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Thursday, November 13, 1986 Daily Nebraskan Presidents1 portraits to be debated DeCamp looking forward to debate with Ernie Chambers one more time By the Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. Sen. John DeCamp of Neligh says he doesn't want to leave the Legislature without being assured of "at least one more last dandy chance for a debate" with Omaha Sen. Ernie Chambers. He plans to get it, courtesy of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. "Anytime Ernie and me are in the same room there is a "Anytime Ernie and me are in the same room there is a pos sibility of a healthy exchange of views ..." DeCamp in question are mediocre at best, don't compliment the legislative hall and honor two presidents who are overes timated by history. Washington owned slaves, Chambers has noted. He also said Lincoln freed the slaves not because he felt compas sion for them, but because he wanted the support of abolitionists in preserving the union during the Civil War. DeCamp's resolution says Washington "led this nation victoriously against the tyranny of King George and showed great wisdom and prudence forging this nation." It also says Lincoln "preserved the union of this nation during its most difficult and darkest times during the Civil War." 7 The portraits were hung in the legislative chamber before it underwent a recent restoration process. Chambers objects to their being returned to the room. possibility of a healthy exchange of views, but I figured that with Ole George and old Abe, we'd have it more or less guaranteed," said DeCamp, who lost a bid for re-election. DeCamp has sponsored LR1, a resolution that would require that the portraits of Washington and Lincoln be hung in the legislative chamber. 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In many Midwest states, the number of AIDS cases is still quite low, Keeling said. Several states still have between 1 and 20 reported cases. Two years ago more than half. of the reported cases of AIDS in the world occurred in New York City, Keeling said. In the last few years the number of cases in large cities has not dropped, " but more in smaller communities, he said. AIDS thus is no longer a disease that can be geographically catagorized and isolated. Many of the people exposed to AIDS do not get the disease but get, instead, AIDS Related Complex or show no symptoms of the disease at all, Keeling said. Public health problems rest mostly in the people who are infected with AIDS but show no symptoms, Keeling said. More than 2 million people in the United States are capable of transmit ting AIDS, most of whom do not know they have the virus, he said. Keeling said the number of cases reported by women and heterosexual men is increasing; just because they are not in high-risk groups doesn't mean they can't get the disease. Keeling said in the next five or six years homosexual AIDS cases will con tinue to gradually decline, a gradual rise in heterosexual cases will con tinue and AIDS will become a sexually transmitted disease like any other. Keeling stressed that education is needed to make people aware that AIDS can be transmitted only through certain body fluids, such as blood and semen, and not by sweat or other body fluids. He said progress is being made through pamphlets, but they need to be more direct and explicit to get the message across. One of the important parts of educa tion is to anticipate a problem before it happens, Keeling said. Education must be started before AIDS becomes a large-scale problem so that transmis sion can be prevented, he said. 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