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3 7 Quick dinner! You can have a meal ready in minutes Miami savors first NBA playoff Sports1B Catching the Rollerblades craze Tom SorensenIB FoodIE South Carolina Edition (3) Wednesday April 22 1992 A 50 Cents Foreign PhD students favored over US blacks? Critics: Universities more inclined to aid others Doctorates: 1990-91 Knights and visitors will step up a class NC: 831 doctorates The Charlotte Knights will join a league rich with traditionpage 1 5 of total doctorates awarded went to blacks Black men: 19 Black women: 25 SC: 333 doctorates By ANTHONY DePALMA New York Times Only a small number of black American students are going on to receive PhDs and a number of educators believe that is due in part to universities favoring foreign students over the black students They note that the number of black American men who get their doctorates small to begin with has been cut in half since 1975 Of 36027 PhDs granted in 1990 only 320 less than 1 were awarded to black American men And 508 or just over 1 were granted to black women The number of blacks getting doctorates in the Carolinas was also small but at a higher percentage than the national average The educators say the reason there are not more black PhDs is that universities make it easier for foreigners bright students from around the world who are clamoring to attend US universities to get the financial support needed to complete six or more years of doctoral studies National Research Council figures show that in 1990 universities financially supported 25 of black students with grants and assistantships for which the graduate students essentially exchange teaching or research work for money to pay their tuition During the same year universities supported 69 of all foreign graduate students Of all US citizens 42 received such aid Without help black students who do enter graduate programs often have to pay for their education themselves which generally means taking out loans By the time they receive their degrees they can end up deep in debt Other educators suggest the lack of black students in doctoral programs is due to complex reasons having to do with crum- Please see Doctoratespage 1 1 A By STEVE WISEMAN Staff Writer FORT MILL If you grew up in the Carolinas a baseball fan of the Atlanta Braves or the Baltimore Orioles in luck Starting next season you can see the top minor-league players from those organizations play at Knights Castle The Charlotte Knights found out Tuesday compete in the Class AAA International League starting next season when they move up from the Class AA Southern League Class AAA is the top level of minor-league baseball The Class AAA affiliates of the Braves (Richmond) and Orioles (Rochester NY) are International League members So are affiliates of the New York Yankees (Columbus Ohio) New York Mets Tidewater) and Boston Red Sox (Pawtucket RI) And the Detroit Tigers (Toledo Ohio) Philadelphia Phillies (ScrantonWilkes-Barre Pa) and Toronto Blue Jays (Syracuse NY) just happy to see us still playing some teams from our regional said Bill Godbold of Rock Hill a Knights season ticket holder still playing a Braves 82 of total doctorates awarded went to blacks Black men: 15 Black women: 15 Catawbas threaten to sue 2750(0 Execution follows host of delays Calif case a sign of approach By AARON EPSTEIN Observer Washington Bureau WASHINGTON execution of Robert Alton Harris provided the most dramatic demonstration yet of the conservative Supreme mounting impatience with last-minute petitions from death row Awakened through the night by four attempts to put off his execution the justices issued an apparently unprecedented order forbidding any more federal court delays Harris was pronounced dead 36 minutes later my knowledge never happened said UNC-Cha-pel Hill law Professor Jack Boger who handled death penalty cases for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund from 1978 to 1990 a more authoritarian act of the Supreme Court than ever Even before Harris died at dawn Tuesday in gas chamber at San Quentin his case had come to symbolize a criminal appeals system gone awry with an average of six or seven years from sentence to execution Many legal experts argue that a lengthy process of federal review is necessary to uncover injustices During the past 15 years federal judges have found serious constitutional errors in nearly 40 of all death penalty cases brought before them But to families of victims of crime most prosecutors and a majority of Supreme Court justices the system encourages an irrational maze of piecemeal chaotic and seemingly endless appeals Harris was convtcted of killing two San Diego high school boys and was sentenced to death 13 years ago His lawyers carried numerous issues through 75 state and federal court reviews including four appeals through the federal courts up to the Supreme Court For the past three years the Please see Harrispage 6A Long-running land dispute to hit owners By DAN HUNTLEY Staff Writer ROCK HILL The Catawba Indians say they will sue 27500 individual landowners in York Lancaster and Chester counties by Oct 19 tribe officials said Tuesday If they do the massive filing has the potential to cripple the courts and cost property owners at least $150 to $250 each "It got down to a situation where we have any other said Catawba Chief Gilbert Blue whose tribe is suing landowners and the government for the return of their former 140000-acre reservation would certainly prefer a settlement