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Bismarck passengers scramble offer Frontier collapses FftONTIGn AIRLINE Frontier, and United Airlines; which wants to buy Frontier. In the meantime, Bismarck-area Frontier ticket-holders are Frontier went broke (3A) Los-Angeles based Western has two daily western flights out of Bismarck. It is honoring Frontier tickets but only on a standby basis. Northwest Orient and Republic and Frontier aren't, so passengers have to buy tickets to travel. "People know about the shutdown now and are pretty good about it," said one agent (More on FROSTIER, PageSA) Tribune this morning.

Two Bismarck travel agents said today Winnipeg-bound passengers are best off flying Northwest to Minneapolis for a connecting flight to the Manitoba capital. Passengers for Denver are also being advised to take a connecting flight from the Twin Cities or to take Western's flight to Denver, via Salt Lake City. "The prices seem a little bit better with Northwest (compared with Western)," one agent said. Not everything is up in the air, as westward-bound Bismarck passengers scrambled today to deal with the shutdown of Frontier Airlines. Frontier had three daily flights to and from Denver to Bismarck before the Denver-based airline went broke and suspended operations early Sunday.

The company's fate apparently will be determined by the outcome of talks between People's Express, which owns Tq cvSJ making the best of existing Western Airlines, Republic Airlines and Northwest Orient flights, ticket agents and employees of the Bismarck Municipal Airport told The 1 113, No. 237 BismarckMandan, imi fcDI if da 1 1 1 I Newsstand price 35 cents N.D. Home delivery 29 cents ft (-17 Monday, August 25, 1986 Vol. (Jdi chT yar Volcoiraic take toxoc MS Ciinnieiroini 2,000 Somebody added a sarcastic footnote in red ink. Pefrolear gives up marketing contract Ag deputy reveals original potato papers map IdetailI NIGERIA their lives," Mokassa said.

A Western diplomatic source in Yaounde said of the government radio report: "The situation isn't clear. Rather than go with the higher figure, get people upset, clog the roads, they stay conservative." Ngango said villagers from a wide area were being evacuated and others were fleeing, and that rescue workers were wearing gas masks. The issue of hydrogen sulfide a flammable, colorless gas which smells like rotten eggs from Wum fl 0 YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) At least 2,000 people were killed by toxic gas seeping from a volcanic lake in northwest Cameroon, and the military moved into the remote area to evacuate survivors, the government said today. There was no word on the number of injured. A 17-member Israeli army medical team arrived in this West African nation today as part of international relief efforts the Cameroon government said would also involve the United States, Britain and France.

"As far as we know, volcanic activity is still going on," medical team leader Dr. Michael Weiner told reporters on the plane from Israel, which was carrying Prime Minister Shimon Peres for a state visit. There has been no official government report of volcanic activity. The Cameroon military took charge of rescue and relief operations in the disaster area. Cameroon Information Minister Georges Ngango told reporters militarv authorities filed a preliminary report of at least 2,000 dead.

But as of this afternoon, the government radio was still reporting that 40 people had died from the fumes. That was the figure provided by the government when it reported the disaster on Sunday. Joseph Mokassa, an aide to the provincial governor in Bamenda, capital of the stricken province, said by telephone he had seen many dead, but did not have precise figures. "I went there on Saturday and it was such a frightful sight because so many people had lost INSIDE North Dakota Page IB Classified Ads Comics 7B Entertainment 7A Markets oA Nubs 9A Obituaries "A Sports 26 OUTSIDE Mostly cloudy tonight with a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Low in the low 50s.

Wind northeast 5 to 15 mph. Partly cloudy and cool Tuesday with isolated morning showers. High around 70. Details on Page 8A. 1 By CASEY LAKE of Tlie Tribune toes sold to Honduras.

If no more North Dakota seed potatoes are sold to Honduras, Petrolear will get no more money from the state, he said. Messner blamed "a boo-boo down at the bank here" for the premature application of $260,000 of the $300,000 first-year contract to Petrolear's credit line and for Amex's attempt to cash in on the .55 million contract. Meanwhile in Bismarck, Deputy Agriculture Commissioner Laurie McMurty returned from a bean vacation today and produced copies of the original potato contracts between Honduras and the Agriculture Department. Spaeth questioned the existence of those contracts last week. He claimed Jones only had management contracts with Petrolear, and those contracts called for unconditional payments.

