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Pjige 2 ? April 15, li)85 Dateline THE GAMECOCK j Salmonella out 0% imiio icmaiiio a myo to health inspc Officials fe< By Associated Press CHICAGO ? Gary Dot son, sen I back 10 prison 011 a rape sentence alter a judge rejected a woman's testimony that she wasn't raped, has been moved to a different prison because officials fear his fame might make him a target of violence. Meanwhile, the judge who upheld his rape conviction last week said he was sorry for Dotson and his family, but had to do what he thought was right. Dotson, 2K, whose first week of freedom in si\ years ended Thursday in the Markham courtroom of Circuit Judge Richard I.. Samuels, was moved Friday night from Jolict Correctional Center to a smaller prison at Dixon, 70 miles northwest, where he can have ;i cell to himself. Soviet force [ conducting fl maneuvers ipfe By Associated Press | HONOLULU ? A l()-ship [ Soviet task force was conduc- [] 3 ting routine training Ehm maneuvers about 9(M) miles northwest of Midway Island, F a U.S. Navy spokesman said M Saturday. H "It's not common for a H group that large to the be in _rr the Central Pacific," said Lt. I ' George Brown, a spokesman H: for the Third Fleet. "As a matter of fact, it's the largest H' wp'VP <?V(?r sivn " The lask force, headed by \r"-\r ? the Kiev-class anti-submarine carrier Novorossiysk, con- Altt tained four guided missile cruisers, two frigates, two [ JJL oilers and intelligence ship. Brown s a i d . A i r maneuvers included use of the Soviet lorgcr, or I Y A K - 3 8 , a n d A S W . : / helicopters, he said. L Nine ships of the task force [?r -' left the Soviet port of 17 \ Vadivostok in late March, H- ' , later left the Sea of Japan by j way of the Isiishnna Straits f __ A and sailed in the Philippine Sim before liendini! into the Central Pacific, Brown said. I PILE II AH Ton Can Ba \\ Tiff!! u i_/vvvi j a V ^ ?= j Knox Abbott 1* 975 Kno OSC I . 79 By Associated Pre** CHICAGO - Investigators say they have LUl OClBl done everything but tear out the walls and floors of a dairy, but the causc of a iJUl V salmonella outbreak that " has poisoned almost 5,000 , - 4 people in five states reSCIOrS mained a mystery Saturday. ./, ir violence, rr SAMUELS HAD freed Dotson on 5,10,(KM) cash bond while his case was being decided. He refused Thursday to reverse the conviction on the basis of recanted testimony by Cathleen Crowell Webb. She testified she made up the story of being raped that sent Dotson to prison because she had sex with a boyfriend as a teen-ager and was afraid she might be pregnant. At the Dotson family home in suburban Country Club Hills, scores of callers offered support, and a petition drive to urge Gov. james i nompson to tree mm was gaming momentum, said his sister, Laura Dot son, 22. "We're not even doing it. It's his friends," she said of the petition effort. About 300 \ . Bay ' - JENNIFER STEI8 I I he Game itonTI t Spaghetti Sinner w SPAY MIGHT v Night and Saturday JI $4 to ssf" I iL. ? Drink j After 2 om. \\ Tony's ; x Abbott Dr. A-^A^O Mon.-Sat. 10 am-10 pm ; testing machinery (u the threats and fac Hillfarm Dairy in subur- ' ding or th ban Melrose Park on lawsuits and p Saturday, and planned to cost of cleanir work through the that employees weekend, said Susan ly dumped ii Weidfcl of the state inspec- sewers, tor general's office. There have Meanwhile, Jewel Com- reports of salr oanies Inc.. which sold the fection ? wh milk from the dairy in fever, nausea ai many of its 217 stores, has ? in Illinois, weathered two bomb Indiana, Wise love convicte signatures were collected in lour hours Friday. Warren l.upel, Dotson's attorney, cited "a tremendous outpouring from all over the continent," including attorneys offering services to help free Dot son. Dot son, described as distraught on his arrival at Joliet on Friday, was doing fine Saturday at Dixon Correctional Center, a medium-security prison, said spokesman Nic Howell. MICHAEL