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NATIONAL liiL fl SPORTS 1 i A new day ri' Jh far Rypien 14 1 1 WEATHER Mr Windy, "LJCfcr warmer I 1 FOREIGN 1 Vfe Ugty ecu "V'K, A2 Real-life Doogie A4 A "A Founded in 1891 1992 Wyoming's Statewide Newspaper Multi-member redistricting plan approved by panel Tuesday, January 28, BCR votes to support Lovell prison Backs state bonding to fund new penitentiary From wire and staff reports CHEYENNE Wyoming's prison needs are too great to put off construction of a medium security facility any longer, the Board of Charities and Reform decided Monday. While the state's financial resources are limited and the outlook for improvement bleak, the proposed 350-bed Lovell prison is needed to ease the strain on the Wyoming State Penitentiary in Rawlins and to provide for public safety, the board's majority decided. Coming at a time when he is proposing vast cuts in state government spending in the upcoming 1993-94 biennium, Gov. Mike Please see PRISON, A10 By HUGH JACKSON Star-Tribune staff writer CASPER A reapportionment plan that incorporates a blend of single- and multi-member legislative districts received the support of a legislative committee, Monday. However, some legislators promised the plan would meet the same fate as the last plan approved by the Legislature, and wind up in court.

The Joint Corporations Committee Friday adopted a 62 -member House redistricting plan which contains everything from single-member districts to districts where voters will choose four representatives. The Senate redistricting plan adopted Friday maintains mostly single-member districts; howev A single-member district plan presented by Rep. Applegate, D-Laramie, was defeated Promise of mental health funds may stave off lawsuit If Legislature moves to improve care, group will wait to file suit Sweetwater seniors protest phone plan Oppose exchange between Green River, Rock Springs Casper, Wyoming er, under an amendment proposed by Sen. Charlie Scott, R-Natrona, and approved by the committee Natrona and Fremont counties, as well as a combined Sheridan-Johnson County district would elect multiple candidates, Before approving the "Bebout" House redistricting plan, named for its author, Rep. Eli Bebout, D-Fremont, the legislative panel voted down a plan that would have provided for single-member House districts exclusively.

The author of that plan, Rep. Jim Applegate, D-Laramie, told the panel that if any sort of multimember plan was approved by the Legislature and sent back to federal court for acceptance, the court may very well turn it down. Applegate cited recommendations in the court order which re-Please see PLAN, A10 the WSH issued last year, Thobro pointed out that hospital officials identified 50 patients who could be transferred to community programs. She said state funding for community mental health programs has dropped 10 to 15 percent decrease since 1985. "You're moving in the wrong direction," Thobro said.

Although it isn't included in the Department of Health's recommended budget, Director Jane Sabes said Monday she has requested an additional $3.3 million for 1993-94 "as a start" to improve and expand community mental health programs. Beppler said the WSH also should take steps to achieve national accreditation. Mary Ann Overcamp, director of the mental health division, and an advocate at the WSH, said patients at the Evanston institution don't feel they are getting active psychiatric treatment. "Everyone is disappointed at the lack of movement," Overcamp said. The a federally-funded organization that works for the benefits of mentally ill and devel-opmentally disabled people, filed a lawsuit against the state in 1989 Please see HEALTH, A10 chamber and stood next to him as the convicted murderer was injected with a lethal dose of drugs, said he did so out a sense of "duty." "1 wasn't going to shirk any duty," Shillinger said Monday.

"I wasn't going to shirk any responsibility. I wasn't going to protect myself from some of the very, very difficult things," associated with the execution. Please see INMATES, A10 Court decision threatens 'dial-a-porn' industry WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for enforcement of Congress' latest attempt to protect children from sexy telephone messages a law that threatens to all but destroy the "dial-a-porn" business. The court, without comment, rejected a challenge to a 1989 federal law requiring telephone companies to block access to sex-message services unless a customer asks in writing to receive them. The law has not been enforced while the free-speech challenge acted on Monday was pending.

Joel Dichter, a lawyer for four dial-a-porn companies that sought Supreme Court review, had told the justices the law "has broadly and unnecessarily curtailed if not destroyed adult access to lawful, protected speech." Dichter was not available for comment Monday. The court had given the $2 billion-a-year industry a reprieve in 1989 when it struck down a ban on all sexually oriented dial-up message services. That decision acknowledged that Congress had a legitimate interest in preventing children from being exposed to "indecent" messages. But the justices unanimously said the blanket ban had "the invalid effect of limiting the content of adult telephone conversations to that which is suitable for children to hear." Congress went back to the drawing board and, under the prodding of Sen. Jesse Helms, quickly passed a new law one the dial-a-porn industry says places an unconstitutional "prior restraint" on speech.

