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THE CHRONICLE MONDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1988 I! DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15.000 VOL. 84, NO, 32 Panel packs discussion about campaign with partisan punch By MATT WELKER letting people take responsibility for their Despite an original intent to critique own lives." the presidential campaign's domestic She indicated Bush would continue to agenda from a non-partisan standpoint, build upon the perceived victories of the participants in a panel discussion Friday Reagan administration including low in quickly divided along party lines. flation, low interest rates, and the cre- The discussion did serve to differentiate See PANEL on page 4 ^- Republican candidate George Bush and Democratic candidate Michael Dukakis. Perceived similarities between the two men have led to the creation of terms such aa "Mr. Bushakis," coined by The Econo mist of London, and cited by Leonard Silk, economics columnist for The New York Times and moderator of "Bush vs. Dukakis: the Domestic Agenda, a Public Policy Seminar." Silk encouraged panelists to avoid par tisanship, but panelists' arguments quickly evolved into advocacy of party platforms, with Gwendolyn King and Charles Wolf presenting a Republican stand, and Patricia McGinnis and Charles Manatt representing the Democrats. King, former White House director of intergovernmental affairs for President SUSAN HELMS/THE CHRONICLE Reagan, said there has been a fundamen tal shift in federalism during the eight The me nobody knows years of the Reagan administration. SUSAN HELMS/THE CHRONICLE By day, swathed in sterile three-piece suits — but come quitting time look "Government is no longer intrusive in the Panelist Gwendolyn King for this Oktoberfest shopper to let loose and drum up the Dead. lives of people," she said. "Now, we are University examines role in changing Durham Parking panels This story is the first in a two-part series. favor feedback BySEANREILLY For many undergraduates Durham means little more than a night away from in dual forums DUFS food or a trip to a Bulls game. While perhaps natural for anyone who is From staff reports only going to spend four years here, such Members of the University commu attitudes overlook fundamental changes nity will have the opportunity to ex in the University's position vis-a-vis Dur press their concerns and complaints ham in the past few years, and an un about campus parking in two meetings resolved debate over the role which it this week. The meetings will take the ought to play. form of panel discussions open to the Historically the University has always public. been something of an anomaly in Dur East Campus parking will be dis ham, a blue-collar town originally built cussed Monday at noon in Baldwin Au upon textiles and tobacco. ditorium, while parking for West Cam As the city's traditional industries have pus and the Medical Center will be the declined, however, the effect has been to subject of discussion Tuesday at noon make the University an ever more con in the Bryan Center Film Theater. spicuous presence in the local economy. STEPHANIE DAVIS/THE CHRONICLE Representatives of the 'University The textile mills are now closed and the University and Durham officials wonder where the gown should end and the Parking Task Force, which last month departure of the American Tobacco Co. in town should begin. completed a report on parking prob 1987, coupled with substantial workforce lems and potential solutions, will serve reductions by Liggett & Myers, has made ham residents, pay only county taxes. Un a way it has never been before. With a on the panel. the once powerful tobacco business a der North Carolina law, properties within combined workforce of almost 16,000, the Tom Dixon, associate vice president dwindling force. The announced reloca the Park cannot be annexed by the city in University, including the Medical Center, of administration and chair of the task tion of GTE South's corporate head order to increase its tax base. Annexation is by far Durham's largest employer. The force, will moderate the discussions. quarters to Tampa, Florida will mean the is often standard practice for 1987 budget of the Medical Center alone loss of up to 1,300 jobs and a reduction in municipalities in need of revenue. was more than two and a half times that the city and county corporate tax bases. At the same time, the city's budget has of the city. Despite the area's low unemployment almost doubled within the last five years, At the same time, with the exception of rate, moreover, not all Durham residents from $51,440,000 for the 1983-84 Fiscal some tracts of Duke Forest land in have shared in the local prosperity. A year to a projected $98,174,000 for the Orange County, University property