Teeing off The women's golf team has some unfinished business to attend to at this THE CHRONICLE weekend's ACCs. See Sports. THURSDAY. APRIL 20. 1995 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA Car bomb strikes in Oklahoma, 300 people missing University faculty Federal building offer analysis of bombing kills at terrorist activities least 17 children By SANJAY BHATT By JOHN KIFNER While Oklahoma City, Okla­ N.Y. Times News Service homa may seem an unlikely A car bomb exploding at curb target for terrorist activity, side with the force of battleship University scholars point to two guns tore away the facade of a possible motives behind nine-story, block-long federal Wednesday's bombing. building in Oklahoma City, Though terrorists were Oklahoma, Wednesday, killing known for hijacking commer­ at least 21 people, 17 of them cial airline flights in the late children in a day-care center, 1960s and 1970s, increased se­ and leaving hundreds more in­ curity measures have caused a jured. Officials called it the shift to building bombings, said worst act of terrorism in the Peter Feaver, assistant profes­ nation's history. sor of political science. Rescue teams dug frantically Telephoned bomb threats in in the rubble for trapped vic­ Boston and New York on Wednes- tims, and authorities said they See TERROR on page 4 • This federal office building was the site of a car bomb which Killed at least 21 people Wednesday. expected the death toll to rise. Federal buildings in seven cit­ ies were evacuated because of bomb threats, and security was tightened at government build­ University reinstates California grape boycott ings from coast to coast. By ROSE MARTELLI advocated upholding the boy­ tion, and Student Action with we're not even talking about all At the White House, Presi­ California grapes will not be cott. Farm Workers demanded that the grapes we purchase but a dent Clinton convened an inter­ available from University Grapes will be available on University vendors break their percentage of them." agency task force to coordinate stores in the foreseeable future campus, but will current contracts In its recommendation, federal assistance and called on as administrators decided this come from other ar­ with distributors of DUSDAC members stated that Americans to pray for the dead week to reinstate a California eas of the world, California table they felt the matter was "a hu­ and stricken. He also dis­ grape boycott due to farm work­ such as Chile and grapes in protest of man rights issue," said Trinity patched a small army of federal ers' health and labor conditions. other South Ameri­ the labor conditions sophomore Ashley Wells, chair investigators to Oklahoma and The decision, which involved can countries. and pesticides farm ofthe committee. Trinity senior pledged a relentless hunt for a number of administrators, The grape policy, workers faced. Roberto Lopez, coordinator of the killers. including Joe Pietrantoni, asso­ like most University Pietrantoni said Mi Gente, said that he was Attorney General Janet ciate vice president of auxiliary purchasing policies, Wednesday that a proud of Mi Gente's efforts in Reno, noting that the dead chil­ services, Charles Putman, ex­ will be reviewed pe- California grape advocating the grape boycott. dren ranged from 1 to 7 years ecutive vice president for ad­ r i o d i c a 1 1 y , boycott is not as ex­ "I also think the University's old, and that some had been ministration, and President Pietrantoni said. Joe Pietrantoni treme as some action speaks to the injustices burned beyond recognition in Nan Keohane, was partly based Debate over the might believe. that occurred years ago and their second-floor day-care cen­ on a recommendation from the use of California grapes flared We don't have California have not been abolished, ter just above the curb where Duke University Student Din­ last semester, when Mi Gente, grapes all the time because though some may think they the bomb detonated, said the ing Advisory Council, which the Latino student organiza- they're seasonal," he said, "so See GRAPES on page 4 • See BOMB on page 5 • Beginning to wax theatrical University students form experimental repertory theater company By ROSE MARTELLI About 30 students have joined Wax, tory theater company, you start to see a New ways to learn theatrical arts and about 15 of them will live together lot of the same faces and names," she are on the wax at the University in Port Washington, New York, during said. "As an audience member, you en­ these days. the first month of the summer produc­ joy the productions more because you The most recent addition to the ing a children's play, two one-act plays know that the people involved are all University's thespian realm is the and a full-length play. With the excep­ getting along. Drama is so notorious for Wax Theater Project, a new student- tion ofthe children's play, the students' being