Campus celebration Students partied all night Saturday fol­ lowing Duke's victory over Florida. See the THE CHRONICLE & MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1994 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROl See ya later, Florida Gators Duke overcomes 13-point deficit to reach final game By DAVE ROYSTER Arizona in the other semifinal, team won the game." CHARLOTTE — The unoffi- at 9:22 p.m. tonight for its third A Duke appearance in Mon­ cial motto ofthe NCAA NCAA title in four day night's final seemed an un­ Tournament is 'survive years. likely prospect for much of the and advance.' The ./:v;~ Senior Grant Hill had game. men's basketball team a monumental perfor­ Although the Blue Devils did just that Saturday mance with 25 points, were chipping into the Gator night against Florida. and classmates Marty lead for most ofthe second half, Barely. Clark and Antonio the decisive stretch ofthe game The Blue Devils fell Lang made crucial began after the final television behind by 13 points plays in the final min­ timeout with 3:24 remaining early in the second half utes to preserve the win and Duke leading 62-60. but rallied to beat the over the East Regional With a chance to extend its upset-minded Gators 70-65 in a champions. tenuous lead, Duke turned the national semifinal game before "It was just an awfully good ball over when freshman Jeff 23, 674 at the Charlotte Coli­ college basketball game," said Capel threw the ball away to seum. Florida head coach Lon Kruger. UF*s Craig Brown. Brown then Duke (28-5) will play Arkan­ "Duke made some good plays stroked a three-pointer in tran- sas (30-3), 91-82 winners over late in the game. The better See SPORTSWRAP. page 1 • Duke must battle Razorbacks with hobbled Parks By DAVE ROYSTER which plays Arkansas for the knee during the Blue Devils' CHARLOTTE — Arkansas national championship tonight 70-65 semifinal win over Florida basketball is famous for its '40 at 9:22 p.m. in the Charlotte Saturday night. minutes of hell' mantra, but Coliseum, hopes it too can get Krzyzewski said that Parks head coach Nolan Richardson through 40 minutes of Razor- was fine after the game when said the slogan is overused in back basketball and have it the team ate together, but that describingthe Razorbacks'style made. his knee was swollen and sore of play. But when the teams take the when he woke up Sunday morn­ "'Forty minutes of hell' came court for the NCAA final this ing. Despite the pain, from practice," Richardson said evening, the Blue Devils, al­ Krzyzewski made it clear that Sunday. "Our kids said that to ready depth-shy, may not be at Parks should play against Ar­ us. Once you get by the first 40 100 percent. Duke coach Mike kansas. SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE minutes of practice you have it Krzyzewski said Sunday that Parks did not work out with Senior forward Antonio Lang hits a bucket in Duke's 70-65 made." center Cherokee Parks may the team Sunday and has been victory over Rorida Saturday. He scored 12 points and pulled The men's basketball team, have torn cartilage in his left See SPORTSWRAP. page 3 • down five rebounds. Few injuries reported Saturday By MICHAEL SAUL tion it," said Chief Lewis Wardell not like I started it." Saturday night's Blue Devil of Public Safety. "Our biggest Peter Hack, a student at the victory celebration yielded fewer point is not to stop the fire but to University ofNorth Carolina at injuries than in previous years, stop injuries." Chapel Hill, was charged with but Duke Public Safety officers Public Safety issued three ci­ drunk and disruptive conduct, won't get any rest until the dust tations and made one arrest dur­ while another Duke student was settles at sunrise Tuesday. ing Saturday's post-game cel­ cited for careless and reckless Although students viewed ebration. driving. Public Safety's failure to stop Engineering junior Jeffrey Public Safety arrested Charles the traditional bonfire on Jimerson Cook of 1914 Lewis St. Jonathan Truelove, a Kentucky Ciocktower Quadrangle as a tri­ was charged with tending an resident, and charged him with umph, officials said preventing unauthorized fire. fighting on Ciocktower Quad as the fire did not top their agenda. "I think it's kind of hilarious well as delaying and obstructing "The fire is such a potential for them to cite me for putting a a law enforcement officer. He hazard that we will never sanc­ board on a fire," Cook said. "It's See SAFETY on page 5 •- Students triumphantly start fire By MICHAEL SAUL to start a bonfire," said Trinity onset ofthe bonfire was fraught Harnessed by hesitancy but junior Mike Hurst. "We just with uncertainty as students overcome with determination, proved to Public Safety and the struggled to follow tradition. University students would not rest ofthe University that tradi­ The fire just would not start— rest until Ciocktower Quad tion dies hard." students were becoming impa­ glowed and celebrators danced About 50 minutes after the tient. So were the cameramen amid the firelight of the tradi­ final buzzer sounded on Duke's and photographers who seemed tional bonfire. 