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I FOREIGN jV rl seeks presidency NATIONAL No Barry retrial Li- I I SPORTS 1 -J vC- Fantastic finish L.x- 1 I I I WEATHER J. Partly cloudy and warm A2 I i Cheney grounds air chief for comments about Iraq Spence opposes Hopkinson execution 1 At- Lr, relieved under extraordinary circumstances since 1949, and the first top-ranking general dismissed since President Harry Truman ousted Gen. Douglas MacArthur in 1951. Monday's action was the latest in a series of moves that Cheney has made to assert his control over the military services. Dugan, in articles published on Sunday by The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, said that the Joint Chiefs of Staff had concluded that the only effective military option for driving Iraqi forces out of Kuwait was heavy bombing of Baghdad to "decapitate" the senior Iraqi leadership, making President Saddam Hussein, his family, and senior com-Please see CHENEY, AI2 WASHINGTON (NYT) Defense Secretary Dick Cheney abruptly dismissed the top-ranking Air Force officer on Monday for publicly discussing Pentagon contingency plans for waging a war against Iraq, including specific targets for American air strikes.

Cheney, acting after consulting with President Bush, said Gen. Michael Dugan, the Air Force chief of staff, had endangered national security, demeaned other branches of the military, and showed "poor judgment at a very sensitive time" in statements made to reporters who accompanied him during a five-day visit to Saudi Arabia. Dugan was the first uniformed chief of one of the military services AP Drops the hammer Defense Secretary Dick Cheney explains he fired Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mike Dugan because of comments the general made about plans to bomb Iraq. GEN.

MIKE DUGAN Hussein would he targeted Europeans expel Iraqi diplomats, as support grows for air embargo By DAN WHIPPLE Star- Tribune staff writer CASPER Jackson attorney Gerry Spence, who successfully prosecuted Mark Hopkinson for arranging the murder of Jeffrey Green. Monday urged Gov. Mike Sullivan to commute Hopkinson's sentence from death to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. In a letter to Sulliv an, released simultaneously to the Star-Tribune, Spence said, "My position as the special prosecutor who tried the case against Mr. Hopkinson has not changed from the date I argued to the jury for the death penalty.

1 was then and am now opposed to the taking of human life in the name of punishment." In his argument to the jury at the time of Hopkinson's original conviction, Spence said that he believed that the only basis for taking human life was self-defense. Since Hopkinson at the time had demonstrated his ability and willingness to arrange the murders of people from behind prison bars, the death penalty was called for at the time. However, the 10 intervening years since Hopkinson's conviction nave shown him to no longer be a threat, Spence said. Hopkinson should be punished, he said, by serving life in prison without the possibility of parole, not by being put to death. Spence wrote, "A commutation Please see SPENCE, A12 dad's longtime patron, said Monday it would re-establish diplomatic ties with Saudi Arabia.

The Saudis infuriated Iraq by agreeing to become the main staging ground for the deployment of a U.S. -led multinational force after the Aug. 2 Iraqi takeover of Kuwait. Sensitivities about the role of the U.S., force were underscored when a top U.S. military man was sacked after discussing contingency plans to launch massive air strikes against Baghdad and target Saddam personally.

The fired official, Air Force By the Associated Press International pressure on Saddam Hussein intensified Monday as European nations expelled Iraqi diplomats to retaliate for raids on embassies in occupied Kuwait, and support appeared to grow for an air embargo against Iraq. Oil prices jumped Monday, pointing to pessimism about prospects for a settlement of, the 6 -week-old Persian Gulf standoff. Oil futures soared to record levels, above $33 a barrel, on the New York Mercantile Exchange. In a sign of Iraq's growing isolation, the Soviet Union, Bagh chief of staff Gen. Mike Dugan, made the remarks while touring U.S.

military installations in Saudi Arabia, and they were published Sunday in The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. "There are certain things we never talk about. We never discuss operational matters, such as the selection of specific targets for potential air strikes," an angry Defense Secretary Dick Cheney told reporters in Washington. He dismissed Dugan after consulting President Bush. Bush, meanwhile, said he con-Please see GULF, A12 WyCal: Wyoming may not have gas for two pipelines By BILL LAZARUS Star- Tribune staff writer CASPER Two pipeline companies still plan to start constructing separate gas lines from southwest Wyoming to California late this year or early next year.

