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News Digest Page 2 Daily Nebraskan Monday January 22,2001 ■ The 43rd president enters the White House with the GOP in control of both the Senate and the House. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON—George Walker Bush is putting the family name back in the White House as 43rd president of the United States. In the high-noon pageantry of the transfer of power, George Herbert Walker Bush stood proud witness to his son's inau guration 12 years after his own. And Bill Clinton, who defeated the elder Bush, stood aside, spared the prospect of post-presidential prosecution by surrendering Ids law license and admit ting false statements in a last-day deal over the sex scandal that led to his impeach ment So ends two terms of Democratic rule, and so returns a Republican, and a Bush, to the White House. Bush promised a “greatness of America” inaugural address emphasizing unity, and a brief one at 13 minutes. But he said with his trademark grin that it might take longer should there be interruptions for applause. Bush said he will speak and work for people who don't think prosperity is part of their lives, who may not trust the system of justice, who “don’t feel America’s so great for them.” Black voters opposed him 10 to 1, and some still dispute the legitimacy of his victory. The new President Bush is the first Republican since Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953 to take office with GOP control of both the House, narrowly, and the Senate, only because of die tie-breaking vote of the new vice president, Dick Cheney. Even as Bush prepared to take die oath of office, Clinton was still doing business Saturday morning. “I pledged that I would work until the last hour of die last day. Well, here we are,” he said in his final weekly radio address, recorded Friday. A cold, rainy Inauguration Day brought with itathreat of sleet and snow by the time the parade stepped off behind the new president and first lady Laura Bush. But inauguration organizers said late Friday they had no plans to move it inside. Along the ceremonial mile from the Capitol to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., there was pomp and protest on an occasion of history and sentiment, an emotional one for the incoming Bush and the departing Clinton. It also was an inauguration with unprecedented security steps, checkpoints near the Capitol, 10 more along the Pennsylvania Avenue parade route, to check the bags and packages of thousands upon thousands of spectators. Protesters sued, calling it an effort to suppress them, but a federal judge ruled Friday that their rights were not being vio lated. The ritual of inauguration, the 54th, was performed with a cast like none assem bled before. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist administered the oath of office to the presi dent whose hairbreadth election was affirmed by the Supreme Court after a five week struggle of recounts and challenges. Former President Bush is the first father of an incoming president to see his son take office in 40 years, since Joseph P. Kennedy watched John F. Kennedy inaugurated. Only once before, when John Quincy Adams traced his father's steps into the White House 176 years ago, has the son of a president become a president There remain some who question the legitimacy of Bush's victory. But the twice elected Texas governor said repeatedly he will be president for all Americans, those who supported him and those who opposed him. He also said he hopes he can convince black voters that he is working for them, too, and merits minority support like that he gained for his second term in Texas. His secretary of state, Colin Powell, due for confirmation by the Senate shortly after the inauguration, is the first black American chosen for that position, one of two in a Bush Cabinet that includes three women, two Asian Americans, one of them a Democrat, and a Hispanic American. After the ceremony, parade and the eight black-tie inaugural balls - Bush said he was brushing up his two-step with Laura - the president planned an open house on Sunday for about 3,000 people at the White House. Then the first work week, when Bush will concentrate on Congress, meet with Republicans, bipartisan congressional leaders and newly elected members of both parties. His first big request of Congress will be for the education bill he touted in his campaign ^ Pool Photo/Newsmakers President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush attend one of nine inaugural balk Saturday in Washington, D.C Study suggests athletes more likely to binge drink THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON—The stereo type of hard-drinking college jocks may have something to it A study finds college athletes gener ally outdrink nonathletes. Alcohol-control education programs don’t seem to make a difference - athletes drank more even though they were quicker to notice messages against drinking, the researchers said An NCAA official, however, countered that the Harvard research team was making too much of the