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I If sports! Ci Games conclude i. I I fc I I VVEATHER Ovenveight camels A6 Mostly sunny -A2 TAT 5 XT 1" 1 AT 1 TORE EIGN I. NATIONAL Possible I POWnews A2 Tuesday. February 18, 1992 vvyuuiuig auuc.wiue iwwspautrr ruunucu in xovi vasper, Wyoming vetoes iredlisttiriclt plan Claims Legislature's plan demonstrates no 'clarity, consistency, rationality or fairness' AP Three federal judges, all from Wyoming, rejected as unconstitutional a redisricting plan the Legislature passed last session. That plan relied upon Wyoming's traditional method of setting up elec-Please see VETO, A12 Maps of vetoed plan, A5 cial session since Feb.

10, attempting to draw up a new redisricting plan ordered by a federal court last fall. Yeltsin, left, also asked Baker for more grain money Baiter promises Russia $25 million for scientists Senate cuts economic, arts funding Former EDS board no longer a priority By JOAN BARRON Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE Determined to cut state spending rather than raise taxes to pay for education, the Wyoming Senate Monday voted to eliminate all state funding from the budgets for economic development and the Wyoming Arts Council. Funding of nearly $4 million for the two Department of Commerce programs was contained in a budget bill, which comes up for second reading in the Senate today. Although the voice vote to cut state economic development program money appeared to demonstrate a strong majority, the elimination of all state money for the Wyoming Arts Council passed narrowly on a standing 17-13 head-count vote. Sen.

Jim Geringer, R-Platte, a co-chairman of the Joint Appropriations Committee, said that cutting the $640,000 in state funds for the Arts Council could jeopardize $960,000 in federal funds the council receives. Geringer and Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Campbell-Johnson, another JAC member, said they would have to research the impact on federal funding of the cut in state funding for the Economic and Community Development Division and report back to the Senate today. Sen. Boyd Eddins, R-Lincoln, made the motion to cut more than Please see BUDGET, A12 GOP leaders charge governor with 'hardball partisanship' Override attempt planned By CHARLES PELKEY Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE Gov.

Mike Sullivan on Monday vetoed a multi-member reapportionment plan approved last week by the Legislature, charging the measure is partisan and unfairly protects incumbent lawmakers. "In this plan, I am not convinced that fairness was accomplished," Sullivan said in a veto message to House Speaker Rory Cross, R-Converse. The plan which you have presented to me does not reflect clarity, consistency, rationality or fairness," Sullivan wrote. "As a result, I do not believe it constitutes good public policy." In a Monday afternoon news conference, Sullivan said his decision was based on several factors including what he called the "partisanship, protectionism (and) inequality" reflected in political districts contained in the plan. The Legislature has been in spe- nor's decision "clearly sets a hardball partisan tone for this session." House Speaker Rory Cross, R-Converse, said he was shocked by the governor's decision to veto the measure.

"I can't imagine him doing such a thing," he said. "We passed a plan that I thought met all of Please see LEGISLATORS, A12 Congress faces reality of peace dividend From wire reports MOSCOW The United States on Monday promised Russia $25 million to keep Russian nuclear scientists employed and out of the clutches of other countries wanting to buy nuclear weapons technology. Secretary of State James Baker announced the American commitment after meeting with Russian President Boris Yeltsin for three hours. The money will go to a nuclear scientists' center set up by Russia, the United States and Germany. The center will be based in Troitsk, a town about 20 miles southwest of Moscow built especially for scientists, according to Yeltsin's arms control adviser Yevgeny Velikhov.

It will also operate branches in Arzamas and Chelyabinsk the formerly closed centers where Soviet nuclear weapons were designed and Hughes, a special investigator with the state Division of Criminal Investigation. Lynn Bly called police when her husband then threatened suicide, Hughes said. While she was on the phone, Bly got on another line and told the dispatcher to keep officers away from his house, or he would kill them, he explained. Next Bly holed up in the basement and fired shots into the ceiling with a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol, Hughes said. yr built, Velikhov was quoted as saying by the semi-official Russian Information Agency.

The safety of the former Soviet Union's nuclear weapons and technology including the brains that created it has been a major priority for the United States and the West since the Soviet Union disintegrated in December. The West has made economic help for the impoverished former superpower dependent on believable assurances that its nuclear capabilities can't and won't be misused. Russian nuclear scientists, numbering about 3,000, used to live extremely privileged lives. However, their living standards and prestige has plummeted with the demise of the Soviet superpower. Already there have been many rumors but no proof that countries such as Libya and Iraq have tried to tempt Russian Please see RUSSIA, A12 When police arrived about 3 :40 a.m., they heard a shot fired, and officers evacuated Lynn Bly and four children.

One of the children was four-year-old Kellie Johnson, a neighbor, who had spent the night with the Bly children. When officers stepped back inside the West Sheridan home, Bly shot at them from the basement, Hughes said. Police were unable to convince Bly to surrender, despite three Please see SHOOTING, A12 Til 4 -a 5 Official: Sheridan man threatened to ldll police Autopsy, state tests underway in shooting death employees who retire early and for jobs in such fields as education, law enforcement. Democrat also suggests that members Corps could be retrained to work as disciplinarians the nation's schools. Aspin, chairman of the House Committee, believes it may be necessary some unneeded weapons to keep production open and people employed.

Beverly Byron, who chairs a Services panel on military personnel, workers stationed overseas could, former Soviet Union and Warsaw debate on an aid package is just beginning Nunn's plan as the starting point officials say it's a given that some defense budget will be used to ease pain. Congress earmarked $200 million in assistance communities hard-hit by defense cuts. see LAWMAKERS, Al 2 WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush's military budget has put lawmakers in a political vise, squeezed between the rock of a peace dividend in a post-Cold War era and the hard place of lost jobs back home. The dissolution of the Soviet Union erased the threat of a superpower rival for the United States and left members of Congress gleeful this election year over the prospect of spreading the wealth from deep cuts in defense spending. Then, for some, reality hit.

