Hi Bra!n trust THE CHRONICLE toying to pra___&t__te_-Uture ofU-S. twopsi WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1991 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 86, NO. 76 Countdown to war begins in Middle East as world looks on By LAURA KING and "at peace with himself." Wednesday local time in Bagh­ ful solution were practically raeli conflict, including the Associated Press Iraq declared a "unace of hell" dad, where the Iraqi government dead. Palestinian question." The midnight deadline for awaits anyone trying to dislodge gave no last-minute sign it was At a packed news conference, That links the Persian Gulf Iraqi President Saddam Hussein its 545,000 troops from Kuwait, willing to withdraw from the U.N. Secretary-General Javier crisis with the Palestinian issue, to pull his forces out of Kuwait taken over in an Iraqi blitz on small emirate it overran in a dis­ Perez de Cuellar made a final ap­ a connection the Iraqi president passed Wednesday and more Aug. 2. What Saddam faced was pute over land and oil. peal to Saddam Hussein to with­ sought and the United States than 680,000 U.S. and allied thousands of combat aircraft, After the deadline, set Nov. 29 draw his troops and* avert war. and Britain opposed. troops began a new countdown scores of warships and some of by the United Nations Security He assured Iraq that once it Perez de Cuellar's statement to war. the world's most sophisticated Council, U.N. members are au­ begins a decisive withdrawal, its came six hours before expiration Barring an attack by Iraq, the weapons, spearheaded by thorized to drive Iraq out of Ku­ forces would not be attacked. ofthe U.N. deadline. start of a Persian Gulf war lay in 415,000 U.S. troops. wait by force. Perez de Cuellar said he also Bush somberly walked the the hands of President Bush and Baghdad's shouts of defiance Deadline expiration at mid­ had promises "from the highest White House grounds at dawn allied leaders. Bush, armed with combined with a worldwide night Tuesday, Eastern Stan­ levels of government" that with Tuesday, then met with his na­ congressional authorization to clamor of last-minute appeals to dard Time, did not mean War was the crisis over, "every effort will tional security advisers. drive Iraq from Kuwait, was Saddam and anti-war protests. inevitable, but exhausted diplo­ be made to address, in a com­ The Defense Department said described Tuesday as resolute The deadline expired at 8 a.m. mats said efforts to find a peace­ prehensive manner, the Arab-Is­ See IRAQ on page 5 • D.A. dismisses case against students American Campus loses By JULIE MEWHORT the street at 12:30 p.m. Fisher also said the law enfor­ Fourteen University students The students had not received cement officers had begun arrest­ Glaxo; future is unclear arrested during a "die-in" last a public notice informing them ing the students even before December were dismissed from that they had been denied an ex­ 12:30 p.m. By LEIGH DYER court Tuesday, on the eve of the tended permit and that they had "They [police] violated their violence they were trying to to leave by 12:30 p.m. own permit before 12:30 p.m.," Glaxo, Inc. announced Mon­ prevent. "Time had expired for the stu­ he said. day that it will not participate The case was officially dis­ dents. The permit was not Stephens did not bring up the in the proposed American missed because police officers granted until 1:00, but there was time of arrest when he dismissed Campus project, leaving the failed to notify the arrested stu­ not a notice to notify them that the case. future of the multimillion dol­ dents that they were demonstra­ the original request had been Stewart, a civil disobedience lar downtown development in ting without a legal permit, said denied," Stephens said before of­ lawyer and a 1972 graduate of doubt. District Attorney Ronald ficially dismissing the case in the University, represented the But Adam Abram, master­ Stephens. front of a full courtroom. students free of charge. He was mind behind the redevelop­ The students were arrested Stephens made an unusual ap­ actively involved in demonstra­ ment of former American during a protest in front of the pearance in Durham County Dis­ tions, vigils and protests as a stu­ Tobacco Co. property, hopes to downtown post office, December trict Court. He was unable to be dent at the University. He has regroup with the current part­ 7, 1990. Hundreds of students reached for comment following donated his legal services to sev­ ners of American Campus, simulated their deaths in the the trial. eral other student protestors. which include the University, to salvage the project. "die-in" by lying, covered with Defense Attorney Stewart The students, pleased with the Abram is a member of the mock blood, in the middle of