Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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> Columbia bicycle racing >- Vegetarian chef dishes > Tenth-ranked Lady> Referee's actions raise Qf Just because The Citadel has a long 'tradition' doesn't team one of the country's out goodies today in Gamecock softball team questions in Tyson's TKO of |?| wash. South Carolina also has a long tradition of slavery, best, page 4 "Meat-Out," page 5 impressive in FSU tourna- Ruddock, page 8 ^ illiteracy and corruption. mM ment, page 8 %ftf "Sexism," page 3 IMMKCOCK Volume 83, No. 71 University of South Carolina Wednesday, March 20,1991 doicci \w D n I CI i Lh i INTNENE^fe Referendum passes; federation protected MOSCOW ? President Mikhail Gorbachev's vision of a renanra/1 C Ax 71 ot \x ir*\n fKo ii^/wv^u wjwvivt iuiuauun wuii uiv/ approval of more than threequarters of voters in the country's first referendum, the national legislature was told Tuesday. Vladimir Orlov, chairman of the Supreme Soviet's referendum committee, said 82 percent of eligible voters cast ballots Sunday in the districts that had reported results by Tuesday. Orlov said 436 of the nation's 1,059 districts had reported their results by today. Six small separatist republics boycotted the referendum. Auschwitz guard freed after nine-year trial HANOVER, Germany ? After more than nine years of hearings, Germany's longest trial of an alleged Nazi war criminal has ended with all charges dismissed, a court spokeswoman said Monday. Heinrich Niemeyer, a former Nazi guard at the Auschwitz death camp in occupied Poland, was convicted and sentenced to six years prison in 1979 for murdering 10 Polish prisoners. But he won an appeal on technicalities and was freed. Niemeyer went on trial again in December 1981. Officials at the time said new evidence against him had been uncovered. There were 330 trial sessions in the almost $1 million case, with numerous postponements for court officials to travel to other countries to gather testimony. Transcript reveals L.A. beating details LOS ANGELES ? A police man involved in the beating of an unarmed black motorist told another officer he hadn't "beaten anyone this bad in a long time," according to a transcript released Monday. "You just had a big time use of force," Sgt. Stacey Koon told a police dispatcher after the beating of Rodney King after a car chase March 3. The transcript released by the police department contains messages between the officers transmitted by portable computers in their squad cars. An investigating police official said officers also sent a message that included an apparent racial joke about the film "Gorillas in the Mist." S.C. car insurance not most expensive Drivers who ehr\r? orAn r\r\ Cr\r ! ""v ???vjp (UUU11U 1U1 their car insurance might save hundreds of dollars, a review of major companies shows. Rates vary by up to 50 percent among the largest insurance companies in South Carolina for basic, good driver insurance coverage on a single car, the review shows. Some South Carolina residents have complained for years that the state has among the highest insurance rates in the nation. State-by-state comparisons show South Carolina near the middle in auto insurance costs, The State newspaper reported. Compiled from wire reports Holderman h to free priso Former president receive for introducing law firm By The Associated Press Umyers Former USC president James said. TT~1 J ! J AAA r I his P&S nuiuerman was paiu q?i/,uw ior trave(j the helping a bid to win a Puerto Rico ? . . , . 6 as a donat businessman s freedom from co- , . , with no stn: came charges. MrNair < Bernard Baus, told The (Green- . ' ' ville) News he spent 54 days in jail " ^ i r e c t e i and almost a month in the Domini- unuPrmon can Republic before the charges "That wz were dismissed. He said the 12 ki- . ' . c c j u- came to me lograms of cocaine found in his . . plane belonged to the pilot. Holderm The pilot served more than two f . ' . . from the 1 years in prison on the charges, ni Baus told The News. Blanco, pre Baus previously said he had ?an e|)u never met Holderman. He said the lr0 l? law firm of former Gov. Robert c ?!.r 1 McNair paid Holderman from mo- was see u u a a . .of Baus ani ney he had