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Employee details allegations of bias Simaitis security 'ft Si I r.j. few I Request for looser Testrictions on mass killer rejected. NORTH PLATTE (AP) Security requirements used when mass killer Erwin Charles Simants is taken on outings from a state mental hospital won't be loosened, a Judge ruled Friday. State law requires that Simants' status be reviewed each 48, wanted permission to leave the grounds of the Lincoln Regional Center with other patients without Simants 0ne-on-one supervision. The regional center is in Lincoln.

But Lincoln County District Judge -Donald Rowlands denied the request, filling that provisions can be made to aHow therapeutic activity without 'jeopardizing security and public Safely. Simants has. been confined to the -regional center since being found in 'iiocent by reason of insanity in the Oct. 19, 1975, killings of six members of-the Henry Kellie family of Sutherland, 25 miles west of North Platte. SIMANTS has been allowed for several years to take occasional trips from the center for movies, shopping He has been escorted by two hospital staff members and police were notified before each trip, Dave Babcock, attorney for the De-pajtment of Public Institutions, had said at a hearing for Simants that Simants hasn't been taken on group out ings because of a staff shortage, Three staff people would be required to supervise group outing with Simants, Babcock said.

One staffer would drive, one would be assigned to Simants and one would watch the rest of the group. Lincoln County attorney Kent Turnbull said he was pleased that Rowlands upheld the procedure used for the past seven years when Simants leaves the hospital grounds. "When you deal with a man who is this dangerous, you must err on the side of safety," Turnbull said. SIMANTS' ATTORNEY, Bob Lin-demeier, said he wasn't surprised by the ruling, but he said it is unfortunate that Simants is not getting the treatment he needs. "I think the issue is how Mr.

Simants should be treated and what form of treatment he should receive," Lindemeier said. "The court needs to set up a specific treatment plan for the regional center to follow." i Lindemeier said he will probably file a motion so the treatment issue can be dealt with, Simants was initially convicted of murder by a Lincoln County Jury. That conviction was reversed and the second trial, held in Lancaster County, led to his acquittal. Simants admitted to the killings of Kellie, 66; his wife, Marie, 57; their son, David, 32; David's two children, Daniel, 5, and DeAnne, 6, and Florence, 10, who was raised by the Kellies after her mother was killed in a car accident. her," meaning to convey surprise that Orr, a Republican, would appoint Thomas, a Democrat.

In the second incident, Arends said Storant remarked that the Soybean Board was seeking to hire as a secretary a "housewife-type person." Arends said she "found that very of- tensive." -v; Linder said Storant maintains he was merely repeating a comment made by a Soybean Board member. "It's still not proper to repeat what someone else said," declared Arends. "I'm sure In hindsight he (Storant) recognizes that," replied Linder. Arends had sued both the department and Storant, claiming that after she complained in 1990 about Storant's comments, she subsequently was denied overtime pay to which she was entitled, denied pay raises and bonuses, and refused vacation time when other people in the same situation got it. She also contended that Storant continued to harass her.

The department denied the charges, including that Storant harassed Arends, who it said miscon-, strued Storant's comments, THE DEPARTMENT also said that it agreed with the attorney general's office it would be less expensive to settle than litigate, and that the settlement would ensure that Arends, who the department said was not performing to its satisfaction, would be terminated, The department reached a separate settlement of $20,000 with another employee In what it described as a layoff case. Spence has criticized Nelson for the settlements, reached under Nelson-appointed Director Larry Site-man. Linder has said the incidents occurred before Nelson and Sitzman took office. "It's a longstanding problem it's been a problem for years," Arends agreed. Sitzman was unavailable for Ag Department settled charge of retaliation for $38,000.

