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NEWS DIGEST
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Wednesday, Saptambar 1, IMS
Hurricane hits
North Carolina
MANTEO, N.C. — Surging seas
crashed onto the fragile Outer Banks
island chain Tuesday as Hurricane
Emily charged ashore with wind whis
tling around its eye at up to 115 mph.
Hurricane warnings were in effect
along the northern coast of North
Carolina to Cape Henlopen, Del. Far
ther to the north, heavy surf caused
minor flooding along the New Jersey
shore and the southern shore of New
York’s Long Island.
Tens of thousands of residents and
tourists had fled the Outer Banks, the
chain of narrow, low-lying sandy is
lets off the North Carolina coast. To
the north, in Virginia, a swimmer was
missing in heavy surf. The Virginia
National Guard was on alert and res
idents of some low-lying areas were
urged to consider leaving.
The eye wall, the region of stron
gest wind around the hurricane’s calm
eye, began moving over Hatteras by
late afternoon, said Bob Sheets, direc
tor of the National Hurricane Center.
“Then the renter is expected to
skirt along the coast through the night,
finally moving up off of the Maryland
area and then turning rapidly north
east sometime tomorrow,” Sheets
said.
That turn to the northeast would
take the storm back out to sea.
Sheets estimated the maximum
sustained wind speed around the eye
at close to 115 mph as the storm
gathered energy from the warm Gulf
Stream off shore.
Military aircraft and ships had been
moved out of the area. The Navy
moved about 1,800 people from its
Dam Neck Fleet Combat Training
Center in Virginia Beach, Va.. near
the ocean after sandbagging vulnera
ble areas and taping windows.
Path of Hurricane Emily
Conditions as of Tubs, 9 p.m. EDT
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Breakers along the shore at Cape
Hatteras were running 6 to 8 feet at
midday Tuesday. “If we start seeing
breakers in the area of 12 feet, we’ll
get worried about it breaching the
dunes,” said Rick Neuherz at the Na
tional Weather Service office at the
cape.
State wire
Nunn says U.S. mission in Somalia needs to be reviewed
BELLEVUE — Senate Armed
Services Committee Chairman Sam
Nunn of Georgia said Tuesday, it’s
time for the United States to pause and
review the military mission in Soma
lia.
Nunn spoke at a fund-raiser for
fellow Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey.
Nunn said he’s not calling for im
mediate withdrawal of U.S. troops—
but he thinks it is time to review how
the military mission has changed.
“People are now talking about hav
ing a military presence there until
Somalia is stabilized. The question is
when was Somalia last stabilized?
How long has that been? And do we
really know what we’re doing?” Nunn
said.
The U.S. is in Somalia to aid a
24,800-member United Nations force.
Nunn commented a day after some
of U.S. Army Rangers and members
of the Quick Reaction Force raided
the office of U.N. Development Pro
gram employees, mistakenly think
ing it was a lair for fugitive warlord
Mohamed Farrah A id id.
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Kirby Baird, city campus landscape manager, checks lor the serial number on an Illegally
parked bike.
Bikes impounded to preserve nature
By Kara KorshoJ
SUff Report*_
Students heading back to their
bikes after a long day at class could
be in for a surprise. If the bike was
left chained to a tree or post, it
could be gone.
But the University ofNebraska
Lincoln police, not bike thieves,
most likely are responsible for the
loss.
UNL Police Sgt. Mylo Bushing
said students who parked their bikes
illegally during the first weeks of
school could find a red warning tag
attached to them. This tag notifies
the student that the bike is parked
illegally and can be impounded, he
said.
Impounded bikes can be re
claimed from UNL police at no
cost, he said.
Bushing said bikes could be
parked only in bike-storage racks.
If bikes are found chained to trees,
posts or signs, employees of UNL
Landscaping Services will cut the
bike lock with bolt cdtters, or use a
torch to cut through U-locks, and
bring the bike to the UNL police
department, he said.
UNL police impounds bikes
immediately when they are ob
structing handicap ramps or en
trances to campus buildings, he
said. In these situations, no warn
ing is issued.
7 In most situations, however, at
least one warning will be issued
before a bike is impounded, Bush
ing said.
Kirby Baird, City Campus land
scape manager, said landscape
employees entered the serial num
bers of illegally parked bikes into a
computer.
Irthe bike has no serial number,
it will have a detailed description
taken by employees, he said.
Baird said 23 bikes were im
pounded last semester. Most were a
result of repeat offenses.
The bike policy, Baird said, was
not intended to punish students, but
was meant to prevent damage to
trees and plants from the illegally
parted bikes.
Baird said students tended to
park their bikes illegally for the
sake of convenience, not because
of lack of room on bike-storage
racks.
Three new bike-storage racks
have been added to City Campus
this year, he said, but because oi the
construction at the College of Busi
ness Administration Building, four
racks were removed.
