" 1 11 ? . * . *' ' " ' - - ...... Cola Niahts I Quote of the Day J A Viliaae idiot Gamecocks spank Davidson Pa9e5 AA v mayu 'u,ul its citizenry in jail than humanS casual and fun rijBNs offenders such as the Sopub and pizzeria Super Bowl winner predicted Page 5 J David Bowden, columnist SS^8SSS|= Carolina Life page 4 1 1 See Viewpoint page 2 The Gamecock Eighty-two Years of Collegiate Journalism Volume 83, No. 52 The University of South Carolina Friday, January 25, 1991 BRIEFLY 11 IN THE NEWS Bj As Attempt to condemn inl Baltic crackdown fails eqi VILNIUS, USSR ? The Russian parliament Thursday failed ml to muster enough votes to pass a resolution condemning the Krem- C01 lin's crackdown in Lithuania, stu( where Soviet troops have seized another government building. The vote was a victory for Communist Party conservatives 11 ^ wno nave oeen aemanaing soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev ^ take tough measures against the separatist Baltic republics and Pr^ other groups challenging central authority. the In the Lithuanian republic of Vilnius, Soviet tanks were seen ^cl moving Wednesday night ^ through the city, despite an appeal from Lithuanian President arK Vytautas Landsbergis to Gorba- "e chev to withdraw Soviet soldiers h from occupied buildings. Anti-abortion bill ^ passes Utah Senate i SALT LAKE CITY ? The wa] Utah Senate Thursday passed a bill that would outlaw most abor- . tions. The measure was expected sau to win House passage and could Kp citinpH intnJaw trv/1a\7 * UV AAAIVS 1UTT M/UUJ , Gov. Norm Bangerter has said mtc he will sign the bill. Pro-choice ^ groups promised to challenge it in court and threatened to boy- ous cott Utah's tourist attractions and try to derail its bid for the 1998 Ii Winter Olympics. Sad Ninety percent of the state's W? 104 lawmakers are members of the Mormon Church, which considers abortion a grievous sin except in the most dire medical circumstances. Billboard tries to keep nuke plant out of S.C. GOLDEN, Colo. ? Greenpeace wants the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant shut down and doesn't want the facility's operations moved to South Carolina. The group hopes a new billboard unveiled near the Colorado facility gets its message across. The 400-square-foot billboard, located on Colorado Highway 93, "Don't Dump Rocky Flats on South Carolina. Shut it down." It also lists two Greenpeace num- L bers for supporters to call. f. Greenpeace is demanding the closure of the facility and op- 'l poses the Department of 1 Energy's proposals to transfer its operations to the Savannah River nuclear weapons plant near { Aiken. Jet leaving Columbia has to abort takeoff A Delta Airlines jet bound ac for Atlanta aborted takeoff at f?] Columbia Metropolitan Airport cl< after parts of its engine fell onto the runway. Flight 905 with 65 passengers w( and seven crew members aboard an had just begun taxiing on the Ni runway about 6:30 a.m Thursday un to prepare for takeoff when the gn captain heard noises in one of the aft 727's engines, Delta spokesman Ci Jerry McSwain said. Two runways were closed for the about 15 minutes while airport th( workers cleared metal engine es* parts that had littered one of the mi runways near the intersection, said Robert Waddle, the airport's ? executive director. ag Pr Compiled from wire reports U! [JSC to b TIGE WATTS sistant News Editor The Board of Trustees approved the purchase M computer equipment worth $261,581 Thursc their open executive committee meeting. The university also required IBM to donate mi nipment valued at $24,735. There are 205 pieces in the purchase, with IBM < ting an extra 15 pieces. Martin Solomon from Computer Services said I nputers will then be sold to different departmer dents and faculty within the university. 'We will put these computers on our own mark l are allowed to do this as lone as we don't sell general public. We can sell to students as long : for private use," Solomon said, rhe agreement had to get a board approval becai purchase exceeds $200,000. 'It is an excellent package and should get a ival," Thomas Stepp, the board's secretary, said, rhe board also accepted a check worth $5,990 frc estate of Margaret All Hiers. The university v ;ignate these funds as "The Margaret All Hit lolarship" and invest them as a quasi-endowment USC Trustees Fund. 