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200 die in plane crash LAGOS, Nigeria ? A C-13C military aircraft with more thar 200 people on board crashed shortly after takeoff from Lagos, military sources said Sunday, and there were no reports of survivors. The crash occurred Saturda) night, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Military officials at the site saic at least 200 people, mainl) Nigerian military officers and theii families, were on board. The cause of the crash was noi immediately known. Hundreds of friends and familj members of the passengers gath prpH at thp rraeh citp Siiinrtnv V1 vu "lv v* ~v Reporters said 15 bodies had beer pulled from the wreckage. Airlift slow, officials say NAIROBI, Kenya ? The U S military airlift of food to starving people in Somalia, begun a montl ago with great fanfare, is proving disappointing to some internationa aid officials. They have accused the Americans of being overcautiou: about flying to unstable areas unnecessarily slowing the delivery of viral food, medicine and othei supplies. Some members of Congress als( have called for a more active U.S CHE quesi By The Associated Press The State Commission on Highei Education plans to renew the sometimes stormy debate over the 21 two-year colleges taxpayers supporl around South Carolina. A CHE committee recommended a task force study on how the state should operate its technical colleges and the five USC two-yeai campuses, both of which offer twoyear degrees. "The taxpayers ... deserve tc know that we are making the besi use of scarce tax dollars," a CHE rninv^vi am fam HBC niET ttSKA WfiM wfO ?4il Sic* f i Monday, military role in Somalia, where ann 1- more than 100,000 people already for have died from war and starvation. All Two million more are critically at risk, and aid officials say up to 500,000 people could die by pi Christmas unless food and medical aid gets to them first. Many private aid workers are ( I angry and frustrated with the pace old i of the relief effort, which has been "dr KnrlQiriloH Kir moronHino 1 1 min_ ? UV/Utviitu uy iiiaiauuui^ tvvai d III men and transportation delays. son 5 me; neg ! / aba or ftp, r fos live 1 Johnson quits group [ c> j afte LOS ANGELES ? Earvin yoi . "Magic" Johnson resigned from the Ru: 1 National Commission on AIDS, and Elizabeth Taylor and other AIDS activists joined him in scold- pp ing the Bush administration for its JC response to the epidemic. |??1 r> nn f n n K n 1 * r urAfHpH Ixv!'!*! juiinauii sun a snaipi^ wuiuvu letter to the White House on Friday ill . announcing he was quitting the t commission to which President i Bush appointed him last year. q t "I cannot in good conscience ^ 1 continue to serve on a commission whose important work is so utterly < j ignored by your administration," qui s Johnson wrote. "I am sorry to have ter: to write this letter, but I am afraid hac r that there is little that will be foe r accomplished in the next four months." yei ) Johnson, 33, retired from pro Hi basketball last November when he Sal tions number committee report said. ey The full commission is sched- col uled to take up the proposal bac Thursday when it meets in leg Beaufort, where USC and the State I Board for Technical and sta [ Comprehensive Education each US . operate a two-year college. ser A similar situation exists in ver Sumter, where a USC branch cam- yes pus and Central Carolina Technical College?formerly Sumter Tech? sur eit rvn orlinininn nmnprtipc Pal V Sept. 28th | oil. v/ii aujviiiiii^ "* I Critics say the Sumter and ty' I Beaufort situations waste tax mon- bet IV mill nunrpH hp liari tested nositiv vu,,vv" *wv* r ? ? HIV, the virus that cause )S. lild gets 'divorce' )RLANDO, Fla. ? A 12-yeaj boy who went to court t v'orce" his biological parents ht ew family and a new name, an ae legal experts say his victor ans hope for similarly abused ( ;lected children. Gregory Kingsley, who said h logical parents mistreated an udoned him, sought to be free 4.1 ? U ~ Ill U1CI11 5U lie euiliu UC Ciuupic George and Lizabeth Russ, tf ter parents with whom he ha id for nearly a year. Circuit Judge Thomas S. Kii mted Gregory's wish Frida ir a two-day hearing. "Gregor Tre the son of Mr. and Mr ss at this moment," Kirk said. uarterback dies COLUMBIA ? A high scho irterback has died of a rare ba ial disease two weeks after 1 i his leg amputated following >tball injury. Delbert McKell Grant, a 1 ir-old senior at Wade Hamptc gh School in Hampton, die ;urday at the Medical Universi of tWft-Vf because all four schools off irses that can be used to earn :helor's degree at four-year cc es. Vlerging or modifying how tl te's 16 technical colleges ai C's five two-year campusi ve students has created contr sy many times over the last ! ITS. The debate began again th nmer, when USC President Jol ms suggested that the univer: s two-year campuses might 1 ter off independent. imjaM "xsn 4 (4 B J nni m j can ar\r e of South Carolina in Charleston. :s He had been taken there Sept. 15. Grant suffered a thigh bruise during a football game Sept. 11 against Hilton Head High School. He was transferred to MUSC because of kidney failure that i -i i -r. ? ai? : ... ?: j ueveiopeu auer uic mjuiy, saiu u 1. r. Karl Byrne, a trauma surgeon at o MUSC. is