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New |p Editedby^icto”* Ayotte More E. Germans attempt emigration PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia - A West German diplomat rescued an East German grabbed by a policeman Monday as he tried to scale a fence into Bonn's mission. However, most Czechoslovak police relaxed their controls, letting hundreds more refu gees enter the compound as a new diplomatic dispute built over the is sue. East German refugees inside the embassy said they numbered more than 2,000 by late Monday and more than 100 additional refugees were arriving hourly. In a formal protest delivered to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's office, East German envoy Horst Neubauer said his government demanded that the new refugees be "turned out of the embassy and re turned to East Germany." The latest rash came after 7,000 East Germans were allowed to leave West German embassies in Prague and Warsaw over the weekend for West Germany. More than 32,000 East Germans have arrived in West Germany since Sept 10, when Hungary opened its western border with Austria and the numbers of refugees occupying Bonn’s embassies swelled. On Monday, both East Germany and Czechoslovakia accused West Germany of breaking its word by harboring new refugees, going back on conditions it agreed to in gaining release of the earlier refugee throng. Kohl spokesman Hans Klein de nied any such agreement West German officials said they would press East Berlin to let the new arrivals leave for the West - • Geechoslovak police continued patrols outside the embassy Monday but relaxed controls eojxidcstrigns and drivers, witnessedreported, i Nearly 10,000 people marched through Leipzig, East Germany, chi Monday, demanding legalization of opposition groups and adoption of democratic reforms. Disagreement persists Bush, Mubarak discuss peace efforts in Mideast WASHINGTON - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met with President George Bush Monday on Mideast peace efforts and said he saw a “golden opportunity” for a break* . through between Israel and the Pales tinians. Mubarak said failing to seize the opportunity “would be a grave mis take” and that he and Bush agreed “to work closely together in order to utilize the existing momentum.” “The continuation of the status quo is hazardous to both” Israel and the Palestinians, the Egyptian leader ' told reporters after an Oval Office session lasting nearly an hour. As Mubarak promoted his plan, which includes a demand that Israel agree in principal to giving up seized lands, aides to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said the Israeli leader does not intend to alter his own Pales tinian peace initiative. Shamir's plan calls for elections in the occupied territories to choose delegates for negotiations with Israel. However, final status on the lands occupied by Israel since the 1967 Middle East war would be decided later. Mubarak told reporters here the essential next step in the peace proc ess is to persuade the Israelis and the Palestinians to enter into a dialogue ‘ * without preconditions.’ ’ Yeutter promotes elimination of non-tariff trade barriers MILWAUKEE - U.S. Agriculture Secre tary Clayton Yeutter told Midwest governors Monday non-tariff trade barriers must be eliminated to restore order to international agriculture. “For all practical purposes, agriculture is an anarchy in terms of internationaltrade,’’ Ycut ter said during the keynote address to the Midwest Governors’ Conference. He called upon the governors to make a top priority of working with the federal govern ment and business leaders to eliminate export subsidies, which he said impeded U.S. fanners competing in international markets. “Export subsidies are probably the most onerous of all the trade barriers. They probably hurt your states more than anything else,'' he said. He said import constraints, which can be hidden f rom negotiations, are another type of trade barrier that hurts international agricul ture. “We wear a relatively white hat in this area compared to some of our trading partners. Everybody has a techique designed tokeep out imports,’ ’ he said. The United States should convert non-tariff barriers into tariffs because the latter cannot be hidden and can be negotiated down, he said. As an example, he cited negotiations last year that opened die door for U.S. exporters to trade in Japanese beef markets. “We convinced the Japanese to convert all their barriers into tariffs,” he said. Yeutter said the farm bill Congress must write next year will have to alter national