Packing it in Trinity junior Tami Peterson and her vol­ leyball teammates win eight straight in THE CHRONICLE Raleigh. See Sports page 17. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6. 1993 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15.000 VOL. 89. NO. 29 Trusted military aide plays key role Jordan to announce By SERGE SCHMEMANN But he was also the only one It was his refusal to lead the N.Y. Times News Service present who could claim to be attack that may have saved the MOSCOW — Among the se­ an authority on storming the Soviet president. But more im­ retirement at age 30 curity ministers clustered with Parliament building—and on portantly, it earned Grachev the NEW YORK (AP) — as a freshman at North Caro­ President Boris Yeltsin on Sun­ the risk of defection. In August Russian president's personal Michael Jordan, the world's lina, is expected to cite his day night, pondering 1991, as a major-gen­ gratitude, and his political pa­ most famous athlete and father's slaying this summer how to quell the armed eral and commander tronage, a full genera's rank basketball's greatest player, as the reason for his retire­ uprising that was tak­ of airborne troops, he and the Ministry of Defense. will announce his retirement ment at age 30. ing place at the Par­ had been charged with In the aftermath of Monday's Wednesday, according to "It's time for me to move on liament center, the organizers ofthe Com­ assault, there was every reason NBC and published reports. to something else," the Sun- mayor's office, and the munist coup to bring to credit Grachev with a re­ "Dateline NBC," the Den­ Times said Jordan told television center, De­ the 106 Tula Airborne sounding success. Acting with ver Post and the Chicago Sun- friends. "I know a lot of people fense Minister Pavel Division into Moscow precision and discipline, several Times reported the news al­ are going to be shocked by Grachev was the key and to prepare the as­ elite army units — the crack most simultaneously Tues­ this decision and probably official. sault on the Parlia­ Alpha anti-terrorist comman­ day night. won't understand. But I've Not only was he the Boris Yeltsin ment building. dos and units ofthe Taman and Jordan, NBA scoring cham­ talked it over with my family senior military officer, It was there that Kantemir Guards and, again, pion the last seven years, and friends, and most of all who knew best which army units Yeltsin was leading resistance the Tula airborne divisions— leader of the three-time I'm at peace with myself over could be trusted to stay loyal to to the putsch that had been cleared the White House, as the champion Chicago Bulls, two- the decision." the Kremlin, and the man who mobilized to oust President Parliament building is called, time Olympic gold-medal His father's death appar- would have to organize and or­ Mikhail Gorbachev of the So­ within several hours and with- winner and NCAA champion See JORDAN on page 18 P» der the actual assault. viet Union. See MOSCOW on page 9 • Graduate New graduate tuition student plan avoids red tape By ALISON STUEBE School. Next year's entering graduate For students paying their own assaulted students may be able to sidestep way, the new policy will mean From staff reports red tape when paying tuition. more tuition. A graduate student was as­ A plan approved by the execu­ The current tuition payment saulted while walking on Or­ tive council ofthe graduate fac­ system requires that students egon Street at 9:10 p.m. Mon­ ulty would change the tuition pay for 2.5 years of full-time day night. process by charging students a course work, while the new plan The student, who was headed flat rate during their first three will charge for three years. This toward Central Campus from years of graduate work. After year, a semester of full time tu­ Broad Street, noticed three men the third year, graduate students ition and fees costs $5,800. walk past him. When he turned would only pay a semesterly reg­ About 60 ofthe 970 graduate onto Oregon Street, one of the istration fee. students in their first three years males assaulted him from be­ For the plan to take effect, it of study do not receive grant hind, said Sara Raines, press must be approved by the Board support for tuition. But, 45 of officer for Duke Public Safety. ofTrustees. these 60 students are in then- The student sustained lacera­ The proposal would only affect first year, and most find tuition tions above his eye and was Ph.D. candidates enrolling after support for part oftheir gradu­ taken to the emergency room. this year. It will have little fi­ ate work, Pfeiffer said. DAVID PINCUS/THE CHRONICLE The student described the at­ nancial