drinking and too little of the value of the alcohol-control programs. The study looked at question naire responses from 12,777 col lege students, including 2,172 ath letes in 130 four-year colleges around the nation in 1997. Among men, 57 percent of athletes reported at least one binge drinking episode, defined as five or more drinks in a row on one or more occasions, in die past TODAY TOMORROW Partly cloudy Sunny high 44, low 28 high 44, low 22 two weeks. In comparison, less than 49 percent of nonathletes drank that much. Among women, 48 percent of athletes and 40 percent of nonath letes reported binge drinking, defined for females as four straight drinks in the same period. Athletes overall were 50 per cent more likely to say they usual ly binged when they drank. Athletes reported a signifi cantly higher level of exposure to alcohol education, but the expo sure did not decrease their drink ing. Critics, however, think things are not as bad as the report indi cates. The differences in drinking behaviors between athletes and nonathletes generally are modest, said psychologist Kenneth Sher of the University of Missouri, Columbia. And the paper doesn't indicate whether the athletes' edge in drinking developed on campus or arrived with them from high school, he said. Philippine president steps down THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MANILA, Philippines — President Joseph Estrada quit Saturday and the country's vice president replaced him in a wild finish to the Philippines' worst political crisis in more than a decade. The departure of the former action film star came after tens of thousands of protesters pushed through police lines and marched close to die presidential palace to demand his resignation, and the Supreme Court said he no longer governed. The sudden shift in power came a day after Estrada’s govern ment collapsed amid a corrup tion scandal, fears of a coup and a collapsed impeachment trial. Many of his top military com manders and political allies had abandoned him “It is now, as the good book says, a time to heal and a time to build,’’ Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who had been his vice president, told supporters after taking the oath of office at the monument to the 1986 "people power" revolu tion that toppled late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Anti-Estrada demonstrators cheered wildly and waved flags after officials announced Estrada was out. Macapagal-Arroyo had been calling herself the “new commander in chief" since Estrada's military leaders and most of the Cabinet deserted him *It is now, as the good book says, a time to heal and a time to build." Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo new Philippine president Friday. Estrada issued a statement saying he had “strong and serious doubts about the legality and constitutionality of her procla mation as president” but that he would give up his office to avoid being an obstacle to the nation’s healing process. Ttying to hide their sadness by smiling and waving to a group of reporters, Estrada and his family later left the Malacanang palace, shaking hands with the remain ing members of his Cabinet and other palace employees. Although Estrada had vowed earlier to “live and die in our country,” a diplomatic source said he was believed to be prepar ing to go to Australia. The U.S. Embassy issued a statement hoping for continued good relations with the Philippine government “The United States is pleased that the presidential crisis... has been resolved without violence and in accordance with demo cratic and constitutional proce dures,” the statement said. In nearby Malaysia, some 3,000 protesters took inspiration from the Philippines’ peaceful, albeit boisterous, removal of Estrada. Gathering Saturday, they demanded that the country’s longtime and authoritarian Prime Minster Mahathir Mohamad also step down. Macapagal-Arroyo has offered few hints about how she would govern, though she said tackling poverty and building consensus would be priorities. She said in a television inter view Saturday that top soldiers and police officers who aban doned Estrada would likely get their jobs back, adding she would not be prejudiced against others from the old administration when she selects a Cabinet The nation has been suffering through political turmoil that exploded in October with allega tions that Estrada took gambling kickbacks and skimmed money from provincial tobacco taxes. His highly charged opponents and smaller groups of supporters got into shoving matches early Saturday near one roadblock, where rocks and one small explo sive were thrown. Police fired at least one warning shofbut there were no reports of injuries. Protests swelled and on Friday at least a quarter-million people demanded his resignation during a raucous rally at the site of the “people power" revolt 15 years earlier. ___ Editor: Sarah Baker K»r°th« annrnnriato carfinn orfHnr Managing Editor: Bradley Davis at*(4021472-2588r3e MCt °" **** Associate News Editor Kimberly Sweet or e-mail da@unl.edo. Assignment Editor Jill Zeman Opinion Editor Jake Glazeski Fax numtien (402) 472-1761 AsaiHant ISlior *££*"* World Wide Web: www.dailyneb.com Arts Editor: Samuel McKewon The Daily Nebraskan (USPS144-080) is Copy Desk Chief: Danell McCoy published by the UNL Publications Board,20 Art Director: Melanie Falk Nebraska Union, 1400 R St, Lincoln, NE 68588- Art Director Delan Lonowski 0448, Monday through Friday during the academic Photo Chief: Scott McClurg year; weekly during the summer sessions.The Design Coordinator Bradley Davis public has access to the Publications Board. 