president Speaker Newt Gingrich promised new Democratic Party," Clinton told a listeners a little bit of everything See CLINTON on page 5 • Sunday to support legislation bar cheering crowd of partisans at Sen. ring those convicted of domestic Tom Harkin's annual steak and pork- violence from obtaining a hand chop fry fund-raiser in a rolling farm gun. field here. "We have proved that we Iraq falls short of demands, are the party of responsibility when Infant immersed: A four- handling people's money." month-old girl was in critical con For months, Clinton has sought to military strike still possible dition today after nearly drowning co-opt Republican issues like crime, during a baptism at the Imani welfare, family values and fiscal re By PHILIP SHEN0N tempting to hide mobile missile Temple in Northeast Washington sponsibility. Sunday he made one of N.Y. Times News Service launchers that could threaten Ameri after her head was immersed his more pointed defenses of his strat WASHINGTON—Clinton adminis can pilots over southern Iraq. three times into a baptismal tub egy of modest tax breaks for educa tration officials said Sunday that Iraq While the officials would not detail during the ceremony. tion and families with children in the had still not met all the terms of an what other terms ofthe ultimatum had face of Bob Dole's proposal for a 15 American ultimatum delivered to not been met by Iraq, they said that percent income tax cut. Baghdad this month and that, as a re the United States had demanded addi "I'll tell you something, folks," he sult, there was still the possibility of a tional moves by the Iraqi military to Weather said of the competing tax proposals. devastating American military strike limit the use of air defense sites in Tuesday "Mine are paid for, and we've got to on Iraq. southern Iraq and to guarantee the safety of American planes policing the High: 80 • Thunderstorms pay for them. We don't want to go The officials said that an Iraqi Low: 68 • Winds: giddy back to that old time when we promise last week to stop firing on expanded southern no-flight zone.

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