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Thursday, February 20, 1992 Energy Lessons A10 Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Primary Continued from Al headed South with a challenge similar to Buchanan's proving he was more than a one-state wonder. Tsongas garnered 33 percent. Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, after charges of marital infidelity and avoiding the draft, was next at 25 percent.

The victory, Tsongas said, would enable him to raise the money needed to campaign effectively nationwide. Up to $400,000 was expected to flow into his empty treasury on Wednesday, said paigns move on to other states. "Bush is fooling himself if he treats New Hampshire as an economic aberration," said Democratic pollster Geoff Garin. "People all over feel the national economy is in bad shape and this president hasn't figured out what to do about it." The top two Democratic finishers Tsongas and Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton had the earliest, most detailed and most business-oriented economic recovery plans.

Of voters who said they were influenced by economic concerns, 39 percent went for Tsongas and 24 percent for Clinton. One Democratic strategist, ad-maker Bob Squier, said both candidates "were very focused on the problems of the people they were his attack aimed at Bush. "We have been divided by the cheap politics of national leaders who have refused to tell us the truth," he said. "I offer the American people something different." Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey, who finished a distant third with 1 1 percent, stopped in Maine on Wednesday and then headed back to the Midwest.

His viability could depend on a decent showing in the Maine caucuses over the weekend and in the South Dakota primary on Tuesday. "I don't think there's any damage from New Hampshire," Kerrey said. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, who received 10 percent of the New Hampshire vote, also hoped for a boost in South Dakota. Former California Gov.

Jerry Brown, who pulled in 8 percent, began four days of campaigning in Maine. Rabin wrests Labor Party leadership from Peres talking to." He called that a clear contrast with Bush "the whole Bush message was be presented to a federal court by 5 p.m. on Friday. The reapportionment bill is Sen-ate File 49. What follows is the roll-call vote of the House on an amendment to increase the number of House members in the reapportionment plan from 60 to 62.

The amendment failed, 30-33. TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) Yitzhak Rabin wrested the Labor party leadership from Shimon Peres on Wednesday, unofficial results showed, setting the stage for a general election that could alter the shape of Israel's Mideast peace policy. Rabin consistently outscores Peres in opinion polls, and his victory improves his left-leaning party's chances of unseating Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, or at least forcing him into greater flexibility toward the Arabs. Peres conceded defeat and called Rabin to congratulate him. "I accept the decision willingly," Peres said.

The final tally of votes by 1 08,347 rank-and-file party members gave Rabin 40.6 percent just enough for a first-ballot victory. Peres had 34.5 percent. But Rabin told cheering, singing supporters he would not claim victory until the party's election committee ratified the result after a recount today. Israel Kessar, head of the His-tadrut labor federation, took 19 percent of the vote, and social affairs campaigner Ora Namir got 5.5 percent. Although most polls Study says defense cuts could cost 300,000 jobs HOUSE ROLL VOTE Alden, R-Platte Anderson, R-Natrona Arnold, D-Albany Bebout, D-Fremont Bensel, D-Sheridan Blackwell, D-Sweetwater Bodine, R-Uinta Bowron, R-Natrona Budd, R-Sublette Call, R-Lincoln Chamberlain, R-Goshen Cubin, R-Natrona Dewitt, R-Park Dunnuck, R-Albany Gams, R-Big Horn Garcia, D-Laramie Goodenough, D-Natrona Grant, R-Platte Hacker, D-Laramie Hageman, R-Goshen Hansen, D-Albany Harris, D-Sweetwater Harrison, F.

