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Councilman Simon elected mayor
OMAHA City Councilman Bcrnie Simon was elected mayor on the
first ballot at Tuesday's council meeting.
Simon, "A will fill the remaining 2 12 years of the term of Mike Boyle,
recalled in a special election Jan. 13. .
Simon received lour votes from the seven-member council. Councilman
Walter Calinger received two votes and Councilman Richard Takechi
received one.
Four votes were needed to elect a new mayor. After the balloting,
Takechi offered a motion of congratulations to Simon.
"May you serve again and maybe even as real mayor," Takechi said.
Simon said he was "absolutely overwhelmed."
Simon said that in the past two weeks he had received calls from
hundreds of supporters asking what they could do to help him become
mayor. To each he replied, "Say a prayer," he said.
Simon, an Omaha native, was elected to the City Council in 1981. He
was re elected in 1985. Simon, like Boyle a Democrat, has served four
times as council president.
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LINCOLN - A lawyer frustrated by a large debt that apparently threat ened his marriage killed his family in "an act of
desperation," Lancaster County Attorney Mike Heavican said Tuesday.
Debts surpassing $200,000 apparently drove Stan Gushard, 54, to kill his wife, Judy Gushard 42, and their three
children - Brandon, 17, Dylan, 16, and Vanessa, 10 - before turning the gun on himself, Heavican told a news
C Vthfnk it was a man who was frustrated because of his own inability to provide a living for his family," Heavican said.
"They just couldn't keep up with the bills."
Police, responding to a note sent by Gushard asking them to check the house, found the bodies Monday throughout the
split-level, brick home in a quiet middle-class neighborhood in southeast Lincoln.
Stan Gushard was a former Lincoln police officer and former counsel for discipline for the Nebraska State Bar
Association. Mrs. Gushard, a former registered nurse, was chief investigator for the state Health Department s Licensing
Division. Both were attorneys. . .. . , , . , .... n , , .
Heavican said authorities found significant evidence that the family had a number of unpaid bills. Gushard whose
private law practice from his home was unable to make enough money, had a habit of borrowing money from friends, often
without repaying them, he said. , u
In three notes that he left in the house, Gushard indicated that he loved his family and didn t want to cause them
further pain, apparently because of the financial difficulties, Heavican said.
"He kind of did it as an act of desperation," Heavican said. The notes said the victims were taken by surprise to avoid
causing them shock or pain, Heavican said. There was no sign of struggle by the victims, who were shot in the head with a
handgun, he said. , P . , n i , u i
"It's clear that he had a plan in his mind and that he carried it out fairly flawlessly, he said.
Buchanan resigns to further conservative cause
WASHINGTON Patrick J. Buchan
an, President Reagan's combative chief
of communications, added his name
Tuesday to a growing list of adminis
tration resignations, saying he could
work for conservative causes more
effectively outside the White House.
Buchanan, who announced last month
that he would not run for president, has
seemed frustrated in his two-year
campaign to get the administration to
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Announcing the resignation, presi
dential spokesman Martin Fitzwater
said Buchanan "feels he can better
influence the issues and politics of
11)88 and the direction of the conser
vative movement and Republican Party
by speaking and writing from a vantage
point outside the White House."
He will leave the $77,400-a-year job
March 1, joining an exodus of top
administration officials departing with
two years left in the administration.
Some people delayed their departure,
Fitzwater said, "because of the Iranian
situation and didn't want to leave
while there was difficulty." He was
referring to the controversy over the
secret sale of arms to Iran and the
diversion of profits to Nicaraguan
rebels.
U.S. warships near Lebanon
BEIRUT, Lebanon U.S. warships
were reported within 50 miles of Lebanon
on Tuesday and official sources in
Cyprus said civilian aircraft flying near
the ships were ordered by radio to veer
off.
The sources in Cyprus, which lies
100 miles northwest of Beirut, spoke on
condition of anonymity.
The United States marshaled a strong
battle group in the eastern Mediterra
nean over the past week in response to
rising tensions in the Middle East and
following a spate of kidnappings of for
eigners in Lebanon.
The kidnappers, and Moslem leaders
in Lebanon, warned tht any military
action by the United States would
mean death for the captives.
Pentagon sources stressed in Wash
ington on Tuesday that the U.S. battle
groups had received no orders to pre
pare for any military operation.
The sources, who demanded ano
nymity, said the carriers Kennedy and
Nimitz and a Mediterranean Amphib
ious Ready Group of roughly 1,900
Marines were steaming on a "routine
patrol pattern" in the southeastern
Mediterranean, south of Cyprus and
relatively close to Lebanon.
The force consists of about 22 war
ships, and 1,900 more Marines were
moved out of Spain on Tuesday to join
the battle fleet.
Also Tuesday, Iran's Foreign Minis
try denied reports that Anglican Church
hostage negotiator Terry Waite was
held by Iranian Revolutionary Guards
in Lebanon.
The fate of Wraite, 47, remained a
mystery. The 6-foot-7 emissary has not
been seen since he left his hotel in
Moslem west Beirut on Jan. 20, appar
ently for a meeting with the Shiite Mos
lem kidnappers of two Americans held
since 1985.
Lebanon's justice minister, Nabih
Berri, said in Damascus, Syria, on Mon
day that Waite had been "arrested" by
the kidnappers. He did not elaborate.
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