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Fight brewing over HHS nomination that assured pro-lifers they would get top agency posts. They in turn vowed not to oppose Sullivan's confirmation. Sen. Gordon Humphrey, said that while "the administration has shown compete good faith" on the earlier appointments, the controversy around Fulton adds "a whole new element." Even though Fulton would be heading a non-medical agency, he would be "dealing with family matters," I lumphrey said last week. Sullivan first upset anti-abortion activists with a newspaper interview indicating he personally opposed abortion but favored women's right to choose.

In the fray that followed, Sullivan assured his critics that he shared Sunday, April 30, 1989 NATO Continued from A I Virtually every West German political party now favors speedy negotiations with Moscow on short-range nuclear weapons, and, if that sentiment takes hold among more European NATO members, it could lead to a major rift at the NATO 4()ih anniversary summit meeting May 29-30. Italy has already endorsed Bonn's stand, and several other NATO governments are known to be leaning in that direction. Whereas many West Germans increasingly feel that they have an interest in a denuclearized F.urope, provided that the Warsaw Pact's conventional arms superiority is eliminated, the administration position is that conventional weapons alone cannot maintain a stable balance there. Beyond tougher public remarks, adminstration officials are encouraging Great Britain and the Netherlands, the two NATO nations most staunchly behind the American position, to speak with Bonn in an effort to get the Germans, if not to reverse their decision, to at least agree to put the whole question on the backburner until the NATO summit is over and it can be resolved quietly. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain is scheduled to meet with Kohl on Sunday in West Germany to discuss the issue.

The administration prefers that the Europeans take the high-profile public lead in confronting Bonn on this issue so as not to play into the hands of those German politicians who might try to exploit American pressure as a case of bullying from the United States. The administration is also conveying its views privately through its ambassador to Bonn, Vernon Wallers, who met on Friday with Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genseher. What makes the short-range missiles such a thorny diplomatic question to resolve is that they are in-terwined with the fate of so many nations. They are part of the NATO defense system. Washington appears to have underestimated just how far Kohl's government would go in pressing the missile issue, and the resonance he would find in West Germany and elsewhere in Europe.

The Soviet Union is anxious to have negotiations on short-range missiles. A1 6 Star-Tribune, Caspar, Wyo. Fighter Continued from Al of American technology never sees the light of day." "Once again, the administration has allowed political and foreign polic factors to dominate a decision having a fundamental impact on our economic future," said Gephardt, who last year ran for president on a trade protectionism platform. Gephardt's St. Louis district is the home of General Dynamics, which is slated to work ith Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in co-developing and co-producimi the FSX.

The Missouri Democrat and other critics of the deal contend that Japan instead should buy American-made F-16s "off the shelf," to hep ease this country's $55 billion trade deficit with Japan. The FSX announcement came the same day as the Office of the Trade Representative released a study listing Japan as one of the worst users of trade barriers. According to published reports, the agency recommended sanctions for refusing to open its markets to U.S. -made cellular phones and mobiles radios. Proponents of the FSX have argued that the deal will give U.S.

industry access to valuable technology particularly in the areas of composite wing construction and advanced radar systems developed by the Japanese. However, a congressional source said a classified report sent to Capitol Hill Friday by the General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress, indicates that the United States actually may gain little or nothing from such Japanese technology. "We don't know as to what advanced technologies they (the Japanese) might have. So it's pure guesswork. From what they've been able to estimate from open-source stuff, the U.S.

is far advanced in wing composites and is even further advanced in the radar technology," said the source, who spoke on condition he not be identified. The source said GAO officials also were expected to testify at hearings on the FSX that when the deal was initially negotiated during the Reagan administration, U.S. officials "did not consider any commercial or economic implications. They did not bring in any agencies that do that. They did it solely for security reasons, and security was narrowly defined." Abortion Continued from A 1 "We call it Operation Bully, because they bully women," Yard said.

Patricia Ireland, national vice president of NOW, said she coordi-nated the effort to get counterdemonstrators to Operation Rescue's protest sites, then went to one herself in College Park, Md. She said anti-abortion protesters tried to break into a human corridor the abortion rights forces formed at a clinic entrance, but it was "no more rough than a game of Red Rover." "We all learned it as children. The way to stop bullying is to stand up to it. That is what we've done and will do all across the country every time these anti-abortion extremists attempt to take away the rights of women," she said. Operation Rescue protesters said they hope to persuade the U.S.

