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Associated Press MrWQ T^IflFST NelSS&kan Edited by Todd Cooper JL J_/ f f E # 1 Tu»»d«y,Aprti 13,1993 THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION MEMORIAL PROGRAM. 1-800-AHA-USA1 American Heart Association ■ I ■i i l.v I I II 1 i 1 y ■ ■ I I DANCE CONTEST Every Tuesday 9 p.m. 1823 "0" Street [_^NOCOVER^ I 3 „ Join us in the morning for muffins and coffee! t Don't Forget... Gourmet Cookies 3 for $1 Tuesdays Noon-1 Thurs. Nights 8-1 Opm Ohio prison riot leaves 6 dead LUCASVILLE, Ohio — Part of Ohio’sonly maximum security prison remained under siege Monday after hundreds of prisoners rioted, killing six inmates and taking eight guards hostage. Negotiators tried to work out a deal with some of the state’s most danger ous prisoners, asking them to free one hostage in exchange for a chance to outline their demands to the media. About 450 prisoners were barri caded inside one ccllblock of the prison, located about 70 miles south of Columbus in south-central Ohio. Prison officials said a scuffle among a few prisoners escalated into a riot Sunday afternoon. Ten guards and eight inmates were injured. Negotiations were under way Mon day, said Sharron Komegay, a spokes woman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. The prisoners “arc tired and hun gry. . . .We are at a very sensitive stage,” she told reporters outside the 69-acrc prison. Authorities said the eight hostages were alive. Officials cut off electricity and water to the ccllblock, and refused to deliver food. Prisoners were last fed at about noon Sunday, but they may have stored some food in their lock ers, she said. The rest of the prison’s 1,819 in mates, including death-row inmates, ware confined to cells away from the affected area. Ms. Komcgay said prisoners who took 24-inch batons from guards dur ing the riots killed the six convicts. “I think it’s probably pretty obvi ous who killed them,” she said. “Our staff wouldn’t do that.” The bodies of five inmates were released early Monday. The sixth body was thrown through a ccllblock door later in the morning. Ms. Korncgay said he had been dead for many hours. The head of a state prison inspec tion panel said in Columbus he was not surprised by the violence. “These arc the ones that for the most part cannot get along in any of the other prisons,” said state Rep. Michael Shoemaker, who heads the eight-member House-Senate Correc tional Institution Inspection Commit tee. “There arc a lot of guys who have a lot of lime to sit around and think of bad things to do, and they’re good at, it.” Southern Ohio Correctional Facility' Inmates barricaded since Sunday will not be allowed to tell the media their demands unless they release one of their hostages, prison officials said today. Eight guards were taken hostage after a riot broke out, five prisoners were killed and at least 18 other guards and inmates were injured. 321 inmates refused to take part in the riots and were removed to other cells. m-i Basic information: •Total acreage; 1900 •Acreage under fence: 68.9 •Acreage under roof: 22 •Buildings interconnected by corridors •1,645 single occupancy cells, each 6 ft. x 10 ft. x 9 ft. •"K" and "L" cell blocks house 80 men each. Total: 640 ‘if the death penalty « not ruled unconstitutional AP NATO warplanes flex air power over Bosnia SARAJEVO, Bosnia- Herzegovina — NATO warplanes patrolled above an overcast Bosnia on Monday to begin enforcing a U.N. no-fly zone in the first flexing of thcalliance’smili tary muscle out side its territory. Among the planes was a French Mirage 2000 that went - down in the Adriatic Sea, Pen tagon sources said. The USS Roosevelt ■ .'rr ", 11 i| m j !■ aT T 1 T TJl.^ [■ L 11 STUDENTS! — 1 — Telemarketing Sales Representatives Summer & Year Round $6.50/hr Guaranteed plus Bonuses & Great Benefits Part-time Evening/Weekend Positions •Flexible Schedules ‘Casual Dress •Paid Training «Free Breakfast on Saturdays m <ss, m ' MARKETING Lincoln, MARKETING SERVICES 809 "P" Street SERVICES l N C "A Great Place To Work” l M c aircraft carrier launched a.search mis sion for the pilot, said the sources, speaking on condition of anonymity. The flights were meant to impress Bosnian Serbs of new resolve to en force U.N. resolutions meant to end Bosnia’s civil war. Operation Deny Flight had more political than military significance. The year-long war has primarily been fought with artillery, tanks and infan try. NATO pilots were under strict orders to shoot only as a last resort. Bosnian Serbs bombarded the be sieged eastern town