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WYOMING sis NATIONAL i Won't be 12 investigated I WEATHER I Windy I vGW and mild 'TllH SPORTS 1 1 I 1 1 I bounced yi from tourney tar-Crttntne Legislative report -A4-5 New if Aryan Nations says whites urged to move By CANDY MOULTON Star-Tribune correspondent CASPER White supremacists are encouraging whites living in cities throughout the nation to move to Wyoming because there are few minorities in the state, the head of the Aryan Nations says. A member of the Wyoming Task Force for Equality said Wyoming should fight the movement by sending such "hate groups" a message that they are not welcome here. Task Force member Jimmy said he has been aware of the effort and brought it to the attention of the Natrona County Republican Convention this week, saying it demonstrates the importance of Wyoming joining other states that have adopted the Martin Luther King holiday. In appearances on television and radio talk shows airing in most President Bush and Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner hold a copy of the new national transportation policy after presenting it to a gathering of industry officials in Washington on Thursday. See story on A7.

W. German Parliament affirms Poland's border House vote restores King's name onto bill By PAUL KRZA Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE The House Thursday voted to restore Martin Luther King name to a bill that would establish a state holiday honoring the slain civil rights er. In a 29-32 vote, the House refused to adopt a committe-spon-sored amendment, authored by Rep. Peg Shreve, R-Park, to delete King's name from the bill and rename the holiday "Wyoming Equality Day." Shreve, chairman of the Travel, Recreation and Wildlife Committee, successfully pushed the amendment through her committee last week. In an appeal to her colleagues Thursday, she defended her actions and the committee's, and asked that the new equality designation remain intact.

The amendment, she said, represented Wyoming, a "melting pot" of Native Americans, "where Japanese-Americans were put behind a fence and some chose to stay," along with a variety of other nationalities. "All the above do not have a holiday, but we are all equal and deserve recognition," Shreve said. But several legislators, mostly Democrats, said without King's name, the holiday would have lost its significance. Rep. Mark Harris, D-Sweet-water, said it would be a "travesty" to eliminate King's name from the bill.

"I think in all honesty you would have to. admit that if it wasn't for Dr. King, this bill wouldn't be before us," Harris said. The concept of equality "may have a place in this bill, but there should also be a place for Dr. King He made a place in his life for us." Rep.

Nyla Murphy, R-Natrona, said the holiday honored a "symbol," and "not if we dislike or like the person" named in it. King symbolized the struggle against injustice, prejudice and racial inequality, she said. Rep. Don Sullivan, D-Laramie, Please see KING, A18 Webb says lied as trial WASHINGTON (AP) John Poindexter lied to Congress and ripped up a key presidential document to "rewrite the history of the Iran-Contra affair," a prosecutor argued Thursday at the start of the former national security adviser's trial. The defense said Poindexter always acted legally and followed Ronald Reagan's orders to help the Nicaraguan rebels.

Prosecutor Dan Webb also told jurors former White House aide Oliver North, expected on the witness stand Friday, will testify that on Poindexter's instructions "he lied and he lied and he lied" to Congress by denying the Reagan administration was secretly helping the Nicaraguan rebels. Webb said Poindexter later congratulated North on lies that the prosecutor said "worked like a charm." But defense attorney Richard Beckler denied that Poindexter ever lied to Congress, and he told jurors: "Admiral Poindexter always followed the orders of President Reagan." Bush returned call said to be from Iranian president WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush last month returned a call to talk about U.S. hostages to a man he was told was Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani, but the call turned out to be a hoax, the White House said Thursday. "This was the first time this has happened," said presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. He said the government has no idea who was behind the hoax.

Fitzwater and other White House officials said that Bush placed the call after a man identifying himself as an Iranian government official called the White House to say that Rafsanjani wanted to talk to Bush about U.S. hostages held in Lebanon. "The call came in, a number was given for us to call. We were suspicious and began checking," Fitzwater said. "But, ultimatelv, the president needed to make the call as part of the Please see HOAX, A2 to states over the past 12 to 18 months, Aryan Nations leaders have urged whites to move to Wyoming.

The shows have aired in states from Florida to California, on stations in cities such as Chicago and Atlanta, Aryan Nations leader the Rev. Richard Butler said in a telephone interview Thursday. "Wyoming is one of the five northwestern states where we are actually encouraging people to start pioneering a new home for the white race," Butler said from Hayden Lake, Idaho, where his Church of Jesus Christ Christian-Aryan Nations is located. Besides targeting the state as a haven for whites, the Aryan Nations also is planning to hold rallies in Wyoming late this year or early in 1991 to present the organization's message and encourage membership among the state's Please see BUTLER, A18 AP on "parochial concerns" stemming from the potential role of MTBE in Wyoming's economy. "This is assuredly a tough issue, but I must support my state on this one," he said.

