Union Election Held Amidst Charges of Improprieties Bulls Saga Continues

Holy Terrors: Duke Athletics beat a bunch of religious fanatics in straight sets 6-1,6-1, 6-0. Chris THE CHRONICLE Yankee scored a hat trick in the hat trick. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 27. 1990 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15.000 VOL. 86. NO. 25 Union election held amidst charges of improprieties By ADRIAN DOLLARD by ineligible people, do not occur. Today's union election is being Scott asked the administration held despite charges of improper to allow two Bryan Center house conduct. keepers, Louis Owens and Members of the union repre Frederick Ferrell, time off from senting most housekeeping and work to serve as poll watchers. Food Services workers claim Her request was denied. The following are polling times and places for the Local 77 union officers and University ad Observers were selected from election. Employees can vote at any station regardless of where ministrators unfairly aided in the list provided by the Local's they work. cumbent candidates. Business Manager Jimmy Pugh instead. Scott claims the Univer The union, Local 77 of the LOCATION TIME American Federation of State, sity thereby violated federal law County and Municipal Employ by "improperly favoring the in West Union, basement lounge 6:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m cumbents over the other candi ees, represents 500 University Hospital North, Room 1103 6:30 a.m.-9 a.m. employees. dates." "There is no way that a fair In addition, she alleges the ad Hospital North, Room 1109 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. ministration violated laws bar election can be held" under pres Hospital South, 6:30 a.m.-9 a.m. ent circumstances, said house ring it from discriminating against employees engaged in 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. keeper Stephanie Scott, a candi GEORGE IVEY/THE CHRONICLE sub-basement training center date for president. She has asked union activity by denying the East Union, employee break room 6:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. AFSCME International to take Stephanie Scott leave requests. over jurisdiction ofthe election. The AFSCME election manual Sands Bldg., 1st floor lobby 7:30 a.m.-8:30 a.m. quested by non-incumbents in a states that any candidate has the Scott said the election is unfair Groundskeeping Shed, off 751 6:30 a.m.-7 a.m. because the University refused to list submitted to the administra right to have a union member of give certain employees time off to tion. his or her own choosing present Red room 10 a.m.-ll:30 a.m. Observers are called upon to as an observer at each balloting serve as observers and because Laundry breakroom 12 p.m.-l p.m. the Local's business manager ensure that improprieties, such location. failed to include observers re- as ballot box-stuffing and voting See UNION on page 10 • Central Warehouse 12 p.m.-l p.m. Bulls saga continues, Middle East refugees 'home' in N.C. By PEGGY KRENDL Social Services, Betty Lou Ward, returning college students," team's future unclear Area social services are work said finding housing for the refu Ward said. Betty Kelly, director ing with 37 refugee families from gees was the first priority. of social work services at' Dur the Middle East who sought asy "Finding housing is hard be ham social services, said finding By LEIGH DYER believes his plan can succeed. lum in the United States and cause most of the affordable housing was also difficult in Dur- The Durham Bulls are fac Goodmon's proposal for the have no specific place to go. apartments have been taken by See REFUGEES on page 10 • ing an increasingly uncertain complex includes a profes Wake and Durham Counties' future as local supporters sional soccer franchise which struggle to keep a regional Social Servies are helping the will begin playing next April, families establish citizenship and sports complex proposal alive. a hockey team owned by Wolff Miles Wolff, owner of the settle in the area. There are a to which should be formed by tal of 158 refugees who need as baseball franchise for a few next fall and tennis facilities more weeks, said Wednesday sistance in finding employment which will house a Raleigh and housing, getting green cards that lack of support from Dur club tennis team. He has ob and receiving immunizations. ham County could force the tained private support for con team to move to Raleigh. Three flights of hostages and struction ofthe ice arena, ten refugees have landed in Raleigh- But Jim Goodmon, a Ra nis courts and soccer field, but leigh broadcasting executive Durham International Airport in needs funds