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the Iowa caucus in which Bush was the surprise
winner over both Reagan and Connally. The most
recent Newsweek poll shows Bush trailing frontrunner
Reagan by only 6 percentage points, 33
percent to 27 percent.
Dent is familiar with Connally and Bush because of
past associations. Connally was Secretary of the
Treasury during the period Dent served as special
counsel to President Richard Nixon, from 1969 to
1972. Bush was chairman of the Republican National
Committee when Dent was general counsel to the
committee from 1973 to 1974.
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Dent has a long history of political involvement in
the state, as well as nationwide, including serving as
chairman of the state Republican Party and being a
delegate to the Republican National Convention in
1968 and 1976. The Columbia lawyer spent 10 years,
from 1965 to 1975, as the chief assistant to U.S. Sen.
Strom Thurmond.
Bush's candidacy was viewed unrealistic at first by
Dent because Bush was an unknown. But the other
two Republican contenders Dent mentioned had
unrealistic factors in their campaigns also. Dent said
that Connally's candidacy was unrealistic because of
the negative reactions among voters and Reagan's
was unrealistic because of his age.
The frienrishinx Dent had with both Connallv and
Bush had no bearing with his decision to help Bush's
efforts, he said. "I don't do things in politics based on
friendship. I'm a real t, :&d I do what I honestly
believe in my heart is right. I don't believe you can
run things based on 'You scratch my back and I'll
scratch yours,' "he said.
SINCE THE IOWA caucus, Dent said in the state of
South Carolina Bush "has gone from being a blip on a
radar screen to a real contender. Reagan has
dropped some and Connally has dropped more."
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Harry Dent, chairman of Republican can
says his candidate does not have to win in
S.C. primary
By Teresa K. Weaver
Gamtcock Staff Writer
A strong showing in the S.C. March a primary is
going to make or break the leading Republican
presidential candidates, said former White House
aide Harry Dent, now serving as chairman of the
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"This state is going to be the testing ground for the
entire South. That's why Reagan absolutely cannot
afford to lose it and Connally has made it his own
personal battleground," Dent said.
Referring to Bush, Connally and Reagan as the
only "realistic" candidates for the presidential
nomination, Dent said that the Bush organization is
the only camp that doesn't have to win to survive in
the polls.
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Dent said. Adding that the Connallv workers
are "fairly pragmatic," Dent said he l^elieves hat
their campaining would be discontinued if the candidate
should lose in the first southern primary.
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primaries, Dent said. "It's going to come down to a
Reagan-Bush battle." he predicted. "The Republican
party is going to be faced with choosing the new
phenomenon or the old man." He said the South has
traditionally been considered first as Reagan
territory and secondly as Connally territory.
"If they (Reagan and Connally > lose, in my opinion
the nomination race is over for all intents and purposes.
I project that people are going to know who the
nominee is by the Illinois primary which is the week
following the South Carolian primary. But South
Carolina is going to tell you an awful lot right here."
Dent said.
The South Carolina Bush campaign is a late-starter
and a limited one in terms of money and manpower.
Dent estimated that the campaign would spend
between $100,000 and $200,000 in the state, most of it
going to the media. The greatest thing going for the
Bush campaign in the state right now, Dent said, is
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people," Dent said. "We're going to focus considerably
on young people, particularly university
professors and students. Young people can do more
good than anything else," he said. Dent added that
Bush forces were planning a "big event to be held on
the USC camDus before the Drimarv.
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National campaign representatives for the Bush
organization have been quoted as saying that they
would be pleased with a strong third-place showing
behind Reagan and Connally in the S.C. primary, but
Dent said his aim is to win.
"I've never gotten in anything I didn't want to
win," Dent said. "I feel good about this campaign and
I think we can surprise folks on March 8."
