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- * * / I ■ The United States needs to play a major role in enforcing peace in Yugolsavia, reprsenata tives said in a visit to UNL late last week. By Nicole Hall Staff writer The conflict in Yugoslavia is not near an end although NATO representatives are optimistic for the future. Four officers from North Atlantic Treaty Organization visited the University of Nebraska Lincoln last Thursday to speak with Political Science Professor Bill Avery’s Foreign Policy class. They made five stops in Nebraska. Before arriving at the university they gave a briefing at the U.S. Strategic Command near Omaha. Avery’s class was fortunate to have the visit on the morning the peace accord was reached. On June 10, the Serbs agreed to pull their forces out of Kosovo and NATO would follow by occuping sections of Kosovo with peace keepers. Their mission was focused on informing the class about the structure of NATO and the way the organization makes their decisions. “Their perspective was clearly NATO and their main purpose in coming to Nebraska was to inform us of the NATO organization and view point,” Avery said. The information briefing quickly turned to a question and answer session about the peace agree ment and if the goals of NATO’s mission were being achieved. “At the end of the day, one million people(eth nic Albanians) have been displaced and we need to get them back home,” said Peter Reynolds, section chief in the public information office of NATO’s European Command in Brussels, Belgium. Reynolds expressed that the goal of returning these people back to their homeland and releasing involvement would not be soon. “We need to be looking forward. This is long term” Reynolds said. He expects that after the peace escorts have entered the country and made it safe for die ethnic Albanians there will be a stabilization period. “(The goal is) giving them a secure environ ment to move back to” said Werner Schmitt German Navy commander deputy chief of public information for NATO’s Atlantic command in Norfolk, Va. Avery thought that the U.S. had a larger role to play in restoring peace to the area. “The U.S. is the only country with the leader ship capabilities to bring order there and to impose some discipline on the Serbs. It is an appropriate leader-ship role for the US.” Avery said. More is needed than just the military to help bring peace to the Yugoslavia. “I don’t think the military can do it itself,” Schmitt said. Although, some feel NATO has yet to show « At the end of the day, one million people (ethnic Albanians) have been displaced and we need to get them back home." Peter Reynolds section chief in the public information office of NATO’s European Command in Brussels, Belgium prosperity in die conflict others feel that NATO has already met a margin of success. “Convincing NATO to take decisive action and keeping the alliance together and speaking with one voice,” was the biggest success Avery said. _4__ Nebraskan SunaM^r Edition, http://daHyneb.cofn Fax Number 472-1761 Editor Samuel McKewon, 472-1766 Design Chief Jeff Randall Art Director Matthew D. Haney Photo Director Scott McClurg Web Page Editor Gregg Steams General Manager DanShattil Advertising Manager NickPartsch Asst Advertising Manager Andrea Oeltien Publication Board Chair Jessica Hoffman, 484-5920 Professional Advisor Don Walton, 473-7301 The Daily Nebraskan (USPS144-080) is published by the UNL Publication Board, Nebraska Union 20,1400 R St., Lincoln, NE 68588-0448, Monday through Friday during the academic year; weekly during summer sessions. 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Students concentrating in the areas of management informa tion systems, computers and mathe matical areas connected to comput ers will be able to live there, as well as take classes in the building. “The parking lot was constructed as a way to ease the parking deficit as the construction of the center begins” said John Benson, Director of Institutional Research and Planning. The money to pay for the con struction and deconstruction of the new parking area is being funded through the parking service’s auxil iary funds. whint ‘tf'fir it's Zwy{ king shuffle “All of the parking in the Central Mall was classified as a temporary location,” said Tad McDowell, Director of University Parking and Transit Services. “It was planned that it would change back to green space several years from now.” The return of green space in the Central Mall area is supposed to take place soon after the completion of the parking garage on 17th and R streets. The completion of that project is set to be during the spring or summer of2001. Completion of the Coffman j Center has been set for January 2001. Haymarket gets in gear for its Heydays From staff reports Once considered a desolate area of the city, Lincoln’s Haymarket District was the last place people wanted to go for a jubilant time. But since its inception in the mid-1980s, the annual Haymarket Heydays Festival June 18-19 has seen the warehouse district of Lincoln grow from a place jgnored by residents to a place that captivates the city. The Festival, which boasts enter tainment for all ages, will feature numerous bands and dancing and will also provide food and cofmc relief. This year, an old-fashioned fiddling contest will be added to the li^t of events.' Festivities begin Friday at 4 p.m. and will last until 10 p.m. Saturday’s events will kick off with a pancake feed at 7:30 a.m., and the Festival will rap up at 9:30 p.m.