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Wednesday, March 8,1989
Bush decides against settling
Eastern strike by intervention
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Bush on Tuesday virtually
ruled out intervening in the Eastern
Airlines strike, saying “man-to-man
negotiation” is preferable to a gov
ernment-imposed settlement.
While he didn’t flatly rule out
stepping in to end the walkout, Bush
said his policy “will hold firm” de
spite pressure in some congressional
quarters to force him to act.
Fielding questions for more than
40 minutes in the White House
briefing room, he insisted that
“there isn’t malaise” in his adminis
tration because of the drawn-out
fight over confirmation of Defense
Secretary-designate John Tower.
“A lot is happening,” the presi
dent said. “Not all of it good, but a
lot is happening. . . . We’re on track.”
Bush defended his chief of staff,
saying John Sununu, the former
New Hampshire governor, knows
his way around Washington and is
doing his job well. Bush said he has
“total confidence” in Sununu.
Bush noted that Tower has
pledged not to drink a drop of liquor
if he gets the job and told his nation
ally televised news confreence,
“You’ll have 25,000 people in the
Pentagon making sure that’s true.”
The president said his backing of
Tower against Democratic opposi
tion in the Senate “isn’t iron-willed
stubbornness; it’s a question of fun
damental principle here.”
The president had spare time in
his schedule Tnesdav berause in-
news conference statement to “res
tate my belief that free collective bar
gaining is the best means of resolv
ing” the strike.
He exhorted Eastern manage
ment, the Machinists union and
other unions to conduct “head-on-
head, man-to-man negotiation” and
said he thought that would be “bet
ter and more lasting . . . than an im
posed government settlement, which
could cause the airline to totally shut
down.”
On other subjects during the
more than 40-minute question-and-
answer sesion, Bush said he vvoui
like to see Palestine Liberation Or^
nization Chairman Yasser Aral
“speak out” against raids that hai(
been carried out by Palestinian
rillas against Israelis in souther
Lebanon.
Bush said he hoped these inc
dents would not jeapordize US
talks with PLO representatives
said he thought that Arafat shouli
“forthrightly condemn any terro:
that might be perpetrated by the Fat
estinians.”
President intends to replace
immigration head, source says
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Bush administration will replace
Alan C. Nelson as head of the Immi
gration and Naturalization Service,
an administration source said Tues
day.
Attorney General Dick Thorn
burgh, who recently received a de
partment audit that criticized man
agement and operations of INS, is
searching for someone to take over
the agency, said the source, speaking
on condition of anonymity.
The source confirmed a report in
Tuesday’s editions of the Los An
geles Times that Nelson would be
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completed two weeks ago, cited IX!
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To know
a friend
again
By Brian McCuskey
■ The Daily Tar Heel
U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The phone rang early Wednes
day morning. “Hello?” I gurgled,
wiping the sleep from my eyes.
“Hello . . . Brian?”
Immediately I got that ominous
feeling some telephone calls have,
when you know the voice but can’t
place it, when there is an overly
long pause between the “hello” and
your name, when you feel that
something totally unexpected is ab
out to happen.
“This is Brian,” I said.
“Brian, this is Alex Delarge.”
Alex Delarge. A rush of high
school nostalgia forced my head
back onto the pillow. Alex and I rac
ing down Sunset Boulevard in his
little white MG, huge movie bill
boards lit up against a purple mid
night sky. Budweiser and playing
poker in the basement of Alex’s
house. Alex “Cameo” Delarge driv
ing 100 miles every Saturday night
to appear for five to 10 minutes at
six or seven parties. Me shaking
Alex’s hand in the reception line at
his mother’s funeral and feeling
helpless as I looked into his distant
eyes. Alex and I suffering through
classes together until graduation.
I hadn’t seen or spoken to Alex
since graduation day. No explana
tion, no excuses, no reason. I hadn’t
gone back to Los Angeles much, but
that wasn’t it. We just drifted.
“Alex,” I said, “how are you?” I
could think of nothing else to say,
and hated having to say it. How are
you, as if I were meeting a friend of
a friend, instead of someone I had
known for almost half my life.
“Not bad,” he said, and now his
voice was unmistakable; how had I
not recognized it? “Guess where I
am?”
“I don’t know. Chapel Hill. Down
stairs. Where?”
“Raleigh-Durham airport.”
“What the hell are you doing
there?”
“Coming back from nine months
in South America,” he said.
“Hey, I was just down there too!”
“I know, I heard. I tried to find
you.”
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STRAIGHTEDGE
Group dispels stereotypes; excels
by tapping into a life free of drugs
By Margit Detweiler
■ The Daily Collegian
Pennsylvania State U.
The inner walls of their brick house are haphazardly plas
tered with cartoonish drawings. A stickered skateboard
leans against the wall. Six guys, some with mohawks and
skinheads, others with equally unconventional appear
ances, sit around a kitchen table. Hairstyles and attitudes?
Perhaps, but not what their outward displays would suggest.
All but one have not had a beer, smoked a joint or engaged
in casual sex in over a year.
Their stand to not partake in what some consider a part of
college life is a lifestyle philosophy they know as “straight
edge.”
Sophomore Kurt Zettlemayer was sick of being a “void”
person. Sporting a shiny
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more brotherhood
than people in
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brotherhood isn’t
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beers’ ”
— AARON
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black mohawk and bright
eyes, Zettlemayer said that,
“Before I went straightedge, I
was pretty much of an alcoho
lic. I drank by myself in my
room a lot. I wasn’t going any
where and I was pretty un
happy about it. I got help and
I went straightedge.”
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the band All, tells the world he is a member of the straight
edge society. Though some straightedgers convey their belief
with the black “X” on the back of their right hand, none of
these Pennsylvania State U. students do.
Straightedge, they say, is a philosophy defined individual
ly. Each person has their own way to show it and their own
reason to believe in this pure way of life. “There is no rule-
book for it,” said sophomore Mike Banfield. Banfield has
long, frizzy curls that hang over his face.
He explained that the straightedge movement began in
1982, inspired by the hardcore punk band Minor Threat and
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movement now as much as it is an individual religion
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Comedian Gary Heflin has secured him
self a future with Columbia Pictures.
Film deal gives comedian last laugl
By Theresa Livingston
■ The Daily Egyptian
U. of Southern Illinois, Carbondale
“I’m doing something that other
people dream about,” said senior
Gary Heflin. Indeed. The aspiring
comedian has turned a hobby into a
career by signing a multi-picture con
tract with Columbia Pictures.
Heflin, a marketing and manage
ment major, has been involved with
comedy on the local level for two
years, but it was only in the last year
that he began to take it seriously.
When he graduates in May, Heflin
will review scripts. In September, a
“decision will be made, with casting
hopefully starting in October and pro-.
duction in December,” he said.
Columbia allowed Heflin to
plete his degree before begii
work. This was crucial in hisdecii
to work with them, Heflin said, si
his education is “very important
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