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Sandinistas attack Contras — one day after cease-fire ends
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Sandinista troops launched attacks in Nicaragua’s central and northern mountains Thursday to try to wipe out outnumbered Contra forces that have infiltrated from Honduras, according to reports.
Lt. Col. Rosa Pasos, a military spokeswoman, said most of the action was concentrated on rebels sneaking into Nicaragua, but she would confirm only one attack near Quilali, in the border province of Nueva Segovia.
“What the lifting of the cease-fire does is give us the possibility of organizing offensives in a more organized manner and with greater firepower,” Pasos said.
President Daniel Ortega ended a 19-month cease-fire on Wednesday.
Two officials murdered; Colombian judges strike
BOGOTA, Colombia — Judges and court workers began a series of nationwide strikes Thursday, a day after another judge and a congressman were murdered, apparently by drug traffickers.
In Medellin, where the judge was killed, federal justices walked off the job indefinitely until they receive more protection.
It is the third time judges have gone on strike in the last three months, with each walkout following the assassination of a federal judge. In the last eight years 222 court workers, including 43 judges, have been killed, most of them by drug traffickers.
Local: Herald Examiner turns into collector’s item
The last edition of the once powerful Los Angeles Herald . Examiner hit the streets Thursday, but only briefly, as souvenir seekers cleaned out most newsracks shortly after dawn.
“Some kid on fraternity row flagged down the Herald truck when it got here this morning and bought six bundles (of 50 papers each),” said Gary Pine at the sports information office at the University of Southern California.
“The last we heard, he’d sold three bundles — at $20 a copy,” for the papers with the bold “SO LONG, L.A.!” headline, said Pine.
From the Associated Press
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Wouldn’t it be nice?
Beach Boy Bruce Johnston enjoys 24 years of success
By Craig Ha usman
Staff Writer
At Saturday's Rose Bowl showdown with Oregon State, not all of the Trojan football fans will be in the stands.
The Beach Boys will be preparing for a 7 p.m. concert that will follow the game, but that doesn't mean California's most famous band won't be watching.
Rock's self-styled Sultans of Sunshine follow the Trojans carefully. They were even late in taking the stage two weeks ago because they wanted to catch the end of the Notre Dame game.
Perhaps the band's biggest Trojan fan is Bruce Johnston.
The 47-year-old keyboardist offered condolences on "an incredible game."
"I think USC should've had it," Johnston said.
Johnston was a friend of Beach Boy Mike Love when, in April of 1965, the band was suddenly in need of a live bass player. Their primary songwriter, Brian Wilson, decided to stop touring and concentrate on writing, arranging and producing such classics as "Good Vibrations" and "Wouldn't It Be Nice."
"I just kind of joined for a weekend," Johnston said, "and it stretched" — for 24 years and counting.
And the Beach Boys, inducted last ear into the Rock and Roll Hall of ame, show little sign of letting up.
They spent 173 days on the road last year and perform about 15 concerts yearly in conjunction with athletic events — including this Saturday's concert.
(See Johnston, page 15)
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Arts & Entertainment
Volume CX, Number 43	University	of	Southern	California	Friday,	November	3,	1989
Television blahs face network ax
A & E, page 20
Beavers in town to tackle Trojans
Sports, page 7
Meese, McGovern pass the buck
Each called the other’s political party responsible for the large budget deficit
By Michael Utley
Staff Writer
Exploding pipe forces evacuation
Powell Hall soaked as
water floods basement
By Wendy Root
Staff Writer
A water pipe exploded Thursday in Powell Hall ot Information Sciences and Systems Engineering, forcing an evacuation and a shutdown of the building's electrical and computer systems, officials said.
The pipe burst in a wall on the sixth floor about 11 a.m., releasing several hundred gallons of water before the line was shut off about 15 minutes later, said Duane Hickling, executive director of facilities operations and maintenance services.
"It's a first-class mess," Hickling said.
Water flowed into the basement, dampening electrical panels containing circuit breakers and flooding the basement with about five inches of water,
(See Explosion, page 3)
Sunny..............84/60
Former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III and former U.S. Senator George McGovern labored endlessly Thursday night to blame each other's political parties for the massive federal debt at a debate in Bovard Auditorium.
In at least three separate attempts, the two politicians traded barbs about responsibility for the deficit — McGovern blaming the Republican huge military budget and Meese attributing it to Democratic propensity for domestic spending.
Former President Ronald Reagan "never saw a weapons system he didn't like," McGovern said, "until his last year in office, when he started to think about his place in history. Then it was too late."
Meese countered with the assertion that spending on human services, not defense, took up the bulk of the budget.
"We spend $314 billion on human services — that's minus social security — and $219 billion on the military," Meese said. "I don't think even your liberal arithmetic can change that."
McGovern still insisted "we are spending too much money on an enemy that is not there."
The debaters offered few solutions, but McGovern did suggest that President George Bush is making a mistake by pushing "another cut in capital gains for the rich," and should be searching for a more equal approach.
Ethics quickly entered the debate once questions from the audience were introduced. Meese, who resigned in 1988 amid allegations that he played a role in the Iran-contra affair, was an obvious target and took a great deal of heat on the issue.
McGovern attacked Meese indirectly with a claim that 242 Reagan administration officials are under investigation and / or in jail. At least 100 were forced to resign, he said.
"The record of sleaze during the Reagan administration is unequaled in history," he charged.
(See Debate, page 3)
Michael Kim / Dally Trojan
Former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III speaks in a debate with former U.S. Senator George McGovern in Bovard Auditorium Thursday.