News Digests^ Karnes discounts polls showing big Kerrey lead Republican Sen. David Karnes discounted polls Sunday showing him trailing Democrat Bob Keney by • a wide margin and predicted he will come from behind to win the high stakes race just as he did in the GOP primary. Kerrey, the former governor, leads Karnes 55 percent to 34 percent in a race that already involves a combined total of more than $4.5 million in campaign spending, the Omaha World-Herald’s latest poll said Sun day. The newspaper’s previous poll showed Kerrey ahead 51 percent to 31 percent The Democratic challenger has maintained a double-digit lead throughout the campaign. Karnes, in a campaign speech Sunday at North Platte, said he still expects to win the election, which is expected to finish as the state’s most expensive ever. “I was the underdog throughout the primary, and expect that will be the case throughout the fall cam paign,” Karnes said in reference to his victory over Rep. Hal Daub in the GOP primary. Karnes said newspaper polls are ‘•‘very superficial.” He said his campaign ’sown polling by a Houston company shows him trailing Kerrey by only 4 percentage points, 46 per cent to 42 percent. “Our polling was on the mark in the primary and we are confident it is right today. These last 24 days will be hard fought, and we* expect a very tight race,” Karnes said. “In the end, however, because of our fund-raising success and a grass roots organization of 15,000 persons, we are confident I can and will win,” he said during an appearance with Rep. Virginia Smith, R-Neb. Karnes, who was appointed last year to fill the vacancy created by the death of Democrat Sen. Edward Zor insky, also campaigned Sunday at McCook, Alliance and Sidney. Steve Jarding, Kerrey’s press sec retary, said the wide advantage in the polls is evidence that Karnes’ nega tive advertisements have failed to sway the minds of Nebraska voters. Brent Bahler, Karnes’ press secre tary, said Karnes’ camp would not comment on the allegations of nega tive advertising. He said the cam paign also would not discuss political strategy over the next month, includ ing whether such ads would continue. Karnes and Kerrey each has raised $2.3 million for the race. Both sides predicted each would raise and spend about $3 million to make this the most expensive political campaign in the stale’s history. Federal Election Commission re ports were filed Saturday by both campaigns with each showing that they raised about $1 million for the quarterly reporting period from July 1 to Oct. 1. ' ; l John Bruc#/D*My N^breokan St. Cloud students riot for no reason ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Hun dreds of rioting students burned furniture and clashed with police in a second night of homecoming weekend violence that resulted in 50 arrests by officers clad in riot gear, police said Sunday. At least six people, including a police officer and a person found in a trash carrier, were treated at a hospital for minor injuries suffered Saturday night and early Sunday, said hospital nursing supervisor Patricia Anderson ; As many m 1,500 Si. Cloud State University students were involved m the rioting in a four block area on Friday and Saturday nights, Assistant Police Chief Jim Motme said. Students set of (firecrackers and some played the Beatles’ song “Revohuion*’ on a stereo as police swept through the crowd, esti mated at about 700 people Satur day night. Other people tore down street signs and jumped on cars, or threw beer bottles and pieces of lumber. About 60 officers, including some from the State Patrol ana neighboring counties, shot tear gas to disperse die crowd and made 46 arrests, most on misdemeanor charges of unlawful conduct or criminal damage to property, Moline said. After a lull of a few hours. 150 officers were sent in early Sunday to break up crowds of 150 to 200 people, some of whom had set fue to furniture and a trash carrier that had been dragged into the street, Moline said. “It's like a battle between the police and the students,*’ said Karen Jacobs, die managing editor of the student newspaper, the Uni* versity Chronicle, who watched the disturbance from her dormitory room. The riots broke out in the midst of homecoming celebrations by the school’s 16,400 students. Wit* nesses said the problems began when officers tried to break up loud parties and fights. Moline said that in his 31 years on the police force, the weekend’s violence could be topped only by demonstrations against the Viet nam War in the 1960s. Student Randy Ridenour, 23, of 1 Minneapolis said officers backed off several times Saturday night to avoid a potentially disastrous con frontation. “It was mob mentalityhe s&iu. Many people had been drinking heavily and were enjoying the havoc, he said. Some of the handful of people arrested Friday night probably will be charged with felony assault for throwing beer homes, and the ar rests Sunday morning win result in several more misdemeanor charges, Moline said. Thirty-four of the SO people arrested were university students. University President Brendan McDonald said he \yould appoint a task force to investigate the vio lence and met with school officials to discuss the situation further. Report: Sabotage caused crash that killed Zia, ambassador ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Sabo tage or another criminal act caused a plane crash that killed President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, the U.S. ambassador and 28 others, said a report released Sunday by a U.S. Pakistan investigation team. The 365-page report ruled out mechanical failure in the Aug. 17 crash of the Hercules C-130 transport plane, said Pakistan air force Cmdr. Abbas Mirza, who gave a 27-page summary to reporters at a hastily called news conference. “The board believes that the acci dent was most probably caused through the perpetration of a criminal r |M" ■ ■ actor sabotage,” said the summary by the 10-member U.S.