But one company official has doubts that the market will support two pipelines. "I think there's enough markets in California to support two pipelines, but I'm not convinced there's enough supply in Wyoming," said Ken O'Connell, senior vice-president of WyCal Pipeline Co. O'Connell said WyCal is proceeding with its plans to build a 600 million cubic feet per day gas line as soon as permits are obtained from the Bureau of Land Management. That, he said, is likely to happen between December and April. Neil Nixson, a spokesman for Kern River Gas Transmission said his firm still plans to start building its line to California by the end of the year, and to have the line completed by the end of 1991.

The company, he said, now faces only minor regulatory hurdles in the form of "supplemental authorizations" from agencies which already have essentially approved the project. "We have our line fully subscribed with firm contracts on 700 million cubic feet per day" of gas to be shipped on the line, Nixson said. Citing recent statements made by Kern River's president, he said that the "great majority" of the gas is to come from Wyoming gas fields along the Overthrust Belt in the southwestern part of the state. In the past. Kern River has identified nearly 500 million cubic feet per day of the gas to be shipped on its line as coming from Wyoming.

That's the amount of Wyoming gas hich must run through the line in order to obtain the lowest, 4 percent interest rate on a proposed $250 million loan to subsidize the construction of the pipeline. The Wyoming Natural Gas Pipeline Authority, in proposing the loan to Gov. Mike Sullivan, has said that a sliding interest scale with more interest charged as less Wyoming gas is shipped will help insure that Wyoming instead of Canadian gas will be transported on the pipeline to California. Please sec PIPELINE, A12 State makes final arguments in Hopkinson case By KATHARINE COLLINS Star- Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE The state of Wyoming has asked the Wyoming Supreme Court to dismiss the last-ditch appeal by attorneys for Mark Hopkinson. Hopkinson filed the appeals last week in both Second District Court in Rawlins and in the Wyoming Supreme Court to block his scheduled Sept.

25 execution by lethal injection. Hopkinson on death row for 1 1 years received the death penalty in 1979 for ordering the murder of Bridger Valley resident Jeff Green, and three life sentences for ordering the bombing of the Vincent Vehar home in Evanston, killing Vehar, his wife and son. Green died just days before he was scheduled to testify before a grand jury investigating the Vehar deaths. The original death penalty was thrown out by the Wyoming Supreme Court in 1981, but was reinstated during a second death penalty proceeding in 1982 before a new jury. In responses filed late last week in both courts.

Assistant Wyoming Attorney General Karen Byrne argued that the writ of habeas corpus sought by Hopkinson should be dismissed because such an action only where a trial court judge exceeds his jurisdiction." "(Hopkinson) does not contend that such court improperly asserted jurisdiction over his person," the state memorandum reads. "He argues only that the trial court allowed prosecutorial misconduct to taint the proceedings, that the court improperly instructed the sentencing jury, that the evidence of the nature of the crime and (Hopkinson's) role in that crime did not support the imposition of the death penalty, and that lethal injection is a cruel and unusual method of execution in the speculative absence of medical supervision." Though arguing that the appeal by Hopkinson was filed inappropriately, the state still responded to the eight issues raised by the convicted man's attorneys. The state maintains that the convicted man is "precluded from seeking a redetermination" of seven of those issues. "The trial and sentencing events which he challenges as error" have been answered in earlier court decisions, the response says. "(Hopkinson) alleges no new factual matters and asserts no new legal basis warranting a redetermination of issues previously decided," the document says.

