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i ' ' , / , , , , 1 Professionals Clemson defeats USC ^ Wfok'?,each Soccer teatn falls to Wolfpack Pasie9 flr ~ ^af St The Gamecock Eighty-lwo Years o] Collegiate Journalism IVoliime 83. No. 40 The Unimsily ?f Sou.h Carolina Monday. November 19, 19901 jBRIEFllY i"IN THE NEWS Workers find bodies of WWII prisoners KANCHANABURI, Thailand A ~ 1 1 Jt' ? ? /\ iiiuis giave nas oeen uiscovered near the site where more than 100,000 Asian slave workers and Allied prisoners died building a railroad for the Japanese during World War II. The remains of several hundred, people have been dug up since Tuesday, when the excavation began. It is being carried out by the Pothipawana Songkroh Foundation, which for religious reasons wants to provide proper burials. Several dozen workers were digging Sunday in a sugar cane field in Kanchanaburi province, about 70 miles west of Bangkok. Workers fear for jobs as Sears cuts back CHICAGO ? Sears, Roebuck and Co. said Saturday it has begun notifying some store office workers they'll either be transferred or fired after New Year's Day. The affected worker employees are an undetermined number among the estimated 20,000 people who work in areas including customer service, accounting and payroll in the 850 Sears stores across the nation, spokesman Gerald Buldak said. "It's really too soon to tell" how many employees will be affected, but most work part time, Buldak said. South Korea, 7 states discuss trade boost CHARLESTON ? Delegates from South Korea and seven Southeastern states are talking trade and capital-investment opportunities in Charleston. About 50 Korean businessmen and officials began meeting with 300 representatives from the Southeastern states Sunday in an effort to boost the region's trade with South Korea. The three-day conference ends Tuesday. "This is a long-term project that translates into eventually doing business together," said Robert Selman, a businessman who is chairman of the Southeast United States-Korea Economic Committee. Greenville cities file suit against county GREENVILLE ? In a lawsuit that could affect all municipal taxpayers in South Carolina, six Greenville County cities contend they are being taxed twice and not getting anything in return. The cities of Greer, Greenville, Fountain Inn, Simpsonville, Mauldin and Travelers Rest filed suit last week against the county, according to the county council and county officials. TKn rontAnH fhnif A 111/ vill^3 WUIIIVIIU UIVU ItMdents are taxed twice and have to pay for county services they do not receive. Because of the Thanksgiving holiday, The Gamecock will not be published Wednesday. The ' next issue will be Nov. 28. Compiled from wire reports Students Fire traps two in apartment near campus By LYNN GIBSON News Editor Carla Schnell had been asleep for an hour when she started feeling hot. The secondary education senior was spending the night with a friend at 1800 Greene St. when she awoke in a smoke-filled room. The heat Schnell felt was from a fire blazing outside the room. The fire left six students in four different apartments homeless on Saturday morning. "I couldn't see anything. It was totally black," she said. "I reached for the phone, but it wasn't working." It te>ok her several attempts to wake up Carlton English, who lived in the house. "I was afraid he was unconscious from smoke inhalation," she said. "I shook him, and I hit him a few times before he woke up. I guess he was just groggy from the smoke." "I tried to stay calm," said English, a criminal justice major at Midlands Tech. "I just wanted to make sure Carla got out." English said they had gone to bed around 3 a.m. and woke up at 4:30 a.m. "I think the fire had been going for a while," Schnell said. "The doorknob was hot when I touched it, and I cracked it (the bedroom door) about two inches," she said. "I looked out in the hall, and I couldn't see anything but smoke." Tka u?l .- .1- ? J nit iv?u iiau i\j cui me winuuw screen open ana call to their neighbors downstairs for help. Brian Darien and Mike West were awake in the downstairs apartment when they heard screaming. The other three residents of the house were not home at the time of the fire. "I called the fire department and ran around to try to kick the front door down," said West, a marine science junior. "I managed to get the door, but there was too much smoke to get them out," he said. Darien, a junior English major, ran out to the back See FIRE page 2 Ik MHBk flHHHHHIHHHk* Pete Poore, news director of WOLO TV-25; Thelen, executive editor for The State, spoke at the night. They gave their audience a feel for what weni night. Media leaders d By JAMESON B. GREINER Staff Writer Leaders of three Columbia news organizations discussed election coverage with a group of USC students Thursday. Gil Thelen, executive editor of The State; Fred Ertz, news director of WIS-TV 10; and Pete Poore, news director of WOLO-TV 25, discussed their experiences with election night. "You make very minute election plans," Thelen said. "You figure die smallest detail is going to kill you." The combined 670 people who worked for these three news organizations were up all night in some cases to make sure election night plans were executed, according to the three men. Poore said the 100 people who worked for WOLO-TV helped produce three- to five-minute updates between sitcoms and a 30-minute election capoff program around 10 p.m. "It took a lot of planning just to pull off an undertaking like that," Poore said. "To be honest, our coverage was minimal, but I guess we considered homele The building on 1800 Greene St. was c * * - ? > ? - - - _ in ine nouse uniu extensive repairs are co Fire causes By LYNN GIBSON News Editor USC students Chris Wcxxis and Darius Suber had lost more than