By The
Associated Press
Edited by Kristine Long
NEWS DIGEST
Nebraskan
Thursday, March 10,1994
White House aides
prepare for court
WASHINGTON President
Clinton told aides to “be very open”
Wednesday, a day before they faced
grand jury questioning in the probe of
possible meddling in the Whitewater
investigation. The special prosecutor
pleaded on Capitol Hill for Republi
cans to hold off their owp hearings.
President
Bill Clinton
With aides sum
moned to testify on
Thursday, the
White House bun
dled relevant pa
pers for prosecu
tors. The appear
ances of at least two
of President
Clinton’s closest
aides, Bruce Lindsey and Harold Ickes,
were postponed.
Special prosecutor Robert B. Fiske
called the Clinton administration “very
responsive and cooperative” after try
ing to persuade Republicans to delay
congressional hearings until he com
pletes his inquiry into whether the
White House attempted to influence
the investigation.
He said he planned to finish that
part ofhis inquiry within a few months,
after which he would have no objec
tions to hearings.
Republican Sens. Alfonse D’Amato
and Will iam Cohen said they couldn’t
agree with Fiske’s request to hold off
on all hearings. Both said they had
assured Fiske that prosecutors would
get first crack at critical witnesses and
that Congress would not grant immu
nity to anyone it called to testify.
Fiske is probing the failure of Ar
kansas’ Madison Guaranty Savings
and Loan Association and whether
investors in the Whitewater land ven
ture benefited from questionable Mad
ison transactions during the 1980s.
Fiske isexaminingascriesof meet
ings between White House officials
and federal regulators who were look
ing into Whitewater.
He subpoenaed 10 administration
officials to testify before a grand jury
beginning Thursday.
Yelstin refuses to meet
with former U.S. president
MOSCOW — A peeved President
Boris Yeltsin froze Richard Nixon out
of the Kremlin Wcdncsday.complain
ing about the hard-line Communist
company the former president has been
keeping.
Nixon’smeetingswith Yeltsinand
other government officials were all
canceled as a result of his talks with
Yeltsin opponents, particularly
Alexander Rutskoi, former Russian
vice president.
Then Yeltsin really got nasty: He
took away the bodyguards and black
Zil limousine his government had put
at Nixon’s disposal. He did the same
two years ago to another former pres
ident who angered him, Mikhail
Gorbachev.
Yeltsin said his snub should be no
surprise.
“This is impossible after the sort of
meetings Nixon has had here, and I’m
glad President Clinton supports this
position,” Yeltsin said in unusually
harsh remarks to reporters on Red
Square.
Yeltsin said Clinton had distanced
himself from Nixon’s private visit,
but Clinton said Wednesday he be
lieved the Russian president should
meet Nixon.
“It’s up to President Yeltsin whom
he sees and docsn ’ t see,” Cl inton said.
“I wish he would see him (Nixon)
because I think they’d enjoy talking to
one another.”
Yeltsin was in no mood for a friend
ly chat.
“How can one do something like
that?Comingtoacountry andlooking
for some sort of stains here?” he said,
scowling and jabbing his Finger in the
air to emphasize his disgust.
A N ixon adviser accused Ycltsin of
overreacting and of picking on the
-4*
It’s up to President
Yeltsin whom he sees
and doesn’t see. I
wish he would see
him (Nixon) because I
think they’d enjoy
talking to one
another.
—Clinton,
U:S. President
tf
former president.
“I am surprised first of all that
President Yeltsin would not find any
body but an 81-year-old former U.S.
president who is his friend and Rus
sia’s friend to rc-asscrt his macho and
to tell us that Russia is a great coun
try,” Dmitry Simes told reporters.
Clinton said he talked to Nixon
before he left on his 10-day trip to
Russia that envisaged visits with hard
liners shunned by the U.S. adminis
tration, including ultranationalist
Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
“And I said he should meet with
whomever he wanted and I ’d be inter
ested to hear his reports when he got
back,”Clinton said Wednesday in the
Oval Office.
Simes said Nixon would remain in
Moscow until March 16, despite the
cancellations. Still planned is his
meeting with Zhirinovsky.
Nixon on Tuesday had praised
Ycltsin’sgovcmmcntforallowinghim
to see members of the opposition,
something Yeltsin’s Soviet predeces
sors refused to do.
