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Eighty-lwo Years o] Collegiate Journalism
IVoliime 83. No. 40 The Unimsily ?f Sou.h Carolina Monday. November 19, 19901
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i"IN THE NEWS
Workers find bodies
of WWII prisoners
KANCHANABURI, Thailand
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? /\ 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.
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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."
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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;
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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
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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
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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
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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.