paid it to represent prominent, "I never approved the McNair vca^ details firm making die funds available to * $ use Police a -pnm4ivr/\ fugitive 11U111 By CHAD BRAY long list o Staff Writer Police als A fugitive from North Carolina wanted in was arrested by University Police on charge this past weekend. dangerous James Eli Pipkin, a.k.a Larry forcible rap Donald Harrington of 1204 Taylor ual offense. St., was arrested on fugitive war- Pipkin w rants from Harnett County, N.C., land Count by Sgt. E. A. Sanders of the USC booked. Police Department on Saturday. Further i Police said that at 11:10 a.m., revealed t Sanders noticed a man looking into charges pc cars on Laurens Street When San- from the L ders approached the subject, he ap- ment in Noi peared nervous and "a strong odor of alcoholic beverage was noted about his person." forcement i is willing t< Sanders searched Pipkin and will be trai found a knife with a four-inch Carolina v blade and a man's gold ring in a officials th piasnc, iuuiiu tuiiuuiici. uavn.. Both items were taken as evidence. "He cla Police said the suspect has a false," Stok Lost founda By TIGE WATTS S< Assistant News Editor Five boxes of Carolina Research and De- in velopment Foundation records dated from 1981-85 were finally discovered this past ^ weekend in the Richland County Landfill. Mark Steele, a former intern to former ^ USC President James Holderman, led reporters from The (Greenville) News to the location where the records were buried. ol Steele, who also worked part-time for the th foundation, said financial officer John a^ O'Donnell hired him to dump the records in al Southern style USC graduate Sarah Gilbert reads from h< Riggs in the University Bookstore Tuesday. Hairdo was a critical and commercial succt to case K* ity of South Carolina," Vj it week, McNair por- |k \ 1 payment to Holderman ion directed by Baus ngs attached. said Monday he "used word" in saying Baus i" the money to I is the information that ," McNair said. "We're ;ar that up." an introduced lawyers McNair firm to Jorge isident of the Dominilic, to help free Baus o Domingo prison. SHHHHMHi said Monday his firm ; the written permission USC Presidenl d a "well-known, very Steve Sorensi )erson" in Texas to re- 'n 3 "town rnee about the case. lee COCAINE page 2 Pali rrest hea |V^ | By AARON SH ^ Assistant News E New universi f previous convictions. students Tuesda o found that he was president Harnett County, N. C., "If there's anj s of robbery with a know... I pledg weapon, first degree said at a "town i >e and first degree sex- House Ballroom. After address as transported to Rich- where he thinks y Detention Center and Palms opened hi constituents, investigation by police The questions here are kidnapping spectrum of inte mding against Pipkin answered questic illington Police Depart- tion to illegal ele rth Carolina. When asked d volving Holdern :es, director of Law En- Development Fo md Safety, said Pipkin "That's in the 3 waive extradition and I'm going to ta isported back to North want it run." /hen law enforcement He said it was ere arrive to take him to get bogged ( administration, ims the charges are He did say, 1 es said. tion record iptember 1988. "He (O'Donnell) used these yellow tags to dicate which boxes were to be thrown vay and which boxes were not to be rown away," Steele said. "He (O'Donnell) also wanted us to haul e records away before the renovations of e old (foundation) office," he said. However, O'Donnell said after two boxes ' foundation records were found Saturday at he never authorized anyone to throw vay the records sought in the lawsuit. He so denied mentioning any renovation of the TLH Mun ^ foun< He asked the b pjj Palms' job easier b i m % "We have a ne Eric Glenn/The Gamecock difficult to look in sessed with the pa open another book, er latest nove! Dixie "Dr. Palms shou ^Gilberts first book ihe past," he said. 3SS' Mungo urged lh< ^ * III ' V >4-.