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Thursday,
November 7,1996
Knicks Improving:
See the Story, Page 7
Award Winning Play:
See the Preview, Page 4
Issue 19,
Volume 76 UNCG comes alive for elections
Ricky Duncan and
Jennifer Schnabel
Staff Writers
Voter turnout at UNCG was brisk in this
major election year.
The race for President and one of North
Carolina's Senate seats brought students
and members of the community to Cone
Ballroom in the Elliott University Center
on campus where many students endured
a rather long wait to cast their ballot. At
least one student waited for more than an
hour before leaving without exercising her
franchise.
Tuesday night. Democrats and Repub-licans
all over North Carolina shared a
common interest with many students-waiting
impatiently for
the results of this year's
election.
Election predictions
began as early as 7 p.m.
with CNN and the major
networks rushing to be
the first to declare a win-ner
in each of the indi-vidual
races.
One particular race that
held North Carolinians'
interest, and the rest of
the United States, was for the Senate seat
that is currently occupied by Jesse Helms.
It seemed this year would be a tight run
with Harvey Gantt.
Gantt particularly held the attention of
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voters and students at UNCG with sev-eral
visits to the campus during his cam-paign
run. The democratic nominee and
former mayor of Charlotte conducted his
second campaign to unseat the incumbent.
As the final results came in.
Democrats throughout the
Tarheel State cried in agony
as Helms defeated Gantt with
1,115,107 votes to 980,140.
He maintained his spot in
Senate, making this his fifth
consecutive term.
Another race that state citi-zens
stayed tuned for was the
position of North Carolina's
governor. Republican Robin
Hayes hoped to take over
Democrat Jim Hunt's position as the chief
of North Carolina. Hayes campaign fea-tured
television ads that complained of
Hunt's release of violent criminals and his
soft stance on crime. With the final result
of 1,203,254 to Hayes" 898,843, with
2,166 out of 2,528 precincts reporting.
Hunt will be returning for another four
years as North Carolina governor. This
will make the year 2000 Hunt's 16th year
in office.
Other elected leaders include Democrat
Dennis Wicker, who was re-elected as
Lieutenant Governor for his second term.
Wicker defeated Republican candidate
Steve Arnold.
President Bill Clinton easily defeated
Robert Dole, and Vice-president Al Gore
claimed his second term at the head of
the United States Senate. Other presiden-tial
pairs included Dole-Kemp, and Ross
See Election, Page 2
Students Rock the Vote
UNCG students (top center) crowded into Cone Ballroom of the Elliott University Center to
cast their votes. Cone Ballroom, The Rec Center and Aycock Auditorium served as official
polling stations for the 1996 elecion. People supported their candidates by holding campaign
signs at the Forest Street entrance to the EUC (left)- The Treds (pictured above) bursted out
tunes in front of the Fountain at the Atrium in support of the election.
Photographs by Geoffrey Gartner
Spartans Squeeze Away...
Matt Rooney/THE CAROLINIAN
Senior forward Tony Daughtry goes for the basket Wednesday night when
the UNCG Men's Basketball team played the Charlotte Royals, in their first
honu-exhibition game of the season. Last year's Big South Champions will
appear again on Friday November 15, at UNCG, when they host the Bendigo
Braves in another exhibition game. The Spartans beat the Royals 83-88.
Lawyers strike back,
citing legal gambling
H?nry Weinstein
I inns/Post News Sen'ice
In a strategy they may use
around the United States, tobacco
industry lawyers have launched an
aggressive counter-attack in Min-nesota,
accusing state officials of
promoting gambling, an activity
that can lead to a variety of eco-nomic
and social problems-in-cluding
"addiction."
Cigarette lawyers also suggest
th;it Minnesota has been hypocriti-cal
in accusing their industry of
targeting minors, while permitting
earning interests to do exactly that.
