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"II III 111 " 1 " ' "" 1 "" 1 1 I - - ... . .. > J Cola Nights I 6th-ranked tennis team previewed Quote0,theDay Yesterday's Pa9e5 savlTmln^uimTmoun0 for home cooking I USC-Clemson rivalry hits the courts | " ' ' ' "" 11 ?^? ??????? The Gamecock Eighty-two Years of Collegiate Journalism Volume 83, No. 55 The University of South Carolina Friday, February 1, 1991 ? ? 11 1 - - - - - - - - - - - ? ? i fgc8 %?.. ' C# F*W IN THE NEWS Beirut airport police apprehend spokesman BEIRUT, Lebanon ? Walid Khaled, spokesman for Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal's group, was arrested at Beirut airport for traveling on a forged passport, police said Thursday. Brig. Mehdi Hajj Hassan, head of airport police, said Khaled was arrested Tuesday evening unon his arrival from Tunis using a Jordanian passport identifying him as Elias Bashar Khalil. Abu Nidal's FatahRevolutionary Council claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of three French and five Belgian hostages aboard a boat in December 1988. The group released the last four Belgians Jan. 13. Soviet troops absent from streets of Vilnius VILNIUS, USSR ?The absence of Soviet troops on the streets of Vilnius overnight signaled an improvement in relations with Moscow, Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis said Thursday. Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh, in an interview with Pravda, said the West was reacting emotionally to unrest in the independence-minded Baltics and endangering superpower relations. But, the Lithuanian leader warned Wednesday that Soviet soldiers still occupied several republic-owned buildings and cautioned the West not to be ta ken in by Kremlin promises of a pullouL Greenspan warns war will prolong recession NEW YORK ? Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, said the recession could be long and deep if the Gulf War lasts past April. In an interview published Thursday, Greenspan said he expected a swift recovery from the recession if the war is relatively brief and Persian Gulf oil fields are not extensively damaged. "But if you get beyond three months, you begin to risk consumer confidence erosion and that would abort any meaningful recovery," he told The New York Times. Lawmakers cautious of Campbell proposal Leading lawmakers reacted with caution to the wide-ranging proposals Gov. Carroll Campbell advanced in Wednesday's State of the State speech. Democrats, who control the Legislature Dy two-to-one, said they were receptive to Campbell's ideas, though they wanted to see more detail. The Republican governor's plan to revamp South Carolina government, largely by taking authority away from the Legislature, will likely generate the largest controversy, many predicted. The Black History Month speakers program for Feb. 7 featuring Yolanda King, daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has been canceled. Compiled from wire reports Senate By GORDON MANTLER Staff Writer The Student Senate has passed a un ous resolution asking the Homecoming sion Board to take immediate action forming how a queen is elected. The board was supposed to revie1 queen election process and arrive "equitable and fair solution," reportin results to the senate by Dec. 5, 1990. The board was not formed until ear nuary and have only met for the pas weeks. Sen. Tom Young introduced the reso Wednesday requiring the review boa IB Tim Benson repairs the ceilings ii Work bej on $95,0C By BRIAN GARLAND Staff Writer Workers have begun installing nev Towers residence hall and expect ti buildings in four months, housing off "Originally, we had hoped to get Christinas, but it took longer to drav we had anticipated," Linda Saad, dii ing Services, said. After planning for the repairs duri and fall, the $95,000 project was ap with work beginning the next day. Saad said a vinyl-like material on not worked. "We had that small fire in the T< ceiling material) did not perform in we were pleased with. It melted, so a immediately ripped it out of all th< said. Saad found a type of ceiling ma "tough, strong, and still attractive" ? ceilings of that material installed in sixth, and seventh floors over the sun "We decided to go with three whether it was going to work or not ciding that it would work, plans c floors in the Towers without ceilings Snowden residence hall was the pairs, followed work in Moore on M Journalists c By JENNIFER CAMPBELL Staff Writer ( The military's desire to control * the flow of information out of the * Persian Gulf was one of the topics s at a panel discussion on the war * Tuesday that included journalists who had been in Saudi Arabia. 