Please see HOPKINSON, A12 Govenor still undecided on pipeline loan Casper Area A3 Classifieds B8-12 Comics B7 Community A7 Crossword B8 Landers, Omarr B3 Letters A9-1 1 Markets A6 Movies B3 Obituaries, Diary B2 Opinion A8 Sports B4-6 Wyoming Bl hi Old Grouch Tribes oppose proposal to pump Boysen water By JOAN BARRON Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE The Wyoming Water Development Commission needs to consider questions about a proposal to pump water from Boysen Reservoir to non-Indian irrigators, including whether the water involved is already appropriated to the Arapahoe and Shoshone Indian tribes, tribal water engineer Catherine Vandemoer said Monday. The Arapaho and Shoshones, she said, believe the 50,000 acre feet of Boysen Reservoir water the proposal would use is tribal water. Vandemoer said she will present the tribes' views on the plan during the WWDC's meeting in Cheyenne Wednesday. She will do so as part of a presentation on a wide range of water issues involving the Wind River Basin, she said. Bill Garland, a Midvale irrigator, said earlier that he will suggest to the WWDC that the state agency finance preliminary engineering work for a pipeline to pump the Boysen Reservoir water 20 miles back upstream to serve three non-Indian irrigation districts along the Wind River.

Garland said engineering work could cost $500,000 and construction costs could total $30 million. A 1989 U.S. Supreme Court decree awarded the Arapaho nad Shoshone tribes 500,717 acre feet of the 1.2 million to 1.5 million acre feet of water that flows through the Wind River Indian Reservation. In the aftermath of the award, the state has been attempting to insure a water supply for non-Indian irrigators in Fremont County. The tribes filed suit in Washakie County District Court to compel the state to enforce tribal water rights, including closing junior, non-Indian irrigators headgates when necessary.

Garland has said his plan requires no agreement or participation with the Arapaho and Shoshone tribes. Please see BOYSEN, Al 2 By TOM REA Star- Tribune staff writer CASPER A proposed loan of $250 million in state funds at below-markct interest for a natural gas pipeline to California is a way for Wyoming to take control of its future, Gov. Mike Sullivan said Monday. "I think you can argue in favor of saying 'Here is a way we can help direct our Sullivan said. Otherwise, the state would be allowing outside economic forces to direct whether the state's gas moves through the pipeline, he said.

The governor spoke on a wide range of subjects in an interview when he was in Casper campaigning. Sullivan said he will make up his mind soon though he declined to say exactly when whether to authorize the low-interest loan to a pipeline company. Sullivan also touched on issues of economic development and education during the interview. If he is elected this fall, Sullivan said he will again ask the Legislature to label money in the Permanent Mineral Trust Fund as a trust fund for education. The interest on the fund would go to endow professorships at the university of Wyoming and to encourage innovative programs in the public schools.

Discussing the pipeline loan. Dec Cimild'Star-Tribune Sullivan: Loan would help state to control futurt In an election year I'm sure there's enough gas in Wyoming for two pipelines. RESULTS Sullivan agreed the pipeline companies have said the line will be built and Wyoming gas is under contract to be shipped whether or not the state lends the money. But incentives included with the loan will make it more likely that "Wyoming gas will continue to be shipped," Sullivan said. Those incentives include, he noted, among them a four percent interest rate for high-volume Wyoming gas shipments and a provision allowing the state to call the loan if the amount of Wyoming gas shipped on the line falls below certain levels.

"It seems to me that's the leverage, that's the hook (the loan) offers," he said. The purpose of the loan is to spur Wyoming gas production. But several economists contacted by the Star-Tribune recently said the loan will not make enough difference in the price of gas to provide much assurance that Please see SL'LLIYAN, A12 The Star-Tribune Classified Section is not just for selling unwanted items! If there is something you would like to buy or trade for, don't wait for someone else to place a 'For Sale' ad In the running your own advertisement in 136-Want to BuyTrade. Right now, you can buy a classified ad there for just $6 for 7 days! Just call 266-0555 or 1-800-442-6916 (in WY toll-free) for more details!.