Museum Expansion Provides New Thrills for Soviet Head by HEATHER HEIMAN Triangle Residents Can Simulate the by BILL KELLER Movement of the Human Heart, Enjoy the N.Y
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INSIDE: SPRING SPORTS PREVIEW THE CHRONICLE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1990 © DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 85, NO. 96 Drug czar celebrates U.S. victory over communism By JASON ROBERTS times over the last six or seven With the fall of communism in months, people in a shipyard in Eastern Europe, the United Gdansk or in Czechoslovakia or States must assert its moral au in Yugoslavia, and now in the So thority by fighting totalitari viet Union standing up and read anism and drug use, said "drug ing the Declaration of czar" William Bennett in Dur Independence." ham Thursday night. Pondering the question of why Bennett, director of the office these events have happened so of national drug control policy, recently, Bennett concluded U.S. spoke before a large crowd at the pressure and competition was 78th Annual Meeting of the the main reason for change. Greater Durham Chamber of "We challenged that authori Commerce. tarian system and set a lot of "This has been an extraordi precedents. .The point now is nary year in the history of to take great pride in our Western Civilization. Freedom achievements, and that these has won a decisive victory over great ideas have won and now authoritarianism, totalitari the Declaration of Independence CHRIS O'BRIEN /THE CHRONICLE anism and communism. We won, is read all over the world." Home sweet home and they lost." Bennett argued for greater rec The bogus baron Maurice Jeffrey Locke de Rothschild remains in Pampano Prison in Ft. With this victory, however, ognition of the power of the dem Lauderdale, Fla. His next hearing is today in Broward County Court where he must decide America has been thrust into the ocratic ideals of the United States. whether or not to waive his right to an extradition hearing. spotlight as the leading authority on democracy, Bennett said. "I took issue with that Time "And so we see, a hundred See DRUGS on page 7 ^ Power enlarged Museum expansion provides new thrills for Soviet head By HEATHER HEIMAN Triangle residents can simulate the By BILL KELLER movement of the human heart, enjoy the N.Y. Times News Service antics of playful river otters, and pet a MOSCOW — The Communist Party Vietnamese pot-bellied pig at three new leadership has mapped out a strategy exhibits in the North Carolina Museum of to endow Mikhail Gorbachev with Life and Science, all courtesy of a project broad new presidential powers, proba to revitalize the 44-year-old museum. bly without forcing him to undergo a The Murray Avenue museum is under popular election, party officials said going a three-phase expansion to include Thursday. four new exhibits on its present grounds One day after the party's governing and an entirely new museum on the Central Committee agreed to forfeit American Campus site at the old Ameri the Communist legal monopoly, offi can Tobacco plant downtown. cials said the moves to consolidate Gor The expansion is being funded by a bachev's government powers could be multi-million dollar bond issue as well as enacted by a special parliamentary a fundraising drive. session in a matter of months. The expansion to American Campus In a draft Communist platform ap will be the museum's largest move ever, proved Wednesday that opened the said Tom Krakauer, the museum's execu way for multiparty politics, the party tive director. CHRONICLE leadership called for establishing The exhibits comprise phase one of a This guy can be found among the newest exhibits at the Museum of Life and something resembling a Western-style three-step expansion that should be com Science. presidential government with a strong pleted in 1992. Last March, the museum executive and separation of powers. initiated a capital campaign to raise $1.5 Ivan Frolov, editor in chief of Pravda million for the project. Triangle museum kills merger and a Gorbachev confidant, indicated The first phase of the expansion was Thursday that the party hopes to have completed last November, with the open By HEATHER HEIMAN gle which meets to discuss opportunities Gorbachev named to the enhanced post ing of three exhibits at the Murray Ave The Triangle Children's Museum of for children to explore an interdisciplin without facing a general election, an nue site. "BodyTech — the Science Behind Chapel Hill announced Monday that it ary approach to learning. idea that is likely to face resistance Medicine" features tanks and tubes full of has cancelled plans to merge with the The museum started in Chapel Hill two from some legislators who already pink liquid waiting to be pumped by vis- North Carolina Museum of Life and Sci years ago, and