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News Digest s^pri<e Supreme Court to review abortion WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court set the stage Tuesday for an important election-year ruling on abortion but left open the question of whether it will broadly reconsider its 1973 abortion-legalizing decision. The court said it will review a restrictive Pennsylvania law that has been substantially upheld by a federal appeals court. Activists on both sides of the abor tion debate said they expect the court to use the Pennsylvania case to under mine its landmark Roe vs. Wade rul ing. They said the decision likely will make abortions far more difficult to obtain even if states are not allowed to outlaw virtually all abortions. The Pennsylvania case will be argued in April with a decision ex - peeled by July. The court was asked in competing appeals from Pennsylvania officials and abortion clinic operators to say point blank whether Roe vs. Wade remains the law of the land. The court’s brief order Tuesday was ambiguous. The justices said they will study the Pennsylvania law’s provisions but did not say flatly they will examine the 1973 ruling. The justices in 1989 allowed stales to make it more difficult for women Status of legal abortion rights Based on positions of each state’s governor, senate and house of representatives, and whether the state currently has restrictions on abortion prior to viability. (PI Most inclined to repeal legal abortions f||j Toss-up Least inclined to repeal legal abortions /-—---^ to obtain abortions, but stopped short of reversing the 1973 ruling. In the Pennsylvania case, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said recent high court rulings eroded the sweeping legal protection Roe vs. Wade gave to women seeking abor tions. Abortion clinic operators appealed the appeals court ruling which al lowed regulations requiring doctors to inform women seeking abortions about fetal development and abortion alternatives, establishing a 24-hour waiting period before abortions can be performed and requiring doctors to keep detailed, public records of each abortion. United Nations tells Libya to extradite terrorists UNITED NATIONS—The Secu rity Council on Tuesday unanimously adopted an anti-terrorism resolution calling on Libya to hand over two men charged with blowing up Pan Am Flight 103. The vote came after Libya told the 15-nation Security Council the Brit ish and U.S. indictments against the men were baseless and the matter should be submitted to international arbitration. It was believed to be the first time the Security Council has taken sides in a legal dispute among member slates. Although the resolution did not use the word “extradition,” that was clearly its intent. The United States and Britain - sponsors of the resolution with France, which seeks four Libyans in another airline bombing - have said that if Libya defies the Security Council resolution, it will consider imposing economic sanctions within two weeks. Possible sanctions could include denying landing rights to the Libyan airline and prohibiting sales ol air craft and parts to the airline, diplo mats said. The resolution approved Tuesday condemns the 1988 bombing of Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people, and the 1989 bombing of a French airliner over North Africa in which 170 people died. Japan tries! to calm U.S. TOKYO —A senior politician retracted his accusation that Ameri can workers are la/.y and illiterate as Japan scrambled Tuesday to put out the latest brushfire in its in creasingly heated relationship with its U.S. ally. A government spokesman sought to soothe American tempers over comments by Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and the head of Toyota Motor Corp. that appeared to back away from an agreement to buy more U.S. cars and auto parts. The furor in America stunned many Japanese, who are unused to seeing Japan’s chronic trade sur plus given such a central role in U.S. politics as it has been in this presidential election year. Japanese politicians and busi ness leaders have made disparag ing remarks about U.S. economic practices for years. The United States, preoccupied with the Cold War and economically healthier, paid less attention. “Many Japanese tend to be lieve that Japanese is still a secret language and no foreigners can understand,” said Scizaburo Sato, a political scientist and consultant “But Japan is a big country now. What Japanese leaders say is easily translated into other languages. They should be more cautious. Few Japanese seem to dispute negative characterizations of Ameri can work and business habits. Many say Americans have only them selves to blame for Japan’s trade surplus with the United States, which the government said Tuesday rose 1.3 percent last year to $38.5 bil lion. Apple on the move at UNL. The CRC Computer Shop has moved and so has all of the Apple Macintosh computer systems on display for UNL students and faculty. Even though we've moved from the Nebraska Union to 501 North 10th Street, the CRC Computer Shop and Apple still offer a wide variety of affordable Macintosh computer systems and an easy credit plan. Stop by the new CRC Computer Shop today and discover for yourself which Apple Macintosh computer system was created just for you! /-\ The CRC Computer Shop 501 N. 10th Street 472-5785 [Monday-Friday 8 a.m.- 5 pm Russia prepares wish-list of aid for international relief conference MOSCOW — On the eve of a 47-country conference to coordinate assistance bound for the former Soviet Union, officials here are making plans to handle the aid, staling their priorities and assuring the West that the dona tions won’t be wasted. Russia has already presented a tentative wish-list for the two-day conference that be gins Wednesday in Washington, said Yevgeny Ivanov, chairman of President Boris Yeltsin’s newly established humanitarian aid working group. The needs include 2.5 million tons of meal, 1.5 million tons of sugar, and lesser quantities of dry milk, macaroni, cereals and edible oils, Ivanov said in an interview Tuesday. The government also wants Western per mission to auction off much of the donated food to commercial distributors so the pro ceeds would be available to supplement in comes of the neediest citizens, including retir ees, the disabled and large families, he said. According to Ivanov, handing out Western food would mean much of it could be stolen or wind up in the wrong hands. Selling it gives officials more protection against waste and fraud while still making the products available to the public, he argued. The Russian government projects 54 mil lion of its citizens will have to be helped this winter because of skyrocketing prices, and shortages of food and medicine. Up to $5 billion in goods and loans will be required to cover the anticipated needs, Ivanov said. He met later in the day with Richard Armitagc, State Department coordinator for humanitarian assistance to the former Soviet Union. He also promised tough measures to combat theft of foreign donations, although he ac knowledged the food distribution system is rife with corruption and black marketeering. Raw weather limits number of raw bodies at Princeton’s celebration of first snow PRINCETON, N.J. — About 65 Princeton University students threw aside their books • and their clothes - for an annual romp in the snow early Tuesday. In a two-decade tradition, students bared all but hats and footwear at the stroke of midnight to run amid the flakes of what they declared was the year’s first significant snowfall. The light dusting was enough for sopho more-class organizers, who had fretted that a mild winter would deprive them of the romp. Participants promised there would be a repeat performance because of the low turnout in 20 degree cold. Usually, several hundred of Prin ceton’s 4,600 undergraduates cavort in the raw. In-the-buff students ran laps around Holder Courtyard on campus and did calisthenics. Some ran downtown. The event drew attention last fall, when worried parents of a prospective Princeton student wrote columnist Ann Landers. She advised that the tradition wasn’t harmful. The university administration generally looks the other way. Nebra&kan Editor Jana Padoraen, 472-1706 Night News Editors Adeana Leftln Managing Editor Kara Walla John Adklsaon Assoc. News Editors Chris Hopfenaperger Wandy Mott Kris Karnopp Tom Kuna Arts A Entertainment Editor Stacey McKenzie Classified Ad Manager Annette Sueper Diversions Editor Dionne Searcey Publications Board Chairman Bill Vobejda, 472*2568 Photo Chief Michelle Paulman Professional Adviser Don Walton, 473-7301 Postmaster: Send address changes to the Daily Nebraskan. Nebraska Union 34.1400 R St .Lincoln, NE 685W-0440 Second-class postage paid at Lincoln, NE ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1992 DAILY NEBRASKAN