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Volume 83, No. 88 University of South Carolina Wednesday, June 12,1991
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Human rignis group
claims Kuwait unfair
NEW YORK ? Kuwait is
torturing prisoners and conducting
unfair trials of those accused
of collaborating with Iraq, Amnesty
International said Tuesday.
The human rights organization
issued the condemnation after the
first alleged wartime collaborator
was sentenced to death in Kuwait
over the weekend.
The organization said a delegate
who visited Kuwait reported
that alleged collaborators with
Iraq have not been allowed to
prepare adequate defenses and
have been kept from seeing their
families, lawyers and personal
doctors.
Kremlin-run media
strikes out at Yeltsin
MOSCOW ? On the eve of
elections in the Soviet Union's
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public, candidates basked in celebrity
endorsements, bickered in
the media and checked with pollsters
in a Western-style scramble
for votes.
In the race to become the Russian
republic's first popularly
elected president, the target of
many last-minute barbs in
Kremlin-run media was the frontrunner:
reform-minded parliamentary
leader Boris N.
Yeltsin.
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Minnesota journalist
wins source lawsuit
BEMIDJI, Minn.? A former
newspaper editor who refused to
reveal a confidential source to
her boss had reasonable grounds
to fear the source would be unmasked,
a judge ruled.
Susan Baratono, former managing
editor of The Pioneer of
Bemidji in northern Minnesota,
is entitled to collect unemployment
insurance because she was
fired last August for reasons
other than misconduct, state unemployment
insurance Judge
William M. Dixon said in a written
ruling Monday.
TVA releases worker
for not closing reactor
ATHENS, Ala. ? The Tennessee
Valley Authority is firing
a maintenance worker who left
open a pair of airlock doors leading
to a recently restarted reactor
and two other employees who
failed to catch the mistake.
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sley said Monday that Unit 2,
which was restarted May 24 after
a six-year safety-related hiatus, ;
has been shut down since the airlock
doors into the primary radioactivity
containment area
were found open a week ago.
The worker who left the doors
open and two others who failed
to close the doors would be fired
to impress upon the remaining
2,500 Browns Ferry employees
the seriousness of the incident,
TV A, a federal agency, said.
Hollings accused of
private interest in bill
WASHINGTON ? State Republican
Party chairman Barry
Wynn has accused Sen. Ernest
Hollings of pushing legislation as
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Hollings' support of a measure
that would lift restrictions on regional
phone companies or
"Baby Bells" amounted to "a
play to line his own pockets,"
Wynn said Monday.
Compiled from wire reports
Agency claims
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By TIGE WATTS
News Editor
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division
denied The Gamecock a copy of their
investigative report about the Carolina Research
and Development Foundation.
The report was covered by newspapers
across the state, including The Gamecock last
week.
According to a June 6 letter, SLED officials
denied the newspaper's May 27 Freedom
of Information request because "It is
our policy to only disclose copies of investigative
reports upon lawful order from a court
of competent jurisdiction."
The letter also said the policy was adopted
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Impact hii
From Staff Reports million
USC's economic impact on the P0!?/1^
state in 1989-90 was $1.56 billion
in total spending, providing jobs
and income for citizens across the system
conciiM
state, according to a report pre- .
pared by the College of Business SIty' *!
Administration. suppo
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ine udL, system piays a suostantial
role in economic develop- in^ a
ment and contributes to the quality state*
of life of the state and many individual
communities," Randolph .
Martin, director of USC's Division 1100 ar
of Research and coordinator of the come
study, said. leads '
come 1
"USC's expenditures are a versity
source of jobs and income immed
throughout the state," he said. for go
Martin said USC generated $437 said.
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By TIGE WATTS
News Editor
Outgoing Carolina Research and Dev<
Foundation Director Chris Vlahoplus said his
to resign was nothing more than the indicati
"new day" was ahead.
"Once the SLED study was done, I didn'
reason for me to stay on with the foundation
a new day and I have to go forward into it
plus said.
He announced his resignation late in tl
semester and said he would continue in his
tenured professor in the College of Journalisr
"I'm through in my work with the foundat
to think I was part of a success. We did s<
things while I was there, but it*s time to mo1
I'll trv to do some great things in the college
naiism)," he said.
Vlahoplus has been at the center of attei
since the South Carolina Supreme Court 01
foundation to open records because they wer
body. A few days later, he and fiscal off
O'Donnell told reporters some of the recc
thrown away.
information sem
nixes a
"Under the Freedom of Infoi
port has certain matters which
sure. I'm sorry, but that's just tl
to "protect persons who provide information
during investigations... from disclosure of
damaging, unsubstantiated information and
personally sensitive information which is
contained within most investigative reports."
