Page 2 By The Associated Press Edited by Jeff Singer NEWS DIGEST Nebraskan Friday, Saptambar 3,1993 Clinton says intervention possible in Bosnia WASHINGTON — President Clinton said Thursday that the option of military strikes “is very much alive” in Bosnia if there is a resump tion of the shelling of Sarajevo or an interrup tion in humanitarian relief deliveries. The president also held out hope for a quick resumption of peace talks that broke ofTW ednes day. “They are stalled,” Clinton said. “I don’t believe they are collapsed. The United States will do everything it can in the next few days to get the parties to resume the talks in good faith.” Clinton made his comments in a brief ex change with reporters after Secretary of State Warren Christopher, in unusually blunt terms, called on Serbia and Croatia to yield to de mands from Bosnian Muslims for a larger chunk of territory. Christopher said the negotiations suspended in Geneva should be resumed, and Serb and Croat negotiators “should show greater flexi bility.” If there is a breakdown “because of the stubbornness of the Serbs or the Croatians, the world community will certainly hold them responsible,” Christopher said. At the White House, Clinton described con ditions under which NATO might unleash air strikes in Bosnia. “If, while the talks are in abeyance, there is abuse by those who would seek to interfere with humanitarian aid, attack the protected areas and resume the sustained shelling of Sarajevo, for example, then, first I would remind you that the NATO military option is very much alive.” He said he also continues to favor lifting the arms embargo to supply military assistance to Bosnian Muslims, but said U.S. allies continue to oppose that course. Stiff messages, known to diplomats as demarches, were sent to Presidents Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and Franjo Tudjman of Croatia, outlining the tough U.S. position. The United States supports the Muslims in their three main demands, a senior U.S. official said. These are that Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzego vina, have a corridor to the sea, that the Muslim area in the around Bihac be enlarged and that a corridor be established between that area and a Muslim enclave in the center of the country. The negotiations in Geneva collapsed unex pectedly Wednesday night after Muslim nego tiators declined to accept a draft peace accord unless the Serbs and Muslims agreed to cede them more land. Christopher’s strong support for the Muslim position, in an exchange with reporters outside his State Department office, should strengthen the Muslims’ bargaining position ifthe talks are resumed. Christopher said the United States “deeply regrets” the breakdown in negotiations. — 44 11 1— (If then Is a bnakdown) because of the stubbornness of the Serbs or the Croatlans, the world community will certainly hold them responsible. — Christopher Secretary of State -f* - “It’s our evaluation that with the parties close to settlement and with the winter coming on it would be especially tragic if they don’t grasp the opportunity to contain the settlement that seems to be within reach,” he said. Texan leaves racism, ends up shot to death BEAUMONT, Texas — William Simpson was the last black to move out of all-white Vidor, saying he feared for his life. Hours after arriving in nearby Beaumont, he was killed by a gunman who tried to rob him, police said today. The shooting Wednesday night did not appear to be linked to the failed desegregation of Vidor’s public hous ing, police said. A 19-year-old sus pected gang member was arrested in the killing this morning, they said. Simpson’s new landlady said he had told her of his great relief to be back in Beaumont. “He kept say trig he was borne and he was happy and he was content,” LinMarie Garsee said in a telephone interview Thursday. “He was a giant of a man with a heart the size of Texas.” Simpson, 37, was walking along a street with a friend when they were confronted by a group of black men that drove up in a car and demanded money, said pol ice dispatcher Beverly Slaydon. When he refused, one of the men shot him with a 9mm pistol. He was hit five or six times as he tried to flee and died a short time later at a hospital, police said. His friend, Lydia Washington, was shot in the leg. Simpson and several other blacks moved to Vidor, six miles from Beau mont, six months ago afler a court ordered a public housing complex there to accept black residents. But repeated harassment fright ened the blacks out of town. Simpson and another man, John DecQuir, were when they departed this week. They had been the first black res idents of Vidor, home to 11,000 peo ple, in at least 70 years. Ms. Washington, who was in sta ble condition at St Elizabeth Hospi tal, said she doubted the shooting was motivated by racism or related to Simpson’s involvement in the inte AP gration of Vidor’s public housing. Police said another robbery and shooting had occurred in the area earlier and &ey were regarding Sim Police spokesman Butch Pachall said the teen-age suspect would be charged with capital