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I 1 sports'" A i Final Four 7 teams ready -A6 Vv jS-O showers A2 -if "foreign? "1 ttA Gorbachev to I visit Cuba "I A5 Will host t-T I debt talks A4 mx ijTTWfu UW says faculty vacancies not drastic as DAFC report It's time to save some daylight hours again WASHINGTON (AP) Starting Sunday, most Americans will be able to enjoy more evening golf, cookouts or other events, thanks to an extra hour of daylight first instituted as a wartime measure but now used primarily for recreation. That's right it's time to spring forward to daylight-saving time. The change takes effect at 2 a.m. Sunday, although most people will set their clocks ahead before retiring on Saturday night. Those who don't will be an hour late for church or other appointments.

Daylight-saving time was introduced during World War I in an effort to save fuel by reducing the need for lights in the evening. After the war, there were demands the daylight time system be abandoned. By MATT WINTERS Star- Tribune sta ff writer LARAMIE The University of Wyoming says its faculty has shrunk by only about 3 percent in the past three years instead of 16 percent, as reported in a state Department of Administration and Fiscal Control study released in January. But the long-awaited UW study indicates that 80 faculty positions about 12 percent of the 660 authorized were vacant on Feb. 16.

UW began examining its vacancy rates after DAFC reported a 16 percent decline in its core teaching faculty sinceSeptember 1986. Comparing only the number of filled posilions from year to year, the UW study released Friday shows a mere 2 percent decline in the number of full, associate and assistant professors from April 1986 to April 1988. Counting all types of faculty, including lecturers, department heads, and university administrators, the UW study shows a 3 percent decline since April 1985, a drop from 679 to 660. Sullivan, Herschler endorse Vinich; Thomas rejects debate in final week A it lb Ji i-ii- Li jL VINICH THOMAS Wyoming voters a chance to balance the state's congressional delegation which has been all-Republican for years. Vinich will face Thomas in an April 26 special election to replace Cheney, who is now secretary of defense.

Vinich said Friday the campaign will center on comparisons between his and Thomas' voting records in the Legislature. Vinich earlier criticized Thomas 1 Birthday celebration Thousands of multicolored balloons are launched from the first floor of the Eiffel Tower in Paris Friday in celebration of the tower's centenary. See story on B6. Oil slick threatens wildlife, coastline VALDEZ, Alaska (AP) The nation's worst oil spill spread into the Gulf of Alaska on Friday as the Soviet Union promised to send a ship to aid in the cleanup. The disaster threatened 600 miles of coastline that include fishing communities and a national park.

In Washington, the FBI announced it would conduct a criminal investigation into the spill, which occurred when the 987-foot tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground March 24. Exxon Shipping Co. 's daily briefing on the spill turned into a shouting match, meanwhile, as fishermen and unemployed workers angrily accused the company of be- ing reluctant to hire them for the cleanup and environmentalists tried to force their way into the session. State officials sighted more than 1,000 oil-covered sea gulls, murres, Please see SPILL, A 16 President still backs Alaskan oil exploration WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush reiterated his support for Alaskan oil exploration Friday, saying a policy reversal in the wake of the nation's worst oil spill would be an "irresponsible action" that would ill serve an energy-hungry nation. "We are becoming increasingly dependent on foreign oil, and that is not acceptable to any president," Bush said.

"We have to transport oil. What we will do is not go backwards." The president, in a session lasting-more than 30 minutes with reporters from around the country, was asked a week after the Exxon Valdez ran aground, creating an oil spill that had spread over 600 square miles by Friday, whether the accident should force another look at oil exploration in Alaska. "What we will do is redouble efforts to bring about proper safeguards" to prevent such spills, Bush said, "but not take irresponsible action to guard against an incident of this nature." Congress is weighing a Bush administration proposal to open 1.5 Please see BUSH, A16 Casper Area A3 Classifieds B6-16 Comics A13 Crossword A15 Landers, Omarr A15 Markets A12 Movies B3 Obituaries, Diary B2 Opinion A 14 Sports A6-11 Wyoming Bl Phones 266-0500 Wyo. free 1-800-442-6916 Old Grouch I'm giving up grouching forever April fool. RESULTS GUARANTEED RESULTS OR YOUR MONEY BACK! Lisa Shrader sold her super single waterbed the first day her ad ran in the Casper Star-Tribune.

If you have something you need to sell, give us a call today. Our Classified Ad-Visors can help you write the perfect ad. Be sure and ask if your ad qualifies for Guaranteed Results. Call 266-0555 or toll-free in Wyoming, 1-800-442-6916 fiT" By JOAN BARRON and KATHARINE COLLINS Star-Tribune staff writers CHEYENNE Emphasizing the need for Wyoming to have a member of the majority party in Congress, Gov. Mike Sullivan and former Gov.

