By The
Associated Press
Edited by Kristine Long
NEWS DIGEST
Netjraskan
Friday, February 25,1994
Officials optimistic about Bosnian cease-fire
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
— Front lines were tense Thursday, a
day before Muslim-led government
and Croat forces were to begin a cease
fire in the first major test of a U.N.
pledge to expand the Sarajevo truce.
Despite reports of fighting in cen
tral Bosnia, officials in neighboring
Croatia were optimistic that this cease
fire could hold.
“This one sounds more serious than
the previous cease-fire agreements
because it’s part of a broader process
and new initiatives,” Croatian For
eign Ministry spokesman Ivana Moric
said in Zagreb.
The latest accord was signed
Wednesday by Rasim Delic, command
er of the Muslim-led forces, and the
chief of Bosnian Croat forces. Ante
Roso. The cease-fire is to take effect at
noon Friday.
Friday’s cease-fire covers central
Bosnia and Mostar in the southwest.
About 15 mortar shells hit Wednes
day in eastern Mostar and there were
heavy exchanges of small-arms fire,
said David Fillingham, U.N. spokes
man in Kiseljak, west of Sarajevo.
Croat-Muslim fighting was intense
in parts of central Bosnia.
U.N. spokesman Lt. Col. Bill
A ikman said exchanges of mortar and
machine-gun fire had intensified
Wednesday near Vitez, about 3 5 miles
northwest of Sarajevo.
Bosnian Croat army spokesman
Veso Vegar conceded that “if U.N.
forces are deployed at certain key po
sitions, the cease-fire could hold.”
Under terms of the cease-fire agree
ment, U.N. troops are to be deployed
in sensitive areas to ensure compli
ance. Heavy weapons are to be with
drawn or placed under U.N. control.
That corresponds with the model
applied in Sarajevo, and marks the
first United Nations’ effort to move
step-by-step to end the warfare.
Last weekend Serbs acceded to a
NATO ultimatum to remove or place
under U.N. control all heavy weapons
around the city or risk air strikes.
U.N. officials said the Sarajevo
cease-fire was holding, despite scat
tered small-arms and machine-gun
fire.
Both Bosnian government and
Croatian radio reported heavy shell
ing of the Muslim enclave of Maglaj,
50 miles north ot Sarajevo.
Bosnian radiosaid five people were
killed and 16 wounded when one shell
hit a hospital there Wednesday. It said
four were killed and 10 wounded else
where in the town.
The reports could not be confirmed
independently.
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan
Karadzic wants the Sarajevo model
extended elsewhere in Bosnia. He
apparently hopes that creating U.N.
buffer zones could freeze battle lines
until an overall political solution is
found.
In a letter to U.N. Secretary-Gener
al Boutros Boutros-Ghali, he opposed
placing Sarajevo under U.N. adminis
tration.
Now that U.N. troops are standing
between Serb- and government-held
city districts, Karadzic apparently
wants to divide the city.
Karadzic ’ s deputy, N ikola Kolje vie,
said Serbs agreed “in principle” Thurs
day to open a first crossing between
Serb-held Grbavica and government
held downtown in Sarajevo.
U.N. officials hope Sarajevo-style
cease-fires across Bosnia will provide
momentum for a political settlement
to the three-way fcivil war.
The government has rejected apian
for the ethnic division of Bosnia that
would give it about a third of the
country, saying Muslims need more
territory for a viable state as well as a
corridor to the Adriatic through Croat
held territory.
Ex-CIA official passed polygraph
WASHINGTON —Aldrich H.
Ames, accused CIA turncoat, passed
agency polygraph tests twice dur
ing the time he is suspected of
working for Moscow, and the Sen
ate Intelligence Committee plans
to review the agency’s internal se
curity procedures, officials said
Thursday.
The CIA suspects that secrets
allegedly sold by the former coun
terintelligence officer led to the
deaths of at least 10 Soviets work
ing for U.S. intelligence.
The CIA tries to admin iste r poly
graph tests every five years to its
employees.
Ames was tested without his
spying being discovered, according
to a government official, who de
clined to be identified by name.
Those tests occurred in 1986 and
1991, another official said.
“Doesn’t the machine work? Or
Doesn’t the
machine work? Or
is it that easy to
beat?
— Congressional official
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is it that easy to beat?” asked a
congressional official who had been
advised of Ames' passing the tests.
“That’s one area the Senate Intelli
gence Committee will be looking
at.”
One of the government officials
said successful polygraphing de
pends on the questions.
