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I'm on my way | [ use baseball player picked by pros page6 j immSt Dick Tracy provides ' -I ZSTrS Iffy? SS^^"8es I [Athletic department gets overhaul Page7 j The Gamecock Eighty-one Years of Collegiate Journalism Volume 83, No. 1 ~ ~~ Wednesday, July 11, 1990 BRIEFLY IN THE NEW#! Nicaragua strike 0 r becomes violent . Gunfire crackled in the streets today and backers of a spreading and violent strike rebuilt street barricades that police and the army had dismantled overnight. President Violeta Barrios de Cham orro called on the army to end bloody clashes between her supporters and Sandinistas backing a week-old general strike that is the stiffest threat yet to her U.S.-backed government At least three people were reported killed in earlier gunfire. More were reported wounded overnight but the extent of the casualties was not immediately clear. Most government ministries and state-owned businesses remained in the control of pro Sandinista strikers today. Bonfires burned at many key intersections, and the highway to the airport was blocked by barricades of paving stones and other obstacles. Most Managuans who went to work walked. Man testifies at Barry trial A Washington restaurateur tes tified tota- to. Marion j I Barry sifl?ked opium several times and that the two men repeatedly snorted cocaine at the mayor's home. "I was always there for Mr. Mayor," Hassan Mohammadi testified at Barry's trial on drug and perjury charges. The Iranian-born Mohammadi said opium is a commonly used drug in that country and that the two men smoked it by putting the drug on the back of a spoon and warming it with the flame from a plumber's torch. They inhaled through a straw and part of a coat hangar tube in order to "get the maximum smoke out of it," said Mohammadi. In July 1989 during a crab feast at Barry's hpuse, Mmohammadi testified, the mayor asked "if I had anything." Mohammadi said he did. T1 ^ * ? me iwu wciu upsiairs in Barry's home and "we did some lines" of cocaine "inside the bathroom" next to the main bedroom, said Mohammadi. Lawyer sentenced for drug dealing A judge has sentenced Charleston lawyer Robert E. Moseley to 21 years in prison and a $50,000 fine for trafficking in cocaine. Moseley, 49, told Circuit Judge John Hamilton Smith on Monday he wanted to "get this behind me and take my medicine." He will be eligible for parole after seven years. Moseley was arrested last August after he tried to buy 4.4 pounds of cocaine from an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration agent working with Charleston city police. muawwjr 5 wne, ueooran, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess cocaine for distribution. Smith gave her a seven-year suspended sentence and three years probation. Co-defendants Eugene W. Phillips, 47, and Bennett S. Rose, 50, both of Southern Pines, N.C., each received 18-year sentences. Moseley's lawyer, O. Grady' ' Query, said his client had "a casual involvement for a long period of time with drugs. It's fouled him up in the past, and it's fouled him up now." Smith offic By SCOTT PRUDEN Editor in chief The University of South Carolina's ii terim president was not shy when ask< how it felt to be at the helm of the state largest university. "It feels good to finally have the waitir period over and to have the job," Arthi Smith, who officially took over the pre idency on July 1, said last Tuesday. Smi will hold the president's position until permanent president is selected by a US Board of Trustees committee. Smith said that the resignation of Jam* Holderman as USC president came as i much of a surprise to the administration i it did to everyone else. "We knew of h committment to the institution, and we e: pected that he would see the rest of his pr< Former CEO, g businessman 1 Williams dies J By The Associated Press Arthur M. Williams Jr., the former president of South Carolina Electric and Gas Co. and one of M the state's most influential bu- H sinessmen for two decades, has died. He was 75. j9| Williams died Monday night at m Richland Memorial Hospital. He had suffered from ill health for several months. President and chief executive officer of SCE&G from 1965 to > 1979, Williams served at the helm V of the utility as the industry suffered through the energy crisis. Williams also was active in education and civic affairs, serving on the board of the Carolina Research and Development Foundation, a I; fund-raising arm of the University of South Carolina, and on the first E state Commission on Human