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I NORTH A THE NEWS OBSERVER SUNDAY AUGUST 21 1994 1 Under i i-iii the JANi AIM NCSU professors say dual roles don't conflict NCSU professors dual roles DOME Strange 'bedfellows Three researchers at the school evaluate pesticides in their public jobs Privately they sometimes work for companies that make the products they review 1 appearance of a conflict of interest but they say their private work never influences the advice they dispense as state employees "It's a matter of perception" Bradley says "If you try to develop a system where there's not some perceived conflict I don't think you'll ever have that type of system If we had a history of prostituting ourselves that would have come out a long time ago" NCSU officials say they see nothing wrong with the jobs they run two small businesses that conduct tests for such chemical industry giants as Rhone Poulenc Monsanto and American Cyanamid The professors make thousands of dollars a year on the extra work but just how much isn't known Coble estimates that he grosses about $60000 a year but clears only about $15000 while Bradley and Van Duyn say their business is a good bit smaller The professors acknowledge that their dual roles can create an grids to help farmers find the right spray for weeds crop diseases or pests But beyond the specialized text there is a bit of intrigue: Some of the book's authors state researchers paid to evaluate chemical products also moonlight as consultants with the companies that make the pesticides Among the authors who do both are NC State University profesx sors Harold Coble JR Bradley Jr and John Van Duyn In addid tion to their $80000-a-year state "There is a little bit of trust involved here" says Charles Moreland interim vice chancellor for research at NCSU "It's a little bit of a gray area I don't think I consider the dual interaction an obvious conflict" Some other universities however say such arrangements aren't acceptable At Clemson and the University of Georgia administrators say professors aren't allowed to do private business with companies that could be affected by their SEE CONFLICT PAGE 4C indeed BY STEVE RILEY STAFF WRITER The NC Agricultural Chemicals Manual won't make a best-seller list It's 300 pages of technical terms chemical products and Is al SAND DUNES SUN AND HOLY SPIRIT son Os in for ion Summer crowds sustain church e- '1 l': 1 '''---1 -i- Ii' '5 '--1'4 ''1 2 '--'1 1:: ao Ittiallt 1- The Rev Jesse Jackson brings fire and eloquence to the union battle at a Bladen County hog-processing plant BY AIRY WARRICK STAFF WRITER TAR HEEL Workers waging a bitter campaign to unionize their Bladen County meat-packing plant brought in the heavy artillery Saturday: the Rev Jesse Jackson who made a powerful appeal to employees to "fight for democracy in the workplace" The gravelly voiced minister and ex-presidential candidate electrified a crowd of about 275 at a rally five days before employees cast ballots at the Carolina Food Processing Co plant in Tar Heel But as he spoke anti-union workers some wearing camouflage pants and "Vote NO" T-shirts got up from their seats and stood defiantly with their arms folded The silent protest reflected the divisiveness at the plant a battleground for pro- and anti-union forces since it opened two years ago The vote Thursday is being closely watched throughout the region partly because of the sheer size of the plant already one of the largest hog-processing operations in the world and scheduled to expand by one-third early next year Observers are also anxious to see whether a recent trend toward unionization will continue in a state that is traditionally non-union With the stakes this high the fight for workers' sympathies has been unusually intense and acrimonious with charges of bullying and intimidation being flung by both the management and the Washington-based United Commercial Food SEE UNION PAGE 4C BY ANNE SAKER STAFF WRITER ATLANTIC BEACH There are Sunday mornings when the Rev Patrick Williams Williams looks upon the congregation in his church at the beach and has trouble finding a familiar face The faces he does see are pink from the sun They bear restful smiles that are the natural con- sequence of a few days ocean-'- side amid the putt-putt courses i -i'- --'Ii and bikini shops and beach-food shacks They are faces that say: We are on vacation IIIJiTlifl Williams knows he will not see (1 most of those faces again but he is delighted they appeared at all He knows these faces could well be elsewhere but he says some- i thing made them stop in at Bogue Banks Baptist Church '7 A Maybe it was the sign outside -1 I I i that says "We love visitors" "I can't tell you the number of 7--a people who came in and said they came to church because of those three words" be said 00 The mid-August heat is impressive on the Crystal Coast and it converts into no-vacancy signs at motels on Highway 70 By 7 pm the waitfor dinner seating at waterfront restau- 4 rants stretches to 30 minutes i'' 1 Traffic on the bridge to Atlantic Beach from Morehead City is sclerotic But as summer closes the Cars from all half-dozen churches in the area are packing themin and a major beneficiary of the tourist trade has been Bogue Banks Baptist Church Begun 10 years ago with a dozen pe9ple in the back room of a beachside pizza parlor the church now counts more than 300 every summer Sunday in the pews of its 4-year-old church just 200 yards from the beach "How many pastors can look out of their churches and see the Atlantic Williams asked Resort churches live with two realities: Crossing a church threshold may not be on everyone's vacation to-do list and winter always comes At Bogue Banks the first factor is confronted with hearty handshakes Williams and at least one of his deacons stand at the front door before and after every Sunday service two between Easter and Labor Day one through the rest of the year They greet everyone Cars from all -1''4 i i0 i 4 I 'I -1 i nogue with a le pizza 0 every church lurches )ssing a acation Bogue tan at service hrough 1Did you hear the one about thi 3 North Carolina congress-min the richest mian in the cotuntry the Dalai Lama and th long-distance phone deal? Nrid how it could all come together