The law requires phone companies, if technologically Please see DIAL-A-PORN, A10 By JOAN BARRON Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE If the Legislature approves a request for an additional $3.3 million to improve the state's mental health care system, a federally-sanctioned advocacy group will wait before filing a lawsuit against the state, a lawyer said Monday. Tim Beppler, an attorney retained by Protection and Advocacy, said other advocates for the mentally ill may not have as much patience with the state and the Wyoming State Hospital at Evanston, however. Beppler told the Joint Appropriations Committee the state has a "moral and legal" obligation to transfer certain Wyoming State Hospital patients to community mental health centers for treatment. At the same time, the state has a "serious problem" with the community mental health centers because they lack the resources to give treatment and residential care to patients discharged from the State Hospital at Evanston, he said. "You don't have a community health system," Director Jeanne Thobro told the committee.

"You have pockets." Quoting a legislative audit of Barton YorkSlar-Tribune fect their finances, but a boss can waive the law if the financial interest is too small to influence them. In both waivers, Bush wrote that although some officials would not need the waiver, others have "substantial financial interests in industries that may be affected." In the Libyan waiver, Bush concluded, "In my judgment, the nature of the current situation and the gravity of the measures under consideration by the United States are such that even the substantial financial interests held by some of you could not be deemed likely to affect the integrity" of their actions. His Iraq waiver was almost identical. "We now face a series of deci-Please see LIBYA, A10 When asked to stand in support of the proposal, a quick count revealed 1 12 of those attending were against the proposal and 21 were for the common exchange. Most of the senior citizens standing in the vote did not return after the lunch break to offer public comment to the commission.

US West officials are endorsing the proposal before the PSC to establish an extended area service (EAS) between Rock Springs and Green River. The EAS would replace the long-distance service now provided by the telephone company and would make calls between the two cities local calls instead of long-distance tolls. Sweetwater County Commissioner Larry Caller told commissioners he was "in favor of an EAS but not under the proposed pricing structure." He said it appeared US West was "attempting to pay for the EAS on the backs of senior citizens and those on fixed incomes" Please see PHONE, A10 Bush waives WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush has quietly exempted 13 top officials from federal conflict-of-interest laws so they may advise him on how Libya can be "punished and isolated" for the bombing of Pan Am flight 103. Three of the officials Secretary of State James Baker, then-Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbach-er and National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, have large oil investments. One tactic proposed by foreign policy experts has been an oil embargo against the North African nation.

The unusual group waiver was granted by Bush less than a week after two Libyan intelligence officers were indicted by the Justice Department and Britain last November in the 1988 airliner conflict-of-interest law By JEFF GEARINO Southwestern Wyoming bureau ROCK SPRINGS Sweetwater County senior citizens packed a Wyoming Public Service Commission (PSC) hearing here Monday to oppose a proposal to establish a common telephone exchange between Green River and Rock Springs. And proponents of local calling between the county's two largest cities told the commission they generally favored the proposal but not at the increased rates suggested by US West officials. US West says a common exchange would add approximately $4 to phone customers' bills each month. PSC hearing chairman Richard Smyth said he was "impressed by the real interest" shown by residents of both communities and said the commission "hasn't had an overflow meeting in 12 years." More than half of those attending were senior citizens. INDEX Casper Area A3 Classified Comics A6-7 Community B3 Crossword A6 Landers A7 Letters A9 Omarr A6 Markets A5 Movies B7 Obituaries, Diary B2 Opinion A8 Sports B4-6 Wyoming Bl Old Grouch For a good time call George Bush.

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Shillinger, who accompanied Hopkinson to the prison death Bush's economy plan: Not always a winning gamble devilish combination known as "stagflation." Both Carter and Ford campaigned on efforts to get the economy back on track, but everything they tried to do only seemed to make the problem worse. Remember WIN buttons. They stood for "Whip Inflation Now" and Ford hoped they would provide a catchy theme for his attempts to tame runaway price increases. However, the Ford program ended up being derided as nothing but an empty rallying cry that wasn't backed by any credible poli By MARTIN CRUTSINGER Associated Press writer Analysis WASHINGTON (AP) When George Bush steps forward with his formula to fix an ailing economy tonight, he will be taking a high-stakes gamble that presidents don't always win. Just ask Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.

At least Bush doesn't have to deal with the high inflation that accompanied stagnant growth during much of the 1970s a ago?" Presidents don't always have the bad luck of a Carter or Ford. Sometimes the economic policies they pursue in election years actually spur growth. Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon succeeded in their attempts. However, in both cases what turned out to be good politics resulted in what many believe was very bad economics. In 1 97 1 Nixon was worried that a subpar recovery from the 1969-70 recession and what was then a worrisome inflation rate Please see GAMBLE, A10 cies.

While Ford didn't cure inflation, he at least saw the 1973-75 recession end before he had to face the voters in 1 976 although it wasn't enough to save his job. Carter had worse misfortune. Many economists believe the economic policies he pursued to try to control inflation imposing controls on the buildup of credit backfired and ended up dumping the country into a recession in 1980, a year that Ronald Reagan won votes by asking, "Are you better off now than you were four years.