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l4n, WEATHER 4 Warmer, feT partly cloudy fXT I Wyoming; -7 X. Some bridges p-- substandard ll ill I I ECONOMY i i Urges Japan I to drop quotas liLyll A11 1 I sports" A hri Japan's Seko Ji'f') wins marathon L. 2 I xibnut ilim-iiamilh hi tmmmmmmjagmmMlaitmti) miiji ionsf miners down coal mine Nearly 300 workers idled, official says By PAUL KRZA Star-Tribune southwestern bureau KEMMERER-Nearly 300 miners went on strike here Monday, closing down Pittsburg and Midway Coal Company operations and idling the largest workforce in the Kemmerer area, officials say. Members of Local 1307 of the United Mine Workers of America stopped work just after midnight when a three-year labor contract expired. The union leadership said failed to accept key "job opportunity and economic security" provisions in a new contract proposed by the union.

in ii iKprti mil i i A Icy bud i Wyoming trails other states in SSC bidding Millions invested to acquire supercollider, survey shows A bud shows the effects of the spring storm that hit Wyoming with heavy wet snow and strong winds over the weekend. By JOAN BARRON Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE Other states are investing far more money and trying harder than Wyoming to convince the federal government to locate its $4.4 billion superconducting supercollider within their boundaries, a Star-Tribune survey shows. Gov. Mike Sullivan has asked a state SSC task force to look at proposed sites and consider financing possibilities and the manpower required to prepare a credible application to convince the government to locate the giant atom smasher in the Cowboy State. But other states have already committed invested millions of AaiMMii iini rill ciose D.C.

-based union bosses who are using them as "pawns in a national game." Meanwhile, talks continue between managment and nearly 70 rniners at the nearby FMC Corp. Skull Point mine, where a similar contract with another UMWA local expires on Thursday, and another strike looms. The strike at was automatically triggered at midnight Monday, when a three-year contract between the union and management expired, local president Martin Argyle said. By early Monday morning, six miners were walking the picket line at the com-Plcasesee STRIKE, A14 1 .5 million acres rocommondod for OU drilling ZE Hodel urges oil drilling in Arctic refuge WASHINGTON (AP) Congress should open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling to tap the best chance of increasing domestic petroleum reserves, Interior Secretary Donald Hodel recommended Monday. Though a large caribou herd could be forced out of favored calving grounds by full-scale oil development, experience at Prudhoe Bay 100 miles to the West "tells you there may be no risk; there may be some benefit" to the herd, Hodel said in an interview.

He referred to a tripling of the central Arctic herd at Prudhoe Bay to 15,000 animals after oil development there, despite predictions of disaster from environmental groups Possible oil pools beneath the coastal plain of the refuge are "the most outstanding onshore frontier area for prospective major discoveries," Hodel said in a written statement distributed at a news conference. He called the petroleum deposits "vital to our national security because they would reduce America's dependence on unstable sources of foreign oil." "Our nation has proven that we need not choose between exploring for and developing the energy necessary for survival and growth on the one hand, and protecting the environment on the other. We can Please see ARCTIC OIL, A14 appeals fail KARL LINN AS Deported to Soviet Union 19 millon aao (Sr National YyX-V- Wiidiifo Refuge V-Trans Aljska yp' 1 pipelino sy Tri-State, suit starts up Firms battle over purchase of co-op By ERICH KIRSHNER Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE -The power generator for Wyoming rural electrics went to court in a $126 million lawsuit Monday claiming that Pacific Power Light one of its biggest private competitors, has embarked on a deliberate campaign of picking off co-op customers and adding them to the system. In testimony in federal court Monday, lawyers said there had been a scribbled note stuck on the president's door from a vice-president. The note read simply: "We got one." President Dave Bolender wrote back on the note, "Congratulations get another." The "one" landed was Shoshone River Power a small Cody-area electric cooperative.

On Jan. 30, 1986 the cooperative's members voted to sell out to Pacific for $9.3 million. On Monday in Judge Ewing Kerr's U.S. District Court the cooperative company that provided Shoshone with power before the sale to Tri-State Generation and Transmission of Denver, took its case to a six-person jury, claiming the loss of Shoshone will cost it $126 million and seeking damages in that amount. Tri-State is suing both and Shoshone River Power.

Tri-State laims the cooperative broke its contract when it sold out to Tri State claims is guilty of "improper interference" in the contract between Tri-State and Shoshone. and Shoshone flatly deny Tri-State's claims, saying that Shoshone had the right to sell out and had a right to buy it. earlier indemnified the cooperative against any court costs and damages due to litigation. Shoshone River Power has its own attorney in the case, however. Tri-State has been joined by federal lawyers representing the Rural Electrification Administration (REA).

The REA opposes the contract between and Shoshone on the grounds that such sales jeopardize the nation's cooperative electrification system. It was Tri-State's lawyer, Please see TRI-STATE, A14 Casper Area A3 Classifieds B8-14 Comics B6 Community B3 Crossword B4 Landers, Oracles B4 Letters A13 Markets A 10 Obituaries, Diary B2 Opinion A12 Sports A7-9 TV-Movies B5 Wyoming B1.B2.A14 Old Grouch Personally, I prefer another kind of icy Bud. RESULTS ANOTHER FIRST! Pim McClur sold her matching couch and loveseat to the FIRST CAIXER the FIRST DAY her classified ad appeared! Do you need to sea something? Our Customer Service Reps are ready to help you write the perfect ad. Just call 266-0555 or 1-800-442-6916. toll-free in Wyoming.