-Pakistan team. The summary did not blame any person or group for the crash but called for a separate criminal investi gation. In Washington, U.S. State Depart ment spokeswoman Nancy Beck said U.S. officials received a copy of the report and “we are studying it.” She made no further comment Mirza, who led the four Pakistani representatives and six U.S. Air Force officers on the team, said they found no conclusive evidence to determine the method of sabotage. All 30 aboard were killed, includ 1 I 111 ■■■■ 1 ■■■■ ing U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphcl; a U.S. defense adviser, Brig. Gen. Herbert M. Wassom; and five lop Pakistani generals. Mirxa said investigators sifting through the debris found chemicals often used in explosives but no remnants of a detonator, wh ich would have indicated a small explosion aboard the plane. He said the phrase “criminal act” referred to the possibility that the pilot or co-pilot could have disrupted cockpit controls intentionally, caus ing the crash in an open field. Because there was no voice re corder aboard the aircraft, he said, it was impossible to dctcrm inc what the crew said before the crash. “After a thorough analysis of the available evidence, the board has been unable to substantiate a techni cal reason for the accident,” the summary said. “In the absence of the technical reason, the only other possible cause of the accident is the occurrence of a crim inal act or sabotage leading to the ioss of aircraft control and the (crash),” it said. Phosphorous was foi nd on mango seeds found in the wreckage, the re port said. Earlier reports speculated that an explosive device was hidden in a box of mangos offered as a gift and placed aboard at the last minute. Mir/.a made no comment on the theory. The plane took off from Is lamabad, which doubles as a military air base, to Bahawalpur, where Zia watched a demonstration of the U.S. M-l Abrams battle tank. The four engine turboprop crashed after take off on the return flight from Ba hawalpur, 330 miles south of Is lamabad. Zia, 64, a military strongman who imposed eight years of martial law during his 11 years in power, was viewed as a bulwark of stability in the volatile region. Nefiraskan Editor Curt Wagner 472-1766 Managing Editor Diana Johnson Assoc. News Editors Jane Hlrt Lee Rood Editorial Page Editor Mike RetHey Wire Editor Bob Nelson Copy Desk Editor Chuck Green Sports Editor Steve Sipple Arts 6 Entertain ment Editor Mlckl Haller Diversions Fditor Joeth Zucco Sower Editor Andy Pollock Graphics Editor Tim Hartmann Photo Chief Eric Gregory Asst. 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RIGHT 1M6 DAILY NEBRASKAN Democrats looking for come-from-behind victory WASHINGTON — Democrats found inspiration Sunday in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ win in the first game of the World Series, saying that Michael Dukakis can still pull off a come-from-behind victory over Republican George Bush in the remaining three weeks of the presidential campaign. “I think we’re going to be like the Dodgers last night,” said Dukakis running mate Lloyd Bentsen. ‘‘It looked like they were down and out, and all of a sudden they hit a home run and won it. I think we can do that in the next 24 days.” Bush, alert to that possibility, said that despite polls that show him widening his lead over Dukakis, ‘‘we’re going to keep on with our original game plan, keep working hand, keep traveling to key states... keep moving for ward.” ‘‘AH I know is to just drive down to the wire,” the vice president 1 .I PI M'Ml1 ■ 1 III' said. Dukakis acknowledged in Bos ton that he is entering the last leg of the long campaign as an underdog, but advised Republicans not to pop champagne corks loo early be cause “we’re going to be the ones celebrating on election night.” He said he will continue fight ing for the values he believes in. He said Bush, as vice president, “sat on the sidelines for eight years while America got beaten in world markets, while they mortgaged our children’s future to a mountain of debt, and a piece of America was being sold off every day at bargain basement prices.” The World Series analogy was used by several Democrats. “It’s an extremely close race,” said Sen. Albert Gore, D-Tenn., on ABC’s “This Week with David Brinkley.” “You’re going to sec Mike Dukakis come on Tike Kirk Gibson in the bottom of the ninth inning ... ' Iasi night in that game with two outs ...he could barely walk around the base path, but he knocked a home run to win the game,” Gore said. The Dodgers beat the Oakland Athletics, 5-4, in that first game of the Series. Bush told reporters in Denver that he already has a team studying the transition to a Bush presidency and that he is ready to name his Cabinet quickly. Former Navy Undersecretary Chase Untcnrieyer heads the Bush transition team. “He has drawn up wiring dia grams, what we should do if we win,” Bush said. “You have to hit the ground running.” Bentsen, appearing on CBS TV‘s “Face the Nation,” said the Democratic ticket has been the target of character assassination by Bush and his running mate, Dan Quayle. “We were subjected to what I think was the most demagogic at tack that I’ve ever seen at the presi dential level,” Benlsen said. The Dukakis camp was trying to put the best face on what many perceived as a clear Bush victory in last Thursday’s debate with Dukakis. Dukakis adviser Robert Bcckcl said on the ABC program that “there’s a lot of time left in this race, there’s a lot of volatility in the electorate, and I find it amazing that all of these people are writing this race off.” But Ed Rollins, a Republican strategist, said that “over the last three months, George Bush has made the sale; he has convinced the American public that he has the strength and the ability to lead this country.” Said Rollins: “It’s just a ques tion now of getting the voters to the polls on Election Day.”