Supreme Court to overturn Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 decision legalizing abortion. The court heard arguments last week on a Missouri case the Bush administration has said should be used to overturn the landmark decision, but the justices have not yet ruled. Outside a clinic in the Boston suburb of Brookline, one of hundreds of pro-choice advocates who outnumbered Operation Rescue members attributed her side's good turnout to publicity given to the Supreme Court hearing. "People who have sat home said to themselves 'My God, we worked for this stuff 20 years ago to stop the deaths of young Kathy Ayres said.

Anti-abortion protesters sang hymns, held pictures of fetuses aloft and, in some cases, clutched rosaries while kneeling to pray. The pro-choice contingent shouted such slogans as "OK, hear our voice, Massachusetts is pro-choice." In Columbus, Ohio, at least 10 abortion protesters were charged with disorderly conduct, including four who temporarily chained themselves by the neck to a 55-gallon barrel filled with concrete and rolled into the doorway of a clinic. Outside the Planned Parenthood clinic in Shrewsbury, N.J., where police reported at least 100 arrests, executive director Phyllis Kinsler said the protesters "just absolutely shoved video cameras in people's faces" as patients came in for their appointments. automatically by the party's rule requiring that the chairman and the vice-chairman be of the opposite sex. "A time of crisis" faces the Democratic Party, said Graves in his speech prior to the vote.

"We need to change the image of our party The principles of our Democratic Pary need to be fully defined Why are we Democrats? What's the difference between the Democratic ideals" and those of Republicans? "Why are we here?" Graves queried rhetorically in a speech prior to the vote." He proceeded to emphasize the need for more communication within the party and to "open up the party." In an interview after his election, Graves was asked to state three ways in which Democrats differ from Republicans. "First," he said, "they care about people rather than things. Second, they are concerned about" Graves then paused and said, "Frankly, I'm not sure I can identify three specific things." An important difference, he soon added, is that Democrats seek to provide "benefits for individuals and small businesses" rather than funneling those efforts to "big business" on a "trickle down theory." Rep. Don Sullivan, a Cheyenne lawyer, and key speaker during the meeting provided the Democrats with a caustically humorous and partisan speech. "We know that largress for the rich will make beg- Salmon harvest will proceed in oil-tainted Alaskan waters WASHINGTON (AP) Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan is engaged in an intense, behind-the-scenes effort to name an Oklahoma slate official to a top agency job, threatening trouble with anti-abortion forces.

"I can't think of anything in the short-term more likely to cause a real uproar," said Gary Bauer, president of the Family Research Council and a former aide in the Reagan White House. Sullivan's choice to head the Family Services Administration, which manages major welfare programs, is Oklahoma state Secretary of Social Services Robert Fulton. Resistance to Fulton marks the first clash between Sullivan and anti-abortion forces since a truce in the first days of the Bush administration Officers Continued from A 1 votes. "We continued our effort to expose people who don't espouse a Republican philosophy," Hughes said, speaking of his achievements. "We continued our effort to expose Democrats for the liberals that they are," he added.

A Thorson supporter told the Republican central committee members Thorson had also written letters "castigating candidates who were not in the mainstream of the Repubican Party." Hughes said that the special election showed that "a nominating process in Wyoming will work" without the draining effects of drawn-out primary battles and "in-terparty struggles." The Republicans elected Lorraine Quarberg, an accountant from Thermopolis, as party vice-chairman and Tony Ross, a Cheyenne lawyer, as secretary. Quarberg won the post with 35 votes compared to 31 votes for Cody lawyer George Simonton, while Ross handily defeated Steve Cranfill of Cody in a 50-16 vote. The party's treasurer post is filled by appointment. The Democrat Central Committee members elected Karen Maxfield as vice-chairman, Cynthia Chavez-Kelly as secretary, and Kim Bader as treasurer. Those candidates had no opponents.

