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WORLD
Soviets expel attache, cite U.S. espionage war
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union shot back Wednesday in an espionage war with Washington, ordering a U.S. military attache expelled and saying the atmosphere of “spy mania” bodes ill for relations with the Bush administration.
A spokesman said Army Lt. Col. Daniel Francis Van Gundy III, an assistant military attache at the U.S. Embassy, is a spy and must leave the country within 48 hours.
STATE_
Phone caller discloses bombers of van, plane
SAN DIEGO — A caller with a Middle Eastern accent told a radio station Wednesday that a group called Guardians of the Islamic Revolution is responsible for the bombing of a van driven by the wife of the USS Vincennes’ skipper.
The caller claimed to be a member of the group, which also claimed responsibility for the crash of a Pan Am jetliner last December at Lockerbie, Scotland.
NATION
Astronauts overcome faulty electrical system
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Discovery’s astronauts overcame a sticky valve in the electrical system and began restoring full power to the space shuttle today, averting the possibility of an early return to Earth, NASA said.
The shuttle started drawing fuel again from a hydrogen tank that had been closed because of the valve, said Al Pennington, a flight director.
INSIDE
Viewpoint....................................... 4
Komix............................................. 6
Security Roundup........................ 6
Performance.................................. 7
Sports.......................................... 20
WEATHER
Today —
Increasing clouds with coastal drizzle, high in low 70s Friday —
Chance of showers with low in mid-40s, high in upper 70s
Administrators pass buck in financial aid ‘blame’
By Lori Grange
Staff Writer
Charges that university officials failed to heed warning signs of an increasingly troubled financial aid budget have raised several key questions:
Can, and should, someone be held accountable for the financial aid dilemma? Should students bear the burden of administrative mistakes? And just how obligated should the university be to help students meet rising education costs?
This is the second in a series of articles about financial aid.
Disagreement about new financial aid policies and what necessitated a change has made it difficult to place blame.
"Right now it doesn't do us any good to dig anybody," said John Curry, vice president of budget and planning. 'Td like to put that behind us
Countered Clarke Howatt, associate dean of engineering and a member of the task force assigned by the administration to rework financial aid policies: "Under whose jurisdiction did all (the problems) happen? Is that person still here?"
Merante blamed
The difficulty of placing blame may be linked to a history some describe as (See Aid, page 13)
Democrats’ White House blues
UCLA crushes men’s tennis 5-1
See Sports, page 20_
Saxy Music
CLAY WALKER / DAILY TROJAN
Al Jordon, “Steer People” bassist, is dwarfed by a tenor sax in concert Wednesday.
Volume CVIII, Number 43	University of Southern California	Thursday, March 16, 1989
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Election under fire from right
YAF hires attorney, threatens suit against senate for nixing race
By Kyra Phillips
Staff Writer
Young Americans for Freedom has called in an attorney, claiming that the nullification of last week's Student Senate
race has violated their rights, YAF leaders said Wednesday.
YAF leaders asserted in a written complaint that they think' the election was overturned because allegedly left-wing senators are fearful of a conservative takeover in the senate.
"They want to keep the conservatives out. That's the only reason why they're tossing the election," said Ken Dubberly, YAF chairman.
But Gage Hutchens, chairman of the senate judicial council that nullified the more than 2,000 ballots, said the decision was valid.
"He is accusing us here of 'ideology which conflicted with said members.' This decision was not made based on ideologies. Contrary to his belief that we are all 'liberal cronies,' it was the more conservative members of the meeting (See Election, page 5)
Police move
in to stop sex in stalls
By Robin Silberstein
Staff Writer
Increased reports of bathroom sex, predominantly among homosexual men, have forced police to deploy its vice squad sporadically into campus restrooms, Chief Steven Ward of University Security said Wednesday.
"They don't tell us when they're coming in, but I know that they have come in here in the past," Ward said, noting that past attempts to stop sexual activities in the restrooms at USC have included removing stall doors.
The problem of sexual activity in bathrooms is exclusively a male issue — but not exclusively homosexual, said Scott Elsishans, executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Assembly for Student Support.
Tuesday night, GLASS sponsored a seminar to educate students about the consequences of such action.
"No Loitering" signs have been posted in the restrooms in an attempt to deter bathroom sex, Ward said.
Elsishans said the participants include different kinds of men: homosexual, heterosexual and bisexual.
"Even some straight men go to the bathroom when they need to to get (oral sex)," he said.
Several GLASS members said there are some "active bathrooms" on campus. These include facilities in Taper Hall and
(See Sex, page 6)
‘Fletch Lives’ mixes social issues with the antics of Chase
See Performance, page 7