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Editorial ?i Parking lot 1 t oiues USC still has not acquired "the Pit" and it is time for students to band together and force the administration to take action to get it back. USC lost the use of the valuable student parking lot this summer after a long drawn-out court battle. The lot is at the corner of Blossom and Pickens streets and served as the major parking facility for women students who live in South Building and South Tower. Because USC does not control the lot. these women must nav $15 a month to a private company if they want to park there. If these women don't want to shell out the $15 a month, they have to park at least a half mile from their dorms and walk back late at There is no reason why USC should not have regained control of the lot by now. The administration apparently was not prepared to swing into action when they lost the land last spring. Now, because of that unpreparedness,USC is caught up in red tape on the acquisition. The administration knew in May that the lot was going to return to the Rembert family. T TCP Dopl/ino nffinial nonrm Ralrop caiH thic cnmmpr thnf if V/UV A U? mug VIJL1V1U1 lyuiuij JLfunvt umim VIUW v* ??av? V a* USC did not have the lot back by the fall that the loss of the 200 student parking spaces would put a tremendous strain on student parking. And he was right. The South Building area is constantly cluttered and congested with cars. While the parking problem in this area is not new, it is obvious that it has been compounded this fall by the loss of "the Pit." USC is supposedly trying to buy the lot. About $200,000 appropriated to purchase tne land was tied up at tne joint Revenue Bond Committee this summer, but those funds became available in mid-July. At that time USC made an offer of $85,000 to purchase the lot from the Rembert family. The family says the land is worth more than that and apparently will not sell it at that ridiculously low price. Several people have estimated that the lot is worth over $150,000. USC can not afford to play games with these people. That ^ * \w ? S JrS Sttft -7 - * ** l v-. siii XX. ' ,. lot is nppdpri hv thp stnHpnts nf this Iinivprcitv anrl it ic nAoHoH ~ J ^ WW?V?*/??VK? w? v" **k' **"*" * X" W * "J M*,VI * V ,W ??^VV?VV? now. Holderman and his cronies complain about all the red tape they have to go through to get this land. But, that excuse is very weak. They have had all summer to get the lot back. TT?I J ! J ? tnn in 1 xi i A a- t rioiuenuau saiu uat win move 10 conuemn me ioi 11 me family refuses to sell it to the university. Family lawyer William Quirk said yesterday it appears that USC is going to take that approach to try to re acquire the lot. Condemnation however, will take a long time. Quirk said he expects the family to fight the condemnation proceedings. And all that means is another round of fighting in the courtroom -- with thp <itndpnts who nppd tn nark in Pit" as tho lncpre If USC doesn't get the lot this fall, students will be forced to suffer through a parking nightmare because the administration was slow to respond and get moving on getting the lot back. There is no excuse for the administration's inactivity and inept handling of the entire "Pit" situation. Stephen Riddell Editor r~i , , amecocK Founded 1 908 Newsroom: 777-7181 Advertising: 777 4249 Business Office: 777 3888 Production: 777 2833 Stephen Riddell Editor Tammy Kilpatrick. . . Asst Nows Frl-or Brian Molton Copy Desk Chief Richard Meyers Asst. Sports rid. Carl Babcock Editorial Page Editor Glenn Johanson Graphics Editor Mark Platte News editor Cylinda Calvert Wire Editor Teresa Weaver Assistant News Editor Jeannie Ralston Features Editor Ronda Templeton Ent. Editor Jerry Brewer General Manager James Rokosny Asst. Ent- Editor Anthony Gray . . . 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DUL men uv i o * */ i vast wealth is mismatched Afghanistan, to a small, backward resistance to the population, and the im- invaders has bee kAlnn/tA Cnurlt A ro KJo int#>ncf? that th*? wr unianvc iuai\uo uauui ni aiyio v.*v ??. an incalculable booty which children of Soviet is virtually undefended. officers have f] Intelligence reports tell of country. Technicia attempts by Arab extremists Czechoslovakia also to stage an Iran-style they nad seen en uprising in Saudi Arabia. Afghanistan. The Cz The extremists would like to oeen manning coa get their hands on the Saudi north of Kabul and oil spigot and use it as a in cement plants. B weapon against the United rebel fire forced th States. to flee forborne. ueieiise snaicgisis IUIVC warned President Carter to establish a military HOW TO SPOT A presence in Saudi Arabia as Thanks to the n a warning to alien powers Ceylon, we now not to tamper with the answer to the m< ~ r r d _n.il nnoctirtn "What ic a suuitcui u.o. u;j. ijuvumv.., f...ur.u? The Israelis have in- According to signs dicated