from Durham the past two weeks. The refugees who has agreed to buy the County in order to construct a Bulls from Wolff, hopes to left their possessions, money, 10,000 seat baseball stadium. and in some cases, other family move them to a stadium in The facilities would be con members still trapped in Kuwait Durham County to become structed on land Goodmon and Iraq, to come to the United part of a massive regional owns near Raleigh-Durham States with whatever they were MARK WASMER/THE CHRONICLE sports complex. He still See BULLS on page 4 ^ able to pack in a suitcase. Former hostages landing at RDU last week. The vice-chair of Wake County Day-care center draws criticism Efforts praised, but subsidies found lacking By REVA BHATIA families based on their income. slot, but all the subsidies allotted For every child happily playing There are, however, a limited for 3-year-olds had been assigned in The Children's Campus Inc. number of subsidized spaces when her name was drawn. there are three less happy ones available to families in each in "I'm bitter because what who cannot get in. come level. they're saying to me is my child Developers of this new day "It's not the 'Children's Cam is number two on the waiting care center are using University pus.' It belongs to those who are list, and if I wanted to pay the subsidies in an attempt to make paying for the higher slots," Har higher fee, I could go in." she its services affordable to all Uni ris said. "If it was the Children's said. "If I could afford the $100 versity employees. But Tira Har Campus, every child would have spots then I could afford trans ris, the mother of a 3-year-old an equal chance." portation [to an off-campus cen- girl who is second on the center's Harris's daughter was offered terl and day-care wouldn't be a 250-child waiting list, says that a space in the center, but Harris problem." JEN KRAYNAK/THE CHRONICLE for all its efforts, the University could not afford to pay the full The center's developers insist "fell short." $100 weekly fee for 3-year-old they have done all they can to The Children's Campus The center uses a sliding-fee child care. Her family income open up the center to children of scale to assign day-care costs to made her eligible for a subsidized See DAYCARE on page 4 • PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1990 World and National Newsfile Baker praises Soviets warning to Hussein Associated Press By THOMAS FRIEDMAN Mikhail Gorbachev, at a press conference count on us to support, and maybe even N.Y. Times News Service after meeting in Helsinki with President participate in, such an effort by the Goetz has change of heart: in UNITED NATIONS — Secretary of Bush, stated his categoric opposition to United Nations.' I think the Soviets may new testimony, subway gunman State James Baker III and other Western any use of force, his foreign minister sur have concluded that the indirect pressure Bemhard Goetz drastically contradicts diplomats praised the Soviet Union on prised a U.N. audience not used to such of the embargo is running its course, and the defense that won him a 1987 ac Wednesday for its warning to Iraqi Presi surprises by suggesting that if the boycott when it finally grinds to a halt they don't quittal for the attempted murder of dent Saddam Hussein that a war in the failed to dislodge Iraq from Kuwait, Mos intend to be the odd men out." four black teen-agers. Persian Gulf may be imminent if he does cow would not shrink from supporting a On the Soviet warning to Saddam, ana not pull out of Kuwait. military operation sanctioned by the lysts of Soviet affairs say they believe Italian author dies: Alberto The Western officials said in separate United Nations. Moscow decided to sharpen the tone ofthe Moravia, one of Italy's most widely conversations that the speech at the U.N. Interpreting the speech, a top adminis military threat because of two other con read authors, died of a heart attack General Assembly by Soviet Foreign Min tration analyst of Soviet affairs said, cerns, as well. Wednesday at his home in Rome. He ister Eduard Shevardnadze on Tuesday "Shevardnadze was telling the Iraqis First, the Soviets are clearly worried was 82. marked a significant shift in Kremlin pol something more than just: 'Don't count on that the longer this crisis drags on, the icy. us to veto a use of force at the United more damage will be inflicted on Western Religious freedom: The Soviet Only two weeks after Soviet President Nations.' He was saying, 'You'd better See SOVIETS on page 10 • legislature formally ended decades of religious repression by passing a law on freedom of conscience.

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