but the clock is ticking given the attorneys our permission to do the necessary research to start the The Catawbas face an Oct 19 deadline for pursuing their claim Such a massive filing would be unprecedented in SC court history said US Rep John Spratt D-SC of York County whose family owns about 1100 acres within the claim and who is a key player in designing a settlement package hard to imagine the enormity of such an Spratt said I know of another case involving this many For the individual landowner involvement in the lawsuit could mean paying a lawyer 1 50 to $250 to respond and possibly ask for an adverse possession exemption if the property was held continuously from 1962 to 1972 If a landowner did not respond by mail the tribe would send an individual to serve the papers The property owner would then have 20 days to respond For the courts it could mean an unprecedented flow of document filings and records checks Please see Catawbaspage 5A Photo by TERRY PHARO Heavy rains swift waters: Mike Younce 18 a Boone High registered 24-hour records of 5 inches in Boone and Blowing School student on spring break checks out the water level at Rock were blamed for four NC deaths Partly cloudy skies an old dam on the Watauga River along NC 105 Rains which were expected today for much of the Carolinas Carolinas reel from rains as 4 are killed uated about 300 people from their homes in the dark after water began seeping through the earthen dam in Foscoe just west of Boone Facing the threat of more rain dam specialists arrived Tuesday afternoon to siphon water from Kill Devils Lake and ease the Please see Floodspage 5A thews was rescued by firefighters about 8 28 pm after he was swept about 4 miles along swollen McAlpine Creek The man and two firefighters who helped save him were taken to Carolinas Medical Center where were treated for hypothermia and released Early Tuesday Watauga County emergency workers evac the Rocky River in Cabarrus County and downstream to the Pee Dee River People living in those communities were advised to be on the lookout for rising water levels well into today though the forecast calls for clearing skies most of the region In Charlotte 20-year-old Derrick Christopher Miller of Mat By CAROL LEONNIG Catawba Valley Bureau BOONE Hard unrelenting rains gushed down mountains and hillsides Tuesday killing four people and threatening a dam above a populated valley Thunderstorms that quit continued to drench the Carolinas late Tuesday Of special concern were areas along Doritos lovers breathe easier: New formula so odorous Goodies OK with secretaries better pay would make their day I Secretaries Day: The big winners Who benefits most from Secretaries Day? Managers say secretaries Secretaries say florists and restaurants Secretaries say: El Managers say: florists Secretaries The new recipe calls for fewer spices and more natural cheeses probably the decrease in Holmes said explaining the lessening of Dorito breath was not an objective at all It turned out to be a pleasant side benefit" said Stephen Liguori vice president of marketing The new recipe Doritos which Holmes said will be manufactured in Charlotte will hit stores May 2 Doritos are biggest seller $13 billion of its $53 billion in 1991 revenue The nacho cheese flavor accounts for more than 60 of Doritos sales By EVAN RAMSTAD Associated Press DALLAS The crunch stays along with the spicy cheese taste and the orange stuff that rubs off on your hands But Frito-Lay Inc says a new formula for nacho cheese Doritos will make an important change Less Donto breath "There was a sort of distinct nacho cheese odor that hung around those who had eaten a lot of explained spokeswoman Beverley Holmes at Plano Tex-based Frito-Lay the leading maker of salty snacks (77) and flowers (53) said secretaries benefited most (54) from the day observed nationally to honor office workers The secretaries who preferred bonuses (42) raises (30) and time off (30) said florists (59) and restaurants (46) benefited most from Secretaries Day Some people interviewed gave more than one preference or answer Rosetta Erwin is a 23-year Charlotte secretary one of 1 1400 secretaries in Charlotte according to the Employment Security Commission and she is among those who want a raise Please see Bonusespage 6A By JENNIFER FFRENCH PARKER Stall Writer Lunch or flowers Flowers and lunch what most secretaries will get today from their bosses for Professional Secretaries Day But most would rather get bonuses raises and time off says a report by Professional Secretaries International and Minolta Corp The organizations surveyed 2000 secretaries and 1 000 managers and found both groups poles apart on what secretaries want what managers give and who benefits most from the day The managers who give lunch and dinner compiles 24 GEORGE BREiSACHERStaff mm2 10 11C 8E 14A IE Horoscopes 8E Ann Landers 6E Bob Greene 8E Local 1C Movies lie Business Classified Comics Editorial Food Obituaries 4C People 8C Sports ltM I IB TV a 8C Weather 2A Delivery assistance 1-800-532-5350 Mon -Frt 6 30 am Sat -Sun 2am noon Place a classified ad 1-800-532-5348 Mon Thur8am-4ptn Fit Sam 630pm Story or photo idea 1-324-4123 Mon Eli 19 am-midnight Sat-Sun noonamdnigttt Coming Thursday: Fred Couples is the hottest name on the PGA Tour these days And In North Carolina to play tn the Greater Greensboro OpenSports This newspaper primed tn part I on recydad paper and recycled Weather: Breezy partly cloudy High in the tow 80s next page 7 Contents Cl 992 The Charlotte.