that they wouldn't that nation's inte object. An Israeli authority airport, a hippy told us: "We would have no person who is unti ? .Ui:? ~ hoii<aH inogpc Hir"l puuilt' CUIUlUCIil IU lllctrvc. IIHIIVU, nvuio ui> < But privately, we would and T-shirts, goes welcome an American wears sandals oi presence in Saudi Arabia." unclean. Similar sig But the Saudis are fearful display in sn that U.S. military forces in Malaysia and Thai! their country would only closed, communist antagonize the extremists Albania, however, and increase their militance. the Asians one t But secretly, they have government-paid t asked for U.S. military posted at the airj support in the event the long-haired visit royal family comes under immediately shear* seige. President Carter, say our WATCH ON sources.7 1 <<ily agreed When Cyrus Vai to the request. This is one sworn in as seer pxnlanation that has been state three-and-a-h given to lower-level planners ago, the State De for the military activity in spent over $50,000 the Persian Gulf area. t\S. his home with lock forces in the region will proof windows and support l he Saudi royal Then, last May, uuinly it called on to put replaced by down ? rcM'lt Muskie, and the t !: . i iir.ai p..o<w had to cough up ot the ;i..^11cii > builu vip, $20,000 to make th '0 WORTH. / 0^0 CD ^ mm / ??| ' HBI / EF.KT.YSPF.CTAT. i- Another Iran? ources manor safe from would-be We believe it is past time ming, is assailants. If Jimmy Carter for freedom-loving jourempt to loses in November, there nalists to band together and i e r i c a n will be yet another secretary raise hell about this ominous and to of state whose home will development. Personally, >il depot have to be made secure. It we salute our brave in the would be cheaper, in the long colleagues who have run, to build an official courageously sought to give residence lor tne nation s the people tne trutn in lanas In No.l diplomat. of tyranny and injustice, rebel Russian PRESS SUPPRESSION: CRAFTY CONGRESSM>me so There is chilling news from EN: The Occupational ves and almost every sector of the Safety and Health Admilitary world these days about ministration routinely ed the government repression of supplies congressmen wun is from the press. Right-wing and the names of the plants they decided communist regimes alike inspect for violations and nigh of are jailing and threatening what penalties are imposed, ichshad newsmen whose only crime But some lawmakers have I mines is to report the truth as they taken the information and working see it. then solicited the owners of -a f; *t 1 ? c _i* * i At _i a ii : 4: ji nerce tiere are just a lew ui nit; me piaius on ine liispecuuu ; Czechs most recent alarming list for campaign condevelopments: tributions. In return for the In Guatemala, a leading money, the legislators newsman was assassinated promise to try to eliminate HIPPY: and seven others were exiled the agency. ition of from the country. Some lave an foreign journalists have SOME STATISTICS: The mentous been placed on a terrorist Agriculture Department, the hippy?" group's death list. government's oldest ?osted at ?In Paraguay, a leading bureaucracy, employs one national critic of the Stroessner bureaucrat for every 17 is any dictatorship was ruthlessly farmers...In the District of ly, long- thrown into prison just hours Columbia, there is one vj chrirtc oftnr rMurninu frnm thp lu\juv*?r fnr puprv 9ft pit izpns 7 VW Mi VVI D - " J ~ J )arefoot, United States. smells ?In South Korea, jour- NEGLECTED CASH: is are on nalists have been issued Drug traffickers deal in gapore, guidelines warning them not cash, and they have to find ind. The to write unflatteringly of the places to keep it. So one of lation of government. Those who the most effective tools for las gone violate the stringent rules catching the drug kingpins is etter. A will be thrown out of their to keep track of large arber is profession and prosecuted. deposits of currency in the ort, and Foreign newsmen are nation's banks. But this tool ?rs are being harassed in Iran and has largely gone unused, d. Soviet-occupied Afghanist- Since 1970, bankers have an. They are under the been required by law to VASTE: constant threat of expulsion, notify the Treasury ce was Native journalists are in Department when someone ?tary of danger of being denounced makes unusually large ui years and triea as enemies 01 me deposits ot casn in savings wrtment government. and cheeking accounts. But o secure #In the Soviet Union and investigators for the Senate s, bullet- elsewhere behind the Iron Permanent Subcommittee the like Curtain, freedom of the on Investicaions have he was press is stifled as always, discovered that the so-called "dmund Reporters in fist toe the party "currency reports'/" have lxpayers line and parrot Kremlin been gathering little more another propaganda without ex- than dust at the Treasury ? MusKie ception. Department.