Los Angeles remains calm
after jurors return verdict
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Church
goers rejoiced as the calm after the
verdict in the Rodney King civil rights
case held Sunday. Police, saying the
quiet was hard to believe, considered
whether to pull some firepower off
the streets.
Cries of “Amen” rippled through
the First AME Church congregation
as the mayor, the governor and others
lauded the convictions of two offic
ers.
“We come to praise God for peace
in our city and justice in our court
rooms,” Mayor Tom Bradley told
churchgoers. “(Police Chief) Willie
Williams and I pleaded for peace. .
.we knew we were ready to preserve
the peace in this city.”
Police had prepared for the worst,
fearing a repeat of the violence a year
ago when a state jury acquitted four
white officers of beating K ing, a black
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We come to praise
God for peace in our
city and justice in
our courtrooms.
—Tom Bradley
LA mayor
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motorist. All 7,700 city officers were
mobilized and 600 National Guard
troops stood by in armories.
But peace prevailed after a federal
jury on Saturday convicted SgL Stacey
Koon, who supervised the beating,
and Officer Laurence Powell, who
struck the most baton blows,of violat
ing King’s civil rights after a high
speed chase onMarch 3,1991. Offi
cer Theodore Briseno and Timothy
Wind, a rookie officer fired after the
beating, were acquitted.
“It stayed quiet,” Los Angeles
Sheriffs Deputy Britla Tubbs said
Sunday. “No major incidents. It’s hard
to believe.”
King, who made a dramatic appeal
for calm during the riots a year ago,
didn’t make a statement after the fed
eral trial.
Although some were dissatisfied
that only two officers were found
guilty, a fragile calm settled over a
city fraught with tension since the
night the beating—captured on vid
eotape by an amateur cameraman —
shocked the nation.
At the church in riot-scarred South
Central Los Angeles, the Rev. Jesse
Jackson preached a message of re
building the area and looking for hope
in its ruins.
Thousands mourn Hani;
S. Africa quiet Sunday
JOHANNESBURG, South Af
rica (AP) — Thousands of mourn
ers filed past the open, flower
draped casket of slain black leader
Chris Hani in a procession Sunday
at a soccer stadium.
The crowd stood silently as eight
African National Congress soldiers
dressed in green uniforms carried
the coffin bearing the former ANC
military commander to a large tent.
There were no reports of vio
lence Sunday. Since Hani was
gunned down April 10, blacks have
staged protests that have led to
clashes and looting.
Security forces braced for
trouble during Hani’s funeral Mon
day.
Police arrested a white extrem
ist after the Hani killing, and on
Saturday detained a top leader of
the pro-apartheid Conservative
Party. The official, Clive Derby
Lewis, was expected to appear in
court Monday.
On Saturday, a while gunman
killed two blacks in an attack on a
march to honor Hani, the head of
the Communist Party and a top
ANC leader.
The shooting raised fears that
right-wing attacks could set off a
series of revenege plots and threaten
talks between mainstream 'black
and white leaders on ending apart
heid. Political leaders have said the
talks must continue. _ • _
An arrangement of chrysanthe
mums, carnations and gladioli sur
rounded a yellow hammer and sickle
symbol at the soccer stadium in
Soweto, where Hani’s body lay in
state.
ANC Secretary-General Cyril
Ramaphosa and Communist Party
chief Joe Slovo were among the
leaders in the procession that in
cluded Hani’s family and an honor
guard from Spear of the Nation, the
ANC’s armed wing.
Mock tax form allegedly under investigation
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter
President Clinton has been causing prob
lems lately for some faculty and staff in the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Department
of Economics.
Actually, opponents of President Clinton
apparently are to blame.
A parody of President' Clin ton fs ex tended
tax form that circulated through the Depart
ment of Economics about a month ago has
drawn both laughter and criticism from faculty
and staff members.
And evidently, attention from UNL’s Affir
mative Action Office.
Linda Crump, associate director of the Af
firmative Action Office, said her office was
investigating a matter concerning the College
of Business Administration, but would not con
firm that the inquiry involved the mock tax
Joke is improper in workplace, CBA memo says
torm.
She did, however, confirm that her office
received information about the matter in mid
March “from more than one source.”
The mock tax form — a copy of which was
obtained by the Daily Nebraskan — was la
beled “The Clinton Extended Tax Form For
People With Some Change.”
Included among the form’s filing status
entries with “male’Tand “female” were “trans
sexual,” “cross-dresser” and “wannabe.”
Under the “Filing as” section of the form,
choices included “married homosexual filing
jointly/separatcly” and “married interspccies
filing jointly.”
Also offered were “feminist (if uncertain,
call Susan Faludi, Phil Donahue or Molly Yard)”
and “environmentalist (if uncertain, see Al
Gore’s ‘Earth in the Balance,’ p. 210).”
At the top of the form appeared the question
“Do you want Hillary Clinton appointed to the
Supreme Court?” with a “yes” box. The “no”
choice was blacked out.
The form also included an instruction to use
“environmentally safe, dolphin-friendly, CFC
free recycled label or print with non-toxic ink.”
Gary Schwendiman, dean of the College of
Business Administration, said he had seen the
parody, but was unsure whether it was the
source of the Affirmative Action Office’s in
quiry.
“An Affirmative Action officer contacted
me and told me of an inquiry, but that’s all I
really know,” Schwendiman said. “I’m not sure
if it’s an inquiry into this tax form, which I’ve
distantly heard of, or something else. !
