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"vM7y WEATHER -j JlgM Windy, rJ warmer --i Grant gives I t4A CSUlift FOREIGN 1 No production agreement yet A -All r- nNXTIONAr Fraud is at issue luAilJL A9 I Casper TV network calls Mulroney victor in Canadian election Vote supports free trade agreement Jf 1 if IP j- i.ri j- AP and the New Democrats in third with 18 percent. The Canadian Press news agency also projected that Mulroney would have a parliamentary majority. With 76.1 percent of the precincts reporting, it said the Conservatives had 4.27 million votes, or 43.3 percent of the popular vote; the Liberals had 3.48 million, or 35.3 percent; and the New Democrats had 1.8 million, or 18.3 percent. A cheer went up at Mulroney headquarters in his hometown of Baie-Comeau, Quebec when the CBC made its first projection. "We're here and we're to stay," said Sen.

Michel Cogger, co-chairman of the Conservative campaign. Conservatives had a jittery start in the four Atlantic Maritime provinces, but did well enough in central Quebec and Ontario to get at least the 148 seats necessary for a majority, the CBC said. Ontario Prime Minister David Please see CANADA, A14 TORONTO (AP) Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's Conservatives won the House of Commons majority needed to save the free trade pact with the United States, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. projected Monday night. The CBC projected the new House of Commons would have 170 seats for Mulroney's Progressive Conservative Party, 22 more than needed for a majority in the 295-seat House of Commons.

It projected that John Turner's opposition Liberals, who fiercely attacked the trade pact, would win 84 seats and the socialist New Democratic Party of Ed Broadbent, which also opposed the accord, would win 41 seats. Without giving specific figures, the public network said its breakdown of the popular vote showed the Conservatives with 43 percent, down by 7 percentage points from 1984; the Liberals with 36 percent, up 8 percentage points, Bush says meeting with Gorbachev will not turn into bargaining session Sixth floor view Architect Gene George adjusts the open window on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas Monday. From this window Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly shot President Kennedy 25 years ago. Mourners come to Dallas to remember JFK slaying WASHINGTON (AP) President-elect George Bush said Monday he does not intend his meeting next month with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to turn into a bargaining session, but aides say they will go with open ears and minds. "It will be President Reagan's meeting," Bush said.

"I'll be there as vice president of the United States and I expect they'll be aware they're talking to the next president." Bush said that "in terms of specificity, in terms of my committing a brand new administration to specifics in arms control or anything else, I'm not going to do that." Since the second Reagan-Gorbachev meeting, in Iceland in 1986, U.S. officials have been wary of an anything-goes bargaining session. In Iceland, Reagan and Gorbachev discussed eventual elimina Democrats critical of Republican leadership Murphy action surprises Sullivan By JOAN BARRON and ANNE MacKINNON Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE Gov. Mike Sullivan and two Democratic legislative leaders Monday sharply criticized the Republican leadership for denying House committee chairmanships to senior Republicans who did not support a party attempt to override a gubernatorial veto. Sullivan said the action by the House Republican caucus represents an attack on two attributes that the "common man" in Wyoming admires independent thinking and legislators' support of their constituents.

Sullivan, a Democrat, said he vas "surprised" by the GOP decision to remove Rep. Nyla Murphy, R-Natrona, as chairman of the House Labor, Health and Social Services Committee, and to pass over Mary Odde, R-Fremont, whose seniority put her in line for the chairmanship of the Education Committee. He said he hoped they weren't disciplined solely because they supported his veto of a major budget bill. "If that is the reason, it causes me a lot of concern about having a bipartisan Legislature able to work out the bipartisan problems of the state," Sullivan said in an interview late Monday. He also said he assumed Murphy and Odde weren't punished just because they are women.

