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&--- ' w$? '< " < w. . ,^;> ;:A- * > > : *. .> :. . - v.; ? . . . . Spotlight, p. 5 Sports, p. 7 Red-headed romance #. Jm Icing on the cake "Pretty in Pink" ushers Brat Pack queen Molly Ringwald Former Belmont Abbey athletic director Eddie Payne was hired through the typical pains and pleasures of teenage life ?# %* ^ to become USC's new assistant basketball coach next season The Gamecock Founded 1908 Friday Volume 78, No. 76 University of South Carolina March 28, 1986 Take that! Grounds worker, David Carmichael.l were the scene of the combat. USC profe By ;iCHARL JARVIS St.itl writer I >>C History Professor Robert Her/stein usually lectures about Germany and Italy during World Wat II, grades exams and answers students' questions. Hut a call from the World Jewish Congress March I changed Her/stein's schedule. Ihe Jewish organization asked Her/stein to prove that former United Nations Secretary General and Austrian presidental cank'urf o \U ?i wiM.iiv uviii ?? uiuiKiiii a nu/.i during World War II. A less weeks ago. while Ins classes watched films about Nazis, Her/stein was at the National Archives in Washington, D.C ., looking lor anything he could lind about Waldheim. All Her/stein knew to look for Blind perfor Try new thi By MELISSA HENDERSON Staff witter Singer, songwriter and actor stresses the need to take chances, and experiment. Blind since infancy, Sullivan "Good Morning America" show a on "The Tonight Show" with . "M A S H" and "Mork & Mindy His song "Soon" will he the title Richie album to be released in four golfer and an Olympic silver meda Sullivan's list of accomplishmen of the ino\ie "If You Could See V In light ol all his accolades, he said lii> main concern was that he d seen as jnsi a blind person. Sullivan said in a lecture Wednes Russell House that it is important I beyond the blindness and to reali/i themselves and others as people wii not handicaps. Anybody can overcome a disad\ ii into an auvamage, rsuuivan saici, lie has ever met has some kind oi nothing exists that can't be turned posit i\e. "I lie is a Celebration ol IJniqi See /%m t^L looking like a man with a mission, sprayed jssor leads was the ecoeranhical arrn H?? said he didn't have much to tell t him where to begin in the rooms t full of Na/.i documents captured ( by allied troops near the end of I the war. "I didn't know I would find l anything at all," Herzstein said. / With every piece of informa- t tion he found, Herzstein said he I didn' think he would find any more, uut he did. s The most convincing pieces of I evidence were papers with Waldheim's signature on them I that proved he knew about and 1 participated in actions against I Yugoslavian supporters during I the war. "Anyone could have found s it," Herzstein said of the in- t criminating document. "It's been s there for the past 18 or 20 years." a . JUIII Ulll MM try new tilings, )H works for the Hfl nd has appeared Hfl lohnny Carson, 9B on a Lionel months. He is a Aa list wrestling. ts was the basis /hat I Hf.'ir " ? )\vevcr, Sullivan 9 lidn't want to be y^K.-*ra ,day night the for people to see M appreciate th disadvantages I turn icncss" was 1 he "Sullivan," page 2 Tom Sullivan perforrr n v^L HHlwBn for those pesky little red mites recently. Nazi inve: Since he revealed his informaion at a news conference held by he World Jewish Congress Tueslay, Her /stein's life has been a xirrage of calls. He said The New York Times, The Washington foUlo. M. - K.I ? > T' ly.M, vault ntvv> MCIW'UIK, I flC \ssociated Press, Time and >thers have called wanting to enow more. Her/stein has been at USC ,ince 1972, the year Waldheim jeeanie secretary general. Her/stein said he will continue lis investigation of Waldheim, >ut he has duties at USC. He will J >c- u yucsi icciurcr at uxtord Jniversity in May. ^ He has written hooks on the m ubject, including the Time-Life ^ >ook The Nazis, and about 30 cholarly articles on the Nazis ind modern Germany. U! - ? r 31L is a song for the crowd that attended his lei m u Iw By RICI I 1 h| prcsid un 1979, UN : prescn tor of dent J W a Gener 1982. lcadin llivi LUrtHr/1 he Gamecock *'c" the na "T1 The Carolina Coliseum grounds j said. wh( a m Jewish etinatmn Jiiyuiiun wawi tion v HHwMv / it 7 SS f Germ, : j| , from Kfcl Usil I Allied mnrfflMF Wald> the K< abort Herzstein The SC history professor for to recorc Hwerc I taken shot i troop: panic ly 33 Her tions "aren slaugt JP it you, I H ticket "Bi WMHB | C VISKO HATFIELO/The Gamrcock nobot somet :ture Wednesday night. ocumem ast U.N. I lAiar 1*1 9 vvai ui HARD JARVIS | iter Wal lencc found by a USC lie i / professor shows that and r United Nations Secretary \\ al and leading Austrian in a lential candidate Kurt Infa icim participated in war with !JC 51 M'l/i inlollliuiii.w. />!' <' c* ..u1v1.15v.iKv. v/i- riL*i< 1 World War II. B. lessor Robert Her/.stein, dcfc lg for the World Jewish tion ess, found information avai I Kurt Waldheim in time icnts at the National Ar- vaiu in Washington this month. Tl a visit to USC in April has Waldheim. who was then aim Secretary General, was nam ted with an honorary Doc- says Laws degree by USC Presi- mur ames Holderman. 