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Jj FOREIGN 1 Calls on Poles I 1 to rebuild union I I WEATHER 1 Xvr I 1 Sunny, windy Ks and warmer If SPORTS "1 I I i fw Marathon FrSl NATION I I VtCll '1 dieted for aid I to drug dealers b8 I with 69 violations charges Wright Ethics committee's vote on report unanimous Panel WASHINGTON (AP) The House ethics committee, with Democrats and Republicans united, formally charged Speaker Jim Wright Monday with 69 violations of the chamber's rules including what the panel's chairman called "a scheme to evade" limits on outside earnings. After a 10-month, $1.5 million investigation, the committee of six Democrats and six Republicans voted unanimously to issue a report finding "reason to believe" the Texas Democrat had run afoul of House rules requiring reporting of gifts, barring acceptance of gifts from persons with a direct interest in legislation and limiting outside earned income. "I know in my heart 1 have not against Wright that Fort Worth developer George Mallick, from whom he accepted $145,000 in gifts over a 10-year period, had a direct interest in legislation also had the narrowest margin of support on the ethics committee. According to records of internal committee votes released along with the report of the panel's special outside counsel, Chicago attorney Richard J. Phelan, Democrats Chester Atkins of Massachusetts and Bernard Dwyer of New Jersey joined the six committee Republicans for an 8 to 4 margin on that issue.

The panel agreed with its counsel, Phelan, that Mallick's major interests in real estate and oil and gas Please see RIGHT, A14 panel's equivalent of an indictment. The move set in motion a series of steps in which Wright can defend himself and the panel try to prove with "clear and convincing" evidence that the violations occurred. That is likely ultimately to throw the matter before the full House, where Wright's position as the nation's highest elected Democrat could be on the line. Possible punishments range from a reprimand to expulsion from the House, although lawmakers in both parties seemed to think the final decision would come down to whether Wright should be repri 1 Herschler, officials contradict claim by Vinich on prison vote Last-minute deluge of tax forms in mail By MATT WINTERS and EMILY QUARTERMAN Star-Tribune staff writers CASPER A number of state political and legal figures took exception Monday to Democratic congressional candidate John Vin-ich's assertion that a bill his opponent voted for reduces the amount of time felons spend behind bars. Former Democratic Gov.

Ed Herschler, a state attorney general and some of Vinich's fellow senators including the only one to join him in voting against a revision of the state's split-sentencing law say that the law does not do By The Associated Press Monday's midnight deadline for filing federal income tax returns brought the usual deluge of last-minute mailings as people held onto their money as long as possible, or procrastinated until time ran out. The Postal Service took a tip from the fast food industry in Columbus, Ohio, where traffic was directed through the front parking lot of the city's main post office so people could drive through and hand their completed returns to postal workers stationed outside. "Any returns we get by midnight, we'll make sure they get postmarked on the 17th." said Debbie Rinehart, a mail processing clerk at the Columbus main post office. People making the mad dash to beat the mailing deadline were offered entertainment or moral support to improve their mood in some cities. At Lawrence, the Lawrence Barnstorm Cloggers band was to perform at the post office from 10 p.m.

until midnight, said spokeswoman Laurie Mackey. Please see TAXES, A 14 manded or simply chastised for poor judgment and let off without formal punishment. Wright immediately began his defense in earnest, operating what one supporter, Rep. Charles Wilson, D-Texas, called "a war room" out of the speaker's office. "At some point we've got to start figuring out who's on our side and who's on the other side," Wilson said.

Wilson predicted Wright would win on the floor, "losing a few cowardly Democrats and picking up some brave Republicans." The most serious allegation what Vinich says it does. The split-sentencing law allows judges to incarcerate convicted felons in local jails for a period of time instead of sending them to state prison. The 1986 vote cited by Vinich centered on an amendment increasing allowable jail time in such sentences from 60 days to a year. Republican candidate Craig Thomas, along with 62 other state representatives and 28 senators, voted in 1986 in favor of that amendment. Vinich alleged in a TV commercial that by voting for that change in the split sentencing law Thomas was favoring early release of felons future years.

It leaves to the Legislature any permanent decision on the King holiday. Meanwhile the leader of Wyoming's Catholics Monday urged Catholic schools in the state to celebrate the King holiday. The Most Rev. Joseph Hart, bishop of the Diocese of Cheyenne, condemned the "grave sin of racism," and called upon the state's residents to send a message that Wyoming is neither racist nor prejudiced. That message, the bishop said, should include legislative approval of Martin Luther King's birthday as you've got the wrong guy if you think I'm just going to lay there and take it." Thomas said the campaign was about whether Wyoming will continue to have conservative representation in Congress or "whether we're going to take a sharp change to the left and join the Jim Wrights and Ted Kennedys." Vinich said he took exception to being compared to individuals on the East Coast.

"If I am elected, I will go back and educate those individuals," and work for Wyoming first, he said. Sullivan designates King holiday from incarceration. Vinich was not available Monday for comment on the controversy. Vinich campaign manager Rodger McDaniel continued on Monday to defend the ad as factually correct. That many disagree "doesn't bother me," McDaniel said.

