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Saturday, April 29. 1989 Union A1 6 Star-Tribune, Casper, Wye. Wallop Continued from A I cumbent picks up some detractors as they go about their business," he said. "When you're running against someone like Wallop, or I guess like me, the purpose is to build up negatives against that person, and clearly that campaign last fall was designed to cmphasie the negatives of Malcolm Wallop." Thomas said, however, that his remarks did not mean that Wallop had more negatives than he did. Wallop said Friday his campaign organization advised the Thomas campaign on what to expect from Vinich.

The Thomas strategy was to not allow Vinich to force Thomas into a defensive position, he said. Thomas' campaign was "well wag-eu," Wallop said. 'We gave (Thomas) a lot of help," he said. "Clearly, he knew hat to expect." Vinich entered the House race with the advantage of high name recognition, Wallop said. But that high visibility was accompanied by a hiuher number of people with a blown out of proportion.

Vinich received just as much aid from the national Democratic party and organized labor as Thomas did from the national GOP, Wallop said. But National Republican Congressional Committee Co-chairman Ed Rollins' controversial statements regarding his role in the Thomas campaign played into Vin-ich's hands, Wallop said. "If I had been Vinich, I would have reacted precisely the same way," he said. Rollins' comments were those of a Washington insider directed at a Washington audience, and did not reflect the reality of the situation that Thomas was in charge of his own campaign. Wallop said.

The press was largely responsible for the fact that the Thomas-Vinich race was not oriented toward real issues, he said. "The press generally refuses to focus on the issues and focuses on the sensational," Wallop said. "The gaffes and the negatives generally get the attention." the meat and heated in the microwave. When questioned, the cook staled she would not eat this item." In its "plan of correction," Poplar adminstrators said, "All menu items will be tasted by cooks prior to serving to assure palatability." However, in the December 27, 1988, state inspection report, Poplar was cited for the same thing. "Meals are not palatable," the summary of deficiencies said and "were not served at proper temperatures.

The foods were not cut, ground, chopped, pureed or in a form which meets individual resident And again, in its plan of correction, Poplar administrators agreed to institute the same changes which should have been instituted after the June report: "All menu items will be tasted and tcrmpcrature recorded prior to serving to assure Poplar has had continued difficulties with its nursing services. In the June state inspection report, it was cited for 1 7 failures in this category, and in the December report, it was cited for 18 deficiencies. The March report, which has not been made public yet, also cited nursing service problems. The number of deficiencies is not available, but the March report on nursing services is the one that triggered the 23-day termination notice. Solomon would not comment on the specific examples cited above.

He said, however, "We'll answer everyone's questions and concerns as we go through this process. We're committed to patient care. We welcome the scrutiny of the public and we're working very hard to have the state have confidence in what we're doing." Solomon also said, "It's difficult to be specific because we are still trying to find out what the specific element is" that triggered the 23-day termination notice. "We're not going to fix or address one issue," he said, "we're going to address all the issues." The union election is a separate concern, Solomon said, "our primary concern is patient care." The Teamsters' Cook, however, said that ARA Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of the ARA Group, the third-largest privately held group in the country. "They could care less about patient care," she said.

"The bottom line for management is the dollar sign. We're not talking about making a profit, we're talking about making the maximum," Cook said. "They are on a 23-day fast track and they're in there pounding about pieces of paper against unionization. Why would they have time to worry about unions when the state of Wyoming is after their license? The management priorities are askew. It is off the track entirely." If the termination notice becomes final, the Poplar Living Center will lose its Medicare and Medicaid certification, meaning those two federal programs would no longer pay the nursing home for services.

FEC Continued from A I ithdrawn his support of Thomas' Democratic opponent, John Vinich. Thomas campaign officials have denied any such calls were made as part of the official campaign. land said he could not comment specifically on either charge, but said no disclaimer is required of a phone bank as there is for general political advertising in the newspapers, on radio or television or by mail. Additionally, the FEC has no jurisdiction over a campaign that allegedly lies or misrepresents facts about an opponent, Eiland said. He said the FEC is concerned almost exclusively with campaign financing.