Nebraskan
Editor
ManagingEditor
Assoc Nows Editors
Editorial Page Ediior
Wire Editor
Copy Desk Editor
Sports Editor
Assistant Sports Editor
Arts & Entertainment
Editor
Photo Chief
Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Adeem Leftin
Jeff Zeteny
Sieve Smith
Rainbow Rowell
Kristine Long
Todd Cooper
Jeff Qrteech
Sarah Duey
Steel McKee
Nighl News Editors
An Dirscior
General Manager
Production Manager
Advertising Manager
Senior Acer Exec.
Publications Board Chairman
Professional Adviser
Jeff Robb
Matt Woody
DeOra Jeneeen
Melissa Dunne
Jamas MehaMng
Dan Shattll
Katherine PoHefcy
Jay Cruse
Shari Kratewskl
Doug Fiedler
43f42T
Don Walton
473-7301
FAX NUMBER 472-1761
The Duty NebraskanlUSPS 144-080) is published by the UNL Publications Board,
braaka Union 34, 1400 R Si , Lincoln. NE 68588-0448, Monday through Friday during
academic year; weekly during summer sessions.
Readers are encouraged to submil story ideas and comments to the Daily Nebraska!
phoning 472-1763 between 0 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The public also
i to the Publications Board. For information, contact Doug Fiedler. 436-6287
Subscription price is $50 for one year _
Postmaster: Send address changes to the Daily Nebraskan. Nebraska Union 34.1400 R
St ,Lincoln, NE 68586-0448. Second-class postage paid at Lincoln NE.
ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1»*4 DAILY NEBRASKAN
it f?
Israeli commission discovers
guard let gunman into mosque
HEBRON, Occupied West Bank
— An Israeli inquiry comiPissiOn
discovered Wednesday that army
guards let gunman Baruch
Goldstein enter the Hebron mosque
even though he wore a marksman’s
protective headset and carried am
munition.
The major in charge of the guard
detail greeted Goldstein at the en
trance and asked why he was wear
ing an army uniform.
“I’m doing reserve duty,” the
Jewish settler answered, then
walked unhindered into the Tomb
of the Patriarchs where he opened
fire, killing at least 30 Muslims
kneeling in prayer.
The new details confirmed ear
lier testimony by army command
ers who said security was lax before
the Feb. 25 massacre, with only half
of the 10 guards reporting for duty.
Hundreds of troops patrolled
outside while the five-member com
mission spent four hours Wednes
day reconstructing the shooting
spree inside the fortress-like shrine
in central Hebron.
The site has been closed since
the massacre that disrupted the Is
rael-PLO peace talks.
Tensions remain high between
the city’s 80,000 Palestinians and
450 Jewish settlers living in six
enclaves. The Palestinians have
been confined to their homes under
an army-imposed curfew since the
massacre, while armed Jewish set
AP
tiers walked around freely.
In the Tomb, the commission
met with Hebron’s chief Muslim
official. Sheik Saleh Natshch.
“We are asking you to bring the
truth to light for the sake of our two
peoples, so they can learn a lesson,”
Natsheh told the commission head.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Mcir
Shamgar, according to a transcript.
Army investigator Yoav Gal
lant,ciling testimony by twoguards,
said Goldstein was dropped ofT at
the Tomb by a white car. The major
in charge of the guards, identified
only by his last name, Rotcm, said
he didn’t see Goldstein wearing
headsets. He said after his brief
exchange with Goldstein about the
uniform, he lost sight of the settler.
Rotcm, deployed at a point where
Muslims turn left and Jews right to
their respective prayer halls, insist
ed Goldstein didn’t get past him
and must have entered through a
side door in the Jewish section.
Army investigators said they be
lieved Goldstein entered the mosque
at the main entrance.
Commission member Abdel
Rahman Zoabi, an Israeli Arab
judge, look Rotem aside and prod
dcdhim:‘Thconlyonewhocanlcll
us if Goldstein entered from here is
you. Nobody else saw him.” Rotem
hesitated, but did not respond.
Palestinians will cooperate with
the Israeli inquiry even though they
arc distrustful because of previous
leniency shown to rampaging set
tlers, said lawyer Abdul Ghani
Ewaiye, a member of a .separate 11
member PLO committee investi
gating the massacre.
The question ofwhcthcr the army
ignored the growing friction and
possible warnings of an attack by
Jewish extremists is a key issue.
Christopher opens talks with Japan
TOKYO — Secretary of Slate
Warren Christopher opened what
promised to be difficult talks with
Japan Thursday as a top aide conced
ed, in diplomatic understatement, that
the economic relationship between the
two economic powers was “not in
good shape.”
“The secretary will be conveying a
sense of urgency; we can’t allow these
problems to fester,” Winston Lord,
assistant secretary of state for East
Asian affairs, said.
