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THE CHRONICLE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1988 « DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15.000 VOL. 83, NO. 100 Durham police chief selection nears ByCARLGHATTAS reported that he quit the post without spending any Durham city manager Orville Powell's announcement time on the job, saying that the Durham position was his at noon today of his plans for picking a new police chief first choice. should mark the beginning of the end of a controversy Another candidate, James Carvino, former chief of the surrounding the city's selection process. The process, U.S. Capitol Police, allegedly used department funds to which has narrowed the field of candidates down to produce a videotape tribute to his former secretary in three, has been marred by rumors of racial pressures Racine, Wis., according to The Herald. The General Ac­ and allegations of wrongdoings against two of the three. counting Office audited Carvino's department but could A background check on each of the candidates is the not find any evidence of criminal wrongdoing. last step before a final decision. y*"^k The selection process itself has been plagued by "You normally don't find ^^=B5(| )1 rumors of racial pressures which according to Powell anything," Powell said, because at rTf VX_>H, TR have originated from the media. The rumors suggest the beginning of the selection each that there has been pressure to select a black police candidate is asked if anything in chief. Powell denied these claims, calling the process so his past may prove to be embar­ OWN complex that such a move would be impossible. rassing to him or the community. Powell added that the Police Maj. Worth Hill, interim Durham police chief mm results of the check would usually not swing the decision and one of the three finalists, denied that race is a factor in favor of a candidate but could swing it away from the in the decision. "Our department at this time does not candidate if something embarrassing were found. have racial stress. The city manager has a free hand to x *>>"**•, Powell said last week that if the final background choose who he thinks is best," Hill said. "Everyone has a checks on the remaining three candidates were com­ fair shake and an equal opportunity," he said. pleted this past weekend, he will reveal his choice today. Former police chief Talmadge Lassiter agreed that the If the reports are not available, then he will say when he police department is not suffering a racial crisis, noting thinks a final decision can be made. "-As soon as I get the "I haven't heard anything that would indicate [behind- reports I will make a selection," Powell said. the-scenes manipulation]." »» -IfitlttMr-r-T Trevor Hampton, a finalist and fonner deputy police Durham mayor Gulley said that, unlike in larger chief in Columbia S.C, was in charge of police protection cities, the mayor and the council in Durham are not in­ for a "Death to the Klan" march on November 3, 1979 in volved in the process. "I and the whole council have been Greensboro in which five demonstrators were killed. In quite careful to stay out of the matter," Gulley said. June 1985 a federal jury exonerated Hampton of charges Powell said he believed the news media has made too STEVE HARTMAN /THE CHRONICLE of police negligence and violating the rights of those large an issue out of Carvino's and Hampton's poten­ killed and injured. tially embarrassing past troubles. He said he did regret Sharp shooter Earlier this year Hampton accepted a job as police Hampton's having accepted the Alexandria, Va., police Forward Tracey Christopher shined Saturday in a chief in -Alexandria, Va. The Durham Morning Herald See CHIEF on page 8 ^> win over Maryland. See page 1 of SPORTSWRAP. Famed cellist Rostropovich thrills audience New Chronicle By KIRSTIN RINGELBERG complishments on the cello, Rostropovich graduate student at the Juilliard School, Reknowned musician and Russian has also gained recognition as a composer, under the tutelage of Bella Davidovich. editor selected emigre Mstislav Rostropovich performed conductor and pianist. In 1987 he was The Beethoven Sonata was followed by Sunday afternoon to a sold-out house in named Musician of the Year for his work Bach's Suite No.3 in C major for Unac­ From staff reports Page Auditorium. with the National Symphony. He has also companied Cello. This work was a lively Managing editor Kathleen Sullivan While most well-known for his ac- received the Lenin aPrize in the Soviet suite which emphasized Rostropovich's Union and an honorary degree from manual dexterity and virtuosity. was elected editor of the 84th volume Duke. of The Chronicle by the newspaper After the intermission, Rostropovich staff Friday. Born in Baku, U.S.S.R. in 1927, recalled Wolfensohn to the piano to ac­ Rostropovich