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Allies hold line, hit Iraqi tanks
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Marine
“jump jets” hammered Iraqi tanks in
the northern sands Monday, while the
USS Missouri held down a new front line deep
in the gulf.
The Iraqis warned they “
would fight the Ameri
cans in the desert with “the V
hit-and-run tactic formu
lated by our ancestors,”
the Arab raiders of old.
The U.S. military
machine woke up Baghdad
with “smart” bombs and
missiles that sent Iraqis scurrying to basement
shelters.
After the Missouri’s 16-inch guns announced
an escalation in the allied offensive, and as
bombs again fell by the ton, an unexpected
peace initiative came from Iran, the only avow
edly neutral nation in the Persian Gulf.
Iranian President Hashcmi Rafsanjani, who
has held discussions with Iraqi and Kuwaiti
envoys, said he was willing to meet with Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein and to resume di
rect contact with the United States to try to
mediate a peaceful settlement.
In Washington, the Bush administration
dismissed the likelihood that diplomacy, not
war, would drive Iraq from occupied Kuwait.
“I think that we’re now in a situation, having
embarked on the course we’re on, that we will
pursue military action until we have achieved
our objectives,” Defense Secretary Dick Ch
eney said.
The U.S. command said front-line Marines
traded fire with the Iraqis across the border
Monday, and Marine pilots reported scoring a
major hit against Iraqi armor.
Four AV-8 Harriers, the Marines’ vertical
takeoff “jump jets,” found and atiac/ced 25 to
30 Iraqi tanks across the border, unloading
Rockeye anti-tank bombs.
“The results, from the initial pilot reports,
were 25 Iraqi tanks destroyed, or at least burn
ing,” said Marine Maj. Gen. Robert Johnston,
chief of staff for Operation Desert Storm.
Marine officers earlier reported that two of
their Hornet fighter-bombers knocked out an
Iraqi rocket site that had fired on allied posi
tions.
The Marines aiso said a battalion-size Ma
rine task force opened up with 155mm artillery
fire on Iraqi ground radar and infantry posi
tions near the Umm Gudair oil field in south
western Kuwait, and Marine light armored
vehicles exchanged cannon and small-arms
fire with Iraqi troops in Kuwait.
No U.S. casualties were reported in those
actions.
Late Sunday, Desert Storm airpowcr pounded
an Iraqi convoy on the move in Kuwait, Johnston
saidrHe said the Iraqis, in a clear attempt to
reduce the size of targets for allied warplanes,
are using smaller convoys than before.
The Air Force’s giant B-52 bombers staged
six raids on the Republican Guard, Iraq’s best
troops in the defense of Kuw ait, Johnston said.
The half-century-old Missouri fired its 16
inch guns in combat for the first time since the
Korean War. The shelling by the giant warship,
which previously launched cruise missiles against
Iraqi targets, was not reported until Monday.
Minorities
to discuss
problems
By Wendy Navratil
Staff Reporter
he retention of minority faculty mem
bers and students and misunderstand
ings between m inori ty ath letes and non -
athletes are the problems that concern UNL’s
delegates to the Big Eight Conference on Black
Student Government.
The 14th annual conference, which the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln will host
Thursday through Sunday, focuses on issues
that affect black students on predominantly
white campuses.
Each of die Big Eight schools sends three
delegates to the conference, titled “Know Your
History: Culture is Motion.” Any interested
students may participate in conference activi
ties.
Tina Patterson, the conference chairperson
and a sophomore nursing student and senior
sociology major, said UNL’s biggest problem
is not underrepresentation of minority faculty
members and students at UNL, but retention.
A study of freshman retention rales done by
Institutional Research Planning indicated that
66.7 percent of blacks, 56.3 percent of Hispan
ics, 76.8 percent of Asians, 76.9 percent of
Indians and 72.5 percent of whites enrolled at
UNL in the fall of 1989 returned for their
sophomore year.
Dwana Williams, Afrikan People’s Union
president and a senior criminal justice major,
said the university environment and the Lin
coln community may hold the answers to why
minorities leave UNL.
