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Jjj FOREIGN irvflHrfl Girl's plight stirs Ireland Vpil -B9 aiWEATHER I Breezy, i Jg warmer I Jffiyfi -A2 I P'gpRI 1 NATIONAL 1 A penny for your thoughts tji if 1 1 SPORTS fYvh Team USA ll -04 I Founded in 1891 Wyoming's Statewide Newspaper House upholds Sullivan's veto of reapportionment Override attempt fails by one vote 19, 1992 FRED HARRISON Holds Democratic line (i If I I. i Z2SnJ (Wk i By CHARLES PELKEY Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE Voting strictly along party lines, the House of Representatives on Tuesday upheld by one vote Gov. Mike Sullivan's veto of a reapportionment plan the Legislature approved last week. All 22 Democrats in the House voted against the override measure. The solidarity of the Democratic Party meant the House's 42 Republican members fell one vote short of the two-thirds majority required to nullify the governor's veto.

Sullivan on Monday rejected a reapportionment plan adopted last week by both houses of the Legislature. Sullivan said the measure was both unfair and represented the Legislature's desire to protect the seats of incumbent lawmakers. "(T)he role of the Governor must be to assure fairness and that there is no overreaching in the legislative process. In this plan, I am not convinced that fairness was accomplished," Sullivan wrote in a veto message to House Speaker Rory Cross, R-Con-verse. Tuesday afternoon, Sullivan offered no reaction to the House Democrats' success in upholding his veto.

Please see HOUSE, A14 Tsongas tops Clinton Senate adopts new redistricting plan Single-member district initiative sped to House IJ-rtn yg -J- Wednesday, February Abortion foes claim ballot drive successful CHEYENNE (AP) Proponents of a ballot initiative to restrict abortions in Wyoming are claiming that their petition drive is successful and that the measure will appear the November election ballot. But Deputy Secretary of State Margy White said Monday that the signatures still must be verified. Richard Grout, a spokesman for the anti-abortion advocacy group that wants to put the issue on the ballot, claims the group has collected 27,000 signatures in all. Planned Parenthood of Wyoming on Tuesday vowed to fight the ballot issue if the signatures are verified, saying abortion is a private matter involving a woman, her family and her doctor. The initiative would prohibit abortions except in cases of rape or incest, or when the life of the mother is in jeopardy.

The measure would make it a felony for doctors to perform abortions in any case except those allowed under the proposal. White said the Unseen Prayer Hands Circle had submitted petitions with about 27,000 signatures by Monday. All the signatures hadn't been verified, however, she said. The group said it planned to turn in about 1,000 more signatures Tuesday. But White said 85 percent of about 28,000 signatures would have to be valid for the proposed initiative to qualify for the ballot.

And the percentage of valid signatures turned in by two initiative campaigns that hired people to circulate petitions was only slightly higher than 70 percent, White said. To make the ballot, an initiative petition must be signed by at least 24,646 registered voters 15 percent of the voters who cast ballots in the last general election. Secretary of State Kathy Karpan sent a letter to legislative leaders Tuesday advising them of the status of the Unseen Hands initiative. "In our experience, sponsors need to submit around 30,000 signatures in order to reach the 24,646 goal," Karpan wrote. Please see ABORTION, A14 INDEX Casper Area A3 Classified Comics A8-9 Community B3 Crossword A8 Landers A9 Legislature A4 Letters Omarr A 8 Markets A6 Movies B8 Obituaries, Diary B2 Opinion A10 Sports B4-7 Wyoming Bl Old itVf I guess some people never learn.

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 Right now, you can buy a classified ad there for just $6 for 7 days! Just call 266-0555 or 1-800-442-6916 (in WY toll-free) for more details! By CHARLES PELKEY Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE The Senate Tuesday suspended its rules and quickly adopted and then sent to the House a new reapportionment bill designed to address all of the concerns raised by the governor when he vetoed the Legislature's last plan. The House immediately gave its initial approval to the plan. The new reapportionment plan is a copy of a plan originally drafted three months ago by Sen. Gary Yordy, R-Laramie. The Senate substituted that plan for a proposal by Sen.

Charles Scott, R-Na-trona, that it had temporarily adopted Monday. House debate on the bill is scheduled to continue today and could be completed by this evening if the House, like the Senate, opts to suspend its rules and allow two readings of the bill in a single day. House and Senate leaders from both parties have said they would like to present the bill to Sullivan by Thursday. The state is under a court order to submit a reapportionment plan to a federal court by Friday at 5 p.m. Following the unsuccessful at Casper, Wyoming PATTI MacMILLAN Angry assault on veto tempt by the House to override Gov.

Mike Sullivan's veto Tuesday morning, the Senate quickly renewed debate on an alternate plan originally introduced on Monday. The bill initially approved Monday, however, bears little resemblance to the measure finally approved by the Senate Tuesday. An amendment proposed by Yordy Tuesday completely replaces the 64-member House, 30-member Senate plan proposed by Scott and initially endorsed by the Senate Monday. Following an early morning closed Republican caucus all but one GOP Senator voted to support the Yordy amendment. Sen.

