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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.
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Tire treads baffle lawmakers
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - Lawmakers
have an arsenal of questions
about defective Firestone tires,
but the congressional hearings
that begin Wednesday are not like
ly to produce the answer to the
most vexing: What is making the
tires come apart on the road?
Officials from
Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. and
Ford Motor Co. say they have
hired outside experts to help find
out. 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.
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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.
Opening ceremonies are Sept 15.
“My wife is in a competition of
her own, and I am informed my
services may be needed else
where,” Clinton said.
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Gloria Steinem,
feminist icon,
ties the knot
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
STILWELL, Okla. - Gloria
Steinem, the feminist icon who
once dismissed marriage as an
institution that destroys relation
ships, is a first-time bride at the
age of 66.
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.