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The Independent System Operator - which manages 80 percent of the state’s electricity grid - ear lier had declared a Stage 3 alert through Monday, an unprecedented action on tor weekends when demand usually eases. Stage 3 alerts are announced when reserves dip below 1.5 percent and allow the grid operators to impose rolling blackouts to cope with demand. The blackouts ordered Wednesday and Thursday had affected many more customers. The alerts were prompted by tight supplies and power plants that were idled for maintenance or repairs. The alerts were accom panied by urgent requests for Californians to con serve energy. “Apparently suppliers * need to see we’re in a Stage 3 because those resources are needed in the (Pacific) Northwest,” said ISO spokeswoman Stephanie McCorkle. The ISO had hoped for a reprieve from the emer gency over the weekend, when power needs gener ally drop by 2,000 megawatts. Blackouts imposed Wednesday and Thursday in northern and central California darkened hun dreds of thousands of homes and businesses for up to two hours. The state avoided another round of blackouts on Friday and Saturday. # The Associated Press ■ China Counterfeit Viagra pills being sold in Shanghai shops BEIJING — Just six months after the anti-impotence drug Viagra was approved in China, an estimated 90 percent of the pills being sold in Shanghai are fake, the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday. The counterfeits perfectly duplicate the blue diamond shaped pills and their Chinese “Wan Ai Ke” logo, but the report didn’t say whether they offer the same results or damage the user’s health. Shanghai health officials inspected 197 sex shops and drug stores in the last month and found dozens of boxes of pills with forged serial numbers. Police arrested two people for running a Shanghai factory that produced 455,000 counter feit Viagra tablets, the state-run China Daily said Saturday. It said the tablets contained some of the same ingredients used in the real drug. ■ Washington, D.C. Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade sparks political concern Abortion rights supporters are finding themselves on tough terrain for tomorrow's 28*h anniversary of the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion, as abortion foes are energized by the sud denly changed political land scape. Bill Clinton, the president who helped the cause for keep ing abortions legal, is gone, replaced by anti-abortion President Bush, who has nomi nated an even more staunch abortion opponent as attorney general, John Ashcroft. - “Certainly we can’t count on the White House now,” said Patricia Ireland, president of the National Organization for Women. ■ Illinois Jackson speaks publidy, thanks family for support CHICAGO — The Rev. Jesse Jackson thanked his family and supporters for standing by him as he spoke publicly today for the first time since acknowledg ing he fathered a daughter dur ing an extramarital affair. But Jackson, speaking briefly to worshippers who packed Salem Baptist Church, saved his most personal com ments for his wife, Jackie. “After 38 years and five chil dren later, Jackie, you’re still here,” Jackson said. The civil rights leader said he was grateful to supporters who made it clear that they want him to return to the helm of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition soon and indicated he is ready to resume his work. ■ Egypt Palestinian and Israeli teams begin peace negotiations TABA — Israeli and Palestinian teams began peace negotiations at this Egyptian resort Sunday but both sides gave off signals that dampened the already slim hopes for suc cess. In Israel, Prime Minister Ehud Barak set lines he pledged never to cross, and senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the Israeli stance meant the “failure of these negotiations before they begin.” Palestinian negotiator Nabil Shaath was not quite so pes simistic about the talks, but he stressed that the Palestinians would not feel pressured by Israel's looming election. ■ Washington, D.C. High gasoline prices led to decrease in sales last year With prices high, American motorists used 1 percent less gasoline last year than the year before, the first decline in demand in nearly a decade, the American Petroleum Institute reported Friday. The API, a trade group rep resenting large oil companies, said that the decline in gasoline deliveries to retail outlets came despite overall economic growth during 1999 and contin ued growth in consumer income. 4 /