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By The Associated Press Edited by Kristine Long Nebraskan Monday, March 28, 1994 Tornado kills worshipers PIEDMONT, Ala. — A tornado caved in the roof of a church crowded w ith Palm Sunday worshipers, kill ing 17 people. Two other people died as a scrics of twisters and violent thunder storms tore through Alabama. At least 90 people were injured when the roof of the Goshen Method ist Church collapsed about 11:30 a.m., state trooper Byron Morris said. About 140 people were in the church five miles north of Piedmont in east ern Alabama. Rescuers had feared others were buried, but all were ac counted for after more than 100 search ers dug through the rubble by hand and called in a crane to lift the roof. The storm knocked out power and telephone service, hampering rescue efforts. Passing motorists helped ferry the injured to hospitals around Pied mont, which has about 5,000 resi dents and is 72 miles west of Atlanta. The National Weather Service had issued a tornado watch for the area earlier Sunday morning. The weather service issued a wamingsayinga twist er had been spotted on the ground about the time the roof collapsed. Charles Pope, supervisor of the Piedmont Health Care Center nursing home, said displaced residents were sent to the Piedmont Civic Center. The National Guard Armory was used as a temporary morgue, said Dclois Champ, a spokeswoman for the Calhoun County Emergency Manage ment Agency. Elsewhere in Alabama, tornadoes killed one person at a park and anoth er in his caL A tornado also damaged the Ten Island Baptist Church in Ragland and injured an undetermined number of people, Calhoun County sheriffs dis patcher Leon Hill said. The severe storm system moved into Georgia and South Carolina with several tornado touchdowns reported in those states. Two homes were de stroyed and at least two people injured in Long Creek, S.C. Bombs interrupt Turkish elections ANKARA. Turkey — Abombex plodcd at the famed St. Sophia muse um Sunday as voters took part in local elections considered a key test for Prime Minister Tansu Ciller. The bombing at the Istanbul land mark. in which three European tour ists were injured, was the latest attack by Kurdish separatists determined to disrupt the elections. Death threats forced at least 15 candidates to drop out of races in the Kurdish-dominated southeast. Dozens of villages boycott ed the election. The first returns were expected late Sunday, and final results could take days. At stake were more than 83,000 local posts including mayors, provin cial assembly members, city council members, village headmen and neigh borhood representatives. Voters chose from 13 parties. The vote did not directly affect Ciller’s coalition government, which has been in power for nine months. But heavy losses by her True Path Parly and its allies could increase demands for elections before her term expires in 1096. Critics hold her responsible for the nation’s deepening economic crisis, which includes rising inflation and a 70 percent devaluation in the Turkish lira. Some Turks have been forced to lake second jobs to make ends meet. At the same time, the military has been unable to control Kurdish rebels seeking autonomy in southeastern Turkey. Security forces guarded 127.000 polling stations, but failed to stop rebel-linked violence. In Istanbul, the explosion at St. Sophia injured tourists from Spain, Germany and the Netherlands. The museum, once a Byzantine church that was turned into a mosque, is one of the country’s top tourist sites. The museum did not appear to be dam aged. An anonymous caller to newspa pers said the attack was carried out by the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, which recently tried to cripple Tur key’s cruscial tourism industry with a spree of attacks. In the southeast, eight people were killed Sunday by land mines believed planted by Kurdish rebels. 