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Russia Protests Yeltsin Denouncing Russian President Boris Yeltsin and his reforms, more than 20,000 angry, nostalgic Muscovites marked the 75th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution Saturday in one of the strongest popular showings by Yeltsin's hard-line opposition. Massed outside the Kremlin in a forest of flapping red flags and portraits of Bolshevik founder V.I. Lenin, the prostestors braved sub- 1 freezing winds to hear the old Soviet anthem and calls for Yeltsin's resignation. i in mj nappy uiai >u many people showed up," Tatiana Mironova, 52, an unemployed engineer, said. "More and more people come to these things. This is a sign of protest against Yeltsin's policy." Plutonium ship collides in Greenpeace conflict A Japanese escort ship collided Sunday with a Greenpeace boat tracking a freighter laden with highly toxic plutonium, the Greenpeace crew said. Japan is shipping the plutonium home to fire up a new generation of nuclear fast-breeder reactors. Greenpeace opposes the shipment and is tracking it, saying the plutonium poses huge dangers ranging from a spill to an attack by terrorists seeking nuclear bomb-making material. The freighter Akatsuki Maru, carrying 1.7 tons of plutonium, slipped out of the French port of Cherbourg late Saturday after a day of violent clashes between security forces and environmentalists. The vessel's route on its twoi Adviser aw< By GREG RICKABAUGH Editor in Chief Have you always wanted to reward your adviser with something that reflects the hard work and dedication he or she put forth in volunteering countless hours for your organization? Undergraduate students who know of an adviser ihey think is doing an excellent job can nominate them for the third annual Ada B. Thomas Outstanding Faculty Adviser Award, which includes $1,000. "It promotes good advising, and it gives students a chance to show their appreciation to the advisers for choosing classes and a career path," said Sharone Hilliard, a rszrz i T'iSPV 1 vM\ _ Losf anything t Check with: X 1 We accept anything from bookbags, clothing, sports listings in the c For detai A Few F ( AAmer Diabe Assoc Date: Sat., Nov. * Check in Time: 9arr Wt Over 14 million people hav( (about 1 out of every 20 peopt Diabetes is a leading cause blindness, kidney disease, r damage, strokes & birth del You Can Help! Call the Walkfest H Jind out how you ci month voyage to Yokohama is r secret. But Greenpeace said the f freighter and its armed escort, a r Japanese warship, were sailing t southwest in the Atlantic and could reach Portugal's Azores Islands by t Wednesday. r o Clinton takes time off President-elect Bill Clinton enjoyed a relaxing day at home Saturday, holding a few meetings with aides and taking a break to play a round of golf. Clinton's campaign chief of staff, Eli Segal, met with him at the ^ Arkansas Governor's Mansion to j discuss the winding down of the campaign operation. "Right now he's really looking j forward to a couple of down days r to just relax and be with his fami- . ly," Clinton spokeswoman Max . Parker said. t Shortly after his meeting with Segal, Clinton headed out for a j round of golf.Clinton hit three t errant tee shots on the first hole but \ then settled down. < "I finished a lot better than I started," he said as he returned home ( Bush says good-bye ( ^resident Bush bade a melan- , choly farewell to politics and the presidency Saturday, taking "full responsility" for the failure of his reelection campaign. "Having known the sweet taste of popular favor," he said in a < radio address to the nation. "I can : no more accept the sour taste of < defeat, because it is seasoned for ' ard nominati member of the awards committee. The deadline for nominations is Dec. 10. Nominations for the award, which is sponsored by the president's office and the Student Alumni Association, are available at the student government office, the Russell House information desk, the Student Affairs office and at each dean's office. Paul Fidler, a faculty member on the committee, said, "Advisement is not the most rewarding experience. We're trying to say it's worth the time (by giving the award)." While no professional advisers may enter, an adviser can be nominated more than once. Fidler said it i might help in the early selection of finalists if the adviser had more i LTERNATIVE < >r found any missin Russell Hou Jniversity Un (Information Center on the 2nd i lost ID's, licenses, purses, wallet equipment, and jewelry. Stay tui classified section of The Gamecoc ils call the Information Center at' :eet Can Ma >f Difference ir?on HT 11 /I Son mim 14th Start/Finish Line: S 1 Walk Time: 10am ly should you be involve 3 diabetes Approxirric e in America) diagnosed approx. 7 n i of lerve Diabetes k ects death by d Walk or Volunteer! otline TODAY to "7( an get involved! * ' nonon ne by my deep devotion to the jolitical system under Which this lation has thrived for two cenuries." The president, who is spending he weekend at the presidential etreat of Camp David, spoke lmost as though his last day in ffice were at hand. He will be 'resident for 11 more weeks, but in is brief address, he said nothing bout his plans for governing the ation in that time Clyburn wants people :o think, take action U.S. Rep.-elect Jim Clyburn lelieves symbols honoring civil ights leaders such as Malcolm X ire fine, but he says thinking and icting as they did is more imporant. "You've got to internalize what Vlalcolm was all about," Clyburn old students at the predominantly Dlack Allen University in Columbia. Clyburn was elected this past ruesday to represent South Carolina's 6th Congressional District, a black-majority district. He is the first black to be elected to Congress in South Carolina in it/any a v^iituiy. S.C. shrimp fleet dying South Carolina's shrimp fleet is iying, a victim of cheap imported shrimp, rising costs and declining lock space, those in the industry say. ons sought nominations. Once nominations are in, the committee gathers input about the advisers from department heads, deans and students who they have advised. Finalists are chosen and interviewed before a selection is made. Two advisers won last year when the committee could not pick between two candidates. Larry Durstine of exercise science and Barry Allman of applied profes sional sciences won the award. This year's winner will be announced at Awards Day on April 15. A list of previous winners is in Lhe i nomas Cooper Library. Each winner's name is put on a plaque in the library. g items lately? SE & ION floor) s, schoolbooks, glasses, ned for the Lost & Found :k newspaper. 