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By The Associated Press Edited by Jeff Singer News digest Nebraskan Wednesday, October 13,1993 U.S. warship retreats from Haitian waters PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Hundreds of militant right-wingers cheered Tuesday as an American warship left Haiti, in a retreat that marked a major setback for the U.N. mission to restore democracy here. The aborted troop deployment threatened to derail international efforts to prepare for the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Oct. 30, U.S. officials in Haiti said. * The National Coalition declared Tuesday a “day of indignation,” stopping buses to keep children out of school and urging their army to resist a foreign “invasion.” “We’re ready to die!” said Jacques Robert, 32, an engineer who with scores of others stayed through an all-night “patriotic vigil” at the dock. “We’ll stay here till Oct. 30. We’re mobi lized. We don’t want Aristide back!” The USS Harlan County pulled anchor just minutes after Pentagon ordered it to withdraw to international waters. Among the crowd of applauding, cheering people at dockside was a beaming, gun-wield ing senior aide to Haitian army commander Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras, who ousted Aristide in 1991. In the match between Haiti and the interna tional community, “Haiti has just scored the first goal,” said the aide, speaking on condition of anonymity. Although U.S. officials say that only a mi nority of Haitians oppose Aristide’s return, military-supported violence has hindered the transition government installed under the U.N. plan to restore democracy. The Harlan County, carrying 472 service men from the United States and Canada, had floated 800 yards offshore since Monday, when military-backed port authorities, in a direct challenge to the U.N. mission, refused it a berth. The troop deployment by 200 U.S. soldiers marked the beginning in earnest of the U-N. mission. About 100 U.N. personnel arrived earlier as an advance operation. The withdrawal followed anti-U.N. demon strations. U.S. Sen. Bob Graham said Cedras refused to guarantee the safety of the troops aboard the Harlan County. Cedras also refused to resign by Friday. Graham, D-Fla., told reporters that Haitian resistance has put the U.N. plan “into doubt.” Also Tuesday, a television crew from WSVN-TV in Miami was arrested and threat ened with execution before be ing ordered out of the country, a station representative said. Reporter Shepard Smith, cameraman Cesar Aldama and engineer Moreau Dugas had ac companied U.S. Sen. Bob Graham and U.S. Rep Alcee Hastings to Haiti, WSVN spokes woman Peggy Phillip said. The three were arrested at gunpoint and taken to a military barracks somewhere in Port au-Prince, she said. “They were told they were going to be executed because they were suspected U.N. military operatives,” she said. After Dugas managed to convince the sol diers that the three were indeed a television crew, they were ordered out of the country and driven to the airport, she said. Europe takes first step to unity BONN, Germany — Germany’s highest court ruled Tuesday that the Maastricht Treaty on European union doesn’t violate this country’s consti tution, clearing the way for imple mentation of the historic accord. The Constitutional Court said it had struck down legal challenges to the treaty, which already has been ratified by the 12 EC nations’ parlia ments or voters. Final implementa tion hinged on the German court’s approval. The treaty calls for opening a Eu ropean Monetary Institute on Jan. 1 as the precursor to a Europe-wide cen tral bank, which is to be in place no later than Jan. 1,1999. The indepen dent central bank will eventually is sue a single currency, replacing exist ing national currencies. Under the accord, the EC nations will work to forge common foreign, security and eventually defense poli cies. The EC will have more powers in education, public health, culture, consumer protection, industry, re search and the environment. . A negative ruling Tuesday would have created a crisis for the EC, which Maastricht treaty milestone Germany's highest court cleared the way for implementation of the the Maastricht treaty. Under the treaty, a European Monetary Institute will be opened on Jan. 1 as the precursor to a Europe-wide central bank mat is to be in place