The Nebrakan
Tuesday, August 13, 1985
Page 2
Popularity of new Coke fizzes out
By Kip Fry
Staff Reporter
It may not be news anymore, but the
New Coke just didnt' live up to its
producers expectations when it was
recently introduced in markets across
the nation. According to the manager
of the UNL Vending Department, vend
ing machines on the city and east cam
puses indicate that the university isn't
much different in its taste for the New
Coke.
"New Coke just did not sell as well
as the old Coke," Gene Meerkatz said,
"but it depended partially on the loca
tion of the machines.
The dilemma Meerkatz said he has
to solve now is what machines to put
the Classic Coke in, and where to put
the New Coke. It might even be that
they won't even supply the New Coke,
he said.
"It's getting pretty hairy," Meerkatz
said.
At the moment, Diet Coke is the
most heavily purchased drink from
UNL's vending machines, he said, with
Pepsi right behind. The sugar free and
di?X drinks generally tend to attract
the larger markets, he said.
Another problem Meerkatz said is
the arrival of Cherry Coke which was
first stocked in UNL machines last
week.
"We don't know if we have enough
room for it in our machines, or if we will
have product appeal." Meerkatz said.
"Right now, we are just easing it into
selected locations."
Meerkatz said he won't know how
successful Cherry Coke will be until
after the fall semester begins Aug. 26.
Though pop purchases lately have
been down it is not a significant
decline, Meerkatz is unable to explain
this drop, but said prices remain steady.
Meerkatz said he does not know how
much money students spend on sodas
in UNL vending machines. He said
there is too many other nearby loca
tions such as the Nebraska Union and
local gas stations where pop is also
available for there to be fair analysis on
the amount of money actually spent on
soft drinks.
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The following incidents were reported
to UNL police between 11:14 a.m.
Thursday and 10:20 p.m. Sunday.
Thursday
11:14 a.m. Property damage
accident reported on East Campus
Mall.
3:05 p.m. Wallet reported stolen
from Kiesselbach Hall on East Campus.
6:33 p.m. Misdemeanor assault
reported at the weight room in the
Coliseum.
Friday
11:13 a.m. Property damage
accident reported at 1 1th and T streets.
3:30 p.m. Property damage
accident reported at 14th and R streets.
4:28 p.m. Fire reported at 14th
and Avery streets.
Saturday
1:37 a.m. Fire alarm reported
sounding at 1235 N. 16th St.
8:19 a.m. Fire alarm reported
sounding at the University Health
Center.
8:48 p.m. Burglary reported at
209 Burnett Hall.
Sunday
4:41 p.m. Hit-and-run accident
reported in Parking Area 15 behind
Temple Building.
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Airplane carrying 524 people
crashes in the Japan Alps
KITA AKAMURA. JaDan (AP-Reuter) A JaDan Air Lines iumbo iet
with 524 passengers aboard crashed Monday in the rugged mountains of
central Japan after reporting it had a broken door and would try for an
emergency landing at a U.S. air base.
Rescue crews struggled up a mountainside toward the crash site at
about 5,000 feet, but first reports gave no indication of survivors in what
could be the worst single-plane accident ever.
The JAL plane crashed at about 6:54 p.m. (5:54 a.m. EDT), on the north
side of Mount Ogura, a 6,929-foot peak about 50 miles from Yokota and 70
miles northwest of Tokyo. . . .
A Japan Air Self-Defense Force helicopter reported spotting the burning
wreckage on a mountainside. The site is in a remote area in a range known
as the Japan Alps, accessible onlv on foot.
Geoffrey Tudor, a Japan Air Lines spokesman, said JAL flight 123 left
Tokyo's Haneda Airport bound for Alaska, carrying 509 passengers, includ
ing 12 infants, and a crew of 15.
If there are no survivors, the crash would be the worst-ever involving
one airplane. The worst previous crash of a single jetliner cost the lives of
346 people when a Turkish DC-10 crashed near Paris in 1974. That plane
also reported problems with a rear door.
