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Wiesel to speak about fanaticism By Julie Sobczyk Senior Reporter A Nobel Peace Prize recipient and human rights champion will speak at the Lied Center for Per forming Arts today. Elie Wiesel, author of “Night" and other works, will deliver his speech, “The Seduction and Dan ger of Fanaticism," at 3:30 p.m. as part of the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues. Holocaust survivor Wiesel, who won the peace prize in 1986, is a human rights and world peace ad vocate, said Jack Thompson, chair man of the Cooper Foundation, which sponsors the lecture. In addition to the peace prize, Thompson said, Wiesel has won the Presidential Award of Freedom and U.S. Congressional gold medal. He also has more than 75 honorary de grees from universities around the world. Wiesel was bom in Romania and deported with his family to Auschwitz, a Nazi concentration camp, when he was 15 years old. His mother and his younger sis ter died at Auschwitz, but his father and two of his older sisters survived the concentration camps with him. Later, he and his father were sent to Buchenwald, another concentra tion camp — where his father died. In “Night,” Wiesel tells of his ex periences at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and all he went through to survive. Now, Thompson said, Wiesel de fends the human rights causes of many groups, such as Cambodian refugees, famine victims in Africa and prisoners in the former Yugo slavia. Wiesel is appearing in conjunc tion with an international sympo sium about human rights, “Contem porary Forms of Genocide.” The symposium at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will end today. Thompson said he expected a large audience for today’s free lec ture. “He is one of the world’s great est men and one of the world’s greatest leaders.” Law & Order A man armed with a shotgun walked into a Lincoln residence Sun day night searching for someone who wasn’t there. Alvaro Salazar, 19, told police that he and some friends were at his house on the 1100 block of South 16th Street when they heard someone come in the front door, Lincoln police Sgt. Ann Heermann said. Salazar went downstairs at 12:19 a.m. to investigate and found a man standing inside and pointing a shotgun at him, Heermann said. The man said he was looking for someone, Heermann said. The two went upstairs where Salazar’s friends were. The man alleg edly hit one friend, Robert Sochor, 19, over the head with the butt of the shot gun, Heermann said. Salazar described the suspect as a black man, about 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighing about 165 pounds. Salazar told police the man might have been with two other men. A 20-year-old woman defended herself against a man who broke into her apartment and attacked her Sun day evening. The woman was in her kitchen washing a dish at her apartment on the 6600 block of Holdrege Street. At about 8:40 p.m., she turned around to see a man with a knife coming toward her from a bedroom, according to po lice reports. She grabbed a knife from a drawer, ind the man allegedly lunged at her, ;utting her left forearm, reports stated. She kicked him in the groin and he 'ell, reports stated. He got up and ran )ut a back door. The woman described the suspect is a white man with short, sandy hair, ibout 24 or 25 years old, 6 feet tall ind weighing about 100 pounds. A 26-year-old woman was raped in the bedroom of her home Thursday night by a man who might have cn- • tered through an unlocked door. The woman told police that at about 1 a.m., a man came into her bedroom, grabbed her, threw her down on her bed and raped her, according to police reports. He then left, apparently through the front door. 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The complaint, filed in U.S. Dis trict Court in Rapid City, S.D., ac cuses the First National Bank of Gordon of violating the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and the Fair Housing Act by charging Indians more to borrow money than it charged similarly qualified whites. An investigation revealed there was “no nonracial business expla nation to justify the price differ ences we found,” Justice lawyers said in a written statement. Michael V. Smith, a lawyer for the bank, refuted the claim. He said customers were considered for loans on their personal financial histories, and the bank handled loan applicants as any other bank does. Interest rates charged for con sumer loans ranged from 9 percent to 18 percent during an investiga tion by the Comptroller of the Cur rency, the suit said. “It’s unfair and illegal to make Native Americans pay more,” said Deval Patrick, assistant attorney general for civil rights. Holocaust Continued from Page 1 The artists of the Holocaust mfade sacrifices and risked their lives to por tray their suffering, Milton said. But through their works, they could detach themselves from their own pain, she said. One artist wrote that his sketching helped to “better hold together the threads of my sanity." The art of the Holocaust is valuable because it emphasizes the emotion of the artists, who were immersed in the tragedy and sorrow of their time, Milton said. “They just drew on the specific needs of the moment." Lincoln 's DANCE CONTEST ONLY Topless FoxgLnln Sports Exotie Doneon EmqTnos4o99&Opm 1823 0 St NO COVER London.$566 Paris.640 Madrid.763 Frankfurt.721 Copenhagen.849 Rome.S61 Athens.1009 4.’.’ fares are round:r:p from Omaha 7<n >:c: included Some res:r:c::cns apply
