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Full-time air ambulance service set PageIC ram CITY $1 1988 Journal-Star Printing Lincoln Neb. Serving Nebraska for 121 years Premiere of "Zareh" Tuesday Concerto for guitar, orchestra Story In Focus Mil Mi Christina Onassis dead at 37 in Argentina By News Service BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -Christina Onassis, the -head of a multi million-dollar busi ness empire and the stepdaughter of Jacqueline -Kennedy Onassis, died Saturday while visiting friends in Argentina, officials said. She was 37. Reuters news agency reported that a- judge had called the death f'v'' Vv. 1 Christina Onassis GAO says tax hikes, major cuts necessary WASHINGTON (AP) Rejecting; both the Bush and Dukakis plans as unworkable, the General Accounting Office said Saturday that tax increases and cuts in defense and Social, Security must be considered to slash a federal budget deficit that threatens the nation's economic future.

"Additional revenues are probably an unavoidable part of any realistic strategy for reducing the deficit," the congressional watchdog agency said in reports to President-elect George Bush and leaders of the House and Senate. Comptroller General Charles A. Bowsher, director of the GAO, said a workable solution can be developed only through close cooperation between Congress and the new president, with Bush personally involved in the negotiations. The GAO, which uses hundreds of experts in every field to oversee the federal bureaucracy on behalf of Congress, made no recommendations on which taxes should be raised or which programs should be cut Slight increases But the report cited estimates that $30 billion could be raised annually with slight increases in personal income tax rates, and that a percent national sales tax on most commodities except food, housing and medical care would yield $67 billion a year. "All participants must consider all parts of the budget to be negotiable, including defense, entitlements (such as Social Security and Medicare) and reve- -nues," the agency said.

"The budget problem must be solved for the new administration to have any flexibility to pursue its own policy agenda, for the economy to regain its vigor and for the American people to enjoy a long-term standard of living comparable to the rest of the developed Bowsher wrote. But the GAO said it saw no "quick or painless solutions to the deficit, which stood at $150 billion in the budget year that ended Sept. 30. It specifically rejected four approaches that have been proposed: 'Can't grow out' cannot 'grow our way out of the problem," an approach favored by See DEFICIT on page 6A TED KIRKSUNDAY JOURNAL-STAR Nebraska linebacker LeRoy Etlenne (47) sacks Oklahoma quarterback Charles Thompson (6) for a 9-yard loss on a third-down play midway through the second quarter. Blocking for Thompson is OU fullback Rotnel Anderson (28).

The Cornhuskers limited the Sooners to 137 total yards. More on Huskers' 7-3 win in Section D. cd inma IN "questionable" and ordered an investigation. Some pills found by Onassis' side were being analyzed, Reuters said. The body was taken to a morgue for an autopsy and then to a Greek Orthodox church for a ceremony.

The findings of the autopsy were not announced. A police officer at the morgue said a death certificate could not be issued until the cause of death was officially determined. Onassis was stricken at the weekend home of friends Marina and Alberto Dodero, said Dr. Hernan Bunge, a tor of the Clinica del Sol Hospital in Buenos Aires. Annabella Onassis, a cousin, told reporters at the church that Christina "died in the bathroom" of the Dodero home.

"She had been feeling fine," Annabella Onassis said. "In fact, she felt very well during a party yesterday at the club." Asked if the death might have been suicide, Annabella Onassis replied: "A happy person can never commit suicide and Christina was content and happy. -She didn't have any (apparent) health problems." A woman identifying herself as Mary Onassis, an aunt, said Onassis' remains would be flown to Greece on Monday or Tuesday for burial on the family-owned island of Skorpios beside the graves of her father and brother, Alexander, who died in a 1975 plane crash. Alexander and Christina were Aristotle Onassis' only children. Mary Onassis told reporters that her niece had planned to attend a party Saturday night given by the local Greek community.

"Christina was in the best part of her See ONASSIS on page 6A Defense drqws cntiay Mike Babcock Columnist "Once we had the seven points, I felt, That's all we said Tim Jackson, Nebraska's free safety. 'Looking for shutout The Cornhusker defense was looking for a shutout, he said, and it would have gotten one if Oklahoma had gone for a first down on fourth-and-2 from the Nebraska 11-yard line instead of kicking a field goal, with 1:50 remaining in the third quarter. "We knew they wouldn't score a touchdown," Jackson sail The Sooners were in position to work their magic and make a run at a touchdown with 1:45 remaining in the game and the ball at the Nebraska 48-yard line following a 7-yard tipped punt. But the Cornhuskers took the field one last time and snapped Oklahoma's wishbone, the way they had all See HUSKERS on page 4A NORMAN, Okla. There was no magic Saturday afternoon, none to which the Oklahoma football team had access, anyway.

The, Sooners could have used it After what happened at Owen Field, you have to wonder if there ever was any "Sooner Magic" or if, as Nebraska quarterback Steve Taylor said, it was all a "lot of b.C like pulling aside the curtain to discover the Wizard of Oz was a little old man, vulnerable like everyone Nebraska's defense pulled away tiie curtain Saturday to expose a Sooner offense that couldnt match up, physically, to a Cornhusker defense that's been unfairly maligned because of poor performances during the first quarter of a 42-28 loss to UCLA and the second half of a 63-42 victory over Oklahoma State. Had several chances Oklahoma had opportunities to work its magic. Three times in the game's final eight minutes, the Sooners had the ball in situations reminiscent of previous victones over Nebraska. Each time, Coach Barry Switzer reached into the hat and puDed out nothing, no rabbit, no miracle finish. Those three possessions produced 13 plays from scrimmage and a net of 1 yard.

