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Senators pass LB1 34-10;
investigations may be ahead
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LINCOLN The Legislature's spe
cial session Wednesday ended like a
modern Hollywood adventure film that
sets the stage for a sequel.
It resolved one issue, but ended
while the plot was still thickening.
There also was a surprise twist in the
final scene courtesy of a spectator
who tried his hand at speech making
from the visitors' gallery.
The 89th Legislature's first special
session came to an end after senators
passed LB1, a bill appropriating $8.5
million to pay a claim against the state
filed on behalf of Commonwealth Sav
ings Co. depositors. The state Depart
ment of Banking declared Common
wealth insolvent Nov. 1, 1983.
The bill passed, 34-10. It was promptly
signed by Gov. Bob Kerrey and became
law at midnight.
In farewell remarks that took only a
few minutes, Kerrey thanked senators
for their time and said he hoped no
other special sessions would be needed
this year. Some senators believe Kerrey
should call another session to trim the
state budget in the face of continuing
revenue shortfalls.
Lawmakers failed to include required
language in the original Commonwealth
appropriations bill passed on the final
day of the 1985 regular session. That
bill omitted the words, "There is here
by appropriated," and thus led to the
seven-day special session.
A final vote on LB1 was briefly
delayed Wednesday when a man stood
in the visitors' gallery and asked that
the appropriations bill be read slowly
by Clerk of the Legislature Patrick
O'Donnell, so that it could be clearly
understood. Les Christiansen, 68, of
Lincoln, was later escorted from the
balcony of the chamber by a state
trooper. He left without incident and
was not detained by law enforcement
officers.
The Legislature adjourned without
considering Legislative Resolution 1,
calling for an investigation of two other
industrial loan and investment com
panies State Security Savings Co. of
Lincoln and American Savings Co. of
Omaha. Both are under jurisdiction of
the bankruptcy court.
The Executive Board considered the
resolution before the floor session, but
failed to resolve several issues.
Lawmakers also declined to suspend
rules to allow consideration of a resolu
tion calling for another special session
this one to consider budget cuts.
Mid-2 1 st century oil crisis likely
WASHINGTON The world appears
to have enough oil to last until the
mid-21st century, the U.S. Geological
Survey said Wednesday.
But, it said, because most of the
known and undiscovered reserves are
found principally in the Middle East,
Americans can expect to face several
repetitions of the energy crises of the
1970s.
In a 25-page report, "World Petro
leum Resources," the government
geologists said their survey of potential
oil-bearing formations around the globe
indicates there are none equivalent to
those in the Middle East.
"The most important conclusion of
our study is that the Middle East
increasingly will monopolize world
petroleum supplies," said Charles
Masters, the chief author of the report.
"Even with continued frontier explora
tion effort and success, that distribu
tion reality is not likely to change."
The study said discoveries of new oil
appear to be on a permanent decline
from a high of some 35 billion barrels
per year in the 1950s to between 10
billion and 15 billion barrels annually
in recent years.
Given this trend, it said, "we can
project the potential for substantial oil
discovery and production to the middle
of the 21st century."
The report dismissed what it called
"the commonly held assumption" that
discoveries have dropped because of a
decline in exploration caused by a cur
rent surplus in world oil supplies.
The researchers noted that annual
production and consumption of oil has
continued along at about 20 billion
barrels per year and is outpacing new
discoveries by almost two to one.
"Were it not for a world recession,
we most surely would have even a
greater disparity between discovery
and production," they suggested.
World oil reserves now total 723 bil
lion barrels, about a 36-year supply, the
report said. It estimated undiscovered
resources at 550 billion barrels, but
half the amount already found or drilled.
"We have but a few decades to enjoy
the convenience of crude oil as our
major energy fuel," the report said.
"And while it is found in great supply
today, there is every indication that it
will become ever more difficult to
obtain in years to come."
Because about 350 billion barrels of
the known reserves and at least 120
billion barrels of the undiscovered oil
are in the Middle East, "we can antici
pate many irregularities in its availa
bility during those last decades of oil
prominence," the researchers said.
The report noted that an increase in
U.S. coal production during the past 10
years from 600 million to 875 million
tons annually already has displaced
about 1 billion barrels of oil imports.
Setting the simmmit stage
Meeting 'worthwhile; ' no Soviet plan unveiled
UNITED NATIONS - Secretary of
State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign
Minister Eduard Shevardnadze met for
more than four hours Wednesday, but
Shultz said they did not reach agree
ment on any of the issues discussed.
