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pZT 1 1 SPORTS 1 I 1 One more Vr' gold for USA 'p 1 WEATHER 1 AC iIPt thC50S A2 LEGISLATURE 1 NATIONAL 1 Legislative Resigns as report head of NE A A4 Hs: I A2. I 1 I 1 Founded in 1891 Saturday, February 22, 1992 Wyoming's Statewide Newspaper Casper, Vtyoming Governor signs reapportionment Nested, single-member district plan sent to federal judges Court: can issue non-resident elk permits By KATHARINE COLLINS Southwestern Wyoming bureau GREEN RIVER Judge Kenneth Hamm Friday allowed the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission to proceed with issuing 82 preferential licenses to non-resident elk hunters who own land in Wyoming. Hamm's order lifts a temporary restraining order which has barred issuance of the permits for the last 10 days. The restraining order had the effect of blocking the Game and Fish Department's drawing of all its non-resident elk permits. Following a 40-minute conference call in his chambers, the retired 3rd Judicial District judge declined to issue a preliminary injunction prohibiting the issuance of the landowner licenses.

His ruling will allow the Game and Fish Department to proceed with a drawing among over 14,000 out-of-state elk hunters, originally scheduled to take place Feb. 14, department officials Please see LICENSES, A14 judge federal panel. If unacceptable, the court retains the option of drafting its own plan. Under either scenario the changes are expected to be in effect in time for the 1992 general election in November. The plan calls for a 30-member state Senate with each senator elected from a single-member district.

It reduces the membership of the House from 64 to 60 members. Two, single-member House districts will be "nested" within each Senate district. Sullivan said while the bill may not have been acceptable to all involved it "certainly reflects the checks and balances of the democratic system and each of the three branches of government." "This (bill) results by reason of the actions of the legislative branch, which were in part By CHARLES PELKEY Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE Gov. Mike Sullivan signed the Legislature's latest reapportionment plan Friday and sent it to three federal judges for their review beating by 41 minutes a court imposed deadline set four months ago. The measure was forwarded to the governor by the Legislature Friday, but only after a last minute effort by Senate Democrats failed to negate a set of House amendments adopted Thursday night.

Sullivan's endorsement of the single-member districting plan marks an end to two weeks of legislative wrangling highlighted by the governor's veto of a plan passed last week by the Legislature. The measure will now be reviewed by a three- influenced by reason of the actions of the executive branch and in part influenced by fear of the judicial branch," Sullivan said. Sullivan said he was aware of controversy surrounding a series of House amendments that altered parts of the plan. Senate Democrats charged Friday morning those amendments drafted by House Democrats were designed to "protect incumbents on both sides of the aisle." Sullivan said he had concerns about the amendment but was "not naive enough to believe that politics could be completely eliminated from the process either." "What I saw happening last night was that some of the actions came out of the closet," Sullivan said. "We saw discussions of bipartisan protectionism and it was done on the floor of the Please see REDISTRICTING, A14 Senate postpones action on two budget measures By JOAN BARRON Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE The Senate Friday postponed action on two major bills, leaving a dead budget bill dead for the weekend and a proposal to cut the state's dental health services program on hold until Monday.

Senators said the dental health services proposal part of the Department of Health budget will be considered Monday. Action to revive the rejected budget bill is also expected to come sometime next week. The Senate on Wednesday killed on a 15-15 tie a bill. Senate File 3, containing $122 million to run the Departments of Commerce, Audit, Employment and various boards and commissions for 1993-94. The bill was controversial because the Senate had amended into it substantial cuts in the budgets for the economic development and arts agencies.

The Senate refused to reconsider the bill Thursday and no move was made to rescue it Friday through an attempt to expunge the record of the bill's defeat. Rick SorensonStar-Tribune Jeanne Stewart and her daughter Katherine meet with Casper plastic surgeon Dr. Donald Greer at the Cleft Palate Clinic at the Family Practice Center in Casper Friday. The state's dental services program, which helps treat children with severe teeth problems and cleft palates, is coming up for budget discussion in the Senate next week. Getting help Bush, Buchanan duel for support in South Gties claim services will be cut if tax shift ends By EMILY HARRISON Star-Tribune staff writer CASPER Municipal leaders say they will have no choice but to scale back basic services if the Legislature votes against extending distribution of the one-tenth of a cent sales tax revenue to local governments.

Since 1988 local governments have used the money to subsidize general fund operations including police service, fire department services, street maintenance and human services, numerous officials said in interviews. Local officials claim that several consecutive years of decreasing mineral royalty and severance tax revenues have left them operating at a bare bones level and additional revenue losses will have profound impact, forcing a variety of actions from cutting back the level of police and fire services to delaying or canceling purchases of emergency equipment. "Like a lot of small towns, we're just trying to bring our town into the 20th century," said La Barge Mayor Karl Drumm said. We just can't stand to have any more cuts." The Legislature is currently Please see CITIES, A14 INDEX Casper Area A3 Church B5 Classified B9-14 Comics B3-4 Crossword B3 Landers B4 Legislature A4 Omarr B3 Markets B6 Movies B8 Obituaries, Diary B2 Opinion A 12 Sports A6-11 Wyoming Bl Old Grnuch SffP Iljs That plan is something you can sink your wooden teeth into. 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 days! Just call 266-0555 or 1-600-442-6916 (in WY toll-free) for more details! Senate Floor Leader Jerry Dixon, R-Crook-Weston, said Friday afternoon that some action undoubtedly will be taken next week to resuscitate Senate File 3. "There are some people working on amendments," Dixon said in reference to the absence of any action Friday. The Senate, he added, has several options available, including "piggy-backing" the bill to another budget bill as an amendment. "There are several ways in our rules to facilitate it," Dixon said. Both the Senate and the House adjourned shortly before 1 p.m.

