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LEGISLATURE GULF 1 I More Iraqis surrender I Uh, WEATHER a Mostly sunny and windy SpQRTS 1 Pokes slide continues 1 a. i-j I I over tax share A4 mint tanks engage MepiAMcan Battle cities' u. Soviets say Iraq must meet all 12 resolutions By the Associated Press A majority of Security Council members, including the Soviet Union, insisted Tuesday that Baghdad accept all 12 council resolutions on the Persian Gulf crisis before a cease-fire can be considered, diplomats said. Iraq has announced it was withdrawing all its forces unconditionally from Kuwait in accordance with Security Council Resolution 660. U.N.

diplomats said they hoped to hear from Iraq's U.N. envoy about honoring the other 1 1 resolutions, which deal with reparations, renouncing Iraqi claims to Kuwait, economic and military embargoes and other matters. The United States and Britain are expected to veto any cease-fire resolution if Iraq does not commit itself in writing to honoring all the resolutions passed after it seized Kuwait on Aug. 2. Washington has called Iraq's announced withdrawal a sham.

U.S. officials have said Iraq troops may Please sceGL'LF, A12 So Decisive battle in making, says Pentagon official fl-itllji a Cvi--r J- 1 a 1 i I 1 1 i I .1 ii! i i a I Ti i ii i ii I I I II i Mi. i 1 i i- A AP WASHINGTON (AP) Under the cover of darkness and in a driving rainstorm, hundreds of M-1 A 1 tanks and infantry from the Army's VII Corps have attacked and defeated a Republican Guard division in Iraq, a senior Pentagon source said Tuesday. The attack was led by the 3rd Armored Division and the 1st Infantry Division (Mechanized), and the units were plowing forward and engaging a second Republican Guard division in Iraq, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The attacks from the west were being conducted on a front dozens of miles wide west of Kuwait, the senior military officer said, adding that Guard units were offering "stiff resistance." Republican Guard units have formed a defensive line west of Basra for what could be the decisive armor battle between the allies and the top Iraqi force, U.S.

oficials said Tuesday. The VII Corps, the heavy armor of the U.S. military, has lined up This photo taken from television shows Kuwaitis raising their flag in Kuwait City Tuesday marking the city's liberation from Iraqi forces. Resistance groups were setting up headquarters to control Kuwait City. Legislature overrides i Flag raised The Senate followed suit with a 22-8 roll call to override.

Two Democrats, Sens. Guy Cameron, of Laramie County and Carl Maldon-ado of Sweetwater County, joined the 20 Senate Republicans to muster the needed two-thirds vote to squash the governor's veto. (For a report of the roll-call votes, see page A-4.) But the House failed to override two other gubernatorial vetoes although the Seriate had done so earlier. Those two now-dead bills would have removed alcohol as an offense that mandates revocation of minors' drivers licenses, and would have given the Legislature authority to regulate sale and delivery of firearms in the state. Meanwhile in a second defeat Gnard.

facing the Iraqi Guard's dug-in position west of the port city in Iraq's narrow southeastern corner. The U.S. officials said some Republican Guard units have moved from big divisions around the Iraq-Kuwait border, as well as from in-' side the occupied emirate, to form their defensive line. Military officers said the Guard has three choices: remain hunkered down and force the coalition armor to dig them out, go on the offensive in the rugged desert plain west of Basra or make a run toward the city. The VII Corps has pinned down units of the Guard, and U.S.

officers said if the Iraqis fight instead of surrender, the Americans could rout them within 48 hours. Gen. Colin Powell's has ordered U.S. troops to "cut off and kill" the Guard, the heart of the Iraqi military machine. The eight divisions of the 1 Guard remain for the most part in bunkers, but have clashed with U.S.

forces in "spo- Please see BATTLE, All Bush: Iraq's withdrawal not genuine WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush grimly vowed to press the war against Iraq "with undiminished intensity" Tuesday as the Pentagon said Saddam Hussein's shattered army was "in full retreat." Bush said the troops were leaving only in hopes of regrouping to fight again another day. "Saddam is not interested in peace," Bush declared. "He is trying to save the remnants of power and control in the Middle East by every means possible," Bush said. "And here, too, Saddam Hussein will fail." Pounded by air and ground attacks, Saddam's forces were on the run in occupied Kuwait and threatened by more than 100.000 U.S. and allied troops in southern Iraq.

A small band of U.S. and Saudi special forces probed Kuwait City as an allied force of thousands waited to enter the Kuwaiti capital. "Tomorrow, when the sun comes up, the question in my mind is whether the enemy is going to be there," Lt. Gen. Thomas Kelly said at the Pentagon.

