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ACE RENT-TO-OWN “1^' I I 25th & 0 .474-3444 11th & Comhuisker* 438-2233 Si'. counsel, but most importantly on his friendship.” A fighter pilot during the Vietnam War, McCain was shot down and spent more than five years as a pris oner of war in North Vietnam. Hagel, who was wounded during his service in Vietnam, recently returned for the opening of a U.S. consulate in Ho Chi Minh City. Hagel became the second Nebraska senator to endorse a dark horse candidate for president. Last month, Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey endorsed former Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey, who is challenging Vice President A1 Gore for the Democratic nomination. Although Bush holds a substan tial lead over his GOP presidential rivals, both in fund-raising and opin ion polls, McCain said he is gaining ground and will be in a position to challenge Bush. McCain said his campaign’s polling shows him in second place in New Hampshire, a crucial early pri mary state. Although he had just 16 percent support compared to Bush’s 40 percent in that poll, he said he would narrow that gap as the primary approached. McCain said recent events have also raised hopes. Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee endorsed McCain, and Dan Quayle’s South Carolina campaign staff defected to McCain’s campaign following the former vice president’s poor showing in this month’s GOP presidential straw poll in Iowa. McCain skipped the straw poll, calling it a “sham” and a waste of money. The two candidates who spent the most money on the poll, Bush and Steve Forbes, finished first and sec ond. McCain said he had a “fiduciary responsibility” to his contributors to not participate in the straw poll, in which Iowans paid $25 to vote, and candidates paid for buses, food and voting fees to attract voters. By not participating in the poll, he did not damage his prospects, McCain said. “It was the wisest non-investment of time and money I’ve ever made in my career,” he said. McCain’s boycott of the straw, poll and his support for a phasing-out of ethanol subsidies have fueled spec ulation he would downplay the nation’s first caucus in agriculture intensive Iowa and focus on other early primaries. In an interview, McCain said he would not downplay Iowa but had not mapped a strategy for the primaries. McCain summarized his cam paign as a quest for “reform and free dom.” “I want to reform our institutions so that the American people can attain more freedom,” he said. A longtime champion of cam paign finance reform, McCain said he would focus on that issue in his campaign, as well as tax and educa tion reform and the need for increased defense spending. McCain, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was a vocal critic of the Clinton administra tion’s policies during the air war over Kosovo. He argued that the United States should prepare to deploy ground troops in the Serbian province, a view that gained increas ing support in the weeks before Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic withdrew from Kosovo. McCain distanced himself from the controversy surrounding possible past cocaine use by Bush. In the past week, Bush has effectively denied using cocaine in the past 25 years but has refused to answer questions about possible drug use before then. “I’d like to see the governor’s pri vacy maintained,” McCain said. “But * at the same time, I’m fully aware that it’s the media and the American peo ple who will decide which questions are asked.” Maurstad said his support for McCain was not a sign of a rift between him and Johanns. McCain’s character and integrity are beyond question, he said, and his support for increased defense spending and tax reform are in tune with Maurstad’s beliefs. “It wasn’t a case of weighing the judgment of the governor versus the judgment of the senator,”-he said. “I expect John McCain to inspire great ness in the people of this country. “He won’t be tugged one way or the other based on polls or special interests.” _ Hagel hosted a fund-raising din ner for McCain on Saturday night in Omaha. About 250 people attended the event, which raised $50,000. f ■ •: '