In Brief_
Mother Teresa steps down as leader of her religious order
CALCUTTA, India — Mother Teresa, the frail Roman Catholic nun who won a Nobel Peace Prize for her work among the sick and dying, said Wednesday she was stepping down as head of the religious order she founded in 1950.
“I have been leading the Missionaries of Charity for 40 years,” Mother Teresa said with a smile as she bustled about her home and office near the Calcutta slum where she started her work.
In Italy, a Vatican spokesman said Pope John Paul II had accepted Mother Teresa’s resignation. Deputy Vatican spokesman Monsignor Piero Pennacchini said she was retiring for health reasons.
In September, Mother Teresa suffered a heart attack and serious infection and surgeons implanted a permanent pacemaker on Dec. 1.
Nation: Bush refuses to recognize Lithuania now
WASHINGTON — President Bush spumed appeals from Baltic-American leaders Wednesday to recognize the new government in Lithuania. He declared his support for its struggle for independence but was concerned with the impact on the Soviet Union.
"Our policy, we believe, is the correct one, and it does not involve recognition,” White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said.
Anthony Mazeika, director of the Baltic American Freedom League, said, “We are disappointed with the official policy of the United States” not to recognize the government of Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis.
State: Former nuclear rocket used for satellites
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — An Atlas rocket that once served as a nuclear missile thundered into space Wednesday, carrying three small satellites that will help make navigation maps and improve military communications.
“Everyone was pleased with the smoothness of the operation,” said Air Force spokesman Maj. Tom Worsdale.
The 91 -foot-tall Atlas-E, topped by a 5-foot-tall Scout-Altair upper stage booster, blasted off the pad at Space Launch Complex-3 at 8 a.m. PDT.
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Security Roundup...........	............ 6
Life / Arts..........................	............11
Sport®	...........32
Computers fight to win popularity
Life / Arts, page 11
Hair-raising music
Alena Tam / Dally Trojan
Mark Heiner, an undeclared sophomore, dances to the music of Cuban-sis during a concert Wednesday in front of Tommy Trojan.
University mourns professor’s death
By Bill Swindell
Senior Staff Writer
A memorial service for James Durbin, a university English and comparative literature professor who for the past 35 years has been as popular among faculty as students, will be held Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. at United University Church.
Durbin, 66, died Monday following complications from emergency
was from the old school, a gen* and traditional person. As a col-, he was very witty and said William Brown, a
"He wanted to communicate his love for literature, and, secondly, he was interested in the students/' Brown said.
For many of his fellow professors, Durbin will be remembered as the energetic person who was full of life and ready to teach as earlv as eight in the morning, said Richard Ide, chair of the English department.
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“1 think his greatest asset was that over the years, he never got stale/' Ide said.
Dubin's commitment to literature impressed Ide very much.
"He just kept reading and reading. The amazing thing, year after year, he would come back after reading a book like The Red and the Black for the 20th time," he said.
Durbin taught until he was taken ill last week. His three classes will be covered by members of the English faculty, Ide said.
Durbin was born in Newburgh, N.Y., in 1923. He received his M.A. in English literature from Yale University in 1946, but he never completed his Ph.D., Brown said.
He served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1946. During that time, Brown said, Diirbin learned Ja anese and served as an interpreter lanan.
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UCSB tunes tennis strings
Sports, page 32
Volume CXI, Number 57	University of Southern California	Thursday, April 12, 1990
Forgeries traced to students
Felony conviction could mean jail or $1,000 fine
By Thomas Chan
Staff Writer
Three university students are being investigated for obtaining false driver's licenses from the De partment of Motor Vehicles after providing false birth certificates and the like and using the licenses to write bad checks on accounts opened at local banks, said a University Security detective.
A student this academic year has allegedly written several $1,000 checks drawn on an account opened using false indentification, said security detective Robert Wade. When the bad checks were identified, security traced the student through bank records and copies of the false driver's license obtained from the DMV.
Though security knows who the person is and has shown his photo to students who know him, Wade said he was expelled from school last semester and may have left the area.
"He could face prison time because of the number of times he's done it and how he did it — the (criminal) intent is clearly there/' Wade said. "Depending on the dollar amount involved, it could possibly go to a federal court."
The other two students under investigation, whose identities are also known, are accused of forgery charges for lesser amounts of money, Wade said.
According to a detective sergeant at the Bunco Forgery Division of the Los Angeles Police Department, who did not wish to be identified, "It's not an uncommon occurrence. It's a practice for people
(See Forgery, page 21)
Proby’s trial postponed until May 25
By Bill Swindell
Senior Staff Writer
The on-again, off-again trial of Deon Proby, the man accused of a 1988 crime spree that included kidnapping, rape and robbery against three university students and two university employees, was delayed again Tuesday until May 25.
The outlook for the pretrial hearing to start on the new date is questionable because Proby's attorney is working on another case involving the death penalty, said Andrew McMullen, the deputy district attorney trying Proby's case.
"I can't try two cases at once," said Robert Doddy, Proby's attorney.
Doddy said he has been in a Torrance court since December on another trial, in which his client could receive the death penalty if convicted.
"The question in that case was whether my client was competent to stand trial and Would cooperate with the jury. He (was found) competent," Doddy said.
(See Proby, page 20)