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Ad-Diyar's front-page report on We'dnesday said the six American hostages would be released Friday at an unidentified hotel in Beirut in the presence of al-Khatib and the commander of Syria's military intelligence in Lebanon, Brig. Gen. Ghazi Kenaan. Transport plane crash kills 92 allied soldiers DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia ? At least 92 Senegalese soldiers who were part of the allied force deployed in the Persian Gulf War died when a Saudi transport plane crashed in northern Saudi Arabia, officials said Thursday. U.S. military officials said seven people survived the crash of the Saudi air force C-130, which Saudi authorities said was carrying 101 people. Trumps finish details of divorce settlement NEW YORK ? Ivana Trump will walk away with $14 million, a Connecticut mansion and an apartment on Manhattan's East Side under a divorce settlement with ex-husband Donald. Donald Trump said the deal, which is exactly what the couple decided 011 in a 1987 post-nuptial agreement, was to be completed Thursday. He gets to keep the Plaza Hotel, the landmark Fifth Avenue building where Ivana has run things for the past several years. 26 crewmen missing after Navy planes fall SAN DIEGO ? Two Navy ?..L M1 ? ? - - - - 1 auumaiiiic-uuniixig piaiies collided early Thursday during a training mission off the southern California coast, and 26 crewmen were missing, Navy spokesmen said. Search and rescue teams in helicopters found some debris but located no bodies or survivors, Navy spokesman Mike Kreis said. Navy air controllers lost contact with the two planes at about 2:30 a.m., Navy spokesman Bob Howard said. A Navy SH-60 helicopter crew taking part in the exercise spotted a fireball at sea at about the same time, the Navy said. State lobbyist resigns after federal sting The state Highway Commission Thursday accepted the resignation of Wade "Ronnie" Crowe, a panel member indicted in the FBI's "Operation Lost Trust." Crowe told commission Chairman Charles Dalton in a March 11 letter he would resign effective Thursday. Crowe, who is also a registered lobbyist, was charged Jan. 4 with one count of violating the Hobbs Act. an anti 0 bribery law. Compiled from wire reports > t . HBr Firefighters say Thursday morning ungrounded plug in this Coke m lounge. Smith k By TIGE WATTS Assistant News Editor USC Provost Arthur Smith narrowl; presidency with Florida State Univers he said it was not because of contrc surrounding the Carolina Research ai velopment Foundation and former US* ident James Holderman. Over the week of USC's spring Smith received the news he lost by le 2 percent of the vote to University of President Dale Lick. "I did all I could to prove to the pe Florida State that I was in no way ir with the management of resources former president, and I felt assure knew I was not involved," Smith said. The FSU Presidential Selection Con investigated Smith's past involvemei Holderman and found no wrongdoing part of the provost McKissick i By The Associated Press A textile company president says he did not know his $50,000 donation to USC was used by the school's former president rather than for former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Ellison McKissick Jr., president of Alice Manufacturing Co. in Easley, said the diversion has made him reconsider giving money to USC again. McKissick said Tuesday he made the donation in 1985 for James Holderman's help in arranging a speech by Kissinger. Kissinger spoke to the American Textile Manufacturers Institute in T"? 1 ; .1 ? .-..nr. 1 - - nuuua, wiiitii was luiuiciiy headed by McKissick. Records show the gift was diverted to USC's Carolina Research and Development Foundation. McKissick said recent disclosures that Holderman used foundation money in the president's account for travel and expensive gifts have made him reconsider giving money to USC again. "I think we're going to be very reluctant to give anything unless you know a lot more beforehand M? " >> ' .. w * ' ; . '& -J ? I ,? , * m ! V | > Ijp as h i Richard Gault/The Gamecock 's blaze began as a result of an achine in the Chi Psi fraternity )ses in F "It's a real shame. y lost a have been named if i ity, but nistration he worked iversies nd DeC Pres"The chancellors acknowl break, week ago or so that they had ss than nections with practices that i Maine down upon," he said. But a member of the co ople at wishes to remain nameless, s; ivolved bers were not comfortable in by the because of Holderman d they controversy. "We did investigate and 1 nmittee link Dr. Smith with any extr it with ing or losing records, but I f on the mittee members were hesitan because of the ongoing cc ipset by don "At the time, if he'd asked me would i make a contribution for him to take a vacation, I'd tell him real quickly, 'Hell no.'" Ellison McKissick Jr. about what use it's going to," he told The (Greenville) News in a story published Wednesday. "I think it's going to hurt the university, I really do." A $15,000 donation by Springs Industries for the speech was also diverted to the foundation and used to help cover the $30,000 cost of a Hawaii vacation for Holderman and his family, records show. McKissick is the great nephew of J. Rion McKissick, a USC president in the 1930s. He is a regular contributor to the university. McKissick said he asked Holderman in 1985 for help in getting Kissinger for the ATMI meeting. McKissick said Holderman told him it would cost ATMI $40,000 to hire Kissinger. McKissick said he told Holder Fire, sm fraternit By AARON SHEININ Assistant News Editor A fire in the Chi Psi fraternity lounge clou Thursday morning dawn with black smoke alarms aroused sleepy residents from four hall McBryde Quad. Chief Fire Marshall Bob Paxson of the C< Fire Department said initial reports indicate was started by an electrical short "in or arc Coke machine in the back of the lounge. Four members of the fraternity were asleep lounge at tne time ot me tire, une was treat oxygen for smoke inhalation by emergency pe No one else was treated. Tom Oppold, president of Chi Psi, was as the second floor of McBryde building E when aroused from his "normally heavy" sleep. "When