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WYOMING IF WEATHER 1 Cold with light snow -A2 sports IP Cowboys fall to Falcons 1 1 -as 1 Hostage i still alive Legislative report -A4-5 i rs 1 lUMU.iuun i I imii.i,.iiia ii urn i.i., Mm4mmmmmKtm I mmiWmmM ill House committee I Wx-f VV. King state holiday bi I Republican, Les Bowron, R-Natrona, supported the holiday. The committee's other five Republicans Shreve; Rick Tempest, R-Natrona; Terry Guice, R-Albany; John Rankinc, R-Hot Springs and Clyde Wolfley, R-Lincoln, opposed it. Shreve said she believes she and her committee members should vote on each bill before them based on their views, and should not pass a bill out of committee just because of public interest in the bill. The committee voted 5-4 against the holiday after the committee rejected a proposal by Shreve to rename the holiday "Equal Rights Day" and move the holiday from January to July 10, the day Wyoming was admitted to the union as a state.

Before its vote, the committee heard two hours of often emotional testimony in favor of the bill. Some supporters warned failure Please see KING, A18 By SCOTT FARRIS Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE A bill to create a state holiday honoring slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by the House Travel, Recreation and Wildlife Committee Thursday. The vote means Wyoming will, for at least one more year, be one of only six states without a holiday honoring King. King's birthday, celebrated the third Monday in January, has been a federal holiday for two years.

Although (he Senate had already approved the bill by a 23-5 vote, committee Chairman Peg Shreve, R-Park, said she did not feel the committee should send the bill on for debate before the full House. All three committee Democrats Guy Cameron, D-Laramie; Sam Blackwell, D-Sweetwater and Mark Harris, D-Sweetwater and one -armi rliTMirtMiHiTiTma-iiTiBmiHMiiiirmi'abit Mtim- PEG SHREVE Committee chairman V.T "V- Senate gives final OK on 2 waste bilk By JOAN BARRON Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE The Senate Thursday cave third and final passage to two bills to regulate solid wastes and radioactive material amid caution from one senator that the Legislature is "oer-reacting" in its rush to control the importation of garbage and other solid wastes. Sen Boyd Eddins, R-Lincoln, made the comment in regard to a bill that would require large commercial solid waste disposal facilities to get permits from the Industrial Siting Administration as well as from the Department of Environmental Qualitv. The bill, HB 102 part of a package of legislation designed to protect the state from the blight of massive, indiscriminate waste disposal passed the Senate on third and final roll call, 21-8. Eddins said he is concerned that the Legislature is puf.ing together "pieces" of legislation that will limit the state's options in the future.

No other senator commented on the legislation before the Senate approved the bill. Eddins said he believes there are opportunities for economic benefits in the field of solid waste, which is a national problem and one the state's shouldn't run away from. 'There are innovative things we can do," he added. Eddins said that when he was a member of the Lincoln County commissioners, the county established four solid waste disposal sites and may be the first county in the state with a garbage recycling facility. "1 think we're over-reacting," he said.

"I'm just throwing out a word of caution. We don't have a so'id, long-range plan." The industrial siting bill covers commercial waste incineration or disposal facilities capable of receiving 500 short tons per eight hour operating shift of household and industrial refuse, and any commercial facility which disposes of hazardous wastes. The facilities must pay a fee of $10 per short ton of solid wastes less $5 for each short ton that is recycled. For hazardous wastes, the tee is a minimum of $25 per short ton, less $3 for each short ton treated at the facility to significantly reduce toxicity and long-term hazards to the environment. The Industrial Siting Council will issue permits for the facilities and take steps to mitigate the impact of the disposal sites on property values, sponsors have said.

Another bill, still awaiting action Please see GARBAGE, A 18 House rejects triples study on close vote AP Teen warrior Wearing a captured Soviet army belt, this 13-year-old Afghan guerrilla in Ghazni City prepares Thursday to join other rebel bands massed around Kabul. I -Jim0" -a Bush wants humanitarian aid to Contras continued led to the measure's defeat. Nichols said it was "fear of the unknown." Trucking industry officials have maintained triple trailers are no more a safety hazard than the double trailers now allowed on Wyoming highways. But Nichols said the public had equated triple trailers with every "bad experience" they have had with a truck on the highway. Nichols said that was unfortunate because most reckless truck drivers are independents, and not employees of the 12 major carriers which want to use triple trailers in Wyoming.

John Faunce, executive director of the Wyoming AFL-CIO which opposed triple trailers, said the public viewed triple trailers as "not only unsafe. It's a nuisance." Although supporters noted triple trailer trucks, at a length of just over 100 feet, would only be about two feet longer than the largest double trailer trucks already allowed on Wyoming highways, Faunce said the actual length of most trucks on Wyoming roads is about 85 feet. "So there's actually a 20- to 25-foot difference," Faunce said. Faunce said the AFL-CIO had joined the Teamsters and several other unions with the concern that use of triple trailers would decrease the total number of trucks needed to haul freight in Wyoming and therefore decrease the number of Please see TRIPLES, A18 By SCOTT FARRIS Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE-A bill that would authorize a two-year test of trucks with triple trailers on Wyoming interstate highways is dead this legislative session. The House voted Wednesday 33-31 against the two-year test of triple trailers on Wyoming interstate highways.

And on Thursday, the House defeated an attempt to reconsider the issue, also on a 33-31 vote. But trucking industry officials said Thursday they will bring a triple trailer proposal back to the Legislature if not next year, then in 1991. Sharon Nichols, executive director of the Wyoming Trucking Association, said there will be no attempts made to revive the issue this session, but added, "This issue is far from gone." Nichols said the trucking industry intends to conduct an extensive "public education program" to build support for triple trailers. The greatest block of opposition to the triple trailers bill came from representatives from counties along Interstate 80, Wyoming's main trucking corridor. Of the 23 representatives from those counties, only six supported triple trailers in Wednesday night's vote.

