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r By Jeff Goodwin ood costs exceed $63 million then. Kerrey said he had no estimate on how much the floods had cost Nebraska in terms of being forced to call out the National Guard and making the State Patrol work longer hours. Kerrey said he was opposed to the petition drive to enact a constitutional amendment to limit state spending. "I don't like lids," he sakt "Sometimes we do spend more than we can afford but to restrict representa tive democracy in this way is, in my opinion, not a good idea. It short-circuits democracy." Kerrey said the proposed lid, and a similiar mea sure which would reduce taxes, would have a nega tive impact on the public school system. "It would permit those people who have the financial resources to send their children to private schools " Kerrey said. "We aren't going to be able to replace those revenues with state aid." Kerrey refused to comment on the indictment this week of Attorney General Paul Douglas. "I just don't think it's appropriate at this time," he said. Gov. Bob Kerrey announced at a news conference Thursday that the damage from the recent floods in the state hastotaled more than $63 million. Kerrey listed the damage as follows: private prop erty, $535,000; public property, $15 million; agricul ture loss, $28 million; and soil loss, $20 million. Kerrey said the list did not include private prop erty damage from Beatrice and the rest of Gage County as well as Dodge County. Those areas have seen some of the worst flooding in the past week. Kerrey said he expected the damage to be much higher once the final reports are in. 'That $535,000 is a very low number," he said. "It'll exceed that by a considerable amount." Kerrey said he hoped to have all reports of dam age in by this afternoon but said he wasn't sure that the Agriculture, Soil, and Conservation Service, charged with tallying the damage, would be done by 2 UNL halls experience floodin, Although it may seem a drop in the bucket com pared to other parts of Nebraska, UNL also has had flooding problems after last week's storms. Nebraska Hall and Abel residence hall, both on 17th Street, had problems from the rain. In Nebraska Hall, water stood four to six inches deep and the bathrooms didn't work most of last Wednesday and Thursday, Harold Bathel, the man ager of the Printing and Duplicating service there said. Bathel said he thought the water backup came from flooding in the creek on the north side of Nebraska Hall. Clyde Burkholder, a UNL Physical Plant employee, said there was more water than the storm sewer This G system could handle, and that caused the backup. Most of the damage occurred in the University Press office and the print shop, Burkholder said. In Abel Hall, sewer backup also caused problems. Greg Maguire, coordinator of operations for Univer sity Housing, said water in the basement stood about two to three inches deep. Clean up began around 5 a.m. Wednesday and was completed by that evening, Maguire said. The water damaged elevators in the 13-story building. Total cost of the damage hasn't been assesed, he said. Maguire said they are still investigating why Abel was the only residence hall to flood. It might have something to do with the lay of the land around 1 7th and Vine streets, he said. oose s lye is just ducky Artists have sketched him, students have photo graphed him and girls love him. No, he's not a model. He's a goose and his name is Duck. Duck, probably the shortest celeb rity on the UNL campus, lives in the basement of Manter Hall Life Sciences. There, about 1,000 rats, mice, chickens, rabbits and pigeons are kept for exper- i (. I A V ;" iments by the life science department. Duck is the only goose among them, "but he's special," according to his caretaker, David Pinkelman. Pinkelman is one of three animal caretakers in the life science depart ment. The name "Duck" came from Pin kelman's 12-year-old son, Chris, who said Duck has adopted him. Though everyone calls the goose "duck" the younger Pinkelman said everyone is beginning to believe the goose is indeed a duck. But since he's growing up so fast, we're thinking of calling him 'Moose,' " he said, Whether the name be Moose or Duck, . Chris' feathered friend is enjoying the attention. "I take him for a walk about twice a day and we usually go by Sheldon Art Gallery," Chris said. "That's where the artists like to draw him." Besides the artists, photographers always want snapshots, Chris sdid. Many girls stop and pet bj, which can make for a very long waAhe said. "If he gets tired of walking, he'll go to the edge of the sidewalk and start screaming until I stop," Chris said. Then when I clap my hands, hell start to come back to me because he's afraid IH leave him," Chris said. The elder Pinkelman said Duck is "everybody's pet. He likes