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Volume CXI, Number 38	University of Southern California	Thursday, March 8, 1990

Raveling says 7 more years
Sports, page 28
Divestment coalition sues USC, city
By Bill Swindell
Senior Staff Writer
The USC Divestment Coalition filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the university and the city of Los Angeles on Wednesday, charging that Los Angeles Police Department and University Security officers beat and unlawfully arrested members of the group during a Feb.
7	demonstration.
"We're going to kick their butts," said Dan Stormer, the attorney representing the coalition.
Nine university students, along with two students from Occidental College, are suing the university and the city on 12 counts, which include assault and battery, false imprisonment and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
Stormer said the group will be asking $2 million in compensatory damages and much more for punitive damages.
Also named as defendants in the lawsuit are Darryl Gates, chief of the Los Angeles Police Department,
James Zumberge, university president, and James Dennis, vice president for Student Affairs.
As well as the compensatory and punitive damages, the plantiffs are seeking to discontinue University Security's practice of collecting and maintaining information on student activists.
The dty is named in the lawsuit because they deputized University Security, Stormer said.
Dennis said he did not wish to comment on the inci-
(See Lawsuit, page 18)
In Brief
Pro-Iranian group won’t free American captives in Lebanon
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A pro-Iranian underground group holding two American hostages in Lebanon said Wednesday it does not intend to release the captives, and it urged attacks on U.S. targets.
The group also accused the United States of planning a military operation to free the 18 Western captives.
The statement was released by the Revolutionary Justice Organization just hours after Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani said he wants the issue of Westerners held in Lebanon resolved. It followed a flurry of news reports that had raised hopes some hostages might be released.
“We tenaciously cling to keeping America’s nose in the mud under our feet. There is no intention to release hostages,” Revolutionary Justice said in an Arabic-language statement delivered to the independent Beirut newspaper An-Nahar and a Western news agency.
Nation: Libya resumes making chemical weapons
WASHINGTON — The White House said Wednesday that Libya has renewed production of chemical weapons, posing “a major threat” and requiring “vigorous action” to shut down the plant.
White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater refused to exclude the possibility of a military strike to knock out the poison-gas plant.
“We don’t rule out anything,” he said.
However, Fitzwater also suggested the plant could be closed If foreign suppliers denied it the raw materials needed to produce chemical weapons.
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Dlsfascination entertains a crowd at the open air amphitheater next to the Annenberg School of Communications on Wednesday afternoon.
Film school, Czechs join in venture
By Dave Banks
Staff Writer
Since early last December, when a Czechoslovakian "velvet revolution" toppled the Soviet-backed regime in Prague, a quiet revolution has been brewing in the nation's cultural institutions.
Students and filmmakers at FAMU, the internationally renowned Czechoslovakian film academy, have broken away from 20 years of Communist Party ideological rule to tackle once-forbidden polit-cal topics.
And Frantisek Daniel, former dean of FAMU's cinema school and present dean of the university's School of Cinema / Television, is helping students in his native Czechoslovakia reclaim their cinematic heritage and forge a new critical sensibility lost with 20 years of government censorship.
Daniel, together with students and faculty from the cinema school, have formed the FAMU-USC Student Partnership, a group that works closely with FAMU students to send books, screenplays and raw film stock to the Prague campus. In return, Daniel said, the cinema school hopes to screen some of the new student films sent from FAMU.
The partnership was conceived when Daniel, along with five students and two faculty members from the cinema school, met with FAMU students last July at a biannual film festival sponsored by CI-LECT, an international organization of film schools. *
(See Partnership, page 17)
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