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prn Iveather i i 1 Cloudy, mild r-ii but windy rl SPORTS vV)'- I I I y'V 1 I Casper teams win two -AS i Popularity I low: polls A9 I LA mayor probe target 4 A2 1889-1989 etera name director at i 4 i I i I i if i SI A i I ame By DAN NEAL Star-Tribune staff writer CASPER The Wyoming Game and Fish Commission Tuesday appointed Francis E. "Pete" Petera to succeed Bill Morris as director of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. Morris, director since 1985, plans to retire July 7. Petera will become director the next day. PETERA The commission announced the appointment late in the afternoon, after the board interviewed Petera, and three other candidates for the post.

71 AP Sen. Alan Simpson, shakes hands with Rep. Craig Thomas, after Thomas was sworn in earlier Tuesday on the floor of the House. Wyoming team Drilling can continue on wildlife winter range: BLM takes oath he casts his first House vote By DAN WHIPPLE Star-Tribune sta ff writer CASPER The Bureau of Land Management will allow oil and gas drilling on the Rattlesnake antelope and deer winter range in western Natrona County under certain conditions. THE BLM will waive restrictions on oil and gas drilling in winter provided vegetation and weather conditions are favorable.

The decision formalizes the practice BLM has been employing governing the winter range for the past two years. BLM has allowed winter oil and gas drilling in the crucial game winter range for the past two winters, despite provisions in its own resource management plan (RMP) which attached lease slipula- Reagan aide rips Bush on missile stand WASHINGTON (NYT) Paul Nitze, the Reagan administration's top arms control adviser, said Tuesday that President Bush was making a serious mistake in refusing to open talks with the Soviet Union on short-range nuclear missiles in Europe. In an interview after he left office on Monday, Nitze made it clear he strongly disagreed with the Bush administration on an issue that has recently become a matter of sharp Related story, A14 dispute within the Western alliance. He said he warned Secretary of State James Baker this year that the two-pronged American approach of insisting on the development of a new generation of short-range nuclear weapons while opposing talks on the weapons, as advocated by Bonn, could not be sustained within NATO and would create a crisis in West Germany. Moreover, the veteran negotiator said he also believed that negotiations on reducing short-range nuclear weapons those with ranges of less than 300 miles would be in the military interest of the West because they would provide an opportunity to eliminate a large Soviet advantage.

Nitze said the administration approach was "politically impossible for much of Europe." "I cannot think of a German who would agree to that," he said. "Many of the allies think it is a crazy proposition." West German proponents of talks on short-range missiles say there is no reason to refuse such talks, on weapons primarily based on or aimed at German territory, when the alliance was willing to negotiate the elimination of medium- and shorter-range missiles. A top arms control adviser to President Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz, the 82-year-old Nitze was often used as an emissary to North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations on critical arms issues during the Reagan administration. Nitze has served in a variety of national security posts, including Navy secretary and deputy secretary of defense. In the early part of the Reagan administration, Nitze was the chief negotiator of the treaty to ban intermediate-range nuclear forces in Europe.

He ended his government service after turning down an offer from the Bush administration to serve as ambassador-at-large emeritus, saying that the position would have left him without any clearly delineated responsibilities. Casper Area A3 Classifieds B9-14 Comics B6 Community B4-5 Crossword B3 Drilling A9 Landers, Omarr B3 Letters Al 1-13 Markets A8 Movies B7 Obituaries, Diary B2 Opinion A10 Sports A5-7 Wyoming Bl Old Grouch I've always said the TV networks couldn't cover a backyard barbecue right. RESULTS If you are a large or or even an individual with a special trade, the Business Card Page may be perfect for you! We will reproduce your business card each Tuesday in the Star-Tribune for just $8.25 per week! (If you don't have a business card, we would be happy to make one just for you at no additional charge!) Deadline: Noon Fridays. Call today! 266-0555 or 1-800-442-691 6 (toll-free.) liomas 2 hours later, By ANDREW MELNYKOVYCH Star-Tribune Washington bureau WASHINGTON Republican Craig Thomas was sworn in Tuesday as the member-at-large from Wyoming in the U.S. House of Representatives.

About two hours later, Thomas cast his first vote against a measure to allow members of the House to make mass mailings of commemorative copies of the U.S. Constitution at taxpayer expense. He was on the winning side, as the measure failed by a tally of 174-231. Expert says By SCOTT FARRIS Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE The news media routinely censor information about the harmful effects of alcohol abuse in deference to the billions of dollars the liquor industry spends on advertising, an expert on drugs and advertising said Tuesday. Jean Kilbourne, a visiting scholar at Wellesley College and a director of the National Council on Alcoholism, told those attending the Governor's 7th Annual Presently the department's assistant director for operalions a post he assumed in 1982 Petera has worked his way up through the department ranks since starting as a fish hatchery attendant in Pinedalein 1958.