began studying at the Mos­ company him on Shostakovich's Sonata in Sullivan, a native of Virginia Beach, cow Conservatory with Sergei Prokofiev D minor, Opus 40. This more modern Va., is a Trinity iunior and religion and Dmitri Shostakovich at the age of 16. piece was lyrically charming and under­ major. She began reporting at The Although once a stated. Chronicle her freshman year, and in­ === = == terned the following summer in the People's Artist of A^r>^o ^ The most moving moment of the concert business news department of the Vir­ the U.S.S.R., y/TJU^6l. was the Vocalise, Opus 34, No.14 by Rachmaninoff. This slow, introspective ginian Pilot/Ledger Star in Norfolk, Rostropovich's open JLEISURE Va. She served as Chronicle city and stand against =•— — - work brought out the depth of tone that can only be found in the cello. The plain­ state editor for the spring semester of restrictions on ar­ her sophomore year. tistic freedom cost him and his wife — tive melody captivated the audience and soprano Galina Vishnevskaya — their seemed far too brief. Sullivan said she sees maintenance Soviet citizenship in 1978. Rostropovich and Wolfensohn rounded of recent changes as a crucial goal for Sunday's performance began with the out the afternoon's performance with the next year. "A lot of the really major Beethoven Sonata No.3 in A major, Opus Rostropovich's own composition, the changes have taken place recently. The 69. While technically simple, the Humoresque in C major, Opus 5. This paper looks better than it did even two duo-sonata with piano was an apt show­ short, incredibly fast-paced work showed years ago," she said. Among recent im­ piece for the skills of Rostropovich and ac­ that Rostropovich is in no way limited in provements, Sullivan cited the forma­ companist Sara Wolfensohn. The two his innovative technique. The speed and tion of a graphics department, which is musicians traded off passages smoothly mastery with which his fingers and the "a definite plus," she said. But "we're and equally, with neither instrument bow flew across the cello affirmed his not going to turn it into USA Today." status as possibly the world's greatest overshadowing the other. On the whole, the newspaper "might living cellist. SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE Wolfensohn, a native of Australia, has need fine tuning, as the new editor studied in New York and London. She is a The audience responded with an ex­ Mstislav Rostropovich does every year, but a lot of the work uberant standing ovation, and after a few will be doing the day-to-day stuff," Sul­ bows Rostropovich played a brief and pas­ livan said. sionate encore which seemed appropriate Inside Weather to a Valentine's Day concert. Before he She said she hopes to improve staff took leave of the stage, an audience mem­ morale, because work on a school newspaper should "enhance memories Touching: Turn to the editorial page Mid-term Mania: You have been ber presented the virtuoso with a red and of college, not detract." to read about how several residents of procrastinating the whole first part of silver heart-shaped balloon. a nearby nursing home spent Valen­ the semester, but the clock has run The master cellist's performance at Sullivan will replace current editor tine's Day. As Stephen Buckley relates down and tests are upon us. Today's Duke is part of his busy schedule of con­ Rocky Rosen at the end of the the holiday happenings inside the weather: Cloudy, windy and rainy this certs this year including engagements in semester, pending approval by The home, we realize how much that spe­ afternoon. Sunny tomorrow but a New York City, Washington, D.C, Chronicle Board. cial person means to each of us. sweater will be necessary. Europe, and the Far East. THE CHRONICLE MONDAY, FEBRUARY J World & National Newsfile Chancellor threatens to resign in Austria N.Y. Times News Service By ROLAND PRINZ death camps. In a comment published in early Mon­ Democrats for privatization: The historians released their report day editions of the Kurier, Waldheim was VIENNA, Austria — Socialist Chancel­ Monday. quoted as saying he continues to be Support for the idea of privatization is lor Franz Vranitzky said Sunday he The 202-page document established "interested in a constructive relationship coming from Democratic leaders in would consider resigning if the contro­ Waldheim's "close proximity" to wartime with the federal chancellor." Congress. The idea is one of President versy over President Kurt Waldheim's atrocities in the Balkans and seriously Reagan's oldest causes — his desire to But Vranitzky, when asked how Aus­ World War II conduct continues to ham­ questioned his integrity as a German turn over more of the Government to tria could emerge from a situation in per Vranitzky's leadership.

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