Friday, February 10, 1934
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Daily Nebraskan
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By Hike Weibel
UNL Police recovered the highest percentage of
stolen property In the Big Eight last year, according
to preliminary figures.
Bob Fey, a UNL Police information officer, said 38
percent of approximately $150,000 in stolen prop
erty was recovered in 1033. The University of Colo
rado in Boulder ranked second, recovering 34 per
cent of the reported $228,500 in stolen property.
"University statistics can be very misleading," Fey
said. Property may be recovered from previous
years and also from different places.
Last year, burglaries increased throughout the
Big Eight, but UNL had the lowest number reported,
with 116. However, the figure shows an increase of
26 burglaries from 1082 to 1983.
Kansas University in Lawrence recorded 2 1 2 bur
glaries last year, an increase of 45 from 1982.
Fey said statistics usually follow trends. If one
university's burglary rate rises, others will do the
same, he said.
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Crimes such as rape, assault and theft increased
last year at UNL, Kansas and Kansas State.
UNL reported 906 total crimes in 1983, the second
lowest after Kansas State's 834.
Fey said the increase may have resulted because
the public reported more crimes than in past years.
UNL's number of thefts, 730, was within the Big
Eight range. Colorado had 874, and Kansas State,
450.
Fey said the difference between Durglary ana
theft is that burglary is forced, like a break in, and
theft is not.
In a separate category, UNL reported 138 items
lost and never returned.
Nine vehicles were stolen from university prop
erty last year at UNL, but campus police recovered
12, showing again what Fey said are misleading
figures.
Fifty-five bicycles were stolen at UNL last year,
with only seven recovered.
Cars and bicycles are worth more today than in
previous years, which may be why thefts are high,
Fey said.
Another reason for the high rate, Fey said, may be
the student populations at each university. Large
numbers of students often reflect higher crime
rates, Fey said.
Police
Report
The following incidents were reported to the UNL
Police Department between 2 p.m. Tuesday and 8
p.m. Wednesday:
Tuesday
2:16 p.m. Person reported ill at Schramm Hall.
Person taken to Lincoln General Hospital.
3:30 p.m. Statue reported vandalized at Shel
don Art Gallery. Estimated damage is $50.
" 5:30 p.m. Car window reported broken in Park
ing Area 12 at 14th and Vine streets. Estimated
damage is $100.
Wednesday
9:16 a.m. Two tables reported stolen from Bur
nett Hall. Estimated loss is $140.
10:51 am. Two computer disc drives reported
stolen from Henzlik HalL Estimated loss is $600.
10:55 a.m. Cash reported stolen from wallet at
616 N. 16th St. Estimated loss is $10.
2:37 p.m. Lincoln runaway reported found in
Pound Hall. :
4 p.m. Four hubcaps reported stolen from a car
in Parking Area 2 near Sandoz HalL Estimated loss is
$125.
4:55 p.m. Security alarm reported sounding at
South Stadium. The cause is unknown.
8:49 p.m. A 19-year-old male resident of Abel
Hall arrested for allegedly passing forged check.
Checks were allegedly taken from a fellow floor resi
dent. Arraignment was scheduled for 2 p.m. Thurs
day in Lancaster County Court.
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National and international news
from the Reuters News Report
U.S. naval bombardment
kills general, ABC cays
NEW YORK ABC News reported Thursday
that Wednesday's massive U.S. naval bombard
ment of positions around Beirut killed the
commanding general of all Syrian forces in
Lebanon and a large part of his general staff.
Quoting intelligence sources, it said the com
mand's bunkers were located near the town of
Hammana, 15 miles east of Beirut. ABC News
said sources both in the United States and
Israel claim the shelling destroyed the Syrian
communications and planning nerve center
there which coordinates all movement of Syrian
forces in Lebanon. According to military sour
ces, after the suicide truck bombing that killed
241 U.S. servicemen at Beirut Airport in
October, the western intelligence community
located every key Syrian military installation
in the region.
So, when the battleship New Jersey opened
fire yesterday, Pentagon sources say its gunners
knew exactly what targets to go after.
Military sources said 30 shells smashed into
the key Syrian command bunker, each shell
weighing about 2,000 pounds and capable of
clearing an area half the size of a football field.
Intelligence sources said the destruction of
the key Syrian installations was no accident.
U.S. suffers defeat, Libyans say
BEIRUT, LEBANON Libyan officials Thurs
day said the United States had suffered a
"stunning defeat" in Lebanon and was resort
ing to "gunship policy" to extricate itself. The
official Libyan News Agency JANA, monitored
in Beirut, said: The Reagan administration,
relying on gunship policy, is trying to emerge
from the stunning defeat it suffered from Leb
anese national forces in Arab Lebanon. This
seems to be the first time a big imperialist
power has tried to cover up its defeat and the
failure of its policy and aggressive plans by a
cowardly and speedy evacuation by sea." JANA
said Reagan's decision to withdraw the 1,600
U.S. marines from Beirut "was dictated by the
crushing nationalist blows to the marines . . .
Cosmonauts transfer to station
MOSCOW The three cosmonauts aboard
the Soviet Soyuz T-10 spacecraft docked their
vehicle with the orbiting Salyut-7 space station
Thursday and moved into the station, the offi
cial news agency Tass reported. The Soyuz T
10 blasted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in
Central Asia Wednesday. The crew transferred
to the station in the latest phase of the Soviet
program to develop permanently manned or
biting complexes. Tass said the crew had
started work on "a vast program" of activities
aboard the station. Their stay was expected to
last several months.
The cosmonauts made no comment on the
joking remark from one of the five American
astronauts aboard the space shuttle Chal
lenger that "it's getting pretty populated up
here."
Senate votes to end filibuster
WASHINGTON - The Senate Thursday voted
to end a filibuster blocking approval of a bill to
impose the death penalty for major federal
crimes such as attempted assassination of a
president. By a 65-26 vote, the Senate broke
the filibuster by death penalty opponents led
by Sen. Edward Kennedy. Senate leaders said
they expected final approval of the measure
after a one-week Senate recess next week. The
outlook in the House is uncertain.
New planetary system may form
ITHACA, New York A new planetary sys
tem, not unlike the earth's solar system, might
be forming around a star 500 light years away
from the sun, a team of astronomers from
Cornell University, the University of California
at Los Angeles and the University of Hawaii
said Thursday. The team, using the world's
largest telescopes, said they have detected a
cloud of small, solid particles whose combined
mass roughly equals that of the earth sur
rounding a recently formed star in the constel
lation Tauris.
This star, known as HL Tau, has about the
same mass as the sun but is located about 500
light years away.
The team of astronomers said that the cloud
showed that conditions around HL Tau are
right for the formation of a planetary system.
The astronomers added that the moons and
planets of the Earth's solar system were formed
bythe agglomeration of small dust particles.
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