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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6. The stars and stripes thursday May 15, 1986 Nebraska voters set the stage for their first woman governor Lincoln neb. A Nebraska guaranteed themselves heir first female governor while creating a i talc history by ensuring the first woman against wan Ian gubernatorial Campaign Ever in the United slates. Republican stale treasurer Kay Orr and former Lin Coln mayor Helen by Solis a Democrat and the first female mayor of a . City of More than 100,000, were picked tuesday from inc state s largest gubernatorial Pri Mary Sale Ever. We re creating a link history said Orr 47. It s an exciting  for us to make people aware of what Nebraska s All  Thiol has a Cir happened in the history of our country and t think that says something for nebraskans said Boosalis 66. ,.in other elections tuesday Kenneth Gibson the first Black mayor of a major northeastern Eity lost a bid for an unprecedented Firth term in Newark n a to coun Cilman Shn pc James also Black and a former Gibson supporter. In Atlantic cily n.j., mayor James l. Usry failed to win his firs full four year term and will face assemblywoman Dolores Cooper in a june 10 Runoff. In West Virginia . Rep. Harley. Staggers swept the democratic primary defeating Charles Wood a Coal Miner and Lyndon Laruche supporter who does t live in the District and former state rep. Do sheriff Given there were seven democrats and eight republicans on the no Braila gubernatorial primary ballot tuesday All vying to succeed gov Bob Kerrey a Democrat whose style and Long time relationship with actress Debra Winger kept Nib Raskins captivated  years. Kerrey did t seek re nomination. Both Orr and Boosalis grabbed Early leads tuesday and never trailed on the Way to victories that were easier and More substantial than newspaper polls or party regulars had predicted on the democratic Side with 1,837 of 1,910 precincts reporting Boscalia had Fil,92t votes or 44 percent com pared with Allavey David Domina of Norfolk with 37,053 or 26 percent and former state sen. Chris a Cutler with 30.sijor 22 percent. Trailing were state sen. Marge Liggins of Omaha Robert Prakop of Wilbur and min Dillingham of Omaha. Orr had 73.008 Voles or 40 percent of the Republican votes. Neil were Omaha attorney Kermit Brashear with 57,797 votes or 31 percent and Nancy Hoch of Nebraska City Slih 40,6s� or 22 percent. Trailing were Paul Rosberg of Waits a the Rev. Evyrell site Van of Louisville Monte Taylor of Omaha and Roger Yant and Chuck Loos of Lincoln. The two winners said issues Rattler than having two women involved would decide inc outcome of the novem Ber general election.  race is going to get a lot of Alle lion at first Blush but i Don t think that will be a sustained thing said Orr who was the first woman elected to statewide office in Nebraska in 1982, she had been appointed to fill a vacancy in 1981. I am proud Tor Nebraska and for my party much More so than personally she said. This election is about one thing Nebraska s future and which one of us candidates a the vision for that  said Boosalis who served two four year terms As Lincoln s mayor beginning in 1975. She also was chairwoman of the u a. Conference of mayors i will continue in the next five months to present my vision for our state on economic development on agriculture education and the role of Sale government she said. I believe that. The people of Nebraska Wilt under stand and agree with my vision and together we will make a difference for our  " Orr also promised an Issue oriented Campaign entered on the conservative philosophy that she endorsed As a parly worker for More than two decades and has espoused As a Public official. Investment banker accused of frying to Block Sec probe treed on Bond new Yor k a p an investment banker was freed on s5 million Bond tuesday one Day after being charged with obstruction of Justice in what the government has called the biggest insider trading Case Ever. Dennis Levine a managing director in inc mergers and acquisitions department Al Drc Xci Burnham Lambert inc., was arrested monday hours after Ibe securities and Exchange commission obtained a Federal court order Freez ing his assets and forbidding him from destroying or alter ing any documents. The Sec charged in its civil complaint Hal Levine earned at least is 2.6 million in illicit profits Between 1930 and 1985 by misusing confidential information he obtained in the course of his work the Sec complaint carried no threat of jail for Levine but he was arrested by Justice department officials when he appeared at the Manhattan . Attorney s office to accept a subpoena. The Justice department said in a separate criminal complaint that Levine schemed to alter and suppress documents and prepare a phony cover Story when he became aware of the Sec investigation into his trades last summer. Levine 33, spent the night in the metropolitan Correl ional Center before appearing before . Magistrate Kathleen Roberts on tuesday. Levine who reportedly earned ii million a year said nothing during the appear Ance and his lawyer Martin Flumenbaum also decline to comment on Iba charges Flumenbaum reached agreement with the prosecutor assistant is. Attorney Charles car Berry on terms of Levine s release. He was freed on a is million Bond secured by 100,000 Cash the shares to his Park Avenue apartment and the shares he owns in or excl. The value of the Coop and Drexel shares was not specified. The obstruction of Justice charges against Levine carry a maximum of 5 years in prison and a $250,000 Fine the Sec also said it would seek to Force Levine to forfeit any profits made by trading securities on which he had inside information. Levine s position in three Wall Street firms gave him Advance notice of numerous business combinations. Feder Al securities Taw which is designed to protect investors from