agriculture policies to encourage the develop ment and sale of new products. He cited Canada’s decision to grow canola, a better oil seed than soybean, as an example of how research and development can spawn new markets. “Canola is today being grown primarily in Canada and shipped into the U.S.,” he said. “We ought to be mowing canola in the U.S. and slueping it to Canada. ‘ ‘Who is it that says we should be growing com and soybeans in Iowa and Nebraska for the next thousand yean? We ought to be grow ing what is most profitable,” be added. Stales should allocate more money to re search and technology, even in these time of budget constraints, Yeutter added. “If we don’t retain our Jge over the rest of the world through research and technology , we are not going to be competitive internation ally,” he said. “We’ve got to open market opportunities from value-added products around the world.” “It is important, imperative, indispensable that we sell aggressively oversees. He who is not aggressive internationally is lost. Market shares are the name of the game,” he said. NetSra&kan Editor Amy Edwards Photo Chief Eric Gregory 472-1746 Night News Editors Erie Ptsmwr Managing Ea<ur Jana Hlrt Oanda Wlegarf Assoc News Editors Brandon Loomis Librarian Vtetcrte Ayotte Ryan Staavea Art Director Andy Manhart Editorial Pwp Editor LaaRaed General Mantger DanRhattH Wire Editor Victoria Avail* Poductton Manager Kattiari/w PeMcky Copy Dess Editor Dcanae ttdlaaa'' 'Advertising Manager Jon Daabnkd Sports Editor Jeff Ap«t .. r SRas Manager Kerry Jeffries Arts 6 Entertainment — — - -PuWteattona Board Editor Uaa Donovan Chairman Pam Hein Diversions Editor Joath Zucoo 472-2866 Sowar Editor Lae Rood Professional Adwaer Don Walton Supplements Editor Chrie Carroll 473-7301 Graphics Editor John Bruce The Daily NefraskarVUSPS 144-000) iapubkghed by the UNL PubiicattonaBQprd.Na braska Union 34.1400 R St.. Lincoln. ME. Monday through Friday during toe academic year; weak* during summer jesslons___ •_- Nebraskan _____ tfi-sebtS90 the Deify Nsbraakan . NwDeski^Jnion 34.1400 ! All— nimVii—limn ■ i , . T ' ■ ■ m ~ / ■■ - i White supremacists plan march in Tennessee PULASKI, Tenn.—Strip away the orange ribbons, and Pulaski’s court house square could be a movie set for an archetypal Southern town, where a Confederate hero stands on a pedestal and pickup tracks sport Dixie flags. But the orange “brotherhood color” affixed to storefronts, lamp posts, car antennas and coat lapels is meant to make sure no one confuses. Pulaski residents with the white su premacists who plan to march through town Saturday. “These people are outsiders and this county is a victim of r^>c by these groups," said author Gregory Modbhaid, who owns a farm in the area and helped organize the ami march campaign. Restaurants, stores and markets have agreed to close for the day throughout'Jk town of about 8,000 people 90 miles souiii of Nashville, . Venn. Residents have been asked to V stay off the streets, and churches have planned activities to keep children and teen-agers away from downtown. The racists are attracted to Pulaski by the town s role in the history of the Ku Klux Klan. The group was founded in Pulaski in 1865 as a reac tion to what community leaders saw as a threat by carpetbaggers and for mer slaves after the Civil War. It was disbanded four years later after the Legislature passed an anti Klan law. The mooera Klan was formed outside Atlanta in 1915 by a tamer minister who added Jews and Catholics to the group's list of ene mies. The Klan began marching in Pu laski annually in 1986 to protest the Martin Luther King national holiday. Tteparactes typically draw fewer than 100 marchers. Community lead en say as long as the racists obtain the proper permits and follow other rules they can't be stopped. “It started out as 35 to 40 old boys putting on their bed sheets and marching around the square harangu ing,” said Mcdon&ld, author of the “Fletch” mystery novels. “These people considered the town’s silence tacit approval. Nothing could be fur ther front the truth.” Town leaden decided it was time to act when the Aryan Nations ot Hayden Lake, Idaho, announced plans to march here this year. “We’re just not going to let our town be taken overby bigots and bate mongers,” said Bettie Higgins, di rector of the Chamber of Commerce. Butler’s group claims several hundred members across the county. but he did not know how many uj expect on Saturday. “All members oi our race are welcome,” he said when asked whether Klan members and skinheads would march. He said die town’s condemnation “doesn't bother us a bit”