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^ USC senior loses his honors ^ Program offers students V USC salvages one game "Right Off the Bat" exhibit thesis when his bookbag is chance to work in Great of a three-game baseball on display at Thomas !; What characteristics made me a successful coach? Magic stolen from bookstore, Britain, page 7 series with Cincinnati, Cooper Library, page 11 Johnson. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. |||| page 3 page 10 j"J Pat Riley, former L.A. Lakers head coach, page 6 (MMKCOCKl Volume 83, No. 76 University of South Carolina Wednesday, April 3,1991 piiEffi! |tn the. news! i|Worid||I Soviet Georgians want independence MOSCOW ? Georgians have voted overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union, preliminary results showed Tuesday. It is the strongest rebuff by a Soviet republic to President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's efforts to hold the union together. With "38 nf thp. rennhlir's 71 districts reporting, 99.3 percent of voters'in Sunday's referendum favored secession, said Valerian Khukhunashvili, a Georgian government spokesman in Moscow. In February, 91 percent of Lithuanian voters endorsed independence, followed in March by 74 percent of Latvians and 78 percent of Estonians. Armenia has scheduled a vote for Sept. 21. Democratic leader shot, killed at rally TIRANA, Albania ? A .1 i i ? J ? .1? luuai icauci ui mc uppusiuuu Democratic Party and two other people were shot and killed Tuesday during an impromptu anti-Communist demonstration in i a northern town, opposition officials said. The shootings came just two days after Albania's first free elections in more than 60 years, in which the Democrats won all major cities but the ruling Com- ^ munists dominated overall on the strength of support in the 'countryside. Arben Broci, the local opposition leader, was shot in the back while trying to disperse a protest outside Communist Party headquarters in Shkodra, said Gene Polio, the Democratic Party spokesman. !,. NaiWfH TF> O AAMinM miK1 jjvo tciuci auujcwicu to two days of bombs FRESNO, Calif. ? Nine' pipe bombs were shot from a launcher near an Internal Revenue Service center in two days, six of them exploding, police said. No one was injured and there was no immediate claim of responsibility. The IRS center handles tax returns filed in Hawaii and most of California. Robert M. Tobias, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, said in a statement from Washington that the bombings "show how the social and political acceptance of IRS-bashing has helped tip the unbalanced to acts of violence." 1 ~SMState f ^41 Hybrid wolf mauls girl, 10, in front yard The father of a 10-year-old girl mauled by a hybrid wolf wants wild animals banned as pets in South Carolina. The animal, which is at least three-parts wolf and resembles a German shepherd, attacked Jean Marie Popowski Friday morning ' while she waited in her front yard for a friend, said her father, Jon Popowski. The girl was released Monday from Providence Hospital. She underwent nearly three hours of surgery over the weekend to repair deep gashes on her stomach, chest and back. Solicitor Dick Harpootlian has charged the animal's owner, Laura Hardison, with violating a I state law that prohibits dangerous dogs from running loose. Compiled from wire reports Hoick Fomier presi forced to sun By AARON SHEININ Assistant News Editor Former USC President James Holderman man ? at least for the next nine to 12 month Richland County Judge Ernest Kinerd Tu< cepted Solicitor Dick Harpootlian's request derman to be released on a $10,000 personal zance bond. Holderman was also forced to f passport. Holderman's case will not come to trial fc 12 months, Harpootlian said. "There are 62 murder trials waiting be case," he said. "This case will not be movi front of the list.. . this case will be queued i mal order." Holderman was indicted March 22 by a County grand jury on charges of using hi: position for personal gain and receivii compensation. Harpootlian said Holderman does not ha\ the $10,000 now, but he would have to paj doesn't show up for his trial date. He will als AW '' - ,-,y v J/- ?* ?$?&-?-y Former (JSC President James Holdermai ter where he was arraigned on charges o Former By TIGE WATTS Assistant News Editor Former USC President James Holdermar hired an ousted federal official who, accord ing to sources, forged government docu ments and did limited research work while he was at USC. Manuel Justiz, director of the National In stitute of Education for two years, was hiret by Holderman shortly after he was firet from his position and unable to find wori with the University of New Mexico, the school he left to accept the NIE post Justiz worked for Holderman until 1989 when the University of Texas hired Justiz a: Palms exan foundation': Staffing seen to*j as one disability By TIGE WATTS counta Assistant News Editor protect USC President John Palms, who ^ Jp' has not been specific about his plans for the Carolina Research Act mi and Development Foundation, said S1}? s j changes must be made if the sl[lve 1 foundation is to adequately meet j.1 s its responsibilities. laced, Palms made a brief presentation ^ Monday during the second official ^h?ar, meeting of the special study com- c mittee, which is deciding the fu- should ture of the foundation. new c "There certainly needs to be place, some changes made in the way it's founch operating, the way it's supported ing Pa and the amount of staff that's re- to re-a