I woke up, I could smell the smo said. Paxson estimated damage "in the ballp; $10,000 to the contents of the lounge and $f the building itself, but the numbers could vary he said. Oppold said he was told the fire was causi faulty adapter plug that was on the Coke mac had no idea it was hooked up to an adapter," hi He also said the fraternity has been trying Coke to replace the "10- to 15-year-old " mac several years. He did say, however, that the fi doesn't have any immediate plans for legal act they are going to consult a lawyer. Clavton Coleman, director of vendine serv uiivcisuy. The foundation's director, Chris /lahoplus, said Tuesday he did not aiow how the rest of McKissick's lonation was spent. Vlahoplus said le did not know if other donations Corn vere made to the foundation for ram Cissinger's speech. A th Holderman, who now works fpr family [ real estate developer in Jackson- mothe ulle, Fla., has turned down several Fryer ( equests for interviews by news Wedne >rganizations. Sun-Belt Coca-Cola, said it is their normal pra place the machine wherever the customer choc said it is doubtful that a Coke employee wou put the adapter plug on because they do nc them in stock. He was not certain if Chi Psi fact requested a new machine, but said he woi out. USC spokeswoman Margaret Lamb said th smoke, water and fire damage to the Chi Psi and smoke damage to neighboring Alpha Ph SU presid Art really is a nice guy, and I thi it hadn't have been for the acts for." Presidential Selection Cdmr edged about a USC," he said, found no con- The member said Smith may be looked ing during his interviews ; hpnest image. However, t immittee, who Could not change the m aid other mem- voters, selecting Smith Smith served as interim \ 's spending time of Holderman's resign this month when John Pain: ind nothing to said he wanted to be seen ; avaeant snend- un the image of the universi o r * v eel some com- "Unfortunately, bad publ t to name him same time I was applyin introversies at should be no implications c ation's use nan that was too high a price. He aid Holderman later called him ind said USC could get Kissinger it a lower price if money was aised for the school. McKissick said he agreed, and donated McKissick said he knew not all he money would go toward the Ik ipeech cost, but he thought the rest ^ vould be used to advance the iniversity. 'The whole thing in a nutshell is hat the university got a lot more noney for the foundation than just )aying for Dr. Kissinger," he said. 'But I was assuming that when rc>u give to the foundation, to the iniversity, you're promoting stulents, faculty, promoting the .? I.. yy oke engulf ;y's lounge lounge. Also, there was smoke and water damage to the second floor hall, but not individual rooms, aided the though several members of Chi Psi said some of their as fire clothes smell of smoke. s of the Director of Housing Linda Saad said the fire was caused by a three-pronged plug adapter that was not Dlumbia grounded. She said university workers would not have the fire done this, and whoever put the plug on un-grounded is 1 l_ 1 !L1. P ^1 P* . lir\ rill )una a prooaDiy responsioie ior me lire. witnesses inursday said Columbia firefighters responded to the call ) in the within 20 minutes of the alarms. Oppold said, howed with ever, that once the firefighters arrived, they couldn't rsonnel. reach the fire for another 10 minutes because of the controversial security gates surrounding the quad that leep on were locked. he was Members of McBryde quad protested when the gates were constructed in 1989. The gates are locked ke," he every night at 11:30 p.m. "The gates are the problem. The fire couldn't be put ark" of out, because they (firefighters) couldn't get within the >,000 to quad ... that wasn't safe at all," Oppold said, greatly, Paxson, who was not at the scene of the fire, said the gates should not have posed a problem. h- ?T "We are used to physical barriers in any fire fight= ine* ing situation," he said. ^ sai Assistant Chief Don Davis, who was on the scene, j. 0 |e * said he received no reports from his men that the me or es cause(j any (jeiayS aternity ion, but Davis said the only confusion was to where the police told them to respond. The address Davis said his ices tor men received was "something like 540 Main St.," ictice to which is not the quad's address. >scs He Id liave Dav^s a'so sa*d he doubts there is any security or H carr' sa^ety hazards from the gates because students can 1 hacTin ex'1 lhrough the walk-ramp side of the quad. aid find Judy Brobst, assistant area manager for the Tower's area (which includes the quad), said it is the responsiere was bility of either a Community Awareness and Safety lounge, employee or the USC Police to unlock the gates and i Alpha the outer doors in this kind of situation. ential search ??? my part," Smith said. nk he would "There is a very rapid rate of turnover in Of the 3d mi- university presidents across the nation. I would only be interested in the right presnittee member idency,a' ** ,right kind ?f inff?"' Vm m. no real hurry to move yet; in fact, I may just stay here for the rest of my career," he said. Smith said USC will alter its appearance was very appeal- jn the eye of the public when the public recand presented an 0gnizes the scandals were the results of Holhat honesty still derman's administration, inds of enough 'The practices contained in the office of the former president do not reflect the curiresident from the rent pmc^ces and have not since I took ofation until earlier fice jn june ? Smith said. _ A 1_ _ CCZ ~ - TT_ is look uiuce. nc as trying to clean "It is important to give this university the ity. chance to make progress. A lot of events on icily came at the a national focus are not being recognized beg. Clearly there cause all attention is turned to the old prac)f wrongdoing on tices of the former president," he said. i % si Eric Glenn/The Gamecock i ily summit ree-day summit to deal with issues surrounding the black gave the Black Family of the Year Award Thursday to r, Mozella Shepard (seated); and her children, Debra left), Gregory Fryer and Cynthia Fryer. The summit began jsday and is being held at Carolina Plaza Hotel.