Once the FEC pursues an investigation, Eiland said, that investigation is confidential and neither the complaintant or the target of the complaint is notified of the status of the investigation until the FEC completes its action. It is then up to the target of the investigation Officers Continued from A 1 Both parties begin their officer elections at 1:30 p.m. today at the Casper Hilton Inn. Democratic nominating committee chairman Pete Jorgensen of Jackson said Friday that three people have expressed an interest in the vice-chairmanship of the party, and that other nominations for any of the party offices may also be made from the floor. State Rep.

Eli Bebout of RiverT ton, state Rep. Keith Goodenough of Casper, and Laramie school teacher Karen Ma.xfield, wife of state planning coordinator and former U.S. Senate candidate Pete Maxfield, have said they will seek the vice-chairmanship, Jorgensen said. Which person is selected to be Democratic vice chairman will depend somewhat on who is elected chairman, he said, since party rules require that one person from each gender serve in the top two offices. Continued from Al deal with the problems.

Cook said that the home's problems stem from understaffing. The Teamsters union has a health care division, which represents about 100,000 employees nationwide in the health care industry. She said that the union's experience indicates that 100 non-ad-minstrative personnel are necessary to adequately staff a 120-bed nursing home. Poplar Living Center has only 78 nurses and aides in all departments, she said. John Solomon, regional director of operations for ARA Services, Poplar Living Center's parent company, would not comment on the nursing home's staffing levels, saying, "1 don't have the specific data with me." However, the same care failures have shown up repeatedly in state health inspections, and the company's efforts to deal with them have apparently been ineffective, according to data in state inspection reports.

Deficiencies cited repeatedly in state reports include failure to protect patients privacy, failure to keep patients free from mental abuse, serving unpalatable food and failures in the nursing services area. For instance, in the June 19, 1988, report, state inspectors cited Poplar because "meals are not palatable" and gave several examples. One such example was, "The 2 (gram) sodium puree diet order received a hamburger patty broken up with a fork. Milk was then poured over NATO Continued from Al them there indefinitely without the protection they require," one aide at 10 Downing Street said, "and we've got 70,000 British troops stationed in West Germany." The United States has a total force of 317,000 troops in Europe, a measure for four decades of U.S. military assistance if the Soviet Union ever attacked.

Under the NATO policy of "flexible response" adopted in the 1960s, if it did attack, the allies could respond with either conventional or nuclear weapons. The weapons are intended more to keep an attack from ever taking place than they are to be used, but the movement to get rid of them has been growing ever since the United Shuttle Continued from A 1 shrugged James Flead, a geologist from Brown University. "We've got a nice long launch window," he said, noting that NASA has until May 28 to get Magellan on its way. Atlantis' astronauts were strapped in and the countdown was ad- vancing toward a launch, less than a minute to go, when a controller detected something wrong on a monitor and informed Sieck: "Possible problem with an engine 1 recirculation pump recommend hold at T-31 seconds." Launch commentator Hugh Harris quickly reported, "There is not enough time to recycle and launch today," The pump circulates liquid hydrogen to keep fuel lines cool be- Daily News that the Exxon Valdez's skipper wasn't trying to free his ship from the reef as taped conversations between the ship and the Coast Guard seem to indicate. Some officials had worried that Hazelwood risked breaking the ship on the reef.

Michael Chalos of New York said his client was trying "to keep the vessel on the ledge" and that Hazelwood was "concerned about coming off the ledge and possibly capsizing or breaking up." COMBINATION NEW YORK STEAK SHRIMP 1495 PRIME RIB Q95 100 NO. CENTER 237-3603 Fantastic Assortment of Hew Spring Summer Clothes SffflRDffMWGS- Blouses 2 for $25.00 Miscellaneous table $3.00 other racks 60 off 4030 S. Poplar JIU7 U.llX negative impression of Vinich, according to Wallop. "He came in with a big advantage and a fair-sized disadvantage," Wallop said of Vinich. As a two-term incumbent, Wallop said he offered Vinich more opportunities for attacks on his record.

In Thomas's case, Vinich "had to concoct things" in order to try to draw contrasts between himself and Thomas, Wallop said. Wallop said the timing of the races played a role in the differing outcomes. Last fall's election came on the heels of a summer of massive forest fires and at a time when oil prices were falling, not rising, he said. The presence of Libertarian Craig McCune may also have been a factor, Wallop said. While Thomas' victory margin was greater, the percentage of the vote he received was only slightly higher than Wallop's, suggesting McCune may have drawn votes from Vinich, Wallop said.

