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SERBS AVOID AIR STRIKESA3 LIGHT SNOW CONTINU' 1 5 1 1 .1 Horse ahead Commission sets more limits on hunting seasons tr By DAN NEAL Star-Tribune staff writer ROCK SPRINGS Deer and antelope hunting seasons will be much more restrictive this fall under new regulations approved Tuesday by the Game and Fish Commission. But the state's sage grouse season will again extend throughout the month of September under the new seasons. The commission rejected a Game and Fish Department proposal to cut the sage grouse season to 1 3 days. The seasons set by the commission will help build severely depleted deer herds in southwestern and northeastern Wyoming, according to Wildlife Division Chief Jay Lawson. "I think these deer herds will recover" under the new hunting regulations, Lawson said.

He also pointed out that even with the depleted herds, nearly 60 percent of all Wyoming deer hunters were successful in 1993. "It's still some of the best deer hunting anywhere in the nation," he said. The new seasons also are aimed at restoring antelope herds significantly reduced by heavy hunting the past four years and further depleted during the winter of 1992-93, Game and Fish Department officials said. The department's management of deer and antelope, particularly in southwestern Wyoming, has been heavily criticized since last fall. Please see A8 fy it.

0 Blacks vote after 342-year shut-out S. African election continues Rick SorensonStar-Tribune Wranglers from the Glenrock Livestock Exchange drive 193 horses along the Glenrock highway just west of the Dave Power Plant. The horses were driven eight miles along the highway to Glenrock to be auctioned. By FRANCIS X.CLINES New York Times writer JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Throngs of elderly and infirm voters came forward in the predawn Tuesday to sweep aside three centuries of white racist rule and euphorically open the first fully democratic elections in South Africa. Three out of four were newly enfranchised black voters, the vanguard of the nation's long-oppressed black majority, who patiently crowded polling booths ixon's tapes won't be released yei Heirs will continue 20-year fight to postpone publication Nixon's funeral today 'Voting in our first free and fair election has begun.

Today marks the dawn of our Nelson Mandela, ANC presidential candidate and celebrated the power of the ballot in their ascension from the hard subjugation of apartheid. "I don't want the whites to go away," said 80-ycar-old Christina Vanqa, a spry black woman, recently retired as a maid, who happily lined up at 5 a.m. to cast the first national ballot of a lifetime freighted with racist deprivation. "We want to stay with them and build South Africa together." The new political majority's determination was signaled across the nation by the sight of the old and the sick arriving with wheelchair, crutch and cane, and in the arms of loved ones, too, to cast the first ballots in three days of voting. Their efforts are to produce a new government of power-sharing under a constitution, rooted in human rights guarantees, taking effect at midnight Tuesday.

A new national flag was readied across Please sec ELECTION, A8 YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) Former President Nixon's flag-draped casket was flown Tuesday from New York, where he died Friday, to El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, and was taken 20 miles by motorcade to Yorba Linda, his birthplace and site of his burial today. Mis coffin was earned by the same blue and white plane that flew the 37th president to California after he resigned as president nearly two decades ago. Hundreds of mourners fell silent as the hearse pulled up to the Richard Nixon Library Birthplace in a thunderstorm. The body was to lie in state in the library lobby until the funeral, which will be attended by every president to serve since Nixon.

The funeral is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. MDT. The four networks, plus PBS and C-SPAN, plan live coverage. hi By TIM WEINER New York Times writer WASHINGTON Richard Nixon's heirs plan to continue his 20-year-old fight to control more than 3,000 hours of White House tapes and 150,000 pages of presidential papers, his lawyer said on Monday. But legal experts said Nixon's death may speed the release of the records, which are locked away at the National Archives and have never been made available to scholars or journalists.

The tapes and papers were a crucial battleground in Nixon's struggle to re-establish his reputation. Starting two months after he resigned as president in 1974, he filed lawsuits to stop the release of the records. The last suit was filed about 10 days ago. record of what his attorney general, John Mitchell, was fond of calling 'the White House Only 63 hours of the tapes, provided to the federal grand jury in the Watergate affair, have been made public. Their famous passages include Nixon's advice that his aides "stonewall" federal investigators and his response to demands for hush money from the men arrested in the June 1972 break-in at Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate office building: "You could get a million dollars.

