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The Gamecock
Eighty-two Years oj Collegiate Journalism
I Volume 83, No. 36 The University of South Carolina Friday, November 9, 1990
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Hussein dismisses
military chiet ot stall
NICOSIA, Cyprus ? Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein has
dismissed his military chief of
staff and replaced him with the
commander of the elite Republican
Guards, the Iraqi army newspaper
al-Qadissiya reported
Thursday.
Western analysts with knowledge
of Iraq's military machine
said the surprise dismissal of Lt.
Gen. Nizar al-Khazraji could inrtiratf*
r\nnr?citir\n tr?
strategy of holding onto conquered
Kuwait in the face of the
growing U.S.-led multinational
force and U.N.-imposed
sanctions.
The sacking of Khazraji, a
hero of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq
war, came amid mounting U.S.
and British warnings that they
may use force to dislodge the Iraqis
from Kuwait if necessary.
Universal Studios fire
worries filmmakers
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif.
? The fire that destroyed beloved
movie sets at Universal
Studios sent Steven Spielberg
and other filmmakers at one ol
Hollywood's plushest mogul
complexes scurrying to save precious
scrinLs.
On Wednesday police arrestee]
a security guard on suspicion ol
torching the studio and tourist attraction.
Destroyed sets includec
those for "Dick Tracy," the
"Back to the Future" films anc
an unfinished Sylvester Stallone
movie, "Oscar."
The blaze on the back lol
Tuesday night came within several
hundred yards of the Amblir
Entertainment complex, i
sprawling and luxurious Sante
Fe-style adobe showpiece where
Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis anc
other directors work.
Police bump, grind
for jurors during trial
With pulsating pelvises, twe
police officers wrapped their leg!
around a microphone stand, go
down on all fours and shool
their rears in hopes of persuadinj
a jury that a nude dancer violate!
obscenity laws.
The performance Wednesda;
was intended to mimic the danc
ing of nude women in the Chip
penDolls nightclub. The Colum
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ors, but instead made them smil
and drew laughter from coui
troom spectators.
The jury was expected to de
liberate on the case Thursday.
The trial of ChippenDoll
dancer Jennie Davis, 24, was e>
pected to establish the county'
standards of obscenity. Thre
other dancers are to go on trial;
a later date.
Police credit boy, 11,
with catching suspec
JACKSON, Miss. ? Georgi
authorities said 11-year-old Joh
Corcoran helped lead lawmen i
a suspect wanted in a string (
child molestations from Missi:
sippi to South Carolina.
Kenneth Robert Stanton i
charged with fondling 13 girls i
South Carolina, Mississippi, AU
bama and Georgia. He is a su:
pect in other incidents in Ker
tucky and Ohio.
Complied from wire reports
Parking
Committee want
armed gates for i
By GORDON MANTLER
Staff Writer
The University Parking Committee met
Thursday, deciding to dramatically increase
towing of vehicles on campus and recommending
armed gates at two faculty lots.
History professor and committee chairman
Peter Becker said the current regulations
are not being adequately enforced.
"It is worst than ever before," Becker
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s By TONIA MALLETT
e Staff Writer
A former Moonie spoke on the dangers
of cults and on combatting cult mind con
, trol at Russell House Wednesday night.
* Steve Hassan, author of Combatting Cult
Mind Control, was a member of the Reia
verend Sun Yung Moon organization and
,n his Unification Church for two years,
o In the lecture sponsored by the Carolina
)f Program Union, Hassan said he was first
5- introduced to the organization during his junior
year in college when he was approached
by three woman who were a part
s of the One World Crusade,
n "I asked them if it was a religious orgai
nization, and they said no," he said,
s- A cult is usually a small circle of people
i- united by devotion to some artistic or intellectual
program, tendency or figure, Hassan
said.
? "What I am here to share with you is not
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said. "It is high time we enforce our own By
regulations." Sfc
Carl Stokes, senior vice president for
Law Enforcement and Safety, said "Fines to
are the only means of enforcing right now, 5^
and the fines are not stopping them (stu- pr(
dents) from parking illegally." stu
Many alternatives were discussed, including
more enforced towing, armed gates, fic
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ough, I felt like joining.