* m f ' I t John Palms takes a break in his walki en and Vice President of Student Affair iting" later in the afternoon. ns to loot 1 scandal EININ pea ^itor in tl ty President John Palms faced the " v and nledeed to he an accessible P the ('thing you want me to know, let me darr ;e to you my complete devotion," he H neeting" with students in the Russell port acte ;ing USC's role in academia and the university can go in the future, acac imself up to questions from his new S said thrown at him represented the wide he j rests among students at USC. Palms uni\ >ns on everything from increased tui- "] ctronic eavesdropping. . said lirectly about the recent scandals in- I thi ran and the Carolina Research and Ir undation, Palms urged moving on. com past," he said. "I'm moving forward. me] lk about my foundation and how I " tior : important for his administration not ) lown with the problems of an old spe lowever, that he cannot ignore the s discovert foundation's old office building to Steele. O'Donnell refused to comment after th more boxes of records were discovered Si day and said his attorney Mike Kelly woi handle further comments. Kelly claims O'Donnell might become "fall guy" in this case. He would not spec further, but he did say, "This is somethi that is obviously above him." "John O'Donnell might have made a f innocent mistakes in the handling of recor like any normal person could have. He is no way a bad guy, he's just a middle-le go calls foi dation with iNTLER and mei ss Chairman Michael Mungo urged irch and Development Foundation's ^ imittee to "start over" in the found- ^0 lie meeting Tuesday afternoon. ally new entity with a new name, ^ j nistration," Mungo said. 'Then we ? fou oard to make USC President John ture iy eliminating the foundation. ^ w president, and it is going to be 1 ito the future if the press is so ob- ai st. We must close this chapter and cur he said. 1 $9 Id not be asked any questions about 1 the j committee to close the foundation hou Mi " * ~ ? * ;;%T % \ % V Renee Meyer/The Gamecock ng tour of campus Tuesday to talk with Senior s Dennis Pruitt. Palms also met with students i. to future, 'c wnnnrlc u vrwiAvao pie representing the university who were involved tie scandal. I'm working on it," he said, alms was asked if the foundation scandal has hurt university's reputation. He said it had, but the (age was not irrepairable. fe said students, alumni and other university supers need to be informed that-the quality and charr of the university has not been damamged. USC is a rising star," and its reputation in lemics is improving, he said, tudent Government President Manish Shrivastava he looks forward to working with Palms because ;eems very student-oriented. Shrivastava said the 'ersity has been hurt by the foundation scandal, [t probably hurt us in the sense of funding," he . "Not only from alumni but from the Legislature, nk we need to clean up our reputation." 1 answering each question, Palms re-affirmed his imitment to students. This was a point he hamred home to the nearly 350 people in attendance. 'I am abhorred by the tuition of this public-institu1," he said. rVhile many students expected their new leader to ak out about recent scandals involving fprmer adSee PALMS page 2 id in landfill bureaucrat. He didn't use any of these funds ree nor did he pay anyone to destroy the rein cords," he said. Lild South Carolina Law Enforcement Division investigators took control of more than 30 i a boxes of records found in the landfill. Only ify five of the boxes belonged to the R&D ing foundation. The other 25 were records from the Alumni Association and the Educational ew Foundation. ds, Steele said the records filled a 60 squarein vel See LOST RECORDS page 2 r replacing t new entity create a new one to end the controversy about forr President James Holderman's spending and ms of foundation mismanagement. 'wo questions the committee must answer by May are whether being a public institution constrains foundation and whether the members should still ippointed by the USC Board of Trustees. The committee was formed to decide whether the ndation will continue to help Carolina plot its fu? " foundation President Gavle Avervt said. ' ? J ? ? J Tie foundation accepts public money which is used irojects such as the Swearingen Engineering Center the Koger Center for the Arts. The foundation's rent assets are $13.7 million, including $8 or million liquid. Tie committee's chairman, John A. Warren, asked media to leave as the committee entered a threer executive session to discuss pending litigation.