(Don't forget to ask about Guaranteed Results!) fu9 2nd Longtree accuser recants, attorney says The union wants preferential hiring and transfer rights in the contract to assure its members' future in coal mining, the union officials said. Under those provisions, workers would be guaranteed jobs at other company mines or preference at newly-opened operations. But officials with the company, recently acquired by Chevron as a result of a merger, said those proposals represent "forced unionization" of other company operations. And they suggest that the strike does not reflect the interests of local employees but the unreasonable dictates of top, Washington dollars in the effort to land the project the largest particle accelerator ever built because of 4,500 construction jobs followed by 3,000 permanent workers including scientists, engineers, technicians and administrative staff. The project reportedly will have an annual budget of $270 million when it is finally in operation.

The state of Illinois has committed $4.5 million to land the SSC. California has committed $2.5 million and has two sites picked. The SSC will require 16,000 acres of land for installation of an underground oval tunnel 53 miles in circumference. The proposed site must be free of geological Please see SUPERCOLLIDER, A14 scooped him up in her arms and carried him inside. Reagan said over the weekend that while significant issues still divide the superpowers, "our negotiators will intensify their efforts to clear them away when talks resume in Geneva." The president sounded optimistic concerning the Soviet proposals for removal of entire categories of nuclear weapons from Europe made last week during Secretary of State George Shultz's three-day visit to Moscow.

"When I return to Washington, I will meet with the bipartisan congressional leadership to review Please see REAGAN, A14 The U.S. District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington subsequently also declined to grant a stay. Linnas' daughter, according to family attorney Larry Schilling, had hoped to make a personal appeal to Attorney General Edwin Meese for more time to find another country willing to accept Linnas. Meese, however, did not have time to meet with her, and he authorized the deportation to proceed.

Linnas, 67, has been held at the New York City jail since April 1986. A retired land surveyor from Greenlawn in Long Island, N.Y., Linnas has lived in the United States since 1951. He became a Please see LINNAS, A14 Star-TribuneVal Reed 1 CLAYTON LONGTREE Another accuser recants Moscow and Vienna, Austria the two posts where Lonetree served. The Marine Corps refused to Please see MARINES, A14 Linnas was the last person to board Czechoslovakia Airlines Flight 601 at 7:20 p.m., New York officials said. He was escorted by five police officers.

The plane left at 7:55 p.m. EDT, said Elizabeth Holtzman, the Brooklyn district attorney. As the plane was taking off, Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist rejected a bid from Anu Linnas, one of Linnas' daughters, for a temporary stay blocking the deportation. Standing on the steps of the Supreme Court building after the stay was rejected, she vowed to "prove to this country and the world that he is innocent." She told reporters her father was being "wrongly deported to die." "If my father isn't shot im I I I Reagan ends vacation, sets arms control talks WASHINGTON (AP) A defense attorney for a Marine em- bassv euard accused of esDionaee said Monday a second, previously unidentified witness against his client had withdrawn a statement given to investigators suggesting wrongdoing. Michael Stuhff, in a telephone interview, identified the witness as a Cpl.

Robert Williams. Stuhff said he had been notified last week by prosecutors that an incriminating statement given by Williams implicating Sgt. Clayton Lonetree had been withdrawn by the Marine. "Williams has recanted his statement and told the prosecutors that he was tricked or coerced into making that statement," Stuhff asserted. The lawyer added the notice of Williams' recanting was "one of many factors" that led to a defense decision last Thursday to seek a delay in pre-trial hearings for Lonetree until next month.

Stuhff declined to identify Williams further, beyond saying he had served as an embassy guard in Linnas deported to Soviet Union after final court WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan, ending a 10-day California vacation, returned to Washington on Monday to consult congressional leaders about what he believes are promising arms-control negotiations with the Soviet Union. Besides meeting with top Democratic and Republican leaders this week, Reagan is expected to give instructions to his arms negotiators, who will start a new round of U.S.-Soviet talks in Geneva on Thursday. As the president and his wife, Nancy, walked across the South Lawn from their helicopter, their dog, Rex, ran to greet them, dragging its leash behind. Mrs. Reagan mediately, the Soviets will stage one of the flashiest show trials the world has ever seen," she said.

"Hitler's and Stalin's ghosts are probably having a nice toast right now," she said. A friend of the Linnas family, Rein Olvet, 43, of Queens, was in the boarding area because Linnas's daughters had asked him to witness the departure. "It seems they wanted to punish him through any means possible. That's wrong," Olvet said. "I'm not saying he shouldn't go on trial.

If he did what they say he did, he should be punished." The deportation came hours after the full Supreme Court rejected Linnas' bid for a delay while his lawyers hunted for another country that would accept him. WASHINGTON (AP) Karl Linnas, facing a Soviet death sentence on charges of supervising Nazi concentration camp executions, was deported to the Soviet Union on Monday after the Supreme Court and the Justice Department turned down his bids to remain in the United States. Linnas was taken from his New York jail cell by federal agents and put on a Czechoslovakian airliner to Prague, where he will board another flight for the Soviet Union on Tuesday, officials in New York and Washington said. "What they're doing right now is just a murder and kidnapping," Linnas shouted to reporters as he was being hustled into the police station at J.F. Kennedy International Airport..