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Charlestonians 'Dia!-a-Sailor' CHARLESTON (AP) ? In the tradition of "Dial-a-Joke" and 44Dial-a-Prayer" comes the latest in telephone conveniences - "Dial-a-Sailor." Meeting a sailor from a foreign land is as easy as picking up the phone this week while the five-ship NATO Standing Naval Force Atlantic is at the Charleston Navy Base for training exercises. The vessels arrived Monday morning and will remain until Sunday. The visiting ships include a frigate and destroyers from the United States, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands and Britain. THROUGH "DIAL-A-SAILOR," area residents can call the base and arrange to be a host to a visiting sailor for an evening during their stay in Charleston. "We advertise the program through the media, and then people call us and ask for a particular sailor they want to host," said Petty Officer Dan Guiam, a spokesman for the NATO group. What local residents and their visitors do is "all up to the sailors and the host. Most of them give the saiiors a tour of Charleston or they invite them to have dinner at home," he said. By midday Monday, Guiam said 70 people have called with many asking to host more than one sailor. By the end of the week, about 500 of the 1,500 sailors in the task force will make connections with local hosts, he said. THE PROGRAM has been oreanized at other norts of call tor the task force and was run the last time the unit docked in Charleston in April, 1980. Guiam said the sailors enjoy the program as much as the hosts do. "It gives them the opportunity to know a lot of people and to know American culture firsthand, especially for foreign sailors who don't know the area well," he said. The hosts can request a sailor from a specific country; and for some reason, sailors from Germany seem to be the mostrequested, Guiam said. "WK DON'T ask why they're German sailors. We're just happy that they're hosting some sailors," he said, speculating that the reason could be "German sailors are nice and hospitable people." The ships' crews operate together and exchange personnel during the training exercises. The live-ship task force is commanded by Capt. Gregory Streeter with the Charleston-based guided missile destroyer USS Dewey serving as flagship. The visiting ships are HMCS Skeena from Canada, FGS Schleswig Holstein from West Germany, HNLMS Piet Heyn from Holland and the HMS Glasgow from Britain. USC todnv STUDENT SENATE ? Meeting. Calcott, room 015. 5:30 p.m. DEBATE ? Athenian Literary and Debating Society. "Public school funding." Russell House, room 304. 8 p.m. RH FILM ? "Birth of a Nation" (1915). Lillian Gish. D.W. Giffith's epic. 2:30, 7, 9:30 p.m. 50 cents, 75 cents. j-j awa uaus > American-German Food ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFET just $3.95 PLUS . . . Buy one dinner - get one V2 price! Includes 3 meats, 6 vegetables & salad bar Monday-Friday 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. I HAPPY HOUR 4-7 p.m. 2 for 1 Bar brands, 60 oz. Coors Pitcher $3 At 5-Points (Right behind Yesterday's) ^Interesting?;1 ^Challenging?*' ^ Rewarding?v I f ^Reporting, > ^ v Room 321 j ^ u h Russell House a , 'rv J J <' r' - v ? # . # * .. I *t WirE H~~rm 'Cinderella^^^ssed ii Tenahna (left), Kia and Marlcna jump r B" M rtsi begins inv WASHINGTON (AP) ? FBI investigators poked through debris in a marble hallway outside the Senate chamber yesterday morning, searching for the remnants of a bomb that exploded in the heart of the Capitol shortly before midnight, heavily damaging a congressional cloakroom and destroying priceless works of art. An aide to the Democratic leadership said damage may total $1 million. Senate Sergeant at Arms Larry Smith said a police officer stationed near the main doors to the Senate chamber 30 feet away barely escaped injury in the explosion. Smith said the Senate still planned to convene. "IT WAS a mess," he added. "It Glenn campaign (AP) ? Sen. John Glenn's South 1 waiting for the "green light" to go ahe votes in the Palmetto state, a spokesrm . Ir?hn Clark a lparlpr r>f thf? fllpnn ct energy adviser to Gov. Dick Riley, said, to see a lot of movement (toward Gleni days." Glenn has been keeping a low pre throughout the South in deference to D-S.C., also seeking the party's nomin I Choose from ~ iUU t 2001 Repair Parts ? 1! 612 Twelfth Street / West Coli ^ w1 mod '? *2$ visic v INCLUDES: Plastic Or Glass Lenses Single Vision Or Bifocal Does Not Include Examina EXP I I ? I . t ! t I I ' > 4 ' i -* ""w*^ I^:' *. m > A ^^ i yellow' ope at the Booker T. Washington Day Care Cer estigation of Ca was depressing. The only good thing is that no one was hurt." The main doors leading into the chamber were splintered and the near by Republican cloakroom, a meeting room just off the chamber, received considerable damage, Smith said in an interview. The explosion came only three . weeks after a bomb was carried into the House visitors' gallery while Congress was in session, prompting heightened building security. Recommendations for further security improvements were still being drafted. "We don't know who did it," Smith said. Minutes before the explosion, however, an anonymous caller telephoned the Washington Post and lAf ni'fmn vvdiuny iui yiei Carolina campaign is "A decision wil ad with efforts to win die all Southern ! in says. weeks what to do ate committee and an One reason for "I think you're going port for former V n) within the next few Some Glenn c< Mondale if Holl file in the state and associate said the Sen. Ernest Hollings, president althougl atinn lono as hp remain ticyclei 50 Accessories ? 20 Used I V ?BgS?<gfid ?@[ umbia. 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