Rep. Eli Bebout of Fremont County had sought the vice-chairmanship but was eliminated In the New Mexico case, the high court majority said a state tax inevitably has some impact on the demand for reservation oil and gas leases and on the tribe's ability to raise its tax rate. But the court suggested the impact had to be "substantial" and direct for a state tax to be struck down. It said there was no evidence the New Mexico tax discouraged reservation production, and quoted the lower court findings that even with the New Mexico tax in effect the Jicarilla Apache tribe could impose still higher taxes with no adverse effect on oil and gas development. The court also suggested that for a state severance tax to be upheld, a state could not be totally unin-volved in the mineral production business on a reservation.

The court said New Mexico provided services to the tribes and the producing company, and regulated oil and gas production on the reservation in such matters as spacing of wells. The dissent by Blackmun argues that the New Mexico tax clearly interfered with the federal goal of promoting the autonomy and self-sufficiency of Indian tribes, including an independent economic life and taxing authority. Calling the services provided by the state relatively minor, while the state's tax put a cap on the taxes the tribe could impose on the main economic activity on the reservation, Blackmun wrote for the minority, "New Mexico asserts little more than a desire to increase its general revenues at the expense of tribal economic development." PLATTE RIVER FLY SHOP 7400 Highway 220 234-4700 Fly Fishing supplies and guided float lishing trips Fly fishing equipment and classes 7 am 7 pm 7 days a week Lowe For Your Summer Sports! Love Prints Love Soiids Aerobic Wear Bicycling Weight Lycra Mori yn dories 1650S. PoDlar S--H Bush's opposition to abortion except in cases of rape, incest or danger to the mother's life. Humphrey and other conservatives in Congress sought assurances from the White House that several top HHS jobs sensitive to abortion policy would go to people who actively shared Bush's anti-abortion views.

The positions for which they sought assurances were undersecretary, assistant secretary for health and assistant secretary for public affairs. Humphrey said, and the lawmakers suggested names for Sullivan to consider. One of the first people Sullivan recommended for an HHS position was among those suggested. gcrs of the rest of us. We know that GOP means 'Gamble on said Sullivan.

He accused Republicans of having "pursued the politics of wining, not the politics of leadership The politics of cynicism in absence of ideas and politics in the gutter." Gov. Mike Sullivan took a different tack. He suggested both parties could share in blame for the recently highly personal, negative campaign between Craig Thomas and Democrat John Vinich. "We need," said Sullivan, "to dedicate ourselves to a high road. We need to move away from negative campaigns (and) concentrate on the issues We don't give a damn about how they conduct themselves in the rest of the country Let's set a standard which not only the state can follow, but which the country can follow." In addressing fellow Republicans, Thomas refrained from characterizing Democratic outlooks.

"We made a clear difference between our conservative Republican point of view and the other point of view," he said. Thomas, like Hughes, suggested that Republicans might look to a different process for nominating candidates, rather than a primary. He called for "a selection process that puts us together when we're through" and said "perhaps an endorsement process" would work. But, Thomas also said, "I'm not sure what should be done. tainted by crude oil is easy, biologists say.

Also Saturday, skies cleared and the seas were calm, allowing the cleanup to resume after several days of waiting out blustery weather. Pilots in oil-hunting spotter planes and slicker-garbed crews aboard skimmer boats coordinated their collection efforts as the tarlike residue floated just off or coated shorelines on the Kenai Peninsula. About 300 people using the USS Juneau as a floating hotel rode landing craft to Smith Island where crews are trying to hose down rocky beaches before pregnant harbor seals haul out to have their pups. Teams from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and from the state Department of Fish and Game toured Sugarloaf and Marmot islands off the Kenai Peninsula. Those may be next on the list to be cleaned for seals, the Coast Guard said.

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The decision this week "has to change somewhat the relative positions" of the state and the tribes in negotiating tax issues for a long-term agreement, he said. If the decision in the New Mexico case had been issued earlier, it would have affected the negotiating positions of the state and the tribes on the current one-year agreement, Maxfield said. And it probably would have "somewhat" changed the agreement terms, he said. But "a deal's a deal" and Wyoming will stick by the one-year agreement as is, Maxfield said. There is "no question about the resolve of Gov.