Both had indicated they were optim
istic before the meeting.
The two leaders met for four hours
and 20 minutes at the Soviet U.N. Mis
sion. It was the first of several sessions
regarded as crucial to a successful
summit Nov. 19 and 20 in Geneva, Swit
zerland, between President Reagan and
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Shultz said the Soviets did not
reveal any new proposal that could
break the impasse in the arms control
talks now under way in Geneva. He said
the discussion focused on "security
issues, most particularly those being
discussed by our negotiators in Geneva.
"We agreed we were looking for
points of contact in our positions and
areas of common understanding. We
did not reach an agreement on any of
these items. But we certainly did dis
cuss each other's positions with great
carer" Shultz told reporters.
He said the talks had been "most
worthwhile" and had been conducted
in an "easy and frank atmosphere."
"There was no particular new pro
posals put on the table," he said. She
vardnadze spoke to reporters after
Shultz and said he agreed with the
secretary's assessment of the talks. "It
was an interesting, frank and useful
meeting," he said.
The Soviet foreign minister noted
that he will meet Reagan in Washing
ton on Friday. He is expected to see
Shultz again on Saturday.
"There are quite a lot of things to
do" before the November summit, She
vardnadze said. He declined to take
any questions from reporters.
While the two apparently did not
agree on any outstanding issues, they
clearly made an effort to emphasize
that they got along well in the talks,
which ran 20 minutes longer than
scheduled.
They shook hands and smiled broadly
at one another, both before and after
stepping to microphones on the side
walk in front of the mission; and each
listened patiently as the other addressed
reporters.
Before the discussion, Shevardnadze
told Shultz, "I'm sorry," for not attend
ing a U.N. General Assembly meeting
Monday where the American secretary
of state spoke. The Soviet foreign min
ister said his schedule was too full.
M GWS HI 3 1 C r S A rounduP of the dy's happenings
NU center fielder Paul Meyers has been named to
the U.S. team that will participate in the Simon Bolivar
Games in Caracas, Venezuela, next month. The games are
the official Pan American championships and determine
the Americas' zone representatives in the upcoming World
Baseball Championship in Holland.
A 17-year-old Detroit girl who missed Bruce
Springsteen's concert in her hometown because she was
in the hospital with cancer met and kissed the rock singer
in Denver after his concert there Monday.
Talk-show host Dick Cavett returned to Nebraska
to kick off Wayne State College's 75th anniversary cele
bration and relate fond memories of growing up here: "It's
funny; I had to go away to appreciate it," Cavett said. "I
often wish I were here." Cavett was born in Gibbon in 1936
and left the state to attend Yale University.
John DeLorean, 60, says the federal indictment
accusing him of defrauding investors of $8.9 million in his
failed sports car company was part of a government frame
up and was timed to coincide with the release of his
autobiography.
Socialite Claus Von Bulow received $1 million
from oil magnate J. Paul Getty Jr. to pay for bail and for his
successful defense against charges that he tried to kill his
wife. "The fact is that a friend needed help and I was able
to give it," Getty, 53, is quoted as saying in October's
Vanity Fair magazine.
San Francisco faces a $76 million deficit next year
that could lead to the layoff of 800 employees from a city
workforce of 25,000, Mayor Dianne Feinstein says.
With cost-cutting measures by the U.S. Postal
Service working, an official says current first-class and
package rates likely can remain in effect until 1987.
A produce manager was alone in a Milwaukee
supermarket getting ready for the day's work when a man
clad only in a loincloth dropped through the ceiling with a
scream and landed between the onions and the watermel
ons. Francis Bredeau, 21, Milwaukee, was charged with
burglary in connection with the incident. Police said he
apparently took off his clothes and left them on the roof
because the cooling vent through which he entered the
store was a tight fit.
9 KICK members named in indictment
' WASHINGTON Culminating a two-year investigation, the Justice
Department announced Wednesday the indictment of nine Ku Klux Klan
members on charges they conspired to violate the rights of blacks and
whites who were living or socializing together.
The indictment, stemming from an investigation of racial violence in
North Carolina during 1982, also charged the nine defendants with
committing perjury before a federal grand jury by denying any knowledge
or involvement in a series of cross-burnings.
