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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.
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dreadful day. I wondered how
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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
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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.
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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.
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across the river from Kinshc
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the capital of Zaire.
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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
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With the numerous homecoming activities sche
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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r weapons secrets. charge. by separate coll<
decisions of this Cody Sossamon, also associate pu- -gggg
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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.
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ng event
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>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.
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