is Weather 1987 study by Horn & Stronach, a market 1988-89 fiscal year. According to Orville also tax-exempt. That fact, coupled with research firm, for example, showed that Powell, Durham city manager, the in the city's social service needs at a time of Say brrrr, Mets fans: High today as of 1985 one-third of all Durham county creases serve to make up for hard times federal cutbacks, has led to a growing in the mid 60s. Light winds with a low households had an income of under suffered by the city during the late 70s debate both within and without the in the mid 40s. It's going to be much $15,000. The same study concluded that and early 80s. Nonetheless, every city University over the extent of its obliga colder for New York Mets fans, after between 1985 and 1990 a total of 2,260 budget during this time has seen in tion to its surrounding community. that heartfelt loss in the 12th inning. units with rents under $300 would be creases in taxes and user fees to offset the "There's a notion that the University is Better wear mittens or your hands will needed to satisfy projected housing city's growing need for revenue. something separate and a world apart," turn Dodger Blue. Wouldn't that be a demand. The cumulative result of these develop said Durham mayor Wib Gulley, Trinity pity. The companies in Research Triangle ments has been to make the University a '70. "That's a fallacy." Park, while providing jobs for many Dur- pre-eminent force in the local economy in See RELATIONS on page 6 »- THE CHRONICLE MONDAY, OCTOBER 10,1988 World & National Newsfile Rioting in Algeria leaves 200 dead in six days Associated Press ByPAULDELANEY violence over education and economic is but the effect has been frozen wages and Deere to raise pay: Blue-collar N.Y. Times News Service sues in November 1986. shortages of consumer goods. workers at Deere & Co. plants in five ALGIERS, Algeria — Six days of rioting Benjedid, who came to power in 1979 And while Algeria is richer in resources states overwhelmingly ratified a new have left 200 Algerians dead by unofficial with the slogan "For a Better Life," used than its North African neighbors, it has contract with their first general pay estimates and the government of Presi the 1986 unrest to argue for a program of had to import food and capital goods. raise since 1981, United Auto Workers dent Chadli Benjedid divided and under fundamental economic changes in this oil- Droughts and locust plagues have done officials said Sunday. siege. producing nation. The measures were in further damage. This city of 2.5 million is very tense, un tended to wean inefficient state-owned in After a series of strikes in the public der tight military control that neverthe dustries from government subsidies at a sector the last two weeks, the government Investors still waiting: Two out less has not prevented continuing skir time of falling oil prices and revenues. warned on Tuesday that additional belt- of three small investors who ex mishes in some sections. Since then, Algeria has avoided new tightening was needed. perienced problems during the stock Security forces were reported to have borrowing and rescheduling of debt pay Within hours, the rioting began. A state market crash are still waiting a year opened fire on demonstrators on Saturday ments, unlike many Third World nations, See ALGERIA on page 13 • later for their complaints to be resol night and early Sunday. ved, according to a survey released There is intermittent rifle and ma Sunday by New York state regulators. chine-gun fire day and night, mostly warning shots by the military, whose Yugoslavian president calls heavy presence is backed by tanks, per Crime rate Up: Crime levels rose sonnel carriers and bayonets fixed at all 1.8 percent last year, the government times. for halt to protest and unrest reported Sunday, ending a five-year There is no official death toll. decline the Reagan administration had Estimates of 200 dead and several hun Unofficial translators said that attributed to vigorous law enforcement dred wounded were based on reports from "extraordinary conditions" was the correct and tougher treatment of criminals. witnesses, hospital officials and the po BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — President translation; but Tanjug, the official news lice. Raif Dizdarevic, in a television address to agency, used the phrase "special As areas previously closed to the public the nation, warned Sunday night that the situation" in its translation of his Jamaica needs help: Tons of were reopened Sunday, it became clear present crisis in Yugoslavia might lead to remarks. food, medicine and other supplies are that the damage was much more exten "extraordinary conditions." The president was discussing the series pouring into Jamaica, but officials and sive than reported.