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AhmiJJMHHHH n Chernobyl victims ask for foreign aid * A Soviet republic today asked ^ for international help to relocate and give medical aid to more than 2 million people, including Sl 600,000 children, affected by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident. 31 The sudden plea ? more than 12 four years after the accident ? comes after Soviet scientists said ^ the situation was much worse sj than Moscow had portrayed. aj One-fifth of the republic of Byelorussia's more than 10 mil- |~ lion neoole have to be moved j | from areas contaminated by radiation, said Victor Borovikov, a Byelorussia diplomat. He said it includes 27 cities and more than 2,600 villages. "We have no energy, no transportation, no communications," in these regions, he told reporters. He was in Brussels for the departure Wednesday of a truck convoy carrying donated children's medicine to Minsk, the republic's capital. He said 25,000 people were moved after the April 28, 1986, accident in the Ukraine. But, he said, "then Moscow said there was no panic, no danger. In the past four years we've realized the situation was not so simple." Charleston mayor to head conference Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. has Deen eieciea presi- l_ dent of the National Conference of Democratic Mayors. T Riley, who was elected Monday, has previously served as treasurer and vice-president of I] the organization. He succeeds Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, who served as president for four years. sit Riley said his duties will in- pr; elude communicating with Con- a gress about the mayors' legisla- tei tive agenda and representing the mayors on the Democratic Na- cu tional Committee. scl mriin rvurnACA 1C ffi hpln 1 lit main |7uipujv ..w|/ the National Conference of zoi Democratic Mayors be an effec- isn live spokesman for the needs of he cities," he said. "We are concerned about the urban agenda: res the lack of affordable hou- ers sing . . . (and) the federal gov- bit ernment's withdrawal of support his from urban programs over the shi last 10 years." The Democratic mayors are in I'v Chicago to attend the annual ma meeting of the U.S. Conference coi of Mayors, which is a separate rea non-partisan organization. po< wrwr&s^^m Faculty House gets ma "A" rating back The Fa lilt\/ Uauca rP- I I ? ?c j 11UUOV 11W,J * v , ceived an "A" rating on its sec- ihQt ond follow up inspection after being threatened with closing by 00 the health department. Cathy Gustafson, general man- C ager of the Faculty House, said WJ she is proud of the faculty house and its reputation. She said the B, restaurant had a 90, enough ? points for an "A" rating, when The Gamecock reported last week that the restaurant could be closed. UI The Faculty House was not granted an "A" because it had severe problems with an insect in- nc festation. University spokeswoman Debra Allen said Tuesday the Faculty House got a perfect score on its most recent m inspection. Holderman ; ;y The Associated Press The children of top University of South Carolina administrators were the recipients f awards from a $300,000 scholarship fund on trolled by President James Holderman, a ewspaper reported Tuesday. In the fall of 1988, 123 students received total of $153,519 under the USC Scholars rogram, and 121 received a total ol 165,233 in the fall of 1989, The Charlotte Observer said. The fund controlled by Holderman gave ;holarships to the children of provost Arlur Smith, dean of students Dennis Pruitt id Ron Eaglin, chancellor of USC's Coasil Carolina branch. Smith and Pruitt said they did not ask olderman to give their children scholartips, and Eaglin's son received his award ter Holderman told the chancellor about Rushing to sign Future USC students participating in the fall. lolderman praises >i Monday's addn ' The Associated Press In his last meeting with the Faculty Senat y of South Carolina president James B. I aised professors Monday for turning the s< nationally recognized institution during hi mre. Holderman told about 200 members of I lty Senate convened for a special meeting lool's quality "starts and ends with you." "You have helped our institution broader ns in spite of incredible hurdles: funding a, and for some, an inhibiting inferiority c said. Holderman, who last month announced I ign July 1 following weeks of criticism by and university trustees over his lavish spe s, acknowledged he may have been too z efforts to promote the state's 40,000-stu< p school. 