Rebels head for key Ugandan town
KAMPALA, Uganda (Reuter) The National Resistance Army, the
strongest of Uganda's three rebel groups, is marching toward Masaka, the
country's third largest town, witnesses said Monday.
The report that the NRA was advancing comes just two weeks after
dissident military leaders overthrew President Milton Obote on July 27,
sparking looting and chaos in many areas.
The new government led by Gen. Tito Okello was hoping to meet NRA
chiefs for peace talks in neighboring Tanzania Tuesday. But the rebels had
said they would not attend unless Okello agreed to the guerrillas
pre-conditions.
Travelers reaching Kampala from the west said they saw columns of
NRA fighters advancing toward Masaka, 80 miles southwest of the capital
on a key road to the Zairean and Rwandan borders.
The travlers said that in the past few days the NRA fighters had seized
full control of Port Portal, Kabale and Mbarara, three of four main towns in
Western Uganda.
Nebraska farmers to get draught aid
RUSIFVILLE, Neb. (AP) The U.S. Department of Agriculture on
Monday approved loan money for farmers and ranchers in six western
Nebraska counties affected by drought, Rep. Virginia Smith, R-Neb., said.
Farmers and ranchers will be eligible for the low-interest loans in Box
Butte, Dawes, Garden, Morrill, Sheridan and Sioux counties, Mrs. Smith
said.
"Ranchers couldn't wait another two weeks for paperwork," Mrs. Smith
said. "They need help for their herds right away."
Israel plans to release 100 Lebanese
TEL AVTV, Israel (Reuter) Another 100 of the Lebanese detainees
whose release was demanded by the TWA hy ackers in June are to be freed
Tuesday.
After Tuesday's release, about 250 detainees from Lebanon will
remain in Atlit prison, a military spokesman said.
The prisoners were among 1,200 suspected guerrillas transferred to
Atlit in northern Israel in April after the Israeli army closed its Ansar
detention camp in south Lebanon.
Union Carbide gas leak investigated
INSTITUTE, W. Va. (Reuter) Investigators Monday probed com
plaints that residents received inadequate warnings about the Union
Carbide toxic gas leak that hospitalized 129 people with extreme nausea,
eye and breathing difficulties.
Company officials said no methyl isocyanate gas (MIC) was released in
the accident Sunday.
A MIC release last December in Bhopal, India, killed 2,500 people and
made hundreds more seriously ill.
The release of the toxic gas, mainly aldicarb oxime, here lasted for about
15 minuies. Aoout ouu gallons ot the gas drifted over the small industrial
town located about nine miles from the state's populous capital,
Charlestoa
Investigators were checking complaints that residents were not given
adequate warning after the release was discovered by plant workers.
Carbide officials said the alarm, a series of warning whistles, was set off
as soon as the leak was discovered, and fire officials in Institute began
their own warnigns shortly afterwards.
Residents, however, said they smelled the gas and became ill well
before the warning sirens were sounded.
FDIC to decrease assets acquired
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which now
holds more than $150 million worth of mortgages and loans from failed
Nebraska and Iowa banks, has a new policy designed to hold down the
number of assets it acquires from failed banks.
Bank failures in the FDIC's Kansas City, Mo., district, which includes
Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Kansas and Mis
souri, have added nearly $500 million to the FDIC's store of bank assets.
The FDIC usually collects about 75 cents on every dollar of assets it
collects from failed banks, said Alan Whitney, FDIC spokesman in
Washingotn, D.C.
At that rate, the FDIC's Kansas City office would collect about $375
million of its assets and declare a loss on the remaining $125 million.
Deputy district Director Mitchell L. Glassman said it may take the FDIC
three to five years to dispose its current bank assets, even if no more
banks fail.
The growth in FDIC ownership of loans, securities, real estate and other
bank assets is one reason why the FDIC has adopted the new policy which
requires the banks that buy failed banks to take more assets of the failed
banks, Glassman said.
