Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Police were led to the men by a Moslem extremist, arrested Wednesday, who confessed to participating in the slaying Oct 12 of Parliament Speaker Rifaat el-Mahgoub, his driver and bodyguards, the sources said. Bolivia may stop extraditing traffickers Bolivia will stop extraditing suspected drug traffickers to the United States unless an extradition treaty is expanded to include drug violations, a government official said Saturday. "We have no ^lans for further 4 arrests and extraditions to the United States of Bolivian citizens without an extradition treaty," said Gen. Lucio Anez, commander of a special anti?drug force. Duke may appear on Jackson's show NEW ORLEANS ? State Rep. David Duke may appear after all on "The Jesse Jackson Show" in a flap over whether Jackson will interview the former Ku Klux Klan leader one-on-one, spokesmen for the two said. Jackson was scheduled to tape the interview with Duke, who was elected to the state house last year, in Washington on Wednesday for broadcast Saturday on his nationally syndicated talk < show. Duke spokesman Marc Ellis said producers of the show told Duke on Thursday that instead of a solo interview, he would be part of a panel discussion about President Bush's veto of civil rights legislation. Youth hangs self at Halloween party f YORK ? Mock terror turned to real horror when a 15-year-old who was staging a haunted house hangman gag accidentally hanged himself at a private Halloween party, authorities said. The death of William Anthony Odom, a ninth-grader from Charlotte, N.C., was similar to that of a 17-year-old who also staged a Halloween hangman gag in ; Lakewood, NJ. a week ago. Odom was pronounced dead Friday night by York County Coroner Jim Chapman amid fake spider webs and plastic bats decorating the basement of his aunt Diane Boyd's home. The youth and several of his friends had staged a haunted house in the basement of the single-story home. ^ Compiled from wire reports High school, Prog By PATRICK VILLEGAS Staff Writer More than 110 high school students and Darents attended Car olina Tip-Off Saturday, which was geared to recruit black students to use. With a black student population making up only 13 percent of the total USC population, Carolina iH Wh* "** &S Look who's reading Lauren Thaxton, daughter of' program at the Met-Life Classic. Mitchell gi By The Associated Press Democratic gubernatorial Candida Mitchell accepted the endorsement < Carolina gay and lesbian activists, those who would criticize such "people whose minds are limited." Mitchell was greeted by a wa plause during his speech Saturday i he accepted the endorsement. But < out 50 people showed up at the ral sored by the Gay and Lesbian Prid< ment Political Action Committee. Mitchell, who hopes to be Sou olina's first black governor, told th at Earlewood Park in Columbia thai happy to have their support. "I'm proud to accept this endo by my fellow South Carolinians \ lieve in me," he said. Mitchell is the first statewide a Students m< to discuss p r?n \rr\1iintpkp v/ii y v/iuiiiw By OCTAVIA WRIGHT Assistant to the editors Student volunteers from all over the Southeast gathered at USC this weekend to help expand their community service programs. The USC Office of Community Service Progams hosted the 1990 Community Service Conference. At the conference, students from several colleges, including Elon, A&T State, Clemson, Appalachian State and Duke, attended. The conference, which was held to collaborate different ideas on volunteerism and to assist other schools in their newfound volun students visit cc nrQm rp/ Tip-Off helps influence black high school seniors to apply and attend the university by encompassing them with a minority environment. The day-long program introduced the students to USC with events that included sessions on financial aid, college success, admissions and housing, student or: ' *** Renee K Thomas Thaxton of Columbia, "looks i The event was held Saturday and Sur ets endorser ite Theo )f South "Those criticisms < calling whose minds are iimi support Want to restrict not 01 irm ap- also mY rights." n which 3nly ably spon- S.C. Gl i Moveith Care group percent of the population, he was Mitchell said at the rail) worried about people who 1 rsemcnt him for publicly accepting vho be- homosexuals. "Those criticisms comi indidate whose minds are limited I set at USC ilans, ideas t services teering efforts, featured several workshops including Marketing the Volunteer Experience, Academics and Volunteerism and others. Gail McGrail, coordinator of Community Service Programs at USC, began the program this past year. Since then, the program has blossomed and now offers an internship for those who have volunteered for a year. McGrail credits the rising student