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> Abstinence and virginity > Sororities and fraternities ^ Former L.A. Lakers coach > Chip Shots prognosticator But never published a letter for the sole purpose of pissmight not be cool, but go "above and beyond" P?t Ri,ey to give motiva- foresees Shaquille O'Neal 1 1 'n9 off the student body. That's what we have Dennis Shethey do have their merits, to participate in this year's tional speech, page 5 entering the NBA draft, alyfor. ' page4 Greek Week, page 4 page 8 David Bowden, columnisi, page 3 ClAMKCOCKl Volume 83, No. 74 University of South Carolina Wednesday, March 27, 1991 BRIEFLY jfif^NBWSg ' i^lS$?ife Hussein has skimmed billions in oil profits A joint U.S.-Kuwait investigation has found that Saddam Hussein's family skimmed $10 billion in oil profits since 1981 and bought nearly $1 billion worth of shares in public companies, a government source in Washington said Monday. The State Department, the Treasury Department and the FBI, in cooperation with the Kuwaiti government and private consultant Jules Kroll, have been investigating the Iraqi president's finances since Iraq invaded Kuwait on Aug. 2, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Mali president ousted; celebration begins ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast ? Soldiers in Mali have arrested Gen. Moussa Traore following days of rioting and protests against the embattled president, sources in Mali's capital said early Tuesday. Idrissa Traore, president of the Mali Barristers' Association, said military sources in Bamako informed him of the president's detention. He did not describe the action as a "coup" but said the soldiers "have the situation under control." Dani/Innto tViA oifti ixvsdiut/iiia ui uig wi) wiiva/I^U and set off firecrackers after I hearing reports that Traore had been detained. There were also reports of looting and gunfire in the downtown area. Burning barricades and tracer bullets lit the night sky. "Everyone's in the street. Nobody's sleeping. We're all so happy," said a woman who answered the telephone at the home .of human rights leader and lawyer Demba Diallo. She would not give her name. FBI begins inquiry of Los Angeles police LOS ANGELES ? The FBI on Monday began questioning officers from the police division > where four lawmen charged with beating a black motorist were stationed, and a grand jury reconvened to probe the videotaped ; attack. FBI agents were expected to interview more than 200 officers assigned to the Foothill Division, 20 miles northwest of downtown, to see if a pattern of civil rights abuses exists there, said police spokesman Lt. Fred Nixon. Mayor Tom Bradley again called for Gates to step down, saying his departure is essential for the city to recover from the embarrassment. State Forest fires continue tn hli)7P thrnimk iv "ugu auiic Firefighters battling blazes in South Carolina's tinder-dry woodlands got some help Monday as gusty wind calmed after fanning flames at near gale force during the weekend. The humidity also was somewhat higher. But crews were still out fighting dozens of fires around the state. South Carolina has banned all open fires outside city limits. North Carolina officials considered a similar ban Monday but decided against it Compiled from wire reports 'Lost' Firm questions H bookkeeping $. es By TIGE WATTS F Assistant News Editor ^ Early investigation into dug-up Carolina Research and Foundation Jlj records from 1981-85 has brought ? forward more evidence of extra- ? vagant spending. Reporters from across the state, Sc wearing plastic gloves and surgical masks, looked into records that n were sprayed with human waste so F they would decompose faster. w The records were discovered af- ti< ter a former USC President James ti Holderman intern, Mark Steele, led d' The (Greenville) News to the re- F cords once buried in the Richland county lananii. State Law Enforcement Division "( officials confiscated the records af- d< ter they were dug from the landfill, ui The records, once claimed d< "lost," have started a ring of con-, troversy climaxing to Holderman's indictment Friday. j1. One check authorization found in the decomposing documents was a $5,000 salary supplement to lc Maxjflou ^ WORLD WIDE HMMPZf JH ' ' ,. . Movin' on up This moving van was seen par Parked next to it is new university lier this month to assume his duties Gamecock By LORI TONEY Staff Writer Gamecock Television will become an rial student organization this week, w variety of news and entertainment pro? for students. GTV offers student entertainment an formation, a total package of program by students for students. The organizati an affiliate of University Network, whi part of the National Association of Cc Broadcasters. The signal is beamed by satellite to th structional Services Center, and it pro five hours per week of programming th; Recycling campus By GORDON MANTLER Staff Writer The USC Recycling Office held a i cling awareness day Tuesday from noon p.m. on the Russell House patio. "Awareness day's primary purpose i increase the awareness of ACBC (Alumi Cans for Burned Children) and to proi all recycling efforts," John Newman, i cling coordinator, said. The awareness day included musit Earthworks, speeches by Newman and dent Government President Manish Shr tava, and a "can-toss." files rc olderman in 1983. The check was one of many that ould add up to $25,000 to 50,000 in salary supplements ich year for Holderman, said oundation Director Chris lahopolus. "The check they discovered was ist a simple payment of his suplement. There was in no way any ixtra payment.' We went by the 3ok in regards to the check," he lid. However, a 1982 audit by Derek, Stubbs & Stith, an accounting rm from Columbia, said there ere problems with the foundaon's bookkeeping. The firm said le foundation paid thousands of ollars in salary supplements to olderman without documentation. A $2,500 deteriorated check ated Feb. 27, 1980 from the jreater University Fund" to Holy-man was also discovered. It is w iclear whether Holderman en)rsed the check. Vlahopolus said he was unsure 11 t>out the origins of