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WYOMING 1 NATIONAL )s Five years JlM in captivity t'1 I WEATHER Sunny and mild SPORTS 1 jX State champs KffjA crowned tigafOl D1 I Legislative report -Bl tatar-Crihrae mm mmm Haitian ruler Avril resigns after nrotests 'King Equality Day' approved by House But bill passed would drop Columbus Day as holiday PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) Haitian mW flAn Pmcrw Avril. who rose to oower 18 -months ago in a revolt by pro-democracy soldiers, resigned Saturday during a popular uprising against his military regime. The embattled Haitian leader AVRIL turned over power to Maj. Gen. Herard Abraham, the army chief of staff, who said he would transfer ruleto a civilian-led government within 72 hnnn.

Abraham niH trip interim government would prepare for elections but did not give a date. Diplomatic sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Avril would leave the country within two days. There was no word on where he would go and how he would get there. Immediately after Avrtl's resignation, members of a coalition of opposition parties disagreed over provisions for Abraham's rule and there also was discord over who would lead the civilian government. The opposition members later met with Abraham and it was i State By PAUL KRZA Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE The House Saturday voted 48-16 to approve a bill that establishes a "Martin Luther King Jr.

Wyoming Equality Day" as a state holiday. But the House also approved an amendment to the bill dropping Columbus Day from the list of approved state holidays. Bill sponsor Sen. Liz Byrd, D-Laramie, said the holiday tradeoff makes her uncertain if she will ask the Senate Monday to go along with the House changes. The Senate must concur, or the bill heads to a conference committee composed of members from both bodies who attempt to settle differences and can also alter the bill significantly.

But if Byrd agrees, and the. Senate accepts the House amendments, the bill goes to Gov. Mike Sullivan for his si i not immediately known whether they reached agreement. They scheduled a news conference for Sunday morning. It was Haiti's fifth change of government since February 1986, when dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier fled the impoverished Caribbean nation into exile in France.

Avril's departure followed five days of mass protests. His opponents said they no longer trusted him to usher in fair elections that had been scheduled for October. Thousands of residents poured into the streets of the capital to celebrate. Youths erected flaming tire barricades at major tions, and black smoke filled the sky over the capital. The television station Tele-Haiti said teen-agers shouted slogans outside the house of a special police agent in the slum suburb of Martis-sant, and that the agent and backers "wildly" opened fire, killing six.

Radio Metropole said seven were killed. Sporadic gunfire was heard throughout the capital, Port-au-Prince, and there were power outages in some neighborhoods. Independent Radio Metropole Please see HAITI, A2 the university for pay raises, $1 million came from the money that had been originally set aside to fund the jobs in the governor's position pool. The governor recommended that the money be used to give a 6.S percent pay hike to faculty and a 3 percent hike to staff at UW. And the governor similarly recommended that the $3.4 million for community college pay hikes be used to give those faculties a percent hike and staff a 3 percent hike.

But the Joint Appropriations Committee decided the money for pay hikes should be given to the institutions in block grants, with the decisions on how to parcel it out left up to the UW trustees and the Community College Commission. The bill also appropriates $6.6 million for pay hikes for state employees "under the pay for performance plan" adopted by the Legislature in 1988. Under the plan, employees who win the ap-Please see RAISES, A12 New financial report prompts AG to examine Char-Fuels expenditures Senate OKs pay raises for most state workers The Natrona Fillies celebrate after they defeated Gillette 82-63 in the championship game of the girls Class 4-A Wyoming State High School Basketball Tournament on Saturday night at the Casper Events Center. Activists recreate historic Selma-Montgomery march signature. "I have a concern about giving up Columbus Day for Martin Luther King Day," Byrd Said Saturday.

She said she planned to take the weekend to decide what to do, and also planned to consult with some of her constituents on the changes. Byrd pointed out that Columbus Day is a holiday in the fall, which many people use to go hunting. The House action came after legislators rejected several amendments, including one that would have converted the bill to a resolution setting a citizen referendum this year to decide the issue. Two amendments to the bill were approved on voice votes. One amendment made Jhe Columbus Day holiday change and the other deleted a "slash" mark between the "King" and "Equality" names.