to make US Rep Charlie Rose of Fayetteville the next speaker of the House? tis strange and confusing as it all sounds Dome is not making this up To explain: Rose the dean of North CarOlina's delegation in the House wants to be speaker So he has formed what is known in poi itical circles as la leadership PAC a political action committee called Leadership America has taken money raised by Laidership America and distrib uted it to the campaigns of oth Democratic House memliers He hopes no doubt that titoey will remember his largess when it comes time to vote for the next speaker How :13 Majority Leader Dick Gephairdt who also wants to succee cl House Speaker Tom Foley is doing the same thing with hilt own leadership PAC One of the people who has contributed to Rose's committee is Joitm Kluge the billionaire med ia mogul from Charlott4sville Va The chi tirman and president of Metroniedia Co declared by Forbes ma lgazine to be the richest mi in in America has given $10000 to Rose's committee St tiart Subotnick Kluge's business partner gave another $10000 That easily puts the two among biggest financial backers LI why should Kluge be so interested in Rose whom many see al waging a losing battle for tl le top seat in the House? "I like hin and know him and he likes tile" Rose says matter-of-fa tly But of couilse nothing in Washington that simple This is where the Dalai Lama comes in Rose and El uge are friends of the Dalai Lima the exiled spiritual lead of Tibet Rose first met the Dalai Lama in 1978 when he hosted a reception for him after then-President Car ter declined to meet with him -for fear of straining relatituns with China When the Dala Lama won the Nobel Peace Pi rize in 1089 he included Rose among his 50 guests in Norw tly for the presentation Kluge accord hag to Rose has given hunch 'eds of thousands of dollars to the Tibetan people And now for th tat long- distance telephone deal As chairman ot the House Administration Committee Rose has plenty if pull in determining who provides phone service for When Kluge offer to provide long-distance tele phone service to Congress al a cheaper rate than at id MCI Rose helped make it hai Oen So when Rose fou nd out that Kluge was an admit 'er of the Dalai Lama he am Inged for a visit between the men The result was that Rose and the Dalai Lama spent a weekend at Kluge's Charlottville estate last year "Basically John tluge and some of his friends a tnd acquaintances are fa tscinated with the struggle of be Tibetan people" Ros says "The night I spent th ere he had a large group of i Hends from the Charlottesvi lie area in to talk with Dalai Lan la" And that is how Cha rlie Rose got the richest man in 'America to back his bid for spec Ikea SC doctor says 'Matthew' story doesn't ring true By TIM GRAY AND STEVE SV INDELL STAFF WRITERS over the country show up in the parking lot of the Bogue Banks Baptist Church in Atlantic Beach PHOTOS BY KARL DEBLAKER FOR THE NEWS OBSERVER -1 i l''''' -1- I 1 A -L 14 1 ilk aold'S 4 lw 44- "Ly i- P-1 Or Ir rig! 6gt tq ttte og t- '11 rt A if 4wra -rr- (- 1 1 FLORENCE SC A doctor who examined the man found in a diaper five years ago outside a South Carolina medical facility the same way he was found as "Matthew" at Rex Hospital last month says he is not mentally handicapped and not as innocent as he appears Dr Homer Gamble director for professional services at the Pee Dee Center for the mentally handicapped in Florence SC examined the man who was identified Friday by fingerprints as Robert Lee Morford thought to be about 27 Gamble admitted Morford to the Pee Dee Center on Oct 13 1989 after he was found at the Palmetto Center an addiction treatment center also in Florence dressed in a diaper playing with toys SEE MATTHEW PAGE 5C About 250 people roughly 30 of them visitors attend the 11 am service at the Bogue Banks Baptist Church recently SEE BEACH CHURCH PAGE 2C Judge brings order to Zambian courts BY JERRY ALLEGOOD STAFF WRITER -i ''1' rr i i ---7 '-e 77 i J-: i 'kt i 1 7' I 1 7 'i- '''i 1 iv 1 ll 0-AN0- 1 il ciary analyzed dockets and suggested reforms that are already being implemented US Embassy officials say his work "inspired a moribund judicial system and made him a blossoming legend in the Zambian courts" For Leonard 44 the African experience was an exhausting and exhilarating assignment not an exotic holiday "It was as hard a job as I have ever done" he said in a recent interview "You were expected to master a very different legal system draw conclusions about problems it was having understand TAR HEEL OF THE WEEK TAR HEE OF THE WEEK courts Leonard will chide attorneys who are late or ill-prepared The Raleigh judge went to Zambia through a US State Department program to help the country reform its slug- gish and antiquated court system Working as a professional-inresidence he brought the "rocket docket" idea of case management to a country where it often takes years to try a criminal case He immersed himself in the judi US Bankruptcy Judge Rich Leonard returned from a monthlong sojourn in the African nation of Zambia in May with a fondness for the laid-back pace of Zambian society "You get into a leisurely going slow not-many-consequences-tobeing-late sometimes-thingshappen-sometimes-they-don't attitude" he said "It's a whole different ethos that has some appeal frankly" But don't expect to find it in his courtroom A stickler for efficiency in federal Judge Rich Leonard of Raleigh recently returned from Zambia where he helped reform the African country's judicial system STAFF PHOTO BY ROBERT WILLETT SEE LEONARD PAGE 5C Deaths 6C Weather 7C r- 4t c31 1 iI A 71 qty 1 You can't always get what you want: Concert tickets are selling pretty dear this season But if you try sometimes you just might find you get far more than you need Dennis Rogers 2C In the nick of time: The new MeDougle Middle School in Carrboro will open on time thanks to the last-second approval of a town inspector Notih Caroline IIC College crowd: The students came back this weekend bringing the campuses of NC State University and UNC at Chapel Hill back to life North Carolina 3C To catch a thief: An IDutraged Raleigh shop owner jumps onto the hood of a movin car grabs the steering wheel a Dd forces it to stop North Carolina 7C 4.