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Wednesday
Volume LXX No. 12 University of South Carolina, Columbia , SC.Sept. clA, 1980
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By Leroy Williams
Staff Writer
Columbia Police arrested a 29-year-old USC student ir
connection with two rapes that occurred at a Shandon are?
apartment in August and September.
Columbia Police investigator Sandy Thompson sai(
Charles Patrick Leopold of K-8 Garden Manor Apartment!
'This kind of rape is hard to defend against, but a lot
of girls are careless. A lot of girls go out, get drunk
and don 7 care who they get rides with. Some are too
trusting.'
? Sandy Thompson, Columbia Police investigatoi
on Ashland Road was charged with one count of burglary
two counts of criminal sexual conduct in the first degree an<
two counts of indecent exposure.
LEOPOLD WAS arrested Thursday for indecent exposur
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Municipal Judge Ann Furr Monday ordered Leopold's bon
set at $100,000, Thompson said. Leopold is being held at th
Columbia City Jail.
Both rape victims were USC students. Thompson said th
rape victims picked Leopold from a line-up while he wa
being held on the indecent exposure charges.
Jesse Jackson
The Rev. Jesse Jackson answers questions //
campaigning for President Carter's re-election. (Ph
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This street on Edisto Avenue was the site of two
r being charged for the rapes and other incidents it
j THE FIRST ASSAULT occurred on Aug. 15, Thornps<
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raped the woman inside. Soon after the attack, the worn:
moved out of the apartment.
e On Sept. 7, the same man returned to the apartment ai
e raped the new tenant when she came to the back door
empty the garbage, Thompson said.
a "This kind of rape is hard to defend against, but a lot
e girls are careless," Thompson said. "A lot of girls go out, g
drunk and don't care who they get rides with. Some are t
e trusting."
s Thompson said Leopold is under investigation in co
nection with another rape and other indecent exposure i
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By Leroy Williams
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The Rev. Jesse Jacksc
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House steps, Jackson, a ci\
rights activist, attacks
independent candidate Job
Anderson and Republics
* i y candidate Ronald Reagan.
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i deceit. He is not an
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>n cidents, all of which occurred in the same area.
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in THOMPSON SAID police don't know whether Leopold has
a criminal record.
id Thompson said anyone who witnesses an indecent
to exposure should call the police. "We can't do anything until
someone reports it to us," Thompson said. "Since this came
of out, we have had people call and tell us that this has hap
et penedtothem."
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The "Wednesday's section of today's edition deals with the
n- problem of rape. See page 8 for an in-depth look at the myths,
n- the precautions and what to do if it happens to you.
i^arter-Monaale
Jackson defended the College Tuesday afternoon
president's economic before traveling to Florence.
>n record. "It's not his fault Orangeburg and Denmark
iy that the economy is bad." he
n- said. "It is not his fault that
;e private industry collapsed.
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te and the American voters are ,fe. I OCiQy
'i 1 not perfect." Ife -
;d Jackson said he did not ; i ion
in come to South Carolina just I?*
in because recent polls showed
Reagan was ahead in the iM, RH film: Gunga
gflto.?tarring Cary
aian is full of deceotion and Orant and Douglas
independent bv conviction, Fairbanks Jr., is a
silly adventi^i|K
of three British?
soldiertiH^faii^w
Jn state. "The Carter campaign -Thugees> |^ andv^ a
id is serious about winning native ^ water
is every state," he said. wants to be *fi
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n- President Carter's with- B?rglar< SftOWS atdrawal
from Sunday s 2;30, 7 and 9:30p?ni??^
s presidential debate "a FUm^ and lec*
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