murder. The oth er three assailants remained at large and the murder weapon was not re covered, he said. “It’s just a matter of time. We’ll get the other three,” he said. fifc SPORTS WIRE Huskers, Washington expected to win openers on Saturday Revenge will be a prime moti vation for both teams in Saturday’s Washington-Stanford game. No. 15 Stanford wants to end its nine-game losing streak against Washington, including last year’s embarrassing 41-7 defeat. And No. 12 Washington is furious at Stanford coach Bill Walsh, who called the Huskies “mercenaries” in an offseason speech that harshly crit icized the school’s football pro gram. Walsh later apologized and was reprimanded by the Pac-10 Con ference, but W ash ington coach J im Lambright hasn’t forgotten the re marks. “He’s got such a classy image, but it’s hard to find class in what he said,” said Lambright, who took over Aug. 22 after Don James re signed to protest a two-year bowl ban and other sanctions against Washington by the Pac-10. The furor over Walsh’s com ments and Washington’s off-the field problems have almost over shadowed the early showdown be tween last year’s Pac-10 co-cham pions. “We’re very young and inexpe rienced, but we’re also very intense and enthusiastic,” Walsh said. “I think we’ll get better and better as the season progresses.” Washington has won 13 straight at home, while Stanford has lost six consecutive season openers. Both streaks will continue ... WASH INGTON 24-21. No. 1 Florida St. (minus 31) at Duke — Seminoles roll in ACC opener... FLORIDA ST. 48-14. No. 2 Alabama (minus 34) vs. Tulane at Birmingham — Tide’s 23-game winstreak is nation’slong est... ALABAMA 42-7. Washington St. (plus 23 1/2) at No. 3 Michigan—Wolverines seek ing sixth straight Big Ten title ... MICHIGAN 52-10. No. 4 Miami (minus 6 1/2) at No. 20 Boston College—BC’slast win over Hurricanes was 1984 “Hail Mary” game ... MIAMI 28-14. LSU (plus 19) at No. 5 Texas A&M — Aggies have won 21 straight in regular season ... TEX AS A&M 35-7. Ball St. (no line) at No. 6 Syra cuse— David Letterman’s school no match forOrangemen... SYRA CUSE 56-7. Northwestern (plus 28) at No. 7 Notre Dame — Irish have beaten Wildcats 12 straight times ... NOTRE DAME 28-10. Arkansas St. (no line) at No. 8 Florida—Why?... FLORIDA 58 0. North Texas (no line) at No. 9 Nebraska — Another easy opener for the Comhuskers ... NEBRAS KA 52-0. Louisiana Tech (no line) at No. 10 Tennessee—Vols’ Heath Shuler is one of nation’s best QBs... TEN NESSEE 47-13. ' U.S. to get health reform WASHINGTON — The White House said Thursday that President Clinton’s health reform plans would provide coverage for “the vast major ity” of Americans by 1996 and for everyone else by December 1997. The White House also said it would likely propose a new tax on cigarettes to help pay for the retorms, but the amount has not been decided. The White House also said it would seek to monitor and prohibit compa nies from making excessive profits dwringtheifsftstilori to the new health care system. But price controls would not be imposed on die $900 billion industry, the White House said. President Clinton himself said Thursday that price controls “were never alive. I’ve never embraced them. I’ve never been particularly hot on price controls.” The White House issued a state ment on Thursday concerning the implementation of the system saying: “We expect the new system will be up and running in a number of states by 1995. The vast majority of the Amer ican people will have guaranteed cov erage by 1995. “There will be a firm, deadline of December 1997 for any remaining states that are not yet a part of the system,” it said. It said there will be no new, broad based tax to pay for health reform, but “there is likely to be a tax on ciga rettes; the amount has not yet been decided.” Clinton plans to require all em ployers and employees to help pay for health insurance, with subsidies for low-wage workers and small busi nesses. Some 37 - are now without insurance, and mOst i of them are workers or their depen dents. White House officials have said privately these subsidies may cost $60 to $70 billion a year, but they expect to get most of that money by redirecting existing Medicare and Medicaid funds that help pay for care for the poor and uninsured. -state wire AIDS cases in Nebraska on the rise OMAHA — Nebraska’s 1993 tally of AIDS cases has hit 160. State Department of Health of ficials say that 22 new cases of acquired immune deficiency syn drome were reported in August, including only the second teen ager to get the disease in Nebraska. The Department of Health says that this year’s AIDS total could be more than 200 because of a new, broader definition of the disease that took effect in January. Last year, there were 60 cases. Seventeen of the 22 cases re ported in August fit under the new definition, said Marla Augustine, a Department of Health spokeswom an. The August reports involved 18 males ami four females. Since reporting began in 1983, 471 Nebraskans nave been diag nosed with AIDS. Of those, 251 people have died. NetSaskan FAX NUMBER 472-1761 The Daily Nebraskan