Friday so the legislators could go home for a weekend break midway in the special and budget session. 4 Two major amendments will be offered Monday to another budget bill, Senate File 5, that includes $579 million in funding for the Departments of Health and Family Services for 1993-94. Sen. Boyd Eddins, R-Lincoln, said Thursday he intended to offer an amendment Friday to eliminate the dental services program in the Department of Health. The program pays for the treat-; Please see BUDGET, A14 Conference but took veiled swipes at his opponent, who scored a strong second-place finish in this; week's New Hampshire "The next five years of Amer ican history are just too important to entrust to the Bush told GOP officials and law-j makers.

i In a clear reference to Buchanan's protectionist theme "America First," Bush said, "Some people wish the rest of the world would just go away. That is naive and that is defeatist." The conference brought out the' elite of Republicans in the South; Please see POLITICS, A14 uled for Monday in Washington! was still on track. Friday's killing of the 5-yearf old girl enraged Israeli military and political leaders and raised the prospect of massive Israeli retaliation in the days to comef The rocket struck the farming town of Gornot ha Galil and killed Avi Elizada as she ran into the yard to greet her father. Gornot ha Galil is just below the Lebanon border, east of the Israeli coastal town of Rosh Hanikra. Elizada was the first Israeli killed by a Katyusha in Israel since before Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982.

Her father ana two other family members were slightly injured by the rocket, I 1 AP A Buchanan admirer takes a photograph of die COP candidate at a rally Friday in Augusta, Ga. Trial likely to settle N. Platte water case By CANDY MOULTON Star-Tribune correspondent with wire reports ENCAMPMENT It appears a big trial will be necessary to settle a long-standing lawsuit between Nebraska and Wyoming over management of the North Platte River, the special Master in the litigation indicated in a draft report Friday. But the latest ruling also suggests Wyoming may ultimately win the right to build the Deer Creek Dam, Wyoming's lawyer in the case says. "It appears that Special Master Olpin agrees with Wyoming that Deer Creek can be built to supply municipal uses in Wyoming without violating the Supreme Court's 1945 Decree," Cook said.

Nebraska spokesmen, however, claimed other parts of the ruling as important victories for Nebraska. Olpin indicated that the only issue where he is not inclined to call for a trial involves water rights for the Inland Lakes in Nebraska. Nebraska Attorney General Don Stenberg emphasized to The Associated Press that no issues were decided in favor of Wyoming in the Inland Lakes part of the case. "The Special Master's Report is a substantial victory for all Ne-braskans who rely on the Platte Please see DEER CREEK, A14 Israel hints at retaliation after rocketj kills girl; guerrillas return to villages CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) President Bush and conservative challenger Patrick Buchanan dueled for advantage Friday in the South, with Bush winning loud cheers from a mainstream Republican gathering and Buchanan showing up "to crash the party." Buchanan got no closer than a hotel across the street from where Bush spoke.

Claiming he was frozen out of the GOP meeting by Bush's partisans, Buchanan complained, "This idea of dismissing Pat Buchanan is not legitimate." Bush made no direct mention of Buchanan in a speech to the Southern Republican Leadership them with a steady barrage of artillery fire from 155mm howitzers. But the guerrillas were reported to be digging in and fortifying positions for more fighting. Israeli forces had stormed through U.N. peacekeeping forces on Thursday, using bulldozers to ram their way into south Lebanon to seize the two villages, which reportedly were Hezbollah strongholds. Hezbollah fighters have been firing rockets at Israel since Sunday, when a pinpoint Israeli helicopter attack killed Hezbollah leader Abbas Musawi, his wife and 6-year-old son.

Despite the violence, the United States said the next round of Middle East peace talks, sched Cosmetic use of implants restricted CASPER A Food and Drug Administration panel has recommended severely restricting silicone gel implants, which would make it more difficult for women to obtain the implants for breast enlargement. Women who have lost a breast to cancer or have a breast deformity would still get easy access to the implants for reconstructive surgery, the panel recommended. About 80 percent of the breast implants are now used by women desiring breast enlargement. The panel's recommendation has not yet been accepted nor implemented by the FDA. A story and accompanying headline in Thursday's Star-Tribune on the panel's recommendation was unclear.

JERUSALEM (COX) A rocket fired from south Lebanon killed a 5-year-old girl in northern Israel on Friday and Israeli forces retaliated by pounding guerrilla sites as the week-long cycle of violence widened along the Israel-Lebanon border. The Katyusha rocket was one of 14 fired by Iranian-backed Shi-ite Muslim Hezbollah (Party of God) guerrillas after Israeli tank and infantry forces began early Friday to pull back from two U.N.-policed villages they invaded the previous day to halt rocket attacks. As the Israelis withdrew, Hezbollah guerrillas flocked back to the villages of Kafra and Yater, prompting Israeli gunners to pound.