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Yeltsin backs off
MOSCOW ? President Bori:
Yeltsin backed off from threats tc
call parliamentary elections Friday
to oust his hard-line opponents
saying Russian lawmakers shoulc
serve out their terms.
The move was a clear departure
from previous threats to call <
national referendum or new elec
tions to remove the formei
Communists who dominate the
Police capture Si
NAPLES, Italy ? Paramilitary
police raided a villa before dawn
Friday and captured a long-sought
fugitive described as the No. 1 boss
of the Camorra, the Naples-based
underworld organization.
In Rome, police arrested a convicted
Sicilian Mafia boss sought
for two years.
The arrests brought the number
of gangland fugitives captured in
Italy this past week to four, a sign
the nation has stepped up its battle
against organized crime following
Campbell wants <
CHARLESTON ? Gov.
Carroll Campbell told southern
governors Friday the South must
free its schools of bureaucracy and
share innovative ideas to improve
education.
"We're looking to swap red tape
for results," Campbell said at the
annual meeting of the Southern
Governors* Association.
During the two-day meeting, the
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Candicc Kristin Carvell
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Gretchen Lynn Forney
Roberta Eugenia Foster
Jennifer Leigh Garrison
Audrey Michelle Greiss
Kimberly Karoline Holmes
Louise McGee Johnson
Amy Lee Jolly
Wendy Janel Jones
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s legislature and the larger Congrcs
) of People's Deputies.
It is widely believed Yeltsii
now thinks he might lose such ;
1 battle.
Yeltsin's decision earlier thi
i week to cancel a trip to Japan wa
1 also seen as a sign ol politica
weakness. He was under pressurt
r from Russian nationalists not t(
: return the disputed Kuril Islands.
icilian crime boss
the murders of two anti-Mafia cru
saders.
Officials said Carmine Alfieri
48, sought for 11 years, was founc
in an underground concrete cham
ber of a villa in Naples. Two body
guards were also arrested, police
said.
Police said Alfieri was wantec
on a series of charges including
allegedly having organized ar
attack on a rival gang in 1984 ir
which eight people were killed.
education ideas
governors discussed progress
toward meeting education goals
established by the nation's governors
three years ago.
"The goals are about performance.
They are about setting standards
for achievement and then
treeino thp rnrnmnnitipc anH thp>
schools and the teachers to meet
those standards," Campbell, the
association's chairman, said.
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; the second annual African
' American Blockfest from noon to i
pm Sept. 25.
The Blockfest, sponsored b)
USC's Association of African
American Students, is a showcase
of the taients and culture of Africar
people.
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Shannon E. Leonard
Eleanor Jane Meyer
Shannon Melissa Miller
Staei Dawn Plyler
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as Thursday for comment. the
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cle, which government regulators
estimate will cost taxpayers $1 bild
lion.
ill be held Sept. 25 I
1 Various campus organizations
- and Columbia-area merchants will
> sponsor booths and entertainment
will be provided by several African
/ American artists and groups.
Off-campus vendors interested in
; participating are required to pay a
i $40 non-refundable registration fee.
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Wisconsin regents
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The Associated Press minorities to study in a safe enviMADISON,
Wis. ? The ronment.
iversity of Wisconsin's board of ' push t0 initiate the rule
;ents Friday repealed a "hate hegan in the late-1980s after severed!"
rule that banned discrimi- al racial incidents on campus,
ory language directed at individ- including a fund-raising "slave aucs
on campus. tion" at a fraternity house in which
I he regents voted 10-6 to repeal natemity members dressed in Afro
rule, adopted after an earlier wigs and painted their faces black,
icy was determined unconstitu- Regent Earl Davis said although
tal by a federal judge. the rule may have its flaws, the
-ree speech is more important number of racial incidents has
n a rule which inhibits and declined since the regents adopted
ringes on First Amendment the 1989 policy which was later
its, regent vice president Albert struck down.
:holas said. The second rule was adopted last
Regent Paul Schilling called the year and carried no penalties. It
eal a "shameful retreat" by the applied to epithets directed at indiversity,
which he said should be viduals in one-on-one confrontarking
to protect the rights of tions.
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