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Omaha President Gerald Ford returned
to trie city of his birth Wednesday to
learn and listen."
Complete with conspicuously placed
secret service men and blue-uniformed city
policemen, Ford addressed the 1,100
guests who registered for the Nebraska
Iowa White House Conference on Domestic
and Economic Affairs at the Omaha Hilton
Hotel.
According to a conference program, the
event's purpose was to "focus on the major
issues of the day as they affect the country
and the people of the conference location
and to facilitate genuine two-way dialogue
in i spirit of cooperation. . . And
dialogue there was.
Fanners not to blame
After a 15-muiute speech in which he
said "there is absolutely no economic justi
fication" for the latest price increase by
the Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OPEC), and that farmers are
not to blame for increased food prices,
Ford answered a question from one repre
sentative of each of the 17 Nebraska and
Iowa organizations that cosponsored the
conference with the White House Office of
Public Liaison.
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and pictures on
pages 6 and 7
In his speech, Ford said he is deter
mined that the energy problem will be
solved in the "long-term best interests of
the farmer and all Arrtericens." However,
he said, this cannot happen until Congress
decides to act.
'The damaging effects of continued '
delay in achieving energy independence
were dramatically headlined just the other
day when the OPEC oil producing cartel v
nations raised ofl prices by 10 per cent," he
said. "The latest increase will worsen infia- "
tion and hinder economic recovery
worldwide." ,
... The "claim by some procrastinating
members of Congress" that they are trying
to prevent consumer prices from rising is
"nonsense," he said. "Obviously the
Congress cannot hold OPEC oil prices
down."
The President said that since controls on
domestic oil took effect in 1971, the
nation has spent 700 per cent more for im
ported oil and that the country already de
pends on foreign oil for about 40 per cent
of its total needs.
"Yet a majority in the Congress does
nothing to reverse our growing oil depen
dence and increasing vulnerability to the
whims of foreign oil producers," he said.
Despite increased oil prices, the country
is making some progress in the fight against
inflation, Ford said.
The two-tenths of one per cent cost of
living rise in August-the smallest monthly
increase in more than three years-does not
mean the fight against inflation has been
won, he said..
Grain market ,
Farmers also will not suffer on the inter
national grain market from actions taken
by his administration, Ford said, referring
to the 399 million bushels of grain the
Soviet Union has purchased from the
United States so far this year.
Under a new agreement which he said
should be completed soon, Ford said, the
Soviets will agree to a fixed minimum grain
purchase each year for a five-year period
and the going market price will prevail.
Most importantly, the agreements will
be "in the long-term best interests of the
farmer and consumer," he said.
In the question and answer period
following his speech, Ford told Nil Presi
dent D.B. Varner he is not yet convinced
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that the Department of Health, Education
and Welfare should be split to form a
separate education department.
He said, however, that the country
should not "holer onto something just be
cause it was good 20 years ago."
Responding to other questions asked by
representatives of the organizations helping
sponsor the conference, Ford: -
. -Assured Joseph Holthaus, dean of med-.
med- -
icine at Omaha's Creightori University, that
he would not want to "kid you that we're
going to increase" the amount of federal
money medical schools receive. Creighton
and the University of Nebraska Medical
Center (UNMC) lost some federal funds
this year and stand to lose more next year.
-Said he does not think wage and price
controls are healthy remedies for the
economy.
--Reaffirmed his idea that the federal
government should not help New York
City with its economic troubles.
- The conference was the 13th in a series
of 20 sponsored by the White House Office
of Public Liaison. -
Nebraska organizations cosponsoring
the conference included the University of
Nebraska, the Urban League of Nebraska,
the Nebraska Women's Political Caucus,
the Nebraska State AFL-CIO, the Nebraska
Press Association, the Nebraska Future
Fanners of America Association, the Ne
braska Farm Bureau Federation, the Ne
braska Association of Commerce and In
dustry, the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce
and the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben.
' Other sponsoring groups were the
American Association of University
Women, the Council Bluffs Chamber of
Commerce, Creighton University, the
Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, the
Iowa Federation of Labor-AFLrCIO, the
Iowa Manufacturers Association and
Teamsters Union Local No. 554.
