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Term Begins with Tamer Inaugural Clinton Begins Second Term As U.S State-ing their case The No. 10 men's basketball team tries to stay in the ACC title hunt tonight THE CHRONICLE against N.C. State. See Sports, pg. 19. TUESDAY. JANUARY 21, 1997 © ONE COPY FREE DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 92. NO. 74 Clinton begins second term as U.S. president By ALISON MITCHELL "Surely they did not do this to N.Y. Times News Service advance the politics of petty WASHINGTON — William bickering and extreme parti­ Jefferson Clinton began his sanship they plainly deplore. second term as the 42nd presi­ No, they call on us instead to dent of the United States on be the repairers of the breach Monday, appealing to Ameri­ and to move on with America's cans for racial unity and ask­ mission." ing the Republican Congress For weeks Washington had to put aside partisanship and been racked by partisan war­ join with him "to move on with fare over Democratic fund- America's mission." raising and Gingrich's use of Having placed his left hand tax-exempt financing for polit­ on a family Bible held by his ical projects. But at these wife, Hillary, Clinton took the words by the president, the 35-word oath of office, admin­ sea of thousands spilling down istered by Chief Justice the grassy slope of Capitol Hill William Rehnquist, who then and onto the National Mall let wished him "good luck." loose the most enthusiastic ap­ Then, as the muffled plause of his 22-minute ad­ sounds of a 21-gun salute dress. KNIGHT-RIDDER TRIBUNE washed over the bunting- "America demands and de­ President Bill Clinton takes the oath at Monday's presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C. draped western facade of the serves big things from us," Capitol, Clinton hugged and Clinton said as the sun broke kissed his wife and their 16- through the overcast. "And year-old daughter, Chelsea. nothing big ever came from Term begins with tamer inaugural The resilient 50-year-old being small." president, who lost Congress Moments before the oath- Clinton's brief address fails to deliver visionary punchto the Republicans in 1994 taking by Clinton, who was only to make a remarkable po­ coatless despite the chill, Vice By R.W. APPLE right or left, he offered few Roosevelt took the oath for litical comeback culminating President Al Gore renewed his N.Y. Times News Service specifics in a cautious, cen­ the second time 60 years ago, in his re-election last Novem­ own oath. WASHINGTON — Presi­ trist address filled with ap­ when the storm clouds of ber, selected some of the While the day could not re­ dents' second inaugurals, peals for national unity and World War II were just begin­ phrasing for his inaugural ad­ capture the euphoria of four like their second terms, are other unexceptionable homi­ ning to gather. dress from a passage of the years ago, when the Clintons usually less vivid than their lies. It was also a reminder opened Bible that lay under and the Gores seemed the very first, and so it was Monday By definition, events like that few nations on earth his hand as he took the oath. It embodiment of generational with the grand ceremonial Monday's lack the excite­ have any such tradition, and was Isaiah 58:12, with its com­ change, hundreds of thou­ opening of President Clin­ ment of a change in party no other has one that mand that "thou shalt raise up sands of celebrators, bundled ton's second four years. control, as in 1993, or even a stretches back so far. Others the foundations of many gen­ against the cold, nonetheless Clinton tamed his tenden­ change in presidents with no may transfer or perpetuate erations; and thou shalt be surrounded the Capitol and cy toward prolixity in a change in party, as in 1989. power through coups and called the repairer of the lined the parade route down speech that lasted just 22 Not that what happened this revolutions, but in the Unit­ breach, the restorer of paths to Pennsylvania Avenue to the minutes. But even by the year was commonplace. This ed States, those things hap­ dwell in." White House. reckoning of some of his was only the 53rd innaugural pen at the ballot box and are "The American people re­ Four years earlier, Clinton keenest backers, he did not in the long history of the Re­ ratified in a simple ceremony turned to office a president of had stood in the same spot at generate the kind of vision­ public, only the fifth involv­ before the West Portico of the one party and a Congress of the Capitol and, quoting a ary lift he sought to impart. ing a second term since Capitol. Flags dating from another," Clinton said, with maxim from Jefferson, re­ As if fearful in a time of