70-65 victory over Florida, the dumbstruck without a fire. "Public Safety did not have scorching heat from the bonfire At 10:15 p.m., students con­ enough muscle to counter the warmed the throng of students. gregated with anticipation in a JASON LAUGHLIN/THE CHRONICLE celebration of thousands of jubi­ But the time that lapsed in be­ massive circle on the quad and Two Duke students celebrate following Saturday's victory. lant students who really wanted tween the game's end and the See BONFIRE on page 6 • THE CHRONICLE MONDAY. APRIL 4, 1994 World and National Newsfile U.S. refuses to protect Bosnian town Associated Press By MICHAEL GORDON Fed Sticks: Despite turmoil in "We need to be clear about our capa­ Gorazde. The concern is that Perry's com­ N.Y. Times News Service financial markets, the Federal Re­ bilities to NATO, to the United Nations ments might be taken by the Serbian serve seems unlikely to change its WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary and to the American people," a Pentagon forces as a green light to continue their approach, assertingthatevenat their William Perry on Sunday ruled out mili­ official said. "If we stayed vague to not artillery and infantry attacks in eastern current levels, interest rates are not tary action to save a Bosnian town, even give away our hand, we would create Bosnia. hurting the economy. as the town came under fierce attacks by false expectations." "My instinct is that the Serbs may not Serbian forces. But the explicit manner in which Perry believe we will do anything about it any­ Market wavers: The worst may He said the administration would not excluded using military power is likely to way, but I do not see any purpose in not be over for the U.S. stock market, use air strikes to prevent Serbian forces heighten the debate over the use of force confirming it for them," said Morton pummeled last week by a barrage of from overrunning Gorazde, a predomi­ in the post-Cold-War world. Abramowitz, president of the Carnegie economic and political news that in­ vestors have viewed as omens of rising nantly Muslim town of 65,000 in eastern Some former officials said they were Endowment for International Peace and inflation and uncertainty. Bosnia. surprised by the public renunciation of former head of the State Department's Asked if Washington was willing to military action to protect civilians in See BOSNIA on page 13 • Secretary threatens: The us. is allow Gorazde to fall to the Serbs, Perry willing to risk provoking war to stop said: "We will not enter the war to stop North Korea's program to develop that from happening. That is correct, Militant Zulus inspire fear, nuclear weapons, Defense Secretary yes." William Perry said. But he insisted, Perry's comments, which he made on "we're not on the brink of crisis." the NBC News progr.am "Meetthe Press," controversy in South Africa Businessman plans: Wayne reflect the hesitancy and sometimes out­ right opposition within the Pentagon By BILL KELLER Huizenga, who made a fortune in folly of underestimating the Zulus. N.Y. Times News Seivice garbage and has since turned to other about using threats of military action to As South African soldiers undertake ventures bke Blockbuster Video, now toughen the administration's diplomacy. ISANDLWANA, South Africa—From their own push into Zulu country, dis­ has plans for his biggest project ever: Pentagon officials said that the the sphinx-shaped crag that gives this patched by President F.W. de Klerk with A rival to Disney World to be built on secretary's comments reflected adminis­ place its name, a vast amphitheater of the blessing ofhis likely successor, Nelson 2,600 acres right on the Miami-Fort tration policy and that his intention was yellow grass, drenched in blood and his­ Mandela, the question in many minds is Lauderdale border. to define the limits of what the adminis­ tory, rolls east to a distant horizon. whether the Zulus are being misjudged tration was willing to do militarily in On a sunny January day in 1879, a again. Bosnia. British force of 1,800 soldiers on their Will this police action, intended to quell Weather Although the Pentagon has expressed way to an anticipated easy conquest of factional violence and protect voters in willingness to protect U.N.