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Tuesday, July 16, 1935 Page 2 The Nebraskan Officials stress ag research By Gene Gentrup News Editor Despite a weak farm economy, state appropriations and commercial indus tries need to continue investments in state agricultural research programs, according to two UNL agricultural and research division officials. "If we're going to have a future in agriculture, we need to invest in re search," Irvin Omtvedt, dean and dir ector of UNL's Agricultural and Research Division said. Omtvedt said in a press release issued last week that agriculture and food industries are changing rapidly and temporary surpluses easily could be superseded by more quickly devel oping agricultural areas in other coun tries. He said more than 300 UNL agri cultural research projects are helping monitor or mold the dynamic future of farm and lanch life worldwide. Associate director Dale Vanderholm said surpluses in some farm products have tended to distort some people's views that research is no longer needed to improve crop production. "Agencies have tended not to look at any long term benefits but instead at more, immediate benefits," Vanderholm said. "The current surplus situation is splitting the throat of agriculture by not looking at the long term benefits." He said research costs have increased more than appropriation funding in recent years, slowing expensive research projects in biotechnology and envir onmental technology. Though no pro grams are earmarked to be discon tinued, some could be phased out UNL's alfalfa breeding program was discontinued last year because of cuts at the federal and state level. Less than one-fifth of one cent of general fund tax dollars in Nebraska is spent on agricultural research for each dollar of gross farm income. State appropriation for research by the UNL Institute of Natural Resources in 198-i was $10.7 million, while cash farm receipts totaled $6.01 million. The division's agricultural research budget is divided into five main areas: crops, 45 percent; animal, 35 percent; processing, marketing, and manage ment, 12 percent; natural resource conservation, 8 percent and quality of human life research, 4 percent. Research areas targeted for future expansion are: biotechnology, conser vation tillage, food processing, forage management, and utilization and mar keting, with a greater emphasis on interdisciplinary studies, he said. Omtvedt said an increasing amount of UNL's ag research also is being coor dinated with other universities study ing similar problems, allowing the insti tutions to pool their financial and academic resources. Renter Report Special Coupon Savings On Nissan And Dalsun Ser vko Gonuino Nissan OH end Filter C RQflQO Included In this offer. Genuine Nissan oil filter Installed and premium oil added per specifications Examination of differential, transmission, power steering, brake, clutch, battery and radiator fluid levels Windshield wipers Inspected and fluid added as needed Door, hood hinge and lock lubrication Safety belt operation check $11 50 PLUS TAX with this coupon presented at the time the work order is written: Budget... Continued from Page 1 In addition, UNL has placed an even more stringent executive review on the filling of all vacancies, purchases and travel, Massengale said. UNL also plans to reduce operating hours of the Sheldon Art Gallery, the state museum and the Bob Devaney Sports Center and raise admission pri ces for the Sheldon Film Theatre and intercollegiate basketball. "We just cannot administer further cuts across-the-board at UNL without critically harming the core of our in structional programs," Massengale said. "Previous base budget reductions and reallocations have already scaled sup port down to minimum levels in our academic programs. "It's a critical time for the university and for what the university means to higher education in Nebraska." Police Report v 1 EXPIRES 73185 The following incidents were reported to UNL police between 10:28 a.m. Thursday and 5:13 p.m. Saturday. Thursday 10:28 a.m. Purse reported stolen from the Coliseum. 3 p.m. Bookbag reported stolen from Love Library. 3:14 p.m. Disturbance reported at Nebraska Union. 8:05 p.m. Wallet reported stolen from Love Library. 10:55 p.m. Billfold reported stolen from Harper Hall. ANSWER TO Fmra$rWH QUALITY SERVICE DOAN ROSE AUTO SALES 125 North 21st Lincoln, NE 476-7000 SST X fcrf Li m&J mm ata mamm! mJf jm FlLlElDf iRjAlSlPf JAIFIRIO 0 J3 71 A B E II A D L.I.R. 