bitchy and catty, so to get 17 run experimental theater company work will focus on mostly experimental people to live together and do four plays that plans to hold its first season at theater styles. This will fill a void in the together makes me feel that theater is the University during the 1995-96 current University theater scene, as in a much better state than we think." year. The company is intended to be most ofthe plays produced through the Because Wax will be a repertory com­ more than another outlet for putting Drama Program and the student-run pany with the same people producing all on plays; it is aiming to create a num­ Wendell Theater Group are more main­ of its works, its members will have ex­ ber of outreach programs for children stream, Wax members said. posure to all aspects of theater produc­ and will provide its members with a Nazryan said the inspiration for start­ tion and theater styles, Nazryan said. more well-rounded theater educa­ ing a theater company stemmed in part "Repertory style is fascinating, espe­ tion, said Trinity junior Ariel from seeing repertory theater company cially for actors, because you wake up Nazryan, Wax's founder and artistic productions in London last summer. in the morning knowing you're doing a SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE director. "When you see plays done by a reper­ See WAX on page 4 • The University's newest theater group THE CHRONICLE THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1995 World and National Newsfile Spanish car bomb explodes, injures 12 Associated Press N.Y. Times News Service sination attempt against Aznar by the pected to score large gains in the mu­ Content revealed: Breweries MADRID — Basque separatists Basque Homeland and Freedom nicipal elections next month and is a won the right to put alcohol content on detonated a bomb underneath the car group, known as ETA, its initials in frequent target of ETA guerrillas. their beer labels Wednesday when the driving a conservative opposition the Basque language. It was one ofthe In January, the group claimed re­ Supreme Court said it was a matter of free speech. leader to his office Wednesday, wound­ boldest attacks by the Basque sepa­ sponsibility for the killing of Gregorio ing 12 people in an attack condemned ratist group since the 1973 assassina­ Ordonez, the Popular Party candidate Material developed: Scientists by all political parties. tion of Francoist Prime Minister Luis for mayor of San Sebastian in developed a superconducting material The bombing, which came only Carrero Blanco, also in a car bomb­ Guizpuzcoa. It also claimed responsi­ that could lead to better electric motors, weeks before nationwide municipal ing. bility for the killing of a Spanish Army medical devices and bullet trains that elections May 28, only slightly Police reported that over 50 pounds officer two weeks ago in Madrid. hover above tracks in magnetic fields. wounded Jose Maria Aznar, leader of of explosives had been used in the re­ Wednesday's bombing follows the opposition Popular Party, because mote controlled explosion, which de­ months of political tension for Prime Candidate declares: Offering ofthe vehicle's armor plating. stroyed Aznar's and 14 other cars and Minister Felipe Gonzalez's minority himself as the candidate of "straight talk Ofthe 12 people wounded, one was severely damaged nearby buildings in Socialist government revolving and serious action," Sen. Dick Lugar a residential area in northeastern around suspicion of government in­ joined the 1996 presidential race a 73-year-old woman who was crushed Wednesday pledging to abolish the fed­ by debris in her one-story home and Madrid. volvement in a "dirty war" against eral income tax and provide steady lead­ is listed in critical condition. Aznar, 42, is the leader of the con­ Basque terrorists in southern France ership in world affairs. Police said the attack was an assas­ servative Popular Party, which is ex­ See BASQUE on page 7 • BOX missing: In yet another mys­ tery stemming from Vincent Foster's 1993 suicide, Whitewater prosecu­ tors are investigating whether a Anonymous campaign literature approved presidential aide removed a box of papers from a White House office the By LINDA GREENHOUSE paign advertising was less certain, pen name Mark Twain to the Federalist morning after the death, according N.Y. Times News Service and the court said it was expressing papers, a series of essays written anony­ to people close to the investigation. WASHINGTON — Casting doubt on no view on disclosure requirements for mously by James Madison, Alexander the election laws of nearly every state, radio and television advertising. Hamilton and John Jay and published the Supreme Court ruled on Wednes­ Nonetheless, the ruling appears likely in 1787 and 1788 to-argue the case for day that the right to distribute anony­ to prompt a new round of challenges ratifying the Constitution.