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WYOMING I WEATHER 1 Partly cloudy, "HUJS more wind 0' politics 1 Candidates i going South luntrjll -C6 I State of State address text A4 U.S. medal count zero 1 I CI mptx 3 Sullivan backs 21 drinldnff age State address, he attacks JAC's PPM In State of By JOAN BARRON Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE Gov. Mike Sullivan Tuesday called for raising the drinking age from 19 to 21, saying it would help the economy and the state's image. The change of position was announced in his State of the State address. In the past, Sullivan has said he disliked raising the drinking age but also has said he would not veto such a bill if the Legislature enacted one.

Sullivan also gave a strong pitch for a constitutional amendment to President 1 High Vice President George Bush, AP validate the state's "tier" property tax system, declared unconstitutional late last year by the Wyoming Supreme Court. And he objected to cuts in his budget recommended by the Joint Appropriations Committee. sjjire primary, gives a double thumbs up sign as he campaigns at a polling place in Nashau, N.H., early Tuesday morning. Bush, Dukakis win in New Hampshire trrnmmmmAl. U.J...

irwr Siar-TribuneZbigniew Bzdak Gov. Mike Sullivan gives his State of the State address Tuesday. Behind him are Speaker of the House Pat Meenan (left) and John Turner, Senate president. At far left is House Chief Clerk Herb Pownall. Sullivan speaks Firm says WCDA official didn't send audit 9.

proposed cuts STAN SMITH Firm denies Smith 's claims use the national forests to meet their recreational needs," Robertson said. The Forest Service policy of not building playgrounds at campgrounds discourages families because children "don't have enough to do," he said. Robertson also said the agency has a backlog of $300 million worth of maintenence and construction work that needs to be done at recreation sites, and $100 million in deferred trail maintenance. Please see FOREST, A12 Camp David but failed to reach agreement. The reliance on the accords is viewed as important in Washington because Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir of Israel has indicated opposition to any plan not based on Camp David, other than direct talks with Jordan.

And Jordan has ruled out negotiations with Israel except in the context of an international conference. The issue is expected to be the focus of Secretary of State George Shultz's visit to the Middle East this month. Driven by more than two months of Palestinian demonstrations in the Israeli-occupied ter-Please see MIDEAST, A12 lv i By MATT WINTERS Star-Tribune staff writer CASPER Wyoming State Treasurer Stan Smith's claims that a Wyoming Community Development Authority director sent a copy of a critical audit of the agency to a New York bond-rating firm are not true, an employee of the firm said Tuesday. Moody's, the New York company that essentially gives credit ratings to companies and government entities, was alerted to the state audit of the WCDA by a reporter, said Naomi Richmond, a bond specialist with Moody's. WCDA's bond rating is "currently under review," she confirmed.

Smith charged Monday that an unidentified member of WCDA's board of directors had attempted to "undermine" WCDA credit by hopes who later won the New Hamp- Paul Simon at 17 percent. "I love New Hampshire," the Missouri congressman said. But Simon, a narrow second-place to Gephardt in Iowa, conceded nothing. Jesse Jackson, one of the also rans, said he was talking with Bruce Babbitt about gaining an endorsement if the former Arizona governor quits the race. Babbitt defeated only Gary Hart at the end of the Democratic pack.

Dukakis told his supporters, "Ten months ago we launched a campaign for the future of America, a campaign for good jobs and real opportunity for every citizen campaign to get our fiscal house in order." The effort earned him a bronze medal in Iowa, he said, and in next-door New Hampshire, "We went for the gold and we won it." CBS, reporting on the basis of interviews with voters leaving their polling place, said Bush was helped considerably by President Reagan's popularity in the Granite State. Other pollsters concurred, and said Dukakis was helped by his long tenure as governor of a neighboring state. With 94 percent of the precincts reporting, Dukakis led for 9 Democratic convention delegates, Gephardt 6 and Simon 3. That Please see PRIMARY, A 12 Qoned cattle may soon be marketable WASHINGTON (NYT) A new and powerful biological technology that enables livestock breeders to clone large numbers of identical animals from a single embryo is nearing commercial application in the United States and Canada. The cloning technique is the latest in a series of breeding technologies that have allowed animal scientists to steadily separate reproduction in livestock from natural mating and thereby gain much tighter control over the hereditary traits of cattle, pigs and sheep.

What breeders lacked, though, was a reliable technique for precisely duplicating superior animals. With the cloning technology, scientists are closing in on what has long been the ultimate objective in modern husbandry: achieving the same levels of uniform quality and production in farm animals that were once thought to be confined only to manufactured goods. Moreover, the ability to successfully clone large mammals hints at the possibility in years to come that similar techniques might be devised for. humans. Over the last 30 years, advances in animal Please see CLONES, A12 The Democratic chief executive said Wyoming faces a greater economic decline than anyone predicted when the drinking age issue first surfaced in 1985.