1 The panel included Lou Fontana ] nf \17TC T\7 TMnno ftora T wi tt ij" 1 y , 1-/iaiiv/ vnaoi/ nvjiil WVOC radio, USC political psy- < chologist Betty Glad and Kent 1 Sidel, an international communications professor at USC. Fontana and Chase went to the ^ Persian Gulf in the fall to report on South Carolina's troops. * Fontana said an army public re- s lations officer accompanies all re- 1 porters, listens to interviews and always gives the army's side of the { story. y wants present its recommend Senate by this Monday. ianim- In addition, Young qi Revi- used by the board. "Th in re- lowed the guidelines w a little bit ticked about w the he said, at an The resolution recom ig the open to all and that the sented to the Student Se ly Ja- "The whole purpose ( t two to review the process an dation to the senate," lution funding coming up, we i ird to The Student Senate 1 '?rW HIHK J ^rjgm mma i the Towers area. ?ins in T 10 ceilino will begin the next. Later, the f ceilings in the The worker: 3 finish all six men's dormitoi icials said. The state aw it done during Walls of South ' the plans than waited through rector of Hous- t0 flle protests information ab ng the summer view the ceilin proved Jan. 21, codes and regu "They have the ceilings had Moore) and by all the tiles in, Dwers, and (the rector of Moo a manner that floors in two d it that point, we Harman said 3 Towers," she ings as early a sides the wall iterial that was *he w?rk will t md had sample Some studei Burney's fifth, and the projec lmer. agreed that ne\ floors and see * "The new c< she said. De- pipes are pers >f the other 36 pet, and it ha: were drawn. ceilings are de first site of re- neering sopho onday. Workers resident. iiscuss wa Sidel took a long view of th conflict. When the war is over, li eels the press can work with th government to change the systei :o coverage of future conflicts wi v? IaCC rpefriMiira SK/ 1VJJ 1VJU1VUW. Glad thinks the media play thn oles in this conflict: a mirror c vhat people are thinking, a forui n which the alternatives are di: :ussed and a participant in th government process. Sidel said the administration hi )een clever in bringing "hometow oiks" into the war. "Who wants to be against M Smith who owns the hardwai itore. You don't want to dump o he hometown folks," he said. Sidel thinks once bodybags tx jin arriving back in the U.S., thei vill be a break in the solidarity f( homecc ation to the Student organization fun< funding comes fr iiestioned the process "We would lik is board has not fol- election) before e recommended. I'm Beth Biggerstaff, this entire business," tee chairman. After extensiv* mended meetings be coming queen e ' final report be pre- Brooks authored nate first. Homecoming Re1 )f the committee was One member < d make a recommen- ernment Vice P Young said. "With "Everything wa need an answer." confidentiality." will begin to review Weiss also poi fc.' , . Eric Glenn/The Gamecock owers < project ' JmL. **** grid work at LaBorde and Douglas ; tile work will be added. 3 will repair Baker and Burney wories during spring break. -arded the ceiling contract to Precision i Carolina. Harman said the university a lag time, allowing other contractors if they felt they did not receive all the out the job. Engineers also had to reg materials to make sure they met fire lations. ' started to put up the railings (in the end of February they should have " said Dan Tucker, residence hall dire. 'They have worked through four ays." [ the contractors will work on the ceils 7:30 a.m. and as late as 5 p.m. Bebeing shot by a 25-caliber stud gun, >e relatively quiet. its have complained about the noise :ted low altitude of the ceilings, but v ceilings were needed, ibles are hanging down and the water piring and causing mildew on the cars been looking really bad. I think the sperately needed," said electrical engimore Matthew O'Driscoll, a LaBorde ir coverage ie the war. He also said journalists ie will start asking harder questions ,e and begin covering war protests n more, causing the protests to gain 11 validity. Fontana said he was afraid the ^ media are covering the war at the expense of other important stories. He said