By Fred Knapp Lincoln Journal-Star One of two former state Department of Agriculture employees whom Republican gubernatorial candidate Gene Spence cited as examples of the department'i paying people off on sexual harassment charges has provided details of alleged derogatory comments about women that prompted her complaints. The department has said it never paid anyone to settle sexual harassment complaints, It said it settled for $38,000 allegations of retaliation against Debra Arends, the employee who came forward, rather than undertaking costly litigation. "Although my case was not based on sexual harassment, it started out with the derogatory comments" about women, Arends said Thursday. A LAWSUIT she filed alleged that she had been retaliated against by being denied pay raises and other benefits after she complained about the derogatory comments by her supervisor, Bob Storant. Arends said the decision not to sue for sexual harassment had been made by her first attorney.

Arends, who was an accountant for the department, described two comments by Storant between about August 1989 and February 1990. In the first incident, when former Gov. Kay Orr appointed Deb Thomas as director of administrative services, Arends said Storant commented, "I cannot believe that they hired a woman." Storant could not be reached directly to respond. But Department of Agriculture spokeswoman Brenda Linder said Storant's version is that he said. "I can't believe she appointed Murphy-Sheldon House shows Lincolnxhouse up for National Register OMAHA (AP) Five western Nebraska sites and one in Lincoln will be considered next week for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places.

The Murphy-Sheldon House, 2525 St. in Lincoln, a late 1880s dwelling that represents ornate examples of the Queen Anne style, is among the sites to be considered at the Sept. 9 meeting in Scotts-bluff. Also under consideration are three sites in Sidney: the Christ Episcopal Church, built in the 1880s and associated with Fort Sidney and American Indian; The Sioux Ordnance Depot Fire and Guard Headquarters; and the Sid Kerrey says GOP Danforth visit Pat Moynihan at full throttle State leaders accused of pressuring senator not to appear at-entitlement reform discussions. By Don Walton Lincoln Journal-Star Bob Kerrey said Friday that he has asked Sen.

John Danforth to Eostpone his scheduled visit to Ne-raska because of "a politically Charged environment that could interfere with an open, bipartisan discussion of entitlement reform." Danforth, a Missouri Republican, is vice chairman of the entitlement reform commission chaired by Kerrey, a Democrat who is seeking" re-election this year. Kerrey said that "intense partisan political pressure" was brought to bear Danforth on Danforth by Republicans, including Nebraska GOP Executive Direc-tor' Phil Young and State Chairman Jerry Schenken, to dissuade him from coming to Nebraska to appear with Kerrey. "The work of the bipartisan commission on entitlement and tax reform is too important and its success too dependent on bipartisan cooperation to expose it to election season partisanship," Kerrey said. Danforth and Kerrey had been scheduled to meet with bipartisan groups in Lincoln, Norfolk and Omaha. I "a "This one up here, he started it.

In New Hampshire," Daniel Patrick Moynihan says, gesturing toward the front seat. "He was the first one talking healthcare. "Of course, he should have been talking jobs." Up front, Bob Kerrey bursts into laughter. Behind him, Moynihan's expressive face explodes with delight. WHAT MAKES this bond between the 67-year-old senior senator from New York who served four presidents, from Kennedy to Ford, and the 51-year-old junior senator from Nebraska who ran for president, starting in New Hampshire, in 1992? "Oh," says Moynihan.

"He's nice tome. "I'm an old fellow and he helps me down the stairs." Kerrey laughs again. And Moynihan completes his "Because we share a lot of views." Moynihan endorsed Kerrey in the 1992 Democratic presidential race. He was Kerrey's only Senate co-sponsor when the Nebraskan introduced his health care reform plan. His wife played a central role in convincing Kerrey that he should supply the critical vote President Clinton needed to enact his budget package a year ago.

tin- Jouriwl-llor III hot the Queen Anne style. among sites ney Downtown Historic Business District, a five-block area near the Union Pacific Railroad. Others scheduled for nomination are: the Wallace W. Waterman Sod House in Deuel County, an example of a homestead-era sod house constructed in 1886 and remodeled in the. 1920s; and the Maginnis Irrigation Aqueduct in Kimball County, a wooden and galvanized steel structure built in 1912 and designed to carry water over rough terrain; The Nebraska State Historic Preservation Board will consider the nominations at a 9 a.m.