I Affairs. Williams, born in Charleston on Sept. 16, 1914, was a descendant of Arthur Middleton, a signer of ?J the Declaration of Independence, m for whom he was named. He graduated in 1936 from what tt was then Clemson College with a degree in textile chemistry, and he graduated magna cum laude from yz the University of South Carolina co . Law School in 1938. USC offic, < From staff and wire reports University of South Carolina officia ana community icpit^iiuiuvcs win me July 9 to discuss solutions to crowd beh, vior problems at some concerts that ha> been held at Carolina Coliseum. An increase in violent behavior amor young people in Columbia has led USC o ficials to postpone booking rap concerts ; the coliseum until adequate security can t provided. Records show Cle conserved discret From staff and wire reports ^ his Clemson University President Max Lennon last year spent $47,950 from school discretionary ^ accounts he controls, and an additional $65,765 was spent by his of- e free for travel, according to university records. shy Lennon had access to $90,000 for travel during the last fiscal sc^' year, which ended in June. But by mee the end of May, about $24,200 of Ir that budget remained unspent stay He also did not spend all the funds available to him in discre- $19tionary accounts. 1 Lennon had access to $63,440 in L discretionary funds, including ac- &sc counts totaling $32,000 for last rece year and an additional $31,440 of cu^ unspent funds left from the previ- 03111 ous year. He spent about two- ^ thirds of the money, records show. . , By comparison, more than u $533,000 was spent from the Jis- Fres cretionary account controlled by 00 USC President James Holderman, Pro* who resigned effective July 1 over pres iallv takes in J fessional career through 2001. So it came as a bit of a shock to us," Smith said. ~ As provost and chief academic officer at USC over the past two years, Smith said he >s was struck by the university's sense of direction and momentum from the beginning. 12 "That impressed me. And if, in fact, those ^ things hadn't been there, I doubt whether I s would have given serious consideration to ^ taking the position in the first place." a "Nothing has changed in my sense that C two years later, the institution is on the right path. We are pointed in the right diss rection," Smith said, is Much of Smith's philosophy about runis ning the university until a new president is is chosen involves demonstrating that USC has not lost its soul in losing Holderman and is willing to move on. :hy m Hi fl^B Vlarsh Rat' N*u Environmental health graduate student Paule es post-Hugo water samples from around the s mtent. community leaders "We've offered rap concerts in the past, Is and we want to be able to continue offering et them in the future," said coliseum director a- John Bolin. fC "Rut because of increased reports of vio lence among young people in Columbia and ig the escalation of group fights during certain f- concerts at the coliseum, it's only prudent at to see how our secutiry can be modified to >e better deal with these new situations," he said. ?mson's chief ionary funds spending practices, a addition, Holderman spent 4,000 in funds provided by two ^-affiliated foundations. lost of the funds Lennon's of- ^ spent on travel during the last i\ year went to pay the univerathletic department for use of plane so Lennon and other ^g| doI officials could travel to tings, the records show. 1 other travel expenses, Lennon ed in hotel rooms ranging from a night in North Carolina to 1 4 a night in New York City, records show. ennon spent almost all of his rptinnoru mnncv r?n liinoKoAno k vuviiui j M*v?avj vu &U11V11VV/Ild) plions and dinners for new fair, staff members, students and pus visitors. ther discretionary spending inled an $868 oriental rug for the Ooh.'Ahf ident's house. The 49-square- .. rug from China is university 1A/ ?n mei? >erty and will remain in the Washington D. ident's house, officials said. nite tates. terim pres "Goals that we have are ambitious g< but they are achievable goals. They arc right goals. We need to reaffirm the d tion and the confidence and restore momentum that we established under Holderman toward the achievement of t goals," Smith said. He also refuted claims that Dr. Ho man had come to embody everything was positive about USC, saying that drive of a great university comes 1 within, and is actually embodied in th< culty and students. "But there has to be an excitement a it all, and I think Dr. Holderman cc buted that excitement. The