quired to properly administer the The foundation," said Palms, who took board office March 18. versity He cited the foundation's staf- officio fing as a major disability. Board "The staffing of the foundation The is certainly inadequate to meet the nine c responsibilities. It needs to be looked into and possibly changed," rman dent free on t render his pass pay an additional $1,000 and serve year prison term if he does not repor is a free Harpootlian said a personal recc s. mandated in Richland County statut* esday ac- proved the defendant is a threat to for Hoi- if he is a threat to skip trial. ! recogni- "He (Holderman) is neither a da brfeit his munity or a danger to flee," he said. During the 10-minute hearing, a >r nine to sat silent, choosing to let his law) and Tom Vernon talk for him. fore this After the proceedings, Holderma id to the came in> through a back entrance, ip in nor- courtroom, Holderman passed back where he was fingerprinted and boo Richland fore the arraignment. He quickly m ; official ing car that took him away from th ig extra nalists who discovered the back entr Vernon told The (Greenville) Ne e to pay j it if he a have to See HOL Rene* n is whisked away from the Richland County f using his office for personal gain. JIE directc their dean of education. While he worked as NIE director, Justiz i was not very popular and there was unrest in the office, USC education professor Lars . Bjork said. ? "When I got there (NIE), there was an awful lot of unrest. Justiz was very unpopular . and looked down upon," Bjork said. I "This was also a period when (former U.S. 1 President Ronald) Reagan wanted to do : away with the Education Department but ? was stopped by some cabinet members. James Baker protected the department and , focused on the NIE causing a lot of pres5 sure," he said. lining mm c fnfiirA J IUI/U1 V L ns said whatever organizasxists to handle research and other items must be acble to the public and still ; the interests of the faculty hool. e Freedom of Information ight conflict with the univerneed to handle secretly*sen- I agreements or contracts, but >mething that needs to be ' Palms said. Pallbearers p le committee's last meeting, USC alumni c of Trustee Chairman MiMungo said the foundation I be reorganized or that a AT Uli 11' irganization should take its Mungo also suggested that By The Associal ition directors consider giv- Hundreds of lms an option about whether ton's elite said ppoint them. tenacious strat - 13-member foundation power to the G( of directors includes the uni- wasn't r president and one other ex- the highest bide i member from the university Atwater's c of Trustees. Quayle during t Board of Trustees appoints ^ an elegant ?ther members, and the uni- from j Ahx/iifpr T See FOUNDATIONpage 2 faces >ond, a mandatory onet to trial. ignizance bond is |l ' ^ js unless it can be h 1 the community or inger to the comstoic Holderman 'ers, Kermit King n left the way he After leaving the I BMflkJ through the room Wjk ked just hours be- jjfl oved to an await- ? e scrutiny of jourance. ws this past week H HPRMAMnano O ft- mgmm IP > Meyer/The Gamecock Richland County SollCltOI Judicial Cen- after the arraignment Tt Holderman. >r under ir Bjork came to USC with Justiz after Justiz's dismissal from the NIE. While the two worked here, Bjork said Justiz would not do his share of research work. "When we were both at USC, we worked on a proposal for A.C. McMillan. We had two years of Rockefeller funding for Higher Education Research in Public Policy and I ended up doing almost all of the work," Bjork said. "When you're supposed to co-author a work, you're expected to do half of the work. Justiz, in no way, did half of the work. tie s just a politician, tooiang tor exposure, that doesn't do his work," he said. ut the casket of political strategist Lee Atwat tied Friday after battling a brain tumor for mo cal elite pay resp ted Press Friday a people, including some of Washing- he had i goodbye Monday to Lee Atwater, the he collaj egist who helped hand the reins of Atwat DP in the 1980s. vice deg a political mercenary, simply serving His il ler. Politics wasn't his business. It was to the be ailing in life," said Vice President Dan Speak he funeral at Trinity Episcopal Cathed- day, refl 150-year-old church across the street water's louse. SC alumni and Columbia native, died court % :l IM \^k "i mjjp <** jgff|fl r Dick Harpootlian is mobbed by reporters jesday for former USC President James lore fire Officers in the NIE office during Justiz's direction said Justiz frequently forged travel records. "He (Justiz) had us forge travel vouchers to cover up most of his trips to New Mexico and other places he wanted to go," said the official, who wanted to remain anonymous. "It was really bad when he had me forge that trip to England for his family vacation. Once my assistant and I started asking questions about it, he removed us from that duty," the source said. The trip to England was forged as a trip to See JUSTIZpage 2 WK m Richard Gault/The Gamecock er into a hearse Monday. The 40-year-old re than a year. >ects to Atwater t age 40 in a Washington hospital. For a year, struggled with a brain tumor discovered after 3sed while giving a speech in Washington, er received an honorary Doctor of Public Serree from USC in January, lness mellowed him, bringing out a new side id boy of politics. :ers at the funeral, held on a sun-kissed spring lected almost as much on the softening of Atattitude as on his image as a political fighter See ATWATERpage 2