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Guest Don't fin fire USC By Alia WOARAM/Fft For years USC students and a athletic program and the USC phenomenal role in denying USC si The problem isn't a new one. It remember. As a student at USC portunity to gain quite a bit of insij Let's look back into the 60s w floundering. Enter a man named successful program, led the LSU earlier had put together a very sue What did he do at Carolina? Sh complished only one thing: he co university to disassociate with th for recruiting purposes. He wanted Freddy Solomon, because his SAT scores, though hij high enough to play football or removing that tie, Solomon was el went to Tampa. Strike up a big FI trustees. Again in the 60s, the USC bask losing most of their eames. save a i Enter Frank McGuire, a winne pionship winner at the University the ACC and with a calling card three games with each ACC tear finest talent in the country. They were winners and they woi ACC tournament in 1971, the last y calling card *or excitement lost, Fi The USC schedule became fille good independent teams managec face USC. The Paul Dietzel football prog Carlen was hired in his place, memorial?a schedule through 19 teams in the country: Notre Dam others, all to be faced by USC arranged by the Dietzel program USC loses, Carlen will take the lun Now let's look at this year at US met just three days before USC's North Carolina, and decided to be Carlen's status as athletic direct runs out. Carlen could still coach football over to someone else. Result: turn Carlen lost his first game, 28-< performance in other games this that the effects of the board's ann to the football squad. Also in thai made public. McGuire would be : the end of the season. Effect: turn who their coach will be. It's not McGuire's fault he c; chance, he could and would. I everything in its power to prevent Don't fire McGuire?fire the US for poor athletic programs. 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DorSnflton, S.C. lumni have screamed for a winning board of trustees has played a jpporters just that. ;'s been going on for as long as I can : from 1970-75, I was given the op5ht into the situation. hen the USC football program was Paul Dietzel, who had, with a very f tigers to national prominence and cessful program at Army. ort of rolling over and dying, he acnvinced the board of trustees at the e Atlantic Coast Conference, mainlv Solomon couldn't play in the ACC ?h enough to get into college, were not any other sport in the ACC. So by ligible to play at USC. Did he? No, he or Paul Dietzel and the USC board of etball program was geared towards couple of upsets over ACC opponents, r at St. Johns and a national chamof North Carolina. McGuire, through of a schedule that included at least n, every year recruited some of the l under Frank McGuire. USC won the ear of their affiliation. Since 1971, the rank McGuire has had problems, d with weak independents and a few 1 to work room into their schedules to jram went down the drain and Jim Dietzel, however, left a longlasting >80 that included some of the toughest le, Southern Califorina, Michigan and in the next couple of years and all . Carlen will have to face them and if nps. IC. In early September, the USC board 5 encounter with their first opponent, ef up their athletic image by dropping or effective in 1982 when his contract i, but his other duties would be turned noil. ), and judging from the Gamecocks' year, that score says nothing except ouncement were purely demoralizing t meeting, the McGuire situation was removed as head basketball coach at noil. McGuire recruits now don't know an't produce a winner. If given the Jut the board of trustees has done it. Cboard of trustees. They are to blame he latest word from them does nothing Opinion Letters Hie Gamecock welcomes letters from i readers. 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Address columns to: Guc _ Column, The Gamecock, Drawer A, US Columbia, S.C. 292M) / / Dollars, cbtwrs j / An4afl-tkfr i voam, <w&t$ The Baha Fugiti Carter WASHINGTON ? The Ber phenomenom that mystifies m to explain the high rate of air occurring there. But even more puzzling is t that runs from fugitive crook Vesco, to an oil-rick Arab diet mar Qaddafi, and thence to th Carter's White House. Vesco, a Wall Street bucket moonlight flit from this countn Caribbean from federal ch finagling. He took with him mil out of investors and escaped ext U.S. government. We have ev luxuriating at a tropical hideaw From Vesco, the next line o > Qaddifi, the fanatic Libyan str his country's OPEC oil as a obsessive Arab nationalistic dr? - Qaddafi channels his petr terrorist groups around the v seeKs 10 ODiain nuciear weap* Islamic cause and is relentless the death against Israel. His Arab