SLED did provide The Gamecock with copies
of the case summaries of The Associated
Press and The (Greenville) News lawsuil
against the Carolina Research and Development
Foundation and The State's 1989 law
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iool, uses a computer during USC's Summt
ts$1.56 bi
in earnings along with sup- Jobs were tto
24,244 jobs in the state. sure of USC's
study examined spending USC employs
nine campuses of the USC ployees. The C
and its students. The report tan area benef
led spending by the univer- more than sevi
;s students and employees agricultural job
t jobs, services and produc- In addition I
n the local economies, creat- nomic results
rippling effect through the reaching impj
measured in s
report said. T
:al purchases by the institu- programs and
id by students provide in- events at the K
for local residents, which seum, its impa<
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or residents. Thus, the uni- free medical
's impact does not disappear medical school
iately after it spends money sity system enti
ods and services," Martin life for S
immeasurably.
eads to 'new
O'Donnell told SLED agents 1
to him to "get rid of the records f
slopment sons" about six or eight times.
? decision "I really don't have any bitl
ion that a (O'Donnell) because of what he
There is absolutely no hard feel
t see any any other member of the foundatic
i. It's just Vlahoplus denied to talk about
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thorized to talk about it at the adv
le spring He did say The Gamecock inc
role as a told O'Donnell to dispose of the r
n. "I never ordered anyone to get
ion. I like and the SLED report never said
>me great get rid of the records," he said.
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' (? J?ur" were impressed by Dr. Holderma
plishments. It was let known to
ition ever him to advance the university," V
dered the "I knew him (Holderman) prof
e a public recruited me to come to USC. I
icer John to three and a half years ago. 11
>rds were son it was time to leave the foi
time to move on to other things,"
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ntive
ccess rei
mation Act, we feel that this rei
should be exempt from discloie
way it has to be."
Lt. Jim McClary, SLED
i suit against the Richland County Clerk of
: Courts.
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; "I believe The State was able to get a copy
of the SLED report through the Clerk of
. Courts because of their previous lawsuit," Lt.
f Jim McClary said.
t "Under the Freedom of Information Act,
. we feel that this report has certain matters
- which should be exempt from disclosure. I'm
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used proper
By MOLLY RUSSELL
Staff writer
Federal funds for the co
tion of the Swearingen En
ing Center were found in
ment with federal regulatio
cording to a Department of
report.
In a May 21 letter, DOI
life,. tracts Division Branch Chie
Zimmer told David Rinker,
Vice President for Facilitie;
ning at USC, "DOE finds i
in the documentation which
indicate any improprieties v
spect to the expenditure ol
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>r Youth Camps. | ?It was Qur understandin
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impact. Statewide,
5,700 full-time emColumbia
metropoliits
the most, with
en percent of nons
linked to USC.
to the tangible eco,
USC has a far- w
ict that cannot be
imple numbers, the
hrough its special
seminars, cultural
oger Center, its mu:t
on real estate valrn:
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faculty, the univerlances
the quality of Have VOU SBet
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seen her, please call In
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Vlahoplus suggested VV0JIV
or embarrassing rea;erness
toward him Facuuy Salaries
told SLED agents.
ings toward him or fwQ monthS/ cyontrQ|
^ efJSr' . totals were from tile
the SLED report be- the Systems Officeip
jms, and I'm not au
ice of the attorney/'
orrectly reported he B
ecords.
rid of those records
I ordered anyone to
1 foundation officials
n's style and accom- m
him that we wanted
lahoplus said.
;ssionally and he had
worked with him up
left for the same rea- iiiiM
undation. It was just PROF ASSOC
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soiry, but that's just the way it has to be,"
McClary said.
The Gamecock was able to get various
parts of the report through various sources
but the newspaper wanted the complete, official
report for official confirmation.
"We expect better cooperation from an
agency that is supposed to help the citizens
of South Carolina," David Bowden, Editor in
Chief of The Gamecock, said.
"I think that if we were anything but a student
newspaper, they would honor our request
Instead, they turn us down,, thinking
we're going to go away. They'll soon find
out it's just not going to happen," Aaron
Sheinin, Carolina Life Editor, said.
discovers
r?n rr done
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J q there was no basis to suggest any
of the DOE funds had been used
1 improperly in the construction of
]V the Swearingen Center."
"We are very pleased that the
preliminary inquiry has shown that
all of the funds have been fully accounted
for and all the expendin.struc~
tures were in full accord with fedgtneer
eraj regulations," he said,
agreens,
ac- Zimmer said about four agents
Energy worked on the review for a couple
of days and found no signs of
a Con- wrong doings or inconsistencies,
f Jerry Rinker said he was not aware of
Senior any new suggestions for new bys
Plan- jaws because of the review,
lothing
would The review started in April
yith re- when DOE agents could not find
' funds audits by the university and the
telling of problems in South Carls
said olina's state legislature and the
lations, university by The Chicago
g that Tribune.
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