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> Controversial profess lawsuit, page 2 E Volume 84, No. 2< J&M BL' \ Former USC President James There will be no Homecoming Briton By The Associated Press In another breakthrough in the hostage crisis, kidnappers freed 77-year-old Briton Jack Mann Tuesday after holding him for 865 days, and a Shiite Muslim leader said an American hostage may soon follow. Mann was led by officials into a packed news conference at the Syrian Foreign Ministry. 'This morning I started another dreadful day. I wondered how mnntr mAflthc T'oA f/\ iiiauj inuiv * ?v gsjt IU stay. I wondered how much longer, how much longer, how much longer. Wondering how many more months I've got to stay here," the white-haired, former World War II pilot said. "My voice has gone after 2 and a half years of chaining, of saying: 'Do this, do that. Don't do that!' or 'Be quiet!"' Mann said. Prime Minister John Major of Britain said he had heard Mann was "a little unwell," and a 10 Downing Street spokesman had said the government was "disturbed" about reports of Mann's health. U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar has sought a In tne worm... Canadian Prime Mini Mulroney Tuesday proposed changes to the constitution t recognize Quebec as a "dfc ety," provide for an electe and allow Indians and I government. The purpose of the con overhaul is "to build a stron prosperous Canada where dians can feel at home," the tive prime minister told the Commons. French paratroopers the Congo River Tuesday c Zaire's international airport 1 foreigners from a mutiny by i diers. Belgium also was senc to its former colony. People in Brazzaville, 1 across the river from Kinshc hear heavy firing Tuesday r the capital of Zaire. or wins > Racism concerns highlighted, page 4 m 3 f fe 1 f s#*' v<;rf % .^:;llffi mhwsl Jm ^HBBpfl 1 4 j& ^F^iA ^ ; Holderman and 1989 Homecoming queen this year. hostage broad exchange involving the Western hostages, an accounting of five missing Israeli servicemen and the release of hundreds of Arabs 1 neia oy Israel. Perez de Cuellar said in statement Tuesday he was "encouraged by this further step in a process which he hopes will lead to a full, , speedy and satisfactory solution of the problem of all detainees and missing persons." "I hope it's not the end of the release program," President Bush said in New York. "There are many more. It's so tragic." He said the United States could not have normal relations with Iran as long as any hostages are held. Hussein Musawi, a leader of Hezbollah, the umbrella group for most of the factions holding Westerners, told reporters in the Bekaa Valley town of Sohmon "If things continued to proceed normally an American hostage will be released. Maybe within a week or less than a month." He said Mann was set free "to facilitate Perez de Cuellar's mission. The other side is required to facilitate his mission too." He apparently referred to the In the Natii ster Brian President Bush < sweeping dam Hussein's "una hat would vior" Tuesday but sa stinct soci- ting a deadline for 1 >d Senate disclose all his nuclea nuit self- "You don't make magnitude that cou stitutional on human life withou ger, more formation. I learnec all Cana- ago/ Bush said. ConservaHouse of m U.S. Sen. Patric became the first mer crossed Judiciary Committe ind seized pose the nominatior \o protect mas to the Supreme < jnpaid sol- "After reviewing Ji ling forces record and listening am left with too mc ,500 feet sent to his nominat isa, could Democrat said. "I h norning in his legal ability, wf stage in his career. > Beware of the > Dixon playing tough ?C ^an (Dierdorf) is a bic cold and flu defense, page 8 ?? annoying when he di season, page 5 game on a single pla VIEC (J University of South Carolina Wedne; .. Homecomi f 1\ Student government podflMHBa ends long tradition ** cor By PATRICK VILLEGAS cia Assistant News Editor 1 the With the numerous homecoming activities sche K as duled for next week, the most tradition-filled event wa won't occur: the crowning of the homecoming queen. Last October, the Student Senate sponsored a bill to - . halt the funding of the USC homecoming queen. 