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Justice Kennedy will speak at Hmska institute session From Staff Reports U.S. Supreme Court Justice An thony Kennedy will be the keynote speaker for the inaugural session of the Roman L. Hruska Institute for the Ad ministration of Justice today at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Law College. Kennedy will speak on “Jury Trial Reform” at the institute, which will be held from 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in Ross McCollum Hall on East Campus. The institute is free and open to the public. Appointed by President Ronald Reagan, Kennedy has served on the Court since 1988. Prior to Kennedy’s presentation, Chief Judge Richard Arnold of the 8th District Court of Appeals will intro duce former U.S. Sen. Roman L. Hruska, the institute’s founder. Kennedy’s remarks will be fol lowed by a presentation from Steven Penrod, a professor of law and psychol ogy at UNL, covering empirical stud ies on jury trials. Penrod will then moderate a panel discussion on jury trial procedures. The panel members include federal judges William Cambridge, chief judge of the District of Nebraska; and War ren Urbrom, senior judge of the Dis trict of Nebraska. Other panel mem bers are Thomas J. Monaghan, U.S. At torney for Nebraska; David R. Stickman, federal public defender; and Gail S. Perry, chair ofthe Federal Prac tice Committee. The institute will conclude with a presentation by C. Arlen Beam, U.S. circuit judge for the 8th Circuit, and Richard Kopf, U.S. district judge for the District of Nebraska, discussing recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions relating to jury trials in federal court. BECOME AN _ _ AIRFORCE NURSE. The Air Force has a special place for you. As an Air Force nurse officer you can put your professional skills to work and enjoy: • a team approach to health care • • 30 days vacation with pay per year q4-|^4-4 • complete medical and dental care UULl u l till • . • opportunities to advance Serve your country while you p , advance your career. L^fCcltG tflC usaf health professions perfect disguise! TOLL FREE r 0 1-800-423-usaf Four Lincoln Locations . |_____ ' • esk: Nelson defends against Republican advertisement as Hagel’s business practices come under fire By Chad Lorenz Senior Reporter U.S. Senate candidates Chuck Hagel and Gov. Ben Nelson launched public attacks against each other late last week, each denying the others ac cusations and calling the attacks des perate and outright lies. Nelson responded to a national Republican Party television commer cial by alleging that Hagel was in volved in a corporate scandal to fund his cellular phone company. The advertisement, which began airing Oct. 24, said Nelson proposed an increase in property tax valuations, and increased office travel by more than 400 percent. Nelson said the advertisement, which was funded by the National Re publican Senatorial Committee, was a breach of a promise Hagel made in June. .. Hagel vowed that he wouldn’t al low the state or national party, or any one else, to make outside attacks on Nelson. Hagel’s campaign office said they were unaware the NRSC would be run ning the advertisement. Deb Fiddelke, communications di rector for Hagel, said Thursday she had heard Nelson’s campaign talking about the advertisement, but that she had not seen it or heard that the Hagel cam paign was involved with it. Nelson’s campaign released a state ment responding to the NRSC’s claims. The statement said Nelson voted with Republican members of the Board of Equalization for fair property tax evaluations. Equal property tax evalu ations arb required by the Nebraska constitution. Some counties had Iowa- property taxes because of the equalization, ac cording to the statement. Responding to the claim that Nelson increased travel by 433 percent, his campaign said the increase included travel expenses of three other state of fices: the policy research office, travel office and energy office. Those offices were kept separate until Nelson be came governor. The day after the advertisement, Nelson held a press conference during which he released a two-inch thick packet describing a scandal involving Hagel’s cellular phone company, Van guard. Nelson said he uncovered the al leged scandal because Hagel was us-; ing his business resume as a campaign tool. ■ " 1 .. 81 ■■ 11 “The implication is that he built hi; business from the ground up,” Nelsor said. People should know exactly how h< built his business and the allegation; involved, Nelson said. In 1986, the Federal Communica tion Commission held lotteries foi ownership of cellular phone licenses. Vanguard won a five-city license but the runners-up in die contest ac cused Vanguard of rigging the lottery The runner-up companies filed £ complaint with the FCC and later filed a lawsuit against Vanguard. In the lawsuit, the companies al leged that Vanguard submitted 52 “dummy” applications in the lottery tc increase its chances of winning among the total 138 applicants. Each of those 52 applications was filed in the name of a smaller company which was “merely a passive invests in a cellular venture intended to stack the lottery in numerous markets for the benefit primarily of a few key players,” the lawsuit said. The FCC dismissed the complaint and the objectors withdrew their legal suit. Hagel adamantly denied the accu sations. He said the other 52 applica tions came from separate companies that had partnerships with Vanguard, but Vanguard didn't have control over them. *uv appiwauuiiis oummugu wtic legal, and that’s why the FCC dropped the complaint, Hagel said. The objecting complies filed the complaint and the lawsuit because they didn’t get what they wanted, he said. “Anybody can file a complaint,” Hagel said. Nelson said the objecting compa nies withdrew the complaint because Vanguard settled with them by trading a franchise worth $133 million in San Tuan, Puerto Rico for a small franchise in Huntington, Va., worth $2 million. When an objecting company prof ited by more than $130 million, it dropped the suit, Nelson said. Hagel said that trade was not an) kind of settlement. “Everybody was trading markets in those days,” Hagel said. “We trade all the time.” Vanguard wanted the Huntington franchise because it was closer to its other franchises in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, Hagel said. Localizing the franchises was more efficient for Vanguard than setting up i new, separate phone system in Puerto Elico, he said. And Nelson’s comparison of a $2 Hagel tries : togetvotes : outatrally HAGEL from pagel Hagel campaign because he was staying civil and Nelson was pull ing out the attacks. “We’re going to win because the slime-machine is out,” Maurstad said. He said a sitting governor should not have to stoop to attacks like his accusations about Hagel’s business record. On the lighter side, Bauer said Hagel was an outstanding student and the one of a few of her stu dents that she would have en dorsed. “He was a definite leader even when he was 9 years old,” she said. - — Reichel said she was giving her support to Hagel partly be cause of a Nelson veto that elimi nated $3 million in funds to the university. Tuition rose after the funding cut caused by the veto, she said. million franchise for a $133 million franchises is wrong, Hagel said. “I’ve never heard those values. Those weren’t the values when we traded it.” Cellular phone franchises can’t be valued in dollars, Hagel said. Some valuations include start-up costs and the ability of people to buy cellular phones. In Puerto Rico, start-up costs would have been huge, and people would have had to pay a high price for the phones, Hagel said. Hagel said Nelson’s allegations were lies and distortions and were signs that the governor is nervous about los ing the race. “The governor has done this in a desperate attempt to salvage a sinking campaign,” Hagel said. ‘1 won’t respond by lying about him more than he lies about me. It’s de meaning to the citizens of the state, and everyone should be ashamed of their governor.” Nelson defended his release of the information Friday, saying that the NRSC advertisement was an outright lie. The information he released was fact and documented in lawsuit files, newspapers and company reports, he said. “If I have a punch thrown at me, I counterpunch and I throw a lot stron ger punch back.” OUR PORTIONS ARE IRAN YOUR HISTORY ROOK. J| Fazoli's wrote the book on fast Italian. 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