'Perhaps at times in my desire to move us e tried to do so faster than the process w lly allow," Holderman said. "But I've alv nmitted with you to enabling our univ ich the levels of excellence, the high< isible." Some of Holderman's critics charged tha much emphasis on turning USC into a 1 rch university and recruiting tOD aualitv ny from out-of-state, instead of concenti lergraduate programs and helping averai olina students get a college education Eluding to that criticism, Holderman stre school should not exclude average student Consider questions about which student p< iter suits this state and our university's am lupreme Court The Associated Press Inocencio Muniz did not even wait until e police officer had returned to his patrol ir before ignoring a warning not to drive nil he sobered up. Muniz's next warning ? about his right remain silent and have an attorney ? did )t come until after police videotaped him urring his speech in response to questions >out his age, height and weight. The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Monday at police did not violate the Pennsylvania otorist's rights by videotaping his answers the routine questions, and it ordered a awards schol the program. All said their children wt | good students. Smith's daughter received $2,448 ? I full year of in-state tuition ? and Eaglii son received about $2,400. The amount the scholarship awarded to Pruitt's son w unknown. Among the qualifications to be a UJ Scholar, a student must have a 2.0 gra point average and demonstrate financ: need, leadership potential and ability "contribute to the intercultural dimension the university," according to a set of writt rules. The administrators whose children i ceived the scholarships earned betwe $87,000 and $112,000 annually from th< university jobs. Holderman, who resigned effective Jt 1 in the wake of criticism over his spendi habits, did not respond to a request to d ImBH^ H fll I \ w Nick summer orientation sign up Tor traternity USC professors, p ?ss to the Faculty if only one segment could or si e Univer German said. He added, howev( lolderman f; whicl; se's the,hi?h admj: shoot into f,e a lead(;rsh'P. ?>le in this di ic 17 He said there is a serious 1 J-yCal . search is an economic dram ra JSC's Fa- stimulus" g that the "Universities, good and great into traditional management 1 its hori- said, skeptic- Shortly after Holderman annc Complex " w0ldd resign, Michael Mung Board of Trustees, criticized hi he would and excluding average students 1 lawmak- ^ung? said should chanj nding ha- departu e. ealous in ?ut Faculty Senate chairman j p< tPr Ur\1 Hnrmon'c ?Un? U? WVA xxv/iuvxiuuu O 111(11 lie cations" from Mungo regarding forward ' ^r* Mungo has disavowed a ould nor- ing admission standards and as 'ays been culty to phone him if they have ersity to tQid the Faculty Senate, sst level Mungo did not immediately fice Monday. He was a leading critic of it he put practices while on fund-raisir najor re- country. Those expenses incluc students, rooms, chauffeured limousine i ating on jets. je South Holderman also spent thousai discretionary account on gifts a ssed that staurants for donors. University s- that whoever replaces Holderma Dpulation will have much more limited a AO o ii/muu, as tunds. approves vide( lower court to consider reinstating 1 drunken driving conviction. The decision, along with a Suprer Court ruling in a Michigan case last we that sobriety checkpoints do not violate rr torists' rights, have strengthened poli powers to curb drunken driving at wl some civil liberatarians say is too high price. "There seems to be the continued patte of the high court cutting back on the rig! we thought we enjoyed," said Stef Presser, legal director of the Pennsylvai American Civil Liberties Union. arships to offici ire cuss his scholarship program. Smith said his daughter was notified by a mail last year that she would receive a USC i's scholarship. When he asked Holderman abof out the matter, Smith said the president told -as him he awarded scholarships to the children of USC staff as a way to promote the >C university. dc Smith said that, after being named inial terim president earlier this month, he notilo fied USC that his daughter would no longer of accept the scholarship. en Pruitt said Holderman offered his son a scholarship while his son, who lives out-ofe state, was attending a USC football game, en Pruitt said he did