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The Gamecock
Eighty-two Years oj Collegiate. Journalism
| Volume 83, No. 42 ~ The University of South Carolina Friday, November 30, 1990
BRIEFLY 11
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WWII food reserves
BERLIN ? Germany will send
the Soviet Union huge food reserves
that were stockpiled to
help feed West Berlin in case of
a rfcpeat of the 1948-49 Soviet
blockade of the city, a top government
official said Thursday.
The announcement regarding
the so-called Berlin reserves was
the latest in a series of German
actions aimed at helping the Soviets.
It was made by Horst
Teltschik, chief foreign policy
adviser to Chancellor Helmut
Kohl.
Also Tuesday, the German
Red Cross sent 37 tons of,
emergency food supplies on an
Aeroflot plane to the Soviet Union,
starting what officials hope
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Union.
Premier, government
resign in Bulgaria
SOFIA, Bulgaria ? Premier
Andrei Lukanov and his government
of former Communists resigned
Tuesday, bowing to unrelenting
pressure from the streets
and the halls of parliament.
The Socialist premier, blamed
for the Balkan country's political
and economic anarchy, said union
and the government opposition
had made it impossible for
his government to implement its
economic reform program.
No replacement was immediately
named for Lukanov, one of
the reform-minded Socialist
Party members who helped oust
longtime Communist leader Todor
Zhivkov last November. Lukanov,
52, was appointed premier
in early February.
Northern Atlantic
bears blue lobsters
WALPOLE, Maine ? Every
year, a few lobstermen find a
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ireaK wnen mey naui in uich
traps ? a lobster with a shell as
blue as the Maine sky.
And they'll often call Sam
Chapman, the godfather of blue
lobsters in Maine. He has about
400, ranging in hue from powder
blue to electric cobalt blue to "a
blue so dark it's almost black."
Most lobsters plucked from
the Atlantic's icy waters are a
mottled mixture of green, red
and brown. They turn bright red
when they're cooked.
Blue lobsters are genetic mutations
in which the crustacean's
blue gene is dominant. About
one in every 3 million or 4 million
lobsters caught along the
Maine coast is blue, Chapman
said.
Officials jail manager
for dumping sewage
GREENVILLE ? A former
sewer plant manager has become
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u1c him in ouuui i^ajuinm
to be sentenced to a prison term
for breaking environmental laws.
Mark Irby, 42, of Piedmont
was sentenced Wednesday to 33
months in prison on charges he
dumped raw sewage into the
Reedy River during 1987 and
v 1988. Irby is a former plant manager
for the Western Carolina
Regional Sewer Authority.
U.S. District Judge G. Ross
Anderson Jr. gave Irby the maximum
prison sentence allowed
under federal guidelines.
Compiled from wire reports
Citizens to r<
Loca
By MARCUS SESSION
Staff Writer
The South Carolinians Against
War in the Middle East met Tuesday
at the Russell House to plan
its strategy for convincing the government
that war is not the best
option for dealing with the crisis
in Saudi Arabia.
Formed about three weeks ago,
between 80 and 140 people have
attended each of its three meetings.
The group is loosely organ
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Liz Stotler, a freshman in I
eat lunch on the Horseshoe
Doctor fii
By SCOTT PRILL
Staff Writer
A new cause of strep throat 01
campuses has been found by a US
center doctor.
Dr. James Turner, in cooperat
former colleagues at the Universit
ginia, has found a bacteria pr
thought to be harmless.
The bacteria known as "group C
cocci" has been found in throats o
cent of college students with sor
and 11 percent of a control group
sore throats.
"Group A streptococci" was tf
be the only bacteria associated v
throat and also the cause of rl
fever, which in severe cases can be
Turner, who is director of Thon
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aeni ncaiui center, expeciea uie
link after examining several stud
exhibited all the signs of strep tl
tested negative for the disease. K
research to see if there could tx
bacteria other than "group A," whi
explain the presence of strep s;
with negative results.
Citadel ca<
Confederat
By The Associated Press
CHARLESTON ? A studenl
forum on racism turned into a debate
over the display of the Confederate
flag and the singing of Dixie
during sporting and other college
events.
Terrence Young, one of twc
cadets who led the forum on rac
ism Wednesday, said tension be
tween black and white students a
ine tJitaael was no worse man a
other South Carolina colleges, bu
a lack of understanding cause:
most racial problems at the school.
Most of the meeting was de
voted to the Confederate flag, ;
banner waved at Citadel sportinj
events, and "Dixie," the school'
fight song. In the past, blacl
cadets have complained about th<
song and flag.
ally at State h
1 antiw;
ized, except for a few committees
formed to bring about some kind
of CTOun consensus.
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Nicole Berry, an international
studies senior, is the only USC
student on the organization's steering
committee.
"Things are going just way too
hastily, and I think people are kind
of excited that we're going to war
and there's a lot of other options,"
Berry said. "I really think that if
there's alternatives to war that it's
something that I need to support. I
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The researchers condi
study of 430 college stu(
~T~~ ered the "group C streptoc
;C hea.m Although "group C" is
as group A, the sympt
ion with fever- swpllen lymph 81
v of Vir coated Wllh Previously
"The ^search suggests
though not associated witl
, streDto. might be a more frequei
"e P ~ throat in college students
it 26 per- _ .. ?
