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t ' Weekend weather Experience planet Earth at McKissick Musuem exhibit see tea,,,res. page 3 Partly cloudy through the period with a v^j-v'btVcitlnfi chance of thundershowers Friday and tSfT TVkd?^xv ^-^VS Saturday. Lows in the 60s and highs in the SBri^^Isi 80s ^en s tennis coach Kent DeMars named coach of year See Sports page s The Gamecock Founded 1908 Eighty Years of Collegiate Journalism Wednesday Volume 81, No. 88 University of South Carolina June 7, 1989 Chaos, i 8[ fc m. ^4^ i s i MS ^M^^^M JM HP^^T If VI ^K BJ* BmH SB^iilBliil m A .... USC and Clemson students at the state house Tuesc Students express ange About 20( , By RON BAKER and MARY PEARSON Staff writers More than 200 USC and Clemson University Chinese students participated in another demonstration against the violence in their homeland at the state's capitol Tuesday. Students from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan were present at the demonstration, which was the third one this week by Chinese students and others who said they are angry and sad about the Chinese government's brutal crackdown Saturday on students in Beijing demanding reform and democracy. The students were generally quiet, listening attentatively to speakers, including many Chinese > students, as well as S.C. Lt. Gov. Nick Theodore and other state government representatives. There were a few emotional outbursts involving tears and desperate pleas from the protesters against the tyranny in China, but the few police officers sent to oversee the protest mostly stood in conspicuously near the State House steps looking uncomfortable and out of place. One demonstrator took the microphone and urged the students to hold back their tears and hide their anger, and to look at the work before them in bringing democracy to China. Judge hears c in foundation By The Associated Press USC's Carolina Research and Development Foundation should be subject to the state's Freedom of Information Act as long as it receives public funds, an attorney said Monday. "The law is the law, and if you are going to be subject to public money and wide discretion in spending it, you should be subject to the statutes," attorney Carl Muller argued before Circuit Judge Carol Connor. Muller represents The Associated Press and The Greenville News, which have filed a lawsuit to force the foundation to make its records public. The news organizations contend the private corporation has received millions of dollars in public funds and is therefore subject to the FOI law. The foundation maintains it is a private entity and should not be required to open its records or meetings to the public. Both sides were in court to argue for a summary judgment, which could resolve the case without a trial. Judge Connor made no immediate decision on J the request. Foundation attorney Hoover Blanton said the money foundation received ?in particular, $2 million from the USC's 1984 sale of the Wade Hampton Hotel ?should not be considered public funds. The $2 million, he said, was " a gift to the foundation" by the purchaser of the hotel. The university, which is considered a public entity and is subject to the FOIA, received $3 million from J the sale. ( Blanton said the money received from the foun- ( dation was never channeled through USC, and ' therefore is not considered to be public funds. "So you're telling me that the university would s V violence ^ E' :|Hp ^ r * f/tt& ^ ' <\cy a m lay protesting the violent crackdown on demonstra r, sadness 3 rally at si Students present at the demonstration carried signs in both Chinese and English which held such slogans as "Our Fallen Heroes Are Immortal." Another sign asserted that Chinese Premier Li Peng and President Yang Shangkun should "go to hell." A division of the 27th Army, the one which brutally attacked the students in Tiananmen Square, is controlled by a relative of Yang. Yet another sign equated the Chinese Communist Party with Nazis, drawing a parallel between Deng's China and Hitler's Germany which is becoming more and more common in the language hqpH hv thp Hpmnnctrutnrc Students were led by one speaker to chant, in both Chinese and English, "Free the country! Long live democracy! Stop the bloodshed! Long live freedom!" Speakers often compared the present unrest in China to the American Revolution. S.C. Rep. Tim Rogers (D-Richland County) tried to show Americans' solidarity with the demonstrators: "Your fight is our fight; your battle is our battle." During the week, students have also gathered around their television sets everyday listening to all news about the turmoil in their homeland since the violence began June 3. irguments i