The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, November 17, 1997, Image 1
jj —SMUT! -All- MON IAY 1-0 against the Wolves B-b-beautiful November 17,1997 The Nebraska soccer team defeated Michigan 5- The Lied Center for Performing Arts became the 1 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on House of Blues Sunday, as B. B. King played his \ Sunday afternoon. PAGE 7 soul out to a sold-out crowd. PAGE 12 VOL. 97 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 60 Iraq clears hospitals, awaits attack ■ Non-emergency patients had to evacuate, while other civilians joined to defend Baghdad. BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Iraq v ordered Baghdad hospitals to evacu ate non-emergency patients Sunday in preparation for a possible U.S. air attack over Saddam Hussein’s refusal to comply with U.N. weapons inspec tions. Thousands of Iraqi civilians, ' meanwhile, flocked to Hussein’s palaces in Baghdad and industrial installations around the capital to join other people serving as human shields. The United States on Sunday pressed forward with its military buildup, sending the aircraft carrier USS George Washington through the Suez Canal toward the Persian Gulf. Kuwait and Syria, which support ed strikes against Iraq during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, said they were opposed to the use of force in the current standoff, which began on Oct. 29 when Iraq decided to expel American weapons inspectors work ing for the United Nations. “We do not support any military action against Iraq,” said Kuwait’s foreign minister, Sabah al-Ahmed al Sabah. Kuwait usually is unsparing in its criticism of Iraq, which invaded the a The use of military force has proven that it does not lead to solutions, but to a complication of matters Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf Iraq foreign minister emirate in 1990, triggering tire Gulf War. At the end of the 1991 war, the United Nations ordered Iraq to destroy its weapons of mass destruc tion and sent in a multinational team of inspectors to monitor Iraqi compli ance. Last month, Iraq asserted that the American inspectors were spies intent on prolonging U.N. economic sanctions imposed after the Kuwait invasion. Though the Security Council warned of consequences if Iraq expelled the monitors, Iraq went ahead with the move Thursday, deep ening fears of a military strike. Richard Butler, the chief U.N. weapons inspector, warned in an Please see IRAQ on 2 Man, 53, found dead in jail cell after arrest From staff and wire reports An autopsy is scheduled today for a Lincoln man who was found dead in a jail cell Saturday morn ing. Richard Owens, 53, was found dead at about 10 a.m., Lancaster County Sheriff Terry Wagner said. Owens, who suffered from dia betes, was found a few hours after he was arrested by Lincoln police. Owens was arrested at his apart ment for allegedly failing to com ply with a police officer’s order. The sheriff’s department is investigating the death. Normally, the Lincoln Police Department investigates jail deaths. However, Lincoln police were referring all inquiries to the county attorney, Saturday. The county attorney’s « He d help you out if he could, if you needed help. ...” Barbara Milbourn Owens’ relative office declined comment until after an autopsy is completed. A relative said Owens had had a diabetic attack earlier in the day. Barbara Milbourn described Owens as a kind person. “He’d help you out if he could, if you needed help,” she said. “Always there for you, his family always came first. That was the most important thing in his life.” _DN % . Ihpccial report Dawn Dietrich/DN JIM MEYER stands at the corner of 17th and Vine streets, where he was injured in a bicy cle accident two months ago. Meyer has gone through multiple surgeries in the last two months to heal his arm from the accident. Leaders seek safer streets By Brad Davis and Erin Gibson Daily Nebraskan Reporters Two ambulance rides, three broken bones and a few surgeries ago, UNL seniors Jayne Miller and Jim Meyer didn’t think campus roadways were dangerous. Now the sling on Meyer’s arm and Miller’s mounting medical bills remind the duo daily. Meyer was hit by a car Sept 17 at 9 p.m. while cross ing the intersection of 17th and Vine streets on his bicycle. The car that hit him ran a red light launching Meyer into a violent slide across the pavement and onto toe sidewalk. Meyer said three surgeries and four casts reset toe shattered bones in his left arm. The casts have been removed, now, but he will keep toe screws and toe plate inside his arm forever. On a similar note, a vehicle slammed into Miller at 10:30 a.m. on Oct. 21,1996, while she stood attoe cross walk between Henzlik Hall and toe Health Center on Vine Street “I never even saw it hit me,” Miller said, who blacked out on impact with the small, silver hatchback. But she woke up lying on die ground with a broken pelvis. Recovery meant spending five hours in a hospital emergency room and a few weeks on crutches. She will see her doctor for one last checkup during Thanksgiving break, she said. But die pain in her back and knees will linger long after that appointment. Meyer and Miller suffered injuries typical of the many students injured in accidents with motorists on campus each year. Motorists on campus injured seven other pedestrians since September 1996, and more stu dents riding bicycles. This high number of on-campus accidents has grabbed die attention of the Association of Students of die University of Nebraska, University of Nebraska Lincoln officials and city leaders. These groups now say they support a city plan to reroute vehicles traveling through campus on 16th and 17th streets to a new, north-south thoroughfare running Please see ROUTE on 6 ---. —. . ...—--— Read the Daily Nebraskan on the World Wide Web at http:/ / www.urU.edu/DailyNeb