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SPECIAL A fair deal The Daily Nebraskan plays host to an informative fair on stu dent housing options today. PAGE 12-14 A&E In the strobe light Local band The Faint has evolved from common indie wailers to purveyors of svnth-rock paeans. PAGE 7 WEDN 1SDAY March 24, 1999 Sun Rising Mostly sunny, high 50. Mostly clear tonight, low 24. NATO hits Yugoslavia with force ■ NATO’s secretary general gives command to bring airstrikes against Yugoslavia, wants to end mistreatment of ethnic Albanians. BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -NATO’s sec retary-general ordered airstrikes against Yugoslavia on Tuesday, after President Slobodan Milosevic rebuffed a last-ditch peace offer for Kosovo and revved up his war machine by declar ing a state of emergency. In Washington, President Clinton sought - and got - support from Congressional leaders for military action and gave a scathing description of Milosevic’s treatment of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. “If you don’t stand up to brutality and the killing of innocent civilians, you invite them to do more,” Clinton said. NATO chief Javier Solana did not say when attacks would start, but more than 400 aircraft from allied nations stood ready to begin bombing within days or hours. Half a dozen U.S. Navy ships were ready to launch cruise missiles. “We must stop an authoritarian regime from repressing its people in Europe at the end of the 20th century. We have a moral duty to do so. The responsibility is on our shoulders and we will ful fill it,” Solana said in Brussels, Belgium. Citing an “imminent threat of war,” Yugoslavia declared a nationwide state of emer gency - the first smce World War II - and began a massive mobilization of troops and equipment to keep its grip on Kosovo, a southern province where heavily armed government troops have been battling ethnic Albanian separatists for more than a year. Yugoslavia’s defense minister, Pavle Bulatovic, said early on Wednesday that the coun try’s army and police units have already been dis persed to avoid casualties during NATO airstrikes. Belgrade authorities urged residents to go about their business as normal on Wednesday, and said schools, public transportation and other ser vices would be working. After two days of fruitless talks in Belgrade, U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke flew Tuesday night Please see STRIKES on 2 -1 f amily, mends remember student killed in car accident 3y Ieva Augstums Senior staff writer Memories and praters filled the minds of friends and family after a spring break car wreck killed one UV student and paralyzed another b s been a little more than a week since seven 1 mversny of Nehraska-Lincoln students were passen gers in a Chevrolet Suburban that rolled six times along an icy stretch of 1-80 near Gothenburg. Junior business administration major Jason Rose. 22. was killed March 12 after being throw n front the vehicle he was driving, and then being hit bv another vehicle. Rose's mother. Pattv Rose. said :t nas been dinicult to deal with the loss of her son "If 1 couid say anything to my j son. 1 would ask him to come i back." she said. "I still love hint very much.” R°se Patty Rose said her son's friends have been supportive, spending time with the Rose family and remembenng Jason. "He cared and loved everyone,” Patty Rose said. "It is evident his friends cared for him as well.” Students involved with the accident are coping with Rose's death by remembenng times spent togeth er and openly talking about the accident. Kyle Hunt, a junior special education major, grad uated with Rose in 1995 from Lincoln East High School. “Jason was a wonderful friend,” Hunt said. “He was a caring individual.” Karl Graber, a senior piano major, first met Rose when they were freshmen living in Abel Residence Hall. “Jason will be missed,” Graber, said. “He’s missed already.” Graber and Hunt, along with three other UNL stu dents, were in the vehicle with Rose, and junior trum pet major Brian Linnell remains paralyzed in a Kearney hospital. Linnell, who was ejected from the vehicle, sus tained spinal cord injuries and a bruised lung. Tuesday, seven days before his 21st birthday, Linnell was upgraded from critical to serious condition Please see ROSE on 2 A taste of culture ._________ag—— Lane Hickenbottom/DN BATSIRAIKASU, a sophomore management information systems major from Zimbabwe, grins as she serves food at the African table of the International Bazaar in the Union Tuesday. The bazaar, which features ethnic foods from all over the world, continues today from 11:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. Please see story on page 3. /* Police catch 2 youth escapees a I don’t think the attention center is secure enough for serious criminals Tom Casady Lincoln police chief By Shane Anthony Staff writer Two teen-agers escaped from the Lincoln Attention Center For Youth, 2220 S. 10th St., Monday night after a fight only to be apprehended by police 20 minutes later. Police Chief Tom Casady said Tuesday that police arrested Justin M. Gonzales and Jerrold McLeod, both 17, for escape and assault by a con fined person after they fled the center. A third person who was staying at the center, 17 year-old Justin C. Lobato, was arrested for assault of a confined person and attempted escape. Three other Lincoln teen-agers were arrested for criminal con spiracy and aiding and abetting because of their role in the escape. Casady said Gonzales, McLeod and Lobato attacked four staff members at the center about 9:57 p.m. Two employees were taken to the hospital, treat ed and released, he said. The other two suffered minor injuries but did not require hospital treatment. Please see ESCAPE on 2 Read the Daily Nebraskan on the World Wide Web at dailyneb.com
