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Volume CXI, Number 11
University of Southern California
Friday, January 26, 1990
In Brief
World: Bloodshed in Azerbaijan stifled by battlefront cease-fire
MOSCOW — Warring nationalists agreed Thursday to a cease-fire along one of the tense battlefronts of the bloody conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Tass said.
The announcement came as Baltic activists, worried that the dispute might affect their own peaceful push for independence, offered to help mediate the blood feud between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Iran, which has ethnic and religious ties to Azerbaijan, also offered to help settle the crisis.
There were fewer reports of fighting Thursday. Tass said life was returning to normal in Baku, the Azerbaijani capital that was the scene of much of the violence.
During talks in the Armenian town of Yeraskhe, representatives of the Armenian All-National Movement and the People s Front of Nakhichevan agreed to lay down their weapons, the Soviet news agency said.
State: Tight-fitting genes could end convict’s life
VENTURA, Calif. — Jurors have recommended that a convicted murderer die in the gas chamber in the first California death penalty case that used genetic fingerprinting as evidence.
A juror said Wednesday that the DNA evidence convinced the Ventura County Superior Court jury that Larry David Davis strangled a 20-year-old Oxnard woman and dumped her body on a golf course.
"There were other things in evidence,” juror Ron McIntyre said. “But we had the DNA and the more evidence you have, the more confident you feel in your decision.”
Ventura County Chief Deputy District Attorney Vince O'Neill Jr. agreed that the use of genetic fingerprinting helped seal the conviction.
“What DNA did is give added certainty,” O’Neill said. "It made jurors feel more comfortable with not ortly the conviction, but on the death verdict.”
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To be, or not to be?
Alana Tam / Dally Trojan
Jeff Wetrosky, an undeclared sophomore, presents his antiabortion views at a midday rally. See story on page 12.
Alcohol taken off fraternity shopping list
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By Arlene Relevo
Staff Writer
Phi Alpha Delta, the university's prelaw fraternity, successfully passed a resolution Thursday that prohibits the use of chapter funds to buy alcohol.
The resolution is the first of its kind for a university academic fraternity and also bars the collection of money for the purpose of buying alcohol to be used at the group's functions. It won unanimous approval.
The policy passed with 21 votes. Fifty percent of a quorum of 20 members was needed for passage.
"We are not barring people that are over 21 from drinking," said Jim Prindle, president of the fraternity. "We just don't want chapter funds to be spent on alcohol because we don't want the liability in case something happens in our functions," Prindle said.
Since a number of the fraternity members are not of legal drinking age, the bill was designed to protect the fraternity if members or any other students got drunk and hurt others or themselves or got caught driving under the influence by the police after attending one of the fraternity functions, Prindle said.
The fraternity had taken this "first step in creating an alcohol policy in hopes that other professional fraternities and clubs enact similar policies," according ta the (See Alcohol, page 12)
U.S. Senate vote may send Chinese home
More than 300 Trojans face possibility of deportation
By Chad Reed
Staff Writer
A vote in the United States Seriate on Thursday let President George Bush's veto stand on a bill that would have protected 40,000 Chinese students in the United States. The 62-37 decision was five votes short of a two-thirds majority needed to override the veto.
The House voted 390-25 Wednesday to override Bush. The Senate's action will affect 343 registered university' students who are Chinese citizens.
"It is a big political win for Bush," said Stanley Rosen, associate professor of political science. The override would have been the first of Bush's presidency.
The bill would have eliminated the requirement that students return to the People's Republic of China for at least two years before coming back to the United States. In addition, it would have become easier for students to change their visa status and acquire work permits. The bill only applied to those students who were in the United States as of June 5, 1989.
At the time Bush vetoed the bill, he also issued a directive to meet the same goals as the bill. "All of the features of the bill were accomplished by the administrative effort of the president," said Dixon Johnson, executive director of the International Student and Overseas Study Programs.
(See China, page 12)
Backpack saved student from murder, police say
By Paul Malcolm
Staff Writer
Graduate student Charles Langenhagen, the victim of what police are calling a murder attempt, was saved by the textbooks in his backpack as he fled gunfire Wednesday night, Los Angeles Police Department officials said Thursday.
"We know for a fact we have an attempted murder," said Det. Bill Pavelic of LAPD. "(Langenhagen) was very, very fortunate.
"I don't remember the last time where the suspect fired as many as nine or 10 rounds at a victim who has fled," Pavelic said. "This is not something that commonly occurs."
A technician at Queen of Angels/ Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center said, "Those books saved his life." The technician did not wish to be identified.
Two rounds from the nine-millimeter gun used by Langenhagen's assailant were found lodged in the victim's textbooks, Pavelic said.
Though the force of those bullets would have been considerable, Langenhagen was unaware that his backpack was hit, said Chief Steven Ward of University Security. 1
"In fact . . . these books would have acted as shock absorbers," Ward said.
Investigators who analyzed the crime said Langenhagen crossed Orchard Avenue from the west to east side after see-
ing a suspicious man. Langenhagen ran when he saw the man had a gun. Langenhagen dropped his backpack thinking it was what the assailant wanted, Pavelic said.
(See Shooting, page 3)
Students voice concerns, fears about shooting
By Robin Hardie
Staff Writer
The shooting of Charles Langenhagen at Terrace Apartments on Wednesday has some residents doubly concerned about the area's safety; the victim's mother was prompted to say that it is unsettling that he will likely remain at the university.
"I don't think he'll leave school — unfortunately. But that's from a mother's point of view," said Marcia Langenhagen, in a telephone interview from the Langenhagen residence in Hingham, Mass.
"My initial reaction was, 'What a terrible thing,' " she said. "All I could do was be thankful that he's alive. It's terribly frightening that there was no (See Reaction, page 3)
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