Copyright 2000 The Omaha World-Herald Company
Omaha
World-Herald
September 22, 2000, Friday SUNRISE EDITION
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 19;
LENGTH: 409 words
HEADLINE:
Bereuter: Farmers Back China Status
BYLINE: Leslie Reed
/2, Michael O'Connor
SOURCE: World-Herald Staff Writers
DATELINE: Lincoln
BODY:
NEBRASKA
Rep. Doug Bereuter, R-Neb., on Thursday said most farm
groups support his vote in favor of permanent normal trade
relations with China.
Bereuter's opponent, Democrat Alan Jacobsen, said
Wednesday that he would have not voted to give China such trade status because
of his concerns about the country's human-rights violations. Jacobsen also said
he doubts the change will open many new markets for farmers.
Bereuter
said he believes normal trade relations with China will "overwhelmingly benefit"
Nebraska agriculture.
He said the move is supported by all major farm
organizations except the Farmers Union, as well as a number of past and present
Cabinet officials and the governors of 48 states.
"All House members,
both Republicans and Democrats, from Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota and Kansas
voted for permanent normal trade relations with China,"
Bereuter said.
- Leslie Reed
UNL Dean Is Finalist In South
Carolina
Lincoln - Will Norton, journalism dean at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, is one of three finalists for a similar post at the University
of South Carolina in Columbia.
Norton, who has been journalism dean at
UNL since 1990, could not be reached for comment Thursday.
In the coming
weeks, the finalists will visit South Carolina. John M. Palms, president of the
university, said he hopes to name a journalism dean this fall.
- Michael
O'Connor
Chip Maxwell Will Be On District 9 Ballot
Lincoln -
Legislative District 9 will have a two-man race after all.
The Secretary
of State's Office certified Chip Maxwell for the Nov. 7 ballot after determining
Maxwell had collected enough valid petition signatures to qualify.
Maxwell, who finished third in the May primary after Bob Kelly and Scott
Knudsen, gathered petition signatures to get on the ballot after Kelly withdrew
from the race. Although he needed only 680 signatures, Maxwell submitted 1,287
signatures Aug. 31 to the Secretary of State's Office.
Deputy Secretary
of State Neal Erickson said signature verifiers in the Douglas County Election
Office stopped counting after verifying 750 signatures.
Kelly, an
attorney who finished first in the primary election, dropped out of the race in
August, citing economic and family concerns.
Maxwell, development
director at two Catholic schools in Omaha, lost second place to Republican Scott
Knudsen by nine votes.
- Leslie Reed
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