Kerrey addresses public power
OMAHA (AP) — The last thing
Sen. Bob Kerrey wants to see is an
American public petrified by fear of
terrorists.
A member of the Senate Intelli
gence Committee, Kerrey said Tues
day that he has received no confirma
tion that the Amtrak derailment in
Arizona was the work of domestic
terrorists.
One person was killed and 78 in
jured Monday when an Amtrak train
derailed off a 30-foot high bridge.
Officials there suspect the track was
sabotaged.
Kerrey said fear is the worst pos
sible reaction to acts like the derail
ment or to the April bombing of the
federal building in Oklahoma City.
He said terrorists want people to be
frightened and people should in fact
realize that they have tremendous
power.
The Nebraska Democrat pointed
out that the U.S. Supreme Court—the
highest court in the land — hears
cases that have been brought about by
individual citizens. Kerrey called that
proof that explosives are not needed
to exercise power.
“An individual citizen in the United
States of America can move moun
tains, as well as the little molehills we
call members of Congress,” Kerrey
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“An individual citizen in the United States of
America can move mountains, as well as the little
molehills we call members of Congress. ”
SEN. BOB KERREY
Nebraska Democrat
said during his weekly conference call
with the Nebraska news media.
On other issues:
• Kerrey predicted Democrats
would hold onto the Senate seat of
retiring Sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia.
As chairman of the Democratic Sena
torial Campaign Committee, Kerrey
is responsible for finding a Demo
cratic candidate to succeed Nunn.
“Democrats will hold Georgia,”
Kerrey said.
Nunn, who announced his retire
ment plans Monday, is one of eight
Senate Democrats who will not seek
re-election in 1996. Nebraska Sen.
Jim Exon also is retiring.
Kerrey said that even someone like
Exon, who is 74 and finishing his third
Senate term, decides at some point
that he is tired of the long hours,
working weekendsand time away from
family. Kerrey said politics itself can
be wearing.
“Senator Nunn said to me yester
day morning he doesn’t like the kind
of bitter, partisan rancor in Congress,”
Kerrey said.
He said Americans needed to pon
der the loss of talented leadership.
“We lost 24 years of experience
and service and intellect and vision”
when Nunn decided to retire, Kerrey
said.
• Kerrey said he was pleased that
some Republicans say they are using
the work of Kerrey’s commission on
entitlements as the basis of their pro
posals to save on future Medicare
spending — but said they are not en
tirely accurate.
For one thing, Kerrey said, his com
mission never suggested a tax cut,
“which I don’t think makes any sense.”
The GOP has proposed cutting
taxes by $245 billion over seven years;
Kerrey has said it is more important to
reduce the deficit than cut taxes.
Former regent drops
7-year-old libel lawsuit
OMAHA (AP) — Former Uni
versity of Nebraska Regent Nancy
Hoch of Nebraska City is dropping
a 7-year-old libel lawsuit against
Dr. Robert Prokop of Wilber, her
1988 opponent for the regent seat.
Michael O’Brien of Omaha,
Hoch’s lawyer, said the motion to
drop the suit was mailed to the
court on Monday. Trial was to be
gin Tuesday.
The$l million lawsuit had been
amended and appealed several times
and had made its way to the Ne
braska Supreme Court since it was
filed in 1988. The suit was filed
after a four-page flier criticizing
Hoch’s record was mailed to about
40,000 households.
O’Brien said Hoch decided to
drop the suit because she had been
able to stop Prokop’s “libelous”
remarks.
“Once the libelous material was
not being published, we accom
plished our purpose,” he said. “She
wanted to put a check in Dr.
Prokop’s apparent unbridled lib
“Once the libelous
material was not being
published, we
accomplished our
purpose
MICHAEL O’BRIEN
Lawyer for former Regent
Nancy Hoch
erty to say whatever he felt like. She
was not interested in wasting the
court’s time in something she’s not
interested in pursuing.”
Prokop’s attorney, Allen
Daubman, said he was frustrated
and slightly disappointed his client
wasn’t going to trial.
“He spent a lot of time and ex
pense, and then they just dropped
it. If it were going to be dropped, I
wish they would have done it at a
much earlier time.”
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Furasek said he expected that
number to rise to 15,000 in the
next five months.
“Wetlands, woodlands, Sil
ver Creek, conservation prac
tices and wildlife,” he said. “All
you have to do is step out the
front door.”
In addition to the faculty and
graduate students, the building
also will house 4-H meetings
and the Saunders County Exten
sion offices, said Dick Fleming,
coordinator of news and public
affairs for the Institute of Agri
culture and Natural Resources.
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The first level offers the full differ
ence between in-state and out-of-state
tuition, which is estimated to be about
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All scholarships are renewable for
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