The thigh bruise activated an ,d organism that was present in y Grant's body before the injury and jr caused a rare condition called necrotizing myositis, Byrne said, is The condition, which always is 1(i fatal, caused an overwhelming, id rapid infection of Grant's leg mus:d cle. le id Candidates ignore laws ty i' rni TTMRIA ? Manv lawmak s. ers and candidates for the legislature ignore many of the new ethics law's requirements that were intended to make it easier to figure out where they are getting and - spending their money. I The committees which receive the reports cannot fully enforce the rules, primarily because lawmakers do not give the panels enough employees to do the job. Two out of three candidates filing reports this summer had errors or missing information in them, ol The State newspaper of Columbia ouuucij. ie The errors ranged from incuma bents leaving out their legislative salary on economic disclosure 7- reports to some failing to file a )n campaign spending report before ;d the election, as required by the new ty law. ;ar colleges er Palms later said he had no intena tion of cutting ties between USC's )1- two-year campuses and Columbia. But he did say state education office cials should study the entire twoid vear college system to determine if ss it could be more efficient, o- Higher Education Commissioner ZO Fred Sheheen said Friday his agency embraces Palms' suggestion is to form a multi-agency panel of in CHE members, USC trustees, rep>i resentatives of the technical college be system and other public college presidents to study the issue. i. K F^jy'^AY'-iiff'i "if *^i ' ^1 M^aEi yAsf- v'_^flB rEN at >sit Required Shake-up over, pro\ By The Associated Press The shake-up at USC, which saw the departure of three major academic heads, is complete, USC Provost James Moeser said. No more deans will lose their jobs, he said Friday. "It's important to say it's over," he said. To quell rumors that more deans are headed out the door, USC President John Palms will tell the faculty this week that his evaluation of the deans has ended, Moeser said. The deans who will be stepping down include: James Kane, 60, who helped forge the business college's reputation as one of the country's top-rated schools for international business. Kane will retire as dean of the College of Business Administration next summer. James Durig, 57, who, according to news reports, has told colleagues he will be leaving as dean of the College of Science and \/Tathpmafir<i a nncitinn hp. ha? held for the last 19 years. Carol McGinnis Kay, 50, who spent six years as dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, will step down in June and return to the classroom as an English professor. The removal of the deans was widely seen as part of Palms' plan for a sweeping reorganization of the entire university. He has shied away from public comment about the shake-up. Few faculty members want to talk about it as well. "Everybody's lying low and very nervous," one professor told the Charleston's The Post and Courier, only on the condition of anonymity. Moeser said Palms was in a precarious position because he could not openly discuss the personnel issues in dealing with deans. "This is not a purge. It's not a coup d'etat," he said. "It's not nearly as earth-shattering or cataclysmic as it seems." Moeser said for at least 10 years, no one reviewed the deans' job performance. Peter Becker, Faculty Senate m ! Tuesday, S of deans rost says president, said a new president has a right to appoint his or her own deans. "But this changing of deans has rarely been done at USC in the past. It s certainly something new for us to lose three deans in one fell swoop," Becker said. State Higher Education Commissioner Fred Sheheen said former president James Holderman gave little attention to the deans. "I think Jim was focused much more on external affairs of the university rather than internal academic departments, and those people (the deans) sort of ran their own show," Sheheen said. Moeser said he is well aware that some faculty members, along with outside supporters of the university. do not trust the administra tion. "We've got to convince the faculty that Palms and I are honest academics," Moeser said, noting that both he and the president spent years as faculty members at other universities and know what it is like to be on the other side of the fence. Some people, beyond the boundaries of USC's main campus in Columbia, view the shake-up with caution. "I think that a lot of the support for various divisions in the university has been developed over many years by the deans, and to have all three of them no longer in the system is perhaps unnerving to people," Barbara Rackes, a prominent Columbia retailer who heads a USC support group called University Associates, said. "I know that many people were unhappy with the way things were handled under Dr. Holderman, but they don't want to see the pendulum swing too far the other way," Rackes said. Donald Bailey, a member of the USC board of trustees, said he is not alarmed by the moves. "I don't think all this is anything other than an indication in a change of direction in the universi ty," Bailey said. "It's the president's responsibility and his playing field." ept. 29th