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CONGRESS 1 NATIONAL 1 Record high trade deficit SWISS S3 y9 I WEATHER -cloudy A2 I IF SPORTS I Um Fillies $Mf downKW 7 ci Gas tax battle A4 tar-rtbttne 6 i. Sullivan says he wouldn't order general drug testing Simpson undecided on testing state workers Senate OKs more roads for logging Proponents want more access to forest timber I v. ,5 I if 'Hi "powerful things," but he didn't yet know what they would be. Both candidates emphasized their opposition to drug use. "I certainly support a war on drugs, but at this stage I don't see a need for mandatory testing of state employees," Sullivan said.

He Related story, Bl said he was concerned about the rights of employees and concerned about "overreacting in a situation just because it becomes fashionable." "Until there was some evidence to suggest it was interfering with the ability of state employees to perform their jobs I certainly would not favor it," he said. "I think there would have to be some probable cause something to suggest some fairly outward use of drugs that was interfering with the job." Simpson said, "I know that is getting to be public enemy number one. And I would put everything 1 have behind eradicating that kind of problem. It is a tremendous drain on our human resources and we need to do some powerful things as antidotes." However, he said, "I haven't formulated a position on that. It is the first time I've been asked the question.

But I sure know we have got to get a handle on the drug problem." Simpson also said he would like to see what is happening with federal drug testing programs before Please see SULLIVAN, A12 In church Philippine President Corazon Aquino, who is on a nine-day visit to thd U.S., her daughter Victoria and Ambassador Emmanuel Pelaez attend Mass at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Tuesday in Washington where Aquino thanked Filipino-Americans for their support and prayers. By JOAN BARRON Star Tribune Staff Writer CASPER Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Sullivan declared Tuesday he would not require any general drug testing of state employees. Sullivan said his understanding is that no state workers use drugs on the job or have their job performance impaired by drug use. But, he said, if there were evidence that an employee was using drugs on the job he might require that person to take a test. Meanwhile, Republican gubernatorial candidate Pete Simpson said in Cheyenne that he has no position on drug testing.

He said he had never been asked the question. He said there is a need to do Spot search Council seeks time to study Northern's latest rate plan said before the council convened its regular meeting. During the meeting, the council unanimously supported Clapp's motion to to call on the PSC to "delay a hearing until the city has had a chance to analyze and to respond" to the utility's proposal. City Attorney H.B. Harden said he would ask the PSC "that the city be heard." In their proposal to the PSC, the two Northern companies serving Casper, Riverton, Laramie, Rawlins and other towns plan initially to undercharge customers, then to eventually overcharge them to make up the difference within four years.

A separate part of the Northern proposal asks the PSC for permission to sell to its corporate parent, KN Energy, about a year's supply of cheap gas now stored underground. Northern customers Please see NORTHERN, A12 AP 0 7 AP fey ANDREW MELNYKOVYCH Star-Tribune staff writer WASHINGTON The Senate Tuesday voted for a sharp increase in the construction of logging roads in national forests, turning back an attempt to cut the Forest Service's road building budget. Wyoming Republicans Alan Simpson and Malcolm Wallop Related story, Bl both voted for the road building increase. More roads are needed in order to gain access to timber in undeveloped areas of the national forests, logging proponents argued. And they prevailed, but only after agreeing to transfer $13 million from the Forest Service's timber and roads budgets lo the purchase of lands for conservation purposes.

Opponents said that increasing Please see ROADS, A12 Gold mine fire kills 44; 154 trapped EVANDER, South Africa (AP) Welders accidentally ignited a fire in a mile-deep shaft of the Kinross gold mine Tuesday, and the flames and fumes killed at least 44 workers, injured 183 and trapped 154, officials said. The state-run South African Broadcasting Corp. quoted Kobus Olivier, manager of the mine, as saying there was only a slight chance that the missing miners survived. Dawie de Beer, a spokesman for General Mining Union South Africa's second-largest mining group, told reporters at the mine gate that 26 bodies were brought out of the mine shortly before midnight, about 14 hours 'after the fire broke out. Eighteen bodies had been recovered earlier.

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Call our friendly Ad-Visors at 266-0555 today to find out the details! Toll-free in Wyoming, 1-800-442-6916. (Offer good thru the month of September only.) fuTP A French policeman searches passers-by while his colleague checks an identity card Tuesday on the Champs Elysees in Paris as part of the French government's crackdown on terrorism. See related story on B5. By JEFF THOMAS Star-Tribune staff writer CASPER Fearing quick approval by the Public Service Commission may leave ratepayers out in the cold, the City Council asked Tuesday for time to digest a Northern Utilities plan to temporarily lower natural gas costs. Members of the council's Natural Gas Committee said they wanted to get a grasp on the effects of Northern's controversial proposal, filed before the PSC late last week, before the regulators take any action on the plan.

