University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, September 4, 1991
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Seven states are in legal battle about Missouri River water
The Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. — Legal officials from four states along the Missouri River are gathering ammunition for the continuing battle over the river's water.
The attorneys general from Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri heard testimony yesterday in Omaha from people in their states who are affected by lower river water levels. The officials also planned to tour parts of the river by boat before hearing more testimony at the all-day hearing.
The four states are working together to fight a lawsuit filed by three states located upstream These states, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota, want the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to keep more water in upstream reservoirs for recreational uses.
The downstream states say that lower water levels will be felt as far as the Mississippi River. They say that the important interest must also be considered.
*Our purposes here today is simply to send out the following message: When the federal government built the
six dams between Fort Peck, Mont., and Sioux City, Iowa, its intention was not to subsidize the tourist industries of the northern river or downstream states," said William L. Webster, Missouri attorney general.
"The purpose of the Missouri River Project was flood control for the nation's breadbasket, irrigation, drinking water and cheap hydroelectric power for the entire region."
Bob Stephan, Kansas attorney general, said, "It boils down to an issue of fairness, fairness in the distribution of water."
water. Jim Brown, water coordinator for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, said as the river channel has narrowed, the water flows faster and the channel is cut deeper.
He compared fish trying to spawn in that kind of water to "a homeless family trying to raise a family on the free-way." All four downstream states have been forced to abandon fishing for catfish, he said.
Brown said the lower water levels have also had an adverse effect on wetlands and oxbow lakes along the river.
Iowa State Sen. Al Sturgeon of Sioux City delivered an impassioned speech he wrote on Labor Day while sitting along the Missouri River. He said environmental concerns need be put near the top of the list when considering the river.
He lamented what he called the planned annihilation of the Missouri
Bryce Neidig, president of the Nebraska Farm Bureau, told the legal officials that if lower water levels reduce navigation, "I have no doubt that it would have a definite adverse impact on farmers across Nebraska."
Although very little Nebraska grain is transported on the Missouri, "the repercussions of lower prices being bid at the Missouri River elevator would be felt throughout the whole grain trade," he said.
10m Wurtz of Omaha's Metropolitan Utilities District said Nebraska's largest city gets about half its water from the Missouri.
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Lower water levels would necessitate a search for new water sources,
he said.
"We strongly support the work you'redoing, and we'll help in any way we can," he said.
Camera turns two lives upside down
Florida couple taped while having sex endures charges, loss of jobs
The Associated Press
TAMPA, Fla. — In the month since a couple was videotaped having sex in their condomium, they have lost their jobs, moved into seclusion and are fighting charges that they made a habit of public nudity and intercourse.
"All we want is to get back to our lives," Alfred Stephens, accompanied by Janet Paddock, said in an interview Thursday. "We'regetting tired of the attempts to drag us through the mud."
Their experience began last month when a neighbor stood outside a ground-floor window of the condominium and used a zoom lens to capture the couple having sex in their bathroom.
After police saw the tape, they arrested the pair on felony charges of lewd and lascivious conduct in front of a child. Several youngsters could see into the bathroom from a nearby pool area.
But prosecutors dropped the
felonies last week, deciding instead to file misdemeanor disorderly conduct charges for three separate incidents that had nothing to do with the taping.
They now are accused of swimming in the condominium's pool with Padlock partially nude, having sex in the hot tub and entering a ladies rest room together at a bar with the intent of having sex.
"We're innocent. None of it it's true," said Stephens, who charged prosecutors with trumping up the later charges to avoid the sticky privacy issues surrounding the videotape.
"What are we guilty of? We're guilty of swimming in the swimming pool. We're guilty of making love in our own home, and we're guilty of being in a Jacuzzi. If you want to hang us out to dry for that, more power to you."
They said they were both clothed during their 4 a.m. swim in the pool, were clothed while they hugged and kissed in the hot tub, and went into the ladies room only to talk.
Lead prosecutor Hank Lavandera said last week that the charges suited the crimes because they generally defined "behaving like a jerk in public."
Soon after the arrest, Stephens, 36, was thrown out of the condo and lost his job as a car salesman. Paddock, 32, was asked to leave her job as a barmaid. They now live together and have started appearing on television talk and tabloid shows to answer the charges against them.
The neighbor who made the video, Lee Adler, said he had been swamped with cash offers from such programs as "A Current Affair" and "The Oprah Winfrey Show" for the tape.
The lone bright spot for Stephens and Paddock, who met on a blind date three months ago, is that they now plan towed.
"In some ways all this has helped bring us closer together," Stephens said. "We realized we love each other very much."
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