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t'1 If SPORTS Kilpatrick wins job 1 ytofai WEATHER SflMT Sunny, breezy 'TA A2 it" 11 iir foreign Soviets .7 praised ILwJll -A4 I rZ I I 1 is Hunts seek jt. Chapter 11 1 ukj I JA5 Soviets accuse U.S. of secret nuclear testing Kremlin offers to open test sites WASHINGTON (AP) The Soviet Union, stepping up its pre-summitry campaign, offered Friday to open nuclear test sites to American inspectors and accused the Reagan administration of secret "Star Wars" explosions. In a rare embassy news conference, Deputy Ambassador Oleg Sokolov dismissed as "cynical" the administration's refusal to join the moratorium that General Secretary Mikhail SOKOLOV Gorbachev has imposed on Soviet tests until January. The Soviet diplomat said Moscow was ready to accept "every conceivable form of agreement" to monitor a test ban once the United States joined in the suspension.

"Broadly, we do not see a problem of inspections as an obstacle toward reaching on accord on the cessation of nuclear tests," Sokolov said. Grass fire Sur-TrlbuneBill Willcox A rash of grass fires believed to be caused by lightning struck which were put out by 6 p.m. A fourth Tire on the Shamrock Natrona County early Friday evening, according to a county Ranch off 20 Mile Hill was still being fought at 6:30, however, fire department spokesman. The spokesman said there were and there were no reports on its condition, the spokesman said, three fires off Cole Creek Road, including this one, all of None of the fires appeared to be large, the spokesman said. NIPSCO won't fight award to Carbon Coal Sullivan would be more involved in state boards From staff and correspondent reports HAMMOND, Ind.

The Northern Indiana Public Service Commission has decided to pay a $181 billion breech of contract judgment to a Wyoming coal company, rather than continue to fight it in court. NIPSCO gave up its long battle with Carbon County Coal Co. Wednesday. The utility decided not to file for a rehearing on the Aug. 13 ruling of the 7th Circuit U.S.

Court of Appeals int Chicago. NIPSCO stopped taking Carbon Coal's coal shipments in May 1985, arguing that an Indiana Public Service Commission order that it implement a new power dispatching plan for its power plants made coal purchased from the mining company uneconomical ical company and the chief executive officer and chairman of the board of the Western National Bank of Tulsa and their wives. Also killed in Thursday night's crash were two Vail, residents and the plane's pilot, of Denver, Fremont County Coioner Larry Lee said. The severity of the crash and the ensuing fire hampered identifica Plane crash near Lander kills seven people 1 to burn, and that it had built up a two-year supply of the Wyoming coal. A 22-year contract with Carbon Coal required the utility to take a set amount of the coal each year.

An inflation clause in the contract was favorable to the coal company, forcing NIPSCO to pay several times the spot market price for the fuel, utility officials said. A federal court jury ruled last tion of the victims, the coroner said. The passengers' rema.ns have been removed from the scene, Lee said, and he would not release the names of the dead until proper identification is made and the next-of-kin contacted. He said officials hoped to release the victims' identities Saturday. Simpson's committee report shows total expenditures of $300,523 or more than $11 per vote for the roughly 26,000 votes he gathered while Budd reported $152,339.

Simpson committee receipts totaled $174,148, plus a $142,332 loan from the candidate. The report also showed that Simpson received $8,000 from political action committees. The total included $7,500 from Wyoming PACE, the political arm of the Wyoming Education Association, and $250 each from Mountain Bell and Montana Dakota Utilities political action Gorbachev imposed the moratorium last August and has extended it thrice. The United States has refused to join, arguing that U.S. weapons must be tested for reliability and safety and that there were no assurances the Soviets would observe a ban.

Sokolov said, "There is no rationale for the United States not joining our moratorum except maybe for the cynical argument that nuclear tests are needed to continue the nuclear arms race." On verifying a test ban, he said "as far as the Soviet Union is concerned the problem of verification of halting all nuclear tests does not exist. We have put forward practically every conceivable form of "The Soviet Union is ready for the most wide-ranging, for any form of verification, national or international, including even on-site inspections, provided, naturally, that nuclear testing is halted," he said. Soviet Col. Vitaly Kotuzhan-sky, appearing with Sokolov, said underground blasts could be Please see ARMS, A12 this week pledged to break "tradition" and become more involved in the state's appointed agencies that have a hand in Wyoming's economic development. "It's time to end the developing Wyoming tradition of our citizen boards and commissions operating independently of the governor," Sullivan said in a six-page position paper on the governor's role in economic development.

