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South Carolina's best college newspaper. iday Volume LXX, No. 51 University of South Carolina. Columbia, 3.C Feb. 1981 Ellis t< * By Donald B. Weotherbee Atslstant News Editor USC football player Philip A. Ellis Jr. may face a prison term after a Richland County magistrate ruled Thursday in a preliminary hearing that Ellis be tried before a grand jury. The first-string defensive end was charged with two counts of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature jf| after a post-game incident in the State Fairgrounds parking lot in October. Magistrate William Womble reduced one of the charges against Ellis to simple assault and ruled that the remaining charge I of aggravated assault be turned over to the county grand jury. Ellis was not present at the hearing. THE MAXIMUM penalty for simple nocmtlf ?f? OA -J ?? -* ? ?? ~~ , aooaun 10 ov uuys in jan or a $iuu line. It a 'v* v pil" /-if fflBaSligPlMlP? - >#m Gary Matting/y of WIS- TV vie Movietonews exhibit which recently c the lobby of the James Byrnes Inte Center on Sumter Street. The exhibit /. the public. (Photo by Jose Panganibanj ; Human rigl I Vimnsfniiin fe 1? J * non-interveni By Lesley Symmonds Staff Writer Yugoslavia's long-term foreign policy of non situations in many politically troubled nations Loncar, Yugoslavia's ambassador to the Unite< juuiicur spun.*; ai a news conierence rriaay m threat of Soviet intervention in Poland, Yugosli Poland and turbulent Iranian politics. Loncar said about Soviet military interv Yugoslavia would not support any country inte Kg affairs of another. i I "WE CONSIDER as indigenous the right of their own way of life," Loncar said. "We hop overcome and a solution may be found by the P Loncar, who served with Gen. Josip Broz Ti l| National Liberation War against the Soviet 1 H fellow countrymen are generally sympathe Worker's Solidarity Movement. "From a neonle who have suffpr^H sn mnr (strong emotional feelings in favor of all nations want to exercise their own way of life partic (independence positions," he said. LONC^H S \II) Tito's death last spring hasn' ' elatio with theSoviet Union, because th Tito he?peu establish has continued. "We maintain very good and cordial relation today as we did during the life of General relationship and cooperation is based on the w non-interference, respect of sovereignty and in< Yugoslavia has the greatest ethnic and rel Eastern European country according to U.S. |j records. Yugoslavia's heterogeneous population doe vulnerable to the Soviet Union's united strength I J Ellis is indicted bv the eranri inrv nn 0 ? J J ?- %< ? * charge of aggravated assault he may face a maximum penalty of 10 years imprisonment. The incident prompting USC student Larry Hudson, 29, to file charges against the football player occurred Oct. 11 in the State Fairgrounds parking lot after the USC-Duke football game. . Hudson and his father, 52-year-old Raymond Hudson of Aiken, were injured in a fight with Ellis. Raymond Hudson, who did not testify at the hearing, was knocked unconscious during the fight and later received treatment for injuries including a fractured skull. Larry Hudson was not seriously hurt. HUDSON testified that he, his father and two friends were in a car attempting to move into traffic when a woman in a nearby H Ponula pj? open at Because of the popularity ol the South Carolina State Fair similar display cr. the grounc I International Center on Sumt Jackson, the film library direc 1 1 "The exhibit in the Byrnes < pf the one we presented at the St H Instructional Services Center mid-December. Exhibit visitors can learn al II through films, video tapes and WKWHBffllSiW THE WALLS are .covered v //ie an<* smaller photo reproc . Movietonews footage. A ser opened m footage can also be played on i rnationa/ The tapes are from one t s open to contain scenes from World W2 1 the Sputnik launch and retr Movietonews' 44-year history. its group ch ivors tfnn ** m <^yjgp p i |j# intervention could help W' , according to Budimir i Sta tes. mj*<j.. on issues such as the \ ? avia's relationship with ||| ention in Poland that '% rvening in the domestic A y|gji any country to choose vll|p^ e that tensions may be #i8j olishpeople." ^lifcp ^ to during Yugoslavia's Union