“They ask you if you are a spy.
It’s about that blunt, the congres
sional official said.
This official said the committee
also had questions about CIA and
FBI cooperation on the case. CIA
Director James Woolsey and At
torney General Janet Reno have
hailed the cooperation, but Reno
said Thursday she did not know
how well the groups worked to
gether before her arrival last year.
Cooperation has been fine the
past couple years, the congression
al official said, but the government
doesn’t have a clear idea of the
investigative effort from 1986
through 1991.
Government sources have said
the Ames investigation began two
years ago, but suspicion that a So
viet mole had penetrated U.S. intel
ligcnce was aroused in 1985, the
year that ex-CIA agent Edward
Howard defected to the Soviet Union
while under FBI surveillance.
Report shows smokers start habit early
WASHINGTON—Surgeon Gen
eral Jovcelyn Elders labeled smoking
an adolescent addiction Thursday and
accused the tobacco industry of trying
to convince teen-agers that cigarettes
will make them sexy and successful.
Elders also urged the Federal Trade
Commission to draw the curtain on
RJR Tobacco’s Joe Camel cartoon
ads, which have just added a Josephine
Camel to the cast of characters.
“Smoking is not just an adult habit.
It is an adolescent addiction,” Elders
said.
The report also chronicled the
marketing practices of the tobacco
industry, from the chocolate cigarettes
of yore to the Marlboro man to spon
soring race cars andpeddling lighters,
T-shirts and beach blankets embla
zoned with tobacco brands.
Elders said teen-agers who smoke
ran higher risksofexperimenting with
alcohol and drugs, doing poorly in
school, fighting, engaging in unsafe
sex and even attempting suicide.
Her report said the average age
when smokers tried their first eig»
retie was 14.5yeats,^morethan70
percent of those who become daily
smokers acquired that habit by age 8.
The Tobacco Institute agreed that
young people should not smoke, but
spokesman Thomas Lauria said
“there’s little in this report that would
substantiate the allegation that we’re
trying to hook kids.” Cigarette ads are
“aimed at the 46 million to SO million
American adul ts who smoke,” he add
ed.
The surgeon general’s report on
smoking concluded that if teen-agers
stay smoke-free until high school grad
uation, “most will stay that way forev
er”
A third to a half of young people
who try cigarettes become daily smok
ers, Elders said.
The report said higher taxes, be
havioral education, strict enforcement
of laws against tobacco sales to minors
Smoking Is not Just
sn adult habit. It Is
an adolescent
addiction.
— Elders
surgeon general
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and other measures could help keep
teen-agers from taking their first puff.
Elders said she “probably” would
talk to President Clinton about the
need for tougher action.
She saw “no problem” with a call
by health groups to raise the 24-cent
tax on cigarettes to $2 to cover the
medical costs of smoking. The presi
dent has proposed a 99-cent tax as part
of health reform.
Skier rakes in five medals
LILLEHAMMER, Norway—The
Olympics got back to basics Thurs
day, with Italy’s Manuela Di Centa
staking her claim as queen of
Lillehammcr and teammate Deborah
Compagnoni sweeping to an emo
tional gold medal.
Alberto Tomba
arrived with the
nickname and the
fanfare,but it’s Di
Centa who goes
home with all the
medals — two
gold, two silver
and one bronze—
after her first in
WIIfTER
OLYMPICS
the women s 30-kilometer cross-coun
try ski race.
She is tops among all athletes in
Lillehammer with her medal collec
tion, the undisputed leader.
“I don’t feel like a queen,” she said.
“I feel like a cross-country skier.”
Di Centa defeated her main rival,
Lyubov Egorova, to foil the Russian’s
pursuit of Olympic history. Egorova
nad an unprecedented nine medals in
nine races coming into the 30K, and a
gold would have given her a Winter
Games record of seven.
Instead, she wound up fifth — her
first Olympic finish beyond the top
two, after five medals in Albertville
and three golds and a silver in Nor
way.
The record could still Tall in 1998.
If the 27-year-old Egorova needs in
spiration to keep competing, she can
find it in Di Centa, who won this year
at age 31.
Marit Wold ofNorway was second
in 1:25.57.8 as the host nation made
its move to overtake Russia as the
overall medals leader. Russia has 21
total (10 gold, seven silver, four
bronze); Norway has 20 (8-9-3); Ger
many has 17 (6-5-6), as does Italy (6
3-8) in its best Winter Games ever.
