Alum Suspect in Kennedy Rape Case Elections

Alum Suspect in Kennedy Rape Case Elections

This is ASDU Or part of them ai continuing saga of. THE CHRONICLE 6 and 7. FRIDAY, APRIL 12. 1991 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 86. NO. 133 Alum suspect in Kennedy rape case Nobel winner speaks: From staff and wire reports Thursday. He said that the sug­ "the person who assaulted her Police in Palm Beach, Fla., gestion that he abused the alleged was the relative of a prominent Military might is not the answer identified a University alumnus victim "is a damnable lie." and nationally known subject." as a suspect in a rape at the 'The alleged incident is com­ The woman says she met the Kennedy family compound in the pletely inconsistent with what I three men at a Palm Beach By ERIC LARSON city. One former professor of the knew of him," said University nightclub. After a long night of Former Costa Rican presi­ suspect finds the allegations hard professor William Chafe, chair of drinking, she accepted an invi­ dent and Nobel laureate Oscar to believe. the history department and a tation to go back to the family's Arias won a standing ovation Police named William Kennedy former professor of Smith's. Chafe compound. According to pub­ last night with a speech call­ Smith, Trinity '83, as a suspect taught the student during his lished accounts, she was grabbed ing for demilitarization on during a pretrial hearing on April senior year and described him as by the ankle and assaulted while both regional and interna­ 4. An unidentified 29-year-old "a sensitive, caring individual who walking back to the compound tional levels. woman alleged she was raped at was very much engaged in social after a walk on the beach with The 1987 Nobel Peace Prize the Kennedy residence March 30. issues." Smith. Smith reportedly had re­ recipient expressed his disap­ "I emphatically deny that the According to New York moved his clothes for a swim be­ proval for the use of military woman in question was abused or Newsday, which obtained a copy fore she walked back to the force in addressing the world's that force was used by me in any of the police report that will be mansion. conflicts and specifically cited way," Smith said in a statement released today, the woman very The Miami Herald quoted a the United States' action in released by his attorneys on reluctantly told a police- officer See RAPE on page 10 • the Persian Gulf as a case whose appropriateness is still being debated. "It is easy to declare war. Declaring peace is more diffi­ SCOn BOOTH/THE CHRONICLE cult," Arias said to a Page Oscar Arias Auditorium crowd of 400. he said. Arias did not formally con­ Arias, whose country does demn U.S. action in the Gulf, not have a standing military, but instead used it as an ex­ said a New World Order can­ ample of the United States' not and should not be controlled power and responsibility in the by a single military power. world. "Some believe that global "The U.S. plays an impor­ stability depends on the hege­ tant role in world history. Your mony ofthe dominant power," acts and omissions affect the but those people are wrong, he fate of many alive in the world said. A failure of such a system today," Arias said. is demonstrated by the failure The U.S. should take ad­ ofthe U.S. and the Soviet Union vantage of its position to work to keep their countries out of for peace through interna­ separate wars for more than tional and legal means, he 50 years at a time" despite their said, warning that power can immense power. be greatly misused. "Power Instead, both countries gives those who have it the pressured the small nations power to modify the world... around them, "treating them not necessarily to improve it," See ARIAS on page 10 • 'Bull Durham IF won't ALEX WANG/THE CHRONICLE Cale quiz, orgo test, English paper As if these guys didn't have enough to juggle already, now they're throwing clubs at each other.. come to plate for years By LEIGH DYER not be reached for comment from A planned sequel to the movie ,his Burbank, Calif., office. Elections marred by unguarded box that made Durham famous has The original movie, filmed lo­ been put on hold indefinitely. cally in 1987, grossed more than By MATT STEFFORA Alsobrook said. "The result is the defeated Mandeep Dhillon (117), A sequel to the 1988 smash hit $50 million. Costner starred as The voting procedure in result; that's not the problem. The Asher Rubin (67) and Deborah "Bull Durham" will definitely not "Crash" Davis, an aging catcher Thursday's class officer elections problem is, the system broke Daumit(51). be filmed in Durham within the trying to teach