The only source for information
about bike parking is in the 1993
94 UNL Parking Services Hand
book, Baird said. But students riding
their bikes to school are unlikely to
read pamphlets about parking, he
said.
Bushing said students who think
their bikes were impounded have
30 days to claim them. After 30
days, the confiscated bike will be
sold at a public auction, he said.
Military cuts expected
WASHINGTON — The Penta
gon’s new blueprint for a post-Cold
War future foresees a U.S. military
that is leaner but nimble enough to
apply firepower anywhere around the
globe.
President Clinton received a de
tailed briefing on the new plan by
Defense Secretary Les Aspin and Gen.
Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff.
Aspin was expected to publicly
release the document today and dis
cuss aspects of it in a policy speech
Thursday at Georgetown University,
officials said.
* Among Aspin’s specific recom
mendations to Clinton:
•Keep 12 aircraft carriers, includ
ing one to train Navy aviators. That is
two fewer carriers than had been
planned during the Bush administra
tion but two more than Aspin once
was considering.
•Cut the total number of Navy
ships to about 320 from the 450 that
Bush had said was the minimum nec
essary.
•Reduce the number of active
Army divisions to 10 from 14, two
fewer than Bush planned, and cut the
active and reserve Air Force wings
from 28 to 20.
•Go ahead with development of
the Air Force F-22 stealth fighter but
buy fewer than the Bush administra
tion planned and go ahead with the E
and F models of the Navy’s F-A-18
strike plane that can be launched from
aircraft carriers.
•Two aircrafts now in the concep
tual stage — the Air Force’s “multi
role fignter” and the Navy’s AF-X
medium-range bomber — would be
canceled or deferred.
•Stop the shrinkage of the Marine
Com at about 174,000 men and wom
en. The Bush administration had set a
target of 159,000, compared with the
current level of about 180,000.
The plan is the result of what Aspin
calls his “bottom up review,” a com
prehensive study of the forces needed
to meet what Aspin considers the four
main threats to American national
security in the wake of the demise of
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We need a force
that's right for the
dangers that we face
today and Into the
future.
— Aspin
U.S. defense secretary
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the Soviet Union.
Those dangers are the spread of
nuclear arms, regional military cri
ses, the failure of democratic reform
in the former Soviet Union, and U.S.
economic decline. Gone is the threat
of global nuclear war that preoccu
pied defense planners for decades.
“It is a response to the new world,”
said a senior Pentagon official famil
iar with the plan. The official dis
cussed it on condition he not be iden
tified.
Many details of the plan have been
reported but much remains unknown,
including the cost. The Washington
Post reported this month that Aspin’s
proposed defense restructuring would
cost about $20 billion more than the
$12 trillion Clinton has said he in
tends to spend on defense over the
coming five years.
Another senior Pentagon official
said that while Aspin’s plan makes
many changes in the size and makeup
of the U.S. armed forces, “I would not
call it revolutionary.”
Aspin referred to his blueprint in a.
speech last week to a Veterans of
Foreign Wars convention.
“I have long felt that if we merely
cut the Cold War forces from the top, •
we’d simply end up with a smaller
Cold War force, but f
we need,” he said. “We need a force
that’s right for the dangers that we
face today and into the future.”
Aspin said his plan was developed
by examining all aspects of U.S. na
tional security, including nuclear de
terrence, international peacekeeping
and anti-terrorism.
-Sports wire
Miami reports on infractions allegations
CORAL GABLES, Fla. —* The
University of Miami has formally
notified the NCAA of allegations that
six former football players received
thousands of dollars from a sports
agent while they were with the Hurri
canes in 1987.
The allegations were made by
former Miami safety Bennie Blades.
“I’ve had a conversation with the
people at the NCAA today advising
them what is being printed here, and
I’ve discussed with them future ac
tions,” Hurricanes athletic director
Paul Dee said.
Blades said he and five teammates
received money from sports agent
Mel Levine, in violation of NCAA
rules. In exchange for the payments,
the players agreed to let Levine repre
sent them when they turned profes
sional.
Blades now plays for the Detroit
Lions. The teammates he named were
his brother, Brian, a receiver for the
Seattle Seahawks; Dallas Cowboys
receiver Michael Irvin; Detroit re
ceiver Brett Perriman; and former
Hurricanes safeties Selwyn Brown and
Darrell Fullington.
The allegations aren't likely to hurt
the university because of a four-year
statute of limitations on such viola
tions.
University officials met with
Levine in 1989 and concluded he had
not given cash to players.
“The allegations so far as we know
are well beyond the limitations peri
od,” Dee said. “We want to be sure
that’s the case. If it is, there shouldn’t
be any repercussions. If that’s not the
case, we’ll have to deal with that
when we find out.”
Levine, who is no longer a sports
agent, has denied violating NCAA
rules.
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