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
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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?"
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Detroit police officers escape
life sentence in murder trial
DETROIT — Two former po
licemen convicted of beating a
motoi ist to death outside an inner
city crack house escaped life sen
tences Tuesday, one getting 12 to
25 years behind bars, the other
eight to 18 years.
Judge George W. Crockett III
said Larry Nevers and Walter
Budzyn must be held accountable
even if they didn’t intend to kill
Malice Green, 35, an unemployed
steelworker who suffered at least
14 blows to the head and had part of
his scalp tom off.
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.
