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A 1 4 Star-Tr thi me, Casper, Wyo. Saturday, July 14, 1984 China Economy Mondale Report says death squad killings drop in Salvador Continued from At vice president, the president told a group of GOP women that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was chosen as the head of that country's Conservative Party "not because she was a woman but because she was the best person for the job. "There was no tokenism or cycnical symbolism in what they did," he added. "She became leader of her party and prime minister of Great Britain because she was judged by her peers to be a superior leader. And that is how the first Republican woman president will do it," he said.

Ferraro, facing reporters for the first time since her selection was announced, was asked how she reconciles her support of pro-abortion legislation with her Roman Catholic upbringing. "As a member of Congress, 1 can't dictate my religion. I wouldn't have an abortion if I were pregnant. It would be a child of love. If I were raped, I don't know how self-righteous 1 would be.

But the choice would be mine." The only negative note during their visit was a handful of anti-abortion pickets outside the house and in front of the church where Mondale and Ferarro held their WASHINGTON (AP) The Reagan administration Friday reported a significant decline in the political murders by right-wing death squads in El Salvador, but said "much remains to be done" to stem the killings. The State Department report to Congress said the murders occurred at an average rate of 93 per month for the first five months of the year, compared to 140 per month for all of 1983. It called that a "positive downward trend," but said "strong efforts" are needed for further improvement. The department cited with approval steps taken by the Salvadoran government before and after the inauguration of President Jose Napoleon Duarte on June 1, including Duarte's decision to disband the 110-member intelligence unit of the country's Treasury Police. The report said the unit was "considered by many an enclave of deatji squad plotting." It also cited decisions to transfer certain key officers believed linked to the death squads to posts abroad.

"Clearly, much remains to be done, but these steps demonstrated a renewed determination on the part of the Salvadoran authorities to deal with the death squad specter," the report said. It said that while Salvadoran authorities generally cannot establish evidence which would stand up in court to link the suspected individuals to political violence, their removal coincides "with a perceptible decline in terrorist actions for which death squads have claimed responsibility or which can be reasonably attributed to them." The report said that while 93 political murders a month remains far too high, there is cause for optimism in the fact that they were averaging more than 800 a month when the U.S. Embassy in San Salvador first been compiling monthly totals from local press reports. Continued from Al propaganda effect. The reports of border clashes have been circulated since early April, which is far longer than the duration reported in previous years.

The tensions in the past coincided with Vietnam's spring offensive against Chinese-backed guerrillas in Cambodia and tapered off as the fighting there wound down. Members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations reportedly told the United States and other "partner" nations at a meet-ing in Indonesia Thursday that the anti-Vietnamese coalition in Cambodia was "working very well" and causing serious military problems for Hanoi. Foreign journalists taken on a tour of the Guangxi Zhuang region of China last July found the Chinese-Vietnamese frontier unexpectedly quiet. Liberation Army Daily, which is read in the Chinese armed forces, contended Friday, that hostilities were continuing. If the Vietnamese provoked border incidents, the newspaper said, "we can do nothing but hit them back in self-defense and fight to the finish." It urged China's frontier guards, who operate as light infantrymen with artillery support, to defend every inch of Chinese territory and hit back hard at Vietnamese attackers.

Liberation Army Daily is not permitted reading for foreigners, but the New China News Agency took the unusual step of circulating extracts of the article to give it greater authority. Continued from A 1 would cause it to overheat and lead to the high inflation rates of just few years ago. In theory, a moderation in growth should ease pressures on inflation and interest rates, maintaining the expansion longer. "I don't know why everybody is worried about inflation," said Donald Ratajczak, forecaster at Georgia State University. Indeed, the Labor Department's report on the Producer Price Index for finished goods showed no inflation in the April-June period.

Not since the first quarter of 1983 had wholesale prices refused to budge when calculated over a full calendar quarter, said department economist Craig Howell. Food prices fell a seasonally adjusted 0.6 percent, the third straight monthly decline. Gasoline prices were off 0.7 percent, an unusual drop at the start of the summer driving season and attributed to the plentiful supplies worldwide of petroleum. Over the last 12 months, wholesale prices rose just 2.2 percent. Analysts had been expecting prices to rise 4.S percent to 5 percent for the entire year, but some say they're now lowering their forecasts to a range of 2.S percent to 3.5 percent.