Russell Zimmer, R-Goshen, said the amendment treated his county "so poorly, I just can't support it." The Senate had earlier overwhelmingly rejected two single-member districting proposals drafted by Sen. James Applegate, D-Laramie. Following the defeat of both of his amendments, Applegate endorsed Yordy's measure "as probably the best vehicle for compromise we now have available." The amendment incorporating Yordy's plan into Scott's bill re-Please see SEN ATE, A 1 4 MacKinnon said Lehman's judgment is an important decision affecting both citizens' and media's ability to have access to public records across the state. Campbell would not say whether he plans to appeal the decision and declined to make any comment until he contacts the parties affected by the decision. Campbell said he will make a statement today.

The court directed that witness identifying information and any other material "clearly inappropriate" for release under state public records law, will be deleted from the report before its release. According to earlier reports, Darril Garner allegedly returned to his home to find Rocha slashing the throat of Garner's wife, Lav-erne Garner. Garner then shot Rocha three times. Garner was cleared of any wrongdoing in the shooting, which was called "justified" and an act that saved the life of another person. Before reaching that conclusion, the DCI investigated the matter and issued a report to Campbell.

The investigation was not conducted by local authorities because of Garner's connection to area law enforcement agencies. Family and friends of Rocha criticized the investigation and complained that law enforcement Please see REPORT, A14 7 Tsongas acknowledges the cheers of supporters as the former Massachusetts senator leaves a polling station in Manchester Tuesday morning Buchanan garners 41 of vote in N.H. primary 1 i 3 i 3 A AP PATRICK BUCHANAN Campaign claims major victory "find out what industry thinks" about the economic potential of a $30 million carbon dioxide pipeline. Subsequent meetings would be held with smaller producers and state officials to see if such a line would warrant being financed by a loan from the state's Permanent Mineral Trust Fund. Nielson said no matter how it is financed, a carbon dioxide (C02) pipeline in the state is "just the very thing that the natural gas authority could really delve into." Carbon dioxide can be injected into aging oil fields to greatly enhance the recovery of oil in those fields.

C02 has been touted Please see PIPELLNE, A14 Judge orders release of Sinclair shooting report MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) President Bush gainea grudging victory Tuesday night in the New Hampshire presidential primary, with challenger Patrick Buchanan claiming more than 40 percent of the Republican vote to fuel his conservative rebellion. Former Sen. Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts won the five-way Democratic race, gaining 33 percent in partial returns and ratifying his frontrunner status. "Washington, we are sending you a message," he said.

paifefc Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton ran second among the Democrats and pronounced himself "the comeback kid." Sen. Bob Kerrey had a narrow lead over Tom Harkin of Iowa in the race for third place. Former California Gov. Jerry Brown was running fifth.

New Hampshire's blighted economy was the consuming issue in both parties' campaigns, but even so Buchanan's strength was a surprise that jolted the White House. Please see PRIMARY, A14 sentatives and state officials about the economics of the project was "putting the cart before the horse." Last year, after years of controversy, the pipeline authority recommended the state not make a $250 million low-interest loan from the state's Permanent Mineral Trust Fund to help finance the Kern River pipeline. The loan was never made, and the line was built anyway. The authority decided Tuesday to invite major oil operators in the state such as Exxon, Amoco, Conoco to attend a meeting before the authority in May. At that meeting, oil companies and carbon dioxide experts would be called upon, in the words of authority member Jim Nielson, to ten Another pipeline loan in works? State to seek information on possible $30 million loan for C02 project By EMILY HARRISON Star-Tribune staff writer CASPER A Wyoming district court judge ruled Tuesday that the Carbon County Attorney must release a state investigative report on a fatal shooting by a Sinclair police officer last year.

The state can withhold witness names and other information that could "reasonably" lead to witness idenfication, but must release a copy of the report once such items are deleted, the court said. In the case brought by the Casper Star-Tribune, 2nd District Judge Larry Lehman found that "the public's interest in disclosure of the report in this particular case outweighs the (county attorney's) reasons for non-disclosure." Lehman gave the newspaper access to a Division of Criminal Investigation report containing the details of the June 21, 1991 shooting death of Joe Rocha, by Sinclair policeman Darril Garner. The shooting occurred in the Garner home. Last August the Star-Tribune and reporter Candy Moulton filed a complaint in Carbon County District Court against Carbon County Attorney Tom Campbell and a petition asking for a hearing on why the DC1 report, or appropriate portions of it, should not be released. Star-Tribune Editor Anne By HUGH JACKSON Star-Tribune staff writer CASPER The Wyoming Natural Gas Pipeline Authority decided Tuesday to entertain the possibility of a $30 million state low-interest loan to finance a carbdn dioxide pipeline from Bairoil to aging oil fields in Campbell County and elsewhere.

Wyoming Natural Gas Pipeline Authority Chairman Paul Hickey said it was "premature to talk of any commitment on the part of the state." But the pipeline authority has an obligation to gather information on the project, he said. Other pipeline authority members agreed that to discuss a loan before talking to industry repre.