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"There is a greater than 50 per cent chance that the President now has no cancer whatsoever, that there are no cancer cells in his body, and he is completely cured," said Stephen Rosenberg, one of several doctors in Reagan's surgical team. Dr. Dale Uller, who performed the two-hour, 53 minute operation, said he believed all cancer in the 74-year-old President, the oldest in U.S. history, had been removed as a result of the surgery. The large growth removed from Reagan was discovered unexpectedly on Friday when the President went to Bethesda Naval Medical Center for a routine surgical procedure to remove a small, non-cancerous polyp. News that the President had a cancerous tumor sent the dollar down on New York financial markets. The stock market had just closed when the announcement was made. White House spokesman Larry Speakes was asked if the afternoon news conference was delayed to make sure the New York Stock Market was closed. "Absolutely not," he said. Suspect charged with TWA hy aching BEIRUT A suicide commando driving a bomb-laden car with Red Cross markings killed nine people in southern Lebanon Monday and fighting raged along Beirut's "Green Line" as the government ordered militiamen off the streets of the capital by 6 a.m. Tuesday. Judicial sources reported, meanwhile, that one person was charged in the TWA hyacking and murder of a U.S. Navy diver aboard the plane last month. The sources did not name the suspect. West Beirut television said the suicide bomber was a member of Lebanon's pro-Syrian Baath party, and that the car carried 450 pounds of dynamite. It was the third such attack in a week. Nineteen people were killed in two car bombings in the SLA zone last week. The television station showed a pre-recorded video tape of a man dressed in army fatigues and identified as 23-year-old Haitham Abbas, a Lebanese citizen, bidding farewell to his friends and family before carry ing out the attack. "I wish I could live twice, in order to come back and give my life again for the sake . . .Of my country," said the man. 'Live Aid' invites fund applications LONDON Organizers of Saturday's 16-hour, transatlantic "Live Aid" Rock extravaganza Monday invited relief agencies working in Africa to apply for the money it raised. Live Aid's accountant Philip Rusted, describing support for the charity show as overwhelming, said some of the donations should be reaching famine victims in Africa with four weeks. Rusted estimated that the show, involving 52 of the world's top rock stars, had raised $55 million. While some of the money will be used to buy food, Live Aid, is particularly concerned that long-term development projects, such as irrigation and transport systems, are also supported. The success of the event has brought calls for Bob Geldof, the Irish rock star who inspired the Live Aid concert to be nominated for the 1985 peace prize. Geldof said Monday he would accept the Nobel Peace Prize if it were offered and donate the $200,000 prize money to Africa's starving millions. ' Group says human rights distorted WASHINGTON The Americas Watch human rights group accused the Reagan Administration Monday of distorting the human rights situa tion in Nicaragua to justify its campaign to "overthrow" the leftist Sandinista government. "Such a concerted campaign fo use human rights in justifying military action is without precedent in U.S. Latin American relations," an Ameri cas Watch report said. "And its effect is an unprecedented debasement of the human rights cause." The report called "Human Rights in Nicaragua: Regan, Rhetoric and Reality," was the eighth issued by the human rights watchdog group since 1982. It said it gathered its information from several fact finding missions to the region. Reagan, in his campaign to aid the Nicaraguan rebels, has called the Sandinista government a "comunist dictatorship" and refers to the Con tras as "freedom fighters" and "the moral equal of our Founding Fathers." Americas Watch, affilated to the Melsinki Watch Committee which monitors the Melsinki Accords of 1975, said the Sandinista government had jailed leaders of business groups and labor associations, expelled foreign priests, imposed press censorship and banned opposition political rallies. The report, ha..rar, said that "for the past two years the most violent abuses of human nil.t in Nicaragua have been committed by the Contras." "After several on-site investigations into Contra practices, we find that Contra combatants systematically murder the unarmed, rarely take pri soners, and force Chilians into collaboration." Court asked to reverse abortion rule WASHINGTON - The Reagan administration asked the Supreme Court Monday to reverse its landmark 1973 decision that established the consti tutional right to an abortion. In a brief filed by the Justice Department, the administration argued that the high court's ruling in a case known as Roe vs. Wade was too broad and blocked even modest efforts by state and local government to regulate abortion. The department said that lower courts had misinterpreted the Supreme Court ruling as granting an "unfettered right to an abortion without regard to the government's legitimate interest in maternal healtn and the unborn. Department officials said Monday's action was the first time since 1954 that the government had sought a complete reversal by the court on a fundamental constitutional issue. Thirty years ago, the government suc cessfully asked the court to ban racial segregation in public schools m
