Friday September 14, 1984 Volume SOB, Number 16 Duke University Durham, North Carolina THE CHRONICLE Newsfile Diana lashes Carolina coast Hurricane subsides after causing $25 million in damages 'Balanced' Israeli government: Following By MARY ANNE RHYNE An estimated 20,000 of Carolina Power & Light Co.'s eight hours of debate, Israel's Parliment Thursday night The Associated Press 40,000 customers in and around Wilmington were without approved 89-18 a government of national unity based WILMINGTON - Hurricane Diana howled into the power, the utility said. Spokeswoman Kay Young said it on a carefully balanced power-sharing agreement be­ Carolinas on Thursday, causing more than $25 million in would be Saturday at the earliest before all power could tween the Labor Party and the Likud Bloc Early Fri­ damage as it ripped off roofs, toppled power lines and be restored. An additional 10,000 customers lost power in day, Shimon Peres took the oath as Israel's eighth Prime blocked roads with water and debris. At least one looting South Carolina, utility officials there said. An ice cream Minister. See page 2. incident was reported, and many people who had left shop lost 500 pounds of ice cream in Southport due to the shelters were stranded. power failure. Reagan withholds accusations: in a re­ No deaths or injuries were blamed directly on the storm, Although the power was out, phone service held up in versed discision, White House spokesmen said Thurs­ which had hovered off the coast most of Wednesday before most areas but was overloaded with calls. day that the Reagan administration would not release turning inland just after midnight. One man died of a heart attack while trying to secure early a report charging the Soviet Union with Diana began losing strength at midday, but not before numerous violations of arms control treaties, on the his house and a social services worker died in a traffic acci­ it had done so much damage that the National Weather dent on his way to work as the storm bulled its way ashore chance it would "poison the atmosphere" of arms talks. Service called it "the worst hurricane since Hazel" in the See page 2. early Thursday. Cape Fear area. Hazel struck Oct. 5-18,1954, causing $280 Thousands of people spent the night in emergency shel­ million worth of property damage and killing 347 people ters in southeastern North Carolina and northeastern SakarOV'S Wife sentenced: Friends of Andrei on the East Coast and Haiti. South Carolina, but many people had left shelters to check Sakharov said Thursday they had confirmed that the Preliminary damage estimates reached $20 million in on their homes Wednesday when the storm stalled off the wife of the dissident physicist, Yelena Bonner, has been three small coastal communities alone, said state Highway coast. Some of those were able to dash back to high ground, sentenced to five years of internal exile on a charge of Patrol Capt. Robert Barefoot. He listed them as Oak Island, but others were caught in island and coastal communities anti-Soviet slander. They said they assumed that Mrs. Yaupon Beach and Long Beach, which he said was and had to weather the storm in homes, a church and a Bonner was now appealing the sentence. The friends "devastated. It is very, very severe." hospital. said reliable sources told them the trial took place last Sky Conklin, inspections director for New Hanover Diana's highest sustained winds began easing Thursday month in the city of Gorky, 260 miles east of Moscow, County, said damage in the county — which includes Wil­ to which Sakharov was banished in January 1980. They after it moved over land, dropping to an estimated 75-85 mington - was estimated at more than $3 million in early mph at noon, down from Monday's 130 mph. Below 74 mph said they had no word on the health of Sakharov, who estimates. was reported to have begun a hunger strike in May. it would be downgraded to a tropical storm. It was moving The state suffered "some very great damage," with the west-northwest at 5 mph, spraying out heavy rain and gale- worst in Brunswick and New Hanover counties, said Gov. force winds over southeastern North Carolina and extreme Papal pilgrimage: Pope John Paul II, on the fifth Jim Hunt, adding that details were sketchy because of the northeastern South Carolina. day of his pilgimage to Canada, held an impromptu difficulty in reaching affected areas. He said he hoped The National Weather Service said Thursday afternoon meeting Thursday with a group of Polish seamen and President Reagan would act quickly on his request for the storm was centered over Columbus County west of called attention to the plight of the Roman Catholic emergency aid. Wilmington. Church in his homeland. In addition, the pope heard from a nun who said that women "want to share the apostolic tasks of evangelization," and a Catholic trade union leader who decried his region's "dependency" and UFCAS