Rep. Clyde Wolfley, R-Lincoln, Please see HOLIDAY, A12 Attorney General Joe Meyer said Thursday that he is "reviewing the contract" between Char-Fuels (also known as Wyoming Coal Refining Systems) and the state to determine whether state loan funds can properly be used to pay costs such as interest payments on the $8 million in state loans and promotion of the project. Lynn Meyer, Char-Fuels' corporate counsel, secretary and treasurer, expressed surprise that questions as to the company's spending have arisen. "All of our reports relating to use of Wyoming funds have always shown those types of expenditures," she said. "I don't know why those questions are coming up now, when it's been a course of conduct for three or four years." She also said that Char-Fuels' accountants, Arthur Anderson Please see CHAR-FUELS, A12 DOUG CHAMBERLAIN Governor's involvement helped public lands law is evolving beyond the "multiple use" philosophy which "evaded the questions" to a recognition that public use should dominate.

"When there are substantial competing interests you will give first preference to public uses," he said. Babbitt described himself as "an environmentalist who represents (as a lawyer) a lot of extractive clients." Babbitt called the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation; the federal dam-building agency, "a dinosaur." Babbitt said water right transfers and marketing, which are restricted in Wyoming, should be freed up to FleaseseeBABBiit, 12 Sit'' 4 Zbigniew BzdakStar-1 ribune champs we marched all the way from Selma to Montgomery to go home and sit on our of apathy," said Joseph Lowery, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, who led the week-long, commemorative march. At the Capitol, where the Confederate battle flag still flies over the white dome despite blacks' protests, Jesse Jackson told the chanting crowd their message must be taken to the nation's capital. "On to Washington for jobs," Please see MARCH, A12 or's committee worked hard.

It's called doing your homework." "Now it's up to us," Barker added, "We've got the opportunity. It's up to us to take it. I sincerely thank them all for supporting us." Last year. Chamberlain and House Minority Leader H. L.

Jensen, D-Teton, pushed through a bill to increase the standard of need for a family of three from $360 to $654 per month. Wyoming's standard is now $360 per month and the maximum grant also is $360. The Chamberlain-Jensen bill got through the House but died in the Senate Appropriations Committee on a 3-2 vote when the three Republican members opposed it. The failure of the bill prompted tears from advocates and angry reaction from Jensen and Chamberlain, who accused one commit ment 10 percent of what it will cost to build another dam," said Babbitt, who heard about the basin's problems on the drive from the Jackson Hole Airport to the Wort Hotel. Fanners who wanted to should be able to sell out and "retire to La Jolla and raise martinis instead of alfalfa." Babbitt, a former attorney general and governor of Arizona, ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for president in 1988.

He outlined three major changes in the field of American public land issues in recent years. Economically, he said, the days i Raising need standard sailing through ByTOMREA Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE The Senate gave final approval Saturday to a major budget bill that left intact pay raises for state, university and community college employees. Senators also upheld a $2 million cut they had made Friday in the Department of Administration and Fiscal Control. Related story, A3 The bill's next stop will most likely be at a House-Senate conference committee, where differences between the House and Senate versions will be ironed out, legislative leaders said. The bill includes block grants for pay raises at the University of Wyoming, the state's seven community colleges, and employees of the state's executive and judicial branches.

Of the $6.9 million granted to Casper Area A3 Classifieds C5-12 Community Cl-2 Editorials, Opinion A8 Enterprise B8 Landers, Omarr B3 Legislature Bl Letters A9-11 Markets B6-7 Movies C3 NYT Crossword B3 Obituaries, Diary B2 Premier Crossword B5 Sports Dl-8 Weddings B4-5 Old Grouch I think we need a bill that protects the right to grouch. RESULTS Do You have a special trade or service you do as a fun-time job or just on the side? Do you have a low budget? Place your 'Services available' advertisement in the Service Directory in the Classified. Your ad wl run for 30 days at only $14.00 per ine (3 Ine minimum.) And you can have a FREE heading of your choice! Call today for more details! 266-0555 or 1-800-442-6916 (toKree in Wyoming.) 5wV By BILL LAZARUS Star-Tribune staff writer DENVER A new financial report by Char-Fuels of Wyoming Inc. is prompting the Wyoming at torney general to look into the propriety of some of the Denver-based firm's expenditures of state loan subsidies. Between Oct.