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to make you angry about religion or to put tl
you off to unorthodox groups at all, but a
rather, I hope to generate a consumer s
awareness allowing you to realize that c
groups like this operate," Hassan said. a
Destructive cults use total manipulation
to get into the minds of their followers. tl
Their practices are used to keep followers I
dependent and obedient to the leader and to (
the doctrine, Hassan said.
What the group does, not its unortho- ii
doxed beliefs, makes it destructive, he said. (j
"What I'm talking about essentially is a j
pyramid-shaped organization with someone s
or a certain group of people at the top that's
absolute power or absolute authority," he i
said. 2
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pected to be obedient to the higher level.
Certain criteria are used to gain mind con- j
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TIGE WATTS
aff Writer
USC student parking violators will have
pay more for their tickets next semester
cause of a set of increases, which was
Dposed over the summer and received no
ident input.
The increases were proposed by the Ofe
of Business and Financing, according
Bill Baker of the Office of Parking and
ihicle Registration.
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angers of cult
ie human mind and about group dynamics
nd about communications has gotten to
uch a level people are able to manipulate
ither people with out their conscious
wareness," Hassan said.
While in the organization, Hassan
liought that lying was the right thing to do.
t was a way to trick people into following
5od.
"It was a kind of reversal of Satan trickne
Adam and Eve to fall away from God. I
lidn't think I was lying. I was helping savng
people and bringing them to God," he
aid.
Cults do not just go out after a certain
and of person, he said. "Anyone is vulnertble
during a transitional phase in their
ife."
"I'm not just talking about religious
jroups," Hassan said. "I have in fact
jounseled people that have been involved
n political cults, commercial cults, psy
faces
>ns to increase
' next semester
'The next step was for the parking committee
to make a recommendation to President
Holderman. Holderman recommended
it and the Board of Trustees passed the violation
increases," Baker said.
All of these steps were completed with
no student representation. The increases
were proposed during the summer, when
most prominent student leaders are not
enrolled.
See TICKETS page 2
Students
' to focus
| on racism
By JEFF WILSON
IkH Editor in Chief
More than 150 student leaders
from colleges and universities around
the country are at USC this
I weekend to discuss the issue of
racism on college campuses.
The conference, sponsored by
the NAACP, is being held at USC
because of USC's active campus
chapter of the organization.
"We're the best," said Student
Government President Stephen
Benjamin, who is the former president
of the USC chapter of the
amecock NAACP. "We have a very active
campus chapter that was selected
best college chapter at the national
I convention. I think USC is an ideal
place to have the conference.
We're a large university, in a captial
city, in the deep South."
The three-day conference, entitled
"Stop the Madness: Ending
Racism on College Campuses,"
features speakers from around the
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gies for ending campus racism.
Benjamin said he believes the
conference is going to build
momentum for the rally against
racism that began at USC Thursday,
and he thinks USC is taking a
proactive role in dealing with racial
issues.
"It would be foolish to say there
is no racism at USC. I have heard
of and experienced racism here,"
Benjamin said. "But I don't think
the racial tension at USC is a bad
as other colleges and universities."
SUSC NAACP President Troy
Brockington agreed that the racial
climate at USC was not as tense as
some other schools around the
state and the country.
Statistics from the NAACP national
headquarters indicate that
more than 300 racial incidents on
jamecock college campuses were reported in
feet up *989. At Brown University in Providence,
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mind control
chotherapy cults, martial arts cults, smoking
sensations, clinics that were functioning
like cults, and I've actually counseled people
involved in one-on-one relationships."
Many people are manipulated and don't
even know it, he said. "They view their
manipulates as friends as opposed to the
process of brainwashing when the manipulators
are looked upon as the enemy."
"You don't realize that the information
you're telling these new friends is in fact
turned around and used as a stratergy for
recruiting you into the organization," he
said.
It wasn't until Hassan was involved in a
near-fatal car accident that he began to reevaluate
his involvement in the organization.
He spent two weeks in the hopital and
received counceling from former group
members.
* See CULTS page 2