no later man Jan. 1,1999. The independent central bank will eventually issue a single currency, replacing existing national currencies. has staked its future on turning the community into a world power through economic, political and monetary union. The court said it wants assurances that Germany’s parliamentary bodies won’t lose substantial powers to Eu ropean institutions. > State Wire Hohenstein s attorneys appeal prison sentence DAKOTA CITY—A former slate senator who pled gu il ty to felony the ft took the first step Tuesday to appeal his sentence. Kurt Hohcnstcin was sentenced bv Dakota County District Judge Mark Fuhrman on Oct. I to the maximum six years and eight months to 20 years in prison. Hohenstein's attorneys on Tues day filed a notice of appeal with the clerk of the Dakota County District Court. . Hohcnstcin will be eligible for parole in three years and four months and would face mandatory release in 10 years based on good behavior while behind bars. Fuhrman also imposed a $25,000 fine and ordered Hohcnstcin to make $35,354 in restitution to clients . Hohcnstcin was Dakota County attorney, a part-time position, before his election to the Legislature in No vember 1992. In August he pleaded guilty to felony theft, admitting that he took insurance money that was supposed to pay medical bills for clients who were injured in a motor vehicle acci dent. He simultaneous! y resigned from his 17th District seat in the Legisla ture as pan of the plea agreement. Barney Continued from Page 1 morning cartoons? It was probably last week." Observers might not get that im pression judging from the publicity Fox has received Fox has been accused of being a mean person, a child-hater and a con tributor to youth violence. “I was thinking about gettingbusi ncsscards prtried up that said. 'Child hood Dream Smasher,'” he said. Fox said it all started like this: He worked in a local video store last spring. Every day Fox watched children come into the store and race to the Barney movies in the children s section. “They’d yell, * Barney! * and they’d run over to the videos, he said After a while, those kinds of ac tions began to annoy Fox. “When you hear that over and over every day * Fox said, “it's just one of those dislikes you develop.” Barney, a large love-preaching, people-bonding dinosaur character, stars in the television show “Barney and Friends," which aim weekdays on the Public Broadcasting System Fox said he believed Barney’s messages to be useful. He supports Barney’s ecologically sound, peace keeping ideas, he said. But Fox says Barney has become more than just a teacher. He's become an idol. “Kids are addicted to Barney,” Fox said. “It's almost like a kid drug. That’s weird.” The Barney bash is not an attempt to deter children from putting their hopes in a Fake dinosaur, he said. It’s just for fuu. Fox said, and should be taken for nothing more. Barney's popularity and monstrous merchandising have given even col lege students cause to lake notice. The fact that s children's idol ia so perva sive in society makes the event fun. Fox said. While Barney is for children of the '90s. Fox said, college students of the '90s remember their childhood he roes such as Big Bird. Fox said he was ft bit saddened that a new idol is replacing the Sesame Street charac ters he loved as a child. “We're mourning the loss of our childhoods." he said. “We re losins our childhood to a purple dinosaur. Fox's ch Udl ike tendency to protect his own heroes has played a part in his reasons for bashing Barney, he said. “I loved Big Bird. I still nave ‘Ses ameSlrec ’sheets*! home.” Fox said. “I can actually sit down and watch 'Sesame Street.’” Fox said he watched the movie “Rock With Barney” last week, and the show didn't haw; the same effect on him as “Sesame Street" did. “We’re not kids anymore, and ob viously we don’t understand this any more, he said. Beth Ryan, communications man ager Tor The Lyons Group, who creat ed and produces "Barney & Friends." said she didn’t expect college stu dents to relate to Barney. “We don’t gear our programming to college students. Wc don’t care if they enjoy it," Ryan said. “We’d pre fer they didn’t put it on public dis ^f hc bash won ’ t hurt Bar ney ’ s pop ularity. she said. Ryan said Barney had 8,000 members in his fan club. And.she said, Barney’s mamaudi cnce has nothing to do with the “Barney Lash." “It’s a little different than if two year-olds were putting on this dis play." she saul The Lyons woup could file a law suit if a Barney costume was used in the bash, she said. For the most part. Ryan said she wasn’t upset with UPC member’s plans. Mn a perverse sort of way, it s rattier a compliment that they picked out Barney/ she said. "It’s a testa ment Barney is popular." Ryan said she passed the bash off as just another typical event dreamed up bv a group ot college students, urm not so old I can’t remember my college days,” she said. “There’s always something you need to take a stand on. I guess this month it’s Barney.’’ John Harris, UNL special assistant to the vice chancellor for Student Affairs, said bashing Barney was a waste of time. “Why don’t they take up a cause that’s really worth fighting against?” he asked. Harris said his three young chil dren were Barney fans and would probably be saddened to know some one wss planning to beat up their hero. “They wouldn't be happy about it because I teach my kids not to fight,” Harris said. Fox said he realized he might be hurting the feelings of some young sters. When they get older, he said, they'll probably participate in events similar to Barney bashing. Fox speculated how he would re act if a child confronted him face-to facc about the event. “I'd probably melt and turn into a mushball ” he said. “How do I tell some little kid that we’re crushing his hero?" Net?m&kan Editor jMwmFNxpMHck 471-1 m Managing Edhor Wandy Motl Aaaoc. Nawati' - Edt tonal diiora AngtoBnmkow Kara Morrtao, PagaEdhor Kathy Btolnauar VMra Editor JalfWngar Copy Daak Editor Chrts Hdptenapargar Sports Editor Todd Coopar Arts 4 Eniortam Tow MakiaMI • mant Editor Photo Chtof Shaun Sarin Night Nsws Editor* JaWZatony^ Krtottna Long AndraaKaaar An Dtractor David Saddara Osnsral Managar Dan Shattil Production Managar Kathadna PoWcky Advertising Manager Joy Cruse Santor Acct. Exac “ ' “ Pubiicationa Board Chairman DauaPla 4SM497 Protoaatonal Advtaar Don Walton 471-7101 Bruca Kroaaa Tha FAX NUMBER 472-1711 _v l '•*!y Nat>raakan(USP9 144-010) » published by tha UM Pubiicationa Board, kebraaks Union 34.1400 R St. Lincoln. NE. 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The defendants said they didn’t mean for Green to die and said he just got out of hand. Crockett re sponded that it was the officers who got out of hand. - The judge gave Nevers the stiff er sentence, al though both men were convicted of second-degree mur der. A request to extend bail was denial and they were taken to jail. “It is time for the world to see through the excuses and face the truth. Mr. Budzyn and Mr. Nevers killed my husband,” said his wid ow, Rose Mary Green. Witnesses during the officers’ summer-long trial test ified they saw the two white officers repeatedly beat Green with their heavy metal flashl ights outside a suspected drug house Nov. 5 when he refused or ders to open his clenched hand. Greendiedon the way toahospital. SPORTS WIRE— Falcons trade away Dickerson, Pickens ATLANTA—So the Atlanta Fal cons didn’t want Eric Dickerson after all. The winless Falcons (0-5) on Tues day shipped the NFL’s No. 2 all-time rusher to the Green Bay Packers along with former Nebraska defensive back Bruce Pickens for running back John Stephens and a conditional draft pick. “It will give Eric a chance to play, to start,” said Falcons president Tay lor Smith. “Green Bay was real inter ested in getting him and for us it was a chance to get a big fullback in Stephens, something we didn’t have. It just made sense lodo it at this time.” Dickerson was acquired from the Los Angeles Raiders during the sum mer and started the First two games of the season for the Falcons. He played in four games, rushing 26 times for 91 yards. Pickens, the Falcons’ first-round pick in 1991 from Nebraska, had played 20 games, with eight starts in three seasons. The 25-year-old start ed the first four games this season, but missco the last game with a hamstring injury. “Pickens is a guy with a lot of ability, but we just think he probably needs a change of scenery,” Smith said. “For some reason it didn’t pan ait for him here.” Stephens, 27, was the NFL Offen sive Rookie of the Year in 1988 with the New England Patriots. He led the Patriots in rushing in 1988,1989 and 1990. He started all five games with the Packers (2-3) this year, gaining a team* best 173 yands.
