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...Rather than ban "soft money" donations to political parties, Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel's rival campaign finance bill would restrict them to $60,000 in yearly donations. Hagel's bill would also triple to $3,000 the limit on individual hard-money contributions, and codify full-disclosure requirements on donations...
...considering what kind of legal proceeding should be taken against the Greeneville's skipper, Cdr. Scott Waddle. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, meanwhile, is mulling whether he should clamp down on the services' allowing civilians to ride on their war machines. But the reception I've gotten in Nebraska explains why the Navy wants to continue the practice...
...bond between Nebraska and the Trident named after it is one of the strongest any state has with a warship. Climb down into the USS Nebraska and you find it's filled with memorabilia from the state. University of Nebraska pennants and posters are tacked up everywhere. Glass cases display footballs from championship games the school has won. In the crew's mess hangs a wooden sign with "Cornhusker Cafe" carved on it. When a young crewman earns his dolphins pin, which he gets after serving an apprenticeship on the sub, he must sing the University of Nebraska fight song...
...There are three things Nebraskans are proud of, the submariners told me: the University of Nebraska football team, the corn the state grows, and this Trident submarine. I believe it. The state has a Big Red Sub Club that routinely flies Nebraska crewmen back to the state for parades and football games. When I was in Nebraska this weekend, I was given an honorary commission in the Nebraska Admirals Association, signed by Nebraska governor Mike Johanns, for writing a book on "their" sub. I was also named an honorary "commander" in the Big Red Sub Club...
...Nebraskans are eager to continue civilian visits to their sub. On March 21, Johanns boarded the USS Nebraska at the Kings Bay, Ga., Naval Submarine Base, along with 10 other prominent Cornhuskers: the presidents of the Nebraska Cattlemen's Association and Omaha Chamber of Commerce, a radio personality, a handful of industry leaders, and the coach of the University of Nebraska women's volleyball team, who presented the crew with a volleyball signed by the players (who had just won the NCAA championship...