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6, 1983 9 7 1891 0 Casper Star those trapped on the balconies. Ambulances and private cars transported the wounded through crowded streets as Lebanese army troops aided by French and Italian members of the multinational peacekeeping forces cleared the way. State-run Beirut radio said police reports indicated 20 people were killed and 60 wounded, while right-wing Phalange radio reported 18 dead and 90 wounded. The American University Hospital reported receiving 115 victims, six of them dead on arrival. Several employees of the PLO office, the Palestine Research Center, were also wounded and Hanneh Jirjes, wife of the center's director, was listed among the ITlWinft cppnA Beirut residents flee from the scene of a car-bomb explosion ICCIIlg that kUled 20 people and injured 60 Saturday.

Panel OKs bill prohibiting employers' lie detector use Casper, Wyoming agencies would be exempt and would still be allowed to administer the tests to those applying for positions in law enforcement. Harrison said the bill's purpose was to prevent businesses from invading the privacy of prospective employees by requiring an unreliable test. He noted that the results of polygraph tests can be influenced by the examiner. "You can hire a polygraph operator whose results will come out any way you want," he said. Rep.

Walter Urbigkit, D-Laramie, said that' if three polygraph examiners test the same two men in a sniper attack just after midnight on three trucks on Interstate 65 outside Memphis, Ind. William K. Horten, 28, of Charlestown, and Wendell Mason 22, of Jeffersonville, were charged with criminal recklessness in one of about a dozen sniping incidents across the country Saturday. None of the drivers was injured. "Drivers started hollering over their CB radios," said state police spokesman Russell Miller, "and By United Press International A powerful car-bomb ripped through two buildings housing offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Libyan Embassy and the Libyan news agency in west Beirut Saturday, killing 20 people and injuring 60 others, state-run Beirut radio said.

It was the second car-bomb attack in eight days on PLO offices, and brought the death toll in the two explosions to 60. The remote-control bomb an estimated 130 pounds of explosives ignited a fire that raced through both seven-story apartment buildings, trapping dozens of people on balconies. Police climbed ladders to remove the dead and wounded and rescue TV news At ft" 111 i 'ilium i ii mhhiim mi. i mi i 'JU, k- i i'm By GREG BEAN Star-Tribune staff writer CHEYENNE A bill to prohibit employers from administering fie detector tests to prospective employees was passed by a House committee Saturday. The bill, sponsored by Rep.

Frederick Harrison, D-Carbon, would make it illegal to require or use lie detector tests in connection with the employment application of a prospective employee. And it would make violations of the law a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of $100 and up to 90 days in jail. Under the bill, law enforcement Tribune 75 Cents dead. THE SHADOWY Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from For? eigners claimed responsibility in a call to a private radio station. The group's affiliations, if any, were unknown.

It was the same group that claimed the Jan. 28 bombing of a PLO building in the eastern Bekaa Valley town of Shtaura, 30 mjles east of Beirut, that killed about 40 people. The PLO's Beirut representative Chefic al Hout, blamed Israel the bombing and called on Lebanon's multinational forces to "protect the people of west Beirut against these Israeli crimes and atrocities." Please see MIDEAST, A16 ft'rt'Vfutvmxmfn Star-TribuneRick Sorenson half-hour of statewide news. Later, each of the full-time bureaus will air their own half-hour local news shows, Sieler said. Chrysostom Corp.

also holds a construction permit for Cheyenne station KLWY, on VHF channel 27, which is expected to start broadcasting in July with its own news staff. KCWY'S recent commitment to news may surprise some viewers. In 1981, the station reduced its early-evening news show to five minutes replacing the remaining time with the popular "MASH" serial to compete against the highly-rated p.m. KTWO Wyoming Please see KCWY, A16 added. Rep.

Scott Ratliff, D-Fremont, a committee member, predicted the bill will die in appropriations committee because of the $350,000 cost and suggested the program could be started with one-fourth that amount. Richard W. Johnson an official of the Wyoming Hospital Association, which is opposing the bill, said hospital rate regulation "is an idea that has come and gone' and cited the experiences of other states. Truckers told to stay close to rigs KCWY-TV has made ambitious plans to improve its news coverage in Wyoming. A cameraman zeroes in on sports director Carl Nathe (left) and anchorman Jim Scott.