Fisher agreed with the decision decision, said they have no STAFF PHOTO/THE CHRONICLE Main Street. and explained that the students regrets about their actions. Adaron group, which is a gen­ The students had requested a were unaware that an extended eral partner in ABD Asso­ Adam Abrahm permit to demonstrate until 1:00 permit had not been granted. "We are committed to use our ciates, owners of most of the p.m. for the event, but the permit "Once a permit is issued, it voices to speak agaist the war," project. agreed to construct a $30 mil­ was granted only until 12:30 cannot be changed or denied by a graduate student Miriam Pes- Last summer, the City of lion office building adjacent to p.m. Fourteen students were ar­ law enforcement official. An of­ kowitz said. "I am glad to be a Durham pledged $6 million to the American Tobacco proper­ rested for impeding traffic when ficer cannot arbitrarily revoke a part of the protest to bring our build a parking lot for the ty. Now that the Glaxo agree- they refused to comply with law permit during a demonstration," soldiers home, and we are going project, provided that Glaxo See GLAXO on page 7 ^ enforcement officials to evacuate Fisher said. See TRIAL on page 8 • Library fines result from error in computer system By COLIN BROWN "Errors will be corrected and An error in the new system at mistaken charges will be cleared Perkin's Library has led to sev­ with the Bursar." eral unfounded charges to stu­ The library has not been able dents. to pinpoint the source of the er­ Some students who took out ror. "We have not been able to and returned books before determine if it's a system area Christmas break received notices problem, or an operational area falsely accusing them of owing problem — it's probably both," money on overdue books. Nelius said. "Some people have come in "We can't guarantee that this pretty upset about the notice, but won't happen again, but we are it's not a problem after we take willing to take care of each prob­ care of it for them," said Rochelle lem that comes in," said Maurice Bailey, a circulation desk em­ Parker, a circulation desk em­ ployee. ployee. "Any student who has received an overdue notice or a bill for Most books checked out since _x_..: books which have already been the computer system was in­ BOB KAPLAN /THE CHRONICLE returned are asked to bring these stalled have been correctly dis­ Countdown to midnight notices to the circulation desk," charged, Nelius said. He esti­ said Albert Nelius, head of the People met in front of the Chapel Tuesday to pray for peace on the day of the United Nation's mated that about 150 books have deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait department of circulation. caused problems. - PAGE 2 THE CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1991 World and National Newsfile Commandos storm Latvian police academy Associated Press Inflation hits high: The weak By BRYAN BRUMLEY pressure from impatient hard-liners such FINL^^v^/.--:A ^s economy should keep inflation under Associated Press as Petrushenko to take tougher steps to rl control this year, analysts believe, but RIGA, U.S.S.R. — Soviet commandos restore order, shot back angrily. Baltic Sea msT* Tallinn the shock to oil prices from the Persian stormed a Latvian police academy and "Before you stands a man who under­ Gulf crisis pushed inflation in 1990 to seized weapons from cadets Tuesday as a stands the full responsibility and full 12^ Estonia^ the highest rate in nine years. tide of unrest surged through the Baltics. acuteness of this problem," Gorbachev Republic In Moscow, Mikhail Gorbachev clashed said, referring to himself and jabbing in OwlS beware: The spotted owl, the head-on with a hot-tempered military the air with his finger for emphasis. subject of a bitter controversy between hard-liner who demanded that the Soviet "It's not easy to do this. There are thou­ environmentalists and loggers, was president take even harsher measures sands, tens of thousands of weapons. You found nailed to a sign in Olympic Na­ against the breakaway republics. could start such a slaughter." tional Park bearing a note warning Thousands at a Communist Party-led Latvian Interior Minister Aloizs Vaznis "the match has yet to be struck" in a rally in Riga roared for a pro-Kremlin accused Soviet "black beret" commandos battle over old-growth forests. group to take power in Latvia. of staging attacks that "are designed to In Lithuania, a military helicopter cir­ provoke armed conflict to prompt the in­ Far OUt: New satellite studies sug­ cled parliament and workers dug a long tervention of military units, which are gest that large clusters of galaxies trench behind the building to protect it combat-ready." were formed very early in time, a find­ from Soviet tanks.