THE CHRONICLE WEDNESDAY. MARCH 2, 1988 6 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 83. NO. 112 White House denies charges of violating protesters' rights By MATT CHURCHILL law suit against the University for in­ A group of student protesters claim fringing upon their right to freedom of their right to free speech was violated speech. The group will meet with a lawyer when fliers critical of Reagan administra­ this week to determine whether or not tion policies were confiscated by White they can sue the University for impeding House and University officials during the free speech. "We don't know how much we president's recent visit to campus. have to stand on on this, but we're cer­ Although University officials acknowl­ tainly checking it out," said Trinity Senior edge that printed materials were taken David Wolfson. from protesters by Secret Service person­ The confiscation of leaflets containing nel, conflicting reports remain concerning information linking the Nicaraguan con­ the University's involvement in the tras to drug smuggling took place in events. White House officials deny violat­ Cameron shortly before the President's PETER AMAN/THE CHRONICLE ing the rights of any protesters. 'arrival, according to Wolfson. Wolfson Some protesters claim that they were prevented from distributing fliers critical The students are circulating a petition said that two men, one bearing a lapel pin protesting the alleged confiscation of worn by White House officials, asked if he of the Reagan administration. fliers, the removal of posted fliers an­ had a permit to distribute material on nouncing the protest, and the inequitable University private property. When Reagan security person told me he Crow, claims that Washington personnel opportunities of supporters and Wolfson replied that he did not, the men wanted to talk to me in the corridor. He were not involved in any confiscation ac­ protesters to hang banners within confiscated the material, Wolfson said. He said I couldn't distribute the flyers and I tivity. "I can almost guarantee you that Cameron Indoor Stadium, the location of claimed that one of the two men may have couldn't go inside unless I gave him the no secret service people would do that," the President's speech. been a Public Safety officer, but Wolfson fliers," Tyson said. Crow said. "We didn't tell [Public Safetyl The petition urges that the University could provide no evidence of the man's iden­ History graduate student Dirk Phillip- to do that either and if they did, they did administration formulate a policy for han­ tity or affiliation. sen said that University officers were in­ it on their own volition," he said. dling potentially controversial events, "in History graduate student Tim Tyson volved in taking away flyers. "I do know However, according to several Univer­ a manner that guarantees the free ex­ said he also came into conflict with an of­ that they were Duke officials because I've sity officials the Secret Service was in­ change of ideas and preserves the integ­ ficial wearing a White House lapel pin. "I seen them many times before at other volved in seizing the fliers. Secret Service rity of Duke University." was passing [these fliers] out inside," events," on campus, he said. agents "halted the distribution of the stuff The protesters are also considering a Tyson said."A man I feel certain was a A White House Advance staffer, Matt See PROTEST on page 5 • Premier physicist to join faculty By SUZANNEBAGERT Evans said. "So such plans for 'going after The Board of Trustees approved plans stars' leave you in the cold. It's different last Saturday for construction of a $2 mil­ from just having a set of books to move." lion lab to house the research apparatus "One of the reasons we were able to do of a premier figure in the physics world it was because our administration was who is joining the University physics able to get together and move, and offer department. him this |new lab] project," Evans said. John Madey will arrive in July from Other institutions tried to recruit Stanford University, where he received Madey, Evans said. "The University of his Ph.D. in 1970 and remained through­ Utah wanted very much to attract him," out his development and research of the he said, "but for various reasons including first free electron laser (FED, said the three universities, two first-class Lawrence Evans, physics department medical centers, and the opportunity to chair. collaborate with other chemists and phys­ "It's ordinarily very difficult to pur- icists in the triangle, he chose Duke." suade a great scientist to move, because Madey is also familiar with a group of his equipment is locked in one place," See PHYSICS on page 5 ^ University granted $ 1 million By ROCKY ROSEN PETER AMAN/THE CHRONICLE "In the third century we must look to The Johnson & Johnson Health