D-Carbon Harrison, R. R-Washakie Hinchey, R-Natrona Hines, R-Campbell Honaker, D-Sweetwater Humphrey, D-Laramie Kunz, R-Laramie Law, R-Teton Lummis, R-Laramie MacMillan, R-Albany Marton, R-Johnson McMillan, B. R-Fremont Micheli, R-Uinta Miller, R-Big Horn O'Toole, D-Carbon Perkins, D. R-Natrona Perkins, J. D-Sheridan Phelan, D-Laramie Plant, D-Sweetwater Rankine, R-Hot Springs Ratliff, D-Fremont Rohrbach, R-Park excused Ryckman, D-Sweetwater Schwope, D-Laramie Shippy, R-Campbell Shreve, R-Park Simons, R-Crook Sullivan, D-Laramie Tempest, R-Natrona Tibbs, R-Converse Tippets, R-FremonJ Tipton, R-Fremont Tysdal, R-Weston Vasey, D-Carbon Vlastos, R-Natrona Wallis, R-Campbell Watson, D-Laramie Wold, R-Natrona Wolfley, R-Lincoln Wright, R-Sheridan Zumbrunnen, R-Niobrara Cross, R-Converse spokeswoman Peggy Connolly.

Little known outside his native New England, Tsongas declared he had "great potential to move" as he began a hectic road schedule to Maryland, New York, South Dakota, Maine and Georgia. Clinton, meanwhile, flew to the friendlier environs of his native South, where his future was staked on the March 10 "Super Tuesday" list of primaries that includes Florida, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. At a rally in Atlanta, Clinton acted like a front-runner and kept see Shamir's Likud party winning in June, they indicate that Labor under Rabin could cut Shamir's majority sufficiently to leave him no choice but to invite Labor into a coalition. Wednesday's voting introduced grassroots party democracy into a country used to picking party leaders by committee. Peres, the technocratic career politician, and Rabin, the revered military commander of the 1967 Mideast War, have been archri-vals for 17 years.

Both have been prime ministers. This is their fifth fight for the party leadership. The grim routine of Middle East warfare disrupted the voting. Rocket attacks from Lebanon forced two polling stations in northern Israel to shut, and several border villages moved the ballot boxes into bomb shelters. Jerusalem-born Rabin served as prime minister from 1974 to 1977.

Polish-born Peres held the post for two years after the tied 1984 election, which produced a Labor-Likud coalition. Peres and Rabin agree on the peace process. Unlike Shamir, both broadly accept the U.S. land-for-peace formula. posed will result in additional unemployment, business failures and temporarily depressed communities in the areas around shuttered military bases," the study said.

Dole and Republicans John Warner of Virginia, Pete Domeni-ci of New Mexico and Ted Stevens of Alaska released the report to bolster Bush's case against deeper cuts. Among the proposed reduction plans in Congress, Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell of Maine and Senate Budget Committee chairman James Sasser, have called for a $100 billion cut over five years. Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona is proposing a $119 billion cut while Sen. William Roth, is asking for a $260 billion reduction.

The CBO study also examines the impact of defense cuts on three regions of the country Southeastern Maine; St. Louis, and Monterey, home of Fort Ord. trict is entitled is then based on the number of the theoretical classrooms. The measure would add about $5.6 million to the state's costs. Committee Chairman Sen.

Boyd Eddins, R-Lincoln, said it may at least partly satisfy the five large school districts that are suing the state over school funding fairness. And on a motion from Sen. Allan Howard, R-Big Horn, the committee voted to reduce the amount of money the state's "recapture" districts are allowed to keep. State funding formulas are used to figure the amount of money to which each district is entitled to receive the so-called guarantee. Any amount of the guarantee which districts are not able to raise from local taxes mostly property taxes is made up by the state.

A handful of districts are able to raise more than their guarantee from local resources, however. Those districts are now allowed to keep 109 percent of the guarantee, but must send any money over that amount down to the state, as a method of redistribution of wealth. Howard's motion would reduce the amount the recapture districts are able to keep to 105 percent of the guarantee, at a projected savings to the state of about $6.5 million per year, he said. Also Wednesday, the committee cut about $7.5 million in the Continued from Al Which helps explain the success of Democrat Paul Tsongas, who ran on what amounted to a Republican economic platform yet won support in equal proportion Tuesday from Democrats who consider themselves liberal, moderate and conservative. It also explains the broad appeal of conservative Republican Patrick Buchanan, who attracted voters across the GOP spectrum with a heartfelt back-to-basics message: Lower taxes, win the trade wars, phase out foreign aid, take care of our own.

