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■-- h— -IP—I—1—I ' Nebraska vs. Washington 70/42 Partly sunny and breezy today. Colder tonight. Tomorrow, mostly sunny, high in low 70's. ■m li ibi-iLi i-\n\ —Esmigia Chambers, NU analyze Baldwin shooting Senator planning to study contradictions in police statements By Chuck Green . Senior Reporter Three weeks after the shooting of a Uni versity of Nebraska-Lincoln student by Omaha police, Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha remains unsatisfied with official re ports of the incident. Chambers said he would try to gather as much information as possible from police and witnesses about the shooting, which left An drew Scott Baldwin paralyzed from the chest down. Baldwin, 23, a former Comhuskcr football l player, was shot Sept. 5 during a scuffle with two Omaha police officers when he allegedly tried to grab the holstered gun of one of the officers. Chambers said there were enough contra dictions between witness reports and official police reports to merit further .investigation, possibly at the federal level. Chambers de clined to specify what action he had in mind. “I don’t want to say right now what I’m planning, but I will say that I’m not going to rule out any possibilities,” he said. “I’ll explore all avenues to find what the best route will be to take.” Chambers said police accounts of the inci dent had changed over the last three weeks and contradictions existed among police and wit-^ nesses. The contradictions, he said, include the fol See CHAMBERS on 2 William Lauer/DN Marilyn Quayle, wife of Vice President Dan Quayle, signs an autograph after landing at Duncan Aviation Thursday. ’ Marilyn Quayle pursues votes at area fund-raiser By Susie Arth Senior Reporter Marilyn Quaylc urged Nebraskans Thursday lo keep the “new breeze” blowing across the world by re electing George Bush as president. Quaylc asked about 2(X) supporters dur ing a campaign fund-raiser at the Cornhusker Hotel lo think of the free states of the former Soviet Union, the democratic countries sprouting in Africa and the fall of the Berlin Wall. “We see a world that is forever changed,” she said._ ~ These changes occurred, Quayle said, because Bush knew the importance of main taining a strong military to keep peace around the globe. With these changes, she said, come new challenges that Bush and her husband, Vice President Dan Quayle, arc prepared to meet. The challenge of worldwide depression is one that can be solved with innovative ideas, she said. The opening of new markets across the world, Quayle said, creates jobs in the United States and cases unemployment. See QUAYLE on 2 NU not responsible for Baldwin’s medical costs, official says By Chuck Green ■ Senior Reporter rt is unlikely that the Nebraska athletic department will pay medical and psychi atric costs for Andrew Scott Baldwin, an official said. Gary Fouraker, assistant athletic director for business affairs, said Nebraska’s athletic de partment bore no responsibility for costs result ing from the Sept. 5 shooting by an Omaha police officer that left Baldwin paralyzed from the chest down. Fouraker said injuries to Nebraska athletes were covered by insurance only if the injuries occurred during competition, practice or condi tionings or were otherwise related to the sport. Because Baldwin’s injury was not related to footbal 1, Fourakcr said, the athletic department’s insurer, National Sports Underwriters, would not cover the bill. “I don’t sec us paying for anything else at this point,” Fourakcr said. “We don’t feel we have any responsibility for injuries Scott re ceived in the shooting.” „ 4 Baldwin was shot by an Omaha police offi cer when he allegedly tried to grab another officer’s gun during a scuffle. Witnesses at the scene said Baldwin, who was nude, was trying to throw his body through a glass door. Baldwin apparently was suffering his sec ond psychotic episode in eight months when the incident occurred. See FOURAKER on 3 Bennett confident that U.S. will win drug war Drug use by young is diminishing, says former “drug czar” By Jeremy Fitzpatrick Staff Reporter America is in a drug crisis, but not for the first time, William Bennett said Thurs day. Bennett, who served as “drug czar” in the Bush administration between 1989 and 1990, said the United States had endured an other crisis with drug use in the late 1800s and early 1900s. “We cannot do this lime what we did last time,” he said. “...We so successfully beat it, we have forgotten it ever happened.” Bennett spoke be fore about 1,250 people at the Lied Center for Performing Arts. His lecture was sponsored by the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Is William Bennett suc.s: He said a drug war was going on in the United Slates and in the world. Somccvidcncc shows thatefforts against illegal drug use arc succeeding in the United Slates, he said. Bennett said 23 million people used drugs once a month in 1989. That number is down 40 percent, he said. He said drug use among young people also was declining — the single most important factor in the drug war. “If children arc getting the message, we are prevailing,” he said. “And if you slop people at the point of entry, you pretty much slow the epidemic.” One statistic that is not dropping, Bennett said, is the number of people addicted to drugs. “When people become addicted, a certain percentage will not get off... for any reason,” Students protest Bennett’s stance on drugs. See story on 3. he said. Between 1 million and 1.5 million Ameri cans arc addicted to drugs, Bennett said. That number will be cut in half within 10 years, he said, because many of the addicts will die. Bennett spoke of the national drug strategy that he helped develop when he served in the Bush administration. The strategy still is widely accepted, he said. One of the principal elements of the strat egy, he said, is interdiction,or the prevention of drugs from entering the country. “This is our country, and you can’t just stand there and let people walk in with any poison they want,” he said. Bennett said the United States was too large of a country to completely prevent the impor tation of drugs. What he tried to do as drug c/.ar, he said, was to raise the price of drug traffick ing. “We haven’t stopped (trafficking), but we have made it more difficult,” Bennett said. The United States also aimed its efforts at negotiating with the countries where drugs such as cocaine and heroin were produced, Bennett said. He said cocaine primarily was a product of Bolivia, Peru and Colombia. Heroin, he said, is imported from Laos, Burma and Thailand. Negotiating with the countries produced mixed results, he said. “We did sec some efforts and some reduc tion,” he said, “... and 1 think that’s an effort we need to continue.” Overall, Bennett said he was confident the United States would win its war on drugs. “1 think we will prevail in this effort,” he said. He isoptimistic, he said, because the Ameri can people arc behind the drug war. “The single most important thing was the American people figuring out for themselves that this was wrong,” he said. bill would ban freshman parking FromStatt Reports I T NL freshmen may have to look clse II where for parking spaces if AS UN sup ports a bill banning first-year students from parking on campus. But AS UN President Andrew Sigerson said he would be surprised if the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska sup ported the bill, which was written last year. Sigerson said, however, that a ban on fresh man parking would have a good chance of being put into effect with ASUN’s support. Senators will discuss the bill in two weeks, he said. If AS UN supports the bill, Sigerson said, the idea will be presented to the Parking Adv i sory Comm ittcc for con If the bill passed, he said, the university probably would obtain large parking lots off campus for freshmen and provide a shuttle service.