The tobacco industry has asked
stale officials to provide a massive
amount ofdocuments about gam-bling
and the problems it has
caused in Minnesota, which alleg-edly
include the creation of a new
class of addicts, an increase in
bankruptcies and the spread of
crime, About $4.1 billion is wa-gered
legally in Minnesota each
year on the lottery, horse racing,
bingo and river casinos.
Among other things, industry
lawyers have asked for documents
about: whether or to what extent
gambling is "an addiction" and
imposes costs on society;
Minnesota's marketing and pub-lic
relations strategies for and its
expenditures for advertising of the
state lottery, the effects of lottery
advertising on minors: the state's
efforts to discourage gambling by
minors; state revenues from gam-bling,
and state expenditures to
help "problem gamblers."
"The strikingly close parallels
between the slate's criticisms of
defendants' sales of cigarettes and
its own conduct in advertising and
profiting from gambling may
make discovery into that area per-fectly
appropriate to develop im-peachment
and rebuttal evidence
to support defendants' defenses,"
Philip Morris attorney Peter W.
Sipkins said in a recent brief.
The brief was filed on behalf of
all defendants in the case where
Minnesota and Blue Cross/Blue
Shield of Minnesota have sued the
industry seeking to recover hun-dreds
of millions of dollars in ex-penses
incurred treating smokers.
Virtually all of the 17 states and
See Tobacco, Page 3
Geoffrey MNMrflH CAROLINIAN
Students wait it out in the Benbow Room of the Elliott University Center, in an
effort to complete registration for the Spring semester. Registration will con-tinue
until November 13.
Personal items left at fair
From Staff Reports
Record crowds at the 1996 N.C.
State Fair left more than tons of
trash when they left the fair-grounds.
They left keys, jackets,
cameras, wallets, licenses, um-brellas,
shoes, glasses and even a
gold top hat.
The administration office is
home for the lost and found ar-ticles
at the fairgrounds. Located
just inside gate 11 on Blue Ridge
Road, boxes and boxes of found
articles occupy much of the
receptionist's office. More than 40
sets of keys, dozens of pairs of
glasses and two boxes full of
sweaters, jackets and sweatshirts
have been left behind.
Weather
Outlook
Thursday:
Mostly Cloudy
High near 70
Low in the mid 50's
Friday:
80% Chance of rain
High 60 to 65
Source: National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration
French upset by privatization plan to sell electronics giant
Anne Swardson
Times/Post News Sen ice
PARIS—Three weeks ago, when
the French government announced
the details of its latest
privatization, the decision was
praised as good, sound business.
The choice of Lagardere
Groupe to buy the giant defense
and consumer electronics firm
Thomson SA was seen as a model
for how France can sell off its
money-losing state sector.
But Tuesday, the proposed sale
of Thomson appeared to be unrav-eling—
a victim, it appears, of the
old French bugaboos of national
pride, statism. distrust of foreign-ers
and, possibly, corruption.
France had a huge basket of
companies to sell when it began
to privatize in 1986. The best and
most profitable of the state-owned
industries were spun off then and
in another wave in the mid-1990s.
Such firms as chemical maker
Rhone-Poulenc SA, conglomerate
Saint-Gobain and automaker
Renault SA have gone on to pros-per.
Privatizations have brought
the government nearly $40 billion
in revenue in the last 10 years.
Since then, pressure to privatize
has not diminished, but the prod-uct
on the market has depreciated,
industrially speaking. President
Jacques Chirac and Prime Minis-ter
Alain Juppe are stuck with the
dogs.
Air France will need another $ I
billion of government capital; the
scandal-ridden bank Credit
Lyonnais is on its third bailout.
Three of the four state firms on the
auction block this fall are money-losers
and will return to the state
less money than it already has in-jected.
Rather than offer shares in the
ailing companies on the stock
market, as was done with the prof-itable
firms, the government needs
to find companies willing to take
them over. And often, a little "top-up"
of capital from the state is re-quired
to close the deal.
In the case of Thomson, which
Juppe had announced last Febru-ary
would be privatized, the two
corporate bidders were prepared
to pay a symbolic one franc (about
20 cents) and receive a capital
See French, Page 3