Tuesday, July 16, 1935
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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be superseded by more quickly devel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.
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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
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EXPIRES 73185
The following incidents were reported
to UNL police between 10:28 a.m.
Thursday and 5:13 p.m. Saturday.
Thursday
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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.
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Reagan's tumor cancerous
50-50 chance lie's cured
WASHINGTON A tumor removed from President Reagan on Saturday
was cancerous but there is a greater than 50 per cent chance he has been
cured and that he will have a normal lifespan, doctors said Monday.
"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