Jhursday, October 2, ,1975 .
volume 99 number 2 lincofn, nebraska
doiy
Linde: campaign spending
rose with commercial TV
. Campaign spending is "a morass" which
can hardly be controlled without viohting
the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitu
tion, according to Hans Linde, a professor
at the University of Oregon School of Law.
He spoke at the two-day 1975 Oliver
Wendell Holmes Lectures, sponsored by
the College of Law Lectureship Committee.
Political spending for elections was
never a problem until the 1950s, he said.
With the rise of television came what he
called a significant rise in campaign
spending.
v According to Linde, this problem is
unique to the United States because it
is the only country with commercial
A legislative bill in Oregon, to be voted
on by the state's electorate next year,
comes closest to solving the campaign
spending problem without violating the
First Amendment, Linde said.
Linde graduated from the law college at
the University of California at Berkley in
1950 and later clerked in Washington D.C.
for VS. Supreme Court Justice William O.
Douglas. He became a professor of law at
the University of Oregon in 1959.
Linde will soon begin teaching at the.
University of Hamburg in Germany on a
Fulbright grant. He recently finished a
freshman law text on "Legislative and
Administrative Processes."
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Hans Linde. professor at the University of Oregon School of Law.
Student regent vote
wants legislation
approximately 200,000 Nebraskans repre
sented by each of the other board mem
bers, who are elected by district.
-Double vote: Currently, students can
vote for a regent from their home district
and from their university. These voters
would receive double representation if
student regents hs l vciing power. -
-Lack of continuity: Tenure in office
would not ts equal for all regents, since
tha students are elected for om year while '
other board merabeis serve six years.
-Conflict cf interest: Under state law,
By Theresa Fcrsssn
ASUN win ask a state senator to intro
duce t bill in Nebraska's 197$ Legislature
which would give voting rights to the uni
versity's three students on the NU Board of
Regents, Senate President, Jim Say said.
If the bill is passed, it w2 arppesr on
next November's ballot.
. This is "the second yt?r that student
body presidents have strml n nonvoting
members of the NU Board of Regents.
" Several regents,, including some student
on the board, have reservations about the
. proposal. They ssid several issues need to
1-3 resolved before s bill can be written.
Thse include.' V .
-Size of constituency: The number of
prisons represented by a voting student
regent would be much fewer than the
programming, he said.
Many persons associate campaign spend
ing problems with the presidency and high
national elected posts, Linde said, but the
problem reaches local officials.
The major difficulty with campaign
spending is the large disparity in funds
available to various candidates, he said.
Many proposals to solve the problem
have been suggested, such as excluding
donor groups like banks and unions, having
candidates file campaign reports or limiting
campaign spending amounts.
"There is no evidence that voters really
give a damn, Linde said, and that these
proposed solutions don't solve the
inequality of campaign speeding.
Ths b?2ik of castpafgn spending is spent
on communicating with the electorate,
Linda said, IU suggested that limiting ex
penses would actually violate the First
Amendment right to free speech.
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ats ax? net to be reimbursed for serving . Accorduig to Linde, the solution is to
on the board, but the student body presi
dent is paid. Also, the student regent
would be representing a speck! interest
group-students.
make tha csrnpalgn money available from
public funds. ,
Tou can't ottrate a democracy which
uses expensive media without a hell of a
lot of money, he said. '
White House Conference: Ford's
administrators voice priorities . p.6
University Health Center: Starts
step-smoking, start-reducing
programs.. .p. 12
Also find:
' Editorials. p.4
Arts and Entertainment p.8
Sports p.10
Crossword p.12
Short Stuff... . . ..p.2
, . ' . Weather
Tharsdiy: Temperatures in the mid-70s. '
Sou theriy 'winds ranging from 10 to 15
m.pJi.
Thsradby eight: Fair, with lows in the
40s.
Friday: Partly cloudy, with tempera
tures ranging from the low to rniJ-70s.
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