Wholesale prices advanced 0.6 percent last year, the best showing in two decades. Pointing toward a moderation in economic growth, the Commerce Department reported that retail sales in June grew 0.8 percent to a seasonally adjusted $109 billion: GEORGE BUSH Willing to debate Ferraro news conference. Asked about a CBS-New York Times poll that found many people think he was pressured into picking a woman, Mondale said: "If there was anything, the pressure was on the other side, I'm very very comfortable with" the choice. The CBS-New York Times poll said 60 percent of the 747 registered voters surveyed Thursday believe that Mondale chose Ferraro as his running mate because of pressure from women's groups. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus four percentage points.

Munker files another appeal with court in Hopkinson case Suspect Filings Continued from Al 17-year-old girl occurred June 28, Sanders said. Three of the women involved were able to give the police "pretty positive" descriptions of their assailants, Sanders said. During a neighborhood search following the fourth assault, a police officer interviewed and arrested Rhodes at a construction site near the crime scene, Sanders said. Rhodes' initial court appearance was last week, and Sanders said bond was set at $240,000. Casper is only one of "10 or 15" places Rhodes told Florida police he had lived, Sanders said.

"There must be 30 or so states he traveled through," the sergeant added. St. Petersburg police officers are attempting to contact law enforcement agencies in those areas, Sanders said. times, but Munker maintains that certain aspects of the case have never been considered. The appeal said the review of the grand jury evidence was necessary "to determine if the grand jury witnesses offered perjured testimony, were intimidated in giving false testimony or offered testimony negating guilt." It said the testimony was also necessary "to review the prosecution's allegation that unnamed co-conspirators that killed Green would be brought to justice." "Failure to indict the unknown killers amountstto failure of proof linking Hopkinsqn to those parties responsible for Green's death," the court document said.

Ranck denied the request May 30, saying Hopkinson's case has already had its days in court. The defendant was tried twicYand the case reviewed three times by the Wyoming Supreme Court, he pointed out. "At some point, this case must come to an end," he wrote. CHEYENNE (AP) The attorney for Wyoming death row inmate Mark Hopkinson has Hied yet another appeal of the case with the Wyoming Supreme Court, saying that testimony from a Uinta County grand jury investigation is essential to his client's defense. The appeal, filed Friday, asks the state's high court to overturn District Judge Robert Ranck's ruling, which denied attorney Leonard Munker and Hopkinson access to the grand jury evidence.

In the appeal, Munker argued that the grand jury testimony was necessary to defend against allegations of conspiracy and evidence linking Hopkinson to the killers of Jeffrey Green, who have never been found. Hopkinson was convicted in 1979 of ordering the murders of three members of the Vincent Vehar family and the torture slaying of Green, a potential witness against him. He was sentenced to die for arranging Green's murder. His conviction and sentence have withstood court review three UP Continued from Al constitutional." Another veteran legislator who will attempt a comeback is former Fremont County Rep. Frank Dusl.

The five-year representative, who lost a bitterly-fought Senate race to Sen. John Vinich in 1982, will attempt to gain the Senate position vacated by the late Sen. Roy Peck. Other House incumbents include Republican Bill Mcllvain of Laramie County, who may be the next House Majority Floor Leader. Former state Reps.

Ellen Crowley and Cynthia Lummis, both Laramie County Republicans, have also filed to run for House seats. Non-incumbents who filed for the House Friday included Republicans Charles Yates of Sweetwater County, Rod Everett of Teton County, Kathleen Sun of Carbon County, "Goody" Goodell, April Kunz and Stephen Genz of Laramie County. Non-incumbent Democrats filing Friday for House seats were Cornelius Kelly of Sublette County, Vern Ganwish of Natrona County, Jeraldine Jasperson and Tom McGuire of Sweetwater County, Stanley Reeves of Lincoln County, Leo DeHerrera of Carbon, Phyllis Arnold and John Feeney of Albany County and Thomas Cahill, George Jensen, Peter Salas Pat Hall, James Albro, Peter Laybourn and Daniel White, all of Laramie County. Non-incumbents who filed for Senate positions were Democrats Marguerite Nelson of Albany County, Kay Wia'nd of Goshen-Niobrara and Olive White of The only non-incumbent Republican who filed for election to the Senate was Joe Brown of Big Horn. Continued from Al But the PSC claimed the denial was partly because did not document its services for Wyoming customers.

