Kicking Crane Junior Brian Crane scored a goal as tbe men's soccer team beat Colgate 3-1. For more details, see Sportswrap p. 3. THMONDAY. SEPTEMBEER 6, 199CHRONICL3 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTEH CAROLIN A CIRCULATION: 15.000 VOL. 89 NO. 7 Greeks' Israel, Syria may work towards agreement By CLYDE HABERMAN lery on the Golan Heights, the plateau. between Jerusalem and Dam­ role to be N.Y. Times News Service perched above Israel's north­ Presumably, that law would ascus. JERUSALEM — Israel was ern border, shelled Israeli have to be repealed, an effort After his visit, Israeli offi­ examined reported Sunday to be ready to settlements in Galilee. Then in that is to be strongly opposed cials said they were persuaded recognize Syrian sovereignty 1967, Israel captured the by many in Parliament, includ­ that Assad was serious about By JUDY SCHMITT over the Golan Heights soon in Golan, along with East Jerusa­ ing members of Prime Minister striking a deal, adding that so A task force to address return for a statement by Syria lem, the West Bank, Gaza and Yitzhak Rabin's Labor Party. were they. student concerns with the spelling out what it means by the Sinai peninsula. Officials in Jerusalem say no Another Christopher trip to greek system will meet for an offer of "full peace." All Israeli governments have secret talks are under way be­ the region was possible in a few the first time in October. Israeli government officials since reaffirmed how essential tween Israel and Syria similar weeks, they said. The task force, consist- said the reports, in two leading the plateau is to national secu­ to clandestine meetings that "The Syrian track has been ingof six faculty members, newspapers, were "premature." rity, a position that has become the Israelis and Palestinians put on the back burner because six administrators and six But they did not deny the an article of faith for many. held in Norway and that led to of what is happening with the students, will examine the possibility that Israel was head­ Complicating both the emo­ a proposed peace agreement Palestinians," an official said. role greek organizations ing toward some sort of outline tions and domestic politics on calling for Palestinian self-rule When it does "get to the front play on campus. It should agreement with Syria. If an ac­ this issue is the fact that Israel in the Gaza Strip and the West burner" — and the official said deliver a report with rec­ cord does come, it would be no in effect annexed the Golan Bank city of Jericho. it could be soon — one idea ommendations to Janet less momentous a break­ Heights 12 years ago, some­ But they say Secretary of likely to surface is an Israeli Dickerson, vice president through than the draft arrange­ thing it has not done with Gaza State Warren Christopher may recognition of Syrian sover­ for student affairs, in the ment that Israel reached se­ and the West Bank. be asked to serve as an inter­ eignty on the Golan in exchange spring. cretly in late August with the On Dec. 14, 1981, with the mediary between Rabin and for details about what Syria Students who want to Palestine Liberation Organiza­ Likud Party in power, Parlia­ President Hafez Assad of Syria, means by peace, which Israel serve on the task force will tion. ment passed legislation extend­ much the way he carried mes­ says must include open bor­ See GREEK on page 5 •- For years, until the 1967 ing "the law, jurisdiction and sages to and from the two lead­ ders, an exchange of ambassa­ Middle East war, Syrian artil- administration ofthe state" to ers last month as he shuttled dors and tourism and trade. Bulls' final DAP game ends in downpour From staff reports Perhaps it was only fitting to The Bulls, the advanced Class end this way. A farm team of the Atlanta Durham Bulls baseball ended Braves, led the game 1-0 after its 55-year stay at historic catcher Joe Ayrault doubled in Durham Athletic Park Saturday Manny Jiminez with two outs in when a pouring rain cancelled the bottom ofthe first inning. the much anticipated final game After the run scored, the al­ at the DAP. ready steady rain increased in "It's like somebody upstairs intensity and made playing base­ was trying to tell us something," ball an impossibility. Umpire Durham pitcher Chris Seelbach Tim Timmons made the decision said after the cancellation was to call the game amid a chorus of official. boos from die-hard fans. The umpiring crew called the Next season the Bulls, the CHAD STURGILL/THE CHRONICLE game after a rain delay of one minor leagues' most famous team hour and six minutes. Less than after the 1988 hit movie Bull Still smiling