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By The Associated Press Edited by Sarah Scalet Men return home with spirit of march WASHINGTON — Black men energized by the huge rally in the nation’s capital began spreading the spirit Tuesday, making plans to clean up inner-city neighborhoods back home, register voters and simply help each other survive. As Washington got back to nor mal, meanwhile, both black and white members of Congress urged President Cl inton to create a commission to study America’s racial divisions. After Monday’s long day, many men traveled all night, tired but in spired by the brotherhood they felt on the national Mall. Others who only saw the event on TV said they too were uplifted. “I hope it reverberates around the country in energizing people right where they are,” Joseph E. Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, told ABC TV. James Bolden Jr. caught some of the event on television from his home in Topeka, Kan. The speeches were inspiring, Bolden said. But he hopes the talk leads to action on issues such as job discrimination. “The march is general,” he said. “We need to break it down and make it more specific to the problems at hand.” Several members of Congress sent Clinton a letter urging him to appoint a commission on race relations “to issue a report on the progress and failures that our nation has made on race since 1968.” That was the year the Kerner Com mission, appointed by President Johnson, issued its famous study that concluded “our nation is moving to ward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal.” The letter was signed by Charles Sehumer, D-N.Y., John Lewis, D-Ga., Jim Leach, R-Iowa, Bill McCollum, R-Fla., Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., and Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia’s delegate. Benjamin Chavis Jr., co-organizer of the event, said plans were being made for a black leadership summit within the next 30 days, and that it would reach out to churches and orga nizations that didn’t endorse the Mil lion Man March. “The march was to mobili ze people for action,” said Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam. Even some black leaders and schol ars who avoided the event because of Farrakhan ’ s in flammatory statements praised the event Tuesday, while con tinuing to condemn past remarks by Farrakhan that offended Jews, Catho lics, Asians and others. Several said they hoped the event would help whites better understand blacks and get people talking about racial divisions. They cited Clinton’s speech, made in Texas as black men gathered in Washington, which called on Americans to heal racial differ ences. “To see 400,000 black men disci plined, non-violent, nobody drunk, nobody making a disturbance, full of positive feelings and spirituality, I think that’s a wonderful antidote to the rancid stuffHhat white Americans see on the 11 o’clock news,” said historian Roger Wilkins of George Mason University. Leaders allege undercount WASHINGTON — The “Mil lion Man March” lived up to its name, leaders insisted Tuesday, accusing the U.S. Park Service of a racist undcrcount and threateninga lawsuit. “They falsely said to the world that 400,000 black men came when they well know there were more than a million,” said Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam. “There never was a demonstra tion or gathering in the city of Wash ington to equal what happened yes terday,” he said at a news confer ence. “For what reason would any one fail to give us credit but rac ism?” The U.S. Park Service an nounced hours after the daylong event that about 400,000 people had attended. That would make it the fourth-largest demonstration ever, some 200,000 short of the anti-Vietnam War march in 1969. “We don’t think we are racist; we think we acted in a professional way,” said Maj. Robert Hines, spokesman for the park service, which estimates crowds for major Washington events. “We know they are unhappy with the count as have been a lot of other organizations in the past,” he said. The Rev. Benjamin Chavis, co organizer of the event, said, “What the U.S. Park Service reported in terms of400,000 persons owes not only us, but America some expla nation.” March offices had received “thousands of calls from persons who wonder if they attended the same event,” he said. News , r- in a JK I Minute* Falsely accused black man sues police BOSTON — Revisiting a painful episode in Boston’s racial history, a black man falsely fingered as a suspect in the slaying of a pregnant white woman is suing the police, accusing them of violating his civil rights. Police pressured teen-agers to identify William Bennett as the man who killed Carol DiMaiti Stuart, Bennett’s lawyer Steven Rappaport told a federal jury Tuesday. Stuart was shot in October 1989. “What this case focuses on is (police) attempts and agreements amongst themselves ... to pin the rap on William Bennett,” Rappaport said. “In fact, they did coerce certain witnesses.” Bennett, 45, is seeking unspecified damages. Chris Muse, a lawyer for the five officers being sued, countered that there was plenty of reason to suspect Bennett, a career criminal, including testimony from two teen-agers who said they heard Bennett’s nephew brag about his uncle’s role in the crime. Florida woman challenges Wal-Mart TAMPA, Fla. — Virginia Berger says she was looking lor the best buy on over-the-counter medications when a Wal-Mart clerk told her to put away her pen and paper. Jotting down prices, she was told, is against store policy. “I was so angry and embarrassed. I thought they were going to throw me out,” Berger said Tuesday. She sent two letters of complaint to corporate headquarters in Bentonville, Ark., but hasn’t received a response. A company spokeswoman—contradicting an earlier statement from a company spokesman—said the whole thing was a misunderstanding. “That was a mistake that shouldn’t have happened,” spokeswoman Jane Bockholt said. “All customers have the right and are invited to write down prices.” Weekend car accident claims UNL student’s life By Ted Taylor Staff Reporter A 22-year-old University of Nc braska-Lineoln junior died this week end after losing control of his truck on Interstate 29, near Dakota Dunes, S.D. Funeral services were held Tues day for Matthew Swanson, an occupa tional therapy major, in his hometown of Sioux Falls, S.D. Swanson was on his way home Fri day night for a weekend of hunting and camping when the accident occurred, said Roger Swanson, his father. A South Dakota state trooper found Swanson’s truck in the northbound lane of the interstate after it had appar ently rolled and crossed the median. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died 45 minutes later. Roger Swanson described his son who worked at Lincoln’s Homesteac Health Care and Rehabilitation Cen ter, as adventurous and hard working “He had so many interests,” Rogei Swanson said. “Sky diving, motorcy cling, hunting, camping. He lovec danger and people.” His father said nearly 600 people attended the 1 p.m. funeral. “He had many friends, but most o his friends were involved with hi! work,” he said. “He was equally as comfortabk with kids his age as with older people,’ his father said. “He related well wit! people, period.” A memorial fund will be set up ii Sioux Falls in Swanson’s name. Reno approves uniform policy about deadly force, officials say WASHINGTON — Spurred by intense criticism of special shoot-on sight rules used by the FBI in the standoff with white separatist Randy Weaver, Attorney General Janet Reno has approved a new uniform policy for federal agents’ use of deadly force, administration officials said Tuesday. Under the new policy, law enforce ment agents may use deadly force only when they have a “reasonable” belief there is an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to the agents or other people, said the officials, speak ing on condition of anonymity. The policy also spells out condi tions under which agents may shoot in circumstances involving fleeing fel ons and escaping prisoners, they said. Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick planned to announce the new policy Wednesday during an appear ance before a Senate subcommittee that’has been looking into the deadly 1992 siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, the officials said. The new policy would apply to law enforcement agencies under Justice Department authority, such as the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Prisons, and to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which is part of the Treasury Depart ment. It would replace the individual agencies’ shooting policies, which vary somewhat. Treasury officials also have ap proved the policy, the officials said. The new policy is an attempt to enlarge the decision-making process by tapping the advice of a large num ber of government lawyers and others, said an administration official who demanded anonymity. The FBI has been sharply criti cized in the Senate hearings for its use at Ruby Ridge of special shooting orders saying that snipers “could and should” fire at any armqd adult male spotted outside the^Weavers’ mountainside cabin. \ The customary FBI shooting rule, by contrast, restricts the use of lethal force to protecting oneg£[por others from imminent harm, yi An FBI sniper shot Weaver’s wife, Vicki, as she stood behind the cabin door, holding her infant daughter on Aug. 22, 1992. A day earlier, the Weavers’ 14-year-old son, Sam, and Deputy U.S. Marshal William Degan died in a gunfight that occurred as federal agents scouted Weaver’s prop erty in anticipation ofarrestinghimon a weapons charge. Five top FBI officials were sus pended this summer amid a federal criminal investigation into the destruc tion of some Ruby Ridge documents at FBI headquarters. One of the officials, then-Deputy FBI Director Larry Potts, approved the shoot-on-sight orders used at Ruby Ridge, according to testimony last month by Eugene Glenn, the FBI field commander at the scene. Potts disputed that in subsequent testimony. He said the deviation from normal shooting rules was made by lower-level FBI officials at Ruby Ridge, not at Washington headquar ters, after he had approved an earlier version that said “can” —j- but not “should” — shoot on sight. Subway bomb sets off fears in Paris PARIS — Mocking the efforts of desperate police, the bombers terror izing France blew up another crowded subway car Tuesday, turning it into a mass of mangled steel and thrashing injured. - The bomb wounded 29 people, blowing off the legs and feet of some riders. Authorities described it as a steel canister filled with explosives and hex nuts—the trademark device of Algerian insurgents who have waged a terror campaign in the French capital since midsummer. Rush hour was nearing full swing when when the blast shredded the second car of the RER regional sub way train at 7:05 a.m., just as it passed the Orsay Museum in the heart of Paris. Silvcr-helmetcd firefighters carried writhing victims on stretchers out of the Orsay Museum station, where com muters described a darkened tunnel filled with smoke and cries for help from injured passengers. Red-and-white police tape ringed the entrance to the station next to the art museum, and fire, police and res cue vehicles filled the street. Helicop ters airlifted out the most seriously hurt. The site of the attack seemed to mock authorities’ efforts to halt the terror campaign by Algerian extrem ists, who have claimed responsibility for seven other deadly bombings or attempts. Islamic militants object to France’s financial support ofthe mili tary-installed government in Algeria, a former colony. The explosion occurred between the St. Michel and the Orsay Museum stations along the Seine River in cen tral Paris and across from the Louvre Museum. The subway line is a main artery used by commuters living in middle-class suburbs south and west of the French capital. “We’re all a little bit traumatized right now. It’s happened too many times,” said Anne Guescoux, who fear ful ly took the same subway line to her suburban home late Tuesday. “There’s a psychosis now among the population. No one knows what to do.” NetJraskan FAX NUMBER 472-1761 ; The Daily Nebraskan(USPS 144-080) is published by the UNL Publications Board, Nebraska Union 34,1400 R St., Lincoln, NE 68588-0448, > Monday through Friday during the academic year; weekly during summer sessions. 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