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Volume C, Number 47	University of Southern California	Wednesday, March 19, 1986
Terrorism debated at forum
Mortar Board sponsors Meeting of Minds
Lighting system installed
Newly developed light installed on 28th Street
By Katherine Dyar
Staff Writer
The city has installed an experimental lighting system on the Row to help alleviate street crime there and to test the effectiveness of a newly developed high-watt, low-cost light bulb.
The standard 175-watt mercury vapor light bulbs in the 13 street lights along the north side of 28th Street between Figueroa and Hoover were replaced last Thursday with new high-pressure sodium bulbs.
The new bulbs are supposed to provide twice as much light as the old lamps, using the same amount of energy.
Jerry Papazian, chapter adviser for the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, said he knew that the lighting on the Row needed improvement when he discovered that the crime rate there had grown in the past year and that poor lighting seemed to be part of the reason.
Papazian checked with the Los Angeles City Bureau of Lighting about providing better lighting for the area and found that the city was in the process of converting all of its white street lights, area by area, to a new system using high-pressure sodium bulbs.
The area around the campus, however, was not on the list of those to be converted, Papazian said.
The system the city was to install requires a complete rewiring of the lamp posts to adapt them to the new bulbs. Papazian said this process is expensive and that some "politics" was involved in convincing the city' to add the Row to the list of areas to be converted.
After enlisting the help of Connie Meadows, a field representative from City Councilman Robert Farrell's office, Papazian said he found a sympathetic ear at the Bureau of Lighting, where he was told about an experimental bulb of which the bureau had
received samples from a vendor in Texas.
This new high-sodium amber bulb provides the same benefits as the bulb the city planned to use but can be screwed into the existing electrical system, eliminating the high cost of rewiring all of the posts.
Papazian said that, with the help of Farrell's office, he asked the city to use the Row as a pilot project for testing the new, less expensive bulbs.
He said he hopes the new lights will help to lower the crime rate in that area.
Meadows said that if this new bulb is successful, the city may replace the old mercury vapor lights in other areas on a request basis.
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By Cordon Gary
Staff Writer
President Reagan, Libya's Col. Moammar Kadafi and former Israeli Prime Minister Men-achem Begin clashed in a war of words on the issue of terrorism in Bovard Auditorium Tuesday afternoon.
Actually, the three world leaders were portrayed by two professors and an international relations graduate student in a discussion called "Meeting of the Minds," sponsored by the Mortar Board Honor Society.
John Schutz, a professor of history, portrayed Reagan. Shib-ley Telhami, a professor of international relations, portrayed Kadafi and Joe Mever, a graduate student in international relations, portrayed Begin.
Begin started the discussion by making a distinction between terrorism used against "inno-
cent children and women" and the use of violence for "selected reasons for selected targets."
With a sharp Israeli accent, he defended Israel's use of violence in the Middle East as "legitimate violence against an illegitimate oppressor."
In a reference to the Palestine Liberation Organization, Begin said there should be no recognition for "a group that does not represent a people, does not have a land and does not have a legitimate function in the international arena."
"Violence against violence is legitimate. Violence against innocents is terrorism," Begin said.
Reagan, standing between Begin and Kadafi, entered the discussion by saying, "I'm used to being at center stage."
"Howdy, folks, it's nice to be back in Los Angeles," he said.
"It's important for me to say to you that I oppose terrorism in every way," Reagan said. Such acts of violence give the duties of judge, jury, prosecutor, and sometimes executioner, to the few, he said.
Americans have a reverence for law and society', and the violence of terrorism attacks the very roots of these institutions, Reagan continued.
"I pledge to you that I will do everything I can to stop violence in every way. I'll call in the Army, the Navy, (and the) Air Force."
Reagan said he would consult with his top advisers, "including Nancy," to keep violence out of the western Hemisphere.
Kadafi spent much of the forum defending his assertions that his country is anti-terrorist and supports democracy all over the world.
"We have supported freedom fighters, people who fight not in order to gain (individually-). . .but people who fight because they are oppressed,” Kadafi said.
He accused Reagan of trying to start a war with his country by sending ships to Libyan borders, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
Kadafi said Libya did not retaliate when U.S. jet fighters shot down two Libyan planes in 1981 because it was afraid of starting a war.
The Libyan leader defended his country's funding of terrorist groups and said he only supports organizations that are oppressed and are fighting for freedom from imperialism by' Israel and the United States.
Begin said that Libya, not Israel, was the imperialist power, and that Libya's terrorism is illegitimate because it victimizes innocent people.
Reagan said that Libya is "an outlaw nation" that must be kept in its place. He almost had to "frighten the pants off them" on a number of occasions in or-(Continued on page 6)
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Joe Meyer portrays former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at Mortar Board's Meeting of the Minds held in Bovard Auditorium Tuesday.
U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTO
USC's Air Force and Navy ROTG drill units dominated the Southern California Invitational Drill Meet last Saturday in Anaheim.
21 Drill Teams compete in annual competition
By Tommy Li
Staff Writer
Twenty-one university and high school dri” teams competed in the 21st Annual Southern California Invitational Drill Meet last Saturday, and both the university's Air Force ROTC Precision Drill Unit and Naval ROTC Drill Team dominated the competition.
'The meet was a success, even though we were operating under adverse weather conditions," said Charles Smith, cadet captain of the Air Force ROTC's drill unit.
The meet, held in the parking lot of the Grand Hotel in Anaheim, consisted of competitions in regulation drill maneuvers, inspection and exhibition.
The regulation drill maneuver competition requires drill teams to complete a set of maneuvers in 10 minutes.
Inspection competition consists of an "in-ranks" inspection of the teams.
Exhibition competition allows the drill teams to perform their maneuvers in an imaginative and creative way.
In addition to providing a competitive atmosphere among different drill teams, the meet also prepares the participants for future careers as officers in the U.S. armed forces. Drill team members learn discipline, leadership and responsibility.
The Air Force ROTC 13-member drill team placed first in both the regulation and the exhibition divisions of the meet and placed second in the inspection division.
The team also placed first in the overall competition, but because it
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