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ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL T1 I -4. Daily 50 Made in USA Friday Morning, February 4 1994 Copyright0 1994, Journal Publishing Co. 1 14th Year, No. 35 100 Pages In 8 Sections Ends Vietaaiii Ban Clinton Demands MIA Data, Says 'Nothing Is Irreversible' 1 ilium I VT vide information on missing servicemen, to provide assistance to U.S. tourists and businessmen in Vietnam and to discuss human-rights concerns with the Vietnamese.

Vietnam will open a liaison office in Washington, something Hanoi has sought as a gesture of reciprocity for the stationing of U.S. diplomats in Hanoi. MORE: See U.S. on PAGE A5 in action and argue that lifting the trade embargo would remove needed pressure. The lifting of the trade embargo with Vietnam allows U.S.

companies to participate fully in a fast-growing new market and allows American citizens to travel and work freely in the country where the nation fought its longest war. The United States will open a "liaison" office in Hanoi to help pro offers the best way to resolve the fate of those who remain missing and about whom we are not sure," he said in a White House ceremony where he was joined by several senators who served in Vietnam and supported lifting the embargo. Clinton's action goes against the wishes of veterans groups, who believe the Vietnamese have dragged their heels in providing information about soldiers missing By Ruth Marcus And Thomas W. Lippman THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON President Clinton on Thursday lifted the 19-year-old trade embargo against Vietnam, saying a thaw in relations between the two former enemies is "the best way" to ensure progress in resolving the fate of missing servicemen. "I am absolutely convinced it I THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Vietnam War veteran Clarence Stokes views a collage of war Snapshots Thursday at a Pennsylvania counseling center.

Baca Resigns BLM Post I A S. -I- V7 ed. "It wasn't an option." So Baca reached into his jacket pocket and handed the interior secretary a neatly folded piece of paper contain- DARON BENNETT JOURNAL ing a aran puo- Baca. Says he Ex-Director Blames Land-Reform Foes By Richard Parker JOURNAL WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON Bureau of Land Management Director Jim Baca resigned Thursday, saying he believed he had been offered up as a political sacrifice to opponents of grazing reforms. Baca met briefly with Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt on Thursday afternoon.

After rejecting reassignment within the department last week, Baca said he asked Babbitt on Thursday if he could stay on as BLM director "with full authority." Babbitt remained silent, Baca said in an interview with the Journal. "He said nothing," Baca recount- Trena Richardson, left, and her mother, Shirley Lyon, feel a bit safer now that Trena's husband, Paul Daniel Richardson, has been captured. But Thursday afternoon they said he may still seek revenge against them through fellow members of a White supremacy group. 'I Think He Was Going To Kill Me' wihh uu offered as his resignation, aerifies WhUe Baca a sacrmce declined to criticize Babbitt directly for the weeklong controversy about his future, he did say he was offered reassignment to placate critics of public lands reforms, especially the governors of Idaho and Wyoming. "I think that's what happened," said Baca, a former New Mexico MORE: See BACA on PAGE A2 i Tempers Run High Over Baca Ouster Richardson's Wife Fears Retaliation By Donna Olmstead JOURNAL STAFF WRITER WINSLOW Before the FBI nabbed Paul Daniel Richardson WHncHji nftprnfvwi hp was rnm- "Governor King clearly could have done a lot to help Jim Baca stay at BLM, and it's clear he was not supportive of Baca, and it's also clear Babbitt caved in to the sentiments of politicians," said Jim Norton, Southwest director for the Wilderness Society.

Baca sat on that organization's board of directors before taking the BLM job. King spokesman John McKean denied his boss had any role in Baca's leaving, and Lindrith rancher Bill Humphries said ranchers weren't responsible for it, either. "Nobody's gloating about a fellow New Mexican having a hard time. I MORE: See TEMPERS on PAGE A2 Environmentalists Ready To Circle the Wagons By Rene Kimball JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Environmentalists on Thursday declared a new range war after the resignation of ally Jim Baca as head of the Bureau of Land Management, blasting Clinton administration officials for what they call a forced ouster. They blamed Western politicians, including New Mexico Gov.

Bruce King, and livestock industry leaders for pushing Baca out, and derided Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt for a political betrayal. ing back in a stolen camper for Francla: His Trena his wife of less than a burned car month armed with a homemade found Jan. 1 3 spear. That's what Trena Richardson and her parents said in a Thursday interview at their ranch 20 miles south of Winslow. A helicopter spotted Richardson Wednesday afternoon less than a mile from the ranch before the FBI and local law enforcement arrested him.

"I think he was going to kill me," said Trena, 21. Her father, Frank Lyon, said he heard the helicopter and talked to FBI agents who stopped by his ranch before and after Richardson was arrested. MORE: See 1 THINK on PAGE A7 1 JJ 1L DARON BENNETTJOURNAL FBI agents accompany Paul Daniel Richardson into the federal courthouse In Flagstaff on Thursday for his appearance before a federal magistrate. N.M. Native To Head T-VI Bandits Swipe Family's Trust Three Robberies Bring Crime Home to City Mom, Daughters By Phill Casaus and Ramon Dovalina.

The decision touched off immediate criticism from people who said they thought a board majority had their minds made up from the beginning and the lengthy selection nearly two hours in a closed session to discuss the candidates. Voting for Sanchez, a former vice president of the University of New Mexico, were board members Maureen Luna, Dan McKinnon, Bob Matteucci and Dave Cargo. Board Chairman Wray Simmons and members Bruce Caird and Pat Chapman voted for Spencer, who is president of Cedar Valley College in Lancaster, Texas. Dovalina, vice president of Austin Community College, received no votes. Long Selection Process A Sham, Critics Say By Art Geiselman JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Alex A.

Sanchez, a New Mexico native who said he wanted to return home, was narrowly voted in Thursday as the president of Albuquerque's Technical-Vocational Institute. The T-VI Governing Board voted 4-3 with no discussion to give Sanchez the job over the other finalists, Texas educators Carol Spencer JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Sanchez: Beat out Texas process was a sham. The public vote came at a special meeting after the board met for MORE: See N.M. on PAGE A5 3 FRIDAYC The saddest and strangest letter Janet Volzer has ever written went something like this: "You'll never guess what's happened. In the last two months, our 21-year-old daughter Tracy was robbed at gunpoint while working at a local clothing store.

A few weeks later, another daughter, Chris, was held up by a bank robber while she worked as a teller. "P.S. And yesterday, I was held up at my job, tool" The indiscriminate reality of crime in Albuquerque has hit home in a frightening way to the Volzers an average, neighbors-down-the-street kind of family who've seen three of their own victimized by criminals who ripped off not only money, but something more valuable. They took a gold nugget called trust. "I guess," says Janet Volzer sadly, "this is the world we live in." D1 B2 METROPLITAN B2 DEAR ABBY BRIDGE Good Morning Former BLM chief Jim Baca says he was dismissed as a gesture to Western governors opposed to grazing reforms.

Bet he has a gesture he'd like to return to some of them. Weather Mostly cloudly with a chance of showers today. High near 43. Low near 30. D13.

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