di­ World War I, and the first in the earliest days of the na­ Rep. Newt Gingrich, the Re­ called the founder's declaring vided power and uncertain which a Democrat began a tion to our own time were publican speaker, seated al­ that "to preserve the very mandates to offend either second term since Franklin See SPEECH on page 11 • most directly behind him. See CLINTON on page 18 k» Durham board announces finalists for superintendent By MIKE STEIN three degrees in education from Camp­ The Durham County Board of Edu­ bell University. cation announced Monday three final­ Board of Education narrows field to three Williams has served as superinten­ ists for the position of superintendent will make visits to Durham between na State University and three degrees dent in Dayton since 1991 and has of the Durham Public School District. Jan. 26 and Feb. 8. The new superin­ in education administration from East worked in the superintendent's office The candidates are Daniel Cockman, tendent will be selected during the Carolina University and the University since 1986. Before his tenure in Day­ current superintendent of the week of Feb. 17. of North Carolina at Greensboro. ton, Williams served as a high school Thomasville City, N.C, public school Cockman has served in the North Denlinger has served as the Super­ principal in Washington, D.C, where system; Ann Denlinger, current super­ Carolina Public Schools System for the intendent of Wilson County since 1992 he was also a teacher and a guidance intendent of public schools in Wilson majority of the last 30 years. He has .and was previously an assistant super­ counselor. He holds degrees in counsel­ County, N.C; and James Williams, held various educational positions, intendent in Wake County from 1987 ing, administration and business ad­ current superintendent of public ranging from high school teacher and to 1992. Additionally, she has served as ministration from George Washington schools in Dayton, Ohio. athletics coach to junior high school and a junior high school and elementary University, the University of the Dis-; The three candidates were chosen high school principal. He has served as school principal in Wake County. Prior trict of Columbia and Virginia Semi­ from six semifinalists, each of whom the superintendent of Thomasville City to her work in administration, Den­ nary and College. met with the school board this past Schools since 1991. He also holds an un­ linger had been a teacher in North Amanda Stolz contributed to this weekend. The final three candidates dergraduate degree from North Caroli­ Carolina since 1966. She also holds story. THE CHRONICLE TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1'997 World and National Newsfile King holiday marked by projects, protests From wire reports By TAR A MEYER stituents for this holiday," said 17- Cathryn, sang in the choir Monday. U.N. deploys: The U.N. Security Associated Press Council voted unanimously Monday year-old organizer Dan Kruk, a stu­ Stout-Mitchell said her parents had to send a U.N. force of 155 military ATLANTA — Across the city where dent from Lake Forest, 111., attending brought her to hear King but refused to observers to oversee Guatemala's the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro. let her march in the sanitation strike recent peace pact, hours after China born, volunteers honored him with King was born Jan. 15, 1929, and protests. dropped its opposition to the mis- deeds and not just words Monday, shot to death April 4, 1968, in Mem­ "They said, 'No, your time will come. sprucing up dilapidated schools, help­ phis, Tenn., where he had gone in sup­ We brought you here to learn from this ing out at food banks and cleaning up port of a sanitation workers' strike. so you can teach your children,'" she YeltSin released: Boris Yeltsin poor neighborhoods. Admirers gathered in Memphis at said. "That's why I'm so glad my 15- left the hospital Monday after 12 "I don't think Dr. King wanted us to the Mason Temple, where King gave year-old is singing and still celebrating days of treatment for pneumonia, praise him, but he wanted us to serve his last speech the night before he was the life and work of Dr. King." but will remain a part-time presi­ others in need," said Sherman Lofton, killed, for a concert by a choir of young­ In Atlanta, about 900 people attend­ dent while he completes his recov­ principal of Atlanta's Crim High sters. ed the annual service at Ebenezer Bap­ ery at his country home. School, one ofthe cleanup sites. Tajuan Stout-Mitchell, then 15, was tist Church, where King once Mashunte Glass had off from school in the audience when King gave that preached.
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