Defense contractors forecast thousands of job layoffs nationwide from Groton, where the Seawolf submarine is built, to the Rocky Flats, plant that manufacturers nuclear warheads. Sen. Sam Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, estimates that some 2 million Americans will lose their defense-related jobs by the middle of the decade. Fearing the impact of burgeoning unemployment rolls in a recession and disenchanted voters in November several members of Congress have proposed assistance programs. Nunn is calling for a special retirement credit for By CHARLES PELKEY Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE Senate and House Republican leaders expressed "shock and dismay" at Gov.

Mike Sullivan's decision Monday to veto a reapportionment plan they approved last Friday. GOP leaders said the gover on downtown street corners, handed out leaflets, worked the telephones and rang doorbells. At one point, while Bush was being interviewed by telephone on radio station WFEA in Manchester, Patrick Buchanan, his GOP challenger, was waiting on hold. The polls begin opening at 6 a.m. Tuesday, although the north country hamlet of Dixville Notch was registering its handful just after midnight.

The pollsters' rated Paul Tsongas, the former senator from Massachusetts, the late leader in the five-man Democratic field, with Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton running second. Defense Department are retrained health care or The Georgia of the Marine in Rep. Les Armed Services to buy lines And Rep. House Armed says some displaced help rebuild the Pact countries.

Although the with congressional money from the the economic In 1991, for Please Democrats woo undecideds in vote hunt Bush campaigns by phone on eve of primaries SHERIDAN (AP) A state investigator said today that a Sheridan man shot and killed by police yesterday had threatened to kill officers if they came to his house. The three-hour standoff ended with the death of 35-year-old Tim Bly, a carpenter and father of three. The incident unfolded early Sunday when Bly, who has a history of drinking, came home after a night of drinking. Bly apparently argued with his wife Lynn about splitting up, according to Kevin INDEX Casper Area A3 Classified B10-12 Comics B3-4 Community A7 Crossword B3 Landers B4 Legislature A4-5 Letters A9-I1 Omarr B3 Movies B7 Obituaries, Diary B2 Opinion A8 Sports B5-8 Wyoming Bl Old Grouch So they're still going to try to shove it down his throat. RESULTS The Star-Tribune Classified Section is not Just for selling unwanted Items! If there Is something you would like to buy or trade for, don't wait for someone else to place a 'For Sale' ad in the running your own advertisement In 136-Want to BuyTrade.

Right now, you can buy a classified ad there for just $6 for 7 daysl Just call 266-0555 or 1-800-442-6916 (in WY toll-free) for more detailsl Bush held a hefty lead in GOPf polling. Both sides said he'd win, but Buchanan sought to come close enough to send the White House and the party a message of conservative rebellion and to keep his challenge going in the South. "I'd love to win," Democrat Tsongas said. But the front-runners' lot can be worrisome. "Look at the expectations," Tsongas said in Exeter.

"The fact is that two weeks ago, it was first, second or a close third. Now I'm in a situation where I'm having to explain whether I have to win." In Portsmouth, he urged voters to send Democrats a demand for Please see PRIMARY, A12 MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) Democratic presidential rivals roamed southern New Hampshire on Monday in a holiday hunt for votes, while President Bush phoned in a White House defense against his conservative challenger. The political traffic was heavy on the eve of Tuesday's New Hampshire presidential primary election, the first balloting of 1992. By bus, van and rented car, the candidates, their aides, and throngs of reporters cruised town to town in the mild February sun.

Their volunteers, many of them college students in a Presidents' Day holiday mood, waved signs talks to wrap AP Clinton's travel van is ticketed in N.II. Monday Weeklong push begins in up free trade agreement said. "We know what it looks like. We know what it takes to get it." The working groups, in charge of specific issues such as automobiles, agri-, culture or intellectual property, are to report frequently to the lead negotiators, Katz said. President Bush has made creation of a free trade zone from the "Yukon to the Yucatan" a key economic goal, contending it will expand export and investment opportunities for American businesses by eliminating for the purposes of trade and in-' vestment the borders between the three countries.

have resolved all of the issues by the end of the week." The Bush administration has made the pact a cornerstone of its trade policies. The United States already has a free trade agreement with Canada. The current talks are aimed at creating a North American trade bloc that will rival those emerging in Europe and the Far East. Speaking with reporters, Katz and the other lead negotiators Herminio Blanco of Mexico and John Weekes of Canada declined to specify how many disputes, set off by brackets in the draft, remain. DALLAS (AP) Negotiators from the United States, Canada and Mexico on Monday began their biggest push yet to finish a free trade agreement.

For the first time since the countries started serious talks last June, the chief negotiators and their 19 subgroups that concentrate on specific issues are meeting in the same place for a week. Their chief task is to resolve several hundred disputes they wrote into a first draft of the pact last month. "The environment is excellent," said lead U.S. negotiator Julius Katz. "But I have to say frankly I don't think we will Canadian Trade Minister Michael Wilson said earlier this month that some differences include disagreements on textiles, farm products and autos.

In Washington last week, a senior U.S. trade official, quoted anonymously, said a pact could be reached by mid-March. The negotiators said they have been told to finish a pact as soon as possible. The U.S. -Canada-Mexico talks have moved much faster than those for the U.S.Canada treaty, which took effect in 1989 after more than three years of talks.

"The big difference is now we have a free trade agreement to work from," Weekes.