He said Saddam's powerful Republican Guard had not performed any belter in battle than other units. "The Iraqi army is in full retreat, although there is still fighting going on," Kelly said. Declaring that the allies were advancing faster than expected, Bush proclaimed, "The liberation of Kuwait is close at hand." After an afternoon update on the war, Bush said, "We are not only on schedule, we're ahead of schedule. No commander in chief has ever been so proud of America's men and women in uniform." In a radio speech, Saddam said he had ordered his troops to withdraw. Bush dismissed that in a terse and unyielding statement in the Rose Garden, saying, "He is trying to claim victory in the midst of a rout." Vice President Dan Quayle was at Bush's side during the White House statement and later made clear that the United States wants to render Saddam powerless.

"Saddam and his military machine are simply incompatible with a lasting and just peace," le said in a speech at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey. Bush's tough stand was en-Please see U.S., A12 tax break fluence is dropping. "This is one specific issue but this is not any great trend one in 1 03 years," True said. "It strengthens the Legislature," True continued. "I don't think it diminishes the stature of the governor or his office but I do think it says the Legislature is willing to make up its own mind." He said the same strengthening and equalization of the Legislature as the third branch of government was demonstrated in its greater involvement in confirmation of the governor's appointments.

"It does not mean as we grow in stature, he diminishes in stature," True said. Sullivan had no immediate comment, the governor's press Please see VETO, A12 Royalty change would cost state $20 million GEORGE BUSH Saddam not interested in peace ministrative cost was borne by the federal treasury, so that no royalty income was tapped to pay administrative costs. The decision by Congress last year to deduct from the states' share 25 percent of the administrative costs has meant a $13.3 million loss to Wyoming in federal royalty payments. If the proposal is enacted by Congress, taking over its share, of Please see ROYALTIES, A12 By DAVID HACKETT Star-Tribune Washington bureau WASHINGTON In a move that may cost Wyoming a total of $20.8 million in fiscal year 1992 alone, the Bush administration has proposed that states pay more of the cost of administering the federal mineral royalty program. veto of oil for the governor, House Republicans refused Tuesday to go along with a deal Sullivan struck with Democrats Monday on revenues for local governments.

The move was regarded as a challenge to the governor to veto again in a new form a bill he has already vetoed. (See story, A4) House Speaker William A. (Ro-ry) Cross, R-Converse, said Tuesday that no gubernatorial veto has been overridden in modern legislative history. Reportedly there was a successful veto override in the territorial Legislature of 1888, although that could not be confirmed late Tuesday by the Legislative Service Office. Senate President Diemer R-Natrona, said later that the veto override is not a sign Sullivan's in Under legislation enacted at the end of the last congressional session, states receiving federal mineral royalty payments must now pay 25 percent of the administrative costs of the program.

But the Bush administration's new budget proposal calls for increasing the state's burden to 32.5 percent of administrative cpsts. has the ability to shift its research emphasis to include extremely dangerous and exotic viruses that can be used in the development of biological warfare agents. Of particular concern to activists is "apparent lack of any guarantee that public comment will be sought if the lab does shift its emphasis in the future." Walton, in interviews conducted Monday and Tuesday, said that pressure from the Boston-based Committee for Responsible Genetics, the Washington-based Foundation and Economic Trends and individual citizens have led him to conclude that "we'd be crazy not to seek comment from the public" on any change in the work of the lab. Specifically, both Walton and the regional director for the US-DA's Agricultural Research Ser-Please see LAB, B8 Wyoming will be hardest-hit by the resulting costs to the states, because Wyoming which receives by far the largest federal mineral royalty payments of any state and accordingly would carry the largest administrative cost burden. Under current federal law, states receive half of the royalties paid to the federal government for federally-owned minerals mined within the state's borders.

Prior to this year, the entire ad By JOAN BARRON Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE For legislative leaders say is the first time since Wyoming joined the Union, the Legislature successfully overrode a gubernatorial veto Tuesday when enough Democrats joined Republi cans to torce through an extension of the tax break for wildcat oil wells. The House voted 43 to 2 1 to override Democrat Gov. Mike SULLIVAN Sullivan's veto of a bill to extend the tax break on wildcat oil wells. Rep. Eli Bebout, D-Fremont, joined the 42 Republicans.

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Department of Agriculture's Northern Plains Area Anthropod-borne Animal Diseases Research Laboratory, At least part of that belief, Walton said, is based on a 1 988 letter he wrote to Ivan Kaiser, granting the UW microbiologist permission to use laboratories at the USDA-ARS facility in order to conduct research on neurotoxins present in rattlesnake venom. Kaiser's work, funded by the U.S. Army Military Research In-Please see LETTER, B8 By CHARLES PELKEY Star-Tribune Laramie bureau LARAMIE The director of a federal animal virus research laboratory in Laramie said Tuesday that many of the "misperceptions" surrounding the facility's work are the result of unfortunate coincidence and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's extra efforts to guarantee public safety. Thomas Walton, the Director of the Northern Plains Anthropod-Borne Animal Diseases Research Laboratory, said Tuesday that the inclusion of some "maximum biosafcty containment" capabilities in the facility "seems to have triggered all sorts of'alarm bells" among public interest and environmental groups.

Those groups charged last month that the Laramie laboratory.