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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.
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Thousands of Muslims
escape from enclave
TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina
(AP)—Thousands of desperate Mus
lim refugees scrambled aboard U.N.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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
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every fight, but I can guaran
tee... I’ll be there to fight
that fight.
—iBenes
ASUN president
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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.
