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I iiiw i tmgmmgQm i -j -fcSC I 4j VY-r-F if ztjA: immune 'JSi '--ifep -MM '5sir France terra WhillclM-y Imroductlon by Ralph Nader Women, beware! Women in America pay more than men for the same goods and services, from cars to health care to dry cleaning, according to a new book aimed at helping women get more for their money. National news. Page 3 -vf Jit iL? pZ, A-'" 1 y'irafmra iiiiifliHliirirfh Mltftttailt i 5f Flit vrr V-y I1 Southeast corner of Memorial Stadium collapses on top of bleachers. By Marc Krasnowsky of The Lincoln Star The 189 seats in rows 6 through 13 of Memorial Stadium section 14 were empty Monday morning. No one was sitting in the 250-seat metal bleachers beneath section 14.

So no one was injured when, at about 8:45 a.m., that section in the lower southeast corner of the stadium crashed to the ground, crushing much of the metal bleachers below. BUT WHAT IF the section hadn't collapsed on Monday? Would someone have found the problem before 76,000 fans crowded in for the Cornhuskers' Sept. 4 opener? Those questions and many others, including the cause of the collapse remain unanswered. University of Nebraska officials are saying very little and withholding all speculation until outside engineering studies are completed. What is known is that the section collapsed at about 8:45 a.m.

That's known because a student equipment manager for the football team watched the incident unfold a's he walked across the field toward the southeast corner of the stadium. Orlando Maldonado, a freshman from Jersey City, N.J., said he had reached the 50-yard line when an "amazing" scene unfolded. "It wasn't that loud," he said. "The clock (attached to the front railing of the concrete section) was shaking. Then the whole thing just fell down.

I stood there and just froze. "I was scared. Another two minutes, I would have been underneath. I won't sit up there any more." It's unknown whether anyone will be sitting in section 14 when Nebraska plays North Texas Sept 4. Senior associate athletic director Al Papik initially said he assumed there would be enough time to repair or replace the section before the season begins.

LATER, HOWEVER, university spokewoman Phyllis Larsen said it was too early to speculate on readiness. She also said she could neither estimate damage costs nor guess at potential causes for the section's collapse. The university has hired two Omaha consulting engineering firms to investigate the incident, she said. One is Batheja and Associates; the other is HDR Engineering, which did the design work on the structure, completed in 1964. Peter Kiewit Sons did the actual construction, Larsen confirmed.

The section that fell was built at the same time as the main lower section of the south stands. Though it is attached to the main section with concrete and reinforcement bars, it is structurally independent None of the people contacted at Kiewit and HDR knew enough about the 29-year-old project to say why the section was built that way. The southwest stands were constructed in ex-Please turn to: Stadium, Page 5 TM KlfkUncow (tor Collapse of the southeast corner of Memorial Stadium onto bleachers involved 439 seats. Where Bleachers Fell COLOR Field House 5SN Seven rows of concrete bleachers in the southeast corner of Memorial Stadium collapsed early Monday. No one was hurt.

On game day, about 440 people would have been sitting in those seven rows and the metal stands onto which the concrete section feB. UNL stadium's newest chant: Go Big Screen! By Betty Van Deventer of The Lincoln Star Big Red football will become big screen football if all goes as planned. The University of Nebraska hopes to have two new Memorial Stadium scoreboards that include instant replay in place by Oct 16, NlTs first Big 8 Conference home game against Kansas State, according to Al Papik, assistant athletic director. One scoreboard would be placed in the southeast section of Memorial Stadium; the other in the northwest section, Papik said. NU will be one of the first if not the first university campus to have instant replay in its football stadium.

The scoreboards will be similar to those in Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, home of the Chiefs. Papik said. Plays would be replayed in color, he said. The picture on the newest scoreboards is sup-1 Please turn to: Screen, Page 5 Summer travel boom Americans will travel in record numbers this summer despite a slow recovery from the recession and little chance of another airline fare war, travel officials predicted Monday. The forecast was drawn from telephone surveys.

National news, Page 4 Councilmen bid farewell Jokes, speeches and few suppressed tears took up a good share of the business before, the City Council Monday as members bid goodbye to council members Gates Minnick and Randy Lyons. Local news, Page 6 Budget bill to floor The Unicam's appropriations panel has voted to send a supplemental budget bill to the floor. It calls for $1 5.5 million in added spending the first year and $16.3 million the second year of the two-year budget cycle. Legislative news. Page 7 Learning life's lessons Over the last semester, Belmont students created four cities, electing city councils and choosing careers.

The students learned about the realities of life from weathering a depression to filling out job applications. Lifescape, Page 8 More going smoke-free Nebraska's prison system is moving to a smoke-free environment, probably within a year. Meanwhile, Gateway Center has joined the list of Lincoln businesses and facilities which have implemented smoking restrictions. Local news. Page 9 Bulls oust Cavaliers Michael Jordan hit a fall-away jumper in the waning seconds to give the Chicago Bulls a 103-101 victory against the Cleveland Cavaliers and a sweep of their NBA Eastern Conference semifinal Ramp Ramp WW Kim SlolzMUncom Star Americans rank near top in religious belief modern age.

