The Chronicle Thursday, June 18, 1987 & Duke University Durham, North Carolina Circulation: 7,500 Vol

WEEKLY SUMMER EDITION THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1987 & DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 7,500 VOL. 83, NO. S6 Cocaine overdose found to have caused doctor's death By DAN BERGER Wallace said Meksin had no reason for Cocaine intoxication caused the death using hospital controlled cocaine in per- of an anesthesiology resident at the Medi formimg his medical duties. He said the cal Center one month ago, hospital offi fentanyl came from a lot distributed not cials announced Friday. only to Duke but to other N.C. hospitals Dr. Michael Meksin died of heart as well. failure due to an injection of the drug, ac The medical examiner has not disclosed cording to a preliminary report by the the amount of cocaine in Meksin's body. Chapel Hill medical examiner's office, No other substances have been identified said Dr. Andrew Wallace, vice chancellor as contributing to the death, Wallace said. for health affairs and chief executive of The autopsy report will not be made pub ficer for Duke Hospital. A final autopsy lic until results of tests for fentanyl are report has not been completed. received, according to Dr. Cheryl Thorne, ROCKY ROSEN/THE CHRONICLE Meksin's body was discovered just the Chapel Hill medical examiner con Klansmen marching on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill before 8 a.m. on May 17 in a doctors' ducting Meskin's autopsy. Thorne esti sleeping lounge at the hospital. Meksin mated the report would require another had been on 24-hour call since 8 the previ two weeks to complete. ous morning. Meksin had served in an operation the KKK holds local marches Hospital employees found a needle and night before his death, Wallace said, but syringe on the floor near the body, Wal according to others involved in the By DAN BERGER knives and a stun baton in Durham. Dur lace said. The following day, other drug operation, Meksin functioned normally. and LAURA TRIVERS ham officers arrested nine people, five on related materials, including an empty vial Wallace said Meksin, a staff member Police arrested 12 people Sunday as Ku weapons charges before the march began. of fentanyl, a narcotic anesthetic, as well since July, 1986, had no history of any Klux Klan members marched before jeer The weapons were returned to the Klan as more needles and syringes, were found substance abuse problem. "At no time . ing crowds in Durham and Chapel Hill. members by the Chapel Hill Police by Duke Public Safety officers and a Duke was there a report that Dr. Meksin gave Anti-Ku Klux Klan protesters greatly- Department after the Klan had left physician in Meksin's apartment during a any evidence of being impaired, nor has outnumbered the approximately 60 Klan Chapel Hill city limits, according to Capt. search requested by his parents. See DOCTOR on page 8 members and supporters at both marches. Ralph Pendergraph, support services Although the crowd was larger and more commander for the Chapel Hill Police. hostile in Chapel Hill, Durham Police Police officers wearing riot helmets and made more arrests. equipped with gas masks and night sticks "The march went well. It was un walked on each side of the Klansmen as eventful, the way we wanted it," said Dur they marched along a two-block route in ham Police Lt. AJana Steele. downtown Durham. Two police cars Durham Police had 150 officers on duty preceded the marchers. Extra officers fol for the march, including some on rooftops lowed the rear of the procession with two along the route. city school busses ready to remove Police searched every vehicle that was Klansmen if necessary. to enter the staging area for the march, Chapel Hill used approximately 100 and at least one car was escorted out of uniformed officers from six area agencies the area after a weapon was found in it. to provide protection for the Klansmen All the Klansmen were also searched with who marched there. hand-held metal detectors. .t,-.m Police confiscated 15 guns, several See KLAN on page 7 DAVE KEYS/THE CHRONICLE Communities rally against Klan The parking registration fee wilt increase from $30 to $50 next year. By ROCKY ROSEN "We felt it was necessary to reaffirm and DAN BERGER what we believe in the Durham communi In a crescendo of opposition to Sunday's ty," said Albert Eldridge, associate dean Ku Klux Klan marches, more than 300 of Trinity College and a 17-year Durham Parking fees to be increased people in Durham and 1,000 people in resident. "We believe in a multi-racial, in Chapel Hill rallied last weekend to dem terdenominational, peaceful community," By ROBIN RITNOUR report, which will be presented to the onstrate community desire for racial