'Quasi-endowed funds are those which are creal 1 used at the discretion of the trustees," inter sident Arthur Smith said. mm Allie The Associated Press Gulf DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia ? A Saudi jj. rplane shot down two Iraqi jets Thursday were ;r they entered the kingdom's airspace an(j ded with bombs, Saudi military officials npw5 1 The allies were reportedly continuing ~ga ir pounding of a strategic Iraqi city. 1 "Ttiom A?> in i uukct nsKew. Following the governor's move around becausi as is the usual case for all state we have, nothii encies in Columbia ? interim Gilreath, an U esident Arthur Smith ordered neering admini SC offices to close and classes to Highway Depai uy compute The $5,990 represents two percent of Hiers' estate as of July 31, 1990. of In other action, the board approved members of the lay Ad Hoc Committee on System Relationships. These members are Chairwoman Lily Roland Hall, ore Herbert Adams, Arthur Bahnmuller, William Bethea Jr., James Bradley, E. Carter Floyd and Charles E. Silo mons IB. The committee on intercollegiate activities also met lts> Thursday. Athletic Director King Dixon issued an academic report listing nine student-athletes with a eL grade point ratio of 4.O.; 46 student-athletes had GPRs t0 between 3.5 and 3.999; and 73 had GPRs ranging as from 3.0 to 3.499. A football ticket price increase for the J 991 season lse was also proposed by Dixon at the meeting. He said the department was heading into unchartered waters tp_ because of their entrance into the Southeastern Conference. )m The original proposal was to raise football tickets rill $2 in the Duke, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech and N.C. srs State games. It also dictated a $1 increase for tickets in to the East Tennessee State and Louisiana Tech games. The Clemson game was to be raised to $25, ed with $5 going to academic enrichment, im The board decided a $2 increase for all games would be more efficient d troops claii ed him on developments in the Persian The British, n war. different account le commanders told Saddam the allies ing, Group Capt. cowards for avoiding a ground battle Air Force said cr waging an air war instead, the official ter and Cardiff ; agency said. three Iraqi jets ? udi military officials in Dhahran said a Mirage capable li pilot flying a U.S.-made F-15 shot missiles. n two Iraqi Mirage F-l fighter jets ed with bombs that entered Saudi Two of the Ir ace. by a Saudi figh was the first report of an Iraqi attempt other discharged iter Saudi airspace since the war with and fled, began Jan. 16. The British ca] just rolled in behind them and shot captured an Iraqi down," said the pilot, who agreed to ern Persian Gulf lentified only as CapL Ayedh. capturing 22. H N^nQTP Of Proposal to make Sumter Street safe By GORDON MANTLER ? A city of Columbia safety im 1 " 'i provement proposal for the Sumter Street area was unanimously en' dorsed by the Student Senate. Sen. Tom Young introduced the ^ I resolution Wednesday that supiT"" ported the city's proposal. "It is tjie Qnjy feasibie pian t0 this dangerous problem," Young said. The area of Sumter Street between Greene and Blossom streets, near the Towers residence area rfSSSliSSr ?nd McBryde Quadrangle has it Columbia snow- bee" deslgnatef ^ **c,ty of ct?'" umbia as a dangerous area for pedestrians to cross. j> _ ^ _ The city's proposal calls for the QJ*Q0jS| closing off of Devine Street where it nine intn Sumter ant\ th#? inctol^ a. mv...u ?*?kV WMIKVVA) UHU UIV lliOlUI" a halt ReSearcher ter 4 p.m. Thursday. le, there was no de- By SCOTT PRILL ther or not the uni- Staff Writer be closed Friday be- The paranoia Iraq has about its str: ler, which would be the Middle East is one of the primar since 1989, when invasion of Kuwait, a student reseai o roared through the said. Nairn Joseph Salem, a doctoral car lay afternoon, USC partment of Government and Interna Debra Allen said the working on his dissertation on U.S.