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Sunny, windy 'Sc not so cold 'f A2 NATIONAL 1 i 1 yt Holds news tk conference pN A2 1 "Jl SPORTS Williams is king IrUCi? II -A5 1 tw fC r. Admits he 1' made error -A4 wmsmmfmmm-' ii i' III Bush says he's more qualified than rivals mm Tn Contra aid keeps Sandinistas in line, president argues Reagan to make plea on TV i.Ntfi It til in 1 H'ciXS tit mm 4 "i i Broadcasters. The president argued that the Sandinista government has reneged on a string of pledges to democratize, and that unless aid to the Contras is continued, it will do the same thing again. "The Sandinistas haven't made one concession on their own without a threat hanging over them," he said. "It's just this simple the way to democracy and peace in Nicaragua is to keep the pressure on the Sandinistas, taking irreversible steps to comply with the regional peace plan, and giving aid to the freedom fighters now," Reagan said to his enthusiastic au-Plcase see CONTRAS, A12 WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan argued Monday that Nicaragua's leftist leaders won't comply with a regional peace plan without a "threat hanging over them" and that his $36.2 million Contra aid package would do the trick.

Meanwhile, the White House scrambled to make the aid package palatable to doubtful House members as the outcome of Wednesday's high-stakes vote remained in the hands of some 20 fence-sitters. "One question must be answered. Sandinista promises of the past have been broken. Can we believe them now?" Reagan said in a speech to the National Religious Star-TribuneZbigniew Bzdak Workers leave tlie job at Ainoco's Casjer Refinery after their shift change Monday Amoco's Casper Refinery, union reach tentative pact, official says Meese: Cannot recall reading part of memo CASPER (AP) The Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union has reached a tentative agreement with Amoco Oil Co. covering its Casper and Yorktown, refineries.

The agreement was reached in Denver just hours before contracts nationwide were to expire, a union spokesman said. OCAW spokesman Rod Rogers said the agreement for a two-year contract provides a wage increase of 30 cents an hour the first year 2 Arabs kiUed by Israelis, army says I HF- a y. 7t ill bonus," he said. The initial agreement with Amoco is expected to set the pattern for the union's 44,000 workers nationwide, he said. He said the union traditionally signs a pattern agreement with one oil company and then extends the Feb.

1 contract deadline until other oil companies fall into line. "The offer that was put on the table at two locations this afternoon by Amoco Oil Co. was Please see AGREEMENT, A12 ANABTA, Occupied West Bank (AP) Israelis killed two Arabs and wounded three others Monday when they opened fire on a crowd of stone-throwing Palestinians who had trapped a convoy of soldiers and civilians, the army said. Soldiers wounded four Arabs in two other clashes, a military spokesman reported. The Arab-owned Palestine Press Service put the number of Arabs wounded by gunfire at 22 and provided a list of names.

Troops battled Palestinians in protests throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip, leaving more than a dozen Arabs hospitalized with beating injuries and five soldiers injured by stones. Armed Jewish settlers from Ofra, 1 1 miles north of Jerusalem, tried to enter the nearby West Bank Arab village of Ein Yabrud but were stopped by Israeli troops, the army command said. The settlers apparently were planning to retaliate for a firebomb attack on an Israeli car Sunday in which a settler was badly burned. The renewed violence Monday caused the first deaths from gunfire since Jan. 15 and brought to 41 the confirmed Arab death toll Please see ISRAEL, A12 benefits of to the Wyoming Pipeline Authority.

The authority, in turn, would lend the funds out to a chosen pipeline. Backers of the idea, who include Gov. Mike Sullivan, argue that such a pipeline would carry enough Wyoming natural gas to boost dramatically the state's gas production, and more than repay the state through increas taxes and royalties. Initial sponsors are Sens. Tom Stroock, R-Natrona, and John Fanos, D-Uinta, and Reps.

Eli Bebout, D-Fremont, and Jim Ger-inger, R-Platte. Stroock, an oilman, is chairman of the Wyoming Pipeline Authority which would administer the loan. Stroock said Saturday he has asked the state attorney general for an opinion on whether his dual role as legislator and civil administrator constitute a conflict of -j I i Ar -e and an additional 3 percent hike the second year. Refinery workers average $14.40 an hour under the old contract, Rogers said. He said Amoco also has agreed to increase its contribution toward hospitalization and medical insurance by $10 a month the first year and an additional $12 a month in the second year.

Amoco also will pay each covered employee a $900 lump sum "signing or ratification I i. mother planned. The agency did not attempt to calculate how great the risk of failure may be, according toJimOrr of the LSO. The LSO estimates are to be attached to a bill, already filed for the upcoming session, which would put in place the mechanism for the proposed pipeline subsidy. The initial version of the bill was stamped 'No Significant Fiscal by the LSO, but the final form of the bill will include the LSO figures outlining impact, Orr said.