He said there is "a remarkable correlation" between construction employment and highway construction spending. Wyoming, the only state in the nation that has not accepted the federally mandated higher drinking age, faces a loss of S8.2 million in highway construction money if the state doesn't comply by July. The state will lose an additional $10.6 million if the law isn't passed by July 1, 1989. "We are now an island in a nation which recognizes a national drinking age of 21 Sullivan said. "Without a change, our institutions of higher learning would have the distinction, as would our Please see SULLIVAN, A12 Republicans hit Sullivan's budget plans By SCOTT FARRIS and ANNE MacKINNON Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE Republican legislative leaders Tuesday warned that Gov.

Mike Sullivan's budget might lead to tax increases three or four years from now. Responding to Sullivan's State of the State address. Senate President John Turner said Republicans strongly differ with the Democratic governor on the level of state spending for the next biennium. Democratic legislative leaders, however, said they believe most state residents agree with Sullivan that state services should not be cut. Sullivan's budget calls for about an 8 percent increase over current state agency spending levels.

The Joint Appropriations Committee has recommended the increase be cut to about 4 percent. The governor plans to help pay for his spending plan with transfers of money from water development funds and the diversion of part of the flow of taxes that otherwise would go to build the Permanent Mineral Trust Fund. The 4 percent spending gap between the governor and JAC brought strong words from Republicans. Turner, R-Teton, said Sullivan's proposed diversions would use up 65 percent of the reserve accounts available for legislative appropriation and creates "a real risk of tax increases in the next biennium." "It is not our belief we can buy our way into prosperity through increased public spending," Turner said. But Turner praised Sulinan for backing efforts to raise the drinking age from 19 to 21.

personally applaud the governor joining us as sponsors and the strong majority of Wyoming citizens who wish to raise the drinking age," he said. House Majority Leader William "Rory" Cross said he has a "philosophical" problem with Sullivan Please see REACTION, A12 New Forest Service plan wants more privatization of recreation facilities CONCORD, N.H. (AP) Vice President George Bush powered past Sen. Bob Dole in New Hampshire's kickoff presidential primary Tuesday and reclaimed momentum in the Republican race for the White Michael Dukakis won impressively in a Democratic contest for supremacy and DUKAKIS survival. "Reports of my death were greatly exaggerated," rejoiced Bush as he rebounded from a third-place finish in last week's Iowa caucuses.

He was winning 38 percent of the GOP vote to 29 percent for Dole. Rep. Jack Kemp was narrowly defeating Pete du Pont and Pat Robertson in the third-place competition to emerge as a conservative alternative to the front-runners. But the group was clumped far behind Bush and Dole. Dukakis was winning 36 percent of the vote and said his showing would "give us a very, very strong boost" going into the delegate-rich Southern primaries ahead.

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sending Richmond a copy of the audit conducted by State Examiner Stan Hunt. He said that Richmond would not identify the director who had sent her the audit. But Richmond said Tuesday that she requested the audit from the Wyoming secretary of state's office. A spokesman there confirmed that Richmond had asked for the audit, which she was sent and for which she was billed. Richmond said she had not discussed the matter with Smith.

And Smith would not comment Tuesday on Richmond's statements. WCDA's bonds, which represent the state company's promise to repay a face amount and make periodic interest payments, currently have among the highest possible ratings, reflecting the fact that it has made its payments on time and Please see SMITH, A12 forests. "Our objective is diversified recreation opportunities in the national forests," he said. Forest Service recreation priorities are "out of balance," Robertson said. Owners of large motor homes do not use Forest Service campgrounds because there are no electrical and water hookups, he said.

"They go elsewhere," Robertson said. "We have been focused on primitive camping situations." "We really need to look at these urban Americans and how they can talks based on gested a series of steps that would include an arrangement for local self-government for Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, based on the principles in the Camp David accords of 1978 but with the timetable shortened. The accords provided for a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, which was signed in 1979. They also envisioned a series of steps to resolve the dispute over the Palestinians' political status. The process was to involve a five-year transitional period that would lead to autonomy, or limited self-government, and allow a permanent resolution of the problem to be found.

Talks on achieving autonomy began in 1980 By ANDREW MELNYKOVYCH Star-Tribune Washington bureau WASHINGTON The Forest Service Tuesday unveiled a new national recreation plan that would give private industry the responsibility for managing many campgrounds and other facilities. Forest Service Chief Dale Robertson conceded the result of greater private involvement could be higher fees for those who use the facilities, but said the plan would expand the range of recreation opportunities in the national Arabs reject PARIS (NYT) Many Arab countries, led by Egypt and Jordan, have told the United States that they firmly reject any further interim Middle East negotiations based on the Camp David accords. Instead, according to Arab diplomats, a new coalition of these states seems determined to push for what they are calling "a complete solution" of the Arab-Israeli problem that would carry the stamp of both superpowers. The diplomats said the coalition included Syria, Morocco and Arab lands of the Persian Gulf, including Saudi Arabia. Apparently in an effort to include Israel in negotiations, the Reagan administration has sug.