Ed Herschler formally endorsed state Sen. John Vinich during a news conference Friday. Meanwhile, citing time constraints, Republican U.S. House candidate Craig Thomas turned down an invitation to debate Vinich in Sweetwater County in the final week of the special election campaign. Sullivan said that while former Rep.

Dick Cheney's shoes will be hard to fill because of leadership position he held in Congress, the special election April 26 will give flHPrv 4UCI UW attributes the differences between the reports to changes in the way the university reported employment figures to the state, which led DAFC to base its report on inconsistent information. "Apparently, this change in method was not detected by UW employees, thus DAFC was not informed of the change," the UW report says. Differences in the two studies may also reflect "changes mandated by the Governor and the Legislature in response to economic conditions, Please see L'W A 16 for opposing a home health care bill in 1987 which Vinich said has kept hundreds of people outside of institutions and saved thousands of dollars. Thomas said he didn't like the way the bill was structured. Vinich also said that Thomas opposed the "lemon-aid" bill which was designed to give car buyers recourse against manufacturers for faulty new vehicles.

Vinich said Thomas also voted against a bill to allow farmers and ranchers to defer interest payments on state agricultural loans. Herschler, the former three-term Democratic governor, praised as an "articulate, intelligent and hardworking young man" and pledged to help his candidacy any way Vinich wants. Vinich, Herschler said, would not Please see HOUSE, A 16 Zbicnicw BdakStar-Tribune More coverage, A3 didate Johnson's "Pace Amendment" organization, said volunteers are on their way to Wyoming to work on what he considers an unprecedented campaign by a man who advocates forcing non-whites out of the nation. He called the campaign of David Duke, the former Klan leader who recently ran a successful Republican campaign for a seat in the Louisiana legislature, "quite moderate" by comparison. Jessie Johnson said he has not been involved with the Klan since 1978.

Campaign chairman John Abarr remains a Klan organizer, Abarr said. Candidate Daniel Johnson, a Please see JOHNSON, A16 Libertarian McCuiie enters race for House 4 Vr s. "mi AP By SCOTT FARRIS Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE 1988 Libertarian Party candidate for Congress Craig McCune Friday officially filed as an independent candidate for the April 26 special congressional election. McCune, who is seeking Wyoming's lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives for the third time, predicted in an interview after his filing that he will make a stronger showing this year without the "surety" of Dick Cheney being re-elected.

The April 26 election is being held to fill the House seat made vacant when Cheney was named secretary of defense. Cheney's well-known conservative leanings have blunted the Libertarian appeal in the past, McCune said. But with Cheney out of the race, McCune said his philoso-PleaseseeMeCUNE, A16 The commission will then meet in March 1990 to determine the colleges' 1991-92 biennium budgets based on the specific funding formula. Colleges can now submit to the WCCC by June additional individual aspects they would like to see included in the formula. In August of 1988, the WCCC approved the concept of formula funding and allowed the colleges to study the formula proposals and decide which they preferred.

The recommendations Friday that will shape the formula were the "fairest we could come up with," said James Randolph, executive Plcrsc see BOARD, A16 Dr. Robert O. Brown of Casper answers a telephoned question Friday during the statewide "healthline" program sponsored by the Wyoming HeaUh FairS) K2 Television and the Wyoming Medical Society. CRAIG McCUNE Files for House seat 'Skinheads' may join Johnson's staff to aid campaign in congressional race College commission moves toward funding formula By BILL LAZARUS Star-Tribune staff writer CASPER Between 30 and 40 people mostly "Skinheads" have said they intend to come to Wyoming to campaign for William Daniel Johnson, according to the former Grand Dragon of the Texas Ku Klux klan. Johnson acknowledged that he welcomed support from Skinheads, the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nations, but insisted that he is not a racist during a press conference Friday in the Natrona County Public Library.

In addition to seeking election to Congress, he said, "My intentions are to establish an office here and maintain contacts and connections." Former Dragon Jessie Johnson, a "hypnotherapist" who now serves as a national coordinator for can- By SUE CARTER Star-Tribune correspondent LARAMIE -The Wyoming Community College Commission Friday approved nine recommendations it plans to work into a formula for allocating state funds to the state's seven community colleges. The move is the latest in the commission's efforts in the past year to determine how to distribute state funds equitably to the colleges. Working from the recommendations, the commission will decide next August on a final funding distribution formula. WILLIAM DANIEL JOHNSON Insists he's not a racist.