the "Greater T niversity Fund." "I haven't really had. time to $: >ok into what exactly the fund oi UBiaaiHHMIE ked behind the President's House President John Palms' Cadillac. Pe > as 26th president of USC. : Tele visit eludes college-produced soa] corns, network news progran offi- views and documentaries subi ith a versity Network, jrams The group will submit a fir constitution and choice for f: id in- this week. ming A preliminary draft of GTV on is listed Paul Sanford as prog ch is Dave Wilson, broadcasting s >llege news director and Jon Noetzell casting sophomore, as sports di le In- "Fifteen interested members vides first organizational meeting or at in- tp.r vjp haH nnlv nlarPii a Da Office ho rareness i The "can-toss" had a group from grade school and college "ecy- num 03118 int0 ACBC wagoi t0 2 is the depository for aluminum ACBC program, a recycling p is to ducted by firefighters, num The money earned through mote will go to burn patient recovery ecy- cal University of South Carolina South Carolina firefighters ; by pated in the program since 198( Stu- have recylced more than 28.2 ivasSee RECYCL iveal ( Dean at to Hold* By The Associated Press South Carolina law enforcemei terviewed the University of Texa tion dean in connection with the raent of former USC President Jar SLED spoke with Manuel Jus day, the Austin American-Statesitu Authorities said Holderman to had received money from a law helping to free a client from jai some of that money to Justiz, the Tuesday. Justiz told the newspaper, "I i money and never got any money 1 Holderman was indicted this p grand jury on charges of illegal -as," Vlahopolus said. Records also show Holderman ip.nt $11 ROO tn rent a T i?ar iVf in 984 for a fund-raising trip to exas. Holderman spent more than 2,000 in hotel and meal charges i the trip. The bulk of the bill Renee Meyer/The Gamecock 4 %* / on the Horseshoe Tuesday, ilms arrived in Columbia earm soon 1 p operas, sit- The Gamecock] as, movie re- meeting, we disc nitted to Uni- complish and di that turned out si lal draft of its "We just star acuity adviser USC, with two "'The Carolina ] 's constitution line news and sp ram director, 6 o'clock news s ophomore, as "'The Deadbe , also a broad- tainment progr rector. hosted by broadc ; attended our and Elizabeth L> i # i a r rvil i Marcn 4, ai- uiner prograi; tebook ad (in news magazine > of students throw alumii. The wagon cans for the have partici- , 5, where they Day area million used Chris Saudi ? tage of spring' INGpage 2 K a ixtrav Texas cc jrman in< position for pei it officials have ins college of educa- earn 525,000 ; grand jury indict- South Carolina nes Holderman. Juimz> 43- h< tiz in Austin Mon- educational lea in reported. Justiz & Id them the school in^uential So firm for its role in McNair, to fire 1. He said he gave on cocaine chaj newspaper reported McNair attoi can busmessmi never expected any ledge of the co *Af it ** Justiz told tf AJl UVUig 1U , ast week by a state ly using his public was a $1,292 charge for Holde man and three others from a on night stay at a Dallas hotel. A 1982 check showed th foundation paid a $1,500 initiatic fee at the Wildwood Country Cli for Vlahoplus. Vlahoplus said the fee was f< use pol for exhi Victim helps lool for sex offender By CHAD BRAY Staff Writer While searching through tl dusty volumes in the recesses i Thomas Cooper Library, 26-year-old geology student di covered a different kind < bookworm. Police say on Thursday, the vi tim was looking for a book c Level 2 of Thomas Cooper. I 9:30 a.m., she noticed an unknov male on the same aisle she was 01 A few minutes later, the suspe brushed against her and she heai him moan. She turned and saw tl suspect masturbating. At th; point, the victim fled and callc police. :o be offi )," Sanford said. "At this naijS ;ussed what we hoped to ac- creat( d a 15-minute test newscast ^ . 3 well, it could have aired. by ted our production here at an(j t present programs," he said. jous News' is a 15-minute head- weu, orts program, much like any ?p how. cause at Club' is a weekly enter- tka i Uiv J am, like 4PM Magazine,' casting majors Charles Jones rnch," Sanford added, ns are "A Closer Look," a program produced by jourgj min' days Br, HRTA junior, studies on the s arrival. agance wineeifeJIj iictment sonal gain. say Holderman used his position to from a law firm headed by former Gov. Robert McNair. M an endowed chair as a professor of dership and policies at USC for four lid Holderman asked him to help an uth Carolina law firm, headed by e a client from jail who was arrested rges in the Dominican Republic, meys argued their client, a Puerto Rial named Bernard Baus, had no knowcaine found in his plane, te Austin newspaper Holderman chose See JUSTlZpage 2 r- university fund-raising purposes e- and not personal. e "This fee was only for raising >n university funds. That's (the club) ib just one of the things you have to get inside of to raise money," he >r said. lice search bitionist ^ USC Police searched the area and could not locate the suspect. "I grabbed my bag and ran but then I realized I should have screamed. That way someone else ? would have seen him," the victim said. Df a Police describe the unknown s- male as a 6-foot-6, 260-pound, 5f black male between the ages of 18- and 22-years-old. On the day c- of the incident, he was wearing a >n white tank top with blue pin U stripes, a pair of blue "silky" m shorts and white tennis shoes. i. Investigator William R. Snyder, ct of the USC Police Department, rd said the case is still under ie investigation, at _ . . ? The victim said she is assisting police in finding the suspect. cial group m students, and "Campus Forum," sd by Ira Grossman and Doug Hienery. an hour-long talk show program prduced SC, patterned after CNN's "Crossfire" he McLaughlin show to discuss the varissues and politics facing the country as as the campus. m hoping it will be a lot of fun, be> the whole point of the show will be ively banter back and forth between Lists," Grossman said, rv is also getting the video rights to bee i tLtvibiuNpage z John Fletcher/The Gamecock Horseshoe Tuesday, taking advan