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OPI NION star A12 Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. unbag tar-Cribunc Morton has Jenkins up his sleeve Thomas W. Howard Publisher Robin HurUts Genera Manager 170 Shir Lane, Caiper, Wyoming 8260 1 307-260500 The Casper Daily Tribune Est. Oct. 9.

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1, 1982 CHEYENNE Republican gubernatorial candidate Warren Morton of Casper kicks off his campaign Monday in Sheridan. The 58-year-old independent oilman and former House Speaker will do the usual things a candidate does on the stump speak at meetings and coffees and go door-to-door to make himself known to voters. Richard G. High Editor Xapital Beat What we need from the native Americans Joan Barron Sen. Gale McGee and on Democratic Gov.

Ed Herschler's tough 1978 reelection race, among others. So he will do for Morton what he would not do for Sundance rancher Nels Smith, who folded as a GOP gubernatorial candidate in early July for personal and health reasons, the latter apparently the result of the stress of trying to wage a statewide campaign. Smith tried to hire Jenkins earlier but Jenkins demurred, saying he was too busy with other activities. Maybe Jenkins concluded then what others were only beginning to suspect that Smith was unwilling to launch a hard-bore campaign against Herschler or to otherwise follow the advise of campaign professionals. WORD OF JENKINS' joining Morton's staff spread quickly this week among state House Democrats, who maintain Jenkins is still ticked at Herschler for failing to support the Little Big Horn River coal slurry pipeline bill in the 1981 session.

Jenkins was then president of the project developers, the Sheridan-Little Big Horn Group. The Democrats point out that Herschler could scarcely have supported the proposal, regardless of his association with Jenkins, since he' has so strenuously opposed export of Wyoming water. Yet, the bill's failure stung Jenkins, who Is not accustomed to failure. Morton described Jenkins as "extraordinarily talented and extremely understanding of Wyoming." He also cited Jenkins' winning campaign record, adding that he doesn't intend to mar that score. "It's not going to be a two-bit operation," Morton said of his campaign.

"It's going to be complete and very organized. We expect to research the record and to make it known." He was referring, of course, to the record of Herschler's administration. No one would expect a two-bit campaign from Morton in any event. And with Jenkins on board, voters can expect some fresh, solid approaches as well, despite the late start of the campaign. Jenkins, after all, is also a screenwriter, a craft requiring substantial creativity.

But I'll wager that not even Jenkins can persuade Morton to forego his conservative button-down attire and to dress western. THREE OF THE 14 legislators who attended the meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures' In Chicago last week are not running for re-election. The trio' are state Rep. Doug Bryant, D-Platte; state Rep. Cynthia Lummis, R-Laramie, and state Sen.

Donald Northrup, R-Park. Technically, all are entitled to attend at state expense since each is still a member of the Legislature until January and all are Wyoming representatives on NCSL committees. Bryant Is on the Committee on Ethics, Elections and Reapportionment; Lummis, the Committee on Law and Justice, and Northrup, the Committee on Education. But, since none will be back for the 1983 session, the inevitable question is whether their attendance at the conference will be of any value to the taxpayers. Lummis' participation probably is the most valid since she is head of the judiciary subcommittee that will be busy trying to fix the criminal code revision before the 1983 session.

Some legislators doubt whether attending these types of conferences is even worthwhile. After he attended such a gathering in California several years ago, State Sen. Cal Taggart, R-Big Horn, wrote the legislative management council advising that all lawmakers should skip the meetings and Stay home. His swing next week also will take him to Thecmopolis and Worland. Morton already has some heavyweights on his campaign staff.

He hired Mike Morgan, a former administrative assistant for U.S. Sen. Malcolm Wallop as campaign manager. And Morton scored a big coup by getting John Jenkins of Big Horn to be his campaign consultant. Jenkins has compiled an impressive record as a campaign strategist.

He worked on Wallop's hugely successful 1976 campaign to unseat Democratic incumbent U.S. detail. Cleveland Indians, a putdown, you say. But what of the Wyoming Cowboys? Does the University of Wyoming's use of the cowboy for its team name suggest that this state holds cowboys in contempt? Surely not. THE figure of the Indian commonly used in this culture is one of heroic proportions.