MDT meeting at the Scottsbluff Inn. Don Walton Lincoln Journal-Star Kerrey is the only Senate colleague Moynihan has chosen to campaign for in a year when he is seeking re-election too. In turn, Kerrey says Moynihan is "on the short list of people in Washington I would choose to hang out "He is a hero. He speaks out and educates at the same time. "He is a friend." HE IS ALSO a part of America's 20th century history, witness and participant.

Moynihan was there in World War II, entering the Navy the year after Kerrey was born. He helped shape a generation of American leaders as a professor at Harvard. He is the only person in American history to serve at the cabinet or sub-cabinet level of four successive presidents. Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford. Two Democrats, two Republicans.

He has been White House from 1 percent of the people on the beaches. "There is growing support in the area for a ban on alcohol. It's time." However, Evans said, this weekend might not be too bad at McConaughy. College students are at school, and a Denver Broncos home game might take away some potential lake visitors. On July 4, a vehicle careened into a group of people in the Martin Bay beaut area, no one was enouiy Jured, but an angry mob trashed the vehicle.

A rape and other assaults were reported through the weekend. Evans said complaints about loud parties will be taken seriously. Drivers of overcrowded jeeps and pickups also will be cited for careless driving, he said. On recent holiday weekends, a number of incidents have involved people falling out of their vehicles. fore the emergency permit issued this week expired.

Porter said he hoped the department would approve a temporary storage site for baled garbage now shipped to the Alliance landfill. He said temporary storage could save the agency about $80,000 over the next three months. counselor, ambassador to India, ambassador to the United Nations, a U.S. senator since 1977. He has been at the cutting edge of welfare reform, an often controversial policy adviser, and maker, on poverty and race.

"The defining problem today is single-parent households," Moynihan says as he is driven across Omaha from Creighton University to Millard South High School, slumped in the back seat, suit coat off, his lunch sitting next to him on the seat in a Styrofoam container, untouched and growing cold. "We are approaching the time when 50 percent of our children will experience that." THERE ARE enormous economic and social consequences in that statistic. And in the fact that, as Moynihan puts it, "a child's traits are formed at a very early age. Early childhood experiences matter." The solution to this overriding social problem is "not going to be a government thing," Moynihan says. It is "an illusion" to think otherwise.

"The thing Bob Kerrey is doing is making us fess up" to that fact, he says. "We are overcommitted. And we are blaming each other now." Even if government could solve Buch fundamental problems, there is no money now, It shows, Moynihan says, in what Companies plan swap HOUSTON (AP) Marathon Oil Co. and Union Oil Co. of California announced a nonbinding agreement to swap several gas and oil properties in the Cook Inlet Region of Alaska effective Dec.

1. IN A STATEMENT released by Kerrey, Danforth said; "The suggestion that my visit to Nebraska on the subject of entitlements would be helpful to your campaign is really remarkable. "I would think that the exact opposite would be the case. "The entitlements issue is the so-called 'third rail' of politics. To touch it is said to cause political death.

The better part of political valor for you would be to be as silent as possible on entitlements until after your election, not to Import a guest who would raise the visibility of the issue. "I think that the honest and courageous thing to do is to discuss the entitlement issue before elections, although there is no Way conceivable to me that such a discussion could be advantageous to your campaign. "Nevertheless, the suggestion has been made that my visit would lit some manner be helpful to your reelection," Danforth said. "Sadly, partisan politics wins on this one," Kerrey said. "Nebraskans lose." SCHENKEN SAID Kerrey was responsible for the cancellation.

The GOP chairman said he called Danforth's office when he read a news story stating that the Missouri senator was coming to Nebraska to campaign for Kerrey. Only then was he told that the visit was designed to discuss the entitlement issue, not to endorse Kerrey, Schenken said. "Sen. Kerrey is the one playing political games with this issue, not me," he said. "As far as I'm concerned, Sen.

