Protestors attack embassies in Libya
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Young
Libyans with firebombs sacked the
Venezuelan Embassy and tried to storm
the Russian mission Thursday during
a day of protests
aimed at countries
that voted for a
U.N. air and arms
embargo on Libya.
Diplomats said
the attacks ap
peared to have been
orchestrated by Col. Moammar
Gadhafi’s government.
Hundreds of students smashed
furniture and ripped up the garden at
the Venezuelan mission. Others tried
to storm the Russian Embassy and
destroyed four cars when they were
turned back. Peaceful but boisterous
protests were held outside the Bel
gian, French and Italian embassies,
but rocks were thrown at the Austrian
mission.
Women and schoolgirls carried
flowers to the embassies of India and
Morocco, two of the five U.N. Secu
rity Council members that abstained
in Tuesday’s 10-0 vote to impose
sanctions after Libya refused to turn
over suspects in the bombings of two
airliners.
Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry is
sued an unusually harsh protest to
Libya, angrily denouncing the assault
on its embassy and demanding an
official explanation within 48 hours.
The U.N. Security Council held an
emergency session in New York to
draft a statement demanding an
immediate hall to the attacks in Tri
poli.
“This is so transparently and obvi
ously directed to bring pressure on
members of the Security Council,”
said U.S. Ambassador Thomas R.
Pickering.
The United Nations later issued a
statement saying Libya had apolo
gized for the embassy attacks and
claimed Gadhafi opposed the vio
lence.
Libya refused to surrender six alleged
intelligence agents sought in the
bombings of Pan Am Flight 103 in
1988 and a French airliner in 1989,
which killed a total of 441 people.
The sanctions will take effect on
April 15 if Libya docs not hand over
the suspects.
Many Arabs reacted with anger to
the vote. But Thursday, President Hosni
Mubarak of neighboring Egypt said
his nation would honor the embargo.
It was only the second time the
Security Council voted to punish a
country for ignoring its demands on
peace and security. The council took
similar action against Iraq after the
Kuwait invasion.
The official Libyan news agency
JANA said dozens of demonstrators
were hospitalized after clashes with
riot police. Western diplomats said
they had no reports of injured protest
ers or embassy personnel.
Diplomats said the protests ap
peared well planned. They said that
police reinforcements turned up early
at several of the targeted embassies
and that many demonstrators arrived
in buses.
In this tightly supervised country,
demonstrations generally are organ
ized by the government.
About 300 students climbed over a
wall and broke down a gate at the
Venezuelan Embassy compound af
ter two busloads of teen-agers arrived
about 10:30 a.m.. Ambassador Miguel
Raidi said. They hurled gasoline
bombs, wrecked furniture, smashed
liquor bottles and scattered files. Four
rooms burned.
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from $150 to $170, and faculty re
served-parking permits would increase
from $265 to $285. The money would
be used to finance campus safety
improvements such as lighting and
better security.
Mulnix said the way the announce
ment was made was a “mistake,” and
said the administration would now
“slow down, back up and get input.”
“You don’t go through millions of
dollars of budget cuts and then sud
denly come up with $250,000 to
$300,000 worth of improvements
without discussing it with people,” he
said.
Mulnix said a hearing was sched
uled for 2 p.m. Thursday at the Wick
Alumni Center to give those con
cerned about the raise a chance to be
heard.
The hearing will be part of the
regularly scheduled Parking Advisory
Committee meeting.
While the decision to raise the fee
is ultimately Spanicr’s, Mulnix said
he hoped the hearing would provide
the chancellor with a good idea of
what students and faculty members
think about the issue.
“If there’s an overwhelming out
pouring of resentment at this hearing,
we may have to take another look at
the proposal,” he said.
Mulnix also said the sudden an
nouncement was not an attempt on
Spanier’s part to “railroad something
through/’ without getting input from
students and faculty, as some had
charged.
Mulnix said he had spoken with
Andrew Sigerson, president of the
Association of Students of the Uni
versity of Nebraska, and George Tuck,
president of the Academic Senate,
among others, and told them the
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This is not just a tricky way to tack on $20 to
parking fees. It’s just a one-year thing, and I hope
people will come around and begin to see it as a
good idea.
Mulnix
executive assistant to the chancellor
administration was in favor of the
proposal but not the way it was pre
sented.
“This is not just a tricky way to
tack on S20 to parking fees,” Mulnix
said. “It’s just a one-year thing, and I
hope people will come around and
begin to sec it as a good idea.”
Mulnix said he thought the pro
posal still would be approved, but he
said it also might be pul off a ^ear or
ww
be canceled, depending, in part, on
the input given at Thursday’s hear
ing.
“I hope the proposal’s chances won’t
be hurt because of the way it was
released,” he said. ‘‘Trying to make
UNL one of the safest campuses in
the country should be a positive is
sue.”
He said the administration had
agreed to announce the raise three
weeks ago, but both he and Spanicr
were surprised when the proposal was
announced Tuesday.
The administration approves of the
proposal because it is the only way to
pay for better lighting, more phones
and better security, Mulnix said.
“But now, instead of presenting
this as the positive proposal it is, it’s
become a negative issue, and wc have
to make up for lost ground,” he said.
Tom Johnson, who was elected
chairman of the Parking Advisory
Committee Tuesday, said he was in
favor of the open forum, even though
the committee already had taken ac
tion on the proposal.
“We fell that what we did as a
committee was right and that wc were
properly representing all of the or
ganizations wc are supposed to repre
sent,” he said. “But once the question
has been raised, I think it is incum
bent upon us to hold an open forum.”
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