“I just don’t know.” '
However, Pat Kennedy, assistant professor
of marketing and chairwoman of the College
Gender and Minority Issues Committee, sent a
memo to the economics department faculty and
staff on March 19, warning against further
“inappropriate sharing” of the tax form.
The memo, which also was sent to Crump,
Schwendiman and Associate Dean Ron Hamp
ton, said the parody was not merely the “sharing
of political satire between ... colleagues.”
“Such materials or discussions of such ma
terial have no place in the work environment,”
the memo said. “If you contribute to the dis
sem ination of this type of material, you contrib
ute to the creation of a hostile environment and
may be personally liable.”
Schwendiman would not comment on
Kennedy’s memo, and denied discussing the
incident at last week’s CBA faculty meeting.
push for resurgence at centennial
Stenberg says
Democrats up to
same old tricks
By Mark Harms
Staff Reporter ■_
The downfall of the Clinton ad
ministration and the Democrats and a
future resurgence of the Republican
Party were among the main themes
discussed Saturday at the celebration
of the 100th anniversary of UNL’s
College Republicans.
Phil Young, executive director of
the Nebraska Republican Party and
host of the celebration, said the first
year of the Bill Clinton’s presidency
marked for Republicans the begin
ning of the “reign of terror.”
Among the speakers at the Ne
braska Union Ballroom was Don
Stenbcrg, Nebraska’s attorney gen
eral.
He said the responsibility of the
Republican Party now was to hold the
Democrats accountable for their ac
tions.
The policies of the Clinton admin
istration, Stenbcrg said, followed the
typical democratic plan of taxing,
spending and cutting the military.
He said the American people
wouldn’t stand for these policies, just
as they didn’t stand for the policies of
previous Democratic administrations.
“Bill Clinton is headed on a path to
disaster,” Stenbcrg said. “After four
years, we’ll see a new prcsidcni and a
new Congress.”
Stenbcrg said he was particularly
worried about cuts Clinton would
make in the miliialy.
“The world is still a dangerous
place,” he said.
Tensions and conflict in places
like the former Soviet Union, the
Balkans and the Middle East require
the United Stales to maintain strong
armed forces, he said.
“We simply cannot afford to be
unprepared militarily.”
Stenberg said he also was con
cerned about how Clinton would
handle the military in crisis situa
tions.
In order to successfully make use
of military force, he said, a major
national interest, a clear objective and
the use of overwhelming force must
all exist.
Former President George Bush
followed these guidelines during the
Gulf War, Stcnberg said, but Clinton
may not follow them and the military
could revert to the 1960s Vietnam
style.
Clinton is trying to use the military
as a police force in Bosnia, he said,
which eventually would put Ameri
can men and women in vulnerable
positions without a clear objective.
Clarence Hodges, chairman of the
Lancaster County Executive Com
mittee, also spoke at the celebration
and said the Democrats’ attempts to
intrude on the daily lives of Amcri
cans eventually would turn off voters.
“The Democrats have determined
to control not only the resources of the
country but also the people,” he said.
He said power consisted of integ
rity, knowledge and dependability.
These arc the qualities young Repub
licans should strive to possess, he
said.
With these qualities and a strong
party organization, the Republicans
can “recapture what is rightfully ours
— the presidency of the United States
of America,” he said.
Also speaking at the celebration
were Lincoln Mayor Mike Johanns;
Allen Beermann, Nebraska’s secre
tary of state; Cindy Johnson, Lincoln
City Council member; and State Sen.
Kate Witek of Omaha.
Democrats
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Republicans engaging in this kind of
stuff this early, Avery said. “In the
Nixon-Watcrgatc case, most of the
dirty tricks were perpetrated by people
who practiced and honed out their
dirty tricks in college.”
Peterson, though, stood by his as
sertion that no harm was meant.
“You can ask a lot of people about
my long-standing opposition to apa
thy on this campus,” Peterson said.
“(Encouraging involvement) was our
intention.”
Pal Adams, a junior political sci
ence major and First District chair
man of Nebraska Young Democrats,
called the ploy “ridiculous.”
“The whole matter basically
equates lo sophomoric pranks from
people who should know better,”
Adams said. “But I’m pleased they
had ihe good sense to resign.”
Adams said he doubted such con
troversy could reoccur.
“I think in the future, organiza
tional protocol will be used a little
better, he said. "This is just one of
those things you don’t prepare for,
because it s so out of bounds and
deceptive. Good taste just dictates
that you don’t do this sort of thing.
a:<mBui next tipie* we’ll be a little r
more on guard.”
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have a long, well
established track
record of dirty tricks.
—Avery
Young Democrats advisor
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Avery said it would be difficult to
prevent a reoccurrence.
“In America, your political affili
ation is self-declared,” he said. “What
you are — Democrat or Republican
— is what you say you are. There’s
not many ways to check it out.”
Avery said his initial reaction to
the attendance of College Republi
cans at Thursday night’s meeting was
one of anticipation.
“I thought,‘Let’s fmd out if they’re
serious about joining Young Demo
crats,”’ he said. “If young Republi
cans really arc interested in joining
us, we’d welcome them.”
Adams agreed.
“I thought these were some Re
publicans who had seen the light and
come to change panics,” he said. “If
that were the case, I would have wel
comed them with open arms.
“Hopefully, things will go a little
better this time around.”
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