For minority faculty members, she said, the
decision to stay at UNL may not be based
solely on their salaries, but on less obvious
factors such as whether UNL helps their spouses
find jobs or whether they feel Lincoln is a good
place to raise their children.
“(Jan. 16) was Martin Luther King’s birth
day,” she said. “Did the city of Lincoln do
anything? Minority people look at that when
they come here.”
Theresa Ballard, Afrikan People’s Union
vice president and a senior ncws-cditonal major,
said, “It’s a shame to say, but between my
friends and me, we’ve had only one black
professor — and we’re all seniors.”
Williams said, “The school (UNL) would be
quick to tell you thatminoriticsaren’tqualified
for the (faculty) positions, but we need to make
sure that they arc actually letting minorities
know about the positions that open up.”
Ballard said the recruitment and retention of
minority students is a challenge APU, which is
sponsoring the Big Eight conference, is better
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LB69 opposed
Senator challenges bill ensuring need-based aid for athletes
By Tabitha Hiner
Senior Reporter__
Fearing the wrath of the NCAA,
Sen. Elroy Hefner of Coleridge
opposed a bill in the Nebraska
Legislature on Monday that would
ensure that ath
letes can receive
need-based fi
nancial aid.
LB69 would
prohibit Ne
braska colleges
and universities
from taking
away need-based financial aid from
athletes because of participation in an
intercollegiate athletic program or
sport.
Hefner opposed the bill during first
round debate, saying he believed LB69
would put the state in violation of
NCAA rules that allow only a certain
number of athletes to earn scholar
ships for each school.
'‘College athletes are regulated by
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/ think it is a mistake..
. to placate the NCAA.
Chambers
state senator
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the NCAA,” Hefner said. “If we want
that changed, then we should go to
the NCAA.”
However, Omaha Sen. Ernie Cham
bers said former Attorney General
Robert Spire told him stale law would
prevail over an NCAA regulation.
Chambers, LB69’s sponsor, said
the NCAA does not follow due proc
ess and would change its rules only if
it were urged to do so by the states.
“The NCAA is an organization
that has not been responsive to the
dictates of justice and fairness, not
just with the students, but with the
schools," he said.
Chambers said he introduced the
bill to ensure that aid programs cre
ated by the Nebraska Legislature would
apply to all students.
LB69 would go “hand-in-glove”
with LB397, a bill signed into law in
1990 that requires the NCAA to apply
due process when it brings action
against a university, he said.
Sen. Chris Beutler of Lincoln said
he wondered about the constitution
ality of the bill’s provision that would
make violation of the bill a felony.
The bill stales that violators of the
provision would be subject to a fine
but would not have to serve prison
time. Felonies normally provide for
prison time.
Chambers said he would be will
ing to lake out specific felony viola
tion provisions against athletic or
ganizations and let universities seek
injunctions.
Those provisions are not neces
sary for the achievement of the bill’s
goal, he said.
“This bill is eminently just,” Cham
bers said. “It is eminently fair. I think
it is a mistake . . . to placate the
NCAA.”
Proposed
f e cl e r a I
budget of
$1.4 trillion
shows record
deficit. Page
2
Woody Al
len’s new
movie, “Alice” offers intelligent
humor. Page 9
NCAA reforms cut heavily into
women’s basketball program, coach
says. Page 8
AP polls rank four Big Eight teams
in the Top 25. Page 7
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Wire 2
Opinion 4
Sports 7
A&E 9
Classified 10
Jury rejects
guard’s suit
against UNL
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Staff Reporter
CU.S. District Court jury on
Monday turned down a for
mer U NL security guard ’ s suit
against the university and former UNL
police detective Ed Mcntzer.
Raymond Mahlberg, a former
security guard at Love Library, sued
Mentzer and the NU Board of Re
gents for allegedly violating his civil
rights during an investigation Mentzcr
conducted while working for the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Po
lice Department.
Mahlberg alleged that Mentzer
continued the investigation despite
the Lancaster County Attorney Of
fice’s decision not to pursue the mat
ter.
Mahlberg’s complaint stated that
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