effect on most graduate To help students who enroll tacker as a 6-foot-2-inch black Eight ball! students because fellowships and without funding, the Graduate male around 18 years of age, Mark Gordon, a graduate student in public policy, (r) beats grants pay most Ph.D. students' School's long range plan asks wearing a black or brown jacket Trinity junior Paul Alleyne in pool at the Devil's Quarters. tuition, said Kathy Pfeiffer, as­ departments to find ways to sup- See ASSAULT on page 7 • sistant dean of the Graduate See TUITION on page 15 •• Controversial student leader chronicles inner-city past By IAN JAMES Shavar Jeffries appeared in Childhood challenges shape student's outlook on life his Afro-American history class said Jeffries, a Trinity sopho­ tween the races. through a tougher childhood last month wearing a red hat more and Black Student Alli­ As he sweated over his smoky than most University students. with the words "Peace Ya-Dig" ance vice president for external Central Campus stove making Jeffries' mother, who was 18 embroidered over a green peace affairs. french toast Sunday morning, when he was born, was aban­ sign. As a freshman, Jeffries estab­ Jeffries discussed his frustra­ doned in Newark's inner city by Jeffries gained fame on cam­ lished himself as a prominent tion with University students his father. pus last year by taking a firm student activist by vigorously who are unaware of the chal­ She eventually remarried and stand on racial issues. lobbying campus groups to bring lenges many inner-city black moved to California, but her Whether leading a campaign Leonard Jeffries, professor of families face. new husband beat her and she to bring controversial professor African-American studies at the "A lot of people here are so lefthim, Jeffries said. "Insanely Leonard Jeffries to speak on City College of New York, to into the gothic wonderland jealous," the man traced Jeffries' campus, or more recently criti­ campus. Leonard Jeffriesis con­ thing—the world is not like mother to her place of employ­ cizing the University's failure sidered by some as a black his­ Duke," Jeffries said. "The great ment. to reach hiring goals for black tory scholar who speaks the difference between white people "He killed my mother," faculty in The New York Times, truth while others describe him and black people is that differ­ Jeffries said. He shot her with a Shavar Jeffries is a far cry from as an anti-Semite who uses ence in terms of opportunities." sawed-off shotgun one morning a complacent observer. terms like "sun people" and "ice Growing up in the inner city as she entered her workplace NICOLE ALLEN/THE CHRONICLE "I like to talk, as you can tell," people" to draw distinctions be­ of Newark, Jeffries struggled See JEFFRIES on page 7 • Shavar Jeffries THE CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1993 World and National Newsfile Representatives favor exit from Somalia Associated Press By CLIFFORD KRAUSS McCain said his office received 400 seek additional forces from other na­ Menendez forgets: Erik N.Y. Times News Service calls on Monday from constituents fa­ tions to replace American troops and Menendez said Tuesday he blocked WASHINGTON — A wave of hostil­ voring immediate withdrawal and two added that they wanted to withdraw from his memory the moment when he ity toward the military operation in So­ calls supporting the present policy. from Somalia after a semblance of order shot his parents to death, and neither malia swept Congress on Tuesday, forc­ McCain, a prisoner of war in the Viet­ and security had been established in therapy nor medication have helped ing the White House to send two Cabinet nam War, said: "We should tell Aidid Mogadishu. him remember those lost seconds. secretaries to Capitol Hill to try to calm that we want the Americans back. Oth­ Democratic and Republican lawmak­ critics and plead for additional time to erwise, he will pay sooner or later. Then ers left the one-and-a-half-hour meeting Testing to resume: President formulate a new policy. we should come home." Clinton ordered the Energy Depart­ expressing bemused wonder that the ment on Tuesday to prepare for a pos­ "It's Vietnam all over again," said Sen. Christopher and Aspin were also con­ two officials would offer little more than sible resumption of nuclear testing, Ernest Hollings, D-S.C, who is in a fronted with angry questions and promises that they would return with a acting just hours after China deto­ group of conservatives calling for quick speeches questioning the competence of withdrawal timetable at a later date. nated a nuclear bomb and shattered withdrawal from Somalia. "There's no the administration.