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News Digest Edited by Michelle Gamer Monday, April 1,1996 * f Page 2 NU vs. Oklahoma TUESDAY April 2 7 p.m. WEDNESDAY April 3 1 p.m. NU vs. Oral Roberts FRIDAY —^ April 5 7 p.m SATURDAY April 6 2 p.m SUNDAY April 7 1 p.m ADMISSION: $4.00 - Adult $2.00 - Student (7-18) Free- UNL Student Free - Children 6 and under Scheduled games are weather permitting and subject to change. Please call the Ticket Office at 472-3111 for additional information. Clinton foes ponder testimony video uses WASHINGTON — A court order for President Clinton to give video taped testimony in a Whitewater crimi nal trial has producers of Republican attack ads pondering potential uses of the footage in the fall campaign. Whether Clinton’s testimony ends up appearing in GOP ads depends on its public release by a federal judge in Arkansas, a likely scenario if it is played before jurors, legal experts say. “I’d love to get my hands on the president on the stand,” says Alex Castellanos, a Republican political ad man who most recently worked for the presidential campaign of Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Tcxas. Floyd Brown, maker of the infa mous 1988 Willie Horton ad against Michael Dukakis, promises to “take a serious look” at any segments of Clinton’s videotaped deposition that become public. The White House dodged a poten tially embarrassing spectacle by con vincing the judge in the Little Rock trial to allow Clinton to testify by vid eotape instead of in person. But the videotape arrangement has one disadvantage: It will leave behind a permanent videotaped record of Clinton being grilled under oath about Whitewater. At issue in the trial is whether Ar kansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker and Clinton’s former Whitewater real es tate partners, James McDougal and McDou gal’s cx-wifc Susan, arranged nearly S3 million in improper loans. The McDougals have subpoenaed Clinton to counter allegations that Tucker and thcn-Gov. Clinton pres sured an Arkansas businessman into making improper loans. Former President Reagan came across as forgetful and uninformed when he testified by videotape at the Iran-Contra trial of his former national security adviser, John M. Poindexter, whose conviction was later set aside on appeal. For Clinton, the timing of his testi mony could not be worse —just as he is launching his re-election campaign. GOP operatives have already scoured the video record of Clinton’s public pronouncements for contradic tions that can be exploited in political ads. “I have collected hours of video tape and I know the Republican Na tional Committee has,” says Brown. It’s not clear whether attack ads would be part of the GOP strategy. Mary Crawford, spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, says GOP strategists have not given any thought to airing them. “It is our hope that we can have a campaign about the issues,” she said. And Sen. Bob Dole, the presumptive Republi can nominee, has said he docs not in tend to raise Whitewater as an issue. But negative ad makers could use an independent political committee as an outlet for their work, as Brown did when he produced the Willie Horton ad that helped George Bush beat Dukakis in 1988. Student dies of heart attack during protest SEOUL, South Korea — Blaming police for the death of a student protester, activists pelted a police station with fire bombs on Sunday, while police fired blanks to scare them away. About 30 students hurled 50 firebombs at a police station in the provincial city ofTaegu, 185 miles south of Seoul, setting small fires inside the building. The outburst followed the re lease of an autopsy report on Roh Su-sok, 20, a sophomore at Yonsei University in Seoul who collapsed and died Friday dur ing a 10,000-student protest' against tuition increases and al leged government corruption. Police had beaten demonstrators with clubs and dragged them along the pavement. The examination showed that Roh suffered only slight exter nal injuries in the demonstration, the National Medical Center said. He apparently died of car diac arrest, the center said, al though a final medical report is not due for several days. Activists say they will con tinue their protests, which began over tuition increases and accu sations that President Kim Young-sam accepted question able contributions in his 1992 campaign. It's about time... ...you worked for a company who truly pays you for your time. $7.50/hr. Full-time $ 7.00/hr. Part-time That company is Matrixx Marketing. 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Yeltsin refused to budge on the separatists’ two main demands — full withdrawal of Rus sian troops and independence for Chechnya — and his tone was more tough than conciliatory. “Without doubt, we will not put up with ter rorist acts and we will respond to them ad equately,” Yeltsin said in taped remarks broad cast on television Sunday night. The announcement came just 11 weeks be fore Russia’s presidential election, with the un popular Yeltsin trailing Communist Gennady Zyuganov and voters demanding an end to the bloodshed in Chechnya. It also capped a month of withering air and ground attacks on Chechen strongholds, appar ently intended to push the rebels into the south ern mountains before the plan was announced. Thousands of troops were reportedly con tinuing large-scale operations Sunday in eight sealed-off mountain villages of southeastern Chechnya, and Yeltsin’s open-ended statement left it unclear what would become of troops in such hot spots. I The announcement was met with skepticism by politicians, analysts and even Russia’s mili tary commander in Chechnya, who cast doubt on the feasibility of the unilateral cease-fire, which Yeltsin said would begin within hours. “It’s unlikely that combat operations will be stopped right after the president’s statement,” Gen. Vyacheslav Tikhomirov told NTV Inde pendent Television from Chechnya. “You un derstand, it’s impossible.” A scries of broken promises and defied or ders throughout the 16-month-old war have raised serious questions both about Yeltsin’s in tentions and about his control of the army. His Security Council declared the military operation in Chechnya to be effectively com pleted as of Jan. 25,1995. But fighting has raged on for another 14 months and the death toll is now estimated at over 30,000. Most of those killed were civilians. Yeltsin acknowledged that the dispute over the southern republic’s political status remains a major obstacle to peace. He said Moscow would try to give Chechnya as much autonomy as possible — “more than to any other republic.” He said Russia docs not fear the autonomy of its regions as long as they arc peaceful. But independence remains out of the question. Nebraskan Editor J. Christopher Hain Night News Editors Rebecca Oltmans .. _... J7?'17®® Melanie Branded Managing Editor DougKouma Anne Hjersman Assoc. News Editors Matt Waite Beth Narans r-j Sarah Scalet Art Director Aaron Steckelberg Opinion Page Editor Doug Peters General Manager Dan Shattil Wire Editor Michelle Gamer Advertising Manager AmyStruthers Copy Desk Editor Tim Pearson Asst. Advertising Manager Laura Wilson A_ or. Sports Editor Mitch Sherman Classified Ad Manager Tiffiny C. Clifton Arts & Entertainment Editor Jeff Randall Photo Directors Scott Bruhn Publications Board Chairman Tim Hedegaard, 436-9253 Travis Heying Professional Adviser Don Walton, 473-7301 http://www.unl.edu/DailyNeb/ 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. Readers are encouraged to submit stoiy 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 Tim Hedegaard. 436-9253,9 a.m.-11 p.m. Subscription price is $50 for one year. Postmaster: Send address changes to the Daily Nebraskan, Nebraska Union 34.1400 R St.,Lincoln, NE 68588-0448 Second-class postage paid at Lincoln, NE. ’ ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1996 DAILY NEBRASKAN