New Democratic House Whip Fred Harrison, D-Carbon, said in an interview Monday that the GOP move was an attempt to block Republican legislators from performing a constitutional duty of "voting their consciences" as legislators. House Minority Floor Leader H.L. Jensen, D-Teton, could not be reached for comment. New Senate Minority Floor Leader John Vinich, D-Fremont, said he was particularly disturbed by the involvement of the GOP party chairman in decisions on such matters as committee chairmanships which are the business of the elected legislators and affect the workings of the Legislature as a representative body. Vinich said he is looking "very closely" at introducing a bill this session to require party caucus Please see DEMOCRATS, A14 Casper Area A3 Classifieds B10-14 Comics B6 Community B4-5 Crossword B3 Enterprise A9 Landers, Omarr B3 Letters A13 Markets A8 Movies B7 Obituaries, Diary B2 Opinion A12 Sports A4-6 Wyoming Bl Old Grouch The Old Grouch is fighting back a tear thinking about 25 years ago.

RESULTS Mrs. James Spencer sold a 1981 Thunderbird the second day her classified ad appeared. Do you have things around your house garage you just don't use or need anymore? Gain some extra space AND make some extra cash! Advertise your items in an inexpensive Star-Tribune classified ad. Just call 266-0555 or 1-800-442-6916 (WY toll-free) Please ask about Guaranteed Results your item may qualify! DALLAS (AP) Hundreds of people came to the John F. Kennedy Memorial in downtown Dallas on Monday, as the city where he was killed 25 years ago prepared to mark the anniversary with private remembrances but no official ceremony.

Kennedy was traveling in a motorcade through downtown Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, when shots rang out across Dealey Plaza and he fell, mortally wounded. Today, a stone slab inscribed with Kennedy's name and surrounded by partial walls stands near the site as a memorial. BRIAN MULRONEY Winner in Canadian election tion of all nuclear weapons, upsetting U.S. allies in Western Europe who rely on U.S.

nuclear deterrence. Bush and his aides have told the Soviets they will not be open to hard bargaining at the meeting scheduled for Dec. 7, in New York, where Gorbachev plans to address the United Nations. Neverthess, said one Bush aide, "we expect Gorbachev to try to advance some of his ideas. And given his record, he may unveil some new ones, right at the meeting." "We don't want this to turn into a summit, but we will be listening," said the aide, who spoke only on condition of anonymity.

The Bush team thinks Gorbachev might try to break new ground in efforts to cut conventional forces in Central Europe and sharply reduce strategic arms, two areas expected to By EMILY QUARTERMAN Star-Tribune staff writer CASPER Defeated Natrona County Commission Chairman Frank J. "Pinky" Ellis will leave office with few regrets, declaring "I'll never apologize for anything that happened." "I don't apologize for having been a part of decision-making," he said. Ellis was defeated in the primary by fellow Republican Tom Bechtel. Now, after four years as a commissioner, he will yield his seat to Casper lawyer Eric Distad Jan. 3.

Ellis said he is proud of his role in using One Cent Tax funds to build the Agriculture Resource and Learning Center, and in pushing several road and sewer projects. During the contentious final months of Ellis's chairmanship, he the Bush appointees is how many have long-standing ties to the president-elect. When Ronald Reagan was filling out his administration eight years ago, he was meeting many of the top officials for the first time. The same was true of Democrat Jimmy Carter in 1976. Not so with Bush.

His relationships with the people he has appointed goes back many years. That should not be surprising, considering the years Bush has served in governmental and party posts. The long resume he touted during the presidential campaign put him in close contact with other up-and- 1 Outgoing county chairman Ellis says he's leaving office with few regrets remain at the center of U.S. -Soviet talks. Gorbachev and other Soviets have been talking for more than a year about a new military doctrine of "reasonable sufficiency," which could entail sharp cuts in Warsaw Pact tank and infantry forces.