The PSC also ruled that Wyoming's sparse population did not justify another major telephone competitor. Bouffard said the PSC's justification in denying instate long-distance service is contrary to Wyoming state law, which requires a utility to show a need before statewide certification is granted. believes competition is permitted within the state of Wyoming and for the commission to say that we must prove a need in a competitive environment goes against the whole competitive philosophy," he said. "A company does not show its hand as to the new kinds of services it wishes to provide a particular location or state, and show it to its competitors," Bouffard said. technology, he said, could benefit Wyoming consumers and would not have encroached on Mountain Bell's operating area within the state.

"We wanted Wyoming to be a pilot state and try out new programs that would benefit the rural customer as well as the urban customer," he said. "We had no intentions of duplicating services that Mountain Bell currently has in the state." He said the company is unsure which appeal process it will pursue. may request a rehearing, refile the application or appeal the decision to the Wyoming Supreme Court. A Mountain Bell spokesman said the company had no comment on the PSC decision until the company reviews the entire order. As part of the out-of-court settlement reached earlier this month, UP agreed to drop its plans to store wastes at the site and to instead ship them to an EPA-approved disposal facility.

The railroad also accepted an EPA demand that the ponds not be filled in. The last issue the depth of the excavation was resolved with the modified EPA order, Bromley In its first order, the agency said soil underlying the ponds should be removed until the level of contaminants was 10 percent of the level found in pond sediments. The new criterion is that the excavation must continue until the total concentration of oily waste in the soil is 47 percent or less, Bromley said. UP agreed to sample and chemically analyze the soil. The company's original plan called for "visual inspection" to be used to determine the extent of contamination.

With the pond controversy resolved, Bromley said the next step will be to plan the cleanup of the entire site. EPA officials have said that could include further excavation in the area of the ponds. "We should be well along in determining where we're going by August," he said. Continued from Al groundwater have been contaminated with poisonous and cancer-causing chemicals. Some of the chemicals have also been found in the Laramie River, which flows along the west side of the plant.

Major points of disagreement between UP and the EPA had been how much soil should be excavated from below the ponds, whether the excavation should be filled in and what should be done with the excavated material. Before filing the lawsuit, UP agreed- with EPA modifications calling for discharge of treated pond water into the river, rather than into wells near the plant. The railroad will have to obtain a state permit before it can pump the water, which must meet state pollution standards, into the river. EPA originally approved UP's plan to heat the sludge in order to recover usable chemicals, but told the railroad it must do more extensive monitoring of emissions in order to prevent air pollution. UP agreed to the change.

Over 5,300 cubic yards of sludge will be taken from the ponds, Bromley said. Bromley said the recovered chemicals would be shipped to a UP tie plant in The Dajles, Oregon. Wastes from The Dalles had been shipped to the Laramie plant for disposal in the early 1980s. Nigeria asks Britain to recall ambasssador LONDON (AP) Nigeria has told Britain to recall its ambassador in another retaliatory move stemming from the attempt to kidnap a Nigerian politician living here and ship him home for trial, Lagos Radio reported Friday night. A Foreign Office spokesman here said Britain had "received an approach" from Lagos, the Nigerian capital, concerning Ambassador Hamilton Whyte and "the matter is being considered." He did not elaborate.

That account reflected a statement Thursday by Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe who said Nigeria's ambassador, Maj. Gen. Haldu Hananiya, was unwelcome and it would be "inappropriate" for him to return to London. Soviet troops train near border WASHINGTON (NYT) The West German defense minister said here on Friday that the, Soviet Union has 60,000 troops training near the border between East and West Germany in new tactics designed for a swift, deep strike into West German territory. But the minister, Manfred Woerner, said that the maneuvers posed no immediate danger and that the North' Atlantic Treaty Organization had not raised the alert level of its forces.

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