1 d h e i m was Secretary war al of the UN from 1972 to said Polls taken before Her/s- \\ research was revealed at a ficei conference in New York ccut ay showed NValdheim is the war g candidate in the presiden- he ininaion whi.'Vi imuIc \>i?K tional elections May 4. Ir ic allegations are true, there late question now," Her/stein tion Ball en contacted by the World assij i Congress this month, Gro tein said he was unsure he chat find any information 011 \\ icim. The Jewish organiza- men /anted him to find out if reco icim had been involved in rece portation of Greek Jews to was VUII CU11V.V.IIU UIIV./II V_ til I I [ UCJJi ; the war. wife ead, Her/stein said he H papers with Waldheim's in ure that proved he worked prist intelligence officer for the mac in army in the Balkans Hilt 1942 to 1944. thong documents captured by lead troops near the end of the H Her/stein proved that doci \irnc o fire* ~ ~ villi " uj ci 11131 IIV UllrlltUll IIUI1 German Army. Waldheim tein ted for bravery by the Na/i forr t regime in Croatia for his higf' in a 1942 battle against \N lavian partisans. The battle allej rred to by Yugoslavians as Con 3/.ara Massacres. cam ;iclinn WnldlnMiri vi".k < itI U<>r r, V?|V*.IVIIM " U.I VIIVV* 1 I VI iok place in 1942. Official with Is show that 1,626 partisans is ct tilled, 9,000 prisoners were H and 461 more people were Wal n reprisals. About 20,000 rese ? of Germany and its allies reo ipated in the action and on- Wal Germans were killed. '/stein said official deserip- me < showed the conflicts his 't battles, but are more like YVoi iters." conl ihicies park srrace resid YOUNG iter 1' scr\ icc vehicles have been park and in University Terrace spaces v o some residents. >ts of students like to pull in here t< laundry," IJ. I. resident Bryan M hey * II flash their lights, threaten t ii you uon i move right away, it the utility and maintenance peo ne. The police never seem to give anyone can stop vehicles I t orn | , assistant vice president tor law e ity citi/en that feels something il ly's doing anything about it can >ody," he said. ts link chief imes h e official hist o t y o f dheim's division calls the bati "liquidation" of "bandits sub-humans," he said, aldheim's name is included 11 "honor roll" in the 714th ntry Division's history along a description of the battle, ostein said. xause Na/i Germany was MtCfl (lllli'Ltv THiii'h infnrnvi_ about the Nazi Army is lable. Officials didn't have to destroy records before ad:ing Allied troops arrived, he Yugoslavian government released a list of war linals that includes a LieuteKurt Waldheim. The list ? the officer committed der. I don't know whether he is (a criminal) or not," Hcrzstcin 'aldheim's commanding ofa General Lohr, was exed by the Yugoslavians for crimes in 1947. Herstein said has found pictures of Idheini and Lohr together. 1 his memoirs written in the 1970s, Waldheim didn't menmilitary service in the ;ans, Herzstein said. He w?s jned to intelligence in Army up E and by 1944 was in sole ge of a unit called "03." ' a 1 d h e i m wrote in his loirs that he was in Germany vcring from a wound he ived at the Russian front and working on his doctorate cc while he courted his future er/.stein said Waldheim was charge of interrogating oners. When an attempt was 1c to assassinate AHnlnh er, Waldheim investigated loyalty of the German er's staff. erzstein said he found uments of Waldeim's promoto first lieutenant, but Her/sadded that Waldheim's perned duties usually given to a ler ranking officer. aldheim has denied the Rations of the World Jewish gross and has not stopped his paign for the presidency, but /stein said the new evidence i Waldheim's signature on it inclusive. e s a i d h e has ask e d dhcim to help him in his arch by filling in where the ords are sketchy, but dheim hasn't responded. 1 will find it whether he helps :ir not." Hrr/Upm U/iili research and that of the rlcl Jewish Congress will he inning, he said. illegally, ents Qav a WM | ing in fire and handicapped without being ticketed, aeeoro pick up a date or to pick up artin said. "11 the police see o to\s you off or give you a pie park their trucks here all them any hassle about it >arking illegally, said Danny nforcemcnt and safety. legal is happening and that get on the phone and call See "Vehicles," page 2