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February 23, 1996
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Mehmed Atic and Adnan Pejcinovic stand outside a Muslim mosque in downtown Tuzla. Staci McKee/DN
Friends’ wounds heal in different ways
Crime bill
may impose
tougher laws
By Ted Taylor
Senior Reporter “
Attorney General Don Stenberg asked law
makers Thursday to take “bold and decisive
action” by advancing a new crime bill brought
before the Nebraska Legisla
ture.
Stenberg, who has been a
staunch supporter of increas
ing punishment for violent
criminals, testified for more
than three hours Thursday
afternoon before the Judiciary
Committee.
“For the past several years,
I have urged this committee
to take bold, decisive action
to protect our citizens against those in society
who refuse to obey the law,” he said.
“Enough has not been done. Things have
gotten worse.”
Grand Island Sen. Dan Fisher’s bill, LB 1182,
outlines 11 basic points.
• Juveni les who commit violent crimes would
be tried, convicted and incarcerated as adults.
• The word “escape” would be redefined to
include escapes from involuntary regional cen
ters.
• The bill would increase penalties tbthose
committing a felony using a firearm, felons
possessing firearms, dri ve-by shooters and those
who voluntarily accompany drive-by shooters.
•Gang-related violent crimes would be pun
ished at the next higher level penalty for the
crime committed.
• The murder of a police officer and any
gang-related murder would be added as aggra
vatingcircumstancestocapital punishment laws.
• The bill would provide life imprisonment
without parole for violent crime felony offend
ers who have been imprisoned in the past for a
violent felony.
• Appeal s would be 1 imited to reduce delays
and expedite the carrying out of capital punish
ment cases.
• Militaristic-style boot camps would be
established.
• Major drug dealers trafficking crack, co
caine, heroin or amphetamines/methamphet
amines would be punished more severely.
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By Matthew Waite
Senior Editor
TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina—
They are as different as two people
ever were.
One is a 24-year-old electronics
major at the university in Tuzla. He is a
veteran of the three-year civil war—a
Muslim who spent two years on the front
lines defending his home.
His thin face shows much age for a
young man, and his eyes are sad. He
curses his time in the army and keeps his
opinions to himself.
The other is also a 24-year-old elec
tronics major. But his mind is not on
studying.
A former student newspaper editor, he
thinks more about the future of Bosnia
than he does his own. His opinions are as
strong as his face, which gives him the
appearance of someone older than his 24
years.
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For the First time, the Daily Nebraskan
_ will give its readers an up-close look at
the largest European conflict since World
War II. Senior Editor Matthew Waite and
Photo Chief Staci McKee recently spent
five days in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Today is the final day of a three-part
series.
Today:
Two students tell about the war and
their memories of conflict.
Five new cartoons
to appear in paper
The adventures of Calvin and Hobbes
may be over, but starting today Daily
Nebraskan readers will have five new
cartoons to make them snicker.
The nationally-syndicated cartoons
“Dilbert” and “At the Zu” both will run
every day, and three other cartoons will
run once a week.
“Dilbert,” a popular comic strip created
by Scott Adams, exposes the all-too-real
realities of life in the Information Age.
Dilbert, the hapless computer worker
with a funny tie, deals with everything
from bureaucratic disasters to unenlight
ened bosses to cubicle wars, while his
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Regents to discuss engineering woes
Proposal could end Lincoln-Omaha rivalry
NU Board of Regents will be asked
ig to approve a three-part plan
to improve engineering and
information science programs
the University ofNebraska
at Omaha.
The plan would improve
existing engineering pro
grams offered at UNO
through the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln.
It also would create a UNO
College of Information Sci
ence and Technology and an
institute to oversee the programs.
Joe Rowson, NU director for public affairs,
said the new college would include programs
dealing with computers and information man
agement systems. Existing information science
programs at UNO would be placed in this col
lege, he said.
The final part of the plan would create the
Omaha Institute for Information Science, Tech
nology and Engineering. The institute would be
jointly operated by deans from UNL’s engi
neering college and UNO’s information sci
ence college.
The Omaha Institute would coordinate UNL’s
engineering college and UNO’s new college of
information science with Omaha’s business
needs, Rowson said.
Regent Chairman Don Blank of McCook
said he supported the Omaha Institute.
“It’s a fine proposal,” Blank said. “It’s been
worked on by a lot of people.”
Blank said this proposal would lessen the
engineering rivalry between Omaha and Lin
coln.
“Many times it has been Omaha versus Lin
coln,” he said. “With the proposal, Omaha and
Lincoln would be working together. It’s a good
resolution.”
Blank said he would be “very surprised” if
the board did not approve the proposal.
The board also will be asked to approve
Great Plains Media Inc.’s proposal for exclu
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