And you could get it in cash. I know where it could be gotten." Patti Goldman, a lawyer representing Kutler, said "the struggle is over who will control the tapes, who will control what the public Please see TAPES, A4 that these materials will exonerate him," said Stanley Kutler, a University of Wisconsin historian who has sued to release the records. "They will solidify and enhance his complicity in the Watergate affair and in the whole But unless his family fights as hard and as well as he did, historians may soon be mining rich new veins of Nixon's hidden history. "We can safely assume that Richard Nixon's tenacity in fighting this for 20 years does not mean Moving up the ranks SECTION Former WEA director runs for schools chief post in public education sets him apart from the other candidates for superintendent in both parties. The only other Democrat to seek the party's nomination for the post thus far is Rep.

Bill Vasey, HD15, D-Rawlins. Leinius said he knows the strengths and weaknesses of Wyoming's public school system and "the importance of involving parents, teachers, legislators, the community and school boards." The candidate said Wyoming's educational strengths include local control and the performance standard system created in 1990. Leinius said the latter, which is to By KERRY DRAKE Star- Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE Democrat Bob 1 cinius stressed his "28 years in the trenches" of Wyoming public education Tuesday as he announced his candidacy for state superintendent of public instruction. l.einius made his announcement at Central High School, where he served 17 years as a teacher. He left the classroom to work for the Wyoming Education Association, which he led as executive director from 1987 until January.

Leinius said his "mainstream experience" be in place in every Wyoming school district by 1997, "provides the opportunity for a child to learn at his or her own rate. It takes away that old stigma of 'you have to grad uate in 12 Lack of money remains the state's chief weakness in education, Leinius said. "However you cut it, this has to be a campaign about money and the dedication of funds to public education," he said. "Not having sufficient funds creates weaknesses in the system because you'll find school boards being pul in the position of (deciding) what do they cut, from personnel to books, the very things that begin to hurt the student in the classroom." Leinius said he will devote the next month to spending as much time as he can visiting Wyoming schools. "I intend to put most of the campaign money into the tank of my car and go out and live with the people of Wyoming, get to meet them and hear them, and earn their vote," he said.

Leinius received a bachelor's degree in English from Dickinson University in North Dakota and a masters degree in English from the University of Northern Colorado. He has done post-graduate work at the Uni-Please see SCHOOLS, A8 Border To Border B3 Calendar A2 Casper Area I -2 Classified C5-8 Comics D4 Crossword C8 Landers, Walker C3 Letters A 7 Markets B4 Movies C2 Obituaries B2 Opinion A6 Sports OI-3 Wyoming HI Bebout switches parties, joins GOP Old Grouch SHI Says rs no statewide ambitions this year Ifl were Democrat, I'd say, good riddance. By HUGH JACKSON Star-Tribune staff writer CASPER State Rep. Eli Bebout of Riverton formally announced Tuesday that he is switching from the Democratic to the Republican party. "I am a Republican and I plan on staying a Republican" Bebout said to rousing cheers and applause from several GOP faithful who gathered for the announcement at state party headquarters in Casper.

Bebout said he will not be a candidate for statewide office this year, though some have ap proached him about the possibility. After gauging reaction from his constituents, he will determine if he should seek re-election to the House from District 55 in Fremont County, he said. Bebout did not rule out a statewide race in the future, but the decision to switch parties was "strictly a matter of philosophy," he said. Seme Democratic leaders in the state spoke highly of Bebout and hoped he will be happy as a Republican. Gov.

Mike Sullivan, a candidate for U.S. Senate, said he respects Bebout and his "philo sophical decision" although "I'm not sure the differences are that great" between Wyoming Republicans and Democrats. "There are some defining issues, I guess, like the MRS. I hope that wasn't the one that pushed him over the edge," Sullivan said, referring to a proposed monitored retrievable storage facility for spent fuel rods from nuclear power plants. Bebout and now-fellow Republican Bob Peck, the River-ton state senator and newspaper publisher, recently joined forces to serve on the board of direc-Ptcase see BEBOUT.

A8 True You can choose the price of your own ad! If the value of the item you want to tell S0-S50 the ad is bit $51-1125 the ad is IS ad is Call 266-0555 or1 -800-442-69 16 (Toll free in Wyoming) for more information. I f1T I Li i ml lr r- Rick Sorenson'Slar-Tribune Rep. Eli Bebout, I1D55, R-Riverton, said Tuesday he has been considering a party snitch for years.