interest as the cause for the growth of the program. "We have seen a number of inSee Service page 2 impus cruits b ganizations and a tour of the campus. s The finale to the program con- i sisted of a student panel discussion ; on black life at USC. ; Terry Davis, USC's Director of i Student Admissions, said more i than half the students who attend the Tip-Off will apply and come to ( the university the following year. I By MARCUS SES Staff Writer Carolina Colii weekend with char # ChoinirAmon Tnnnif v^iiaii wwiiiau jv^iimi ^ promote and shar< W Jjj 1 other school leader three-minute musi Programming sessii p. 1|| such as the envin were hclcf with tit leyer/The Gamecock p^y That: CPR Fi and Will's Most over" a soccer Tolerance for Eati nday. Don't Like Th'em." "It's a weekend < nent from come from people ted by people who nly their rights but Theo Michell a in South Carolina ' that he is not a gay rights grou would condemn co-chairman of the the support of Hagstrum and Pi dorsement can be <$ from people claiming there are by people who lesbian people in A fond farewell The six graduating seniors of th The players were participating in t lack s High school students across th< tV?n /lotr'p nrA/rrarr > U1LV^ C^UJU^^U Ulv .3 ^lU^ian ind although some were undecidet is to what college they would tx Utending next year, by the end o he day a few were persuaded tc nake USC their college choice. "I hadn't decided on a college,' Camden High School senior Kris :yna Robinson said, "but Carolin; s than fif : leadersl SION 'Ho> said ;eum was filled this som< iting crowds and people whe hats, all dancing around hug? whistles, waving card- P< eering. They weren't re- each ics, however. hats dants of the 1990 South "1 f College and University meei * i i TTon r*i usieu uy uol, ^iciusun auiu ersities and Winihrop gia ( A people from about 50 ries, theastern states attended smal xording to Conference and er Schmidt. Best conference was "Bridg- ... T1 the main purpose was to tion i leadership skills with mod s, as well as promote in- at tl Larg theme, participants had Best ical skits dealing with "1 vity called "Roll Call." awa ons were held on issues Assi onment, integration and usu; awai 0 programming sessions U Ies like "Hommie Don't Sch or Your Hall" and "Joe wee] Excellent Method of peri< ng Sardines When You east< of going to class, but it's gay, lesbii want also ? !ning HF I -febBt Cam Br * F*TK ?T HP"' jr.' flk WLjMB dc op the r B^plP^'^B say new f JBBBBBB 67 p to get the endorsement of 'ease p, said Grant Hagstrum, i?g c ; gay PAC. M ditchcll both said the en- ers J 5 politically meaningful, P?U i some 300,000 gay and lestc South Carolina, about 10 ant. MMHTI mUBmmmm in , * : J JBjHR mm V I'Mwl -" .gBB? ie soccer team played their las he Met-Life Classic.' tudents J Tip-Off was a step toward my i future." i Although his parents made him J attend Tip-Off, Vincent Hodges, a f senior at Richland Northeast, was ) very pleased with the program. Richland Northeast's Michael Hanna, who has already applied I See TIP-OFF page 2 ty schools lip skills v to be a Good Leader' class," Schmidt . "Everybody in the program finds z new way to keep everyone interested, ther we're jumping up and down or ;ing each other." irticipants attempted to get to know other by trading school stickers, cups, and T-shirts. rrading stickers gives you a way to t people," Susan Lockaby, a business inistration freshman from West GeorHollege, said, wards were handed out in six categoincluding Most Spirited for large and II delegations, Best Roll Call for large small delegations, Best Bridge and Display. he University of West Florida dclega, whose members wore visors with lei bridges on them, was the big winner hp rnnfprpnrp xi/inninrr Mr>cl QnirilpH ;e Delegation, Best Large Roll Call and . Bridge. Vlost schools only win one or two rds max," SAACURH '90 Executive stant Peter Koufopoulos said. "It's unal for a school to win that many rds." WF delegation member Gretchen iebe said she learned a lot this kend. She said she plans to use her exjnce to do well at the upcoming Southern Regional Orientation Workshop. See SAACURH page 2 an activists to restrict not only their rights but my rights," said Mitchell, who is runagainst Republican Gov. Carroll pbell in the Nov. 6 election, look out upon a mosaic of beautiful le," he said. "To the movement and to nedia and to the people of this state, I we're looking at the beginning of a era in South Carolina." ampbell has ;ased his already huee election lead to ercent of voters polled in a survey red Sunday, and that includes a surpris>ne-fourth of black voters, itchell garnered 23 percent of the vot;urveyed, according to the results of a by the Sunday Post-Courier of Char>n and WCBD-TV-2 of Mount Pleas Renee Meyer/The Gamecock t game in The Graveyard Sunday.