Magic is fine. But a good defense will do the job every time. Bush faces people problem9 in demoralized work force Kennedy lives in emotions of millions Lincolnites' memories vivid. PageiF. Jackie still admired.

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At this 25th amhwraary of John F. Kennedy's assassination, It's lair to ask, "What If ha had llvad?" And It's Mr to say that ha doss llv on In tns nflsctlons of trionds and advlssrs ha Inspired and In the emotions of millions of Americans, feelings nowhere mora evident. Ironically, than at his grave. By Christopher Callahan ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) Mesmerized by the commanding view of Washington from a hill atop Arlington National Cemetery, John Kennedy remarked in 1963 that he could stay there forever.

Later that year, an assassin would strike him down, and he would be buried near the site he admired so. In a city filled with monuments and memorials, the Kennedy grave site, striking in its simplicity, remains to many the nation's most emotional symbol of life and death, of hope and lost dreams, even 25 years after his violent death. "Kennedy's grave brings out a lot of emotions in people," said Kerri Childress, the cemetery's historian who was a second-grader when the president was gunned down in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. "A lot of memories come back.

People dont just remember Kennedy's assassinatioa They remember that whole period of their lives, their families, their friends. People tell me they remember smells, sounds." Adults weep openly at the grave. Admirers silently leave flowers on the granite bed. A blind woman, after visiting the cemetery dozens of times, cried when she "saw? it for the first time as she was allowed to run her fingers over the stones and feel the heat from the eternal flame. Eternal flame There's another eternal flame.

It burns warmly in the memories of those who knew and served with Kennedy, friends and advisers who can visualize him still alive, still keeping a hand in the direction of his nation. "Without question, he would have continued to be an extremely active, public-spirited, heavily involved person in all matters that would have to do with social progress and world peace," said Lawrence O'Brien, who served as the Kennedy White House's liaison to Congress. He recalls the late president referring to life after the White House he would have been only 51 if he'd served the maximum eight years and the talk revolved around academic life, perhaps at his alma mater, Harvard University. Instead, Harvard renamed its government school in Kennedy's honor as a "living memorial" to the 35th president David F. Powers, one of Kennedy's closest confidants from his first campaign for Congress to that tragic November day, envisioned a post-presidential Kennedy as a roving ambassador of sorts.

Kennedy used to wonder why former presidents "weren't put to better use," according to Powers, who served as a special assistant to JFK. "I think Kennedy would have gone to the Soviet Union or wherever was necessary." Childress recalls a delegation of Soviet generals visiting JFK's grave. In minute detail they told where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news that the president, who had confronted their own leader over Cuba but later joined Nikita Khruschev in a nuclear Test Ban Treaty, was dead. What might have been Like many Americans, they wondered what might have been. O'Brien and Powers doubt Kennedy would have run for political office after serving two presidential terms, but others wonder.

"It's just possible he might have stayed in politics, See JFK on page 4A The report cited a 1987 government-wide survey, which found that "many federal managers reported lower motivation levels." Morale is so bad, it said, that "only 13 percent of senior executives said they would advise people beginning their careers to enter public service." "If the quality of the federal work force is reduced, the quality of government services and programs is reduced," the report said. "The bottom line in this situation is not less profit but, more importantly, less effective government services services that touch the lives of literally millions of people," it said. The GAO said Bush's political appointees "must adhere to high ethical standards and make ethics in government a priority in their agencies." The agency said a "minuscule" total of more than 500 federal workers at an levels was convicted of job-related criminal violations in 1987. In the area of drug abuse, "the lack of strong central leadership has been a major factor behind the limited progress See WORK on page 6A Sloppy Joe's casual clothes Thurs, Nov. 25, 42nd O'Hair-Adv.

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WASHINGTON (AP) In addition to naming advisers at the highest levels, President-elect George Bush must deal with a federal work force of 3 million people that is too often underpaid, unmotivated and demoralized, a congressional report contends. "To a large extent, the government today is faced with a "people problem," the General Accounting Office said in one of a series of "transition reports" directed to Bush and House and Senate leaders. "Concern is mounting that the government's ability to acquire and retain good people is dirninishing," the GAO said. "You get what you pay for. Unfortunately, the federal government's pay structure has broken down." The agency said the war on drugs needs stronger leadership and that higher ethical standards must be applied to top government officials.

"After years of the new president needs to change course," the GAO said. "Theodore Roosevelt talked of using the presidency as a "bully pulpit' Today, this kind of leadership is needed to Invigorate the public service." Holiday Open House College View Village, 48th Prescott Sun 12-5-Adv. Anniversary Everything, we mean everything is on sale! This is our big sale of the season, so don't miss it! Post Nickel 144 N. 14th-Adv. i i Km.

1 Mi I I John F. Kennedy INDEX 140 Pages (Dricpln have stepped out of the world of science fiction into the world of medicine, seeing ever-increasing use in three local hospitals and a doctor's office. Page 10c. Lifestyle While it may be less traditional, dining out on the holidays can be just as enjoyable and far less troublesome than preparing a special meal at home. Page 1E.

Editorial The financial news did not provide a good week for President-elect George Bush, increasing pressure on him to confront the need for a tax increase. Page 6B. I Nation Sees. I Nebraska Sees. I People 2A I Sports Section I TV-Cable Focus I World Sec.

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