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THE ANTI-TERRORISM act that President Clinton signed last year allows an immigrant accused of being part of or associating with a terrorist group to be deported without being told what evidence the government has against him. The evidence -- if it is evidence and not rumor -- remains secret.The accused cannot see the documents or testimony that condemns him, nor may the accused know where the material originates. It is impossible to refute what you cannot see and cannot question.We would do well to remember the lesson in our history and those who were our earliest immigrants.

CHRISTINE HART LOWE died March 15 after an extended illness. Born April 15, 1951, in Quincy, MA. Christine was educated at Towson University in Baltimore, MD. It was in Baltimore where she began her long and distinguished career as a teacher. Christine taught physical education at various schools in Maryland before relocating to Raleigh, NC in 1994. She renewed her enthusiasm for teaching at Ravenscroft School in north Raleigh, and taught there until her death. Christine is remembered for her passion for education, her dedication to her students, and her love for the Ravenscroft community.

Using sophisticated new screening tests for older drivers, researchers in Maryland are learning it is possible to identify dangerous drivers more accurately, and even to predict who will develop problems in the future. The federally funded project, which is being watched nationally, is the most comprehensive study ever of older drivers. Its findings are considered doubly important because the first baby boomers will soon begin turning 65, eventually making up 25 percent of all motorists.

Kenni Patrick, a student at St. Vincent Pallotti High School, served as a page for the North Carolina House of Representatives, in Raleigh, N.C. The daughter of Kenneth and Tanya Patrick, of Laurel, she was sponsored by Rep. Julia Howard (Republican-Davie, Forsyth). Pages spend a week at the General Assembly assisting members and their staff and learning about the structure of North Carolina government.

The Bandits, already affiliated up (Mighty Ducks of Anaheim) and down (Raleigh IceCaps), have agreed to another working agreement with a hockey team, this one with the Richmond Renegades of the East Coast Hockey League.The Bandits serve as a developmental team for Anaheim, and Ducks players not making the team here usually end up in Raleigh of the ECHL. The agreement with Richmond will involve free agents signed to AHL contracts by Baltimore. To date, the Bandits have signed two players who belong to them, defensemen Keith Aldridge and Brian Goudie, and are expected to sign two or three more.

RALEIGH, N.C. -All week it seemed, Debbie Yow had been thinking about her trip here. It wasn't really dread. It wasn't fear. But there was an anxiety - an uncertainty even - as Yow packed her bags and returned to Raleigh. She'll never forget her previous two trips to town, and truth be told, she doesn't really want to. The first was in early January. Then just as now, she didn't really think of it as a goodbye. "I wouldn't let myself go there," says Yow, Maryland's athletic director.

at his home in Ocean City. Born in Baltimore City, he was the son of the late James Albert Nahm and Mary Llewella "Lulu" Swartwout Nahm. He is survived by his wife Sherran Galloy Nahm, a son Eric VanOrden Nahm of Raleigh, NC, two daughters, Meredith Leigh Nahm of Raleigh, NC, and Cassandra Nicole Parker and her husband Douglas of Baltimore and a grandson Charles Michael Bell of Pasadena, MD. Mr. Nahm was a charter life insurance underwriter and president of...

LeRoy H. Schneider, 94, statistician, photographer LeRoy H. Schneider, a retired statistician for Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., died of complications from a stroke Dec. 10 at Mariner Health Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Bel Air. He was 94. Born in Baltimore, he lived most of his life in the city and was a graduate of Polytechnic Institute. He also studied engineering at the Johns Hopkins University and at Virginia Military Institute. He served in the Army during World War II, spending part of his tour of duty in China building radio towers.

RALEIGH -- Lakista McCuller scored 19 points and Kevin Thompson added 18 points and 16 rebounds to lead North Carolina State (8-16, 2-12) to an upset over Georgia Tech (15-9, 7-7).The Wolfpack scored on eight straight possessions midway through the second half to turn a 34-31 deficit into a 49-37 lead with 9:05 left. A three-point play by Marc Lewis extended the lead to 54-39 with 5:31 remaining.Lewis and Mark Davis added 11 points each for N.C. State. Georgia Tech was led by Martice Moore with 22 points and Travis Best with 17.Yellow Jackets center Malcolm Mackey, who was averaging 16.4 points, picked up his fourth foul early in the second half and tTC finished with a season-low four points.

Baltimore-based Sinclair Broadcast Group, dumped as the Fox Network's affiliate in Raleigh, N.C., went public yesterday with pointed criticism of the programming abilities of Rupert Murdoch's network.In a terse but barbed press release and a frank interview, Sinclair executives exposed a deep breach between the companies that could imperil their entire relationship, which includes Fox's affiliation with Sinclair's Channel 45 in Baltimore.In a press release faxed to The Sun yesterday, Sinclair said "different philosophical views about the future" had led Fox to notify the Baltimore company that it would transfer its Raleigh affiliation from Sinclair's WLFL to Capital Broadcasting's new WRAZ in September 1998.