not know the value of the eir scholarship. Eaglin said he thought his son deserved ily the scholarship. ng The university released records to the is- newspaper detailing the scholarship awards Jackson re to aid Mite By The Associated Press The Rev. Jesse Jackson re to his hometown to boo: gubernatorial campaign of h mer classmate, state Sen. jjk Mitchell, and hail his vict< the state's first black candid; I#*" Mitchell said Monda couldn't talk about his discu kL with Jackson in detail, bu Jackson is providing him names of fund-raising contac "V ^ ciuaing some trom nis presi* * ^ *n an(* jfk Mitchell, who won the I Hj cratic primary for governc week, met with his former Bp mate from Sterling High 5 Sunday night. Jackson said Mitchell's si Leoncavallo/The Gamecock as South Carolina's first blac century to gain a party nomi and sorority rush in for governor was a progresss his efforts to build political tions among different groups. Tograms ~T jhhhJ Senate r * J"* tiould be served," Hoi- IjL ^ g ir, that the Faculty Session standards, should J |y a log ue." * yj| misperccption that re- aBflfc*' ther than an economic < TV u % ones, do not fit easily g| " ft .... natterns." Holde.rman >unced on May 31 that ' JmO ;o, chairman of USC's 4 y i m for being too elitist qpM from the school, a polje after Holderman's has obtained "clarifi- Ik JL admissions standards. Mfeft my intention of lower;ked me to tell the faj any questions," Hoist return a call to his of- f Br Holderman's spending lg travels around the HHrT WSS, services and chartered IBHHSZ,: ids of dollars from his Cooling down u^stc^'Ls"week"said ,h A in at the helm of USC ,hrou9h Broklyn-Cayce H iccess to discretionary utaping suspected ( lis But Sherry Walker, executive director of the Pennsylvania chapter of Mothers i ne Against Drunk Driving, said the benefits of I ek roadblocks and video cameras outweigh any 10- inconvenience. ce . ^ iat "The decisions are the will of the major- v a ity of Americans who are fed up with the h senseless, daily slaughter," Ms. Walker c ,rn said. n its an In 1988, a total 23,351 people died in lia drunken driving accidents. Muniz was arrested by Upper Allen ials' children but deleted the names of scholarship recipients, citing privacy laws. Some USC puhllffltmriQ hnu/PUAr nomo tKa rn^ir?l/ante UUTTVIVi, 11111111/ UIV/ IW/ipiUIlO U1 other awards given to university students. Clemson University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Citadel, Winthrop and the University of Virginia do not have a similar practice of awarding scholarships to children of university officials. Most of the other institutions contacted also said they do not keep scholarship awards secret. "We make them public because publishing the caliber and criteria for these scholarships is a plug for The Citadel," said Citadel spokesman Ben Legare. Programs like the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education's Palmetto Scholars annually announce their scholarship winners. ;turns to S.C. hell's campaign "This is a time for the real turned Democratic Party lo stand up, a st the multiracial party that deals across is for- lines of race and sex and religion Theo and votes based upon merit and Dry as character," Jackson said while visate for iting a housing complex named after him in Greenville, y he "If we can play football together issions at Carolina and Clemson," he said, t said "in November we can vote with together and win together." :ts, inlential Mitchell, who will face Republican Gov. Carroll Campbell in Demo- November, praised Jackson for >r last putting him in touch with camclass naien contributors u/hn Hn nm Jchool want special favors in return. uccess "Anybody who can suggest how :k this to get money without strings is a nation help, and there are no strings ation of tached to it," Mitchell said, coali- t The two leaders did not specify who the contributors were. ;..V. dp David R. Owens/The Gameoock ireak from battling a blaze that ripped igh School Tuesday. Irunk drivers township police in 1986 after an officer loticed Muniz's car stopped by the side of he road with the motor running. The officer said he smelled alcohol on duniz's breath and that the man's eyes vere glazed and bloodshot. The officer said e told Muniz not to drive until he was in a ondition to operate the car safely, but Muiz drove off anyway. The patrolman pursued Muniz, ordered fiim to stop and told him to perform some sobriety tests. Muniz failed all the tests.