peopl< brought in and the ideas he pursued cc buted to a very strong sense of movei and dynamism within the university ( Industr fc* sanctio By The Associated P Western leaders Gorbachev a warn: Tuesday and pledge practical ways those choose freedom." ^ dustrial powers offe " nated aid for the en economy, but loos< against China. The leaders issue* allowing any of the : / to aid the Soviets / "*!? ^est Germany has f i billion in loans. The W opposes cash aid an Ifcv J8 technical assistance i ! Bidding goodby* Curtain separating Western Europe, tl were "determined t Jggm portunities to a ach I whole and free." The seven Westei acknowledged rec | i ments in Beijing by restrictions on assist* mL i Looking ahead to JjjF wrapup communiqu hints of compromis mental disputes an* was trying to persua to phase out agricul oncavafloTThe Gamecock 10 aveft a breakdc trade talks. iy Smith anal- "America protec tate for sulfate ture ferociously," I secretary Douglas Hi does Europe, though to discuss pro "We've formed a community reiat committee to helo us determine if there more effective method of dealing with behavior problems we're encounte among teen-age concertgoers," Bolin sa Coliseum officials have naa probl with individuals and rowdy groups du concerts. Handguns have been confisci and fights have caused broken windows injuries to innocent bystanders. 'This is not a permanent ban on rap i )/ ' College student Kathleen Sansalon C.'s fireworks display on July 4. The ^ ident position oals, munity," he added, i the Some of Smith's more immediate goals irec- include more emphasis on USC's entire the nine campus system, saying that it is one he Dr. feels should be preserved, but that is also hose feeling some pressure. lder- The university will have to "reaffirm the that strength of the system, the desirability of it the the need to put it on even more solid from foundations than exist right now," Smith B fa- said. Smith alcn caid that Ha ?pa? rm-wvm-tiinitiac ut USC should be taking advantage of, but rntri- for lack 0f funds. Ironically, many of : . them would not be very expensive. "That witn- troubles me because those opportunities are 1116111 really promising," he said. ;omial nations loosen ns against China 'ress tent ... the Japanese protect theirs gave Mikhail perhaps most of all." 1 endorsement In a separate political statement, >d to "help in the leaders toasted "the replace; countries that ment of repressive regimes in CenThe seven in- tral and Eastern Europe by governred no coordi- ments freely chosen by their nbattled Soviet peoples." rned sanctions Referring to the economically troubled, reform-minded governd a declaration ment in Moscow, the leaders said, summit nations "We commit ourselves to working on their own. with the Soviet Union to assist its pledged $3.1 jtfforts to create an open society, a * United States pluralistic democracy and a id is extending market-oriented economy." instead. Secretary of State James A. e to the Iron Baker m told reporters he hoped ; Eastern and "a positive response" could be hey said they fashioned for Gorbachev's plea for r> sftirp. all nn- a c .u_ - ? ? ~r ifvsiuu aiu iiuiu UlC SCVCI1 SUII1ieve a Europe mit states: Japan, France, West Germany, Italy, Britain, Canada rn leaders also and the United States. ent improve- "All the countries around the slightly easing table" want Gorbachev's ecoj ? nomic reconstruction to succeed, Wednesday s he said> addingi -j would hope ,e, there were diat woujd ^ a consensus e ?n environ- co^g out 0f this summit ... that a trade. Bus technical assistance to the Soviet his partners js warranted even under the tural subsidies circumstances that exist today." wn in global The summit leaders did not ts its agricul- agree on the "scope and degree British foreign and extent of aid" that should'go iird noted. "So to Moscow, Baker said, but instead to a lesser ex- issued this compromise statement >blems at coliseum ions certs, but we must accept the responsibility is a of providing good music under safe condii the tions," Bolin said, ring Members of the coliseum's community id. relations committee include: Bolin; J.T. McLawhorn Jr., president of the Columbia ems Urban League; Darrell Jackson, vice presi^g dent for Sunrise Enterprise of Columbia ited, inc.; Myron Terry, staff assistant with S.C. and Senate Finance Committee and chairman of the USC Black Alumni Council; and entercon tainment promoter Don Jennings. n H Nick Leoncava Do/The Gamecock e and USC sophomore Katie Donnelly enjoy tO-minute display drew crowds from across the