and he said. Students who own cars will have to Board in September, the money will be religious harmony. As the demonstrators walked four dig a little deeper into their pockets used similarly to the past, he said. "This is not an equal and opposite reac abreast through a drizzling rain and with when they return in September due to The parking fees have not been in tion. This is an overwhelming response," out visible police protection, they sang an increase in parking fees approved creased for several years, but the Uni said Rabbi Steven Sager, one of the four "We Shall Not Be Moved," with by the Trustees. The registration fee versity is now confronted with a organizers ofthe Durham event. several original ver has been increased from $30 to $50. demand for more parking areas and a Saturday's rally in Durham began at ses including The fee for gated lots will increase need for more money to preserve the the First Presbyterian church downtown "Durham will move from $78 to $120. Parking in a parking existing lots, Dumas said. where organizers handed out black and forward/we shall ;OUR deck will cost $240. white balloons and anti-Klan flyers to not be moved." The The Board of Trustees approved the Even with the installation ofthe new participants. marchers gathered increase at their May meeting. Em fees, Duke's parking fees are still lower in front ofthe County Courthouse for a se ployees were notified of the increase than UNC's and neighboring univer ries of speeches. June 1. The increase will be effective sities, he said. Student parking at The speeches were interspersed with September 1,1987. UNC costs between $10 and $114. Em Inside songs, including Woody Guthrie's "This Paul Dumas, director of public safe ployee rates are between $10 and $153. Land Is Your Land" and Bob Dylan's ty, projects that $100,000 will be ac North Carolina State would not give Perkins Playmates: Someone "Blowing in the Wind." quired with the increases, depending their parking fees over the phone. recently walked off with 30 years' The rally" ended with the crowd locking on the number of registrants. In the Although Public Safety would "like worth of Playboy microfilms, valued at arms and singing "We Shall Overcome." past, funds from parking fees have to see more people car pool," Dumas $600, from the library, so for all of you "We've made a lot of progress in this gone toward paving new parking areas said the intention of increasing the who "just read it for the articles," see community and we're not going to be and maintaining existing ones. Pend fees was not to decrease the number of crime briefs on page 3. ing the recommendations of the Dober cars on campus. See PROTESTS on page 6 Page 2 THE CHRONICLE Thursday, June 18,1987 American Airlines inaugurates new hub at RDU Abortion bill By LAURA TRIVERS Passengers traveling on American Air before Senate lines through the Raleigh Durham Air port (RDU) Monday morning were greeted by Governor Martin, Congress stirs the state man David Price, the chairman of Ameri By JON HILSENRATH can Airlines, television camera crews, a bluegrass band, and Wilkinson Wright, North Carolina minors will be forced grandnephew of Orville and Wilbur to receive either the consent of a par Wright. ent or court approval before receiving an abortion if the state Senate passed "Our purpose is to celebrate our such a bill this summer. success," said Robert Crandall, chairman The bill, sponsored by state Repre and president of American Airlines at the sentative Richard Wright (Columbus ribbon cutting ceremony to officially open — D), is going through the state legis the company's $120 million hub at RDU. lature for the second time and has al Although the passengers from arriving ready been passed by the House 70-26. flights appeared surprised by the atten It passed the House Judiciary Com- tion, many area residents boarding the mitte 8-1 and is now being reviewed by morning's outgoing flights had chosen to the Senate Judiciary Committee before fly the airline in anticipation of the ex being presented to the floor ofthe Sen citement. Caroline Ward, Trinity '82, DAVE KEYES/THE CHRONICLE ate. chose to fly American for her Florida busi Robert Crandall presents an American eagle to Gov. Jim Martin. "I think it is reasonable that the par ness trip for "the inexpensive fares and we'll be out fighting for them," he said. to Sarasota were all North Carolina na- for curiosity sake.American is promoting ents know," said Wright, who is serv Martin called the hub "a major boost to tives. Two flight attendants on the crew, ing his seventh term in the legislature. the hub with a $49 fare on flights between the economy ofthe entire state." In addi- currently based in Washington D.C.

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