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The Nebraska Legme'i Judiciary Committee
currently is studying a report that criticizes the drug en
forcement program of the Nebraa State Patrol.
The 194-page report, prepared by Lincoln attorneys
Kirk Naybr and Dennis Keefe, lists cases in which two
undercover drug informants, one of them a convicted
felon, admitted 112223 state funds for their own purposes.
The report also cites cases of informants taking drugs that
were obtained during investigations.
The report carries sworn statements from two persons
who said they volunteered to be undercover drug agents
for the patrol. However, they received no drug training
and made drug bays that ili not result in arrest or pro
secutions. v:-
Nebraska Gov. J. James Exon has charged that the two
attorneys have a financial interest in attacking the State
Patrol.' . : ' -.
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In an interview with the Lincoln Star, Exon said the
attorneys "have a major portion of their livelihood in pro
tecting the accused criminals'' and in "detending tnose
accused of violating Nebraska statutes on drugs."
In response to Exon's charges and those made by other
officials, Naylor told the Star that. "the patrol is not
going to blow the whistle on practices which could weak
en their cases in obtaining convictions.
"If they're (state officials) going to react like this,"
Naylor continued, "my fear is they're going to discourage
other people from contacting their representatives and
rnakmg information known."
Col. Getus P. Karthauser, State Patrol commander, re
fused to comment on any of the charges made in the
report. .
Karthauser did send a letter to the Judiciary Commit
tee Wednesday, though, attacking "irresponsible charges,
half-truths and untruths by two criminal defense
attorneys who specialize in defense of those accused and
convicted of violations of Nebraska drug statutes."
:-Special meeting requested .
Karthauser has refused to specify the Irresponsible
charges, half-truths and untruths" in the report although
he asked in the letter for a special meeting of the Judici
ary Committee where, he said, the patrol will present
documented evidence refuting the report.
. Sen. Loran Schmit, chairman of the Judiciary Com
mittee, said he did not believe the patrol should stop usLig
undercover informants because two of them misused state
funds and captured drugs.
Schmit estimated the patrol uses 150 to 200 such in
formants. . -
Two bad apples out of 200 does not mean we should
throw away the other 193 of them," Schmit said.
He said the auditors who have checked the drug each
fund have told him the patrol had done an "excellent" job
controlling funds for its drug enforcement program.
StiU law provides $1C3,CC0 for the fund annually, but
actual expense records are not made public
The report says two patrol informants, Dennis Landrie
and George Rakow, both working in Kearney, used
money from the patrol's fund for their own use. It said
Landrie's testimony in a case against one alleged drug
seller, was proved false.
It also said Rakow admitted he bought cocaine from a
person, used some of the drug himself and replaced the
amount used with baking scjda.
The report also said Rakow admitted he did not tell his
patrol supervisor for several months that any of the
cocaine was gone.
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Also mentioned in the report are two Lincoln infor
mants who said they bought dags and received money
from the state for the purchases. One of the informants
said he was aed to sign a blank expense receipt after his
patrol supervisor could not account for all the money the
supervisor was supposed to have.
The other informant said he turned in drugs to a super
visor over a two-year period but never fSjd cut a report
on his activities and was never tcd to testify in court.
The report says that after the sspeniaar quit the patrol
last March, fcis estranged wife found large quantifies of
drugs in his garage and storage shed.
According to the report, the tsoman ccuIJ net get the
patrol to pick up the drugs and asked the informant to
deliver them to the patrol, YVhen the informant did so, the
patrol was concerned mostly w&h who knew the'drugs
were turned in, the report said.
The report suggests the patrol stop using former felons
as drug informants and that it more carefully supervise the
activities of undercover civilian agents and expenditures
from the drug cash fund. It also recommended that special
drug prosecutors be transferred from the patrol to the
jurisdiction of the attorney general's office.
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By Anita Stcrk
At one time or another everyone probably has laughed
at the story of the housewife who drove five miles out of
her way to save two cents on a can of beans.
But for UNL students who buy their own groceries, the
old adage may not be a laughing matter.
An informal comparison of the prices of four basic
food items at four grocers revealed that when and where
you shop does make a difference in price.
The price of a dozen hot dogs was 59 cents at Shavers
Food Mart, 27th and Stockwell streets, and Swing In
Food Store No. 1, 1401 N. 56th St. They were $1.25 at
B&R IGA, 1709 Washington St. and $1.65 at the Kwik
Shop, 4750 Calvert St.
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One dozen large eggs were 82 cents at Swing In, 85
cents at Shavers and B&R IGA, and 99 cents at Kwik
'Shop: '
The lowest price for a half gallon of whole rrnlk was 66
cents at B & R IGA. Shavers charged 74 cents; Kwik
Shop, 81 cents; and Swing In, 84 cents.
The Kwik Shop, charged 45 cents for a one and a half
pound loaf of bread, which is 30 cents a pound. The price
at Shavers and B&R IGA for a one pound loaf of bread
was 39 cents and it was 40 cents at Swing In.
A spokesman at Kwik Shop said the store "rarely had
specials." He added that it is a convenience food store
and has to make a certain amount of profit.
B&R IGA never has sales on milk, according to a sales
clerk, but does run specials on the other items.
The store's food distributor, Fleming Foods 'Co. of
Nebraska, makes up the specials for all Lincoln IGA
stores, she said. In addition, B&R will run specials on
its own "to draw customers into the store." The item is
sold at a loss, but the store makes money from other
products. " 1 :
All of Shaver's Food Mart ads come from Omaha,
according to a spokesman. The Omaha distributors decide
what the specials will be. .
Swing In, an independent grocer, decides its own
specials, according to a clerk. The food is distributed by
United AG, a co-op for independent grocers.
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Intending to make the Geography Dept. "bigger and
better," Prof. Bryan Blouet became department chairman
on July 1. Elouet has been with the department seven
years.
Blouet said he intends to re-evaluate the entire under
graduate program. Subcommittees have been assigned to
add or delete courses.
. "My job is to interest other faculty members in courses
and to look for improvements for next year and the
next," Blouet said.
He explained that as chairman he has time to look
toward the future because he is assigned a lighter teaching
load.
The department has been reorganized to eerily with
a Nebraska Legislative amendment sponsored by Utica
Sen. Douglas Bereuter that calls for a reduction in class
size and in the number of graduate assistants teaching
lecture sections.
He said the number of faculty has increased with
increasing enrollment in geography classes.
Elouet described faculty members as good researchers
and administrators,'' adding that they axe a "publish or
perish" group of men and woacw.
Current research projects in tLi irtmsnt include
studies on the drought, frontier populations, rural
development and the climate in the western Nebraska
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