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1:30 • 4:00 • 6:30 • 9:00 p.m. $3.50 with Student I.D. $5.50 General admission Mary Riempa Ross Film Theater sP°n“r®d at the Sheldon Art Gallery To Your Life with The best 1 • JL town for: -■ (■'■ ' Animation, Magic, Games TV/TlirVl iVTnrP^ 233 N. 4Sth Suite Q 466-6066 XX, 1UUU1 IYXU1C. between Target & Supersaver Pacific Coast Chicken Classic Chocolate Malt Cake California Chargrilled Turkey Sandwich Pie In The Sky Loaded Potato Skins Catonese Chicken Salad Name Your Own Burger Fettucini Alfredo Steak on a Stick Dinner Carrot Cake Mushrooms, Chicken and Mushrooms s Fresh Vegetable Medley Spicy Cajun Chicken Pasta , v This may make you want to leave a little early But since you already bought a ticket, why not stick around till the end? We're open late. 48th &0 467-4007 Nefclraskan Editor J. Christopher Hain 472- 1766 Managing Editor Rainbow Rowell Assoc. News Editors DeDra Janssen Brian Sharp Opinion Page Editor Mark Baldridge Wire Editor Sarah Scalet Copy Desk Editor Kathryn Ratliff Sports Editor Tim Pearson Arts & Entertainment Editor Doug Kouma Photo Director Travis Heying Night News Editors Julie Sobczyk Matt Waite Doug Peters Chad Lorenz Art Director Mike Stover General Manager Dan Shattil Production Manager Katherine Policky Advertising Manager Amy Struthers Asst. Advertising Mgr. Laura Wilson Publications Board Chairman Tim Hedegaard 436-9253 Professional Adviser Don Walton 473- 7301 FAX NUMBER 472-1761 The Daily NebraskanfUSPS 144-080) is published by the UNL Publications Board, Nebraska Union 34,1400 R St., Lincoln, NE 68588-0448, Monday through Friday during the academic year; weekly during summer sessions. Readers are encouraged to submit story ideas and comments to the Daily Nebraskan by phoning 472-1763 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The public also has access to the Publications Board. For information, contact Tim Hedegaard, 436 9253,9 a.m.-11 p.m. Subscription price is $50 for one year. Postmaster: Send address changes to the Daily Nebraskan, Nebraska Union 34,1400 R St.,Lincoln, NE 68588-0448. Second-class postage paid at Lincoln, NE. ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1995 DAILY NEBRASKAN Medicare plan passed; Clinton promises veto WASHINGTON (AP) — Ignor ing a veto threat, the House passed a Republican plan Thursday for over hauling Medicare by raising premi ums for the elderly and disabled and saving billions from hospital and doctor fees. The vote was 231-201. Six Re publicans voted against the proposal to save $270 billion from Medicare over seven years, and four Demo crats sided with the GOP. The vote ended a bitter day of debate about the future of the health plan for America’s 33 million elderly and 4 million disabled workers. House Speaker Newt Gingrich called it “a great, great victory ... for fact over fiction” and “for believing you can tell the truth to the American people.” He said Republicans were saving Medicare for today’s retirees while sparing America’s children from being “crushed with taxes.” Gingrich accused Democrats of “dishonest demagoguery” in charg ing that the savings were really aimed at freeing up money for the Republi cans’ $245 billion tax cut. House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt charged that the Medicare bill and a separate GOP plan to take $182 billion from Medicaid for the poor were “the beginning steps of dismantling these programs as we have known them.” Even before votes were cast. Presi dent Clinton warned that the Republi can plan years “will eviscerate the health care system for our older Americans.” Clinton sent this message to the Republicans: “I will not let you de stroy Medicare, and I will veto this bill A key Republican, Rep. Thomas J. Bliley Jr. of Virginia, suggested a compromise might be possible be fore the final bill is sent to the White House. “I’d be willing to consider any reasonable proposal,” said the chairman of the House Commerce Committee. The House first rejected by a lop sided margin, 283-149, a Democratic alternative that would have saved $90 billion from Medicare over seven years — a third of the medicine pre scribed by the Republicans. Rep. Bill Archer, R-Texas,boasted that the GOP’s “lifesaving legisla tive surgery” would save Medicare for today’s retirees and the next gen eration. The Ways and Means chair man called it “a great and historic occasion.” But Democratic Rep. Sam Gib bons of Florida called it “another day of infamy” that will result in America’s elderly being “herded into managed care.” Republican leaders made last minute changes, including conces sions to rural hospitals and steps to make health care fraud a criminal offense, to minimize defections from their Medicare Preservation Act, the central plank of their plan to balance the federal budget by 2002. available at prairie university A History of the University of Nebraska by UNIVERSITY Robert E. Knoll BOOKSTORE Nebraska Union East Union _Phone: 472-7300_ Last Day to Buy Tickets ISO Presents! 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