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Gillette, Copple said, because none
were filed.
Copple's statements followed
Monday afternoon's videotape of
Douglas telling the legislatures
special Commonwealth Commit
tee that his relationship with
Copple had not influenced his
actions as attorney general.
Copple was escorted in and out
of the courtroom by policemen.
He currently lives in Arizona and
came to Lincoln under the condi
tion that if he testified, he would
be granted immunity from further
charges.
Setting it
Straight
A letter to the editor in Tues
day's Daily Nebraskan on cable
television in the residence halls
should have read: This semester,
in a more scientific survey, 63.2
percent of the residents said they
were willing to pay for cable tele
vision as part of next year's room
and board charges. Only 10.9 per
cent said they wanted no un
necessary items added to next
year's rates.
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National and international news
from the Reuter News Report
Farm support programs
coofcly, ag oecretary says
WASHINGTON Agriculture Secretary John Block Tuesday
called for major cuts in government financial aid to farmers,
' saying the United States could no longer afford "explosive,
open-ended" spending on farm programs.
Addressing his department's annual conference on the farm
outlook, he said costly price support programs should be
phased out over five years. Now, the target price program
supports prices by paying farmers if market pricc3 fall below a
set target.
He also called for a move away from the policy of paying
farmers in cash, commodities or other benefits for leaving their
land idle.
Block, an Illinois hog farmer, said these programs based on
1983 legislation designed to save farmers from bankruptcy
during the Depression, are outdated and no longer serve
today's farmers, who export one-third of what they produce.
Block told reporters after his address that he would like the
government to step in and help farmers only when crop prices
dropped below 75 percent of average market prices over a
five-year period.
Indian death toll passes 1,200-
BHOPAL, India An Indian news agency Tuesday esti
mated more than 1,200 people have been killed by poison gas
leaking from a Union Carbide factory here, and Prime Minister
Rajiv Gandhi said he would seek compensation from the
company.
A spokesman for the Madhya Pradesh state said the death
toll from Mondays disaster had reached 546, but the United
News of India said an investigation by its reporters put the
figure at more than 1,200.
The gas has been identified as methyl isocyanate.
Staff at city hospitals said 4,000 people had been badly
gassed and some had died in neighboring towns after fleeing
Bhopal when the gas cloud spread over the city.
Gandhi broke off an election campaign tour to visit Bhopal.
He said emergency steps had been taken to stop the spread of
toxic effects of the gas on animals and crops but gave no
details. He told reporters his government would review its
policy on siting of potentially hazardous factories in India.
Stringent safeguards would be introduced before such instal
lations were allowed to operate, he said.
"We will also ask Union Carbide to pay compensation,"
Gandhi said.
Warren Anderson, the chairman of Union Carbide, flew to
India Tuesday night to offer financial and other aid to the
victims and their families.
Walter Goetz, director of communications, said the co mpany
was "more than willing" to help in every way possible, "but we
want to see if the Indian authorities will look favorably on us
doing this."
Besides Anderson, a team of five people, including a doctor, a
production specialist and three chemical engineers, was en
route to Bhopal to probe the disaster.
More than 36 hours after one of the world's worst chemical
disasters, the deadly gas still hung over the central Indian city
of 700,000 people. Hundreds, blinded by poisonous fumes,
groped their way through the streets Tuesday in search of
medical treatment.
The Press Trust of India news agency quoted unnamed
scientists at the Industrial Toxology Research Center in Luck
now as saying the gas was likely to persist in the atmosphere
for three or four weeks and affected areas should be evacuated.
ancial error
WASHINGTON Geraldine Ferraro, who lost a bid for vice
president a month ago, was cited by the House Ethic Commit
tee Tuesday for failure to file proper financial disclosure
statements while a congresswoman. But in its report, the
committee said there was no indication Ferraro was trying to
deceive House official's with the incorrect financial statements.
Ferraro has filed amended reports for 1978 through 1983 to
include nearly all of the information originally omitted or
misreported.
The report said the improper disclosures should be consi
dered technical violations of House rules and did not recom
mend any further action.
Ferraro's term in Congress ends Jan. 3. She had no imme
diate comment.
The panel had been investigating Ferraro's finances because
of a complaint made by the Washington Legal Foundation, a
private conservative group. The call for the House probe, along
within vestigations into the finances of her family, had plagued
the Democratic campaign of the 49-year-old Queens, New York
congresswoman.
Anti-abortion laws ruled illegal
PROVIDENCE, R.I. A federal judge ruled Monday that two
Kfcode island laws designed to discourage abortions by limiting
rieaith insurance benefits axe unconstitutional The laws,
kJT!! Ut U;S' mtTict 001111 Judge Raymond Pettine,
tS! m.uniC1Palities from providing abortion insurance for
their employees and banned insurance companies doing busi
ness m the state from routinely offering coverage for abortions.
!iefT? mar the latest m a series of unsuccessful
byaw?akers m this predominantly Catholic state to
Hf,1! Portions in spite of the 1873 landmark Supreme
court decision permitting them