neighbors are char; dynamite keg of war in the Mid like Qaddafi is resorting to econ J the Jewish state and its allies to ,a We've learned from a secr< that Vesco and Qaddafi have h since the early 1970s to help economic wanare. Jtsoin iouna ( re animosity to the United States g oe Vesco, the report relates, h 1 advice to the Libyan leader on w production and prices in waj n, American dollar hostage to Qad ! Sources from the intelligen< that Qaddafi is driving the dol oil wealth to buy gold. Libya . government to announce it wa its sorely needed petroleum. Tl another disastrous round of O to free world. iy From the canny financial sc fierce Arab leader Qaddafi, th< of Carter's most intimate assc ^ and Hamilton Jordan, White He Billy Carter has become so es the Libyans that he could be M cousin. A federal grand jury it c" into his ties with both Qaddafi e, plane deal. ig A Vesco move to reach C Washington's extradition pro convicted swindler was aim* \fl1itfs: slipmb. r? ^?^JCSSaK^ < Rime of the Frustrated Consume (wit fc ?&uel f Co/eiz&e? ima Triangle ve financier, Arab di aides concern grand muda Triangle is a sanctum. A Jordan su any scientists unable emmisary who had t navigation disasters commission to get the the heat. Another fedc this. he Bahama Triangle IVIoll ed financier, Robert a tor, Libya's Muam- More and more la> e doorstep of Jimmy wittingly doing busine John Q. Citizen may r shop operator, did a loan sharks or racke / to find refuge in the Godfathers live high ai iarges of fiduciary A classified report 1 lions of dollars bilked forcement Administr radition efforts by the crime has gone legitim idence that Vesco is The report gives th ay in the Bahamas. crime figures have i f the triangle runs to businesses that encom ongman who is using U.S. economy. A pr whip to promote his variety of basic dat jams. identified at least 500 obuck millions into partially owned by org vorld, surreptitiously The underworld's F( on capability for the corner speakeasies 01 in advocating a war to found the heirs of Al brokerages, insuranc y about setting off the ventures. Their secre die East, so the hawk- companies, constructi omic warfare to bring shops. their knees. The Mafia's portfo et intelligence report cafes and restaurants ad an unholy alliance dustries; hotels, socii the Libyan dictator's clinics and labor union common cause in their With the muscle of tl [overnment. profits from illegal < as provided financial weapons to drive any c how to manipulate oil Whether you want t< rs that will keep the business with Little Ci Idafi demands. next to him at a Kiwan v.vriiui*uiiiijr ici> US / 1 ^ lar down by using his V^ll was the first OPEC The bloated oil con s raising the price on embryo gasohol com] lis threatens to set off profits. The oil giants PEC oil hikes for the cards be honored at i are forcing service st hemer Vesco and the the new economy fuel * triangle leads to two The Federal Trade O ciates?brother Billy, squeeze out. use chief of staff. CIA insiders are k closely involved with moves in the backwafi considered a kissing such as South Yemer i New York is looking evidence that Krenr i and Vesco on a war- dissident tribal move kingdoms. Analysts larter's ear and end eventually must turn! ceedings against the oil needs and are tryin ?d at Jordan's inner under the tent. rtntn r juries ibordinate listened to a Vesco >een offered a million dollar Carter administration to lower ;ral grand jury is looking into business v-abidine Americans are un ss with the Mob. Even though lever deal with drug peddlers, teers, he's helping the Mafia id mighty. rem the files of the Drug Enation shows how organized late. lis stark picture: "Organized nvested in a wide variety of pass almost every sector of the eliminary survey of a wide a on illicit drug traffickers businesses that are entirely or anized crime figures." >rtune 500 list doesn't consist of r bookie joints. The DEA has Capone owning banks, stock e companies and real estate t domain extends to trucking on businesses and auto repair tio also includes bars, clubs, ;; retail stores and service inal clubs and resorts, medical i interests. IP fftsn Nfvstrn nnH tho untnvpri enterprises, the Mob has the competitors out of business. > or not, you may well be doing lesar or for that matter, sitting is luncheoh;. ~ ' vs. gasohol ipanies aren't likely to let the )etition siphon off any of their are refusing to let their credit stations that offer gasohol and ation owners who want to sell I substitute to buy new pumps. Dmmission is investigating the eeping a sharp eye on Soviet er kingdoms of the Middle East l and Oman. They've detected tlin agents are encouraging 5ments within the small Arab agree that the Soviet Union ;o the Middle East for their own ig to get the Russian Bear's paw