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West Germany will send East Germany $3.6 billion in aid
BONN, West Germany — West Germany approved $3.6 billion in aid for East Germany on Wednesday to keep East Germany’s economy afloat and prevent its citizens from fleeing in frustration until the two nations become one.
Another $1 billion was approved to resettle East Germans who come to the West.
Though the money is earmarked for specific East German programs, none of it will go directly to the government of Communist Premier Hans Modrow, who likely will be ousted when the country holds its first free elections on March 18.
Nation: Changes made on eve of drug summit
WASHINGTON — President Bush will refuse to meet with Peruvian coca growers at the Colombian drug summit and will travel to Cartagena with a sharply reduced staff because of concerns for his safety, White House officials said Wednesday.
On the eve of the one-day meeting of four nations, the White House also retreated from previous suggestions that Bush would revive a proposal to send Navy warships into South American waters to track cocaine-trafficking planes.
Campus: University helps in Huntington bird care
Sixty volunteers are needed immediately to clean birds that were soiled in last week’s Huntington Beach oil spill, according to Sue Yoder, a marine specialist at the university’s Sea Grant department.
Students can work in four different shifts but are required to work twice, she said. The shifts are 7:45 a.m. to 5 p.m., 7:45 a.m. to 9 p.m., 2 to 9 p.m., and 5 to 9 p.m.
"We have them view a training film on how to handle the birds,” Yoder said. "Then, when you work with the birds, we coat you in plastic.’’
More than 300 birds have been treated so far, but more birds are expected within the next few days, because winds are driving oil toward the shore, Yoder said.
People interested in helping out should contact either Sue Yoder at 743-5904, or Paul Hillary at (714) 898-5519.
From the Associated Press
Index
Paparazzi push to get the pics
Life / Arts, page 7
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Security Roundup
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Doesn’t look like a condom ...
Rocco Garcia / Daily Tro|an
David Vasquez of the In Touch Group hands a condom to Cesar Armendariz of Rosemead High School, a fall 1990 incoming freshman. Proceeds from the sale of condoms will go to AIDS Project-L.A.
One shouldn’t nix other, agent says
By Bill Swindell
Senior Staff Writer
Imagine if you knew^someone who
1960s' heyday of hippie power, Jimi Hendrix and illict drug use.
Where would he be now?
Selling tie-dye T-shirts and incense at Grateful Dead concerts? Perhaps. But one former Berkeley student has become the nation's premier sports attorney and has mad£ multimillion-dol-lar deals for such sports stars as Steve Young, a backup quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, and Will Clark, who mans first base for the Giants.
Leigh Steinberg, 40, spoke at the Law Center on Wednesday, calling for athletes to do more for their commun-ites, for undergraduate athletes to get their degrees and for the National Football League owners to devise a new free-agent system.
Steinberg has become a celebrity in his own right while representing 50 football players, including Warren
Moon of the Houston Oilers and Steve Young of the San Francisco 49ers, 20 baseball players and 30 sportscasters.
In response to the wave of undergraduate athletes dropping out of school, including Trojan linebacker Junior Seau, Steinberg said the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the NFL should work together to devise a plan that would benefit both the players and the league.
"The league can't continue with the exclusion of undergraduates from the draft," Steinberg said in an interview. "I wish that every player will get their degree, but there are statistics showing that 40 percent of student athletes don't get their degrees."
He said a rumor that the NFL may have a salary cap after next season probably caused Seau to eftter the draft early.
It used to be that only student athletes who had no eligibility left, or those who would graduate before the (See Steinberg, page 3)
Volume CXI, Number 25	University of Southern California	Thursday, February 15, 1990
Trojans taken to 10th inning
Sports, page 24
Zumberge, protesters meet
By Petula Dvorak
Assignment Editor
Members of the USC Divestment Coalition and university administrators met Wednesday to take steps toward alleviating some of the strife between the two sides in the wake of last week's confrontation between University Security officers and
Feb. 7 clash to
coalition demonstrators.
In a response to University President James Zumberge's letter in Tuesday's Daily Trojan, more than 10 members of the coalition met with the president in his office to discuss the future of the uni-
be investigated
verity's investments in South Africa and the melee at Bovard Administration Building that left five people injured.
The main points the students representing the coalition reiterated during the two-hour meeting were their
demands for representation in the board of trustees decision-making process. The coalition expressed desire for three seats — in either a voting or non-voting position to represent students, faculty and staff.
The coalition also said they want Zumberge to participate (See Divestment, page 17)
Unattended forum gives floor to TAs
By Dave Hernandez
Staff Writer
Omicron Delta Epsilon, the economics honor society, sponsored a forum Wednesday to let students air their views on teaching assistants.
No students showed up.
The forum, which turned into a press conference, focused primarily upon the problem of communication between students and their TAs and possible solutions.
Teaching assistants are sometimes not properly screened because each department has its own policy, said Jim Light-wood, an economics TA.
"The problem is that it is very decentralized. The university doesn't have a clear policy in screening or hiring TAs and that's something that would probably be very helpful," Lightwood said.
Screening methods currently employed by the American Language Institute (ALI) are not always helpful because of their lack of content or enforcement, said one TA who refused to be identified.
(See Forum, page 17)