Concerns about the economy and jobs influenced the votes of 58 percent of Democrats and 49 percent of Republicans, according to one exit poll. Another put the figure as high as three out of four voters in each party. Most analysts expect that preoccupation to continue as the cam- doors in hours of party caucuses, showed the current 64-member House clearly in turmoil over the prospect of accepting a plan that cut its membership to 60. As the afternoon and evening wore on Wednesday, legislators in both parties reported growing support for a 62-member House. But when the vote was finally taken on the proposal to amend that into the Senate bill, a that move was nonetheless defeated.

The Senate on Tuesday, after suspending its rules, gave hurried approval to the single-member nested plan. While the House gave its approval to the Senate plan on first reading, representatives promised that the measure would be amended on the bill's required second and third readings. Republican lawmakers spent most of the afternoon behind closed doors apparently reviewing available options which would restore House membership to 62. As the 42 GOP House members left their third caucus of the day, tables in the room were covered with maps of the 62-member plan included in the bill vetoed by the governor. Breaking with their publicly professed commitment to open caucuses, the 22 House Democrats also closed all but their final caucus to the press "because we're discussing strategy and personalities," said Rep.

Fred Harrison, D-Carbon. Rep. Patti MacMillan, R-Al-bany, and Rep. Eli Bebout, D-Fre-mont, said discussion in their respective caucuses focused largely on attempts to subdivide multimember districts in the vetoed plan into single-member districts. That move would have de-nested the 62 House districts from the 30 Senate districts.

The organization representing the state's 23 county clerks last week called for a nested plan in order to minimize the confusion voters will encounter at the polls in November. The clerks also argued elections under an unnested plan would cost more to administer. If the House incorporates any changes in the bill, the Senate must vote on whether to agree with those changes. If the Senate does not agree, both chambers will select a conference committee to iron out differences. After that the bill must go to the governor for his approval and still Char-Fuels and WRI officials said at the time they were negotiating over the adequacy of the test results.

Char-Fuels President Lee Meyer said then that he had not determined if WRI' tests had produced "anything of value to report" in writing to DOE. When the negotiations became public, some data from the tests had been presented to the DOE on behalf of Char-Fuels by two former WRI officials. A DOE official said he thought the presentation was by WRI itself, but Justes said the two men did not speak for his organization. Char-Fuels has been rejected twice by the DOE for a $12 million grant, which it had wanted to sup- CASPER ELKS Thursday, Feb. 20th "MEXICAN LUNCH" Feb.

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tains itself and does not damage itself," Chamberlain said of the amendment that failed. Chamberlain suggested that Democrat Sullivan's veto of the earlier plan may have also been motivated by political reasons. "That's not unusual in American politics and its certainly not unusual in Wyoming," Chamberlain said. "I hope members of the minority party have run their political analysis of this plan. We have." But the plan he and other Republican leaders endorsed failed.

Hinchey, sponsor of the amendment, was among those who ultimately voted against it. The public debate late Wednesday on the House floor, and the shouting heard outside closed charged Sullivan was unable to devote his full attention the reapportionment bill because he spent parts of Friday and Saturday campaigning for Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton in New Hampshire. Rep. Barbara Cubin, R-Natrona, on Tuesday said the governor's absence caused him to rely heavily on advice from Democratic lawmakers "instead of taking the time to study the issue and the reapportionment bill we sent him, on his own.

I read his (veto) letter and I think he didn't really understood the issue." Sullivan said he had ample time to make an informed decision on the bill. "The bill was sent here at noon on Saturday. I was back here by late Saturday afternoon," he said. "I believe he (Clinton) was getting badly treated in New Hampshire. He's a friend of mine and he asked me to come out and I did," Sullivan said.

On the quick trip, paid for by the Clinton campaign, he spent a lot of time on the plane on state business, Sullivan said. Some legislators also complained the governor met only with Democrats opposed to the plan. "The Democrats asked to meet with me," Sullivan said. "I didn't give them any decision. I heard their concerns expressed and then continued to review the plan.