Among those indicted were Jerry Douglas Suits, identified as the titan,
or leader, of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Iredell County; and
his wife, Mary Vestal Suits, said to be queen kleagle, or leader, of the
women's unit of the Klan. Also indicted were Tony Douglas Earp, identi
fied as leader of the Klan in Alexander County, and Klansmen Jerry Albert
Henderson, Michael Thomas Chambers, Rodney Eugene Pope, Alfred S.
Childers, Dan Pritchard and Kenneth Ray Blankenship.
Victims pulled alive from rubble
MEXICO CITY '' Rescuers pulled a baby boy and a woman alive from
the ruins of a hospital Wednesday, and U.S. officials said the two killer
earthquakes that hit Mexico last week were much stronger than first
measurements indicated.
Police said the death toll in Mexico City from the quakes last Thursday
and Friday was up to 4,596. Mayor Ramon Aguirre's office stuck with its
estimate of the death toll at 3,500, There was no explanation of the
discrepancy between the two figures. -
About 1,500 people were believed trapped in the wreckage, some
perhaps still alive. Aguirre's office said 11,700 people were injured, of
whom 1,700 remained hospitalized.
Five Americans are included among the fatalities, and there are about
28 Americans not accounted for that are believed to have been in hotels
that collapsed.
Hurricane Gloria threatens E. Coast
MIAMI Hurricane Gloria, one of the most powerful storms ever
recorded in the open Atlantic, spared the Bahamas and headed for the
East Coast on Wednesday as it spun aross the sea with 150 mph winds.
Officials in coastal states began taking precautions, and campers were
evacuated from one coastal island. A hurricane watch was posted for
North Carolina's vulnerable barrier islands and parts of Virginia and
South Carolina.
"Some place along the East Coast of the United States is going to be
threatened by this storm, and very quickly," if the storm's path doesn't
change, said Neil Frank, director of the National Hurricane Center in
nearby Coral Gables.
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less time to evacuate.
Gloria was classified as a "borderline" Category 5 storm on a scale that
rates hurricane strength from 1 to 5, said Hal Gerrish, a forecaster at the
hurricane center. A Category 5 hurricane is capable of catastrophic
damage.
Lockdown ends at state penitentiary
LINCOLN Corrections officials ended a five-day lockdown at the
Nebraska State Penitentiary on Wednesday, releasing inmates from their
cells and sending them back to their jobs and classes in the prison,
Assistant Corrections Director John Dahm said.
The men had been confined to their cells, except for meals and
regularly scheduled visits, since Friday.
Warden Gary Grammer had ordered the lockdown at the maximum
security portion of the prison after 150 to 200 inmates held two nights of
mass meetings in the prison yard.
Grammer said several knives were found during a cell-by-cell search.
Inmates, upset about new policies regarding possession of personal
property and inmate classification, had said they would have another
meeting last Friday night, Dahm said.
Pilot given wrong directions
WASHINGTON An air traffic controller gave a helicopter takeoff
clearance that allowed it to take a conflicting path with an Eastern
Airlines Boeing 727, forcing the jetliner to abort its liftoff and skid within
40 yards of the Potomac River, federal officials said Wednesday.
No one was injured in the incident Tuesday evening at National Airport
outside Washington, but federal air safety experts said it put renewed
focus on the problem of hazardous conflicts at busy airports.
NTSB investigators, who have examined tapes of communications
between the airport tower and the helicopter in Tuesday's incident said
the controller had thought she had given the helicopter pilot clearance to
depart in a direction away from the main runway being used for takeoff by
the Eastern jet.
But an examination of the tapes showed that the pilot had received a
general departure clearance and no specific instructions to avoid the
main runway for a route that normally would take him across the runway,
said NTSB spokesman Bill Bush.
French secret service chief named
PARIS The government on Wednesday named army chief of staff
Gen. Rene Imbot to head the secret service and ordered him to clean up
the agency and report fully on its role in the bombing of a Greenpeace
protest ship.
Imbot, 60, a Foreign Legion veteran who recently completed a contro
versial army reorganization, was appointed at a Cabinet meeting to
replace Adm. Pierre Lacoste, who was fired last week for refusing to
answer questions about the affair.
The authoritative daily L- Monde said Premier Laurent Fabius was
convinced that Charles Kernu, who stepped down as defense minister last
week over the scandal, gave an order that led to the bombing July 10. The
vessel, the Rainbow Warrior, was sunk at its berth in Auckland, New
Zealand, and a crewmember was killed