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. * ; ■ * Norfolk — A raid that netted 84 suspected illegal workers creates a new kind of fear among area Hi span ics, a Hispanic advocate says. “Theyfear rejection. They fear dis crimination. They fear not fitting in - and now they fear getting sent back,” said Lucinda Cordova, who helped start the Madison County Hispanic Association. Hispanics who live in Norfolk might be reluctant to get involved in the community so they can remain inconspicuous, she said. The raid also could be divisive, said Norma Perales, a member of the state’s Mexican-American Commis sion. The community may become ac customed to looking at all Hispanic residents as “illegals,” when many actually are working legally in Madi son County, she said. “As a community, any strides we have made toward adjustment arejcop ardized,” Perales said. “Suddenly we are suspected to be illegals and we have to go through problems we shouldn’t have to go through.” Immigration officials arrested 84 suspected illegal workers duringa raid at the BeefAmerica meatpacking plant on Friday. The detainees were to be transported to the Mexican border Saturday, unless they requested de portation hearings. Perales spent much of Friday try ing to help relat i ves of people arrested in the raid. Because many of the fam ily members seeking information also are in the United States illegally, they are hesitant to ask questions of immi gration officials, she said. “I can’t say that it’s OK for people to be here illegally, because it is ille gal,” Perales said. “Yet I am not in favor of someone’s life, their whole family and world being disrupt edbe cause they do not have the right paper work.” Many families will have to wait for their deported relatives to contact them after they arrive in Mexico, Perales said. Then the family could return to Mexico or they could send money for their relative to join them again in the United States - even though the risk of deportation still is present, she said. The problem is worsened when the deported person was the family’s breadwinner, Cordova said. Without money and lacking a familiarity with American society and laws, the re maining family members can feel trapped. Perales said she worked with one family Friday that has several mem bers working at BeefAmcrica. The family members had applied for visas in 1992 and have been accepted for legal residency but are still waiting to receive their visa numbers. Perales said that until they arrive, the family members arc considered illegal resi dents and risk deportation. Omaha police officer shot during stop Omaha—A police officer who stopped a van to check its plates was shot in the head Sunday night before he even had a chance to get out of his car. He was in critical condition. After the shooting, police began stopping vans similar to the one the officer had described before the shooting. Sgt. Bill Muldoon said that two men got out of one van when it was stopped about sixmiles from the residential neighborhood where the shooting occurred. Police were looking for two men, about 19 or 20, in south Omaha. Muldoon said police do not know if the men are armed. Muldoon said the officer stopped the van about 8:15 p.m. near 40th and BlondoStrees, a couple ofmiles northwest of downtown, because the license plates did not match the vehicle. “As soon as the vehicle was stopped, the officer was attacked,” Muldoon said. Muldoon said there were sev eral gunshots and it appeared the officer was shot once in the head. The officer's name was being with held until relatives were notified. The officer was shot whi le seated in hi scar. Muldoon said police were checking to see if he even had a chance to pull his revolver. The back and side windows of the car were shot. Muldoon said he did not know why the officer origi nally ran the plates. “If you see something that doesn’t look right, or feel the li cense plate doesn’t look right, then you can check the license registra tion,” Muldoon said. News... in a Minute Hillary advised not to visit China Washington — Two Republican senators who want her husband’s job advised first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday not to attend a major international women’s conference in,China next month. Sens. Bob Dole of Kansas and Richard Lugar of Indiana said Mrs. Clinton’s attendance at the conference in Beijing would not help U.S. Chinese relations. Both men are seeking the GOP nomination for president. “I don’t see any useful purpose,” Dole said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “Certainly she’s very bright, very articulate, but in my view, as long as they (Chinese) are retaining an American prisoner there, Harry Wu, and as long as there are other human fights abuses ... in China, I think it would be a mistake.” Lugar, a former Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Mrs. Clinton’s presence probably “would make no difference to the Chinese (who) find that whole conference troublesome.” Millionaire’s death sobers sitcom Radnor, Pa.—The death of blue jeans model Anna Nicole Smith’s 90-year-old husband has meant some quick editing of the first episode of a new ABC sitcom, “The Naked Truth.” The storyline features a tabloid photographer assigned to snap pictures of Smith at the gynecologist’s office to determine whether the model is pregnant. Smith plays herself in the episode. Producers are deletingjokes about her husband, the late millionaire J. Howard Marshall II, and the unlikelihood of a senior citizen conceiving a child. “The loss of human life won’t necessitate any reshooting or aban donment, just some simple editing,” executive producer Christopher Thompson says in the Aug. 26 issue of TV Guide. Courtney Love attacks fans Mountain View, Calif. — A security guard carried a sobbing Courtney Love off the stage after the leader of the rock band Hole twice jumped into the audience to attack fans. “Louder, you - -she exhorted, apparently unhappy at the audience response on Friday’s closing night of the summer Lollapalooza tour of alternative bands. Love is the widow of former Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain, who committed suicide in April 1994. Before the fracas