an inning ofthe game was played Durham, will move to a new Wooley Bull and Buils's fan David Kaplan enjoy a dry moment before the Bulls' final game at before the dark sky drenched the ballpark less than a mile from the DAP Saturday. crowd of more than 5,000 excited the DAP next season. No. 1 FSU dominates Blue Devils Despite muddy field, Seminole offense gains 628 yards By TOM ENSTICE defense held Duke to 147 net something terrible." By the time the football yards, andjust 17 rushingyards Indeed, according to quarter­ team's season opener with for the entire game. back Spence Fischer, who re­ Florida State at Wallace Wade It was the first time the No. 1 lieved starter Joe Pickens in Stadium had concluded, the for­ team had visited Wallace Wade the second half, the Seminoles merly lush, green field had two Stadium since 1937 when Pitt were out to show Duke that the brown streaks down the middle defeated Duke 10-0. Duke is 21 points Duke scored last year of it, making it appear as if now 0-7 lifetime against teams in a 48-21 FSU win were an something had used it as a door­ ranked No. 1. aberration. mat to wipe its feet on. "It's a case of a No. 1 football "The impression I got from The shoes that made those team looking like a No. 1 foot­ them last year was they really marks, both literally and figu­ ball team, and an unranked didn't want to be out there," ratively, belonged to Florida team not being able to pull off a Fischer said. "They were just State. major upset," Duke head coach kind of lackadaisical. But they On a wet Saturday night, No. Barry Wilson said. "I have to were really, really pumped up 1 Florida State overwhelmed give Florida State a lot of credit. today. They got after us up front CHAD STURGILL/THE CHRONICLE Duke 45^7. FSU's offense to­ Our demise was more what they and in the secondary. I think FSU dominated the Blue Devils 45-7. taled 628 net yards, while its did well than the fact we did See FSU on page 1, SPOSTSWMP • THE CHRONICLE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. 1993 World and National Newsfile Clinton aides discuss new economic plans Associated Press By SYLVIA NASAR regulations. who worked to defeat the N.Y. Times News Seivice Companies, workers disagree: At Since the defeat of the administration's stimulus package dur­ GM, Ford, and Chrysler, more than a Stuck with a tight budget and uncer­ administration's stimulus package by ing the spring, said Friday: "It's fine million hourly workers, retirees, and tain economic prospects, top economic Congress, the economics team has been with me as long as they don't overreach. family members pay nothing for almost advisers in the Clinton administration frustrated by the administration's lack They've got the authority." all of their health care, from an exami­ are eyeing the same types of measures of fiscal tools to bolster the modest and While the broad outlines of a plan nation for a sore throat to open-heart to stimulate the economy that the Bush uneven economic recovery. have been drafted, the specifics are far surgery. Now, as the Big Three negoti­ administration used during the presi­ "Given defeat of the stimulus plan, from final. "This has not reached the ate a national labor contract with the dential election campaign last year. given slow growth," an administration level ofthe full NEC," said Reich, refer­ UAW this fall, the companies are insist­ ring to the National Economic Council. ing that workers accept a proposal the The measures on the drafting table, official said, "the question became, what union steadfastly rejects. which, by and large, would not require could you do? Are there ways to stimu­ "The president has made no decisions congressional approval, are being dis­ late the economy with little or non- yet." Freighter cleared: A Chinese cussed by Labor Secretary Robert Reich, budget effects?" Last year, the Bush administration freighter that had been suspected by Laura D'Andrea Tyson, the head ofthe Sen. Bob Dole, the minority leader Sea ECONOMY on page 11 • American intelligence of carrying poi­ Council of Economic Advisers, and other son gas ingredients to Iran is carrying high-level aides. The plans include no such cargo and wil! be allowed to go speeding up work on military contracts on its way. United States, Chinese and or easing regulations on government Chinese leaders seek growth, Saudi officials say. lending. Such steps are supposed to provide Defendant refuses: One of two maintaining Communist rule white laborers accused of burning a small but concentrated doses of job black tourist decided not to testify in his stimulus for selected industries, groups defense.