Christopher struck a conciliatory
note before his arrival, declaring that
“it is certainly not the intention of the
United States to have a trade war with
Japan.”
Lord said Christopher would try to
convince the Japanese that economic
differences between the two countries
needed “urgent attention.”
His visit to Japan takes place in an
atmosphercofincrcasinglystrongU.S.
measures designed to force the Japa
nese to open their markets and reduce
the trade imbalance, now running
$59.3 billion a year in Japan’s favor.
In addition to the trade lalks.Chris
topher will address an international
conference on aid to Cambodia, and
will meet with Cambodian officials.
He is expected to pledge about $30
million to the international effort to
help the Southeast Asian country re
cover from decades of war.
Lord has emphasized repeatedly |
that Christopher is not in Japan to
negotiate. His goal is to lay out the
U.S. position and listen to Japanese
ideas.
Christopher arrived in Japan armed
with President Clinton’s decision to
revive a U.S. trade law provision that
establishes a “hit list”ol countries that
have the most egregious barriers
against U.S. exports.
If subsequent negotiations fail to
remove the barriers, the law authoriz
es imposition of tariffs of up to 100
percent on products from the offend
ing countries.
Typical millionaire differs from TV image
ATLANTA — Studying the
lifestyles of the rich, though not nec
essarily famous, has given Thomas J.
Stanley an intimate look at a world of
sensible cars, practical watches and
modest homes.
Stanley, sort of an academic Robin
Leach, has spent 20 years studying
rich folk. His profile of the typical
millionaire is quite different from the
bejcweled figures who cavort in ex
clusive hideaways on television shows.
The truly wealthy are more inter
ested in watching their money grow
than showing off what it can buy, he
said.
“The thing that hit me right away
was how frugal these people are,” said
Stanley, author of three books on af
flue net* and a consultant to financial
institutions, charitable organizations
and sales groups.
There arc 1.3 million people na
tionwide with a net worth of at least $ 1
mill ion, according to the Internal Rev
enue Service.
The idea that they arc all jet-setters
“has as much to do with reality as
‘L.A. Law’does with real law,” Micha
el Schau, editor of Research Alert, a
New York-based publication that com
piles statistics on consumer behavior,
said.
According to Stanley, the typical
millionaire is a businessman who has
lived in the same town his entire adult
life, owns a small factory or chain of
stores, is married and lives in a mid
dle-class neighborhood next to people
who are not nearly as rich.
Truett Cathy, the founder and c ha ir
man of the Chick-fil-A Inc. fast-food
chain, is a good example, Stanley
said.
“I have a nice house, not an extrav
agant home," Cathy said. His Atlanta
based chain had sales of $396 million
last year.
Cathy said he’d lived in the same
home for 35 years, and channeled his
energy into the business, leaving little
time for ict-setting. He drives a 4
year-old Lincoln Continental, but is
more enthusiastic about the used pick
up truck he bought for $2,500.
‘Tm subject to buy anything I can
get a good deal on,” said Cathy.
Study reveals the power of cranberry juice
CHICAGO — A scientific study
has proven what many women have
long suspected: Cranberryjuice helps
protect against bladder infections.
Researchers found that elderly
women who drank 10 ounces of a
drink containing cranberry juice each
day had less than half as many urinary
tract infections as those who con
sumed a look-al ike drink without cran
berry juice.
The study, which appeared Wednes
day in The Journal ot The American
Medical Association, was funded by
Ocean Spray Cranberries Inc., but the
company had no role in the study’s
design, analysis or interpretation,
JAMA said.
“This is the first demonstration
that cranberry juice can reduce the
presence of bacteria in the urine in
humans,” lead researcher Dr. Jerry
Avom, a specialist in medication for
the elderly at Harvard Medical School,
said.
Dr. Glenn Gerber of the University
of Chicago said the work appeared
sound.
The idea thatpeople with recurrent
urinary tract infections should drink
cranberry juice often has “been writ
ten off as an old wives’ tale,” Gerber,
an assistant professor of urulogy in the
surgery department, said.
“This is really the first study I’m
aware of that’s scientifically looked at
this,” he said.
It’s unclear how cranberry juice
protects against the infections, but
Avom said a chemical in cranberries
— also found in blueberries — may
inhibit bacteria from attaching to the
bladder wall, a finding of previous
studies.
The study used Ocean Spray s
Cranberry Juice Cocktail, which con
tains 27 percent cranberry juice. Avom
said any beverage containing at least
that much juice should work.