'The homecoming queen aspect is working against us. It's causing a lot of racial disharmony among the students," said the bill, sponsored by then senator, P? Rajan Shah. "The election of a queen does not seem to serve any great purpose and ... the general value of this tin service to the student body has diminished signific- we antly over the course of the years," the bill also said. After months of debate, the Homecoming Commission last February decided not to fund the USC homecoming queen elections after a review board stated "the homecoming queen program had divided the stu- ne dent body and created polarization of some groups on k I campus and that it did not serve to unite the Carolina w |k 111 community." |? "It's a pro-active step and I'm very proud of it," sai said Beth Dubil, Chairman of the Homecoming Hk * mm Commission. hal File photo Dubil said USC is now joining the ranks of many Te I Queen Cassandra Shannon, southern universities that are now omitting the home- be coming queen elections because it is targeting small dui freed liSr kidnappers' demands that Israel release 20 more Arab prisoners, or / possibly Sheik Abdul-Karim Obeid, the Hezbollah leader seized ' by Israeli commandos in 1989. ^ Yossi Olmert, an Israeli govern incut ipuKumdii, aaiu maun 5 ic- iKlR:|i i~M lease was a "a positive and wel:ome development" He noted that A ff^ Israel still seeks word on five missing servicemen and added: "If more information comes our way, we will reciprocate." Mann was freed at 8:40 p.m. at west Beirut's Beau Rivage hotel and turned over to the Syrian ^MET] army, Iran's official Islamic Re- Vjp'ir Ip9? jMBT \ pubiic News Agency said. He was ?1 \9^l then taken to Damascus. . IB Mann's wife, Sunnie, left Cy- : '.? ^ prus for Damascus to meet her ^ husband of more than 50 years. "I'm very, very happy," she said. At least nine Westerners are still jjfPl missing in Lebanon ? five Americans, a Briton, two Germans and an Italian. The longest-held hOStagf in I ghonnn ic American Tprn, adfl I j| Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated A child makes good use of the end tables near the Press. He was kidnapped March friendly game of hide and seek with one of her older fr 16,1985. L___ in... In the State... |L denounced Sad- The executive editor of The Gaficceptable beha- fney Ledger has been sentenced to id he was not set- three years in prison suspended to one he Iraqi leader to year of probation on a marijuana the separate coii< r weapons secrets. charge. by separate coll< decisions of this Cody Sossamon, also associate pu- -gggg Id have an affect blisher of the newspaper, was sen- ^g| it having all the in- tenced Monday after pleading guilty to j$ i that some time manufacturing marijuana. The charge J stemmed from five marijuana seedlings / found growing in a bathtub confisk Leahy Tuesday CQted on Sossamon's property. CheroTiber of the Senate kee County authorities seized the tub in e to publicly op- mid-April. Ijp i of Clarence Tho- A South Carolina legislator was Court. found innocent by a jury Tuesday makjdge Thomas' past ing him the first person to be absolved M to his testimony, I * from an FBI sting | ??2^* my doubts to con- into the State House. r? Buitoeu ion," the Vermont Suspended Rep. Tim Wilkes was ^ ave doubts about charged in May with one count of con- ffl- Engineering Tich. at this early spiracy to violate the Hobbs Act, a fed- m othe? is largely untested." era' anti-corruption law. 3 dumb oaf, and he is at his most jmps all the blame or credit for the yer. fti David Bowden, page 8 ck ;day, September 25, 1991 ng event i queen >ups on campus, mainly fraternities and sororities. '(The Homecoming Queen) targets a small potion our campus instead of uniting alumni, faculty, and dents," Dubil said. She also stated that the cancellation of the Homening Queen was not influenced in any way by ra1 tensions over last year's election. \t the end of the February decision to stop funding elections, optimism that another organization, such an alumni group, might pick up the yearly event s hopeful. 3ut nearly seven months later, no other organizan has committed themselves to sponsor the event Assistant Director of the Alumni Association, Lynn adley, said her orgainziation has no plans of suprting the yearly event because of the lack of iding. "It's a Carolina tradition that we hate to see disconue, but we haven't considered picking it up because ; don't have the funding for it," she said. Bradley also said many people are not aware there 11 not be a homecoming queen this year. She said er halftime of the USC homecoming game, when idents realize there will be no queen announced, a w interest in bringing back the elections might cur. "It will be interesting to see how people react," she id. Instead of presenting the homecoming queen during Iftime of this year's homecoming game against East nnessee State, different student organizations will honored and awarded for their outstanding effort ring the past year. Greg RIcKabaugh/The Gamecock Russell House ballroom. Here, she plays a iends. 'who's enrolled at USC? Wondering how many people are enrolled in eges at USC? Below are totals for enrollment ages at USC-Columbia. o# tti | /^V 24,9% 1 ^ f 14.5% * J J Vv---w^ 12.5% 11 5.7% I j 26-4% \ Ryan Sims/The Gaimecock