Spaeth, who was unavailable for comment today, based that assertion on an Aug. 13 telex to a Miami bank official that said: "Herb Thorndal, president of the Bank of North Dakota, executed acceptance dated Aug. 4, 1986, payable to Petrolear Holdings, Miami, Fl. in the amount of 1,550,000 million dollars. This acceptance is irrevocable and is payable in annual installments of U.S.

dollars, 310,000 each year commencing Aug. 3, 1987 for 5 yrs. and is not subject to any conditions. Best regards, Kent Jones, commissioner." Jones, however, said Friday he had never seen nor authorized that message. Today, McMurty acknowledged he sent the telex over Jones' name because "we did all of our communications in the name of (More on THORNDAL, Page 8A) U.S., Egypt defensive The Washington Post quoted a Pentagon official as saying the U.S.

and Egyptian vessels would steer clear of the Gulf of Sidra, which Libya claims as its territory but which the United States considers international waters. The embassy spokesman said that "it is credible that the purpose of the exercise is to train both sides in real-life battle situations and defense for possible attack from the sea." Pentagon sources in Washington said the exercise was classified secret at Egypt's request. Sources confirmed the exercise after Libya's deputy leader, Staff Maj. Abdel-Salaam Jalloud, urged Egyptians to attack U.S. servicemen participating in it.

JANA called the exercises part of a terrorist plot aimed at world domination by America. In a dispatch today, the agency said Assad was accompanied on his Libyan visit by Vice President Abdul-Halim Khaddam, and other Syrian officials. Assad, Moscow's main Arab ally, and Gadhafi are allies of Iran In Iran's nearly 6-year-old war against Iraq. Assad said his visit was part of "continuing contacts to coordinate a more effective policy against imperialism." region Sunday and declared it a disaster area, the communique said. The Cameroon government called for international aid to cope with the disaster and said the United States and Britain agreed to supply logistical support for evacuation of villagers and "appropriate types of equipment." France offered unspecified help.

Foreign technicians and equipment were expected to "get into effective rescue operations" by today, Sunday's communique said. Weiner said the Israeli team would try to set up a base outside the contaminated area and treat casualties as they were brought out. Peres, interviewed during the nine-hour trip from Israel, said that when he offered to bring a medical team and supplies, Biya "was very excited and appreciative." The back of the plane was filled with bottles of oxygen and boxes of medical equipment. Peres was expected to announce a resumption of diplomatic relations between the countries during his four-day state visit to this tropical country. In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Anita Stockman said Sunday, "We are prepared to provide assistance to the government of Cameroon based on what we've seen from press reports.

The Cameroon government will be assessing the damage, and at that point we'll know what the needs are." Cameroon is an oil-producing nation the size of California with natural gas reserves estimated at 3.5 trillion cubic feet. quire countywide law enforcement functions to be performed buy a city police department, I do not see the same problems should a city contract with a county for law enforcement services." The major drawback to such a plan, Seaworth said, is civil service protection for police officers. Deputy sheriffs are not covered Many smaller communities do contract with counties for law enforcement, Assistant Attorney General Terry Adkins said. Told of Spaeth's letter, Bismarck Mayor Marian Haakenson said the news was disappointing, but that the city and county should try to combine as many law enforcement functions as possible without actually combining the police and sheriff's departments. parenting performance," it said.

a i I. MntltAM mau Ana WOI MHg IIIUUICI 3 limj experience stress and strain in their marriage as a result of their dual roles, the researchers said. Mothers who were full-time homemakers "reported higher levels of satisfaction with spouse support In parenting compared to employed mothers." "Since It is less likely they (non-worklng mothers) would have to contend with role strain and role conflict, they would be expected to report higher satisfaction with parent performance and spouse support," they wrote. MILES Natural gas l-ack. CENTRAL AFRICAN Yaounde.

Lake Nios near Wum, about 200 miles northwest of Yaounde, the capital, was a "geological castastrophe," a government communique said Sunday. Hydrogen sulfide is often found in volcanic gases. It is often formed during the decay of animal matter. Lake Nios.lies in a volcanic crater. At least three villages were affected by the fumes, which began to emanate Friday, according to a communique read Sunday over state television.