of Srebrenica with renewed ferocity Monday. U.N. offi cials said at least 56 people died in an hour-long barrage. Allied planes arc policing Bosnia from bases in Italy across the Adriatic. Two U.S. Air Force F-15 jet lighters, two French Mirage 2000s and two Dutch F-16s flew the first mission. AWACs surveillance planes manned by multinational crews and Navy jets on the Roosevelt also arc participat ing. NATO officials declined to dis cuss specifically how violators would be dealt with. They said previously that NATO pilots would try to order violators back home or force them to land. Shooting down violators would be the last resort. There were no reports of the NATO planes confronting any aircraft on Monday. One of the Pentagon sources said the French plane went down about 15 miles off the coast of former Yugosla via and another said “there was no hostile action involved.” The French Defense Ministry in Paris had no im mediate comment. King mrors deliberate as troops enter L. A. LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of National Guard troops reported to stag ing areas Monday and civil rights leaders pleaded for restraint as a fed eral jury deliberated the ease of four policemen accused of beating Rodney Shielded from the public’s jitters and the police buildup, the 12 jurors resumed their talksafter meeting Eas ter Sunday afternoon. Scores ofTV trucks, satellite dishes at the ready, surrounded the down town courthouse. Across town, guardsmen banged their rifle butts on the bed of a troop truck in a display of spirit at Califor nia National Guard headquarters in Inglewood. About 600 guardsmen reported to area armories by Monday morning and the Police Department put 200 extra officers on the streets at al I times in case a verdict in the ease triggered violence. Operations will be routine until the jury reaches a verdict, both agencies said. “Unless there is a call for more, they arc going to be here going through somcdrills, training, probably double clicking their equipment,” said guard CapT. Lisa Corrivaia. Deadly rioting broke out last spring after Sgl. Stacey Koon, Officers Laurence Powell and Theodore Briseno and former Officer Timothy Wind were acquitted of most charges in a state trial. In this federal trial, the four white officers were charged with violating the black motorisfs civil rights dur ing a beating after a highway chase on March 3, 1991. The Rev. Benjamin Chavis, newly elected leader of the NAACP, said Monday he was concerned about the buildup of “military apparatus” in Los Angeles. Chavis compared the heightened alert to Operation Desert Storm as the United Stales geared up for war with Iraq. “Law enforcement officials have the responsibility to keep order,” he said. Yeltsin campaigning to save Russian reform MOSCOW — Hilling ihe cam paign trail two weeks before the refer endum on his leadership, President p Boris Yeltsin urged his country men on Monday to support him and endorse the “new Russia” and its post-Communist reforms. L Ycllsin’sspccch to Moscow stu dents was part of a campaign swing -- this week to rally popular support before the referendum. The April 25 vote is aimed at resolving the power struggle between the president and the hard-line Congress. ‘ We must defend the course for reforms together,” Yeltsin told about 1,500 people at the Moscow Aviation Institute. “I hope you have made your choice to support a new Russia.” “In order to act more decisively, I must have support of the electorate in this critical moment. All together, we must make this decisive choice,” Yeltsin, said describing the referen dum as his “last reserve.” On Tuesday, Yeltsin plans to take his campaign to the Kuznetsk Basin, Russia’s largest coal deposit and the center of strikes that shook the Soviet Union in 1989 and 1991. The referendum, approved last month by the Congress of People’s Deputies, will ask Russians whether they have confidence in Yeltsin and if they support his painful economic reforms. It also asks if they favor early presidential and5 parliamentary elec tions. Nebraskan FriVduli^^OTicyM^Siy d^nfi^rS^^ssiwi'i61'0*1'0"8B°®fd' N*brask*^'on34.1400 RSt..Lincoln.NE.Monday through throuQh Friday*?^® 2m hat"access*!? m?PuScatSl8£2d *£?i h!ebra9kan ** P^'ng 472-1763 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday Subtcrlptionprice is$50 for one yeaT ^bUcanons Board For information, contact Doug Fiedler. 436-7862. at Llna2?NE. "** addre9s chanQes t0 the [)ai|y Nebraskan, Nebraska Union 34,1400 R St .Lincoln. NE 68588-0448. 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