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Page 2 Wednesday, November 7, 198 Daily Nebraskan N on-network TV tilts tallies The Reuter News Report WASHINGTON Every Elec tion Day the major television net work invest many millions of dol lars and many, many hours of air time reporting how the nation votes. But for executives of other TV organizations it was a chance to lay on another feast and not all tallies and tabulations. In a bid to woo viewers away from the networks' results-and-analyses extravaganzas, independent sta tions around the country pulled out all stops. ESPN, the national cable sporting channel, offered a day of reruns of eight past Super Bowl games, the national football championship played each Jan uary to record audiences. In Washington, one local station, ran ads urging viewers to boycott the network voter wrapup shows. It used a play on the "Ghostbusters" film theme song, promising elec tion boredom. Its alternative: the film "Amityville Horror." Continued on Page 10 Wire Report Police Report Setting it Straight The following items were reported to UNX police between 7:30 p.m. Sunday and 6 p.m. Monday. Sunday 7:30 p.m. Stereo, equalizer and speak ers reported stolen from a vehicle in Park ing Area 3 near 14th and New Hampshire streets, 7:35 p.m. Three-car accident reported in Parking Area 3 near 14th and New Hampshire streets. No injuries were re ported. 10:24 p.m. Window reported broken at Abel Hall. 10.35 p.m. Person reported injured while playing flag football near 17th and Vine streets. Person was transported to a hospital. 10:37 p.m. Window reported broken at Abel Hall. Monday 8:C8 a.m. Alleged vandalism reported to a sign near Memorial Stadium. 8:28 a.m. Security alarm reported sounding at Brace Physics Lab. 3:02 p.m. Wallet reported lost or stolen at Love Library or Nebraska Union. 4:54 p.m. Wallet reported stolen from 1548 Vine St. 6:00 p.m. Purse reported stolen from a vehicle in Parking Area 35 near Agricul tural Biochemistry Hall on East Campus. In a story about Distinguished Scholars Day in Monday's Daily Nebraskan, Loretta Johnson was misidentified. Johnson's correct title Is director of the honors pro grams at UNL. Also in a story about Husker Monday in Monday's Daily Ne braskan, Linda Schwartzkopf was misidentified. Schwartzkopf is the assistant coordinator of pre-admissions. Don Aripoli is acting director of pre-admissions. National and international news from the Reuter News Report Polish police officers admit to priest's death WARSAW, Poland Three security police officers have admitted killing kidnapped priest Jerzy Popieluszko and have been charged with his murder, the Polish Interior Ministry said Tuesday. In an apparent shake-up of responsibilities, the Communist Party's ruling Politburo decided that Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski would take over supervision of the party apparatus in the Interior Ministry, which handles security. There was no mention of whom he replaced, but the Politburo member directly in charge of security affairs for the party is Miroslaw Milewski, who, diplomats said, might be held politically respon sible for the kidnapping. Investigations so far have shown the ministry was deeply involved in the plot against Popieluszko, whose body was found in a reservoir last week. The three alleged killers were all ministry officials and a colonel who was deputy head of a department has been charged with helping them. O; o rTp; O? or- 0 O- 05 o. o.t o: q: o;. 05 Cj CBS: MiGs sailing to Nicaragua 0 y F A. Inspector Clousseau is at it again. That should tickle you pink. Q IPfinsDw.s Stars: Peter Sellers .0 .0 .0 t .0 Tonight on the Big 8 Movie at 7:00 P.M. 0" ;o :o :o :o :o ;o :b ;"o to :o .o io so :P . - I i ti rv w Vfb A. V J 1 1 1 1 1 A 1 x y 1 THE OMAHA D O D U T OF A v WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7 7:30PMAREMA GENERAL ADMISSION 31 2.50 TICKETS AVA8AELE AT: CIVIC AUDiTOR-UM EOX OFFICE. BRAhSSS, RCKLES. T1X AND x - uncle jows (s:oux am UNO STUDENTS 511:50 AT M8SC TICKET OFFICE WASHINGTON A Soviet freighter was headed for Nicar gua, possibly carrying MiG fighter planes despite U.S. objec tions, CBS television reported Tuesday. U.S. officials at the State Department and Pentagon had no comment on the report. CBS quoted U.S. intelligence officials as saying they had no proof the freighter was carrying Soviet MiGs. But it quoted them as saying satellite photographs showed a dozen crates similar to those used to transport MiG-21 planes were missing from a Black Sea port after the freighter left. Reagan administration officials have said MiGs in Nicaragua would be a serious development of utmost concern to them but have not said what they would do if the planes were sent. CBS said a surprise attack destroying any ship carrying MiGs to Nicaragua was among U.S. options being considered. NASA to eiitend shuttle mission CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA officials said Tuesday they were prepared to extend the eight-day flight of the shuttle Discovery if necessary to retrieve two satellites stranded in uselessly low orbits. The Discovery is scheduled to blast off from Kennedy Space Center at 8:22 am. EST Wednesday with a crew of four men and a woman on a mission to put two communications satel lites in orbit and rescue two others. The lift-off was delayed by four minutes after scientists revised their calculations on the orbits of the two errant satellites. The mission highlight is the recovery of the Palapa and Westar satellites, which failed to go into correct orbits due to booster rocket malfunctions after they were launched in Februarv. NASA nfRHal niri th prepared to keep the Discovery in space an extra day if they fell behind schedule. Palapa, which was intended to provide telecommunications for Indonesia, trailed Western Union Ccrp.'s Westar by almost 600 miles. Discovery will deploy two more satellites, one intended for use over Canada and the other by the U.S. Navy. lean president decrees curfew SANTIAGO, Chile President Augusto Pinochet, respond ing to a wave of anti-government ioience, Tuesday imposed a state of siege throughout Chile and decreed a curfew from midnight to 5 a.m. in the capital Gen. Pinochet said there was a profound process of political insurrection against his 1 1 -year-old military government. The government has used curfews during days of protest organized by the opposition during the last 18 months to press for a quick return to democracy, and restrictions on driving at night were already in force. But no continuous curfew had been decreed since April 1980. Pinochet made the announcement while swearing in two new cabinet ministers following the resignation of his entire cabinet Monday after moderate Interior Minister Sergio Jarpa quit. There were few changes in the new cabinet. The state of siege gives the president sweeping powers of arrest; permits tight restrictions on freedom of speech, assem bly and information; allows censorship of mail and severely limits the power of the courts. Chile had not seen a state of siege since 1978. - Forld fair files for ban NEWftBI .pawq. rKy.ilJ r T "c "wiana world Exposition, wmcn is fiffK t0uClose Sund&y witSi debts of SUOmiUion, Tuesday fLed for bankruptcy in the Federal bankruptcy court here. R fngi proteition. .under Chapter 11 of the Federal KniiTZtZ' -he fak couid rgo creditors' suits and rKSi I I If m ?n orderIy maimer, said fair spokesman m!SS h3 ofthe to's financial oversight com- StXni?iiCeK wou,d hppen, and fair president Bv ulnS d U,had, een undr consideration since June. couK2 Cr 11 e Williams said, the fair