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I-—WORLD WIRE U.S. accuses nations of unfair trade WASHINGTON (AP) — The Clinton administration accused 44 countries Wednesday of using un fair trade barriers to keep Ameri can products from being sold in their markets. As it has in previous years, Ja pan led the list of alleged infrac tions followed by the 12-nation European Community and China. The 275-page report covered the gamut of trade practices the United States considers offensive to American producers from Japan’s near-total ban on rice im ports to what the administration charged was improper protection of U.S. copyrights and patents by the government of Venezuela. U.S. will send aid package to Russia WASHINGTON—Strapped for cash, the Clinton administration is hundred American helpers rather than huge amounts of money to Russia, officials said Wednesday. The Americans are to help mod ernize farms and factories, create an effective transportation system and remake state industries into private businesses. “Most of this aid.. .is not money that’s going to go from the Trea sury to the Central Bank in Mos cow,” one official said. Rather, money wi|l go to “people from our food industry, retired American farmers, retired Ameri can business executives, people who have expertise” who would go and work in Russia for six months to two years, said the official, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity. Actor killed by blank gun on set WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — Actor Brandon Lee, son of the martial arts movies legend who died at age 32, was hit by a projec tile and killed Wednesday in an accident on the set of the movie he was starring in. Lee, who was 27, was struck in the abdomen when a gun rigged to shoot blanks fired the object He died at New Hanover Regional Medical Center, where he had un dergone surgery. The actor was starring in “The Crow,” an action-adventure film based on an adullcomic book of the same name. NelSra&kan s Editor Chris Hoptensperger Night News Editors Stephanie!Purdy | 472-1766 . Mike Lewis r Managing Editor Aten Phelps Steve Smith Diversions Editor Kim Spurlock Lori Stones z Photo Chief Kitey flmperley Professional Adviser Don Walton 473-7301 FAX NUMBER 472-1761 The Daily Nebraskan(USPS 144-080) is published by the UNL PublicaHons Board, Ne braska Union 34.1400 R St , Lincoln, NE, Monday through Friday during the academic year; weekly during summer sessions Readers are encouraged to submit story ideas and comments to the Daily Nebraskan by phoning 472-1763 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m Monday through Friday. The public also has {Meets to the Publications Board. For information, contact Doug Fiedler, 436-7862. Subscription price IS $50 for one yew. Postmaster; Send address changes to the Daily Nebraskan, Nebraska Union 34.1400 R SL.Lincoln. NE 68588-0448. Second-class postage paid at Lincoln. NE. ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1983 DAILY NEBRASKAN_ Thousands of Muslims escape from enclave TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP)—Thousands of desperate Mus lim refugees scrambled aboard U.N. fcJVIl/a IIOU IV/1V1IVU IIWI - - cease-fire in effect across Bosnia since Sunday was in danger of collapsing. Two of the victims were children who were trampled to death in the “mad rush and stampede” to board the U.N. convoy, which evacuated more than 2,000 people to Tuzla. Four other people died en route, and the 14 trucks were so crammed with refugees that a young, blond haired boy fell off during the journey. The Muslim boy ran after a track, sobbing, until a Bosnian Serb soldier, Maj. Vlada Dakic, boosted him aboard. Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic said he signed an interna tional peace agreement last week in New York because the costs of con tinued fighting were too great. “If we’d chosen the war option, there would be enormous suffering and casualties for an extended period of time,” he said at a news conference. “We weren’t sure we could win the military victory.” Panic gripped thousands of Mus lims trapped by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica, 45 miles southeast of - 44 There was a mad tush and stampede onto the trucks. -Lyndall Saich UNHCR representative Tuzla, representatives of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said. Some of the refugees have been on the run from Serb forces for almost a year. UNHCR representative Lyndall Sachs said the Muslims’ desperation to escape boiled over with the arrival late Tuesday of a relief convoy that stayed overnight to ferry refugees out. “There was a mad rush and stam pede onto the trucks,” she said. The refugees in Wednesday’s con voy joined some 2,346 who fled on 19 trucks Monday. U.N. approves enforcement of no-fly zone UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Security Council increased interna tional pressure on Bosnia’s Serbs on Wednesday by authorizing NATO warplanes to shoot down aircraft that violate a ban on flights over Bosnia. But the council bowed to the de mands of Russia, a longtime Serb ally, and ruled out the pre-emptive bombing of Serb airfields as part of the long-delayed enforcement, mea sure, diplomats said. With the resolution, the interna tional community hopes to pressure Bosnian Serbs to sign a peace agree ment already approved by Bosnia’s Croats and the Muslim government. In another development, the United States apparently persuaded its allies on the