being victimized by traders with Access to private information bans trading in stocks on the basis of corporate secrets ,.Levine bought shares and options of at least 54 Compa Nies that were about to become involved in buyout bids Slock buy backs and other developments Hal were Likely to cause Sharp movements in the Stock s Price the Sec said. Hie trades were allegedly transacted through an unidentified Bank in the Bahamas. The commission said Levine began the trading in May i960 when he worked at Smith Barney Harris Upham & co. And continued after moving in 1931 10 what b now a part of Lehman Brothers inc. And in 1985 to Drexel Burn Ham Lambert. Stateside making of president author Theodore White hospitalized new York a Theodore h. While inc pulitzer Priit winning author of the making of the president series has been hospitalized with a stroke since Friday a Friend said tuesday. He was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital where he was listed in guarded condition. He had a very serious stroke cerebral Haemorrhage and he s been unconscious Ever since said Richard Clur Man a writer and longtime Friend. While who celebrated his 71st birthday last week suffered the attack at his desk in Bis Manhattan Home late Friday afternoon according Loc Turman. His wife Beatrice found him Clurman said. He said White was writing a sequel to his 1978 Book in search of  White began this presidential series with the making of Ibe president i960," about the Kennedy Nixon Campaign. Abc Abc probing authenticity of pictures of chernobyl Plant new York a Abc and Abc said tuesday hey were investigating the authenticity of pictures hey broadcast that were said to show the chernobyl nuclear Plant soon after the nuclear Accident in that soviet cily. Both networks said they obtained the pictures which they broadcast monday from a yugoslav tourist. The networks said they began questioning inc pictures authenticity after an italian television network said the scene closely resembled an Industrial area of Trieste Italy. Abc and Abc said they purchased Iho photograph from he tourist who was not identified n Day after the. Nuclear disaster. On tuesday s broadcast of abcs nightly news Anchor Man Tom Brokaw narrated As the network broadcast a photo graph of Trieste that was shown on the italian network r Ai the italians pointed out How closely la resembles the other scene Brokaw said. Anchorman Peter Jennings on Abc s world news tonight said there was a question of whether the picture were really of chernobyl and added we and others May have been the victims of a scam radioactive iodine traces found in milk samples in Pennsylvania Harrisburg a up harmless races of radioactive iodine from the chernobyl nuclear Accident in inc soviet Union were found in milk samples from Harris Burg and Pittsburgh officials said tuesday. It is inc first milk contamination found in in state since the nuclear disaster the department of environmental resources said. The milk is Safe to drink department spokesman David Mashock said. These Are considered very Low level and we do not to have to take action to say not to drink  the samples were taken from trucks before the milk entered dairies Mashock said. 1 killed when pickup truck crashes into greyhound bus Orlando Fla. A _ a pickup truck slammed head on into a greyhound bus tuesday killing one person in the. Truck and injuring at least 20 aboard the bus police Aid. The pickup was headed West on interstate 4 about 7 , when it veered across the median and into eastbound traffic said Orlando police sgt. Sam Ings. The bus careened off the Highway and Down an embankment onto an on ramp Ings said. Officials Al the greyhound terminal in Orlando refused to Are any information about the  said there were More than 20 people Hurt on the bus. The injured were taken to several hospitals. The name of the dead person was not released police said. Government not liable in fishermen s death court rules Boston a the government not Only does t create the weather it can t always be expected to forecast in accurately a Federal appeals court has ruled in throwing out a il.15 million award to the families of three lobster men. The 1st . Circuit court of appeals ruled tuesday that the National weather service could not be held liable for he deaths of the three fishermen who died in a no vember 1980 Hurricane in the Georges Bank . District judge Joseph l. Tauro had ruled in the families lawsuit that the government was responsible be cause the weather service had failed to repair a buoy broken most of the summer of 1980, used to forecast weather. Some weather service officials had feared that Tauro s ruling would mean thai forecasts would have to carry disclaimers saying the reports were prepared based on incomplete data to prevent similar suits. The government did not create the weather it merely failed in the lower court s opinion to Render adequate performance judge Bailey Aldrich wrote for the appeals court. A weather forecast is a classic example of a prediction of indeterminate reliability and a place peculiarly open to debatable decision including the desirable degree of in vestment of government funds and other resources the fishermen had left Hyannis on nov. 21, 1980 in to so foot lobster boats after a forecast of fair weather. 1i and a the encountered a storm with 80 Rop winds. One boat tse fair wind Sank and a wave pulled David Berry 20, of Marble Bead from behind the wheel of the sea fever. Gary Brown 25, of Manomet and William Garnos 30, of Beverly died in the sinking of die fair wind. Robert Thayer 22, of Hamilton presumed lost aboard the fair wind was not named in the suit. Aldrich wrote that weather predictions frequently fail and if even a Small percentage of the people who suffered As a result could sue successfully the financial Burden on Lue government would be unlimited and   
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