The United States is sixth with nine
medals (5-3-1).
The ski party appears over for the
Americans, who won four medals in
the first four events, but have been
shut out in the last three. Giant slalom
hopeful Heidi Voelker of Pittsfied,
Mass., wiped out in her second run
Thursday.
“Nerves definitely played a part,”
Voclker said. “I felt all right at the
start, and then I got a case of the nerves
when I was out on the course.”
Compagnoni, skiing one day after
Tomba failed to defend his Olympic
giant slalom crown, made it a two
gold medal day for the Italians with
victory in the giant slalom.
In Albertville, Compagnoni blew
out her left knee in the giant slalom in
a horrifying fall. After coming back to
win in Lillehammer, she dedicated
her victory to Ulrikc Maier, the Aus
trian skier killed in a downhill race on
Jan. 29.
“This was her race, said
Compagnoni.
... Martina Ertl of Germany was a
distant second and Vreni Schneider of
Switzerland was third. The top Amer
ican finisher was Eva Twardokens in
seventh..
The biggest news on ice was a
serious practice collision that sent two
of Nancy Kerrigan’s top competitors
reeling.
World champion Oksana Baiul,
who was second going into Friday’s
free skate, needed stitches in her bleed
ing right leg after the pile-up. Germa
ny’sTanja Szewczenko, who was fifth,
was carried off the ice, but later re
turned to skate.
The accident happened when the
pair, each going backward at full speed,
slammed into each other. Both are
expected to go in Friday’s free skate,
which is worth two-thirds of their
score.
“It’s scary," said Kerrigan, who
was warming up with the two women
when the accident occurred.
While the crash occurred in a near
empty rink, the Wednesday night
showdown between Kerrigan and
Tonya Harding appears ready to be
come the most-watched sportingevent
in American television history.
Overnight Nielsen ratings indicat
ed it could pass the 1982 Super Bowl,
the current No. 1, and wind up fourth
overall behind the final M-A-S-H ep
isode, the Who-Shot-J.R. episode of
Dallas and the miniscries Roots.
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Liberty: State not ready for additional college
By Todd Neeley
Staff RaporHr_
Nebraska must expand its popula
tion base and find a way to increase
the role of engineering in the econo
my before expanding engineering
education in the state, said Stan Lib
erty, dean of the College of Engineer
ing and Technology, on Thursday.
Speaking to a group of engineering
students and faculty as part of Engi
neering Week 1994, Liberty said Ne
braskans agriculture-based economy
was not yet conducive to creating an
independent engineering college at
the University orNebraska at Omaha.
“Nebraska has not made a big
enough commitment to engineering
education,” he said. “If the state will
be able to thrive in the future, it must
be more committed to engineering.”
But, before UNO can have an inde
pendent engineering college. Liberty
said, more (acuity must be hired both
there and at UNL.
Liberty said it was possible to have
two major engineering colleges in
Nebraska, but there needed to be a
complete commitment across the
state.
“My feeling is there will be a stron
ger emphasis on technology in the
Legislature,” he said.
Liberty said there was plenty of
room in the state’s economy for engi
neering. Also, there are many stu
dents and faculty at UNO who see a
need for an engineering college.
“The Omaha community is crying
for more engineering technology,” he
said.
In creating a n engineering college
at UNO, he said, it should be taken
slowly in order to maintain the quality
of education.
“Right now we have a small stu
dent population because we also have
a small facultyLiberty said. “It is
important not to exchange quality for
quantity.”
He said Nebraskans had a great
understandingof agricultural resourc
es in the state, but engineering was not
a big part of the economy.
In the future, he said, the College
of Engineering and Technology plans
to play a bigger role in the economy.
“What we’re about is developing
new knowledge and research,” Liber
ty said, “and stimulating the economy
in Nebraska and nationwide.”
A recent bill passed by federal
lawmakers, he said, will provide about
$1.8 million to the Manufacturers
Extension Program in Nebraska. UNL
must then provide matching funds
through such resources as student fees
and tuition.
The added funds would allow six
engineering sites to be set up across
Nebraska, where engineering experts
would work to help expand the use of
engineering technology.
Also, Liberty said, the engineering
college must find ways to enhance
existing inventions within the col
lege.
He said the college would be mak
ing a proposal to set up nonacademic
staff from the community to work
with faculty and students in the col
lege.
“We have to find a way to take lab
technology in college and get it into
the community for licensing,” Liber
ty said.
“Hopefully, the state will be will
ing to take some risks.”