But so far there has been no change in the deployment of conventional Soviet forces, and Soviet chief of staff Sergei Akhromeyev, during a visit to the United States last summer, said the Soviets would cut back only if the West did likewise. New talks to negotiate such an arrangement are under discussion. Other disagreements which Gorbachev might try to resolve cover mobile missiles, submarine-launched cruise missiles and limits to space tests of anti-missile defenses, issues which remained after the Moscow Please see BUSH, A 14 was criticized by fellow Commissioner Joan Sutherland for being absent when the county's mill levies were set and during Optional One Cent Sales Tax Committee hearings. Ellis, a rancher, was trailing sheep on both occasions. Disputes between Ellis and Sutherland were noted by the commission chairman's opponents during the primary election campaign.

Ellis, however, expresses satisfaction with his commission tenure: "I think it was a marvelous experience" to be a county commissioner. "It was fun. 1 enjoyed being able to help people. I think in lots of ways, it's more personalized than city government. I'll miss that part of it.

The everyday part of making decisions." Ellis earlier held a Casper City Council seat. Please see ELLIS, A 14 ideologues coming Republicans. No one ever described Bush as an ideologue and, clearly, the people he feels most comfortable with are as pragmatic as he. It's always tough to get the jump on a new president and name his Cabinet for him. But so far there have been no big surprises, no choices from other than the names subject to the most speculation.

The names being mentioned for the remaining national security jobs are former Texas Sen. John Tower for Defense and Brent Scowcroft for national security adviser or CIA director. Please see PRAGM ATISTS, A14 Park panel recommends no supplemental feeding YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK (AP) Supplemental feeding for wildlife should not be undertaken in Yellowstone National Park this winter because of summer forest fire damage, according to a panel of scientists. Neither should the park embark on a reforestation or reseeding program, according to 13 scientists from across the country who met this weekend in Yellowstone to assess the condition of the park. The group was appointed by the Greater Yellowstone Coordination Committee, comprised of park service and Forest Service officials who manage lands in the greater Yellowstone area.

Norman Christensen, a forest ecology professor from Duke University, said supplemental feeding of elk and bison in the park this winter apparently is not necessary. Any feeding program would be expensive and could have undesirable consequences, such as keeping the ungulate populations at artificially high levels, he said. Please see YELLOWSTONE, A14 i Related story, A 10 It was to this slab that visitors came Monday, the eve of the anniversary, to pay tribute to a president some of them were too young to remember. Raul Miranda, 40, was in Dallas for a convention when he recalled the anniversary and decided to visit the memorial before going home to Los Angeles. "It's something that I can tell my Please see KENNEDY, A14 The third Bush choice was Richard Darman to serve as director of the Office of Management and Budget.

High-profile jobs in the next administration are rapidly being filled, and only one Bush choice has drawn applause from conservatives Gov. John Sununu of New Hampshire who will serve as White House chief of staff. The voting machines had hardly stopped humming with Bush's 40-state Election Day victory when the president-elect made the most obvious choice for his new administration friend, adviser and campaign chairman James A. Baker HI to Bush administration features pragmatists, not FRANK J. PINKY' ELLIS Leaving county commission succeed George Shultz as secretary of state.

During his tenure as White House chief of staff Baker earned a reputation as a quintessential pragmatist, a savvy insider who repeatedly gave low priority to the initiatives of the more ideological elements in the Reagan administration. Calls on Reagan to fire Baker were always sure applause lines at conservative gatherings. Baker's deputy was Darman. Quick to follow the Baker selection was that of another old Bush friend and adviser, Nicholas Brady. He will remain treasury secretary.

In fact, another characteristic of WASHINGTON (AP) The emerging Bush administration includes prominent holdovers from the Reagan years, but with one clear and important difference: The new team is tilted far more toward pragmatists than ideologues. Bush filled three more key positions Monday and his choices were sure to set off cries of anguish from the right. Dick Thornburgh will remain attorney general and Lauro Cavazos will stay on as education secretary. Both men were late-comers to the Reagan administration and both replaced leading ideologues, Edwin Meese III and William Bennett..