FOI case have sold it for $3 million and the rest (the $2 million) was just happenstance?" the judge asked. Blanton said no, and that it certainly was no secret that the $2 million was part of the transaction, but it never was public funds. The AP and The News contend the foundation has received more than $28 million in public funds since 1984, most of which went toward construction of the university's new engineering building and the Roger Center for the Arts. Attorneys for the foundation argue that it is a separate entity from the university and thus unaffected by the disclosure provisions in the act. But The AP and The News said the foundation's close financial relationship with the state suppoi icu uinvci suy inaK.es n a puune uuuy. "If the CRDF does not want to be subject to the FOIA, there's one thing they can do. They can play it straight," Muller said. "We do not think a private foundation should be used that way unless they're willing to be subject to the FOIA." But Blanton said the foundation has not received public funds. "We have not received any public money," he said after the hearing. "We received gifts." Muller disagreed. "They are public funds," he said. "The money comes straight from the city, the state, the federal government. If the media outlets' motion for a summary judgment is approved, the foundation would be ordered to open its files to the public. If the foundation's summary judgment motion is approved, ts files could remain closed. Either side can appeal the ruling, which Connor aid could come as early as Friday. in Chins ?yp whhh 3HHMH ' JHMHi IB w' mB| t * lEDOr-j i Charles Jones /The Gamecock ting students in Beijing. :ate house "We have not slept well or even had much food since this began. We are furious with the government in China; it is nothing more than a brutal dictorship," said Bin Lin, a comparative literature graduate student who is a Chinese national. "Our government just has left us speechless. Already we have lost relatives in Beijing," Bin Lin said. Bin Lin said she called a friend in Beijing about five hours after the killing began. "I shouted over the phone, 'Have you heard the goverment is killing the people?' My friend whispered back, 'Yes, 1 know, 1 know,"' she said. More than 150 students marched at the capitol Sunday to mourn the deaths of the 1,000 or more Chinese who were believed to have died at that time. The number of casualties had reportedly grown to more than 3,000 by press time Tuesday. Graduate student Li Ci-Long said the Chinese students have formed a group, "The Committee in Solidarity with Student Protestors in Beijing." The committee is raising money for the families in China that have lost relatives in the violence. Jenny W. Kaye, the treasurer of CSSPB, said . that the committee raised over $1000 Tuesday, and that she found the support of the people very touching. j W3$ \ rr..l- ? F jg w it- ""^Sus ^|ig *ggg ^mP^M, A Out of the horse's mouth Pel (both a name and a profession) smiles for (he c: mer Celebration held at the State Farmer's Market I celebration attracted about 20,000 people. i conti By The Associated Press Armies loyal to rival factions traded fire Tuesday in Beijing, and citizens urged soldiers they considered friendly to kill those who crushed a movement for freedom. Fear of civil war grew as a popular uprising turned into armed struggle. In the first appearance of a top of nciai since tne crackdown began, government spokesman Yuan Mu said China is not afraid of the universal condemnation that greeted its action against the pro-democracy campaign. "The rebellion has not been completely quelled," he said. "The situation in the capital remains very grim." Soldiers continued firing into crowds around Beijing four days after troops began killing hundreds of pro-democracy protesters in the most violent suppression of a popular movement in Communist China's 40-year history. Witnesses reported a small boy killed and a girl wounded in the head. Police in riot gear cruised the streets in vans as night fell, beating up and shooting passers-by. Anti-government demonstrations spread to Shanghai, Nanjing, Chengdu, Shenyang and other cities. Other countries urged their citizens to leave Beijing. In Washington, an administration official said the United States was considering the use of chartered aircraft to evacuate Americans. Yuan, the governmment spokesman, said on television that 300 people had been killed, including 23 students; and 7,000 were injured and 400 %r>ldinr<; were micsino Thp evening television news said 32 people were arrested, most of them for trying to set fire to public buses. Diplomats have estimated the death toll at about 3,000. The political struggle