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Federal judge to ruk today on FDA regulation of tobacco WASHINGTON (AP) — On the eve of a federal judge’s long-awaited ruling on the government’s teen smoking crackdown, anti-tobacco groups urged President Clinton on Thursday to reject cigarette firms’ re quests for legal immunity during se cret talks to end the tobacco wars. Health leaders are under pressure from the White House to support the negotiations. And the outcome of today’s court ruling, deciding the con stitutionahty of Food and Drug Ad ministration tobacco regulations, is crucial to which side makes more con cessions. In addition, the Justice Department’s investigation into pos sible criminal wrongdoing by tobacco executives is reheating. Last Saturday, FDA employees turned over to Justice investigators more documents on in dustry experiments with super-nico tine tobacco, said a source close to the probe. TONIGHT *> OVEMutfc ?: *:*S ftnHNSinn IAN ^^Hgdafton Party f4 American Heart H Association-^^ nghUng Mmrt D*mib T Coming April 26 to ^ raePLA MOR Classic Rock-n-RoU 21 and Over Show 9-12 p.m. PLA MOR Ballroom 6600 West "O" VL 475-4030 J) if ***friday*** IB 3 DANCE NIGHT p j Our DJ will have the music PUMPING!! gf —NO COVER— Q ***SUPER SATURDAY*** ■ $2 YOU CALL IT!!! g —SUMMER STARTS THIS WEEKEND— ■55_n.!—»B-D—i>H.J.JIMBIIL.zrnmmm , DENVER (AP) — Seething with rage against his own government, Timothy McVeigh blew up the Okla 1 homa City federal building in a twisted plot to spark a second American revo lution, a prosecutor said in opening statements Thursday. “McVeigh liked to consider himself a patriot,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Jo seph Hartzler said. “Our forefathers did not fight innocent women and children. ... They didn’t plant bombs and run away wearing earplugs.” Jurors listened grim-faced as Hartzler, who has multiple sclerosis, leaned forward in his wheelchair and spoke softly about the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil. “It was an act of terror intended to serve selfish political purposes,” Hartzler said. “The truck was there to impose the will of Timothy McVeigh on the rest of America ... by murder ing innocent men, women and children in hopes of seeing blood flowing in the streets of America.” But in equally forceful terms, McVeigh attorney Stephen Jones de clared in his opening statement: “My client is innocent.” He accused the government of try ing to elevate McVeigh’s political be liefs — which Jones said many share —into a motive for mass murder. Making no effort to soften the emo tional power of the bombing, he began by spending six minutes reading off the names of each of the 168 people killed « All you tyrannical m— f--will swing in the wind some day for your trea sonous actions against the Constitution” note allegedly written by Timothy McVeigh when the April 19, 1995, truck bomb tore apart the nine-story building. As Jones solemnly read the names, bombing victim’s relatives quietly cried in their special section of the packed second-floor courtroom. McVeigh, wearing a plaid shirt and khaki pants, showed little emotion in court. He leaned forward to iisten, ( sometimes resting his head on his * folded hands as the prosecutor por- ] trayed the 29-year-old Gulf War vet- ] eran as a selfish, deluded coward. | Hartzler said that on the day of the bombing McVeigh was wearing a T shirt that bore the Thomas Jefferson quotation: “The tree of liberty must be ( refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Hartzler contended that McVeigh’s hatred of the federal government was fueled by what he saw as the govern ment slaughter of innocents at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, two years to the day be 'ore the bombing. McVeigh planned the bombing for months, the prosecutor said, and hoped it would rival the first shots of the American Revolution, which also occurred on an April 19 — in 1775. “He envisioned he would bring lib srty to this nation,” Hartzler said. ‘Well, this was not just talk for McVeigh. He was ready for action. He mew from literature how to make a >omb and how to get the ingredients.” In a new revelation, Hartzler said federal agents later found a file in his sister’s computer that “McVeigh obvi ausly wanted them to read.” It was marked “ATF READ.” “You’ll see the chilling words,' All pou tyrannical m-f-will swing in the wind some day for your reasonous actions against the Consti ution. ... Die, you spineless, ;owardous bastards.” Series of rapes raises local fears RAPE from page 1 “He threatened me and he asked a lot of questions about my sexual past,” she said, declining to give specifics of the attack. She decided to speak publicly be cause she believes people need to know rape victims as people, and she wants to strip away the stigma she believes is attached to an anonymous victim. “Rape needs to have a face and it needs to have a name,” Hess said. “People need to know it happens to people we know.” The first attack occurred at Union College in Lincoln on Feb. 6, when a man wearing a ski mask sexually as saulted a woman who was playing the piano in the basement of an adminis trative building during the evening hours. Four days later, a 19-year-old woman at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wis., was raped as she was playing the piano and singing in a mu sic practice room. On Feb. 16, a 24-year-old woman was raped while working alone in a computer lab at St. Ambrose Univer sity, a small religious college in Dav enport, Iowa. Just four hours before the Daven port rape, a man attempted to sexually assault a student at Augustana College in nearby Rock Island, 111., just across the Mississippi River. On March 5, Hess was assaulted in the computer laboratory at the Univer sity of Nebraska at Omaha. On Feb. 9, a man attempted to sexu ally assault a female student in an art studio at Knox College in Galesburg, HI. Looking for something to do this Summer? Want to meet a visiting scholar? Want to explore a new point of view? Want a course that will meet one of the requirements of the University Comprehensive Education Program? Explore the courses listed below. They may be just what you are looking for. Session Call it Coarse # Coarse Name Day Time Place l- 5-Wk 5022 COMM398 Communication & Ethnic Groups M&W 12:45-4:35 B6M&N Instructor: Naomi Warren, University of Texas @ Austin 1” 5-Wk 5001 SOCI398 Contemporary Black Social Movements M-F 11:00-12:35 209 OldH Instructor: Ronald J. Stephens, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 2nd 5-Wk 4969 ETHN398 Slave Resistance in North America M-F 11:00-12:35 124 HaH Instructor: Walter Rucker, University of California @ Riverside 2nd 5-Wk 4952 HIST355/855 Post WWH America M-F 12:45-2:20 309 OldH Instructor: Clarence Taylor, Florida International University, Hollywood, Florida If you have any questions, fed free to call the department through which the course is offered. SUMMER SESSIONS ‘97 There*s No Place Like Nebraska in the Summer! ALL SPORTS DAY . APRIL 26: Spring Football Game Red N White Game @ 12:30 p.m. • Kids 12 and under get in FREE if they take the Drug Free Pledge. • Your ticket stub will get you into the softball and baseball games for FREE! Softball Soccer Nebraska vs. Oklahoma Nebraska vs. @ Noon and 2 p.m. U.S. Under 20-National Team NU Softball Complex, 14th & W @7 p.m. Baseball Abbott Sports Complex Nebraska vs. Oklahoma St $4-Adults; $2-18 and under @ 3 p.m. Please call the Ticket Office Buck Beltzer Field 314T2!3111J^>r more information. : . *')