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Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania will lose two seats each. Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Montana, New Jersey and West Virginia will lose one seat each. Census continued on page 14A From News Services Washington, D.C. Political power will shift from the Northeast and Midwest to the Sun Belt states of the South and West, according to 1990 census figures released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

The official tally of 249,632,692 Americans will be used to reapportion seats in the House of Representatives in the 1992 congressional elections. In Minnesota, the census counted 4,387,029 people, up 7.6 percent since 1980. The state will keep its cans traveling in the two countries to depart "as soon as possible and well before Jan. 15," the deadline imposed by the U.N. Security Council for Iraq to withdraw its forces from Kuwait.

The action brings to eight the number of Mideast and North African nations from which Americans are being withdrawn. The Bush administration is trying to reduce the number of U.S. citizens who could become hostages, terrorist targets or victims of mob violence in the event of war with Iraq. In other developments, an Iraqi cargo ship carrying more than SO self-described pacifists and tons of food bound for Iraq was seized in the Arabian Sea after crew members tried to grab the weapons of a boarding party made up of U.S. and Aus- Gulf continued on page 10A From News Services Washington, D.C.

The State Department ordered the evacuation of nonessential U.S. personnel and dependents from Jordan and Sudan on Wednesday and urged other Americans to leave those nations amid heightened concern about possible terrorist attacks linked to the Persian Gulf crisis. The government encouraged Ameri Gorbachev's choice Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev chose as his vice president Gennady Yanayev, above, a Communist Party functionary. Page 4A. How's the weather? Not so hot realty i i i 1 -V- jijy jl iff I frw ill HI Lf i Minnesota Public Radio will buy WLOL-FM Pop music out; classical is in By Dan Oberdorfer Staff Writer In a rare takeover of a commercial radio station by a public network, Minnesota Public Radio announced Wednesday that it has agreed to buy WLOL-FM for $12 million, replacing the dance hits format with classical music programming.

The purchase will give MPR two FM stations in the Twin Cities: a classical station that provides clearer sound than is available now and a news station that reaches a wider territory than can MPR's current AM station. The sale will mean the end of WLOL Radio (99.5 FM), one of a few local radio stations aimed at a young, often teenaged, audience. The station, which also plays Minneapolis-generated pop music, features such on-air as Eleanor Mondale, John Hines and Mike Miller. Many of the station's 44 employees will lose their jobs as a result of the sale, according to Doyle Rose, president of the radio division of Emmis Broadcasting Corp. Many of the station's on-air personalities have contracts that continue through next spring.

Other employees are being offered severance packages that would provide 24 weeks of pay to 10-year employees. The sale is contingent on approval by the Federal Communications Commission. Officials of MPR and WLOL said yesterday that they are confident approval will be given early next year, perhaps as soon as February. MPR said it will pay for the acquisition with money from some of its for-profit operations, by initiating a special fund-raising drive next year and by selling its Twin Cities AM station, KNOW (1300) which concentrates on news. The 19-station network's normal operating budget WLOL-FM continued on page 13A Staff Photo by Richard Sennott With the Twin Cities temperature close to 20 below zero Wednesday morning, Kathy McClure of Minneapolis took time to explore the ice cave formed by a frozen Minnehaha Falls.

Arctic nights, calm air combine to bring sub-zero cold Because the Earth's Northern does it descend like a Siberian are warming up are among Cars stolen while their engines cold spell. Page 1B. the woes of Minnesota current By Jim Dawson Staff Writer Don't think of it as cold outside, think of it as "not hot," because it's the absence of heat in the Arctic during the winter that brings subzero weather to Minnesota. nightmare on Minnesota almost every winter? Two reasons, said Bruce Watson, a private meteorologist in the Twin Cities: the long winter night in the Arctic and calm air. Hemisphere is tilted away from the sun during the winter, it is perpetually dark in the Arctic.

No solar energy which generates heat is added to the Arctic; and, because of the long night, the heat Cold continued on page 14A Sunday, driving temperatures back down well below zero. Why does the air, even over the North Pole, get so cold and why And while more normal weather in the teens and 20s is expected to return for the next few days, the "not hot" Arctic air will probably be back by late Saturday or early Almanac Minnesota outpaces U.S. A peaceful death ends fight over Nancy Cruzan in manufacturing growth Thursday, December 27, 1990 361 st day; 4 to go this year Sunrise: 7:50. Sunset: 4:38 Breezy and warmer under a partly cloudy sky. A high from 15 to 20 above zero.

Legislators favor GMC funding cut A Star Tribune survey of legislators shows strong sentiment for reduced funding for the Greater Minnesota Corporation, an economic development agency for rural Minnesota. About half of the lawmakers who responded to the survey said they favor cutting GMC revenues, which come from the state lottery and total about $14 million annually. Page 1B. 4B Sec. Obituaries Comics ents' request.

The Cruzans had said that their daughter, who was in an irreversible vegetative state after an automobile accident, would not want to continue living. "She remained peaceful throughout and showed no sign of discomfort or Cruzan continued pn page 14A ESec. TV, Radio ESec. 42,000 manufacturing jobs between 1977 and 1987 a 13 percent increase at a time when manufacturing employment was shrinking in the United States, according to the sixth annual Economic Report to the Governor. And between 1987 and 1990 Minnesota businesses added 28,000 new Jobs continued on page 12A Movies By Dave Hage and Susan E.

Peterson Staff Writers Despite its reputation as a high-cost state, Minnesota has outpaced the nation in creation of manufacturing jobs since the 1970s and actually increased its share of the nation's factory output, according to a state report released Wednesday. Minnesota firms created more than From News Services Mount Vernon, Mo. Nancy Cruzan, 33, died Wednesday, her parents by her side and euthanasia foes camped outside the hospital. Her death at the Missouri Rehabilitation Center came 12 days after a feeding tube implanted in her stomach nearly eight years ago was removed under court order at her par- 2A Complete Index 673-4343 Circulation Copyright 1 990 Star Tribune Volume IXNumber 267 7 sections.