between conservative and moderate factions of the Communist Party intensified as the military factions appeared to take sides. A report that senior leader Deng Xiaoping had died added to the Bush announces p< President George Bush announce government Monday. These include* Cut off all military trade with Discontinue contact between U Pledge the efforts of the Red C government crackdown. Give a "sincere review" to a\ Chinese students studying in the UT "In- recent weeks, we've urged dialogue; instead, there has been demonstrators," he said. "The Uni attacks and cannot ignore the cor China." W Staff, Ifck . about I jWI *n *ns I From wire and < use staff an Assembly's vote at the same time pay this year. "It does little j on the state payr take a net loss e\ V fice of Financial be identified. Co-worker Ev "We really d come out losing premiums," Col k USC employe* will pay 10 time costs and 30 pe beginning in Jar Officials said criticized, are ne ine 20 nercent a 9 "We didn't ra surance has gon< The increases Control Board, governor voted I Under the plar and family mem /t"/ n l 1,000-percent hi '/ry/ The Gamecock , , Jan. 1. State governm amera at the Sum- contributions als last weekend. The offset the defici $65 million towa nues chaos. The report, from Taiwan, was denied by the government. Ming Pao, a Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao, said a young guard shot conservative Premier Li Peng in the thigh but the wounds were not serious. It said the guard was shot to death immediately. Chinese sources said they heard the man shot Li because one of his relatives was killed by soldiers in Tiananmen Square, focus of the stu dent protest for democracy. Zhao Ziyang, the moderate Communist Party chief, was stripped of his post late last month in a confrontation with Li, President Yang Shangkun and Deng, the conservatives who ordered the army action. Most of the soldiers involved were from the 27th Army, which is based in Hebei province and apparently is led by members of Yang's family. The 27th, which fought China's brief 1979 war with Vietnam, invaded the city Saturday night and rolled into Tiananmen Square, killing hundreds on its way. On Tuesday afternoon, witnesses said the 27th Army fought with soldiers from Shanxi province's 28th Army, believed loyal to Zhao. There were no reports of casualties. The brief exchange, including several rounds from a tank cannon, occurred just south of the Military Museum in western Beijing. It followed unconfirmed reports of soldiers fighting soldiers in the western and southeastern parts of the city Monday and earlier. Hundreds of citizens flocked to the bridge at Muxudi, also in the west, to welcome soldiers Tuesday evening who said they were from the 38th Army, based in Beijing. "pYtprminafp 1*7 tin Armu! ?I..V ^.-111 <-ll.il J. Avenge blood with blood!" people in the crowd chanted as they handed buns, eggs and cigarettes to the troopers. The 38th Army is said to have opposed the martial law crackdown and refused to fire on civilians. A soldier at Muxudi told The Associated Press soldiers of the 27th fired on his comrades. olicy for China d several action against the Chinese i: the Chinese government. .S. and Chinese military officials. ross to aid the students injured in the pplications for visa extensions from i. mutual restraint, nonviolence, and a violent and bloody attack on the ted States cannot condone the violent sequences for our relationship with faculty upset new increase mrance cost staff reports id faculty are upset about the General to raise health insurance premiums while : giving them only a 4 percent increase in or nothing to encourage people to remain oil. It is ridiculous that we should have to ery year the way we do," said a USC Of! Services employee who did not want to eline Collins said she agreed, idn't get a raise this year. We actually money because they raised our insurance lins said. ;s, like other state employees and retirees, :s more in out-of-pocket hospitalization rcent higher health insurance premiums luary under a plan approved Monday, the increases, which were immediately cessary because medical costs are climbyear. lise them (costs), the system itself raised arroll Campbell said. "The cost of in: up. The taxpayers cannot just continue things." were approved by the state Budget and of which Campbell is a member. The or the rate hikes. I, some 320,000 teachers, state employees ibers covered by the deficit-ridden state 1th insurance fund face average aspitalization cost increases beginning ent, local government and school district o will increase 30 percent in an attempt to t. Lawmakers have already contributed ird the fund in the 1989-90 state budget.