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Japanese land bill to promote building in non-urban areas
TOKYO — In an effort to make land cheaper for Japanese and more accessible to U.S. companies, the Cabinet today proposed two bills that would promote construction on farmland and urban sites considered underdeveloped
This will be a first concrete step on land policy to be taken by Japan following Japan-U S. talks on changing business practices in the two countries, said Nobuyuki Yamazaki, an official of the Construction Ministry s City Planning Divison.
The bills are to be submitted to Parliament for approval, he said
The proposals are "intended to improve the supply of housing and residential land in major dty areas by encouraging effective use of idle land and farmland,” Construction Minister Tamisuke Watanuki told the Cabinet, which approved the proposed legislation.
Nation: Supreme Court says no to drugs in case
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Tuesday there is no constitutional right to take illegal drugs for religious reasons.
Dissenting justices said the 6-3 ruling permits religious oppression of Indians and perhaps others with unorthodox views.
The court ruled that Oregon officials may deny unemployment benefits to two fired drug counselors who took small amounts of peyote, a • cactus “button” containing the hallucinogen mescaline, in Indian religious ceremonies.
Local: Shaking felt from L. A. to Mojave Desert
UPLAND, Calif. — A moderate aftershock from February’s earthquake shook a wide area of Southern California on Tuesday afternoon, with residents from Los Angeles to the Mojave Desert feeling the 4.6-magnitude jolt.
No injuries or damage were immediately reported.
The 3:32 p.m. quake, centered three miles west of Upland, followed a trio of minor earthquakes under the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains earlier in the day, according to scientists at the California Institute of Technology.
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Ian McCulloch’s Ultra Vivid Scene
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Whipping up a movie
C. Thomas Howell takes five during the filming of a Disney made-for-television movie, “Whipped Valentine.” The movie, filmed In front of Doheny Library, also stars Roddy McDowell.
Volume CXI, Number 61	University of Southern California	Wednesday, April 18, 1990
Truman Scholarship
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Santa Ordonez, a sophomore majoring in journalism, has been named a Truman Scholar.	Each college or university is allowed The Truman Scholarships, named	to name three candidates. The selector President Truman, are awarded	tions are based on community service, each year in honor of students who	academic excellence and interest in
have distinguished themselves in public service, said Toni Acevedo, a previous USC Truman Scholar and member of the judging committee.
Each Truman Scholarship is worth up to $7,000 per year for four years. Recipients must promise to attend graduate school, Acevedo said.
Acevedo said she was very proud of Ordonez.
"She has an outstanding communi-
public service, she said.
Ordonez said she made the right dsion in coming to the university.
"I pretty much picked this university because of its journalism school," Ordonez said.
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U.S., Israeli policy criticized
Panel discussing Middle East lacks Jewish member
By Michael Utley
Assistant City Editor
In the second day ot * three-day US-C / UCLA Conference on I Jutoal Conflict, two Arab students and a faculty member formed a panel dwom*w> cnticizing Israel and the United States for their roles in
the ethnic and religious conflicts raging in the Middle East.
The panel, which debated before a small crowd at King Hall Tuesday, was hindered by the absence of an Israeli representative because the event was scheduled during the last day of Passover, a Jewish holiday that requires observant followers of the Israeli religion to abstain from any kind of work.
Event organizer Rajesh Srinivasan, vice president of the International Students' Assembly, said it was impossible to change the date. He apologized for not
being able to present both sides of the issue and said he hoped it would not detract ten) much from the debate.
But, as one Jewish spectator put it, "the discussion was extremely onesided."
"I would have liked to represent the Jewish opinion, but how could I represent my people (during the holiday) when, by doing so, I would be going against their beliefs?" said Nathan Newman, chairman of the American-lsraeli Alliance. Newman was invited to speak, (See Conference, page 20)
Alumnus gives back his PhD in protest of USC
By Dave Hernandez
Staff Writer
Aztecs bury Trojans, 9-6
Sports, page 28
(See Kishun, page 9)
Roshen Kishun, a university alumnus who holds a 1987 higher education doctorate degree, returned his diploma, along with an honors certificate and plaque from the School of Education on Tuesday in protest of USC's selective divestment policy.
"I find it extremely painful to accept the fact that I am a graduate of an institution that continues to profit from investments in South Africa," Kishun said in a letter to University President James Zumberge.
The returns were accepted by Liz King, assistant to the president.
"I've been here for a long time, hoping that all the programs and the resolutions adopted by Stu dent Senate (regarding divestment) would be listened to," Kishun said.
Kishun cited remarks that Zumberge allegedly made as the impetus for his decision. In a column that was published in the Feb. 26 Daily Troian, Zumberge was quoted to have said that "blacks in South Africa are uneducated and need a white government to rule."
In response to that article, University Provost Cornelius Pings, who was present in a meeting between Zumberge and members of the USC Divestment Coalition Feb. 14, in which the remarks allegedly were made, wrote in the March 6 DT that Zumberge made no such remarks and that the columnist had relied on "second-hand information."