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State leaders support WTO WTO from page 1 _ Export and Trade Promotion. Sen. Bob Kerrey could not be reached for comment. Barrett and Bereuter are both in Seattle meeting with WTO members, as is Merlyn Carlson, Nebraska’s director of agriculture. All the representatives said free trade, in opening foreign markets to agricultural goods, would help Nebraska’s fanners. “Farmers and ranchers in my dis trict depend on the worldwide agricul tural trade market,” Barrett said before going to Seattle. “One of our best shots atreviving the agricultural econ omy is by opening and strengthening foreign markets.” • Barrett is the vice chairman of the House of Representatives’ agricultural" committee. Terry said he was strongly in favor of the WTO and China’s admittance into the trade organization. “I’m a free-trader,” Terry said. Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics Lilyan Fulginiti said Nebraska’s agricultural economy was mainly export-oriented and would benefit from lowered inter national trade barriers. “It would help Nebraska’s agricul tural food production. We need the markets. Nebraska is mainly an agri culture exporter,” Fulginiti said. But Fulginiti also said lowered trade barriers could damage other economies, lending some credence to the complaints of anti-WTO protest ers. “As Nebraska’s producers benefit, there are some other groups and soci eties that will be hard hit by it,” Fulginiti said. Many protesters fear the free-trade agreements proposed by the WTO would harm international human rights, lead to lower labor standards and harm the environment. Hagel, who said he was not sur prised by the scope of the protests, said he did not share the protesters’ wor ries. “To all those protesters in Seattle, I’d say this: The WTO is not interested in becoming a global government, an exploiter of child labor or a contami nator of the environment,” Hagel said. . President Bill Clinton, who was in Seattle on Thursday, asked WTO dele gates to consider labor-protection treaties to complement free-trade agreements. Chnton, who signed an interna Matt Haney/DN tional treaty banning child labor while in Seattle, said die United States was committed “not just to lower barriers but to raise living standards; to help ensure that people everywhere feel they have a positive stake in global trade that gives them and their chil dren a chance for a better life.” Bereuter criticized Clinton’s com ments and said the reaction of dele gates from developing countries to the president’s comments were “strongly negative.” “They call this the thin end of a thick labor wedge,” Bereuter said Thursday. “Some delegates from developing •countries with whom I met went so far as to suggest that the administration helped encourage and orchestrate the demonstrations as a means to influ ence the agenda to include ... absent labor and environmental issues.” The Associated Press con tributed to this report. Plane sinks while landing PLANE from page 1 boat out to the wrecked plane. Kinnamon said finding a boat to rescue the men was a problem because many of the boats used to maintain the lake were already in winter storage. Kinnamon said he did not know who owned the boat used to rescue the men but that he had to fill it with gas. Once the boat arrived, Kinnamon said, the men were picked up and returned to shore safely. “The guys were calm and loaded (onto the boat) really good from die way it looked on shore," said Jim Densberger, assistant chief of the Malcolm fire department. Parks and Recreation officials had to add a battery and prepare an engine .on a boat in storage to later ferry investigators to the crash site. _ < The plane continued to sink after the men were rescued. It was com pletely submerged by about 1 p.m. Kinnamon said recovering the plane may require flipping the plane onto its pontoons and dragging it to shore. A crane could then pick up the plane and bring it onto dry land. “It is definitely not going to be used as (artificial fish) habitat,” Kinnamon said. Brookhouse said landing planes on Branched Oak Lake is authorized and that the lake’s waters were wanner than usual. Accidents Occur in Daylight ■ l.-... . -L- - ,il. ■■■■■mugu Drive Smart, Drive Safe! ' - —--;—, — As the holiday season draws near UNL Landscape Services will be protecting campus evergreens with a coating of fox urine to deter any would>be Christmas tree poachers. ! 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