"Wyoming can no longer afford the luxury of everyone going their own way. It's the governor's job to get everyone paddling the canoe in the same direction," he wrote. Specifically, Sullivan said he wanted to take a more active role in 12 boards and commissions that he said are most closely linked to economic development. Although the governor appoints each commission member, the chief executive is a voting member on only one: the newly formed Economic Development and Stabilization Board. Other boards he listed include the Board of Agriculture, Community Development Authority, University of Wyoming Board of Trustees and commissions on agriculture, travel, community Please see SULLIVAN, A12 conflict with state law." Among the abuses discovered by the team were an illegal private bank account that funded employee parties and gifts, failure to report money paid by students and others for meals served at the academy kitchen, and the failure to make daily deposits of academy receipts to the state treasurer.

During its investigation, the auditor's team also found that the academy had not kept its inventory lists filed with the state Department of Administration and Fiscal Control up to date. The surprise inspection was planned by the auditor's review team in order to verify whether all the equipment purchased by the academy after September 1983 was "either on hand or missing." Academy officials bought equipment during that time that Please see AUDIT, A12 October that the Indiana PSC order and other arguments raised by the utility didn't give NIPSCO the right to break the contract, and that the coal company was entitled to $181 million in damages. Both sides appealed, with the coal company seeking to have NIPSCO the mine's only customer forced to continue accepting coal, and NIPSCO asking Please see NIPSCO, A12 And the only part of the plane left at the scene after the fire was its engines, Lander Airport Assistant Charles Hastings said. No flight plans had been filed by the plane's occupants, he said. The crash occurred shortly after 11 p.m.

Thursday. The Cessna, chartered in Denver, apparently exploded on im-Please see CRASH, A12 in primary Budd's expenditures of $152,339 includes a $29,500 loan from the candidate. Budd's committee report, which will give a detailed account of receipts and expenditures, has not yet been filed with the secretary of state's office. Under state law, candidates' campaign reports are due Aug. 29 but reports from political action committees and candidates campaign committees are not due until Sept 2.

Simpson will face Democrat Mike Sullivan in the Nov. 4 general election for governor. Sullivan spent $102,219 on his Please see SPENDING, A12 general said. Meanwhile, Morocco's King Hassan II said in a letter released Friday that he was abrogating a 1984 treaty of union with Libya because of Gadhafl's criticism of a meeting last month between Hassan and Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Hassan said in the letter written Thursday to Gadhafi that the criticism contained in a joint Libyan-Syrian statement issued the day before had reached "the threshold of Please see LIBYA, A12 By BRIAN CHAPMAN and JEFF THOMAS Star-Tribune staff writers CASPER Democratic gubernatorial nominee Mike Sullivan MIKE SULLIVAN Issues position paper Am- Simpson outspends Budd From staff and wire reports LANDER Only the burned remains of seven people were found by investigators Friday at a Sinks Canyon crash scene after a twin-engine Cessna Conquest crashed and exploded shortly after takeoff from the airport here, authorities said Friday.

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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.) Accidental tipoff 'thwarts' spot inspection at academy By JOAN BARRON Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE Pete Simpson outspent Bill Budd nearly 2-to-l in the Republican gubernatorial primary election campaign, according to reports filed with the secretary of state's office Friday. Simpson out-polled Budd by 453 votes to win the seven-way Aug. 19 GOP SIMPSON gubernatorial primary. Commander WASHINGTON (AP) The United States should strike back militarily if Libya launches new terrorist attacks, and Libya should understand the next attack might be much more extensive, the commander of U.S.

forces in Europe said Friday. "I happen to be one who believes that if those conditions obtain again an attack against our people, an attack against our facilities, and (Libyan strongman Moammar) Gadhafi is found responsible for it that we says Libya should beware By LIZ BRIMMER Star-Tribune staff writer DOUGLAS Plans for a surprise spot inspection of the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy equipment inventory were "thwarted" when another state agency "unwittingly" tipped the academy to the plans, a state auditor's report says. The spot inspection was part of an overall review of the academy by a team of state auditors. The review was prompted by allegations by a former academy employee who claimed that the institution's equipment and facilities were being used for personal gain. The state auditor's team reviewed the academy's fiscal and management procedures beginning in April 198S.

On April 1, 1986, the team released a report that said many of those procedures were "in need to strike again," said Gen. Bernard Rogers, NATO's Supreme allied commander as well as commander-in-chief of U.S. forces in Europe. "Otherwise, why did we strike the first time (in mid-April)? If he continues to do it and we find his fingerprints, then we have to go back again and tell him, 'Look, we meant it. This was just not a slap on the wrist.

We meant it. We're, serious. And if you continue to do this, you can continue to find us taking action against the.