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S.iluii1ay. July 12, 1986 Economy Secrecy surrounds military plane crash CIA killed person. The pilot's name was not released. "The whole area has been restricted, including the air space above the crash site," the Kern County Sheriff's Office said, stressing that it was relaying information from the Air Force. "There will be military aircraft in the area, and anyone entering the area will be dealt with appropriately by the Air Force," the sheriffs office said.

Gen. Michael McRaney, head of public affairs for the Air Force, said from the Pentagon that the plane had only one crew member and "was definitely not a bomber." No weapons of any kind were on board, 2nd Lt. Eric Schnaible said. The crash, about 12 miles nor-; theast of Bakersfield, triggered a brush fire that blackened 150 acres of the Sierra Nevada before it was Continued from Al Many in Congress have been very critical of the CIA's earlier management of military operations in Nicaragua. In addition, Rep.

Lee Hamilton, an Indiana Democrat who is chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has been unhappy with the secrecy attached to CIA operations. By insuring that the State Department would be in charge of overall policy, the administration hopes to be able to deflect the expected political criticism of CIA involvement. "We can't have another mining of the harbors," a State Department official said, referring to a controversy spawned by the belated disclosure in April 1984 that CIA agents had mined the Nicaraguan harbors of Corinto and Puerto Sandino without the explicit approval of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which was supposed to be informed of such Arrests Continued from Al uninjured. "At some point, the exact date I am unable to provide," Hladky said in a prepared statement, "we identified three suspects in the homicide." "In March 1986, we concentrated on these three individuals, directing all our efforts their way," Hladky said. "The big break in this case came when we were able to obtain an arrest warrant for Birr on drug charges." Birr was arrested May 28 at a Sheridan residence that had been under surveillance.

"Once we located and arrested Mr. Birr, the investigation drastically accelerated," Hladky said. "We are expecting a further warrant to be issued," Hladky said. "At this time I am unable to comment on when that warrant will be forthcoming." Birr and Schultz were arraigned separately Friday afternoon, Deputy Campbell County Attorney Russ Hansen said. He said preliminary hearings for the men are set July 18 in Campbell County Court before Judge Jeremy Michaels.

Both men are being held without bond, Hansen said. Although Hansen said it is premature to speculate about whether the death penalty will be sought, "the potential is there." He said that charges against the two men are based on the allegation that robbery was the motive for their entering the Bernard home March 1, 1985. Hladky said he assigned a major portion of his department to do the initial investigation into the Bernards' death a year ago. He said within the first week, his deputies conducted "hundreds of interviews," and information gathered provided the basis for the investigation. After that first week, the sheriff said, two full-time officers were assigned to the case.

He said they were assisted by department investigators "who were involved in undercover operations related to the grand jury" that led to more than 60 drug-related indictments last year. "Although we felt and now realize that we had identified the perpetrators, more evidence was necessary before an arrest could be effected," the sheriff said concerning the year-long investigation. He said that investigation took his men across the state and country. "Although we felt comfortable with these people as suspects, all reasonable leads had to be followed," the sheriff said. The court is expected to appoint permanent lawyers for Birr and Schultz, probably on Monday, according to Hansen.

Hansen said court-appointed private attorneys were assigned to Birr and Schultz for Friday's arraignments by the court because all public defenders in Gillette were in Laramie attending the Western Trial Advocacy Seminar. itlJ.nF.'r-l-J IT 1111 l'l F.I! II J. I I B.T.Y-J When you want the very best MEXICAN FOJOD Cteatda FAJITAS! BEEF CHICKEN (The little yellow Irate milk tbe red (kitten) 633 Collins 234-7633 LOYAL ORDER OF THE MOOSE contained at 8 a.m. by Kern County and U.S. horest service firefighters.

Kern County fire dispatcher John Rosso said the crash occurred in Kern River Canyon, about 1 10 miles north of Los Angeles. The initial statement from Edwards, five hours after the crash, said only that an Air Force plane had crashed, gave a general location and said a board of officers would be appointed to investigate. "That's the guidance we've been given from Washington," said Staff Sgt. Lorri Wray, after she read the statement. "We can't give out any details." But the super-secret operations the Air Force conducts over the sparsely inhabited deserts and mountains of California and Nevada gave rise to speculation that the plane may have been highly classified.

established Protestant dominance in Northern Ireland. The violence broke out as bonfires blazed across Northern Ireland in a traditional show of Protestant fervor. Security forces were on full alert throughout the province. The Royal Ulster Constabulary, the province's police force, said there were no reports of injuries in Portadown, 25 miles southwest of Belfast. Road Continued from Al the federal government to let L-P cross their land.