WIS had a chance to break a story on state Sen. Horace ie Smith's indictment by the FBI for his involvement with a failed nursls ing home project. Because of war n coverage, it was relegated to the last segment of the stations early r' newscast at 6 p.m. e m The discussion was sponsored by the Society of Professional i- Journalists and Horseshoe/ e Woodrow/Thornwell residence >r halls. fining i ling beginning Feb. 7. The just a om student activities fees. be fol e the board's feeling (on the "T1 we discuss funding," said lengtl , Senate Financial Commit- reach said. i debate on possible home- We lection reform, Sen. Shine win \ I a resolution forming the Comr riew Board. Th< Df the board, Student Gov- nate r resident Todd Weiss said, comii s supposed to be kept in recon osed nted out that a resolution is the el Saudis, take ba< 160 Iraq By The Associated Press Carol Bentzlin knew what ha happened as soon as she heard th dreaded knock at the door. H< Marine Corps husband was kille in the first heavy ground fightin of the Persian Gulf War. "I can't talk about it," Bentzlin wife said early Thursday after mi itary officers at Camp Pendeltoi Calif., told her that Cpl. Ste\ Bentzlin was one of the 11 soldie killed at the Saudi Arabia town < Khafji. , t Bentzlin, 23, was born in S Paul, Minn., and later moved i Wood Lake, about 140 miles to tl west. "I did support what he had chc sen to do," said his mother, Ba bara Anderson of Wood Lake. "H K/i 1 imro/l in kio nminfru TJT/% IA/11VTVU lit 1UO WUUUjr. Xl^ WC there for all of us, not only fc himself but for all of us." Saudi troops backed by U.J Marines Thursday took back tl coastal town that saw the Persia Gulf War's first sustained groun fighting, the Saudi military sai< But front-line commanders sai they suspected the Iraqis wei planning an even larger attack. The U.S. military command sai two U.S. soldiers ? a man and woman ? apparently were mis: ing. The two were not directly ii volved in the fighting at the nortl ern Saudi port of Khafji, Brij Gen. Pat Stevens IV told reporter A Marine flier whose jet was sh< down was listed as missing i action. By midmorning in Khafji, 11 remnants of an Iraqi armored co umn were cornered and und< siege by U.S. artillery. By evenin; Fontana reforms recommendation, and does not have to [lowed. le decision was a very thought-out and ly process. But earlier this week we ed a decision, a sound decision," he ;iss said the homecoming board's report >e presented to the entire Homecoming nission Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. sre is always the possibility that the Senay not continue funding for the Homelg Queen election, depending upon the lmendation. This was originally propOctober after controversy concerning ection. Marines :k town, [is caught I Saudi forces had completed the recapture of the town, allied officials said. According to initial reports, 160 Iraqi soldiers were captured in the _ battle, Stevens said. Saudi officials id said a large portion of their tanks ie and equipment were destroyed, jr Iraq's official news agency ^ Thursday quoted the newspaper of g Iraq's ruling Baath party as saying i n uic grounu iignung was uie pre's lude to a far bigger battle. The 1- paper, Al-Thawra, called it "the n, beginning of a thunderous storm re blowing on the Arab desert" K Marines on the outskirts of Khafji said they had been told five or six Iraqi divisions ? at least t 60,000 troops ? were, massing t0 near the Saudi town of Wafra, abie out 25 miles to the west, and believed preparing for an attack. Allied commanders have said J" they would resist Iraqi efforts to e drag them into a ground war before allied air assaults had beaten ^ the enemy down. On Wednesday, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater indicated President Bush would be the ie one to order a ground offensive, in and said he had not given such a 'd command. 1 d The Pentagon released these e names and hometowns for the Marines listed as combat deaths: ? Lance Cpl. Thomas A. Jenkd ins, 20, Mariposa, Calif. a Cpl. Stephen E. Bentzlin, 23, 5- Wood Lake, Minn. Yellow Meal dow, Minn. l- Lance Cpl. David T. Snyder, 21, Erie, N.Y. s. Lance Cpl. Michael E. Linder3t man Jr., 19, Douglas, Ore. n Pfc. Dion J. Stephenson, 20, Davis, Utah. Pfc. Scott A. Schroeder, 20, ie Milwaukee. 1- Listed as missing in action: it Capt. Michael C. Berryman, 28, g, Yuma, Ariz. ?'i ij Julie Bouchillon/The Gamecock