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Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said the government’s “spring offensive must be broken.” “If they do not stop this offen sive, I will order a counteroffen sive, and then they shall not be able to get the territories they would be able to by political negotiations.” he said, according to Tanjug. “They can never gel the lerritorieson which they are now killing our men.” Another round of talks among Bosnia’s Muslims, SerbsandCroats has not been scheduled. For months, all sides in Bosnia's two-year war have threatened a spring offensive, but it wasn't clear if the weekend fighting was pari of that offensive or an isolated attack. It is much easier to get around Bosnia’s snowy, mountainous roads in the spring. In Sarajevo, meanwhile, ethnic Serbs loyal to the Muslim-led Bosnian government held an as sembly and asked that their repre sentatives be included in peace talks since Bosn ian Serbs led by Karad/ic want to form a separate state. Ljubomir Berbcrovic, assembly president, praised the new Musi im Croat federation for beginning “the process of stopping the war.” Charles Redman, President Clinton’s special envoy on the former Yugoslavia, attended the assembly session, as did members of the Bosnian government and rep resentatives of the city’s ethnic and religious groups. Redman said the assembly was a sign that “the polit ical life of Bosnia-Herzegovina is still alive and well” and that "peo ple are starting to think about the things that go with peace, rather than with war.” Net>ra£kan Editor Managing Editor Assoc News Editors Editorial Page Editor Wire Editor Copy Desk Editor Sports Editor Assistant Sporis Editor Arts & Entertain ment Editor Photo Chief Night News Editors Art Director General Manager Production Manager Advertising Manager Senior Acci Exec Publications Board Chairman Professional Adviser Jeremy Fitzpatrick 472- 1766 Adeana Lettin Jeff Zeleny Steve Smith Rainbow Rowell Kristine Long Mike Lewis Todd Cooper JeH Grtesch Sarah Duey Staci McKee Jeff Robb Matt Woody DeDra Janssen Melissa Dunne James Mehsling Dan Shattil Katherine Policky Jay Cruse Sheri Krajewski Doug Fiedler 436-6287 Don Walton 473- 7301 FAX NUMBER 472 1761 The Daily NebraskanfUSPS 144 080) is published by the UNL Publications Board, Nebraska Union 34, 1400 R St., Lincoln, NE 68588 0448, Monday through Fnday during the academic year, weekly during summer sessions Readers are encouraged to submit story ideas and comments to the Daily Nebraskan by phoning 472-1763 between 9 a m and 5 p.m Monday through Friday The public also has access to the Publications Board For information, contact Doug Ftedler, 436 6287 Subscription once is $50 for one year Postmaster: Send address changes to ihe Daily Nebraskan, Nebraska Union 34, 1400 RSt .Lincoln. NE 68588 0448 Second-class postage paid at Lincoln, NE ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1994 DAILY NEBRASKAN TELEVISION Are you currently seek-1 ing a job or internship in television? Want in formation on where to send your resume? The Broadcast and Cable TV lndex-%29.95. For more information, call TPI Publishing, -800-954-0909 Consumer scams rise in Nebraska OMAHA — The number of com plaints the state attorney general’s otTicc rccicved from consumers who thought they were defrauded rose sig nificantly in 1993. Consumers filed 53 percent more complaints than during the previous year, most alleging telemarketing scams, the attorney general's Con sumer Protection Division reported. “Although Nebraska was once thought lobe immune to the ‘big-city seams’ of the coast and major cities, it has become quite obvious that proles sional fraud artists now consider the Midwest a prime location,' Attorney General Don Stcnbcrg said. The Consumer Protection Division in Nebraska received 3,800 calls re lating to possible consumer Iraud in 1903. It handled 726 written com plaints, up from 475 in 1992. Telemarketing scams accounted lor 109of the written complaints in 1993. The division was able to gel con sumers at least partial refunds from 70 percent to 75 percent of the compa nies. Senior consumer specialist Dan Parsons, who has spoken with con sumer protect ion offices mother Mid western stales, said fraudulent phone calls have increased throughout the region. But most of the companies, he said, operate outside the Midwest, mostly in Texas,California. Florida, Arizona and Utah. “They usually don’t prey upon vic tims in their own states” in order to inhibit prosecution, he said. The increase in scams is particu larly bothersome for Nebraska. ‘‘Telemarketing means a great deal to Nebraska. It’s a huge industry. Parsons said. “Unfortunately, the in dustry’s image has been tarnished because there are so many unscrupu lous telemarketers out there willing to do anything to gel money from con sumers.” Ed Taylor, executive vice presi dent of Sitel Corp., one of Omaha s largest telemarketing companies, said a person could tell in the firs'. lew minutes if they were being scammeU. Sitel doesn’t ask for a credit card number or accept credit card numbers over the phone.
