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Monday, December 8, 1986 Page 2 Daily Nebraskan By The Associated Press Mews TmnriE!! tin Frame Student protests challenge French government Student protests against a university reform bill widened into a general challenge of the conservative govern ment Sunday as union leaders joined students in calling for nationwide demonstrations this week. Dozens of people clashed with about 500 police in the Latin Quarter student district. At least 68 people, including 58 police, were injured, and 28 people were arrested. Student leaders de nounced the violence. Premier Jacques Chirac, faced with one of the greatest political crises of his nine months in office, appealed for calm. Protests against the reform bill began three weeks ago but escalated in the last few days. Tile government says the measure would make universities more competitive, but students charge that it would make higher education elitist. The students' national coordinating committee called for national demon strations this Wednesday and invited Punions and other organizations to join in opposing the reform bill and police "repression." The Communist-led General Confed eration of Labor, France's largest union federation, urged its membership Sunday to join "a powerful day of strikes on Wednesday, Dec. 10, and to participate en masse in the demon strations." In the Latin Quarter, dozens of people threw stones and bottles at police, burned barricades, broke win dows and set cars afire, police said. After four hours, about 500 police officers surrounded the area and moved in on rioters, witnesses said. Police said 58 officers were hurt, five of them hospitalized. Hospital officials reported 10 rioters injured. The students are demanding with drawal of the reform bill written by Alain Devaquet, minister for higher education who submitted his resignation Saturday. The Devaquet bill would let univer sities set their own admission and curriculum standards. Universities would also be allowed to orient students into a field of study corresponding to the students' aptitude, and not neces sarily to their wishes. ; In Brief U.S. begins Honduran troop airlift WASHINGTON U.S. helicopters on Sunday began airlifting llondu ran troops to within 25 miles of a battle with about 700 Nicaraguan troops that have crossed into that Central American nation, a State Department official said. No Americans were involved in the fighting, and they were under orders to remain at least 25 miles away, in keeping with congressional reside tions on the use of U.S. forces in fighting along the border between Honduras and Nicaragua, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Incursions by Sandinista forces chasing U.S.-backed Contra rebels into Honduras are frequent, according to U.S. government reports, but the Honduran armed forces ordinarily stay out of the fighting. A State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that U.S. helicopters began the airlift Sunday afternoon at the request of Honduran President Jose Azcona Hoyo. U.S. officials said they could not immediately say how many U.S. forces or helicopters were involved in the airlift, where they were based, or to which units they belonged. NsSsiaMcan The Daily Nebraskan (USPS 144-080) is published by the UNL Publications Board Monday throuah Friday in the tall and spiinq semesters ana Tuesdays and Fridays in the summer sessions, except during vacations. Subscription price is S35 tor one year. Postmaster: send address changes to the Daily Nebraskan. Nebraska Union 34. 1400 F. St.. Lincoln. Neb. 68588-0448. Second-class postage paid at Lincoln. NE. ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1988 DAILY NEBRASKAN Mideast violence continues; Israeli troops shoot protester BETHLEHEM, Occupied West Bank Israeli troops shot and wounded a Palestinian youth Sunday as protesters pelted soldiers with rocks in a dozen towns and refugee camps, military and Palestinian sources said. The clashes, the fourth day in a row of violent unrest, marred Christmas preparations at Manger Square in Bethlehem, where soldiers fired into the air to disperse a handful of Palestinian protesters. Israeli soldiers have killed three Palestinian youths since Thursday. Violence spread Sunday to four Israeli university campuses, where hundreds of Jewish and Arab stu dents protested in solidarity with Palestinians of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The largest protest was at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, where soldiers used tear gas to quell the demonstration. Five Israeli buses were stoned in Jerusalem and the West Bank, with four Israeli passengers injured, the army said. Palestinian teen-agers blocked main roads with burning tires, threw stones and waved PLO flags in demonstrations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, home for 1.4 million Palestinians and more than 50,000 Jewish settlers. In the Gaza town of Khan Yunls, soldiers wounded a 1 9-year-old in the knee when they fired on dozens of Palestinian demonstrators, Palestinian news reports said. The army said it could not confirm the reports. The violence spread Sunday to within 100 yards of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the scene of annual Christmas Eve celebrations. $100 Cash To Win Wet "P Shirt Contest Every Tuesday at WE ROCK LINCOLN' Admiral reflects on Pearl Harbor bombing PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii Four F4 Phantom jets screamed overhead Sunday, and one veered off to create the symbolic missing man formation, ending a minute of silence on the 45th anniversary of the Japanese attack that brought the nation into World War II. Top military officers, representatives of veterans' and patriotic groups and local dignitaries gathered on the USS Arizona Memorial for a 45-minute ceremony to observe the anniversary of the sneak attack. One by one, representatives of the five military services and more than a dozen civilian groups pulled individual blossoms from floral wreaths and dropped them through the memorial's well onto the harbor's still water. The tribute to the 2,40:) Americans killed in the Dec. 7, 194 1 attack on Pearl Harbor and other military installations on the island of Oahu included a warning that the United States must never again allow Itself to be caught off-guard. "With all the keen vision Imparted by hindsight, we may rightly marvel at the complacency wj showed then in a world aflame with war and with a deteriorating diplomatic situation," said Vice. Adm. Huntington Hardisty, deputy commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. 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Gerard Lefevre, 26, designed the hot-air balloon without benefit of engineering background or college degree. He and his brother Mark, 28, sewed "Free Lady" out of 2,200 yards of green nylon and 12 miles of thread in a rented, three-car garage. Gerard, who took up ballooning in high school, designed and built four standard hot-air balloons before hitting upon his first idea for a specially shaped project, a hammer, which he made in 1985. For the Statue of Liberty, he had to mine his imagination to solve several problems. To keep the lady's torch held high and her arm upright, he put 300 cubic feet of helium in the flame to supplement the hot air inflating the rest of the statue. He declined to disclose how he got the spikes in the crown to stand at the correct angle; he's seeking a patent for the technique. Some 300 ropes inside the balloon hold it in shape. Gerard won't say exactly how much they spent, or how-much income they lost by working an estimated 3,500 hours on the project. But the balloon left them "completely tapped out," and they're trying to recoup their losses by finding one or more corporate sponsors to under write a tour, he said. While they wait to find a sponsor, Mark works as a carpentry supervisor, and Gerard operates his Eastern Connecticut Balloon Services, which offers rides and lessons. On June 22, the balloon made its maiden voyage in neighboring Norwich and it's been flown only one other time, at the Adirondack Balloon Festival in Glens Falls, N.Y. It was inflated on July 4 at Secaucus, N.J., but remained tethered. The airship is 170 feet tall including the balloon and the passenger basket, which Mark wove from rattan. The statue section is 151 feet tall, the same height as the real Miss Liberty. The approximately 80,000-cubic-foot balloon, or envel ope, weighs about 350 pounds. ft r , n .I ! 1 o Open Thursday 'til 9 pm! Street (402)47S-0111