Supporters and opponents of triple trailers agreed public fear of safety problems from triple trailers matter, said he hoped that Afghanistan, with the departure of Soviet troops, could fashion "a stable, broadly based government" without bloodshed among competing guerrilla groups. "The time for bloodbaths is over and I would like to see the various factions get together and come up with recommendations that would lead to a peaceful Afghanistan with no more bloodbaths," Bush said. He refused to endorse a Soviet proposal for an immediate ceasefire in Afghanistan and an embargo on arms shipments to the country, expressing concern that Moscow WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush said Thursday he wants rebel forces in Nicaragua to continue receiving humanitarian aid and declared "we have to be wary" about promises by leftist President Daniel Ortega to hold fair elections. In his first comments on an agreement by five Central American countries to disarm the Nicaraguan guerrillas, Bush acknowledged the United Slates had been caught off guard by the pact, signed Tuesday, and said, "There are some positive elements to it and there are some troublesome elements to it." Bush, on another foreign policy U.S. plans new missile; Bonn has reservations SHARON NICHOLS 'Issue is far from gone' Sullivan vetoes appointment bill Casper Area A3 Churches A12 Classifieds B9-18 Comics B4 Community A14-15 Crossword B3 Enterprise 16 Landers, Omarr B3 Legislative A4-5 Letters A17 Markets 135 Movies A13 Obituaries, Diary B2 Opinion A16 Sports Wyoming Bl that Bonn is not yet prepared to replace the Lance missiles.

The hesitancy in Bonn reflects public concern in West Germany that a new generation of short-range nuclear weapons will be deployed in Germany as intermediate-range missiles are being eliminated under the American-Soviet missile accord signed in 1987. Pentagon officials say they need to proceed with the development program so that the first missiles can be ready for deployment in Germany in 1995. American officials say they hope that the alliance will formally aprrove deployment before then. Administration officials said the new missile, as yet unnamed, will be able to fly four times as far as the Lance and will be far more accurate. "It will be a new missile," an Armv official said.

"It is not going Please see MISSII.KS, A 18 WASHINGTON (NYT) The Pentagon has taken the first steps toward developing a new short-range nuclear missile despite West German reservations about the project, administration officials say. The Pentagon's plans have far-reaching consequences for military strategy, arms control and American relations with the European allies, experts inside and outside the government say. Key decisions on developing the new missile, intended as the suc-cesor to the aging Lance missile now deployed in West Germany, were made in late November and December when the Pentagon decided on how to deploy the new weapon and what its desired capabilities should be, an Army official said. Senior West German officials have made a series of sometimes conflicting statements that indicate van said he heard that one member of Wyoming's U.S. Senate team may have received a position of greater national influence "but for the fear of total unfettered discretion by the governor in appointing his successor." The statement is an apparent reference to U.S.

Sen. Alan Simpson, who was one of President George Bush's candidates for vice president late last year. The bill removed those concerns. Sullivan wrote. "I have the utmost respect for the Please st VETO, A 18 Current law gives the governor full discretion in filling the vacancies, with no restriction as to party.

In his veto message to Secretary of State Kathy Karpan, Sullivan said he could not support restrictions that would preclude a governor from selecting the best and brightest talent for a position. If the bill had become law and in the event one of Wyoming's two Republican U.S. senators resigned Sullivan, a Democrat, would have been compelled to appoint a Republican to the seat. Also in the veto message, Sulli By JOAN BARRON Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE Gov. Mike Sullivan Thursday vetoed a bill that would have limited the freedom of Wyoming governors to fill vacancies for the U.S.

Senate and other partisan offices. The bill would require a governor to fill vacancies until the next election with a person from a list of three names supplied by the state central committee of the party to which the previous incumbent belonged. Old Grouch I'll bet if they renamed ihal bill the King-Rancher it would passsasily. Interior staff changes will be made soon, Lujan says RESULTS I MOTT LLJAN replaced," Steve Goldstein said. Lujan agreed to replace the top officials when he accepted President Bush's offer to become interior secretary, Goldstein said.

Goldstein would not characterize the top-level housecleaning as a conscious move by the Bush administration to step away from the often-controversial and confrontational personalities and policies that characterized the Interior Department during the Reagan undersecretary, six assistant secretaries, and nine agency heads. A number of those jobs, including the assistant secretaries for lands and minerals and fish, wildlife and parks, are vacant as the result of resignations late in Reagan administration. The four other assistant secretary posts are Indian affairs, territorial affairs, water and science, and policy, budget, and administration. Several Reaean appointees, in-Pleasesi-c INTERIOR, A18 Bush-Lujan team." Sweeping changes in top personnel are "normal in all changes of administration," Goldstein said. "Each administration likes to bring in its own policies.

its own people to implement those policies." While the changes "do not preclude" present officeholders from moving into higher-ranking positions, that prospect is "not likely," he said. The revamping involves the By ANDREW MELNYKOVYCH Star-T ribune Washington bureau WASHINGTON National Park Service Director William Pcnn Mott, Bureau of Land Management Director Robert Burford, and U.S. Fish and Wildnfe Service Director Frank Dunkle will all be replaced soon, a spokesman for Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan said this week. Fhe secretary has stated publicly that everyone from bureau head anil assistant secretary on up will be II you need to find a home for your family pet. try an inexpen-Siv? Star-Tribune Classified ad Cindy Layman told us.

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