with fans, Hole led the audience in a “Happy Birthday” sing-along for her daughter, demanding “respect for Frances Bean Cobain, who’s 3 years old today.” Dole shrugs straw poll; Gramm elated with results Des Moines, Iowa — Facing the first significant slip in his presidential campaign, Bob Dole labeled an em barrassing showing here as “an aber ration” Sunday and rejected asser tions by rivals that it proved him out of step with conservative GOP activists. “In my view, this is one pebble on the beach,” a stoic Dole said the morn ing after he tied with Texas Sen. Phil Gramm in a presidential straw poll. “There will be a lot of beaches to cross.” Hundreds of non-Iowans were brought in by car, bus and plane to vote in the $25-a-head straw poll. This gave credence to Dole’s assertion that Saturday night’s results, while stun ning, were probably not representa tive of Iowa’s mood sixmonths before its leadoff presidential caucuses. The Senate majority leader also got a damage control assist from Re publican National Committee Chair man Haley Barbour, who said straw polls “don’t really count” and aren’t reliable gauges of candidate support. But the event raised several ques tions about Dole’s strategy and the intensity of his support. And after months of watching in frustration as Dole surprised them with deft cam paign moves, Dole’s rivals got the opening they’ve dreamed of. They began making their case that Dole is the most fragile of front-runners, with support that is broad but not deep. An exultant Gramm, who matched Dole with 24 percent support, led the charge. “This was the first major victory of the campaign for president in 1996 and we won it,” Gramm told reporters. He called Dole “the greatest legislator of his era,” but suggested Republicans still hungry from their 1994 congres sional takeover were looking for some thing more in a president. “Last night had nothing to do with momentum,” Gramm said before fly ing off to New Hampshire, where he hoped the Iowa boost would help him whittle into Dole’s lead there. “Last night had to do with message.” Dole disputed that, saying he had “a good, solid message” anchored on the themes of reining in the federal government, reconnecting government with Americans’ moral values and re asserting American leadership abroad. Still, Dole acknowledged his cam paign might have an early case of a disease that often strikes front-run ners: “There may have been some complacency on the part of some of our people.” Dole knew Gramm was making a big push in Iowa, looking to quell speculation that his campaign was sputtering. So Dole advisers privately conceded they had no excuses, and said the episode would bring a thor ough re-examination of the organiza tion, which will face a similar chal lenge when it needs to turn out caucus voters in February. I would obviously prefer it to hap pen tonight than in February,” Scott Reed, Dole’s campaign manager, said as the results were tallied Saturday night. Commentator Pat Buchanan ran third with 18 percent and former Ten nessee Gov. Lamar Alexander was fourth with 11 percent. Dole garnered just 2,582 of the 10,598 votes cast despite the deepest organization here, and despite the sup port of GOP Gov. Terry Branstad, Sen. Charles Grassley and three of the state’s five Republican House mem bers. Dole shrugged off the significance of that, and said he would have a slew of new endorsements soon to show more support around the country. But Gramm said such establishment back ing would not win Dole votes among the Republican rank and file. “Bob Dole believes the campaign is about polls and about endorse ments,” Gramm said. “I believe it’s about issues and message.” While Dole had an enthusiastic contingent in the hall for Saturday’s event, the crowd showed more pas sion for the blunt, conservative speeches from Gramm, Buchanan and radio personality Alan Keyes, a staunch abortion foe who placed fifth in the field of 10 candidates. Sixth place went to businessman Morry Taylor, who bought 1,000 tick ets to the event but got only 803 votes, one less than Keyes. Well behind him was Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar with 466 votes, or 4 percent, followed by California Gov. Pete Wilson, Califor nia Rep. Bob Doman and Pennsylva nia Sen. Arlen Specter. Russian scientists start preservation work on 3,000-year-old mummy Moscow — Russian scientists are working to preserve the body of a 3,000-year-old tattooed man found in a Scythian burial mound in Siberia, the Interfax news agency said Sunday. The man was found recently on the Ukok plateau high in the Altai moun tainsnear Russia’sborders with China and Mongolia, Interfax said. His long red hair was in braids and he wore embroidered trousers, a fur coat and highboots. A horse was buried next to him. His body was shipped to the Mau soleum Institute in Moscow, which has tended the mummified body of Lenin, the Soviet founder, for half a century. The institute is also working on another famous Scythian mummy known as The Lady. The permafrost where the red haired man lay for thousands of years preserved him so well that the large elk tattooed across his back and chest is still clearly visible. Without special treatment, how ever, the body will deteriorate with exposure to heat and light and the skin will darken. The Ukok plateau has yielded sev eral other spectacular finds, including the tattooed Lady, who scientists as sume was a priestess, a princess or both, and the bodies of a husband and wife, both wearing armor. The Scythians were an ancient no madic people from the Black Sea re gion. Some scientists believe the Scythian women were the Amazons of ancient Greek legend. Nefc*raskan Editor J. Christopher Hain Night News Editors Mitch Sherman 472-1766 Julie Sobczyk Managing Editor Rainbow Rowell Matt Waite Assoc. News Editors DeDra Janssen Doug Peters Arts & Entertainment Editor Doug Kouma Publications Board Chairman Tim Hedegaard, 472-2588 Photo Director Travel Keying Professional Adviser Don Walton, 473-7301 FAX NUMBER 472-1761 . The Daily Nebraskan(USPS 144-080) is published by the UNL Publications Board, Nebraska Union 34,1400 R St., Lincoln. 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