Committee members have expressed skepticism toward that plan, saying it merely allows removal of large quantities of cheap stored gas that otherwise could be used to lower local gas prices. "I know they're (the PSC) trying to push this thing as quickly as they can," Councilman Larry Clapp New bill says ALAN SIMPSON Co-sponsors acid rain bill is polluters will fund acid Union files suit against drug tests New bill would override lawsuit WASHINGTON (AP) A federal employees' union filed suit Tuesday to block President Reagan's order instituting widespread drug tests for government workers, and the chairman of a House panel introduced legislation to override it. The National Treasury Employees Union charged in its suit filed in U.S. District Court here that the executive order Reagan signed Monday establishing the test program violates the Constitution's Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure. The suit also charges that the executive order violates the Civil Service Reform Act in permitting agency heads to remove or discipline employees, including those in non-sensitive positions, who have been found to use illegal drugs.

In a request to Congress for amendments to the civil service law and another statute, the White House acknowledged that the courts may rule as illegal any disciplinary action taken under Reagan's directive. "Parts of the executive order obviously cannot be put into effect until the enabling legislation is passed," Albert Brashear, a White House spokesman, said Tuesday. In the package sent to Congress, Reagan asked for an amendment to the civil service law clarifying that it does not "permit or require the employment of an applicant or employee who uses illegal drugs." The law, as interpreted by courts, now allows disciplinary action against civil service workers only "for such cause as will promote the efficiency of the service." Without a showing that drug use at home affects an employee's work, the union contended in its Please see DRUGS, A12 attention not responsible for Tri-State's debts. In other testimony Tuesday, several witnesses discussed the threat of increased rates that Tri-State says will be necessary among remaining member cooperatives should Garland be allowed to sell. spokesman William W.

Savage, manager of the Bighorn Division, said the acquisition of Galand by "would immediately infuse $400,000 into the Powell economy as a result of the distribution of sale proceeds." Please see ELECTRIC. 'l attempts to break congressional stalemate rain control rain. Acid rain is considered a leading cause of "dead" lakes in the East and has been implicated in the deterioration of Eastern mountain forests. It is also considered a threat- to mountain lakes in the West. Coal-fired power plants are the main source of S02 emissions, with the sulfur content of coal the main factor in the amount of S02 produced.

NOx is emitted by a variety of sources, including automobiles. Acid rain control legislation could be a boost to the Western coal industry, which supplies most of the nation's low-sulfur coal. But legislators from states producing high-sulfur coal favor Please see ACID RAIN, A 12 Seipel said in pre-filed testimony, "the feasibility and security for the entire rural electrification loan program, to which the REA has committed more than $40 billion, will be threatened." He urged that the PSC not grant approval for the proposed sale, which is being protested by the cooperative's present power supplier, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Inc. of Denver. But David Bishop, a member of Garland's board of directors, testified that Tri-State's own bylaws state that member systems are Senate proposal By ANDREW MELNYKOVYCH Star-Tribune staff writer WASHINGTON Polluters, including motorists, would pay the cost of acid rain control under compromise legislation introduced recently in the Senate.

The bill, co-sponsored by Sen. Alan Simpson, is an attempt to break the congressional stalemate over how to reduce emission of the pollutants that cause acid rain. According to Sen. William Proxmire, who introduced the bill with Sen. Gordon Humphrey, the measure a compromise between acid rain bills introduced earlier in the Senate and House.

Proxmire said his bill has the rural electrification loan program would be threatened, according to Martin G. Seipel of Maryland, director of the Southwest Area Electric division of the Rural Electrification Administration. Speaking at a PSC hearing here, Seipel said that threat is the reason cooperatives and power suppliers nationwide are watching the Wyoming -PSC's actions and upcoming Wyoming court decisions. But witnesses testifying in favor of the sale said that power suppliers, not the cooperatives, are responsible for the debts they have backing of the Alliance for Acid Rain Control, a coalition of state officials, industry leaders and environmentalists. "Only my bill meets their objectives and can win broad support in the Senate," he said.

The Proxmire-Humphrey bill is the only measure that places the cost of cleaning up power plant pollution solely on the plant operators. It also calls for major controls on automobile emissions. All of the acid rain measures introduced so far are aimed at reducing the amount of sulfur dioxide (S02) and nitrogen oxide (NOx) pollution. When those pollutants mix with water in the atmosphere, they return to earth as acidic precipitation, commonly called acid incurred. Seipel said the proposed $1.66 million sale of Garland's assets to and the a I -ready-accomplished sale of Shoshone River Power Inc.

in Cody to are of interest to cooperatives nationwide as possible precedents for other such sales. "If these wholesale power contracts required by the REA may be circumvented or terminated by the sale of one member-owner's assets without a commensurate shouldering of that member-owner's contractual obligations by the buyer," bid to buy co-op sparks national By CAROLE LEGG Star-Tribune correspondent POWELL Pacific Power Light's effort to buy a Powell-area electric co-op threatens the nation's $40 billion rural electrification loan program, the Wyoming Public Service Commission was told Tuesday. If the financial obligations of long-term wholesale power contracts are not honored when electric cooperatives like Garland Light Power Co. are sold to private companies, the nation's.