Turner said,
e throats t ? _ , .
> without If group C strep 1S C
wunout fur[her research l0 be an j
tought to slrep throat in college/ith
strep screening techniques an
fieumatic treatment will likely
; fatal. changed in the near future
ison Stu- A small proportion of
bacteria was found in health)
ents who ^em 10 believe there nu
hroat but "grouP C" ? one whic
le started the throat infection ar
J another simply the normal inhabi
ch would Turner said,
ymptoms When Turner came to 1
his screening for "group C
Jets debate
p flao snncr
John Light, a senior, said black
t students who don't sing "Dixie"
upset him "because that shows no
school spirit to the outside world.
Everyone knows when they come
here 'Dixie' is the school song. It
should be sung out of respect."
> Light said that in the recent past
"there were cases of racism here,
but it was taken care of in the
t school."
t "The school isn't racist. It is a
t few students in the corps who are,"
5 he told the 75 mostly white cadets
attending the forum.
Young said he was not offended
a by "Dixie," though other blacks at
I the forum said they were,
s "I can't sing 'I wish I was in the
k land of cotton.' I would have been
e a slave in the land of cotton," one
unidentified student said.
louse
ar sent
don't want to see anyone die, but I
especially don't want to see all my
friends, my brother and my boyfriend
be put in jeopardy."
The group has met every Tuesday
for the past three weeks at
Wesley United Presbyterian
Church where they will continue
to meet. The group plans to keep
meeting until the U.S. military is
out of Saudi Arabia.
They also plan to have a rally
on Saturday at noon on the State
listration, and Mark Fairleigh, a se
ner.
rep throat
icted a two-year that between S<
lents and discov- tember of 199(
occi." 2,000 students
not as dangerous which were "gi
oms still involve were "group A :
ands and tonsils
"'Group C si
'group C strep', you know what
i rheumatic fever, said. He estims
rit cause of strep ot an student r
than 'group A'," States are testir
he does not re
confirmed through for "group C" p
mportant cause of
age persons, lab Penicillin-t}
id approaches to "group C strep'
be substantially body. There is
," he said. throat infection,
"group C strep" to any type of n
' students, leading
ly be two species However, Ti
;h may be causing students with '
id one which is treated at the ]
tant of the throat, proved on antib
Turner said
JSC, he continued dence as to wl
: strep." He found college-age per:
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An unidentified man is esci
30-minute serenade to Capstc
formance, mostly love songs.
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iment
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House grounds to protest the mili
tary's buildup.
"I think that it's really important
that this side needs to be seen and
that people really understand what
the real issues are and not be
blinded by the rhetoric that the
media presents," said Rajan Shah,
a finance and marketing senior.
"If you eliminate Saddam HusMembers
of the group include
not only USC students, but also
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Lrep' is easy to diagnose if
you're looking for," Turner .
ites fewer than one percent actlve
lealth centers in the United wa"11
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commend routine screening ^ y '
ending further studies. Unive
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no scientific evidence that re-enr
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iirner said, more than 300 of a s
'group C" throat infections grade
health center generally im- it will
iotics. grade
there is no conclusive evi- Gui
ly this is a problem among ploye
sons. as sex
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Drted off campus by USC police V\
>ne dormitory. An estimated 100 C
The man also took requests from h
grows
clergymen, military personnel and
people from various other groups
in Columbia.
Brett Bursey, in addition to being
a member of the coaliton, is
also the director of Grassroots Organizing
Worshop, a resource
group for citizen activist groups.
"We see peace and justice and
environmental issues as things that
cut across racial and state boundaries,"
Bursey said.
SC offers
ill refund
i deployed
OTT CLINE
I riter
ight of President Bush's recent anient
to call up more reserve forces
ve duty in support of operation Delield,
USC has announced that it will
ie to refund full tuition to those stuwho
must withdraw from classes to
nilitary obligations.
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/ IO UWillC uiai many aiuutuio, j;aiu"
r at the Shaw and Myrtle Beach Air
bases, are reluctant to register for
sity courses ... because of the possiof
being deployed during the semesexecutive
Vice President for Business
inance Pete Denton stated in a press
? policy, which began in August with
st deployment of U.S. reserve forces
idi Arabia, has already affected 30
ts from the Columbia campus who
ictivated this semester,
ther USC nor the military forces keep
s of how many of their members are
it/soldiers, but there are 110 active
>ersonnel registered for classes at the
*ort Jackson campus with many more
classes on the Columbia campus,
ile there is no law requiring USC. to
1 tuition to students who are called to
duty, university officials said they
o help as much as possible,
e're going to be as fair as (we) pos:an
and help students with this," said
rsity Registar Luther Gunter.
dents deployed have several options:
tuition refund
ion credit good for three years toward
ollment
Dmplete grade on courses if-approved
;h appropriate academic channels
he student is deployed toward the end
emester, they may request that a final
be given for all work done. However,
be up to each instructor to decide if a
will be given.
iter added that anyone who is ded
should contact the withdrawal office
Dn as they receive their orders.
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Wednesday night after finishing a
apstone residents heard the perlis
"audience."