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Volume 83, No. 76 University of South Carolina Wednesday, April 3,1991
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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
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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.
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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."
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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faces
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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
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through the room Wjk
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Holderman.
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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
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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
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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