in 1941, said his tic toward the Polish :h you can expect only , including Poland, who ularly on freedom and t changed Yugoslavia's A e non-alignment policy ^ is wun me soviet union Tito. Of course, this n i ell-known principles of BBHfiHH I dependence," he said. n y*-^>; igious diversity of any | Slate Department 1980 yugos,avian Amt sn't make the country States Budimir L i, Loncar said. students. jury car feared Hudson would hit her car and yelled at him. "I said 1 wasn't going to hit her car, but if I did it wouldn't matter because they were both blue and the paint would match," Hudson said. "She said I better be careful because she had a football player in the car," Hudson said. ACCORDING TO Hudson,after both cars were in the same flow of traffic moving toward Assembly Street, Ellis pointed at himself and yelled, "Hey, do you want some of me?" Hudson said Ellis left the woman's car, came over to his car and hit him and then kicked his car. Hudson said he got out of the car and saw Ellis hitting and kicking his father on the other side of the car. r Movieton< USC's Byr The displa; Vaughan Newsreel Stc w,l,er airs four tim f USC's Movietonews exhibit at to 6 p.m. Mo , the university has installed a I floor of the James F. Byrnes ^ er Street, according to James unduplicated >tor catalogued a probably be a Center is really an extension of 20fh Centu ,ate Fair," Jackson said USC's million inde> began installing the exhibit in processing tl Jackson said. X)ut the Movietonews rnllprtinn I photographs. NEW ( Thomas Cooj: rith giant photographic murals puter Servicc luctions taken from actual five years, tl ies of 25 videotape copies of need to conve *n exhibit television set. Jackson sa: o five minutes in length and cataloging uf ir II, the Hindenburg explosion, been publicly ieval, and other events from 50 years. It is new lights on tallenges an A f III \ Demaj,Fitzei JjP> "Our only jr Jm vocated violei "We are pi >assador to the United ^ ? *,?? inadequate, oncar speaks to USC offjces ,0 ob, Demaj. USC defensive end Phil Ellis ?ws exhibi t nes Cenfp.r y also features a small theatre where "The ?ry," a film highlighting Movietonews history les daily. The exhibit is open trom 10 a.m nday through Friday. ready received 500,000 of the 60 million feel of film from 20th Century-Fox. As new film is nd processed, additional tapes and films will dded to the exhibit. ry-Fox has catalogued the collection on 1.8 i cards, but USC still has a lengthy task in le film library into a computerized catalogue, computer) model is being developed by the >er Library staff with the cooperation of Com!S," Jackson said. The process will take about le same length of time 20th Century-Fox will rt the film into "safety stock," he said. id the film will be reviewed constantly and the xiated because most of the footage has never viewed, and some has been in storage cans for hoped that viewing these unseen clips will "cast historic events," he said. nbassador ivists confront ting dignitary By Lesley Symmonds otflTT writer tion held in his honor Thursday, Yugoslavian Budimir Loncar was confronted by represenlocal human rights group wanting information slavian political prisoner r, a Columbia lawyer and leader of Columbia's e Amnesty International Campus Network, and ed about Yugoslavian prisoner Isa Dernaj. oslim, has been in a Yugoslavian prison since ?es of "hostile propaganda and association lor f hostile activity." 1 although the ambassador was sympathetic ause of the human rights group, he would not the group's behalf. CAK) admitted that Yugoslavia has political it he believes that individual rights must be o me national interest in unity to Yugoslavia," arrested because of his attempts to establish vith neighboring Albania, a predominantly >n, Fitzer said. Demaj favored a "cultural tween his Yugoslavian province and Albania, authorities saw this as a threat to national unity, ^tzer. ternational, which is based in London and New for release of "prisoners of conscience" like said. ori foi*i o a c K/* l- ? J ki IWI ia 10 uiai uic ^<l ouiiri tiillllUl IlUVt? 3Ulce in any form," he said. leased that he spoke with us and gave us an it I personally feel that his response was Fitzer said. "We wanted him to use his good :ain some information on the whereabouts of