She said the U.S. Forest Service has even threatened to condemn the property so the logging company can cross it. "You bet they're giving (L-P) special treatment," she said in a telephone conversation from Rock Springs. "We were told if we tried to stop them we could be put in contempt. They're, threatening court action and we could be fined and put in jail.

We're mad." U.S. Attorney Richard Stacy had hoped Wednesday he could negotiate a settlement between L-P, the Forest Service and the Retels. Forest Service Chief Max Peterson ruled in June that L-P could upgrade a section of the Union Pass Road so its trucks could use it. However, shortly after the construction work began, the Retels went to Sublette County District Court where they obtained a stay preventing the logging company from crossing their land. The lawsuit later was transferred to U.S.

District Court in Cheyenne, where a hearing date has yet to be set. Stacy had hoped Wednesday's meeting would produce a settlement that would allow the lawsuit to be dropped. "Our attorney was at the meeting," Stella Retel said. "We would not go because there was no judge there and all they could do was talk." The Retels promise to fight L-P and the government, saying many Wyoming residents back their actions. "It's our land, our place to retire, to get away from the hustle-bustle," she said.

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90 Days Same Cash I Sale actions. The assigning of roles for handling the $100 million expected to be approved by Congress by the end of the summer has underscored the longstanding tensions in the administration over the issue of United States involvement in Central America. Some State Department officials would have liked the Defense Department to play a more direct role in helping manage the expected expansion of the war, rather than relying so heavily on the CIA. But they said the Pentagon, except for assigning specialists to help the' CIA train the Contras, resisted efforts to bring it into direction of the war. "You're going to have a army," one State Department official said, referring to the expected expansion of the Contras.

"That is not a paramilitary operation. That's a military operation." The Contras are now said to have about 20,000 troops, not all of whom are trained. Biogenesis Continued from Al Yet Western Business magazine, published in Billings, reported in its July edition that ECC is under investigation for the same alleged activity. Ohlsson produced a copy of a Australian newspaper column printed this month that indicates the Montana magazine gathered the information for its story from 1985 press clippings about the allegations. The author of the Western' Business article could not be reached for comment.

Meanwhile, ECC is eager to put the finishing touches on a financing package that will provide Biogenesis a new facility at minimal start-up costs to the company. The Wyoming Community Development Authority is trying to bring together various sources of public and private financing to build the facility. Biogenesis would use recently developed genetic advances to grow a wide range of plants in short periods. Accelerated growing cycles could make crops now unsuited to Wyoming's short growing season commercially attractive, Ohlsson said. "The reason I'm here is the present package presented to us is not acceptable to the Biogenesis board," Ohlsson said.

"We're not coming to Wyoming based on the present deal." The offer, in effect, would charge ECC too much interest on its loan to build here, he said. But "we're not that far apart" from closing the deal, he said. "What I don't want to do is leave here in the next couple of days without clarifying the deal itself," he said. Under preliminary plans, the City of Casper would build the Biogenesis greenhouse and lease it back to the company for 10 years. Officials say the facility could employ as many as 300 people by 1988 and 500 by 1991.

How fast the state can process the necessary paperwork also will determine whether Biogenesis locates here or builds elsewhere, Ohlsson said. ECC already has looked at North Carolina as a possible site, he said. "If I look at it and it all looks as though it's going to take me 12 months to get approval, well, we won't be starting up in Wyoming," he said. "We can't afford to. I want to be selling plants next summer.

That's why we're aiming at a May 1 start." Ohlsson said he has been "assured" that the permitting process will flow smoothly. "But if we found for example that it would take us nine months to get the building application approved we'd be saying, 'Bye-bye, Casper," he said. Softshell Saturday 2 Softshell Tacos omy $1.49 LCasper, Mills Douglas ATTN: LOCAL ARTISTS FINE ARTS I FESTIVAL August 16 -10-5 Deadline: July 18 For Reservations Call: 577-1440266-5951 1 Continued from Al "If you're talking about people as consumers, it certainly is good news. There has been a very major increase in purchasing power for most of this year. "But if you look at people as job holders, as employees, then it's not such good news.

Commodity prices are still weak and that is a reflection of high foreign import penetration and very poor conditions in the manufacturing sector. Wages and salaries have-been extremely weak this year." Gasoline prices moved up 2.9 percent in June, after an 8.6 percent surge in May. But other energy prices continued to fall natural gas prices by 5.8 percent and heating oil prices by 6.8 percent. All the monthly figures reflect adjustments to remove the impact of seasonal factors. Food prices were unchanged in June after a 1.1 percent rise in May.

