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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
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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
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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.
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Nick Leoncava Do/The Gamecock
e and USC sophomore Katie Donnelly enjoy
tO-minute display drew crowds from across the