"Everybody thought secularism would keep on undermining religion, and nothing could prevent it," said David Barrett editor of the World Christian Encyclopedia. "We've all been proved wrong." The survey program is a consortium of social science research centers in 21 countries. The study on religion involved national samples of at least 1,000 people in 1991 and early 1992 in the United States, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Poland, Italy, Hungary, Holland, New Zealand, western and eastern Germany, Norway, England, Slovenia and Israel. Tom Smith, director of the General Social Survey, the U.S. participant in the consortium, said the study "has more in-depth information about religious belief in a cross-national perspective than has ever been collected." Please turn to: Religion, Page 4 life after death.

It also said religious devotion in countries such as the United States, Ireland and Poland may be higher than ever. "God didn't die, not even under socialism," said the Rev. Andrew Greeley, the study's author. ONE AUTHORITY on world religion said the results seemed to show how the unexpected events in Eastern Europe have reversed predictions that there would be an inevitable decline in religious belief in the By David Briggs of The Associated Press A resurgence in religious beliefs in the former communist bloc and the return to religion of baby boomers in the United States are signs of an international religious revival, a study released Monday suggests. The International Social Survey Program, which polled 19,000 people in more than a dozen countries, found a growing number of young people in Eastern Europe believe in series.

Sports news. Page 13 Choice of doctor a luxury in Sargent No good choices With each day and each failed truce, it gets harder to witness the conflict in Bosnia without feeling compelled to do something. With each day, it gets harder to imagine what we could do that would do any good. Ellen Goodman, Page 1 0 train no longer stops and abandoned farmhouses creak in the wind. The townspeople here regard Bilang as a savior, a general practitioner who was willing to settle in the middle of Nebraska when no other doctors would.

It was Bilang who saved an elderly man with emphysema when he came into Sargent District Hospital's emergency room not long ago, gasping for air. People here say the man wouldn't have survived the hour's drive to the doctor in Broken Bow. Nonetheless, the state's hospital board has denied a permanent license to Bilang, who had been operating on a temporary Please turn to: Bilang, Page 5 Despite charges, residents support Bilang for coming to town when no one else would. By Dirk Johnson New York Times News Service SARGENT In the America of shopping malls, cul-de-sacs and home-delivered pizza, Dr. Bernardo G.

Bilang hardly would be the first choice of a family looking for a doctor. As a result of questionable medical procedures, he has been forced to surrender his right to practice in one state and has agreed never again to deliver babies in 6.92 The Dow closed at 3,449.93 with 227.58 million shares traded on the NYSE. Markets. Page 1 6 another. And in February, he was arrested on federal bank fraud charges.

But choice is a luxury unfamiliar to far-flung small towns like Sargent, where the Auocwrtto Prra Bilang at his license hearing. Quality of life: U.S. minorities down with Russians Record book IS Sports 13-15 State, Local Today's 9 TV Programs 11 Wottvr IS World 1-4 can 473-7300. Classifieds 19 Comics Dear Abby I ......18 Markets Movies 1 Opinion ...............10 your Star is missing cal 473-7304. you have news tip Mostly sunny nomic factors, this is a report on the state of the world's people, on how people's lives are affected," said project director Mahbub ul Haq in an interview.

Following Japan, in the overall index, are Canada, Norway, Switzerland and Sweden. The United States ranks sixth, although S. whites top the list if considered separately. American white females rank slightly higher than white males, with a longer life expectancy and more education but lower employment and income. Ranked at the bottom in the report, compiled only since 1990 by the U.N.

Human Development Program, are Niger. Burkina Faso, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone and. in last place, Guinea. Progress in developing market economies, multiparty democracies and non-gov- cial and ethnic minorities, he said. "I'm sure that the situation is worse in the United Kingdom, but similar data is not available," Haq said.

The report says that while the world's economic output has been increasing, automation has decreased employment "WE MAY CHEER human productivity." said Haq. who is a former finance minister of Pakistan, "but we have to get very concerned that not enough people are sharing in that productivity." Please turn to: Survey, Page 4 Paper Carrier Opening Get lined up now for the next newspaper opening near your home Apply at the Circulation Dept or pbone 473-7300-Adv. a ov emment grassroots movements seems to have done little to give people more control over their lives, the report concludes. THE REPORT ranks countries on a scale where 10 would be a perfect score Using the same criteria applied to countries, U.S. whites would top the list with 0 986.

Japan's score is 0 983 blacks get 0.881, about the same as Trinidad and Tobago which is 31st on the list. Hispanics score 0 869, which would put them at 35th, between former Soviet states Latvia and Estonia. Russia ranks 37th in the index, with 0 862. Haq said that minorities in many countries would likely do much worse than American blacks or Hispanics, but in some countries, including Great Britain, laws prevent the collection of similar census data on ra- WASHINGTON AP) The quality of life for American blacks and Hispanics ranks just ahead of Russians and well below American whites in the latest global survey of how people get by. The annual U.N.

index a measure of life expectancy, education and purchasing power ranks people living in 173 countries. A report to be published this month with the index also analyzes disparity among ethnic or racial groups, between men and women and among people from different regions within some of the countries. Japan, as in past years, is the leading country in the 1993 U.N. Human Development index, but it drops to No. 17 if treatment of women is included as a factor.

"WHILE THERE are reports on production, currency movements and other eco- High Low 7043 ft North wind 5 to 1 5 mph today; clear and cool tonight. Weather, Page 1 8.