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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-
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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.
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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.
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