7-3196. ?t) ike a Mile iSt )C State Museum Distance: 10 miles id? itely 750,000 people will be -150,000 will die... lillion are undiagnosed 5 the 4th leading cause of isease in the U.S. We Need YOU! 99-4246 I J "The future is going to be for those who are the best managers of their business, who can diversify, cut costs and most importantly, get a retail price right off the boat," ] Whitaker said. Several factors contributing to the shrimp fleet's demise include i the increasing costs of operation ; and reducing environmental dam- i age, and displacement from docks ; by development. I Hardest on the local fleets, however, is a rising flood of cheap, imported snnmp into ine country, . The Beaufort Gazette reported. 250 students, executives gather to honor MIBS More than 250 Columbia area business executives gathered with USC students and faculty to honor USC's Masters in International business Studies Program on its third straight year of being ranked No. 1 in the country. USC President John Palms announced the creation of MIBS Mentoring Program to assist students in their educational and professional goals. More than 70 MIBS alumni have agreed to participate in the new program. Palms also announced that in an effort to strengthen links between students and the professional communitv hp hac u/qivpH thp nnivprci. ty's hiring freeze to enable the hiring of a MIBS placement director. "With these two important steps, ^ the MIBS Program significantly advances its ability to make our ( MIBS students and business professionals around the nation and the ^ world more aware of one another," { Palms said. s Mc The Gamecock i serve you, the sli topics you think jt^rcs^s known wtjnt to hear froi iB %p' A I > V V' ? ,'V:-' J| % The C use Tuesday, Novemt Many new styL "BIG BUCKS Stop by the Ring Display use BOOKSTORE RUSSELL HOUSE Citadel will i help in gend< # From staff and wire reports hov will The Citadel has hired a former 1 LJ.S. attorney general as an adviser Fur and retained a public relations firm an 1 to help fight a lawsuit that the attempts to force the all-male mili- 1 tary school in Charleston to admit the women. , tim The Citadel also is directing its 1,9( attorney to consult with lawyers 1 handling a similar case at Virginia Uni Military Institute, another male- that anly state military school. casi Citadel President Claudius E. law Watts said the school will use Cha 'external sources," such as private 1 :ontributions and funds from the wha ichool's foundation, rather than det< ;tate money to pay for the outside Cita lelp. " The Citadel has joined VMI in agai etaining former U.S. Attorney to t jeneral Griffin Bell of Atlanta as Wal in adviser. C "If there's anybody who's an was expert in this country on equal The irotection, he would probably be nee< he one," Dawes Cooke, The H Qtfnrnp\; coiH thic noot alp. ^iiuuvi o uvivi iivj, oaiu una paol S veek. adm Cooke also has hired the star Hhernoff-Silver public relations rese irm in Columbia to handle the "] nedia scrutiny that has resulted edat lince the school was sued in June. edu< The Citadel has directed Cooke it si o work closely with VMI's pub] awyers to benefit from what the C /irginia school has learned about alio liscrimination litigation, The State wor lewspaper reported. Vir? Rick Silver at Chernoff-Silver tion :aid the company's role "is to help woe hem articulate the whole debate T >n the value of single-gender edu- that :ation." - and "There's much more to the story schc or public purposes than will be T echnically argued for the narrow VM >urposes of a court decision," he A laid. com Cooke said he does not know ike Your Interests Known! s the student newspaper, which means udents. If you have any suggestions foi the paper isn't covering adequately, in; by sending us a letter or coming by ou n you. Really. jpip Ihampions Cho RING DA Wednesday, Thu >er 17th, 18th & ! es & options ? $3( " OFF ON YOUR I and enter the FREE Airline Ti 10:00 am-4:00 pm receive er lawsuit / much Bell or Chernoff-Silver i cost. rhe state Insurance Reserve id will pay Cooke's fee of $80 lour through an agreement with state attorney general's office. Tiree femalp vptpranc havp qiipH school so they can attend daye classes with The Citadel's X)-member Corps of Cadets, die American Civil Liberties on and a New York law firm specializes in discrimination ss have joined the women's yer, Robert Black of rleston. he board will watch closely it happens in the VMI case to jrmine how far to take The idel case, school officials said. If the court decisively rules inst VMI, that would force us ake a very, very hard look," :ts said. fSC President John Palms, who ; a classmate with Watts at Citadel, said "there is still a i for single-gender education." [e said the issue of forcing singender, state-funded schools to lit both sexes has gained a sub itiai aiiiuuiii \ji icopctl aiiu arch. Higher education has acknowljd the nower of sinsle-eender :ation. There is no reason why hould not be provided in the lie system," he said. )n Oct. 5, an appeals court wed VMI to continue barring nen as long as the state of pnia provides "parallel instituis or parallel programs" for aen. he appeals court also suggested the state could cut off funding VMI could become a private )Ol. he appeals court returned the I case to a trial court. Jews Editor J.T. Wagenheim 'ributed to this story. n vvc want to r articles or like your r office. We ICE YS rsday 19th 300 deposit JSC RING cket Sweepstakes. ' HERFFJONES