Friday, April 19, 1985
Pago 2
Daily Nebraskan
Germans congregate atUNL
The Society for German-American
Studies will have Its ninth annual sym
posium at UNL Thursday through April
27.
The symposium will draw scholars
from throughout the United States to
present papers and discuss various
aspects of the cultural, social and his
torical heritage of German-Americans
in the United States.
A banquet on Thursday will feature
two speakers. Frederick Luebke, UNL
professor of history and director of the
Center for Great Plains Studies, will
speak on the topic "Anti-German Riots
In Brazil, April 1917." Andreas Gom
mermann, a faculty member at Creigh
ton University in Omaha, will talk and
show a videotape presentation titled
"Maximillian's Journey."
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The program begins Thursday with a
reception. Hans Brisch, NU associate
executive vice president and provost,
will give the welcoming address.
On April 26, there will be a tour of
the American Historical Society of
Germans from Russia.
Sessions on April 26 and 27 will
include presentations on German
American writers, poets and painters,
German folk music in America, reli
gion, language and citizenship. Speak
ers will be from the AHSGR, the Stuhr
Museum, the New York theatrical com
munity and universities and colleges in
Nebraska, Iowa, Ohio, Wisconsin, Texas,
Florida, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Mas
sachusetts, Minnesota, North and South
Dakota, Georgia and Pennsylvania.
The registration fee is $1 5 if received
by Monday, $20 after that date. Refresh
ment breaks and the Thursday recep
tion are included in the fee.
For more information contact the
department of conferences and insti
tutes, Nebraska Center for Continuing
Education 205, 472-2844.
The banquet, and all other sympo
sium sessions, will be at the center,
33rd and Holdrege streets.
The symposium is open to the pub
lic. Sponsors are the College of Arts
and Sciences and department of con
ferences and institutes.
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Cable television magnate
launches bid for CBS
NEW YORK Maverick cable television magnate Ted Turner, saying
he always wanted to own his own network, Thursday launched a
multibillion-dollar bid to takeover CBS. Wall Street scoffed at his offer.
In mid-day trading, CBS stock fell 1 points to $108 ashare as analysts
and investors balked at his plan to offer CBS shareholders stock and
assets in his Turner Broadcasting Systems Inc. in return for their shares.
He valued the swap at $5.4 billion and said that CBS shareholders who
. went for the deal would be receiving stock and assets worth $175 per CBS
sh&rc
Wall Street analysts said they were not impressed with his plan
because he was not making a cash offer and because he said he planned to
sell off all non-broadcasting CBS businesses and its highly-profitable
radio stations as well. But Turner defended his move in a meeting with
Wall Street analysts, which say tempers flare when many of them were
refused entry.
After talking to the analysts he told more than 200 reporters crowded
into a ballroom at the Park Lane hotel: "We have been very interested in
joining forces with one of the three networks because of our desire to be
No. 1 in our business. We must have access to all the TV households in this
country if we are to achieve this goal."
He said that CBS has refused since 1981 to buy his company, so now he
was out to take over the network, which is the most prestigious in
American broadcasting.
Union Carbide announces relief plan
NEW YORK Union Carbide announced Thursday it was willing to
make an immediate payment of $5 million to the victims of last
December's gas leak disaster in Bhopal, India.
In a letter sent to each of the more than 50 lawyers representing the
victims the company said: "If a payment of $5 million ... can properly
and effectively be made available to the victims of the disaster, we are
prepared, as we have been all along, to make such a payment."
The figure is the lower of two sums suggested by federal Judge John
Keenan at a pre-trial conference in New York last Tuesday to discuss the
billions of dollars in claims being brought against the company. Keenan
said then that a figure between $5 million and $10 million would be
appropriate and urged all the parties involved to agree on a sum as a
"matter of human decency" so that the relief could be sent to India as
soon as possible.
In its letter, a copy of which was sent to Keenan, the company said the
money should be paid to the Indian government for distribution to the
victims.
Cheating on moratorium worries U.S.
WASHINGTON The Reagan administration said Thursday it would
study any formal Soviet proposal for a moratorium on nuclear testing but
said it was deeply concerned that cheating could not be detected.
The State Department statement came in response to Soviet agreement
Wednesday with a proposed moratorium starting August 6, the 40th
anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
The moratorium was proposed by the Center for Defense Information, a
private Washington research group.
The administration had previously rejected the proposal.
The State Department said: "A declared moratorium on nuclear tests
would not in any way address the very real compliance and verification
concerns, nor the lessons of history.
U.S. wants to see no-shoot order
WASHINGTON The Pentagon said Thursday it wants to examine a
new Soviet agreement not to fire on U.S. liaison troops in East Germany to
determine if the no-shoot orders are adequate.
Spokesman Michael Burch also said he hoped there would be other
meetings between the United States and the Soviet Union to deal with the
U.S. demand for an apology for the killing of Maj. Arthur Nicholson and
compensation to his family.
Nicholson, a member of the U.S. military liaison team in East Germany,
was killed by a Soviet sentry in East Germany March 24 while taking
photographs of a Soviet military base at Ludwigslust, northwest of Berlin.
An agreement by the Soviet Union not to permit the use of force or
weapons against members of the U.S. team was reached at a U.S.-Soviet
meeting in Potsdam April 12.
Burch said orders to U.S. troops already forbid them to use force against
any members of a similar Soviet liaison mission based in West Germany.
Asked if he was satisfied now that Moscow had agreed not to use force
in the future, Burch said: "We would like to see a copy of the instructions
they will give to their troops."
Reagan: Aid compromise possible
WASHINGTON President Reagan said Thursday he was open to
compromise on his request for new aid for Nicaraguan rebels, which
appears headed for defeat in Congress.
He also accused Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives of
acting immorally in scheduling an early vote on the proposal.
"My feet aren't in concrete on this . . .yes, we're flexible in some of the
details," Reagan told a luncheon of regional editors and broadcasters.
The request for $14 million in aid is expected to be defeated in the
Democratic-controlled House. A vote there is scheduled for Tuesday, the
same day the Senate is to vote.
Observers said the vote schedule would deny the president momentum
from a victory in the Republican-controlled Senate that might be useful in
a lobbying effort in the House.
Reagan said he would have liked more time to discuss his plan with
congressmen and criticized the House, saying, "I think it is immoral to
demand that vote that quickly."
