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Volume CVIII, Number 19
University of Southern California
Wednesday, February 8, 1989
In Brief
WORLD
Gun-craving criminals kill Soviet policemen
MOSCOW (AP) — Soviet police are being killed by criminals who want their handguns, which are hard to find in the Soviet Union, the news agency Tass reported Tuesday.
Such guns are routinely issued only to police and security officers in the Soviet Union. Soldiers typically are issued weapons only for use in the field, and hunters must pass rigorous inspection before obtaining a rifle.
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Accused terrorist gets 30 years, rebukes U.S.
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — An accused international terrorist convicted of transporting bombs through New Jersey was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison after renouncing the United States for the “state terrorism” of trying him and bombing Libya in 1986.
Prosecutors said Yu Kikumura, 36, is a member of the terrorist Japanese Red Army.
Assemblyman indicted on charges of forgery
SACRAMENTO (AP) — Assemblyman John Lewis, a conservative Republican and a key GOP political strategist, has been indicted on a felony count of forgery and accused of using a phony signature of Ronald Reagan on campaign mailers, authorities said Tuesday.
Lewis, 34, was booked at Sacramento County jail and released on his own recognizance.
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Ralph Hernandez, a junior majoring in computer animation, and Sarona Sowa, a freshman majoring in music, take orders at the Condomgram table Tuesday. For $2, Capt. Condom will deliver a Valentine’s Day card, lollipop and condom on Feb. 14.
Witness presents slide show of Armenian quake disaster
By Tracy Imes
Staff Writer
An eyewitness to the destruction and death caused by the Dec. 7 earthquake in Soviet Armenia presented a slide show Tuesday that depicted the horrors of the ruined country and its inhabitants.
The presentation was a compilation of pictures taken by Mihran Agabian, chairman of the civil engineering department, in the after-math of the 6.9 quake and its 5.8 aftershock.
The presentation in Hancock Auditorium was sponsored by the Armenian Student Association, the Engineering Student Council and the International Students Assembly.
When the earthquake hit, Agabian was in Armenia on a 10-day scientific expedition. He was one of 18 scientists and engineers on a fact-finding mission at the invitation of the
Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
The mission was organized and funded by the National Academy of Science, along with the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Geological Survey and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.
The towns of Spitak, Kirovakan, Stepana-van and Leninakan were hardest hit. Spitak was totally destroyed and half its population killed, Agabian said.
All of the buildings either collapsed or were unsalvageable, and 500,000 people were left homeless, Agabian said. •
"There are several reasons the disaster took place," Agabian explained. "There were design defects m_the connectors of the buildings, the quality of construction was poor and, in some cases, the structures were built (See Earthquake, page 7)
Flu bug plagues T rojans
By Chris Eftychiou
Staff Writer
A jump in the number of influenza cases at the university has sent students scurrying to the Student Health Center for relief of sore throats, nausea and fever, health center officials said Tuesday.
The number of students who contract respiratory infections — characteristic of influenza viruses — during the winter months has increased steadily since 1985, said Allan Ebbin, director of the health center.
Respiratory infections are also associated with illnesses other than influenza. But reports of infections are used by the health center to gauge the number of flu cases on campus, Ebbin said.
Ebbin said he did not know why the number of flu cases has increased, but he said, "I don't think the cold weather is helping it. It feels like I'm back in New York."
Many flu victims have experienced laryngitis, Ebbin said. Other symptoms include coughing, fever, chills, nausea and dizziness.
"We're telling people with these symptoms that they need to get rest, take Tylenol and drink fluids," Ebbin said. "If the symptoms continue, they can call the health center for a same-day appointment."
Though no students have dropped out of school as a result of the flu, Ebbin said a few have missed one to two weeks of class.
"For most students, it takes only a few days to get over it," he added.
Ebbin said 2,054 people have contracted respiratory infections since November. The flu season (See Influenza, page 3)
Campus bundles up as mercury plummets
Physical Plant workers scramble to fix heating in too-cold classrooms
By Carole Cleveland
Assistant Gty Editor
Winter has struck Southern California with a vengeance, and students are bundling up to stay warm — both in and out of the classroom.
Since the cold spell hit last Thursday, Physical Plant has reported a dramatic increase in the number of complaints from students and professors about chilly classrooms, a Physical Plant supervisor said.
"We've been receiving hundreds of calls ail week long," said Barbara Bussov, a Physical Plant supervisor. "Usually we just send someone out to fix the thermo-
stat, but some of the buildings really have mechanical problems with heating that require more work."
Complaints have come from gas-heated buildings, such as the Von KleinSmid Center and Taper Hall of Humanities, and electr?cally heated buildings such as Seeley G. Mudd Building, Bussov said.
"It's becoming a real problem because the customer thinks we should respond immediately. But with the deluge of calls we receive, there's just no way," she said. "All customers are important, and
we try to respond just as soon as we
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Physical Plant workers handle repair and custodial work, including broken light bulbs and flooded toilets. This range of responsibility often results in an overflow of complaints and too little time to respond, Bussov said.
"When we get a call, there's no way our men can drop everything and attend to it," she said. "But they try to take care of everything as soon as possible."
That reassurance may not be enough for many students, who are layering on extra clothes to wear in class.
"I've been really, really cold — I'm wearing two sweaters and a T-shirt," said David Stremmel, a senior majoring in sports information. "I pay ail this money to go to school here, and they won't spend a bloody cent on heating."
Sharon Cerrell, a senior majoring in communications, said, "In Seeley G. Mudd it's been freezing. I was so cold. My legs felt like they were going to freeze off."
Some students responded practically to stay warm in nippy classrooms.
(See Cold, page 7)