President Paul Biya toured the sion meeting. Spaeth's letter is not a formal opinion. If Burleigh County were to adopt a county manager form of government, the manager could appoint police officers to carry out law enforcement functions in the county, in effect appointing the sheriff. Citing a 1982 opinion by then-Attorney General Allen I. Olson, Spaeth said that at present, Bismarck police officers working outside a 1.5-mile perimeter around the city limits of Bismarck would have to be deputized by the sheriff, who would have the authority to hire and fire such deputies without the approval of the county or city commissions.

Spaeth did say, however, that "although difficulties exist when a joint powers agreement would re from 38 states in the first, third and fifth grades. The researchers said the children of working mothers tended to have higher IQ scores, less school absenteeism, were more self-reliant and rated higher by their teachers on academic achievement. But working mothers, juggling the demands of parenthood and career, were more likely than their stay-at-home counterparts to worry about whether they were good mothers, the study said. Non-working mothers "expressed higher levels of satisfaction with their own 1 100 VCHAD Police can't supervise sheriff By MIKE DORS HER Tribune Staff Writer The head of Petrolear Holdings Ltd. said today he voluntarily returned the $1.55 million contract he signed with the state Department of Agriculture, but he still hopes to broker North Dakota seed potatoes to Honduras.

A spokesman for the state attorney general's office confirmed the contract arrived from Miami Saturday. Petrolear President William Messner said from his Miami office he plans to fly to Rismarck late with Agriculture Commissioner Kent Jones and, if possible, Attor- ney General Nicholas Spaeth. Messner said Spaeth's investi gation of Jones 1 jt of North Dakota mornaai. President Her- no comment bert Thorndal boils down to "a problem of semantics." "As far as I can tell, there has been no fault on the part of Mr. Jones, Mr.

Thorndal or the attorney general," Messner said. "I understand that the attorney general without all the evidence would be nervous about what's going on. Of course he's going to wonder about this outside company. But I think we just need to clarify the English." Messner said his company's contract with the state Agriculture Department is not a promissory note because it is fully conditional on Petrolear getting the seed pota- Maneuvering keep Libya on CAIRO, Egypt (AP) U.S. and Egyptian forces engaged in joint air and naval maneuvers in the Mediterranean today in the face of claims by neighboring Libya that the exercise is part of a U.S.-inspired "terrorist plot." A U.S.

Embassy spokesman said the five-day exercise began Sunday and included the carrier Forrestal and four other American warships. He declined to say how many Egyptian vessels or planes were taking part, and Egypt's Defense Ministry had no comment. The spokesman would not specify where the ships were except to say they "would not be considered near the Libyan coast." Syrian President Hafez Assad arrived In Libya on an unannounced visit Sunday night and vowed to fight alongside Libya if it is again attacked by the United States, Libya's official news agency said today. The state-run JANA agency, monitored in Nicosia, Cyprus, said Assad also declared that Washington's policies were hostile toward the Arab world. U.S.

planes bombed Tripoli and Benghazi, including Moammar Gadhafl's headquarters In the capital, on April 15 after the Reagan administration accused the Libyan leader of encouraging International terrorism. 1 1 1 4 -Jswi 1 $1 By TED QUANRUD Tribune Staff Writer Unless Burleigh County changes its form of government, the duties of Sheriff Bob Harvey cannot be transferred to the Bismarck Police Department. In a letter to Bismarck City Attorney Pat Seaworth, Attorney General Nicholas Spaeth said the state constitution "does not provide authority to divest the sheriff of statutory-mandated duties and responsibilities by use of a joint powers agreement absent adoption of an alternative form of government by a county." Spaeth's letter came in response to Seaworth's request for information. Seaworth said today he had requested the information after the question arose in a City Commis Washington over the weekend. "All significant differences in social and academic criteria favored children of employed mothers," they wrote.

The "traditional" American family with the father as sole breadwinner and the mother a full-time homemaker Is becoming a rarity, the researchers said. "By the year 1990, only 14 percent of the households In America will live in this family pattern," they wrote. The five-year study was based on data gathered by school psychologists on 573 students Kids of working moms batter off? WASHINGTON (API-Children of working mothers tend to do better In school, are absent for fewer days and have better communications skills, according to a nationwide study by four Ohio researchers. But women who don't have jobs outside the homes are more likely to be confident they are good mothers, and their children report better relationships with them, the study said. Overall, the child benefits when the mother works, said the researchers, who presented their findings to the American Psychological Association in.

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