KCWY-TV aims for top slot I IfllllMl PrMI lntrnoinal individual, they will come up with three different sets of conclusions. "I think lie detector tests are totally useless," Urbigkit said. "Sometimes one side will give the exam and find one thing, then you get another different one, oand then you get another which proves the previous examiner lied." HE SAID some people have adverse physiological reactions in stressful situations, like those created when lie detector tests are administered, and that distress influences the results of the test. "If you use this exam, there is a Please see BILL, A16 an Indiana state trooper that was in the area monitoring the CB traffic overheard what was going on and was able to locate the vehicle." The striking truckers are demanding a rollback on a 5 cents a gallon fuel tax hike and other road use taxes passed by Congress in December. In Washington, Sen.

Bob Dole, said Saturday he asked the General Accounting Office to Please see TRUCKERS, A16 to eastern Wyoming from the Little Snake River. BUT THE BILL includes the' condition that the exported Big Sandy water must be saline. It also says that Little Snake water diverted to the eastern part of the state will be made available to municipalities, and when they use the water, a slurry line developer would replace that water with sewage from the cities. Please see WATER, A16 Randolph is co-sponsor of a bill to create a three-member commission to review hospital rate increases. It carries a $350,000 appropriation.

Randolph said the health care industry is the second largest in the nation and is a monopoly not subject to review. He said hospital administrators play a game of "Mickey Mouse" by focusing on room charges but do not dwell on item charges for patients such as 50 cents for an aspirin tablet. make it out of committee states in the compact are Montana and North Dakota. The coal slurry measure lost one of three proposed lines during the amendment process. Sheridan County residents objected to use of the Little Bighorn River in one of the lines, so that was deleted.

Remaining is proposed authority for people who hold water rights to export up to 20,000 acre feet of water a year from the Big Sandy River and up to 20,000 acre feet of water a year diverted By United Press International Utah officials warned truckers to stay close to their rigs Saturday to guard against weekend saboteurs on the sixth day of a nationwide truck strike. Meat prices climbed in the Boston area and one distributor threatened layoffs. Strike leader Mike Parkhurst canceled a speaking engagement in Nebraska as a result of fears for his safety. Indiana state police arrested Water bills CHEYENNE (AP) Bills to renegotiate the Yellowstone River Compact for transbasin diversions and to authorize two coal slurry pipelines have made it out of a Wyoming House committee to the full chamber. The measures ran into resistence from Democrats, but the Rules Committee amended the proposals and then gave both favorable votes Friday night.

One would set up a 10-mrmber commission to be named by Gov. Ed Herschler to renegotiate part of the Yellowstone Compact so Wyoming could divert water from the Yellowstone basin to the eastern part of the state. The other THE OLD Wish ay wife would believe I flutk her He detector tests hecsue Tm aider stress. getting a larger share of the station's financial pie, increasing to 28 percent of the operating budget beginning in April, compared to last year's 9 percent, according to General Manager Peter Sieler. KCWY also recently hired news director Jim Frandin from KMGH in Denver a city noted for some of the hottest TV ratings wars in the country.

Under Frandin's guidance the news staff will more than double, rising from the current 12 to 30, and news bureaus will be opened this summer in Rock Springs, Lander and possibly Sheridan, according to station officials. By fall the news will be expanded to one hour, with a half-hour of Casper news and a Dr. John Hanks of Laramie, a lobbyist for the Senior Citizens' Coalition and floor leader for the Silver-Haired Legislature that recommended the bill, said the commission review program would take time before any results are apparent. He said the states of Illinois and Indiana did not give their hospital cost-containment programs time to work before they were cut off. But in six other states that did and retained the program, the results have been substantial, Hanks By ALISON ORESMAN Star-Tribune staff writer CASPER After spending its first few years in the ratings cellar, KCWY-TV is making a bid for the top.

Though it still has a long way to go to catch its long-standing rival KTWO, the 2Vi-year-old station is gaining, and its parent company, Chrysostom has made some ambitious plans for the news department. KCWY has added two new satellite stations in the past year KOWY in Lander and KWWY in Rock Springs and company officials have tentatively agreed to increase the overall news budget by 500 percent. The news operation will be "I know one hospital that charged as much as $2 for one aspirin," Randolph said. "This is hiding the cost to keep room charges down." Randolph also said that while the elderly use health facilities more than younger citizens, all people should be concerned about soaring hospital costs. "I DON'T THINK this is a senior citizens' bill," he said.

"I think this is a bill for all the people in Wyoming." Lawmaker warns states must regulate hospital costs By JOAN BARRON Star-Tribune staff writer CHEYENNE A legislator Saturday raised the spectre of socialized medicine in arguing for endorsement of a hospital cost containment bill. Rep. John Randolph, R-Fremont, told the House Labor Committee the states' must do something to regulate hospital costs or they will be faced with federal action, such as a socialized medicine program..