Danforth is welcome to discuss his views on entitlement reform in Nebraska at any time." are among those who have said they want to replace Mayor P.J. Morgan, who resigned to take a job with Duncan Aviation of Lincoln. "We wouldn't be doing this if we didn't think we could win," Council said. "I firmly believe we can win this race and raise the necessary funds to put on a serious campaign." Council, a 40-year-old Union Pacific Railroad attorney, was elected to the City Council last year, She has served three Jerms on the Omaha school board. Republican State Sen.

Brad Ash-ford of Omaha, who had considered a mayoral bid, instead has joined Council's campaign. The figures: Kerrey, 53 Stoney, 34 percent ii Stoney earlier released figures from a survey taken by the National Republican Senatorial Committee that showed her within 8 points of Kerrey. Those figures: Kerrey, 48 percent; Stoney, 40 percent, i he describes as this year's "devastating health care exercise" in the Congress. "I'm the floor manager. Yet, nothing happens." When Kerrey leans back to tell him about the Omahan who complained to him at length the night before about government spending and then conversationally mentioned the government-subsidized loans that have fueled his business, Moynihan claps his hands inapplause.

Point made. As the car arrives at Millard South, Moynihan turns to his friend and asks about his audience. Gifted students, Kerrey says. "WELL THEN, we shall treat them as adults," Moynihan says. And so he takes them on a journey through the 20th century, a century dominated by war and totalitarianism and blood.

His is an intellect at full throttle. He darts across the decades, bringing context to a century. And where have we come? "How many of you expect to be in the armed forces within the next four years? Raise your hands," Moynihan says to these 16- and 17-year-olds. No hands move, That's where we have come. For now.

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a Democrat and the first Wack woman to run for mayor of Omaha, said she has tried to bridge racial, demographic, political, economic and geographic boundaries to find- solutions to community-wide problems." this candidacy, we can demonstrate that we can come together as a community and address anyprobtem areashat we have and. tb establish and chart our future," Council said Thursday. Former U.S. Rep. Hal Daub, and City Council members Subty Anzaldo and Richard Takechi OGALLALA (AP) Area law enforcement officials are preparing for the year's last three-day holiday weekend at Lake McConaughy, where a miniriot broke out during the Fourth of July weekend.

A future ban on alcohol, authorities said, may help solve problems at the lake north of Ogallala. Roger Knowlton, Nebraska Game and Parks Department superintendent at McConaughy, said Thursday he has talked with other parks about prnhlpim and solution 1 "I've called everywhere Fort Lauderdale, parks In Arizona, all over and the onlv people who seem to have gotten a hold on their problems restrict alcohol," Knowlton said. Lt. Steve Evans of the Nebraska State Patrol agreed. "Colorado parks don't permit alcohol; other Nebraska parks don't," he said.

"All we're doing is baby-sitting a bunch of partlers. Our problems stem MASTERS NIGHTl Kerrey, Stoney release opinion polls The contest between Sen. Bob Kerrey and Republican senatorial nominee Jan Stoney has entered the stage dueling polls. i Kerrey's campaign released figures Friday from a poll commissioned by Gov. Ben Nelson's campaign that showed the senator leading Sjtoney by 19 points.

Agency receives approval to build landfill Bats. EmergingFrom The Dark October 1st At Folsom Children's Zoo October 1 October 25 ......10 AM 8 PM October 26 October 30... ........10 AM PM October 31 December 3 --10 AM 5 PM Folsom Children's Zoo 27th CHADRON (AP) The Solid Waste Agency of Northwest Nebraska has received temporary state approval to build and Operate a regional landfill for three counties and nine communities north of Chadron. Agency Director David Porter said Friday he expected approval of a regular permit by the state Department of Environmental Quality be- pole to appear at Stoney fund-raiser in Omaha Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, Dole will attend a fund-raiser for RKaa, will campaign for Republican Stoney Thursday night. He will Join senatorial nominee Jan Stoney in Stoney at a press conference at the Onaha next week.

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