"That's the kind of things people say in a political election year." Wyoming sheriffs contacted Monday split down party lines regarding Vinich's characterization of the split-sentencing issue. Three Democratic sheriffs issued a press release saying the split-sentencing law "very often results Please see CAMPAIGN, A 14 a state holiday. In his attack on racism, Hart did not single out Daniel Johnson, a candidate for Wyoming's vacant House of Representatives' seat. But the bishop left little doubt that he was referring to the candidate, who believes only whites should live in the United States. "Our history shows that we are not immune to the grossly misguided beliefs and destructive forces which emerged from white racism," said Bishop Hart.

"If white supremacists feel they can find support in this state for their views, Please see HOLIDAY, A14 He did not respond directly to Thomas' charges of campaign "distortions." Vinich attacked a 1986 law supported by Thomas that Vinich said allowed convicts to be let out of prison. That claim, also set forth in Vinich campaign ads, has sparked an outcry by Republicans as a campaign slur. (See story, this page.) They said the law actually increased the number of cells available to house felons in Wyoming, and released nobody. But Thomas Please see DEBATE, A14 By JOAN BARRON Star-Tribune Capital Bureau With wire service reports CHEYENNE Gov. Mike Sullivan has signed an executive order designating Jan.

15, 1990 as Martin Luther King Equality Day in Wyoming for the state's Centennial, he announced Monday. The order said all state government employees not specifically required to work Jan. 15 will be granted paid holiday leave from regularly scheduled work hours. The order applies only to next Jan. 15, not to King's birthday in violated any of the rules of that institution," Wright said in a speech to a labor meeting shortly after the ethics report was released.

He said he had asked "very urgently, very earnestly" for a quick meeting with the the committee "to confront them, to confront the allegations head-on, face-to-face." At a news conference, committee chairman Rep. Julian Dixon, emphasized that Wright is presumed innocent until the charges are proven, and he underscored that proving them requires a much heavier weight of evidence than the step taken Monday, which is the i I f' 1 AP had positive results," Pons said at a news conference at the University of Utah. He said laboratories in Washington State, Bulgaria, Poland and other places that did not want to be identified had performed fusion experiments that had produced either heat or neutrons, which are a byproduct of some fusion reactions. He said that his laboratory in Utah had begun 19 new experiments that were meant to create more power, and that he and his colleagues- had come up with designs for small power reactors based on cold fusion. Please see JTSION.A14 JIM WRIGHT Denies he violated rules Wyo students being offered in-state tuition by S.

Dakota BROOKINGS, S.D.(AP) Wyoming students are being offered in-state tuition in South Dakota colleges and universities in an effort to attract more of them to the state. North Dakota students also will get the in-state tuition rates, while Nebraska students will get partially reduced rates, all effective July 1. "It will help us break into new markets," said Jerry Tunheim, president of Dakota State College at Madison. He said Dakota State, which is building its enrollment after a period of decline, expects to double the number of out-of-state students this fall. Clifford Trump, president of Black Hills State College at Spear-fish, said the reduced tuition will be a major incentive for Wyoming students to cross the border for their college education.

The South Dakota Board of Regents Friday approved a multi-tiered plan lowering tuition for students from the neighboring states. The board at first voted to the full tuition reduction for Nebraska students as well, but modified the plan after some regents expressed concern about its impact. "It's becoming a patchwork, a crazy quilt of variable rates," Regent Max Gruenwald said of the non-resident tuition structure. Supporters of the plan said it will help South Dakota schools recruit out-of-state students. The change means the regents would collect $59,000 less from tuition, but because of a revenue cush-Pleasesee TUITION, A14 it Casper Area A3 Classifieds B10-14 Comics B3 Community B4-5 Crossword A7 Landers, Omarr A7 Letters A9-13 Markets B6 Movies B5 Obituaries, Diary B2 Opinion A8 Sports A4-6 Wyoming Bl Old Grouch This election is like my mother-in-law short, mouthy and nasty.

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By JOAN BARRON Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE Republican Craig Thomas attacked Democrat John Vinich for "distortions," Vinich hammered on issues raised in his campaign ads, and Libertarian Craig McCune set forth his third-party platform Monday during the first debate of Wyoming's special congressional election campaign. Thomas said, "John, 1 have to tell you, we've known each other for a long time, but I'm fed up with the distortions of this campaign and House candidates John I' -jmjJuuamM-JJ Af Pons says others duplicate part of fusion experiment mint jilui-j phh iljl pium I i i i i A I I if Tf i i i Si i ft- -t Al' SALT LAKE CITY (NYT) -Stanley Pons, an electrochemist at the University of Utah who last month threw scientists into turmoil by asserting that he had achieved nuclear fusion in a jar of water at room temperature, said Monday that 60 laboratories around the world had told him that they had duplicated parts of his work. But he added that many of them had not made their results public and might not do so in the near future, partly because of concerns about giving away information that could be used in patent applications. "I've talked to 60 people at that many major institutions who have Yinich and Craig Thomas debate in Gieyenne Monday 1.