19, 1987, and MEYER Dec. 31, 1989, Char-Fuels spent $2.27 million of the Wyoming Permanent Mineral Trust Fund loans, directing just $6,455 of that sum to construction of its long delayed and controversial coal refining project and just $2,071 for procurement, the company's report shows. Legislature tee member, Sen. Jim Geringer, R-Platte, of "political treason." Geringer had co-sponsored the bill. The disapproving vote came despite a message that Sullivan found $2.1 million that could be used to raise the standard to $491 per month.

Chamberlain and Jensen called a news conference to blast Sullivan for offering "too little and too late" and said the governor's action smacked of "political expediency." After the session, Sullivan gave priority to a higher standard of need, initiated a welfare reform study and appointed a steering committee which subsequently held a number of hearings on the topic. As a result, the governor recommended and the Legislature adopted a $674 standard of need Please see NEED, A12 will win out on when extractive industries received federal subsidies to cut trees and dig minerals in the West are over, as environmentalists provoked "public outrage" at such subsidies. Babbitt said that while conservative supporters of extractive industries still run federal land management agencies, the rank and file in the U.S. Forest Service and other agencies "are subverting their management." "The generals have lost their troops," he said, noting that managers in the West are hearing from constituents that "an elk is worth twice as much as a cow." Finally, Babbitt said public land "WJWHMIIH By JOAN BARRON Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE In sharp contrast to the acrimony that sur--rounded the issue last year, a proposal to raise the standard of need to give welfare mothers an incentive to work without losing public assistance has glided through the Wyoming Legislature with no opposition or debate. The proposal raises the standard from $360 to $674 per month.

One of the main proponents of the new program, Rep. Doug Chamberlain, R-Goshen, said he was surprised at the lack of discussion or amendments in the House or Senate. "I think the governor being involved helped considerably," Chamberlain said after the bill cleared the House Saturday after MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) The re-enactment of the historic, 50-mile march from Selma to Montgomery ended Saturday with 3,000 people gathered in the shadow of Alabama's Capitol to rekindle the spirit of the civil rights movement. The turnout paled in comparison to the 1965 march, when 25,000 people gathered in "the Cradle of the Confederacy" to demand voting rights, but organizers hoped the 1990 trek would herald a new age of activism.

"It would be a shameful waste if noon. i "It's been a gradual educational process for all of us. Frustration with the current welfare system has been a factor. People just want to try something else and see if it will work," he said. Federal welfare reform has been another incentive, Chamberlain added.

Chamberlain cautioned his colleagues in the House Saturday that they should be aware they had adopted without debate or amendment a pilot program that has not been proven elsewhere. The new state program contains work incentives that other states do not have, he said. "We've been at this for three years," said Wende Barker, a welfare client advocate. "Every one of these legislators is thoroughly educated. The govern big dam projects like the proposed Blue Holes Dam in the Wind River Basin can "forget it." The Blue Holes proposal was suggested during a symposium panel discussion Friday as a solution to water supply problems created by a large water right awarded to the tribes of the Wind River Indian Reservation last year.

Babbitt said it made more economic sense for federal officials to approach worried non-Indian farmers in the Wind River Indian Reservation and offer them "$5,000, maybe $10,000" an acre for their property. "It'll cost the federal govern Babbitt predicts environmental concerns By GEOFFREY O'GARA Wind River Basin burea JACKSON Environmental and recreational concerns will displace subsidized irrigators and timber and minerals industries on Western public lands, according to former Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt. Babbitt, who spoke Saturday to attorneys attending the Third Trelease Symposium here, said that water users have historically been "kings of the (federal) subsidy mountain." But public attitudes have changed, said Babbitt, and proponents of.