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World
Democratic opposition moves off street
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (AP) ? After millions of people filled
city centers to demand an end to authoritarian rule, opposition leaders
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first demand a new cabinet.
Monday's two-hour nationwide general strike ? a festive affair of
speeches, song and flag-waving ? was the largest public display of
opposition to the ruling Communists since they took power in 1948.
The opposition coalition Civic Forum said after 11 straight days of
mass rallies for democracy the time had come to pressure authorities
into relinquishing power and allowing free elections.
But it also held out the threat of further strikes if the popular will is
not heeded. Any doubt that workers backed the pro-democracy movement
was eased during Monday's strike as shop floors across the
country were idle.
Nation
Virginia election results to be recounted
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ? Virginia's closest and most prolonged
election for governor next goes before a three-judge panel that will
supervise a recount requested by the Republican who lost to Democrat
L. Douglas Wilder.
J. Marshall Coleman, a former attorney general, said Monday he
wants a recount and an investigation of alleged irregularities in the
Nov. 7 balloting.
The State Board of Elections said Wilder beat Coleman by 6,854
votes, or .38 percent, out of nearly 1.8 million votes cast. Unofficial
returns had showed a 6,852-vote lead for Wilder, the state's lieutenant
governor who will be the nation's first elected black governor.
Coleman is entitled to a taxpayer-funded recount if the margin is
less than a half a percent.
State
Holiday traffic deaths lowest in 3 years
Fifteen people died on South Carolina's roads and 357 motorists
were arrested for driving under the influence over the Thanksgiving
holiday weekend, the state Highway Patrol reported.
The holiday traffic death toll was the lowest in three years. In 1988,
20 people lost their lives, 19 people died in 1987 and 11 were killed
in 1986, the patrol said Monday.
use
Lecture to discuss Latin America
Guerrilla uprisings in Latin America will be the focus of a free
public lecture at 3:30 p.m., Nov. 30 at Gambrell Hall Room 151.
Gilbert Joseph, a history professor at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, will speak on 'Tracking the 'Social Bandit': A
Re-Examination of Peasant Resistance in Mexico and Latin America."
Joseph has studied and traveled extensively throughout Mexico and
Central America. His writings include four books and several journal
articles on the history of Mexico, the Yucatan and Latin America.
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USC has been awarded a $145,000 grant to
conduct a study on the neglect of children in
low-income families, an area on which there
had previously been little research.
The grant, awarded by the National Center on
Child Abuse and Neglect, will help researchers
in USC's psychology department and the Center
for Child and Family Studies in USC's College
of Social Work identify ways of preventing neglect
in poor families.
To conduct the study, three types of lowincome
families will be interviewed: those in
which signs of neglect exist, those who had
once been neglecting but are no longer, and
those who are not neglecting.
"Including formerly neglecting families is
another unique feature of the study," Paget said.
"We want to understand what is helping them
or has helped them move out of the neglecting
status."
The S.C. Department of Social Services and
Richland County DSS will select families for
the study. To be included in the study, families
must be recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent
Children, a common form of welfare,
said Lois Abramczyk, director of the Center for
Child and Family Studies.
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families," Abramczyk said. "One of the unique
things about the study is that we will ask these
families how they see themselves and how they
explain their circumstances."
For example, knowing what a parent's attitudes
are concerning child rearing could help
identify problems that could lead to neglect, she
said. "Some parents might think, based on how
they were raised, that they are functioning 'normally'
when, in fact, they're not."
One of the main reasons child neglect has not
been thoroughly researched is because of the
sensitivity of the issue. Child abuse, for instance,
is more overt than neglect because there
are specific actions involved, while neglect is a
complex issue that can be hard to detect, Paget
said.
"It's hard to talk to people about neglecting
their children," she said. To help with the pro
cess, they will hire and train at least two lowincome
mothers to act as liaisons between the
families and researchers to help open the lines
of communication.
"We need the liaisons to help establish a
good rapport with the people. We want to help
people in the study feel comfortable and we
want to give the impression that we're being
sensitive to the situation," Paget said.
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"The grant focuses on neglect,
not abuse. This is an area of research
that needs to be investigated.
We're trying to understand
the family life of those who live in
poverty."
Kathleen Paget
Psychology associate professor
pect to the research is that it will be consist of
interdisciplinary work between the psychology
department and the College of Social Work,
' Paget said.
According to Abramczyk there are two reasons
for the importance of this interdisciplinary
study. "The first reason is because of the outcome
of the study. In terms of understanding
and delivering services to help such a complex
issue, no one discipline can meet all of the
needs," she said.
'The second reason is the process itself. The
university has been encouraging colleges to do
interdisciplinary projects, but they're difficult to
carry off," she said.
I? chine was abased by unknown
J.i3 person(s).
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Street, 1 p.m. Wheel covers were
, removed from victim's vehicle
by unknown persons).
Nov. 27
Larceny, 700 Pendleton Street,
8 a.m. A battery was removed
> Influence, flora a university vehicle by unn
streets, 3 known person(s).
arrested for
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sembly Street, 11 am. A suspect
was arrested for disorderly conduct
and public drunkness. He
was transported to Richland
tions were County Detention Center and
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Assault and Battery, Bates
Park Street, West, 11 pm. Victim reported
fct passenger that subject struck him once in
out by un? the eye and once in the stomach
with a closed fist. The victim
plans to file charges.
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