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^ The editorial, "Clinton's i - ^ - S( -- % SS iTi il i'_ L _L 1 . . msr., - - • ” ;_ Veterans remember battles, buddies By Susie Arth Senior Reporter Today is a day to honor those who have made our nation strong. It is a day to express gratitude to those who have kept peace in our world. And today isa day logivc thanks to American Veterans for ensuring our freedom. But for Li. Col. Spence Ander son and Gordon Greene, today is a day to remember their experiences during times of war. - it We didn’t know if we were going to come home or not. -Anderson U.S. Air Force navigator It was September 1971 when Anderson left his wife and new born son to fight for America in Vietnam. Anderson, a navigator for the U.S. Air Force, said the war was all a part of his job, all a part of his occupation in the U.S. Air Force. “I knew what I was getting into when I joined the Air Force, I knew I was going to go (to Vietnam),” he said. Anderson, who flew in 73 mis sionsduring the V iclnam War, said about 90 percent of his flights were routine, but the other 10 percent were “stark terror.” Anderson, who was stationed in Guam, said his most vivid memory of his tour in Vietnam was the Christmas Day bombing of Hanoi in 1972. At the lime, he said, Hanoi was one of the best-defended cities in the world. But the worst part of the mission was the six-hour flight from Guam to Hanoi before the bombing, he said. During those six hours, he said, he could do nothing but think in fear about his mission. “We didn’t know if we were going to come home or not,” he said. Staci McKee/DN Lt. Col. Spence Anderson, a professor of aerospace studies, flew 73 missions as a B-52 navigator during the Vietnam war. “We were in a big airplane and didn’t fly very fast... so flying into Hanoi was pretty scary.” Bui in October of 1973 Ander son, a professor of aerospace stud ies at UNL, did come home and was disappointed at the reception he received. ,Americans, he said, were not pleased with the returning veterans because they believed the effort was not as successful as other wars. Anderson said Vietnam War veterans did not receive the rccog nition that had grown to become the norm. “When you come home and the bands aren’t playing, that’s got to bother you for a little bit," he said. “But lime is a great healer.” Greene, a Korean War veteran, said he also was surprised at the absence of recognition the veterans of Korea received. Because Greene believed it was important for Korean War Veter ans to receive their recognition, he decided to become active in the cause. In the summer of 1990, Greene bicycled across the country to raise funds for a Korean War Memorial in California. “1 fell pretty strongly that the See VETERANS on 3 Officers 4 kept busy by crimes By Dionne Searcey Senior Editor n unusual number of major, crimes in Lincoln this fall has kept university police busy, a University of Ncbraska-Lin coln police officer said Tuesday. Ron Lundy, investigator for the UNL Police Department, said offic * ers were working on the cases of Candice Harms, Arthur McElroy and an arson that occurred on university property. “We’ve had quite a semester,” Lundy said. “It’s been major things besides the normal things going on.” , Harms, an 18-ycar-old UNL stu dent, has been missing since Sept. 22. UNL police have worked with local, state and federal officials trying to solve the case. McElroy, a 43-ycar-old UNL stu dent,allegedly aimed a.30 caliber M 1 carbine at a class of students Oct. 12. U N L pol ice have searched McElroy \s home and done background checks on him. See CRIME on 3 Publicity of investigation called mistake By Jeff Zeleny Staff Reporter The rcccni wash of publicity of the minority mistreatment sur rounding the Candice Harms investigation shouldn't have hap pened, an official told Academic Sen ate members Tuesday. “It’s a shame this was made a public issue,” said Eric Jolly, assis tant to the chan cellor and direc tor of diversity and affirmative action. “It in volved our stu dents." State Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha has recently criti cized the University of Ncbraska-Lin coln police department for their han dling of the investigation. Five African-American students, who were classmates of Harms, were See SENATE on 3 Professors analyze Clinton win, new Congress By Mark Harms Staff Reporter_ The election may be history, but specula tion about who won, why they won and what it all means remains a topic of reflection for at least three University of Nc braska-Lincoln professors. Evelyn Fink and Jeff Spinner, both assistant professors of political science, along with Rob ert Sillig, professor of po litical science, spoke in the Nebraska Union Tuesday at a post-election commen tary sponsored by Pi Sigma Alpha Honorary Society. Concerning the presiden tial race, Sillig said he thought it was interesting that President-elect Bill Clinton carried only 53 percent of the vote in Arkansas and that many - of Clinton’s home-state newspapers did not endorse him. “The fact that Clinton wasn ’t overly popular - it / think Bush thought he had a free ride into the presidency. -Sittig political science professor in his home stale changes the idea that a candi date has to have strong support at home,” Sillig said. Sillig said President Bush lost the election partly because he expected to get more credit ior winning the Cold War. ”1 think Bush thought he had a free ride into the presidency," he said. Spinner agreed and said the Bush campaign did not realize, until it was loo late, that there was an “undercurrent of feeling in the United Stales lhal the country was headed in the wrong direction.” He said Clinton represented a new conserva tive style of Democrat, and the deficit would probably prohibit Clinton from enacting tradi tional Democratic spending programs. “ He ’ s not going to end poverty, and he won ’ l dole out money,” he said. Clinton’s action could greatly affect the futures of the two major political parlies in the United Slates, Spinner said. Over the last 20 years, he said, anti-commu nist sentiment has held together the branches of the Republican Party. But the decline of com munism has fostered a division between the Christian right faction of the parly and the economic moderates. If the economy is strong over the next few years, Spinner said, the Christian right will dominate the party. However, if the economy goes bad, Spinner said, the economic moderates will control the party. Changes already have happened in the struc ture of Congress. Fink said the election had produced 110 new representatives and 11 new senators. The Democrats lost nine scats in the House, she said, but probably would hold their own in the Senate. Some of the Senate races still arc uncertain because run-off elections arc needed to decide a winner, she said. Only a few congressional incumbents were defeated in the election, Fink said, and most of them either retired or were forced out because of rcdistricling. The check-writing scandal prompted many incumbents to retire, Fink said. She said 43 percent of the congressmen who wrote l(X) or more bad checks, chose not to seek re-election. Women and minorities made major gains in Congress, she said. Women will have six seals in the Senate compared to two before the election and 47 scats in the House, up from 19 before the election. Thirty-eight African-Americansand 17 His panics will have seals in the House, and one Native American, the firslcvcr, will have a scat in the Senate, Fink said.