Dent said the major consideration in selecting a
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have in the November general election, and he is
confident that Bush is the only Republican that could
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"I think he (Bush) has the best chance of any
Republican to become the next president. It isn't
going to be easy to bedt an incumbent Democrat; it's
never easy to beat any Democrat. But Jimmy Carter's
domestic affairs are going to be in very bad
shape and nobody knows where foreign affairs will
be. So the Republican nomination is going to be worth
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By Teresa K. Weaver
Gam?cock Staff Writer C
A former USC graduate student F
filed suit in U.S. District Court C
Nov. 7, 1979, charging two USC ^
professors with stealing his s
research and taking credit for two C
of his inventions. I'
Mehmet N. Ozyagcilar charged P
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engineering professor, and .John D. i<
Waugh, School of Engineering P
dean, with a series of offenses in v
connection with the alleged theft of
his research. a
The suit charges Davis and
Wautlh with unlawfullv searching ('
seizing and depriving O/.yagcilar <1
of his property without due process '
and interfering with his right to
petition the government. *
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THK PKOFKSSOKS have also <
been charged with a variety of
lesser illegal acts, including
trespassing, interfering with the
plaintiff's business opportunities
and breaching their duty to hold
information in confidence.
Ozyagcilar said he could not
discuss the case while it is in
litigation.
JohnD. Waugh
Engineering Dean
Most studen
of Greene St
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Gamecock Sti
Seventy-three percent of students j
Greene Street between Sumter and i
m an
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Committee meeting Friday.
SIXTY-THREE PERCENT of the si
for more parking spaces near Russell
be available if Greene Street were blo<
There are 47 parking spaces near Ri
at night. Plans illustrating what the
Street were blocked off include 86 pari
time use, Haeseker said.
Tentative plans for the area were
including a wider studet walkway anc
and Petigru, Haeseker said. Haesek
like the one on the Russsell House pa
because it costs between $500 and $6(
eacn ume a Dana is leaturea on ureen
PLANS FOR THR senior prom w<
said the prom needs more university
a more unified senior class. If more
postive note, the alumni association m
USC President James B. Holde
membership has increased from 5,0c
increase can be attributed to a nc
graduates free membership and nrv
second year, Holderman said.
itudent
fessors
Waugh could not be reached for
omment but told the Associated
'ress earlier that all of
>zyagcilar's work was done "in
ibs and equipment owned by the
tate while he was a student.'"
izyagcilar was "simply assigned,
ke many students, to work on a
roject which turned out to be
otentially valuable. We think the
Jea itself originated with
irofessor Davis and think that's
^el) documented. "
Davis said. "1 don't think there's
ny comment 1 can make that
could Im? useful at this time. All
barges have been categorically
lenied and the courts will decide
t."
The suit states the unlawful
ictions took place in 1976 when
Vzvagcilar was working on his
loctorate at USl\ The 29-year old
I'urkey native vsas awarded a
Fulbright Scholarship under the
Mutual Educational and Cultural
Exchange Act o( 1961 to conduct
his graduate studies. The
scholarship was renewed each
year until 1976 He was awarded
his m;ister s rli?pr<*i> in UJ7J
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.UXOHDIM. TO the court
complaint. Ozyagcilar made "two
surprising and valuable invent
ions during his doctoral
research (inc of the discoveries
was a chemical process for (he
synthesis of ammonia The other
was a discovery of a chemical
process for the synthesis of
hydrocarbons
The indictment states Davis.
Ozyagcilar s faculty adviser for
197:1 until early 1977. claimed
credit for Ozyagcilar s research in
August 1976 and requested
notebooks detailing the student's
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that Ozyagcilar refused repeatedly
to give up his research notebooks
The noteboks were returned ft)
Ozyagcilar on Feb 2. 1977, but the
suit states that carbon copies of the
pages in one of the books had been
taken. The demands of
Ozyagcilar's attorney that the
information be returned were
See Lawsuit, page 5
its in favor
reet closing
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iff Writer
polled favor permanently closing
Pickens Streets, Student Governed
the Student-Trustee Liaison
tudents polled said there is a need
House. More space for cars would
nff Hapcpkor caiH
issell House during the day and 76
; area would look like if Greene
ting places for both day and nightalso
discussed at the meeting ,
1 parking areas in front of Preston
er suggested a permanent stage
tio be installed near the walkway
K) to construct a temporary stage
e Street.
ire also discussed, and Haeseker
support because it helps to create
students left the university on a
light gain new members, he said,
rman said Alumni Association
>0 members in 1977 to 13.500, The
'w policy of granting first-year
pmbership at half price for the