The fiscal impact figures were sent to Leg" lators on Monday, he said. The pipeline subsidy proposal calls for the state to authorize a loan of $250 million, at a low 4 percent interest rate, to a pipeline from Wyoming to California. The money would come from the state's Permanent Mineral Trust Fund, which would be lent rrt EDWIN MEESE Denies wrongdoing WASHINGTON (AP) Attorney General Edwin Meese said Monday he doesn't recall reading the portion of a memo on a $1 billion Iraqi pipeline project that refers to a payoff plan involving the Israeli Labor Party of former Prime Minister Shimon Peres. The memo to Meese, from his longtime friend, attorney Robert Wallach, is the focus of a criminal investigation of Meese's activities by independent counsel James McKay that began nearly nine 'months ago. After receiving Wallach's memo in 1985, Meese took no action in regard to the potential illegal activity mentioned in the document, sources familiar with McKay's investigation have said.

Meese said that since last Friday, when the memo's existence was first disclosed in the Los Angeles Please see MEESE, AI2 because attempts to eradicate the manufacture and wholesale supply at the source have not been effective. "We've kind of turned 180 to put more emphasis on affecting the demand for drugs, rather than the supply," the DCI chief said then. But in a subsequent interview, Crofts said, "Maybe 1 didn't say exactly what I meant." "I don't think we're going after demand instead of supply, I think we're going after both," he said. Crofts also said that law en-Please see DRUGS, A 12 By The Associated Press Vice President George Bush said Monday he is better qualified for the White House than rivals he dismissed as "creatures of Congress," and Democrat Bruce Babbitt criticized six-term Rep. Richard Gephardt as a "lifelong Washington insider" trying to run against the establishment.

In the paper chase, Bush and Sen. Bob Dole each picked up $6.3 million during the last quarter of 1987 more than many of the candidates collected all year. Meanwhile, another contender for the Republican nomination, Pat Robertson, accused the Bush campaign of Watergate-style dirty tricks in the wake of the Michigan convention. The former television evangelist's supporters cried foul after Bush captured a lion's share of Michigan's delegates over the weekend. "The things that are being said, the anti-Christian bashing that going on by the Bush forces, such things as calling evangelicals Please see POLITICS, A 12 Wallop raises huge war chest for Senate race CHEYENNE U.S.

Sen. Malcolm Wallop's campaign finance chairman announced Monday that more than $500,000 was raised during 1987 for the Republican's re-election effort. "Total contributions to the Wallop Senate Drive were $327,444 from July through December 1987, and WSD raised over $543,500 for all of 1987," said Diemer True of Casper. True, a Republican state senator, said the campaign will continue fundraising efforts, but shift its emphasis to Wyoming contributors. The Natrona County state senator said there were more than 3,300 individual contributors to Wallop's 1982 campaign, along with over 500 political action committee contributors.

Details of Wallop's campaign finances were included in a just-filed year-end Federal Election Commission report, True said. miii.jit.1 i.j miui1.ii. Casper Area A3 Classifieds B7-12 Comics B4 Community B3 Crossword B5 Landers, Oracles B5 Letters All Markets A8 Obituaries, Diary B2 Opinion A10 Sports A5-7 Movies B5 Wyoming Bl Old Grouch Reagan should ask Wallop about funding the Contras. RESULTS FARM THIS DEAL! During February only, you can place a classified ad to buy, trade or sell rarm equipment machinery in class 1 58 for 1 0 days for only If you have extra equipment just sitting around, give us a call! NOW is the time to advertise it! Dealership ads welcome. Let our friendly Customer Service Reps assist you today.

Just call 266-0555 or WY toll-free, 1-800-442-6916. Focus of drug policy not changed, DCI chief says I Grieving MM 1 "7 hUL i AP By EMILY QUARTERMAN Star-Tribune staff writer CASPER Contrary to his earlier statements, state drug enforcement policy has not been changed to focus on users instead of suppliers, Division of Criminal Investigation Director Kip Crofts says. A state drug policy statement suggests that greater enforcement pressure should be applied to lower-level suppliers. Jan. 25, Crofts said the focus of the attack on drugs in Wyoming has shifted from supply to demand A Palestinian mother collapses in grief on the sidewalk Monday in Gaza City, Israel, and gestures that two of her sons were arrested.

LSO estimates costs, funding gas pipeline By ANNE MacKINNON Star-Tribune staff writer CASPER If approved, a proposed state loan to a Wyoming-California natural gas pipeline would cost the state's general fund at least $8.5 million a year, but if successful, would repay state and local governments much more than that, according to legislative staff estimates. If the venture is financially successful, it would repay the general fund about $4.9 million a year, and put another $39 million a year into 14 other governmental accounts, according to the Legislative Service Office figures. However, if it is not successful those gains would not occur, and the state might incur greater costs. The LSO figures do not detail what could happen if the pipeline venture does not work out as interest, as suggested by former Democratic legislator Robert Johnson in Rock Springs last week. (See related story, A3).

Backers of the proposal say it is aimed at whichever of two competing Wyoming-to-California lines wins federal approval. The Kern River Pipeline project and the Wyoming-California Pipeline Co. project (WyCal), both sponsored by major U.S. pipeline and energy companies, now have applications under Federal Energy Regulatory Commission review to get permission to construct their projects. A third line which would deliver southwestern U.S.

gas to the prospective California markets is also seeking FERC permission while California regulators and utilities have opposed any new pipeline. FERC is expected to approve only Please see PIPELINE, A12 1, a JIM GERINGEK Initial sponsor.