has existed for two years worry about too much power being con- tors curious about the circulatory system. ence. without programming or a site, said See GORBACHEV on page 121* Other exhibits explore the musculo-skele- The Museum of Life and Science has Missy Julian-Fox, secretary of the muse tal system, speech and hearing and sickle been undergoing a series of expansions on um. cell disease. its Murray Avenue site that were set to The Triangle Children's Museum Weather BodyTech is "all hands-on, bright and culminate in the opening of a museum at received a $3 million grant from the Alex colorful, and a big hit with our visitors," American Campus, in conjunction with ander Julian Foundation to fund the Yes, Virginia: There is a tomorrow. said Susan Bastian, public relations di the Triangle Children's Museum. merger. Highs in the 60s and low 70s, increas rector. The Musuem of Life and Science must Different goals on the part of each mu ing cloudiness with a chance of thun BodyTech excited Hope Valley Elemen now decide whether to open the site on its seum led them to separate, said Melissa derstorms. Tonight, a good chance of tary School students visiting the museum own, said Tom Krakauer, the museum's Cain, chair ofthe Triangle Museum. more rain. But hey, at least it's raining as part of a science class trip. Fourth- executive director. "We realized that the North Carolina in Virginia, too. graders poured into the building and The Triangle Children's Museum is a Museum of Life and Science was so expe- See MUSEUM on page 7 • board of members from all over the Trian See TRIANGLE on page 7 ^ PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9,1990 Wodd & National Newsfile Black South Africans protest cricket tour Associated Press By LAURINDA KEYS urged police to let them stay. There are too many irresponsible peo Army women in combat: Two fe Associated Press President F.W. de Klerk announced ple who are only too eager to take advan male helicopter pilots rushing U.S. JOHANNESBURG — Police used tear Friday the end of restrictions on press tage of existing problem areas in a reck troops to attack zones came under gas and clubs Thursday to disperse hun coverage of unrest and police action, al less way. It is these people who are re heavy fire during the Panamanian in dreds of blacks protesting a tour by an though film or photographs cannot be sponsible for the state of emergency still vasion, pilots said Thursday, which English cricket team that defied an anti- published without permission. However, being in operation." provides new evidence of the exposure apartheid boycott. police say they are using other sections of Gerrit Viljoen, the Cabinet minister in of Army women to combat during the A Cabinet minister said continuing un emergency regulations that give them the charge of setting up negotiations with operation. rest is prolonging South Africa's state of power to order anyone to leave any area. black leaders, said in an interview with emergency and said threats against Nel Vlok said the 3V_-year-old state of ABC that the emergency will last only a U.S. Spurs reforms: The sanc son Mandela from left- and right-wing ex emergency must be maintained to give po few more weeks because the government tions Congress imposed against South tremists are among the factors delaying lice extra powers in dealing with unrest realizes it is inhibiting normalization of Africa in 1986 took a stiff economic and the ANC leader's release from prison. and preventing extremists from sabotag the political process. psychological toll on the white govern "We want to ensure he walks out of that ing de Klerk's reforms. De Klerk is trying to start talks on end ment and helped encourage reforms, a prison a free man and lives safely in this He later told Parliament, "The revolu ing white minority rule and bringing wide spectrum of experts say. country as a free citizen," Law and Order tionary climate is still unnaturally high. blacks into the political process. Minister Adriaan Vlok told a news confer Germans fear reforms: Rather ence in Cape Town. than calming fears of economic col In the township of Alexandra, police ar FDA to end food health claims lapse in East Germany, Chancellor rested at least six blacks, saying they had Helmut Kohl's advocacy of one cur commandeered minibus taxis to transport By PHILIP HILTS rency for East and West Germany has protesters to the nearby cricket grounds N.Y. Times News Service tion announced a federal policy that told created many worries about continued despite a magistrate's ban on demonstra WASHINGTON — In a reversal of poli food manufacturers they could start mak prosperity back at home. tions. cy, the White House has approved broad ing claims about what their products Police stopped all minibus taxis and and strict regulations intended to halt the would do to prevent disease.