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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.
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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.
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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
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Officers
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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.
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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
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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
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/ 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.
