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Cash, cookie stolen in string of robberies Burglars broke into three stores in the Piedmont Shopping Center, 1265 S. Cotner Blvd., Saturday evening and early Sunday morning, Lincoln Police Ofc. Katherine Finneli said. The burglars pried the lock off the front door of Family Christian Stores, taking $4,000 cash and caus ing $200 in damage. The burglars also hit Lee Booksellers, taking $300 in cash and causing $25 damage to the store’s front door. Sunrise Coffee was the third vic tim in the spree, losing $140 in cash, one chocolate chip cookie and suf fering $35 damage. Bookstore burglarized Burglars also broke into another Lee Booksellers, 5500 S. 56th St., Saturday night in an incident police think is unrelated, Finnell said. After prying through the store’s rear door causing $20 damage, the burglars took $351 in cash. Hallmark burglary attempt fails, causes damages Burglars tried to break into Barb’s Hallmark, 2840 S. 70 St., but succeeded only in wedging the door closed, Finnell said. The attempt, which took place late Saturday night, caused $100 damage. Beer stolen from train car Sometime between Friday evening and Saturday morning, bur glars broke into a train car parked at 5840 N. 70 St. and took 128 cases of Bud Light beer, Finnell said. The beer, which belonged to D&D distributors, was valued at $1,856. Compiled by senior staff writer Jake Bleed I™ Attention December 1999 Graduates The DEADLINE for the return of your yellow Commencement Attendance form is December 3,1999 * Return it to the Graduation Services Office, 109 Canfield Administration Building. 1 read the daily nebraskan online at dailyneb.com of tako your rfiMron disputes Clinton’s Greece visit hit a nerve, UNL students say By Sarah Fox Staff writer During a 10-day tour of Southern Europe, President Clinton told Greece he came as a friend and praised Bulgaria for cooperating with NATO last spring against Yugoslavia. But his trip, which ended Nov. 23, opened old wounds, said three University of Nebraska-Lincoln stu dents and a Lincoln resident. About 10,000 people protested in Athens on Friday when Clinton arrived, according to a Los Angeles Times story. The demonstrators burned an American flag and waved a banner saying “Yankee leave the Balkans alone.” Most of the protesters were college students, said John Kazas, who came to the United States in 1962 from Greece. Kazas owns Papa John’s Family Restaurant, 114 S. 14th St. “Those college kids like doing that kind of stuff,” Kazas said. “Some of them got uptight about the Kosovo deal, and it takes a while to get over that.” _ g Th(^ protesters wepNt small per centage of Greece’s people, said Ioannis Misopoulos, a food science graduate student from Greece. ^ Misopoulos said he thought the protesters were mostly Communists. " Communists make up about 2 percent jpfvpters'andnapst are older people or :>c$use trou " a.very, . ind Misopoulos said many i Greeks didn’t life NATO’s spring bombings against Yugoslavia because ■ Serbs and Greeks both practice the ^ same religion, Eastern Orthodox. The United States, with NATO, attacked Yugoslav forces for 78 days > last spring,; according to The Associated Press. NATO used the air strikes to con vince Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to pull his troops out of the province of Kosovo. The Yugoslav military cracked down on the mostly ethnic Albanian province in February 1998, according to CNN. Most Kosovars are Muslims and are not Orthodox like Serbs and Greeks. The week of Nov. 14 was also a bad time for Clinton to visit Greece, Misopoulos said. Nov. 17 was die 25* anniversary of struggles between Turkey and Greece over the island of Cyprus. When the struggle started, in 1974, Greece was being ruled by a dictator who had once worked for the CIA. Some Greeks blamed the United States for backing an unpopular dicta tor, who ruled for “five dark years,” Misopoulos said. “(Clinton) came right at the worst time,” he said However, Kazas and Misopoulos said Greeks are friendly to American people. “I disagree when they say, ‘Greeks don’t like America.’” Kazas said. “The press is overblowing these things ” Bill Avery, professor of political science at UNL, said he was surprised that 10,000 people protested Clinton’s arrivaktfejaid besought part of the problem was nation-state,” Avery for states with a . long 1 istdry'td reconcile with *n state. American values ayre sweeping the world, t ibere’s some,jealousy democratic States "Avery said Clinton’s Nov. 22 vis^.t was the first for a U.S. preSi Press’rin 1991, the cooelr^v&d its first elections after ctunfiQun&m'fell. symbol/’Avery said “It waSahuge event to the Bulgarians because it a r* Matt Haney/DN boosted their morale.” Teodor Ivanov, a sophomore com puter engineering major from Bulgaria, said he watched television and saw crowds cheering for Clinton in Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia. Ivanov said he thought the visit would improve Bulgaria’s image. “I was impressed by (Clinton’s) knowledge,” Ivanov said. Ivanov said he supported the NATO air strikes because he didn’t like Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. However, some Bulgarians resent ed NATO’s air strikes in Yugoslavia even though die government officially supported NATO, said Dimitar Nikolov, a graduate student in piano performance. Bulgaria hopes to join NATO. Serbs and Bulgarians have similar cultures and languages and the same religion, said Nikolov, who is from Bulgaria. i “We have also Muslims, which is OK with Bulgarians, but when it comes tp war, most of the population will supjiort Christianity,” he said. “I think that most of the people think the Serbians are victims of this war.” ^ Hollywood residents begin quest to secede from LA LOS ANGELES (AP) - They’ve school. j> ^JgRiordan has vowed to keep the enter got a sign; now they want a city. Some residents of Hollywood want to break away from Los Angeles, and said they will start a petition to begin a study on the feasibility of secession. “I believe we can make it a lot bet ter place for people who live here, who work here and visit here,” said Fares Wehbe, a longtime Hollywood resident and financial director at a private Leaders ora Id-member groupsagf Saturday they will begin a petition drive. They must collect signatures from 25 percent of the voters within the proposed area to qualify for the study. They want to attach their campaign to similar efforts under way for the San Pedro-Wilmington area and the San Fernando Valley. Los Angeles Mayor Richard tsunment center of Southern California W$thin the boundaries of what is now the nation’s second-largest city. “We’re very concerned about secession already, and having more dif ferent groups who express a desire to secede is troubling,” said Kelly Martin, Riordan’s chief of staff. The town was absorbed by Los Angeles in 1911.