Man­ the ultimate, which is the prevention of Sen. Robert Dole stumping in the Bryan Center agement, Inc. company has awarded the disease," Anlyan said. University three grants totalling $1 mil­ "While the contributions are being di­ lion to help fund research in the field of rected to Duke University, the real preventative health care, officials an­ beneficiaries are the millions of people Dole seeks student support nounced Tuesday. who are concerned about maintaining The gifts "will focus the attention of a their good health or, in cases where peo­ By DANIEL MANATT leading health care corporation and a pre­ ple are confronted with illness or the risk campaign. This race is all about your eminent university on health promotion Republican presidential candidate future," Dole said. of illness, finding the most effective ways and nutrition — two dimensions of health See GRANTS on page 7 ^ Sen. Robert Dole brought his campaign Dole warned that the burgeoning care that are emerging as powerful forces message of legislative effectiveness, federal deficit posed perhaps the most in the prevention and treatment of fiscal responsibility and a commitment dire threat to the nation's future. "If I disease," said Frank Barker, president of to education during a visit to the Uni­ were a part of your generation I would Johnson & Johnson. Weather versity Tuesday morning. be in [Washington] D.C. chasing every­ Preventative health care is the next Speaking to an estimated crowd of body in the White House responsible logical step in the development of medi­ Just another day: Monday was 400 in the Bryan Center, Dole outlined for the deficit with a baseball bat," he cine in the United States, said William Leap Day, yesterday was the first of his campaign platform and under­ quipped. Anlyan, chancellor for health affairs, at a March, but today's just another won­ scored his experience as a senator and Dole outlined his deficit reduction press conference. During the nation's first derful Wednesday with highs in the his strength as a national leader, while program that calls for an immediate century, little was done in the field of low 60s and light winds. Tomorrow will encouraging student activism in the See DOLE on page 6 • health care. In the second century, medi be variably cloudy with highs in the cal efforts concentrated on curing mid 60s. THE CHRONICUE WHWESPAV, MARCH 2,1988 World & National Newsfile Iran vows revenge on Iraq for bombing N.Y. Times News Service Vladimir Gudev to receive a "stern warning," the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported. A military Drug trafficking uncontrollable: The annual NICOSIA, Cyprus — Iraq said Tuesday it fired 15 quoted by the agency vowed revenge and advised Iraqis report on narcotics by the State Department says missiles into Tehran in the first long-range rocket attack to evacuate cities. that most drug-producing countries' crop production on the Iranian capital since the war began in September Residents of Baghdad, reached by telephone from has grown substantially in the past year, and that it 1980. Iran said 27 civilians were killed and vowed reven­ Nicosia, said outdoor loudspeakers scattered through is beyond the ability of any single government to con­ ge. the city played martial music and people went to air raid trol. The 24-hour onslaught was the first evidence backing shelters. Iraq's claim last summer that it has surface-to-surface IRNA quoted Kamal Kharrazi, head of the war infor­ Panamanian policy revealed: Opponents of missiles capable of reaching Tehran, which is 290 miles mation office in Tehran, was quoted by the Iranian Panama's strongman, Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, from the Iraqi border. agency as saying 27 civilians had been killed and more unveiled a campaign of economic warfare designed to "Iraq possesses gigantic strategic capabilities to than 100 wounded. It said relief and rescue workers con­ create a cash flow squeeze on Panama. The opponents destroy Tehran, the nest of evil," Information Minister tinued taking casualties to hospitals in the capital. have the backing of the Reagan administration. Latif Nsayef Jassim was quoted as saying by the official Official radio urged Iranians to take refuge in bomb Iraqi News Agency. shelters built recently in Tehran, which is in north-cen­ Violence in Panama: In Panama, paramilitary It said President Saddam Hussein named the new tral Iran and has a population of about 6 million. forces burst into a radio station, beating a former missile "AI Hussein" for a saint of the Shiite Moslems, This is Iraq's first use of surface-to-surf ace missiles on presidential candidate badly before seizing him and the branch of Islam followed by slightly more than half Tehran. Raids on Iranian cities usually are made by its 11 other people and forcing the station off the air.