council not to endorse or ap prove the peace plan, apparently be cause Washington wants to retain some flexibility should the plan fall through. Union Board Continued from Page 1 major, said she thought smokers’ rights already had been taken away, and they would be further persecuted if they were required to reorganize their daily schedules to smoke. Todd Neeley, a junior* manage ment major and a non-smoker, called the possibility of a, sgnoking ban un fair. “If I don’t want to smoke or breathe someone else’s smoke, I’ll leave,” he said. “Smokers can’t quit their habit just like that. It’s very addictive, and non-smokers should be more tolerant of that fact.” But Nancy Keller, a junior non smoker, said that because even sec ondhand cigarette smoke had been proved to cause a number of lung and throat diseases, it is not a “harmless, individual activity.” “I have bronchitis, and eyery time I walk by someone who’ssmoltiBg, or a room filled with smd«cfSTlnfcfts, Relief said. “It’s theirpttiogH&w to smoke, but they need a separate, en closed area to do it in." “Don’t force it on others,” she said. Two other students who spoke at the forum announced that petitions— one to keep smoking in the Nebraska Union and one to eliminate it—were being circulated, and both nn*A stu dents to sign The Unto ecide whether to allow smote mg in the Ne braska Union during its next too meet! April 13. A « their opinions about the issue. 5DAY, MAY 19 ■ 7PM I CIVIC AUDITORIUM the Omaha Civic Auditorium Box Office (10AM-6PM), TicketMaster Outlets I Homer’s, Pickles, YounkefS & Council Bluffs, HyVee Stores) or chare by phone I 402/422-121 A BROADWAY ENTERTAINMENT, INC. PRODUCTION. Student leaders sworn in Incoming president says students will keep fighting proposed NU budget cuts By Andrea Kaser Staff Reporter The new president of the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska said at Wednesday’s inauguration that his victory had only just sunk in, but that the novelty of it would not keep AS UN from con tinuing to fight the univer sity budget cuts. “Up until now, (the vic tory) seemed like a dream to me, but now it’s a real ity,” Keith Benes said. “The budgetaxe still looms over the university. If that doesn’t scare the students, believe me it should.” AbUN ana the Government Liaison Com mittee will continue to meet with stale senators and university regents to lobby against the proposed 5 percent cut, he said. Benes told new senators they had a respon sibility to fight for the goals set out in VOICE'S platform. Working as a team will fulfill their responsibility to their constituents, he said. *i can’t guarantee we will win every fight,” he said, “but I can guarantee.,. I'll be there to fight that fight.” Before NU President Martin Massengale swore in Benes as the new University of Ne braska-Lincoln student regent, an office that is required of the student body president, he com mended the outgoing president, Andrew Sigerson. Massengale said he had some doubts about Sigerson when he first came to office. Sigerson reminded him of a scrawny freshman football player, Massengale said, and he wondered if Sigerson would be able to fill the massive shoulder pads he had taken on. > But Sigerson gave the role as student regent a new significance, Massengale said. 44 Andrew has been a real force this past year in working for students,” he said. “His presence has been felt on the Board of Regents.” Showing his approval of Sigerson, Masacngale gave him a Nebraska football hel met. In Sigcrson’s farewell speech, he said ASUN had stuck to its principles throughout the year. “Wc said what we were gonna do and then we did it,” he said. “Is there anything else student government should be expected to do? Sigerson said ASUN stuck to its positions on safely, parking, student fees and minority af fairs. Even though many students say student government doesn’t make a difference, Sigerson said, ASUN has done so over the past year. “Wc challenged that thought and we said, ‘We will make a difference, he said. Sigerson, like Bcnes, said later the reality of leaving office hadn’t sunk in. “I don’t think it’s hit me yet,” he said. “I’m gonna miss it” New senators in stiff suits, dresses and tics nervously came forward to take the places of the exiling senators, who, although dressed the same, were more at ease with a year of ASUN already behind them. Some, however, did not have to give up their places. Trent Steele was re-elected as first vice ^ * — mm / can't guarantee we will win every fight, but I can guaran tee... I’ll be there to fight that fight. —iBenes ASUN president . .. ■■ — 99 ” president. Doug Oxley and Michelle Dyer, senators for the Graduate College, were also re elected. Massengale told the new officers and sena tors they soon would feel the weight of their responsibility. “When you take action or speak, you’ll know that someone is listening,” he said. Their duly as leaders is to speak and behave m a way that honors their constituents, he said. All three outgoing officers, including Sigerson, Steele and former Second Vice Presi dent Elizabeth Healey gave speeches, as well as the new officers, Benes, Steele ami Second Vice President Jill Anderson. Before the inauguration ceremonies, the outgoing senate approved a new bylaw that would give minority student groups $1,000 for travel expenses to educational conferences. Hall of th© money would come from the ASUN budget and the other half from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs.