Shuttle ends snag-free trip
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—Endeavour sai led through a clear
sky and landed at Kennedy Space
"" Center on Sunday with seven astro
nauts and their animal brood, end
ing the first shuttle flight devoted
to Japanese research.
“Congratulations on a highly
successful and historic mission,”
Mission Control’s Ken Rcightler
told the astronauts once they were
back on Earth.
The five-man, two-woman crew
made history simply because of
who they arc: the first married
couple in space, first black woman
in space and first Japanese to fly on
a U.S. spaceship.
They achieved another space
first during the eight-day labora
lory rescarcn mission wnn me icr
tilization and hatching of frog eggs.
The resulting tadpoles are the first
creatures, other than insects, to be
conceived and developed in weight
lessness.
“This one will go down as an
outstanding mission: pcrfcctliftoff,
perfect landing and all of the sci
ence working,” NASA scientist
Thora Halstead said after watching
Endeavour come home.
NASA’s newest shuttle landed
on the concrete runway at Kennedy
at 8:53 a.m. EDT.
Endeavour logged 3.3 million
miles during its journey, which
began Sept. 12, and circled Earth
127 limes. It was NASA’s 50lh
shuttle (light but only the second
flight of Endeavour.
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French vote lukewarm ‘oui’
on Maastricht referendum
PARIS (AP)—French voters Sun
day narrowly approved a treaty aimed
at turning Western Europe into a po
litical and economic superpower, but
the close vote tempered the elation of
its supporters.
The outcome of the bitterly con
tested referendum failed to dispel fears
of further chaos on international fi
nancial markets. It also reflected deep
political divisions in France, where
unpopular President Francois
Mitterrand had staked his prestige on
approval.
The treaty is designed to unite the
12-nation European Community in
economic, foreign and defense poli
cies and a single currency by 1999.
The debate over the treaty’s provi
sions causad French voters to worry
whether they would loste their cher
ished sovereignty and threw Euro
pean financial markets into turmoil
last week.
Fears that Germany would domi
nate the new EC were also a factor in
French uneasiness about the treaty.
With all votes counted — except
from twoovcrscas territories—treaty
supporters led 50.95 percent to 49.05
percent, or 13,081,935 votes to
12,596,124.
Professionals and big-city residents
- it
We have just lived
through one of the
most important days in
the history of our
country.
- Mitterrand
French president
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generally said “yes,” while farmers
and laborers leaned toward “no.”
Capitals and financial markets had
anxiously watched the referendum,
whose impact would likely be felt
when trading floors reopen Monday.
The referendum on the Maastricht
treaty, drafted in December in the
Dutch town by that name, was widely
viewed as having more international
ramifications than any election in
French history, although it did not
threaten the EC itself.
The EC continues to function and
will eliminate barriers to trade and
movement of people among the 12
nations Jan. 1.
M iltcrrand, who learned earlier this
month he has prostate cancer, said in
a nationally broadcast address, “We
have just lived through one of the
most important days in the history of
our country.”
He thanked treaty backers, saying
they had put France’s future ahead of
partisan interests. Conservative lead
ers who, like the Socialist president,
had campaigned for the treaty said the
result should not be viewed as a man
date for Mitterrand.
“1 breathed a sign of relief,” Italian
Prime Minister Giuliano Amato said
in an interview on Italian television.
“If the French electorate hadn’t voted
yes, then four decades of work prob
ably would have fallen to pieces with
irreparable damage.”
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl
said that while the approval margin
was narrow, “the French referendum
will give new impetus to the Euro
pean unification process.”
His foreign minister, Klaus Kinkel,
welcomed the news as “a very deci
sive step forward for Europe.” He said
national identities will need to be
taken into account, but that the treaty
should not be rewritten.
“It’s a victory for Europe,” said
Education and Culture Minister Jack
Lang.
“It’s a pseudo-success—a medio
cre yes,” said far-right leader Jean
Marie Lc Pen, who opposed the treaty.
Recycling advisory board approved
By Kathryn Borman
Stiff .Reporter
The Chancellor’s Committee for
Campus Recycling and Waste Man
agement will have some help clean
ing up the University of Nebraska
Lincoln.
During its Friday meeting, the com
mittee unanimously approved the for
mation of an advisory committee to
work with the new recycling coordi
nator.
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mittec proposed that members of the
new committee represent different
areas and entities at UNL, including
students and faculty from the envi
ronmental studies and environmental
planning majors.
Bud Dascnbrock, director of land
scape services and chairman of the
committee, also suggested represen
tation from groups that arc the great
est producers of waste on campus, as
well as those that arc most involved in
implementing recycling policies, such
as the business and finance office.
Student involvement also is a pri
ority.
In other business, the committee
approved making the proposed recy
cling coordinator’s job full lime, re
ducing the likelihood of thccoordina
lor working jointly with other city or
state offices. The coordinator would
report to Jack Goebel, vice chancellor
of business and finance, who UNL
Chancel lor Graham Span icr has askGd
to formulate the campuswidc recy
cling program.
Committee members also sug
gested a wide range of priorities for
the new program, including avoiding
and reducing waste, education and
the purchase of recyclable products.
A model for the campuswidc recy
cling program was proposed by com
mittee member Peter Spalding, an
associate professor of dentistry, who
also serves on the recycling advisory
committee at the University of Ne
braska Medical Center.
UN MC’s program involves an op
erations committee made up of three
to five members, including the recy
cling coordinator, and a larger advi
sory committee that works with the
operations committee to generate and
evaluate ideas, Spalding said.
Based on the UNMC program,
Spalding suggested a number of ac
tivities that could be started immedi
ately by UNL: purchasing more re
cycled products, using a foam densifier
to condense and recycle plastic foam
products, recycling aluminum cans
and educating students and faculty.
Safety
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Raising awareness means educat
ing both men and women, she said, by
encouraging women not to hesitate to
report a sexual assault, even if the
assailant is a date or a boyfriend, and
making sure men know exactly what
constitutes sexual assault.
“Sometimes (male attackers) don * t
think they’ve done anything wrong,”
Yardley said.
Police want to ensure that if vic
tims do not want to report the crime,
both they and their assailants know
they can get counseling through the
university.
“One of the reasons!this is a prior
ity) is it is so devastating,” Yardley
said. “A lot of limes it ruins their
college career. Offenders may face
jail lime and be thrown out of college.
Victims have their trust in people
destroyed.”
The mostcommon campus crimes,
however, are against property, not
people, Yardlcy said. These often arc
petty thefts from cars, residence hall
rooms or of bicycles.
From Aug. 24 to Sept 14 this year,
police received reports of 30 thefts
from buildings, 16 thefts from cars
and one stolen vehicle.
To help combat such crimes, infor
mation tables will be set up at Broyhil I
Plaza from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today.
Students can buy bicycle licenses and
high-quality bike locks at the tables.
“The problem now is people arc
buying $500 bicycles and getting $5
lo S10 chains which can easily be
cut,” Yardlcy said. Bicycle licenses,
which cost SI, allow recovered bi
cycles to be returned to their former
owner and arc required by city ordi
nance.
Safely Week also includes a scries
of panel discussions every day from
Tuesday through Friday. The discus
sions will be from 11 a.m.to 1 p.m.in
the Nebraska Union, and local safely
experts will preside over them. Dis
cussion topics include sexual assault,
personal safely and alcohol
The final panel session will be an
open platform for students’ safely
concerns.
The week’s events afco will in
clude campus safety tours starting at
7:30 p.m. Thursday in the union.
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