-Ii incel classes today Salem presented a discussion on * )ly not have been Consequences of the Gulf Crisis" as y this morning. tute of International Studies' Brown tow fell in the Up- ture series. he mountains were He sajd other reasons for lhe Ir eerve four to etght dM ^ need water during t e day and "Tnrtftv HitmmcH mnct nf thf?. watf idihonal two inches , ? J . iT and Euphrates nvers. There was cro numerous accidents Kuwait would n? share their r e of the conditions fd' BL^7Car T 7ey wlU ig major," said John hold ,on tod?,Sy aJ!d 1** . pstate district engi- ?Salem caUed ** B^er-Azi2 meet. strator for the sate effo" * score Pr0Pa?anda P01"15 ? said the meeting was staged stri ' purposes. rs from IBM * ill ' John Garner/The Gamecock Pete Denton, USC vice president for business and finance, speaks at Thursday's Board of Trustees meeting. n two victories leanwhile, gave a slightly British Defense Secretary Tom King said of the incident In a brief- earlier Thursday that allied aircraft downed Naill Irving of the Royal two Iraqi fighter jets. It initially appeared ews of the HMS Glouces- that he referred to a separate incident, detected the approach of At his morning briefing in Riyadh, U.S. - two "Floggers" and one Army Lt. Col. Greg Pepin mentioned only > of launching Exorcet the one air engagement involving the Saudi jet fighter. ad Dlanes were destroved In other develoPments, CBS in New t?r ^irrrift caiH Th^ York said four of its journalists were reiter aircraft, he said. The -m. a c. o athe Exocet out of ranee missing after a Saudl mih* tary patrol found their empty car in northntain also said allied forces em Saudi Arabia- ^ four' including corminpc^pnpr in th^ nnrth respondent Bob Simon, had not been heard minesweeper in the north- _ _ ? killing three Iraqis and fr?m for three days. CBS said it believed they were with "friendly forces." idorses city plan lation of pedestrian flashers on could be a problem soon," he said. Sumter. Devine Street would end - ,- "? ine proposal is expected to oe ?a-Wefc,oraturn-around. endorsed at the next University The flashers wdl be placed on Saf Commi[Iee meeti on Feb either side of Sumter Street, alert- -j ing.driven that there is a cross- '..We are comi with lhe walk ahead. The city also plans to most cost.efficient plan ? Conant narrow the road and eliminate ex- said ..Everyone has been very tra road space. cooperative." Currently, students have to The proposal will then be taken look in four directions at one time t0 ^ city council for approval Jusi l,?TT^SS l?e street' City engineers said construction said. USC students are at the di- could stait as early as mid-summer rect mercy of the erratic dnving of 199 j the motorists of Columbia. This past semester, a resolution Young has researched the prob- was jessed by the Student Senate lem since September, after a num- endorsing a pedestrian safety ramp ber of constituent complaints and for this same Sumter Street area, his own near-miss as a pedestrian, Because of legal reasons, the city sa^- . would not endorse it. Richard Conant, chairman of the Officials said if a car hit the University Safety Committee, said pedestrian ramp at a high speed, there have been no fatalities. die car could lose control and Accidents have been amazingly strike a pedestrian, leading to large low through the years. But there lawsuits. explores Iraq's strategy 'The real issue behind the Bush administration's involvement in the Gulf is not just Kuwait but more the 7 ~?? trimming of Iraq's power and the overthrow of Husategic position in se-n Americans are not doing this because of their y reasons for the jove for Arabs, but for their own strategic interests," ching the region teukl r.i ?1?: J-f 1 J., oaicui saiu iiaq is piaymg uicir ueieiises low as f in the De- they did during the Iran-Iraq War, and they should be oona Studies, is able to hst only a fcw m0Mhs uq relations. "Iraq is counting on bringing Israel into the war and Implications and changing ^ pubUc opinion ? he ^ Pfrt 0 ^?n.sU" He said to truly win the war, the U.S. must destroy ag unc ec- die army, economy and Iraqi regime. They must also convince the Iraqi people the United States did this in aqi invasion in- the name of international law. Student opinion on the war is mixed, r from the Tigres Michael Ernest, a geography sophomore and a p failure in Iraq, member of the Navy ROTC, said he believed Saddam esources," Salem Hussein was a severe threat to the Arab world. nave a strangle- iraq naa 10 oe snut aown muiianiy or ne wouia eventually go to take over other countries," Ernest mg in Geneva an said. i both sides. He Ursula Engelbhect, a German-Linguistics graduate, ictly for media said "No positive outcome can come out of the war, for anyone."