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~'ma. INDEX Weather: Friday, considerable cloudiness, ) News Digest.2 high in the upper 50s, winds from the Sat 5-10 Editorials.4 mph Friday night, mostly cloudy, low around Sports .7 40. Saturday, partly sunny and warmer, high in Arts and Entertainment.9 the mid 60s. Classifieds ..11 October 7,1988 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Vol. 88 No. Z9 Six professors say Bentsen won debate By Bryan Thomas Suff Reporter Some University of Nebraska Lincoln professors said Thurs day that Democratic Sen. Lloyd Bentsen topped Republican Sen. Dan Quayle in Wednesday’s vice-presi dential debate in Omaha. “Bentsen did come out on top,’’ said John Comer, a political science professor. “His deliveries were smoother and his policies were more substantive.” Comer said Quayle talked in gen eral termsabout the “good life,” while Bentsen was more specific about the campaign issues. Susan Welch, also a political sci ence professor, said she, too, felt that Bentsen won the debate because he talked more specifically about the issues. Quayle’s behavior made him ap pear immature at limes when calling Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis names, Welch said, even when those names had no rele vance to questions asked. No new issues were brought up in the debate, Welch said, but both can didates gave attention to different themes than usual. Bentsen talked about the budget deficit, trade policy and the environ ment, Welch said, while Quayle touched on more liberal, human is sues. John Hibbing, an associate profes sor of political science, said he thinks Bentsen’s experience showed during the debate and that he was “very smooth.” He said he also thinks Quayle did better than he expected. But in Hibbing’s opinion, neither candidate was specific about the is sues. “Quaylc was completely evasive and Bcntsen was not much better,” Hibbing said. Robert Sittig, political science piofessor, said dial according to the See REACTION on 6 --1 boy dies, mother and two brothers injured in fire By David Holloway Senior Reporter □ University of Nebraska-Lincoln po lice officer saved the life of one of three children when he pulled the child front a burning apartment Thursday morning. Oncofthechildrendiedasaresultof injuries from the fire at 3272 Starr St. The other two children and their mother are at St. Elizabeth Community Health Center. UNL Corp. Douglas Petersen said UNL police officer Bryan Kratochvil was driving by the apartment complex near UNL East Campus when he saw smoke coming from a basement apartment around 11 a.m and entered the build ing. Petersen said Kratochvil went in and out of the building several times because at first he could not see through the smoke. Eventually, Kratochvil pulled five-year-old Ryan Smillie out of the building, Petersen said. Deputy Fire Chief Bob King said that when the fire trucks arrived, Kratochvil was laying on the front lawn suffering from smoke inhalation. A passer-by performed cardiopulmonary re suscitation on Ryan until firefighters arrived. King said firefighters pulled Ryan’s mother, Elizabeth Smillie, and brothers, Christopher, 1, and Nick, 2, from a bedroom at the rear of the apartment. According to the Associated Press, Fire Chief Mike Merwick said the fire was reported shcrtly before U a.m.by students who live in ( the building. Merwick said the students saw smoke coming from the apartment and heard a baby screaming. King said all three needed CPR, as far as he knew, and were revived before they were taken to the St Elizabeth Community Health Center and Bryan Memorial hospital. Later, all were transferred to St Elizabeth. Rod Srnillie, Elizabethh Smillie’s husband, was notified at work and was sent to the hospi tal, King said. _____ ' Butch Ireland/Daily Nebraskan Sheldon swinger Two lot graders from Rltey Elementary School look at the sculpture "Swinging Woman "by Robert Cr&mear Thursday afternoon at Sheldon Art Ganery. The students were part of a class touring Sheldon. Congress passes climate center funding By Jerry Guenther Suff Reporter The High Plains Regional Climate Center at the University of Nebraska* Lincoln is expected to receive $320,000 in federal funding as the result of legislation passed in the Senate and House of Representatives last week. Mark Bowen, press secretary for U.S. Sen. James Exon, D-Neb., said he expects President Reagan to sign the 1989 Appropriations Bill for the State, Commerce and Justice departments, which includes funding for the UNL center. “(Reagan) may have already signed it,” he said. Although getting the bill through Congress wasn't “automatic?* Bowen said it was ex pec ted because all appropriations bills had to be acted upon by the House by September 30. Bowen said Exon made the $320,000 re quest for the federal funding because of the climate center s importance to iNeorasiia anu surrounding states in providing climate infor mation to agricultural, industrial, commercial and government users. Blaine Blad, director of the Center for Agri cultural Meteorology and Climatology, said the money will be used for more than just Nebraska operations. “In general terms, the funding is used to support research on soil moisturcand the opera _See FUND on 6