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dailyneb.com we got next. All You Care lb Eat Original Sauce Spaghetti, Plus a THp lb Our Garden Fresh Salad Bar & TWo Slices Gaiiic Cheese Bread Offer good for Lunch or Dinoci. Moo. l ues. & Wed. oniy Musi presenl u<upr « hen orderng Not val«j -* ith any other coupon. Expries 9-17-00 228 N. 12th Uncoin, NE Law & Order Red Cross treats hundreds because of heat at NU game The first Husker home game was relatively uneventful for police and emergency services except for the hundreds of peo ple stricken by the heat in the stands. During the game, American Red Cross aid stations were overflowing with fans suffering from heat exhaustion and heat stroke, said Cathy Ryan, health and safety specialist with the Red Cross. Ryan said an estimated 250 to 300 people were treated dur ing the game. A few people were taken to area hospitals for treat ment, but none of the condi tions were believed life-threat ening. Lincoln Police, on the other hand, reported a relatively easy game day. Capt. Joy Citta said 69 cars were towed Saturday, which was down from'the usual 100 to 120 cars towed on an average first game. Citta said new downtown parking garages and few road construction projects also helped ease traffic problems. University police cite sophomore for marijuana possession University Police cited one Abel Residence Hall sophomore for drug violations early Saturday after marijuana smoke was evident in the hall. A resident assistant reported the smell on the 10th floor and police traced it to 19-year-old Ryan Dull’s room, University Police Assistant Chief Bill Manning said. When the officer told Dull he had smelled smoke in the hall, the student produced a small pipe with drug residue and sus pected marijuana inside. Dull was cited for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana and drug paraphernalia Two automotive businesses robbed in similar manner Two automotive businesses separated by less than two blocks were both burglarized in a similar manner early Hiesday. A broken glass alarm sum moned officers to In-Line Suspension, 3100 N. 20th St., at 2:15 a.m., Lincoln Police Ofc. Katherine Finnell said. Officers found the business’ front glass broken out. The thief or thieves took a car rotor from a scrap pile near the building and used it to smash the window, Finnell said. The thieves caused $410 in damages and made off with $31 cash from the register. After investigating the In Line Suspension burglary, offi cers checked other businesses in the area for signs of forced entry. At 4:30 a.m. another broken glass alarm sounded at Don’s Used Tires, 3260 N. 20th St. Sometime between 3 and 4:30 a.m., thieves used a tire wheel outside the business to smash the front window, Finnell said. The thieves took $40 cash from the register, four promo tional watches and a small model truck for $210 total loss. The thieves also caused $500 in damages. Police focus on school zones in traffic enforcement project In their back-to-school traf fic enforcement project, Lincoln Police handed out 2,280 cita tions. From Aug. 21 to Sept. 1 police focused on school zones to remind drivers to slow down, Ofc. Katherine Finnell said. In addition to the traffic tick ets, 622 warnings were given. TWenty-six drivers were arrested for driving on a suspended license. Six were arrested for out standing warrants, two were cited for drugs and two for dis turbing the peace with load stereos. Compiled by Josh Funk -r RETIREMENT INSURANCE MUTUAL FUNDS TRUST SERVICES TUtTiDN FINANCING Why is TIAA-CREF the #1 choice nationwide? The TIAA-CREF Advantage. Year in and year out, employees at education and research institutions have turned to TIAA-CREF. 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Most of the 6.5 million Firestone tires that have been recalled are on Ford vehicles, including the popular Ford Exolorer. “We will not say anything about root cause until we are cer tain we have something,” Ford spokesman Ken Zino told reporters on Tuesday. The companies have said the reason the tires were recalled on Aug. 9 was data showing those tires have more tread separation, blowouts and other problems than comparable models. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has received more than 1,400 com plaints involving Firestone tires, including reports of 88 deaths and more than 250 injuries. The mod els under scrutiny are P235/75R15-size radial ATX and ATX II tires and Wilderness AT tires of the same size made at the Bridgestone/Firestone plant in Decatur, DL “We know now that perhaps 90 people have lost their lives as a result of this kind of a problem and the question is - could these tires have been replaced earlier before they failed these individuals on the road?" Billy Tauzin Louisiana representative Last week, NHTSA issued a warning about the safety of 1.4 million tires beyond the 6.5 mil lion recalled models. Bridgestone/Firestone continues to insist there is no reason to expand the recall to include those tires. Ford officials said the compa ny has about 500 people working exclusively on the recall. Ford offi cials saidTuesday that 1.75 million of the recalled tires have been replaced. Bridgestone/Firestone has hired an independent entity to investigate, although the compa ny won't say who it is. Rep. Fred Upton, chairman of a subcom mittee of the House Commerce Committee that will hold hearings today, said the focus will be on when Ford, Bridgestone/Firestone and gov ernment investigators first knew there was a problem. Lawsuits involving tread sepa ration on Firestone tires date back at least to 1991. Ford began recall ing the tires overseas in August 1999, though it never alerted U.S. authorities. Upton, R-Mich., said he is especially disappointed that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration did not get involved in the case until this year, even though State Farm Mutual Insurance Co. has said it sent e mail to the agencyin July 1998 say ing the insurer had documfented 21 crashes caused by Firestone's ATX tires. u v * r__a x- n i x tr NHTSA’s been asleep at the wheel,” Upton said. Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La., who will preside with Upton at the hearing, said it's clear that Ford and Bridgestone/Firestone must have known there were problems with the tires because Fprd recalled them in 16 other coun tries before the U.S. recall began. “We know now that perhaps 90 people have lost their lives as a result of this kind of a problem and the question is - could these tires have been replaced earlier before they failed these individu als on the road?" he said. Chelsea Clinton to appear at Olympics THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Chelsea Clinton, so weary from foreign travel with her dad that she missed a chance to vacation with her parents in New York, is feeling better and is ready to represent the first family at the Olympic Games in Australia, the White House said. Having been with President Clinton on trips to Nigeria, Tanzania, Egypt and Colombia late last month, Chelsea didn’t feel up to going on a vacation and fund-raising jaunt to upstate New York with her parents, who returned to the White House on Saturday after one night out of town. “I think the only real problem was that she was tired," White House press secretary Joe Lockhart said Tiiesday. “I think she was subjected to a full dose of her father’s schedule: a four-day trip to Africa with a half a day off, and then a day trip to South America, then the prospect of traveling up to New York.” Chelsea, 20, decided to take a semester off from her studies at Stanford University to be with her father as his presidency winds down - and with her mother as her race for a Senate seat from New York heats up. The president said he wanted to attend the Olympic Games this month in Sydney but that his daughter would be representing the family at those games. 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Steinem, the co-founder of Ms. magazine, married South African-born entrepreneur David Bale, 61, in rural Oklahoma on Sunday. “I’m happy, surprised and one day will write about (marriage), but for now, I hope this proves what feminists have always said - that feminism is about the ability to choose what’s right at each time of our lives.” Steinem had said the chances of her marrying were slim. In 1987, she said: “I don't think mar riage has a good name... Legally speaking, it was designed for a person and a half. You became a semi-non-person when you got married.” The ceremony was in the Adair County home of Wilma Mankiller, former chief of the Cherokee Nation.