a football game when they returned from Clemson this weekend. The two were among the six students, five of whom are USC students, who lost their home on 1800 Greene St. when it caught on fire early Saturday morning. A neighbor called Woods and Suber, who were at Clemson to watch the Carolina-Clemson football game, but they didn't get-the message until Saturday night. "When we got the call, I was I shocked," said Suber, a senior retailing s nnv1&. ** mm - m zL'% "" s 8s "> \ | *y lES ?m ^ m QVH |lfl Jameson B. Greiner/The Gar Fred Ertz, news director of WIS TV-10; ani s Society of Professional Journalists meeting Thu t on behind the scenes with the media during ek 15CU55 eiecuuu ourselves as an alternative for those who w< interested in total election coverage," he said. Viewers who wanted to see total election cc were the target of WIS-TV, Ertz said. "We budget for this event, and we really do into an event," he said. WIS-TV used a "telethon" approach in the to give up-to-date election totals and had livi of the winning and losing candidates that even "That night I learned a lot about our ma WIS," Ertz said. "There was a particular cai who was holding out and not saying aythin went on the air and said he lost and he said, WIS said I lost; I guess it's over. I'll go now.'" "That gives you an idea how powerful a can be," Ertz said. The WIS-TV coverage also made a special ? to pay close attention to the North Carolina U nate race, Ertz said. 'The most important race we had in the ai See ELECTIONS | ss aftei H Mfcy IMIl ...T g * 9 iamaged in a fire Saturday morning. I mpleted. damages, L major. "I couldn't think straight." "It was a long drive back," sai Woods, an information systems senic "My heart was pounding. It was the wei dest feeling to go through the house wii a flashlight." Three residents of the apartment buih ing ? Brian Darien, Mike West an Carlton English ? were home when tf fire started. USC student Bill Ryan wi not in his apartment at the time and w< unavailable for comment when Th Gamecock went to press. No one was hurt in the fire, but thei was extensive damage to the house, ii eluding loss of power and water. The r< sidents also lost furniture, appliance; sb] Lack of is McClint after sm By SHERRI TILLMAN Assistant News Editor Some third-floor McClim Ik sidents were surprised S; night when the halls wer with smoke but no alarm w< The smoke was caused t full of peanuts boiling in kitchen, according to j i Blake, a business freshm; m. encountered a smoke-fill when she got up to work o necock cramp around 4:25 a.m. d Gil "I went int0 the kitchen i rsday a P?t on high on the stove, action said- "I went over and knc off the stove and headed my room." In her room, Amy Kn psychology freshman, w waking because she "s sre not something." However, she think it was any thing to I >verage cerned about. "We didn't think it was turn it because there were no alar . ing off or any noise," Knig studio "We went banging on ou 5 shots door, but we'd forgotten s ing. away." rket at Blake said because the ididate ory had never had a fire di g. We didn't realize she had to set 'Well, alarm. home "I was on lhe phone, smelled something," Cherr station "I pulled the alarm bee didn't want anyone to get hi ittempt She said she told her pare .S. Se- out the incident. "My parents were furioi ea be_ they will be getting in torn someone in housing," she s 3age 2 the other and 1 hadn awake, we could have all di< r blaze isspyii- MffS f|H9 S % ? joi M ESfl y 1 Eric Glenn/The Gapiecock Mone of the six student occupants can live oss of home heaters, a motorcycle and several other d possessions. ir A tirollr t Krrvi ir?V> tka K/mima C? nv-ksJ/>?> n f >4. n wauv uuuugu uiw nuu^t juiiuaj ai~ r- ternoon revealed blackened walls, water lh damage, broken glass and melted furniture. i- While the residents are thankful no one id was hurt, they said the big question now le is where they will go. is "Right now we're OK," said Suber, is who must live close to campus because \e he doesn't have a car. "We just plan to go home for Thanksgiving. After that, we -e don't know." Currently, the students are staying with s, See AFTERMATH page 2 alarm upsets ock residents loke fills hall Blake said her parents were also upset tock re- "A couple of parents have de aturday Cldea t0 buy alarms to put into e filled dieir daughters' rooms," she said, sntoff. Spell said the halls were >y a pot checked to make sure that the resithe hall dents were out of the building, but \imme s^e was not sure die events an who involved. ed hall "I haven't had a chance thread ut a leg the incident report compretely yet," she said, ind saw residents cleared the build" Blake ing. although no announcement icked it was ever made over the public anback to nouncement system and no- fire agency came on the scene until 20 ight a minutes after the episode had as just passed, Blake said, melled First ^??r resident Amy Benck . didii't said many residents ignored the be con- alarm for about 10 minutes after it went off at 4:30 a.m. because they serious hadn't heard the alarm before, ms go- 41've noticed in Patterson, they ht said ^ave ^re information posted on r RA's k?w to get out of the building and what to do." said Benck, a journal l*v Wflo # " ism freshman. "Here, we have no dormit- information on what to do if there ill, she * a fire " off the McClintock Residence Hall Director Sara Spell said the building and I was scheduled to have a fire drill, y said. but it was rescheduled for a later ause I date. She said she does not know irt." the reason for the rescheduling, mts ab- "The Department of Environmental Services is in charge of is, and scheduling drills and placing ;h with smoke alarms," Spell said, aid. "If The department was not avail't been able for comment when The ed." Gamecock went to press.