rookie pitcher has at least one candidate upset. down." Vice president: Aynesh John­ next 2-3 years, said Miles Wolff, "Nuke" LaLoosh (Robbins) the Trinity freshman Paul Students on East who had to son (210) defeated Holly Shantz the lame duck owner of the ropes while vying for the affection Kelleher, a candidate for class of vote at the West or North Campus (120). Durham Bulls baseball team. of Bulls fan Annie Savoy 1994 vice president, claims ASDU stations, Kelleher said. "It took Secretary Mark Goodrich and Wolffs sports group and film (Sarandon). left the polling area on East me 40 minutes to take a bus over treasurer CB. Richardson ran producer Thorn Mount, who pro­ Mount'had hoped to film much Campus unmanned for most of to West to vote for myself." unopposed. duced the original movie, an­ of the sequel in the Durham Thursday afternoon. Kelleher reported the problem Class of 1994. nounced last summer that a "Bull Athletic Park, the setting of the Between about 11:30 a.m. and to ASDU president Tonya President: Nichole Pittman Durham II" was in the works, but original. Filming had tentatively 4:30 p.m., the ballot box in the Robinson Thursday night after the (199 votes) defeated Mike Taylor Wolff said Thursday that the been scheduled to begin in this lobby ofthe East Union building results were released. Robinson (151) and Audra Plenys (147). plans have run into problems. fall, with the summer of 1992 as was left on a table surrounded by could not be reached for comment. Secretary Kevin Mallard and "It doesn't look like it's going to the target date for the sequel's unmarked ballots, said Trinity ASDU attorney general treasurer Greg Stanton ran un­ happen," Wolff said. release. freshman Cannon Alsobrook, Vanessa Simmons, a Trinity opposed. Mount had hoped to cast the Wolff did not rule out a poten­ Kelleher's campaign manager. sophomore, said the representa­ All four winners in the class of movie's original stars, Kevin tial sequel in the distant future. "Anyone could have gone in and tive overseeing the voting on East 1993 offices ran unopposed. Costner, Susan Sarandon and "Durham Athletic Park will still filled out 100 [ballots] and thrown between 4 and 5 p.m. arrived late. Hardy Vieux was chosen presi­ Tim Robbins, in the sequel, but be there," he said. them in there . Before I even Simmons said she was not aware dent, Billy Blank vice president, Wolff said "contractual problems" Bock agreed. "Everybody that's found out who won I was mad," the booth was unmanned during Adrianne Threatt secretary and had arisen with the stars. involved in the movie's production Kelleher said. the rest of the afternoon and did Thomas Uzzel treasurer. "A sequel in this case wouldn't is still optimistic," he said. Karen Spock defeated Kelleher not receive any complaints. No runoffs will be held for any be very good without the original The Bulls will play in the park 288 votes to 149. In other races: of the positions, Simmons said, stars," said Pete Bock, vice presi­ through the end of their 1992 Kelleher is not protesting the Class of 1992. although votes will be recounted dent ofthe Wolff Sports Group. season, and possibly to the end of election or demanding a recount, President: Ryan Cantwell (131) if a candidate requests it. Mount, a Durham native, could the 1993 season. PAdE_2 THE CHRONICLE FRIDAY, APR(L 12, 1991 World and National Newsfile Bush agrees to safe havens for Kurds in Iraq Associated Press By PATRICK TYLER we do not expect any interference from the N.Y. Times News Service man in Baghdad," Bush continued. "He Yugoslovia's future blurry:The WASHINGTON — After meeting with knows better than to interfere." presidents of Yugoslavia's six repub­ European leaders Thursday, President The administration had initially given a lics agreed Thursday to hold refer­ Bush said the United States had reached lukewarm response to the idea of an enclave endums in each of their regions by "total agreement" with them on informal for Kurds, but when asked about the plan the end of May to decide the future of safe havens in northern Iraq where aid Thursday, Bush said there was "total the crumbling federation. would be given to the wave of Kurdish agreement" with Britain, the European refugees in flight from the Baghdad gov­ Community and the U.N. secretary general Hati protests statement:The ernment of President Saddam Hussein. on the measure. Hati government has protested that The Bush administration's description The talks on the refugees took place a U.S. Embassy statement on the ofthe refugee zone it was trying to estab­ Thursday before the U.N.

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