debates freshman courses the "human cost" of unemployment. By WITT COBB SOUth African fugitives: Six prominent South The undergraduate faculty council debated changes in African political fugitives, who have been in hiding both the freshman and Trinity College curriculums Thurs­ since Saturday, took refuge Thursday in the British day afternoon. Consulate in Durban to press demands for their Bruce Lawrence, chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on freedom. The development coincided with continuing the Freshman year, presented his report to the members unrest in Soweto, the spawling black township outside of the Undergraduate Faculty Council of Arts and Sciences. Johannesburg, where the police shot and killed a black The committee's recommendations included establishing man who tried to attack a police bus with a gasoline required introductory courses for each department, allow­ bomb. ing freshmen to take seminar courses in place of English 1 - Freshman Composition - and adding a junior year writing requirement. "The report is excellent in all its parts. It includes all Weather the recommendations made by ASDU," said Dave Nahmias, ASDU vice president-at-large and committee member. "This committee was appointed because there was a general sense that one of the important academic transi­ Hurricane leftovers: Partly cloudy with gradual tional points had not received enough attention in the clearing Friday night and Saturday. Lows in the 70s, past," said Lawrence, a religion professor. highs in the low to mid 80s. Saturday in the 80s to near In the fall of 1983 the committee surveyed freshmen con­ 90. cerning their first-year classes. This survey revealed several shortcomings in the freshman curriculum. According to the committee's report, Freshman Composi­ Ernestine Friedl, dean of Trinity College tion received the worst ratings from freshmen, who often felt overly prepared. fessor and Eric Pas, assistant professor of civil engineering. Chronic problems The substitute proposed would be open to freshmen with UFCAS also debated the committee's recommendation English Advanced Placement test scores of 4 or 5 (out of that students take prerequisite courses before taking From staff reports a possible 5), or who score 675 or more (out of a possible upper-level courses. UFCAS will vote on the recommen­ A computer failure at The Chronicle forced a reduc­ 800) on the English Achievement Test. The option also dation at its next meeting in one month. tion in size of today's and Thursday's papers. Editors would be open to students who score well on a Duke place­ Ernestine Friedl, dean of Trinity College, and Lawrence withheld some classifieds, advertisements, and news ment test. hope UFCAS will decide on these recommendations by stories to publish the reduced issues. The report also criticized the introductory courses in February. Any curriculum changes will take effect next Normal publication should resume Monday. mathematics and computer science. year. The staff apologizes for any inconvenience that this In addition to the student survey, the committee wrote Howard Strobel, a member of the UFCAS Executive has caused and hopes that the complete comix page to other universities, including Yale, Dartmouth and Stan­ Committee, introduced the issue of a general curriculum keeps readers satisfied. ford, to find out how they manage the freshman overhaul. Friedl advocated a complete review, saying, For those whose personals were bumped, happy birth­ curriculum. "Everyone must have a knowledge of the nature of day, good luck on MCAIs, get psyched, bring checkbooks, Based on this research the committee proposed the technology." oscillating fan for sale, wanted: new newspaper com­ development of a more flexible and intellectually Strobel, a chemistry professor, would like to complete any puter system.' stimulating writing requirement. The report states this plans for curriculum overhaul by the end of the 1986-87 Call The Chronicle business office at 684-3811 regard­ is necessary to "attract and keep at Duke the bright, academic year. ing refunds on unpublished advertisments and classi­ motivated students whom we're losing, either before or Trinity sophomore Bill Lipscomb, student member of the fieds. after they get here." UFCAS curriculum committee, presented an ASDU resolu­ See you Monday. Other committee members include: Elizabeth Nathans, tion urging the council to study a curriculum review, even assistant dean of Trinity College; Ronald Witt, history pro- if no change are made. Israeli parliament OKs coalition World & By TERENCE SMITH N.Y. Times News Service prime minister and foreign minister. In the second 25 JERUSALEM - Israel's Parliament approved a govern­ months, the two men will reverse roles. ment of national unity Thursday night that includes both Peres immediately pledged to withdraw Israeli troops National the Labor Party and the Likud bloc.