Sullivan or the state of Wyoming to abide by the (one-year) agreement and to negotiate in good faith to achieve a long-term agreement" with the tribes on tax as well as water issues, Maxfield said. Wyoming has an interest in protecting the tribes' ability to encourage economic development on the reservation, and the tax structure is relevant to that issue, Max-, field said. But Wyoming also has an interest in generating revenue to fund state services, he said. The state provides services to members of the Shoshone and Arapahoe tribes and the companies producing oil and gas on the reservation, along with all state citizens, he said. Shoshone lawyer Susan Williams of Albuquerque said the relevance to the Wind River situation of the court's decision in the New Mexico case is that it highlights the requirement that challengers prove a state tax injures a tribe's mineral OWN A HOME IN JACKSON HOLE 3 2 baths, 5 acres (602) 956-1727 revenues.

No proof of such injury was provided at the trial of the New Mexico case, which made it "probably the worst case to go to the court on this issue," Williams said. The case was brought and tried by an oil company, and the Jicarilla Apache tribe entered the case only after the trial was over so the tribe did not have the opportunity to provide proof of injury, she said. Negotiations for a long-term agreement on Wind River issues will "turn on a lot of things now," Williams said. Not only the new tax decision, but the upcoming Supreme Court decision on Shoshone and Arapaho water rights will affect negotiating positions, Williams said. Williams, who argued the water case before the Supreme Court last week, said the decision in that case is expected by the time the court ends its current term June 30.

But the high court decisions, while affecting state and tribe positions on individual issues, "won't undermine the need for the tribe and the state to work together on a range of matters," Williams said. On the tax front, both sides have an interest in seeing oil and gas production on the reservation, and accordingly need to come to some agreement so the taxes imposed don't discourage production, she said. Regarding water, both new water storage and water monitoring are issues that call for negotiation, she suggested. The current one-year agreement provides for $3.3 million in state water spending on the reservation and a water allocation system designed to avoid the confrontations between Indian and non-Indian ranchers that occurred last summer. "kit'chens and closets Beautifully Designed and Built We do Kitchens, Closets, Remodeling, Problem Solving, New Construction.

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A 6-to-3 court majority led by Justice John Paul Stevens suggested that a state tax interfering with the autonomy of an Indian tribe and its pursuit of reservation economic development could be invalid, but said there was no such interference in the New Mexico case. A vigorous dissent written by Justice Harry Blackmun argued the New Mexico tax did improperly interfere with the Jicarilla Apache's autonomy, setting a ceiling on the taxes the tribe could impose without discouraging oil and gas production vital to its economy. State Planning Coordinator Pete Maxfield said that from Wyoming state government's point of view the new decision means there are less serious questions about Wyoming's legal right to collect severance taxes on oil and gas produced on the Wind River Indian Reservation. But Susan Williams, a lawyer for the Shoshone tribe, said the decision simply demonstrates that a successful challenge to state severance taxes on reservation production must produce evidence of injury to a tribe's revenues from oil and gas. Both agreed that the decision does not change the need for further negotiations between the state and Indian governments to reach a proposed long-term co-operative agreement on the divisive issues of taxes and water.

The dispute over taxes is not in court, but the state and the tribes have been embroiled in a 12-year-old lawsuit brought by the state over water rights a case argued to the U.S. Supreme Court last week. Wyoming taxes affecting Wind River oil and gas are a 6 percent severance tax and about a 7 percent ad valorem tax, for about a 13 percent total. The Shoshone and Arapaho tribes assess an additional 4 percent, so that reservation production pays about a 17 percent total tax rate. Under the current one-year agreement between the stale and the tribes, the state is foregoing collecting 4.5 percent of its severance taxes and the tribes are collecting that amount.

As a result, the total tax rate is still about 17 percent but collection of the tax is reallocated so that the tribes now collect about half the taxes. Maxfield, the state's chief OPEN TODAY Dinner Served 5 to 8 TODAY'S SPECIAL Baked Chicken, Brocolli with Cheese Sauce. 1 Mashed Potatoes ami SS Gravy OILY I Always Fine Dining al The Hilltop Shorrirn Center 234-5336 VALDEZ, Alaska (AP) Commercial salmon fishing in oil-tainted Prince William Sound will begin next month on schedule, but 30 percent of what should have been a record $50 million catch may be lost, officials said Saturday. Fishing boats will be barred from many areas of the sound when the season starts May 15, said state biologist James Brady. At one time, officials had considered canceling the season altogether, just as they had canceled the $12 million herring fishing season and smaller seasons in the sound for shrimp and sablefish after the Exxon Valdcz ran aground and spilled more than 10 million gallons of oil March 24.

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