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The NU Slate Museum has many
interesting things to look at and
explore, even one that is outside
the building.
The Apollo Command Module
009 has been on display in front
of Morrill Hall since August 1972.
How did an Apollo space capsule
come to land at UNL? Allan Grie-
semer, director of the museum,
said UNL received the capsule
just by asking for it.
"We thought that the Smith
sonian Institute had priority to
get the capsule, but we found out
that they didn't, so we asked for
it," Gricsemer said.
Grirsemer said thatjvhen the
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The spaceship next to Morrill Hull looks like it ia destined
for the cosmos in this double exposure.
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The film is presenting the prob
lem to the people of Nebraska so
people can look at and under
stand what it is," Clark said.
Authier, who chaired the com
mittee on child abuse, said an
Omaha child abuse crisis center
received 16 calls offering volun
teer help and three reporting
child abuse cases when one part
of the Nebraska ETV program
aired Monday night.
Authier said her committee was
strongly recommending a grass
roots movement to reach into the
problem of child abuse. One of
the largest problems, she said,
was that some crisis centers are
understaffed in rural areas, leav
ing one worker for every 20 cases.
They have been going to those
cases where a child's life was
threatened, or whatever seemed
most important Some cases are
left on the back burner," Authier
said.
Other recommendations were
the development of a plan to
coordinate services for children;
emphasis on abuse awareness in
local school districts; an amend
ment to eliminate the corrobora
tion requirements in incest cases;
a provision for videotaped depo
sitions of testimony for child
abuse victims; appropriations for
additional child protective servi
ces and foster care workers to
meet the national caseload stan
dards and a plan to encourage
school districts to start curricu
lum that would address issues of
parent education, life and inter
personal relationships.
Authier said Nebraska is the
only state that requires corrobo
ration on child abuse cases.
"I feel we have to resist the
strong temptation to set up some
module arrived at UNL, it was
beaten up from being tested to
see how it could withstand land
ing on the ground.
The module was the first Apollo
flight by NASA, even though it
was unmanned and didn't orbit
the Earth. It was launched in
1966 to test the reliability of the
re-entry heat shield, he said.
In November 1971, after a few
meetings with NASA officials, Grie
semer said NASA gave permis
sion to make some Apollo space
capsules available for display.
In February 1972, NASA said it
would let UNL have the space
capsule if the university could
find a way to transport the cap
sule. The cost would be $1,500. UNL
officials found a donor and the
capsule finally arrived in Lincoln
in August 1972.
In the spring of 1973, astro
nauts Ronald E Evens, and Eugene
A. Cernan visited UNL to offi
cially give the capsule to UNL for
permanent display.
bureauracy and assume we can
cross the problem off our list,"
Gov. Bob Kerrey said. This is not
something that's going to go away
because of one legislative ses
sion." The committee's report said
4,000 cases of child abuse were
reported in Nebraska in 1983,
four of which resulted in the
child's death. According to FBI
estimates, 335 rapes were report
ed, while more than 9,000 might
have taken place.
Setting it
straight
Because of a typographical er
ror, political science doctoral
candidate Margery Abrosius'
name was misspelled in a story in
Tuesday's Daily Nebraskan.
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National and international news
from the Renter News Report
Soviet officials agree
to release U.S. seamen
WASHINGTON Soviet officials have agreed to release five
U.S. seamen to an American Coast Guard cutter in the Bering
Strait as early as Wednesday.the State Department said Tues
day. Spokesman John Hughes also said the United States for
mally had pretested Soviet actions, including an alleged
demand that the seamen sign confessions saying they deliber
ately violated Soviet territory. Hughes said U.S. officials did not
know whether the seamen had signed any statement.
Hughes said Monday that Soviet officials told the United
States last Friday that the Freida K., a commercial supply ship,
had violated Soviet territory two days earlier. Hughes said the
seamen apparently were detained when they asked directions
from what turned out to be a Soviet ship.
Soviet officials have said the men were aboard a ship that
entered Soviet waters and informed the United States they
were being held at a hotel in the Siberian port town of Ureliki,
across the Bering Strait from Alaska. The State Department
denied the ship was on a spy mission, saying it wa3 delivering
supplies and water to remote islands off the Alaskan coast.
Innocence-by-insanity bill defeated
WASHINGTON The House defeated legislation Tuesday
that would have made it harder for someone to be declared
innocent by reason of insanity in federal courts. A majority
favored the legislation by a vote of 225-1 71 but the legislation
required a two-thirds vote under special rules for passage. It
could come up again under regular rules requiring only a
simple majority.
The bill was prompted by public outrage after the attempted
assassination of President Reagan in J.Iarch 1931 by John
Hinckley, who was acquitted by reason of insanity. He currently
is confined indefinitely in St. Elizabeth's Hospital, a mental
institution in Washington. The bill was controversial, with
some congressmen saying they wanted to eliminate the insan
ity ruling altogether. It would have required defendants to
prove their insanity, rather than under the present system
where prosecutors must disprove the mental competence of a
defendant.
GM resumes tollis witli worliera
DETROIT General Motors Tuesday resumed bargaining
with the United Auto Workers union, seeking a solution to a
contract impasse that sparked a strike by 60,000 workers at
key GM facilities. A union source said Monday the two sides
were "awful damn close to a settlement."
Similar statements were made by union sources close to the
bargaining Sunday night, but negotiations broke off just before
dawn Monday. A 20-hour session failed to produce agreement
on a package covering the key issues of job security and wages.
Top union executives have said repeatedly and emphatically
that no agreement on any issue would be considered complete
until the entire package was complete. The UAW is waging
selective strikes over what it calls "local" issues against GM
plants where about a third of the giant auto company's UJS.
vehicles are assembled. Auto analysts said the impact on GM
would build as the strikes continue because plants that pro
duce components for the assembly lines hit by the walkout will
have to cut production. The cost now stands at $150 million.
Farmers polled favor Reagan
ST. LOUIS Farmers in 29 states favor President Reagan
over Walter Mondale by a 5 to 1 margin even though many are
in financial trouble and pessimistic about the future of farm
ing, according to a survey released Tuesday. The poll con
ducted by Soybean Digest Magazine covered 752 farmers, 69
percent of whom said they would vote for Reagan if the election
were held today. Mondale, who has made extra efforts to woo
farmers, drew only 15 percent while another 16 percent were
undecided. The magazine said the support for Reagan came
despite admissions by some farmers in the poll that they are
not as well off as they were three years ago. It said 46 percent of
the farmers contacted said they were suffering financial hard
ship with their net worth lower or substantially lower than was
the case three years ago.
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U.S. farmers warn of eicport los
WASHINGTON US. farm groups Tuesday warned that
import protection for domestic textile industries could lose
farmers a major export market if China retaliated against the
restrictions. The National Corn Growers Association and the
Naitonal Association of Wheat Growers told a Senate trade
subcommittee they were worried that China might decide
against renewing a long-term grain purchase agreement that
expires at the end of 1934 because Congress is considering a
Too , cJL8a.Kn?orts ofChse textiles and clothing at
183 levels. The bill also would limit future import growth to
1.5 Percent a year If China retaliated by stepping grain
imports the cost to US. wheat growers would be feoo million
before the end of the year, wheat growers' President Earl Pryor