LANK, state corrections director, said: "Prisoners have attempted to become more famous by taking the life of a famous prisoner. It best served his interests to he taken to a smaller and different prison." worh ~ ~ tnain give A rainy weeki extended break said drought a slate. "I think inos Commission sp< strictly a reprice Carson said t I morning and ft statewide burni Riley Monday t more than a \vc "I'm sure the mem to the gov ing ban to see it to our normal < I .ess I ban 10 I I I here were no l i were conccmrai were reported i Weighty situation S.C. cleri I Jimmy Jones, a Souih Caroli sophomore in the conference Saa business school, lifts ^J,tj ,or pcac handweights during a wofhlc' ,>cilccm recent afternoon at christian Actio the Solomon Blatt Physical Education atholic C an Center. conference I rit peace. I lie Ke\ icock I irsl Baptist C critical of the a | NEED EXTRA MONI A HYLAr Li PLASMA CEN' 1 1620 Gervais Hours: Mon.-Fri. 17:30 a.m. - 5:30 p. Call for an appointment. TM mm a a A ? Irnone: Zb4-ZZSU ir First-time donors please arrive before 4 o'clock ""I# *s 30 pen- Iowa, Ms. Weidel said reatened Saturday. At least three ossibly the deaths have tentatively ig up milk been linked to the outimproper break, she said. nto storm Illinois hbd 4,408 of the reportea cases, wim i,wz been 4,742 of them confirmed, nonelta In- Jewel spokesman Jim itch causes Henson said the company nd diarrhea has replaced all products Michigan, from the Hillfariti dairy rti-rln avt/4 u/S/h mitb vital it* auu Tfeui iiiiiiv | id rapist Dot son was in a single cell at Dixon, which h:n. 110 e<?lk likr ihf nnfs ;it the loliei maximum-security prison, Howell said. The judge said in an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times published in Sunday's editions that Dot son and his family were "obviously under the mistaken impression A the campaign they waged in the media would ^ be sufficient to gain his release." "1 really don't want to fault the family," said Samuels, who had imposed Dotson's 25to 50-year sentence after a conviction on rape and aggravated kidnapping cnarges in iv/v. Mrs. Webb, 23, of New Hampshire, cheeked out of a Chicago hotel Saturday where she had been staying with her husband. j today s S.C. firefighters a break L'lid gave South Carolina firefighters their first in aimosi iwo monms, nut mresiry omciais uulilions slill exist throughout most of the ily we're just taking a break," stale Forestry .ikesman Dean Carson said Sunday. "It's jusi >e for today." ainfall amounts would be evaluated Monday >restry officials would decide the status of a ng ban. They also may report to Gov. Dick o sco whether ;i slate ol cmcriii'itcv declared ek ago, should remain in effect. slate foresier will he prepared to make a stateernor about the state of emergency and burn' the danger's been reduced enough to go hack iperaiing conditions," Carson said. fires were reported statewide on Saturday, and res reported Sunday, he said. Saturday's fires led in the Piedmont districts, although some n Horry County. None of the I ires exceeded s, C arson said. gyman close conference ma clergymen closed an interdenominational irday hy signing a resolution of commitment to c in their communities, die nation and the liking c onlerence was sponsored hv Hie n Council and eight religious denominations. Jinal Joseph licrnardin of Chicago opened the lay with a call for prayer and action toward . Dr. David Matthews, pastor of Greenville's hurch, followed up Saturday with a speech rms race. IiY? 1 # [. | Th* (?AMK('(M'K ia lh* atudtnt ne??pap*r of the I'nivtraitv of South [1 Carolina and i* published ihrcr limra I a M?ck on Mondaya. Wedncarfaya and Kridav* during thf fall and aprinK I B during both lummer iriiiom. with tke " B exception of univenity holiday* and ex_ _ _ aminalion periods. g Ear CP I Opiniona (iprtnrd in Ihr (iA.MK| wilv H COCK are those of the editor* and not those of the I'niversity of South t'aro. lina. 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