The clean air legislation mandates that oxygenated fuels, with an oxygen content of at least 3.1 percent, be sold in 44 metropolitan areas from October through March. The areas are all in cold climates or high altitude and all Please see CLEAN AIR, A 18 Wf TERRY ROARK Tin extremely pleased' UW block grant plan heads for victory From staff and wire reports CHEYENNE The Senate gave final approval Thursday to a budget bill that includes precedent-setting block grant funding for the University of Wyoming. The new block grant concept, which now appears almost certain to be implemented, will give the university wide flexibility to determine how to spend its money. The block grant which has now been approved by both the House and the Senate authorizes the university to spend $213.4 million, up about $4.6 million from the current biennium, according to figures in the bill and the governor's budget. The Senate also gave initial approval to a separate budget bill already approved by the House that includes a $6.9 million block grant for pay raises at the university.

UW has asked its faculty and staff to recommend how the flexible block grant for pay raises should be distributed to them, UW Vice President for Finance pan Baccari said. Together the two bills moving through the Legislature would raise the university's total 1991-92 authorization to $220.3 million, up about 5.5 percent from the $208.7 million authorized for the current biennium. "I'm extremely pleased," UW President Terry Roark said of the Senate's passage of the university's Please see UW.A18 Casper Area A3 Churches A12 Classifieds B12-18 Comics B4 Community A9 Crossword A8 Enterprise All Landers, Omarr B3 Legislature A4-5 Letters A15-17 Markets A10 Obituaries, Diary B2 Opinion A 14 Sports B5-11 Wyoming Bl Old Grouch "I'd like to see the Lord's righteous wrath directed at these blasphemers. RESULTS you are a large or or even an individual with a special trade, (tie 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. CaH today! 266-0555 or 1-800-442-6916 (toll-free.) AP policy to live in secure borders will not be questioned by us Germans through territorial claims either now or in the future." It says the future government of a united Germany should sign a border treaty on the basis of those declarations.

Poland's deputy prime minister, Leszek Balerowicz, told a news conference in Gdansk, Poland, that Bonn's declaration was progress, but that Poland still should attend talks on German unification. "The government of the Republic of Poland treats it as a step in the right direction, but it is not complete convergence," he said. The invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany in 1939 started World War II. Unease between Poles and Germans is long-standing. Please see GERMANY, A18 Jury impaneled The amendment to the act that failed Wednesday would have lowered the proposed oxygen requirement and made MTBE more competitive.

Coastal spokesman Will Osterloh declined to comment Thursday on whether the Senate's vote to kill the amendment would affect the company's plans. But he noted that Coastal would not have announced a multi-million-dollar project without first determining whether there is a market for the A i 1 BONN, West Germany (AP) Parliament agreed Thursday that a united Germany should honor Poland western border, and Chancellor Helmut Kohl tried to fend off charges that he heightened international fears about unification. KOHL A lawmaker from the opposition Social Democrats, Juergen Schmude, said during a raucous debate that Kohl's handling of the border issue amounted to "political arson in the European house." Parliament passed a resolution that said the two Germanys should adopt twin declarations that "the Polish people are assured their right Poindexter commences Poindexter tore up a "presidential finding" that authorized a 1985 arms shipment to Iran only "because he felt he was protecting the president," Beckler said, echoing testimony Poindexter gave Congress about the Iran-Contra affair. "What was driving this man was not a conspiracy, but what was driving this man was the orders of the president of the United States," Beckler said. Poindexter "met with him sometimes seven days a week, sometimes four, five and six times a day.

And he was carrying out the policies of the United States and that is what this case is about. It is not about criminality." Poindexter worked to help arm the Contras when Congress shut off military assistance because "through hell or high water, Reagan wanted support to continue," the defense lawyer said. Reagan "wanted it done within the law and it was done within the law," Beckler said, telling jurors he will play videotapes of the former Please see POINDEXTER, A2 ral gas or coal. Sinclair Corp. and several other companies produce MTBE at refineries in Wyoming.

Coastal Corp. of Houston recently announced plans to build an MTBE plant in Cheyenne. The pending Clean Air Act would set a certain standard for oxygen content in gasoline, a factor related to carbon monoxide emissions, that could be met by MTBE competitor ethanol more easily than by MTBE itself. UUpi UHU I '-) IB A jury has been impaneled for the trial of former national security adviser John Poindexter, shown here arriving at U.S. District Court in Washington Thursday with his attorney, James Beckler.

U.S. Senate rejects amendment favorable to Wyo-produced gas additive By ANDREW MELNYKOVYCH Star-Tribune Washington bureau WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate late Wednesday killed a proposal aimed at boosting sales of a gasoline additive produced in Wyoming. MTBE (methyl tertiary butyl ether) is an oxygen-rich chemical that can be used to reduce the amount of carbon monoxide in automobile exhaust. It is produced from methanol derived from natu product.

"Obviously, there's a need" for MTBE, he said. "Whether it's going to be affected by an act of Congress, I just don't know." The provision to boost MTBE was introduced by Sen. Frank Lautenberg, as an amendment to the clean air legislation now before the Senate. It was supported by Wyoming Republicans Al Simpson and Malcolm Wallop. Simpson said his vote was based.