Even the most crass commercial exploitation draws on the pride and dignity of warrier or chief. The day of the shoot-'em-up, only good injun is a dead un, Hollywood exploitation is past, just as the tapdancing blacks with rolling eyes are dated and embarrassing to modern Gillette plans to get tough on big city crime i Look out Gillette, here comes big-city crime. Campbell County law enforcement officials said this week they are planning to get themselves a crime assault team to take care of the big-city crime they expect to hit once Hampshire Energy builds its $2 billion synthetic fuels plant and and Investigations Network) a good town's reputation. There is nothing quite like a bunch of SMUG (Supervised Military Urban Guerrillas) critics, who SLINK (Superior Legal Investigators and Noble Knights) behind a wall of satire, to SMASH (Safe Marshall and Sheriff Helpers) a carefully planned public relations drive. But they need not worry too much.

A good name can just kind of SNEAK (Special Narcot ics Elimination Armed Kadets) up on you if you wait a while and don't get impatient. It's a -sure bet that SLAM, SLEUTH SLAY, SLING, SLUMP, SMACK, SfoARE, SNEAK, SNIDE, STUN and SWIPE could be put to good use too. Of all the candidates though, I prefer SAMAURAI (Sentries Against Marauders and Urban Raiders) It has a kind of ring Annind Wyoming Hefner Happenings to show off the town's better side and invited Hef to come. He declined. GILLETTE HAS, the fathers pointed out to the folks who did attend, been working pretty hard to improve itself.

It has had beautification projects, downtown improvement and has begun tough development practices to control urban blight. Last year, the city planners even tried to pass the famous nine-inch dog law, making it illegal to have a canine companion over that height, to make sure that any dogs in two new subdivisions were too small to be a nuisance. So the law enforcement people are understandably concerned about the way peopl will perceive their new para-military commandos. They definitely do not want the group to be known as a SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) team (iron Bean 42 THE FLASHER "Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give lite to men and animals.

We cannot sell the lives of men and animals; therefore we cannot sell this land As a present to you, we will give you anything we have that you can take with you; but the land, never. Blackfeet chief rejects a treaty. Perhaps some 200 or 300 centuries ago our common ancestors went their separate ways. Some followed the receeding glaciers into what is now Europe. Others, surely as adventurous or as desperate, crossed a new land bridge into North America.

Much later, after the Europeans mastered gunpowder and learned to survive their "childhood diseases," the two branches of humanity again came into contact. The Europeans brought their pox, malaria and firepower to, the "Indians" of the Americas, and soon the great civilizations of the New World lay in ruin. By the time first settlers reaqhed Wyoming, Indian populations had been savaged by disease, and native American culture recast by gunpowder, the horse, alcohol and some, curious European ideas about how people fit in with the rest of nature. Then came conquest, captivity and partial assimilation into the white man's hectic ways. It didn't work well.

Native Americans again turned to their roots, to the ancient values that couldn't be spoiled by the victors. INDIAN awareness week and the Miss Indian America Pageant this week at Sheridan, were important attempts to seek out the sources of native American cultural strength. They seem to represent an awkward kind of transition, a stiff dance between cultures. The pride of a spiritual people seems out of place in a world of mass communications and hype. Leather vs.

Naugahyde. We hear a young man talk with conviction about the commercial exploitation of the Indian. Indians, we are told, have been reduced to trademarks and made into mascots of athletic teams. "Has anyone ever heard of a' team called the Cleveland Caucasians?" asked 17 year old Joe Horse Capture. Indians, he charges, have been treated as "objects and not as humans." We admire the spirit behind the assertions, and admit a host of abuses by the White Man.

But the claims don't wash, at least in SsvT -Sic un ti hi mil til because, SWAT "carries a connotation of going in and shooting them up," Hartman said. A nice little town doesn't need any SWAT teams, hanging around to tarnish its image. In order to come up with a less offensive acronym, Hartman asked his officers to help him think of a more harmless sounding moniker. So far, he's received about 25 suggestions, which he has narrowed to seven possibles, one of which is SLED (Strategic Law Enforcement Division). But there must be others somewhere.

Because poking more fun at Gillette would be a SLAP (Special Legal Action Police) in the city's they need a name with a little less PUNCH (Practical Urban Network of Crime Halters). Gillette after all is nothing to SNEER (Secret Narcotics and Emergency Enforcement Regiment) at a sneer can STAIN (Strategic Tactics brings in a bunch of new people. B. "Spike" Hladky, the sheriff, is coordinating a week-long assault group training session to be taught by an FBI agent this September and attended by sheriff's deputies, Gillette police and lawmen from Casper and Laramie. The Campbell County crime assault team will be made up of deputies and policemen, who will double as regular cops until the next sniper, hostage taker, bank robber or hijacker who wants to break out of Gillette quick, comes along.