My door was open." "I got no calls from advocates of the plan," he added. Char-Fuels Continued from Al the results were valid, then you put two and two together." The Char-Fuels technology uses a process said to turn coal into a high energy, clean-burning liquid fuel slurry that can be transported in pipelines to utilties or other users. Its success depends, in part, upon the extraction of adequate quantities of oil and other liquid fuels from coal in a reactor process. Dick Justes, WRI vice president, said in June that Char-Fuels officials were dismayed with the low amount of liquid fuel yields produced during runs of the tiny reactor used to test the Char-Fuels process at WRI. "You can't change test results," he said.

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Rep. Doug Chamberlain, R-Goshen, speaking in favor of the amendment said the increase in House membership would treat parts of the state more fairly than would the Senate plan. "This is an honest effort to fix those problems," he said. "I'd be less than honest to say that the majority party hasn't drawn a plan that at least main- Governor Continued from Al tion" necessary for a successful legislative session. Sullivan said the comment was not based on a specific or direct threat from any particular threat, but "just rumors of threats." Sullivan said the comment was simply intended to "set the record straight from the start." "I just wanted it clear up front that my decisions weren't going to made based upon those factors," he said.

"I just wanted to make it clear that whatever reasons were attributed to me, I wasn't going to make a decision based upon what the potential consequences might be," he said. "I heard one rumor that I would accept a four member multi-member district plan because I needed -to have the political support of Lasper, Sullivan said. I try not to make decisions on the basis of whether I'm going to need political support from somewhere." Sullivan responded to other charges saying, "It's absurd for anyone to suggest I'd expect to create a Democratic majority in the Legislature though this action. (Republicans) have a strong advantage in registration." Republican lawmakers have add-on programs. The cuts included: All state aid for programs to help students identified as behav-iorally disordered, which would have cost $1 million per year.

All state aid for programs for students identified as gifted and talented, a $350,000 cost. All state aid for a program begun just last year providing districts with financial incentives to reduce class sizes in kindergarten through fourth grade, a $2.2 million cost. Reducing from $450,000 to $300,000 funds available from the state for Boards of Cooperative Educational Services, by which school districts can cooperate with other school districts or other institutions to provide various educational services. State support for a mill levy supplement for school districts, which brings up to a statewide average the value of certain mills of property tax districts may levy to pay off debt on building projects. The supplement would have cost $3.8 million per year.

The committee voted to leave in place, however, about $2.7 million per year to "power equalize" certain mills of property tax districts may levy; that is, the money brings the revenues up to a statewide average per mill. The program is similar to but separate from the mill levy supplement. The main school finance bill is SF3S. NOW OPEN! 40 Years Experience. Partshrmost SQ.96 mates models.

A. SPECIAL to dean Dip heads on VCR. WASHINGTON (AP) Slashing more than $100 billion from the military budget in the next five years could put an additional 300,000 Americans out of work, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday. The agency, in a report requested by Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas, noted plans approved last year already call for reducing defense spending by some $350 billion from 1993 to 1997. Based on those cuts, about 329,000 jobs would be lost in the overall economy by 1995.

President Bush, in his State of the Union address, proposed an additional cut of about $50 billion in the next five years. Several members of Congress have called for at least doubling that figure. Defense cuts on such a scale would result in a 645,000 jobs lost by 1995, the CBO said. "The substantial defense spending reductions being pro- Education Continued from Al fiscal year and the coming bien-nium between $124 million and $175 million, depending on how far the Legislature chooses to go toward a five-year plan of increases it adopted in theory last year. The committee agreed to drop some of the planned increases.

Its plan would stick basically with Sullivan's recommendations for school funding for the coming fiscal year of raising the Classroom Unit by $1,000 and continuing the second year of a five-year plan to roll in funds previously set aside for vocational education with funds for general operations for schools. The $82,180 Classroom Unit, or CRU, is the enrollment-based unit of funding by which the state distributes most of its money for school operations. Funds for some so-called "add-on" state programs, however, are distributed as grants and other methods outside the CRU formula. It was a number of those kinds of programs the committee voted to cut Wednesday. The committee also agreed to leave in the bill a significant benefit for larger school districts added during the December interim meeting.

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