Petera could not be reached for comment late Tuesday, but a department release quoted him saying that he "would like to maintain a close working relationship between the department and residents of the state, in the interest of the best possible wildlife management for all concerned." Commissioner Don Scott of Torrington said in an interview after the announcement that "Pete's a real good choice. "He's experienced and very knowledgable and (has been a) very well liked, received member Please sec PETERA, A14 Rattlesnake Crucial Winter Range tions prohibiting drilling between Nov. 15 and April 30. The practice has been controversial because of Wyoming Game and Fish Department concern about the impact of winter drilling on winter-Please see DRILLING, A 14 AP "It's in the nature of (broadcast) journalism to select the most dramatic image you can find, and that becomes representative of the whole," Smith said in an interview after his talk at NWCC. "People see those moonscapes on television really a small part of what's happened in the park and they see the figures 900,000 acres burned and they figure Please see FIRES, A14 1 Casper Natrona County I 0t 4Vi of office swearing-in as "just about the most exciting thing that's ever happened tome." As the House prepared to meet Tuesday, Cheney escorted Thomas onto the floor and introduced him to House Republican Leader Robert Michel of Illinois.

They then went into the GOP cloakroom. House Republicans then called for a vote to approve the record of Monday's proceedings, making it necessary for members to come to the chamber and ensuring a good audience for Thomas' swearing-in. Michel and Cheney brought Please see THOMAS, A 14 alcohol ads 100,000 deaths per year far more deaths than are caused by the use of illegal drugs. "There's phenomenal denial," Kilbourne said. Alcohol isn't even considered a drug." Kilbourne said a Time magazine reporter who had interviewed her for an article on the increase of alcohol abuse among women acknowledged the magazine killed the article because it did not want to offend its liquor advertisers who routinely purchase a half-dozen full-page ads each week.

Please see ALCOHOL, A 14 temperatures. Cold fusion could open the door to a clean, cheap and virtually unlimited source of energy. Pons and Fleischmann said they did it by placing palladium and platinum electrodes in a flask of deuterium oxide, or heavy water, and applying electric current. Deuterium is a heavier isotope, or cousin, of ordinary hydrogen. The researchers claimed the nuclei of the deuterium atoms fused, releasing excess neutrons and producing four times more heat than invested.

Please see FUSION, A 14 Montana, Idaho and Wyoming newspapers those most familiar with park and public land management were more accurate and provided more complete background information than the nation's three or four "elite" papers. Smith will present his Findings at a San Francisco media conference later this month. He surveyed sources quoted in 12 national daily As he stood in the well of the House to take the oath of office from House Speaker Jim Wright, D-Texas, Thomas was flanked by Wyoming Sens. Al Simpson and Malcolm Wallop, and by his predecessor, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. Thomas then delivered a brief speech, saying that "the opportunity to represent the state of Wyoming is the greatest privilege of my life.

"1 look forward to working with each of you and representing the good people of Wyoming," he said. "Thank you so very much." Later, Thomas described his media censor Substance Abuse Conference the liquor industry spends $2 billion each year on advertising. With that kind of purchasing power, Kilbourne said the industry is able to put substantial pressure on the news media to suppress information about the dangers of alcohol use. Kilbourne cited two recent cover stories by Time and Newsweek magazines on the danger of drug use neither of which mentioned alcohol abuse even in passing. This, Kilbourne said, despite the fact that alcohol contributes to Utah school officials defended the research done there.

"When you're out in front, the wind can be cool sometimes," said James Brophy, vice president for research at the University of Utah. Chemist Stanley Pons and his collaborator, Martin Fleischmann of England's University of Southhampton, startled the scientific community March 23 by announcing they had achieved fusion at room temperature. Most efforts to achieve fusion, the process by which the sun and hydrogen bombs operate, have re-quired staggeringly high American public last year that Yellowstone was destroyed, Ohio State University journalism professor Conrad Smith said. But it was clear on the scene that the fires were not engulfing all the acres shown on the daily fire maps, he noted. After surveying broadcast and print media coverage of the massive 1988 wildfires in the Yellowstone area, Smith also concluded that Panel discredits Utah fusion findings BALTIMORE (AP) A panel of nine scientists Tuesday disparaged Utah researchers' claim of achieving fusion in a jar, suggesting they were fooled by faulty measurements.

"The bottom line is we see nothing anomalous in any of their experiments and have identified what we believe are serious errors in the experiment," said scientist Steven Koonin of the California Institute of Technology. Koonin was part of a three-member Caltech team that tried to duplicate experiments that University of Utah scientists said resulted in tabletop fusion. Fusion comments Walter Meyerhof of Stanford University holds a sketch of the Stanley Pons-Martin Fleischmann cold-fusion experiment during a press conference in Baltimore Tuesday. Journalism professor assesses media coverage of Yellowstone fires newspapers and three news weeklies to determine the accuracy and completeness of fire coverage. He also polled reporters from some 100 papers that assigned reporters to the fires.

Smith said national media particularly the major television networks "in aggregate left a substantially incorrect impression" about the effects of the Yellowstone fires. By KATHARINE COLLINS Southwestern Wyoming bureau ROCK SPRINGS The "scientific illiteracy" of reporters and the temptations of sensationalism were clearly demonstrated by media coverage of the 1988 Yellowstone National Park fires, a journalism expert says. The "dramatic images" of television news coverage convinced the.