Gillette Police Chief Bob Hartman said the town, which hasn't had much big-city crime yet, probably won't need to use its new assault team for another year or so. But he and Hladky are planning ahead. Hladky said this week the county could face a nasty lawsuit if an emergency happened around Gillette and there wasn't a ready assaulf team presumably decked out in bullet-proof vests, with special weapons in hand to take care of it. "We'd be liable if something happened and we don't have those people," he warned. Gillette, in the heart of the energy boom, is perhaps the most self-conscious town in Wyoming.

The city fathers, tired of being kicked around in the national and state press, have gone out of their way to show people what a nice place they really have. After an article appeared in Playboy Magazine which they thought was particularly degrading this year, the city sponsored the First Annual Haughty Hugh TWO LEGGINS 1924 photo by Elsa Spear Byron Such loose talk by either Indians or Whites is itself dated frankly, smacks of White Man's way of thinking. Contrast the sense of such comments with the clear sight of the Blackfeet chief quoted above. The modern talk too often rings of the excesses associated with the early stages of militant consciousness raising in White Man's culture. SPIRITUALITY, not polemics, may be what is most needed by all of us caught up in heady White Man's culture.

We sense the depth of that native American spirituality, rooted in respect for the land, the water, the air andall life. Such respect for all spiritual things across the generations, including men, is what the all-conqyerering White Man's civilization now needs most. We have nobody else to conquer. We now make war only with nature, with ourselves and with our future generations. We have much to learn if we are to survive.

RGH ioo6wr- Mr Lo AngMM Ttm SnOcil Settlement more distant than ever By JULIE FLINT BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPD-Fifty-six days into Israel's war against the Palestine Liberation Organization, hopes of a political settlement seem more distant than ever, raising the specter of serious new upheavals in the Arab world. i "i Analysis tion," leftist leader Walid Jumblatt said Saturday. "They're surprised by Arafat's flexibility. He is willing to go out, but they don't want him out." Palestinian leaders say they can do no more in a fight started by Israel June 6 when it invaded Lebanon with the declared aim of establishing a 25-mile security belt on its northern border. THEY REJECT accusations that their diplomacy is simple maneuver and point to two letters signed by Arafat and handed to the Lebanese government this month.

Lebanese and Palestinian officials say the first letter, dated July 3, contained a guarantee the PLO leadership would leave Beirut. The second, 10 days later, offered to evacuate to Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq 5,000 or 6,000 men of the Palestine Liberation Army, leaving in Beirut the fighters of the mainstream guerrilla group Al Fatah. "We want peace," said a PLO official, "but we have no sign Israel wants peace. They have devastated all Palestinian areas in Beirut They have refused to pull back so Palestinians can withdraw. We have not yet taken the decision to fight in Beirut.

It is not our city. But we cannot go on talking under this bombing." The siege of Beirut is only the latest of Lebanon's sufferings for the Palestinians both because of Palestinian behavior, often arrogant and overbearing at street level, and because of the very fact of waging a liberation struggle from another's territory. Because of the Palestinian presence, the south of Lebanon is under occupation, its major cities and towns severely damaged. Beirut is taking a beating, with hospitals bombed and Innumerable buildings destroyed. A month-old blockade of the city is causing increasing hardship and health hazards.

THE ARAB WORLD, torn apart by its own conflicts, has done almost nothing to help end the invasion, which many Arabs believe should have triggered the fifth Arab-Israeli war. Although Iraq and Jordan agreed to accept PLA fighters originally based in their countries, Syria refused. Egypt said evacuating fighters should go hand In band with an overall Palestinian settlemert Sources close to PLO chairman Yasser Arafat say he personally is convinced Israel does not want and cannot now settle for a political agreement that leaves Arafat and his lieutenants to lead a new and necessarily more violent struggle if the PLO leaves Beirut. "After 56 days," a ranking PLO official said, "the Israelis cannot accept a political solution In Beirut. They think the PLO leadership is in their hands, how can they let it go?" This feeling gained ground in Lebanese circles after Israel launched a land, sea and, air attack against west Beirut Friday, less than 24 hours after the PLO for the first time publicly stated iU readiness to leave Beirut.

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