Wallop said the issue of out-of-state assistance to Thomas was to announce its results, he said. Eiland said FEC complaints must fallow a very specific format, such as being in writing, citing the appropriate violation, being sworn to, signed and notarized. Once a complaint is verified to be in proper form, Eiland said the target of the complaint has 15 days to file a written response. The complaint and response are then reviewed by the FEC's general counsel who makes a recommendation to the FEC, Eiland said. Four of the six FEC commissioners must then agree there is probable cause a violation has been committed and an investigation is required, Eiland said.

This vote usually occurs 30 to 45 days after the FEC first received the complaint, he said. There is no time limit on how long an FEC investigation may take, Eiland said, but once the investigation is completed four of the six commissioners must then agree a violation has been committed. In balloting for the GOP vice-chairmanship, Thermopolis accountant Loraine Quarberg will oppose Cody lawyer George Simonton, Republican state executive director Mary Ann Collins said. Steve Cranfield, another Cody lawyer, will face Cheyenne lawyer Tony Ross for state GOP secretary, Collins said. Cynthia Chavez-Kelly of Laramie is the only announced candidate seeking to become the Democratic Party's secretary, and Kim Red-dington of Glenrock is alone in seeking the party treasurer's office, Jorgensen said.

Chavez-Kelly is an officer in the Wyoming chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. He said he expects about 50 of the 69 central committee members to be present in person or by proxy at the Casper meeting today. Candidates need a majority of those votes to be elected, he said. Unsuccessful Democratic U.S. But Bill Lamoreaux of the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation said the bad weather was a disadvantage because it hindered clean-up operations.

"Both of us are reflecting something realistic," said Lamoreaux, DEC's coordinator of the spill effort. Stormy weather can have a a favorable effect, but ongoing clean-up work remains essential, he said. Lamoreaux said the state's aerial surveys show a number of areas where oil appears sufficiently concentrated for effective skimming. The storms washed oil off some beaches and back into the fish-rich sound, where grey whales migrating north stop over every summer and where pregnant seals soon will haul out to have their pups. The weather kept skimming operations to a minimum on the JovZ is MOVING to 147 S.

Center Selected Table of Toys 50 OFF 1 62 S. Center PRIME Served 7 Days a Weekl TWO CUTS Viking and 'English Fin Dining Always it th If a violation is found to have been committed, the commission has the option of taking no action or levying a civil penalty of up to $5,000 or the amount of the violation in instances where the violation was not deliberate, or a $10,000 fine or twice the amount of the violation if the violation was made knowingly. The FEC often negotiates the amount of the fine with the violator, Eiland said, noting no action is usually taken when a campaign or political action committee olun-teers it has made an error. If the violator refuses to pay the penalty assessed by the FEC, Eiland said the matter then falls to the federal court in the district where the violation allegedly occurred. The FEC has no authority to levy any criminal penalties involving jail sentences, he said, although there is a separate law involving election fraud which would be prosecuted by the U.S.

Justice Department that could involve criminal penalties. House candidate John Vinich said Wednesday that Moore may have gotten "a lot of unfair criticism" for her leadership of the Democratic Party. "Maybe she did a little recruiting maybe she didn't have to do, but 1 think that's pretty much up to the Democratic State Central Committee to make that decision. I don't feel it's up to me to influence that," Vinich said. Moore is said to have played a key role in convincing state' school Superintendent Lynn Simons to run against Vinich and Maxfield in last summer's Democratic U.S.

Senate primary. The Democratic committee is also expected to discuss planning for the 1990 elections, Moore said in a release. New state central committee members were elected at county central committee meetings during the last two weeks of March. Gulf of Alaska. Parts of the sound had very rough seas, including the waters around Smith Island where the USS Juneau is anchored with 343 cleanup workers.

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Harris had said, "The problem may not be in the pump at all. It might be in ground support equipment or somewhere in the orbiter." Sieck guessed that it would be Saturday or Sunday before NASA would be certain. "If the fixes are simple, we can maintain the possibility of a Monday afternoon launch," he said. "If we have to replace the pump or the (fuel) line, we could go well into next week." If the failure turns out to be in ground support sensors, the fix would be easier and much quicker. Harris said the first goal of the launch team was to "get the crew safely out of there" by making certain all systems were stable.

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