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Nelson supports Clinton in presidential race
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Staff Reporter
Nebraska Gov. Ben Nelson has
been campaigning this fall but
not for his scat as governor,
which won’t be up until 1994.
Instead, Nelson has campaigned
for fellow governor and Democratic
presidential nominee Bill Clinton of
Arkansas.
Last Wednesday
I other governors in
Oregon and Wash
ington. This weekend he will call
radio talk showsaround the country to
rally support for Clinton.
Nelson said his personal experi
ence with the Arkansas governor had
convinced him that Clinton would
make agood president. Between mcet
ingsof the National Governor’s Asso
ciation and the National Education
Goals Panel, Nelson said he had met
Clinton at least a do/cn limes and had
talked with him on the telephone on
several other occasions.
“I know him quite well,” he said. “I
have a very good impression of him.
“I’ve worked with him on a variety
of issues,” Nelson said, “and I’ve
found him to be well informed and
highly motivated and having a great
skill in being able to unite and bring
people together and form consensus
on an issue.”
Nelson said Clinton represented a
different kind of Democratic candi
date for president than the country
had seen in recent years.
“There’s been a perception that the
Democratic candidate in the past has
been a tax-and-spend candidate,” he
said. “Bush is trying to play on that
theme in this election.
“But anyone who listens to
Clinton’s record will find he’s been
anything but a tax-and-spend candi
date.”
Nelson attributed Bush’s tax-and
spend charges against Clinton to last
minute negative campaign tactics.
“Negative campaigning works,
unfortunately,” he said. “But I’m
hopeful this lime around people will
say they’ve had enough of it.”
Nelson said he did not doubt that
Clinton could help turn around the
domestic problems in the United
States. But he was hesitant to predict
a winner in the election.
“I’d rather call the Colorado-Ne
braska game,” he said. “It’s very dif
ficult to know, it’s almost up to the
political procrastinators to know.
“It’s almost like a professional
basketball game... il’salwaysa horse
race in the end.”
Still, Nelson said he thought there
was a good chance that Cl inton would
come out on lop.
“It seems possible for the first time
in a long time that a Democrat can win
at the national level,” he said.
Finnegan
promises
major cuts
By Susie Arth
Senior Reporter
Democrat Gerry Finnegan re
fused to promise a rose garden
if he was elected congressman
of Nebraska’s first congressional dis
trict.
Instead, he promised a crowd of
about 200 people at Union College
Thursday that he would cut their fa
vorite government programs in an
effort to decrease the national debt,
i “Slick your foot
out and get ready to
have your toes
stepped on,” he
said. “It’s not go
ing to be sunshine
for the next couple
_ years.
Think of your favorite govern
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Harms’
boyfriend
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By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter
Todd Sears hasn ’t been sleeping
much lately.
But sonvetimes, he welcomes
his restlessness. No sleep means no
dreams.
Scars, a
senior mar
keting major,
is the boy
friend of
Candice
“Candi”
Harms, a
University of
Ncbraska
Lincoln
freshman
who has been
arms missing since
Sept. 22.
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Albanians to learn about business in Nebraska
Group to attend
classes at UNL
By Deborah McAdams
Staff Reporter_
In November, Albania will dig
further into its newly broken
ground of democracy and free
enterprise when it sends 17 people to
the University of Ncbraska-Lincoln
for business training.
The group — three Albanian gov
ernment officials, five university fac
ulty members, two entrepreneurs and
seven public enterprise managers —
will attend UNL classes and special
sessions, said Sang Lee, chairman of
the management department in the
College of Business Administration.
They also will have internships at
local businesses, he said.
The Albanians’ trip to Nebraska
will complement efforts by a team of
UNL professors that went to Albania
in May and September to teach funda
mentals of market economics, man
agement principles and entrepreneur
ship to a nation that was isolated for
almost a half a century.
UNL has been the leading institu
tion in the SI million program funded
by the U.S. Agency for International
Development.
The universities of Michigan,
Southern California and North Caro
lina, and ihcGallupOrganixnlion also
have contributed.
Lee received word about the grant
in 1990. Originally, the money was'
designated for work in Yugoslavia,
butcivil strife forced the U.S. govern
ment to switch the assistance to Alba
nia.
The 10-mcmbcr UNL team look
its first trip to Albania in May. About
550 Albanian government officials,
educators and managers of public
enterprise attended the two-week train
ing seminar, Lee said.
In September, the UNL team re
turned to Albania. That trip, com
bined with the first, resulted in techni
cal training for about 900 people from
all over Albania.
The UNL team found the Alba-^
nians to be skilled and educated, Lee
said, especially in the arts.
But, he said, “they had no knowl
edge of the concept of profit, accoun t
ing and market economics.”
Both the Americans and the Alba
nians were enthusiastic about the pro
gram, said team member Harish
Chandra Gupta, UNL director of
graduate studies and an associate pro
fessor of economics.
“This was the first time we estab
lished friendly, pcoplc-to-pcoplc con
tact,” Gupta said.
Lee said, “This project is the first
massive grass-roots program of its
type in Eastern Europe. We have cov
ered the entire country.”
The country possesses a great po
tential for tourism, with iLsmild Medi
terranean climate and miles of beau
tiful beaches, Lee said.
The country’s sources of capital
include the International Monetary
Fund and the World Bank.
Private United States industries,
including Chevron and Occidental
petroleum, have invested in Albania,
where oil is one ollhe country’s main
natural resources.
“We’re very optimistic about
Albania’s potential to become self
sufficient... we’ve already seen an
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