Vegetable prices fell 9.8 percent; egg prices were off 6.4 percent; beef and veal costs dipped 2.4 percent. Alcoholic beverage, soft drink and coffee prices all fell. But these declines were offset by an 18.2 percent jump in fish prices, a 3 percent increase in poultry prices and a 5.2 percent gain in pork prices. Donley Continued from Al He then pointed to his own proposal this week for a $22 billion coal-slurry pipeline system, as well as his trip to Taiwan to market Wyoming products, as concrete examples of his own selling of Wyoming. Donley, who has run a campaign based on the theme, "Donley for Family and Jobs," said there are other differences between himself and the other candidates.

His campaign booklet named the "strong, conservative Christian community" as the campaign's "greatest asset." Donley reiterated his anti-abortion position as part of his reaching out to the "family." But, he said, even though Democratic contender Mike Sullivan is the only other leading candidate to be anti-abortion, he would still support a Republican pro-choice candidate over Sullivan. Such issues as right to work and state appointments also are important, he said. Sullivan's campaign manager, Charles Brown, said that Sullivan's "pro-life" position does not include supporting a constitutional ban on abortions. Sullivan also does not support any state legislative changes that would prevent abortions. Donley also expressed his opinion on a recent Supreme Court ruling that upheld Georgia's sodomy laws.

The high court, he said, made the "proper" decision. The Supreme Court dealt only with the issue of homosexuals committing sodomy, despite the fact the Georgia laws dealt with both homosexual and heterosexual sodomy. Donley said that in the case of married couples, and even with adult heterosexual couples their "homes are their castles." He did not extend the same privilege to adult homosexuals. "I would support sodomy legislation that would outlaw homosexuality," he said. "I'm surprised Wyoming doesn't have that on the books.

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The editor of a defense techonology magazine said industry and government sources had told him the same thing. Public affairs officials at Edwards, who read brief statements to reporters, confirmed that the crash occurred about 2 a.m. and I Air Force Plane Crashes Sacramento Los Angeles MlltS 200 EPA Continued from Al "characterize" the wastes. The cost of testing the samples will comprise more than half the $1 million budget Congress has allocated for the program, with each sample costing a hefty $6,600 to test, she said. Following in the tracks of the EPA scientists will be two oil and gas consultants hired by the American Petroleum Institute to take samples from the same sites as those being used in the EPA study.

The API hopes to verify the accuracy of the federal study. Both studies will be published. DeNagy said the EPA must complete the test portion of the program by January. Congress has required the report be submitted by September 1987. The EPA launched the program last fall in response to a lawsuit filed by the AlaskaCenter for the Environment, consjfevation group that protested the EPA's failure to initiate the study, DeNagy said.

Upon enactment of the hazardous-waste law The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, known as RCRA in 1980, Congress mandated the study of oil and gas wastes be initiated within 24 months to determine whether they should remain exempt or be brought under the regulations. The EPA had contracted consultants and laboratories and had prepared the study, but the lawsuit provided some impetus to get the study going, she said. A suspicion by Wyoming's oil industry that the study was being conducted secretly might have arisen from the haste with which the agency began the study after the Alaska group filed its lawsuit, she said. III W.llf.lV i -J DCMT-YOURSELFS Full line Plumbing Repairs Parts Casper's Quality Plumber Since 1945 HSTLEREU2IEEG 356 N. Wolcott 234-2810 Open Sat 10-1 JULY SPECIAL i RAIN BIRD sprinkler system from Rocky Mtn Sprinkler 266-1981 CALIFORNIA II BakersfiekJ jdvvarj Aw Force 16 10 OFF 3 Drug may help heart attack victims NEW YORK (AP) A massive study shows that a drug that eases the heart's workload can save lives when used soon after a heart attack, and experts say it could prevent 10,000 premature deaths a year.

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About 300 edgy residents waited to return to their homes. The tanker car and its cargo of white phosphorous burned after derailing Tuesday on a bridge over Bear Creek, just west of the Great Miami River, spewing toxic fumes that prompted the largest evacuation because of a train accident in U.S. history. There was no estimate on how long officials expected the fire to continue to burn in the tanker, one of 15 cars of a 44-car CSX Transportation freight train. Authorities decided to let the wreckage burn after attempts to move the tanker and remove the phosphorus while deluging it with water failed.

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