to follow people around." Pinkelman said life science student Jeff Jarvis found Duck walking down an alley about two months ago. Duck was about three weeks old then and w alked very clumsily, Pinkelman said. Duck has his own room in Manter Hall basement and is allowed to eat anything he wants. Pinkelman said his diet may include mealworms, cock roaches, chicken feed and pigeon feed. Pinkelman said Duck will be kept at Manter Hall for about another month until he is full grown. He then plans to release Duck somewhere near Pioneers Park. One he is set free, there are no plans to adopt another 'Duck,' he said. But, Pinkelman said, "I'd rather have him than a dog." Chris Pinkelman and Duck the goose on.one of their daily walks. Craig AndresenDaliy Nsbrsskan Daily Nebraskon ff The Wire National and international news from the Reutcr News Report Miteenani raises S&Mtarov question MOSCOW French President Francois Mit- terrand thrust aside diplomatic convention Thursday night and publicly raised the case of Soviet dissjdent Andrei Sakharov at a state dinner in the Kremlin. Mitterrand, breaking all precedents for frankness set by other Western leaders on Soviet visits, spoke after a warning from Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko not to give the Kremlin advice on human rights. "We will not permit anyone to interfere in our affairs," Chernenko declared. ' The French president, improvising his speech from notes, appealed to Chernenko and the assembled Communist Party Politburo to under stand Western emotion over violations of the human rights provision in the 1975 Helsinki agreements. In 1 980, Sakharov was banished to Gorky for campaigning for greater human rights in the Soviet Union. Friends say Sakharov began a hunger strike on May 2 to press Soviet authori ties to allow his wife, Yelena Bonner, to travel to the West for medical treatment. However, Soviet authorities say the couple are well and eating regularly. The Soviet president made no reference to Sakhai-ovs case, but said the Communist system gave people real guaran-. tees of human rights, such as the rights to work, education and health. As a result, the .Soviet people had no worries about unem ployments, homelessness, education or medi cal bills, he said. Jackson toldtG 'Beat It 9 BOSTON The refusal of a local, govern ment to allow a Michael Jackson concert in August has touched off howls of protests from fans and charges It was being racist. Officials a ... the Boston suburb of Foxboro Wednesday night voted to bar Jackson from performing at Sullivan Stadium and Thursday were flooded with angry protests. A spokesman for the stadium said it was considering options which might include ap pealing the decision or asking another stadium to allow the concert, there. Meanwhile, State Sen. Royal Boiling Sr! said Foxboro may have banned the concert "for reasons . . . not publicly spoken that may have to do with the fact that the Jackson 5 are a minority group with a deep attraction to minorities throughout the coun try." House OKs organ list WASHINGTON The House voted, 396 to 6, Thursday to set up a nation-wide computer ized list of organ donors and patients needing transplants and tfo outlaw the buying and sel ling of human organs. The bill will also allow the government to pay for expensive drugs that suppress the body's rejection of trans planted organs. One of these drugs, cyclospo rine, which the patient must take for his life time, can cost $5,000 a year. The House measure authorizes the government to make grants to set up regional groups to arrange transplants. The administration opposes the bill, because ( it would cost about $S0 million over five years. The bill was sent to the Senate for considera tion. , World's Fair refinanced NEW ORLEANS Gov. Edwin and New Orleans Mayor Dutch Morial Thursday reached an agreement with contractors, banks and fair officials to keep the New Orleans World's Fair open. The fair has been in financial trouble because of cost overruns and poor advance ticket sales since before it opened on May 1 2. In April the state loaned the fair $10 million to help meet its payroll and other expenses. Today's agreement removes financial control from fair officials and gives it to a seven member committee to be selected by Edwards, Morial and the fair's major creditors. Fair Pres ident Petr Spumey will no longer be permitted to sign the fair's checks. The city council unanimously endorsed the agreement. In Baton Rouge, the House of Representatives unanim ously approved a resolution calling for an audit of Louisiana World Exposition Inc., the private organization sponsoring the fair. The resolution orders the legislative auditor to check the corporation's books from 1981 to 1984. To date, liens totaling $3.5 million have been filed against the fair. - Page 2 Friday. June 22, 1934