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r- Followlne cc Moslly cloudy. Clinton speech (ext C4-6; more reaction Bl, A5 1)1 A2 Jl no 3 fiSwsppeir Clinton hits road to sell tax package House debates today whether to increase sales, gasoline taxes GAAP system also on agenda enue Committee. The bill would have raised $19 million a year for schools. As it now stands, the GAAP bill makes available $46 million for one-time spending but not until the end of the current bien-nium on June 30, 1994. Rep.

John Hines, HD31, R-Gillette, the i v. J. i -i if WASHINGTON (AP) President Clinton led his Cabinet on a blitz across the map of America Thursday to enlist citizen support for a pain-then-gain economic plan that he said would keep America's children from having to settle for a "lesser life." In a campaign-style rally at St. Louis' Union Station, the opening shot in his drive to win America to his side, Clinton said he was "tired of all the naysayers" who would oppose his budget plan. "The price of doing the same thing is higher than the price of change," he declared.

Henry Cisneros, Clinton's housing secretary, carried the pitch to Flint, still reeling from the closing of a big General Motors plant in 1987. He said higher taxes can't be avoided. "Taxes even the word is difficult to express," Cisneros said. "I get dry in the mouth, but it's imperative." But even as Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bcntscn returned to Congress to implore legislators to cast "the vote of a lifetime" for Clinton's plan, a new release of fine print from the White House indicated the administration's deficit cutting to be less dramatic than first portrayed. Republicans, meanwhile, accused Clinton of mounting a propaganda blitz to sell old tax-and-spend solutions disguised in new clothing.

Clinton brushed off questions about new deficit projections as he set out for the Midwest to generate the grassroots support that will be vital if his plan is to survive attacks by powerful interests, criticism by Republicans and misgivings by some fellow Democrats. In his maiden appearance before Congress Wednesday night, the president proposed raising taxes, directly or indirectly, for most Americans. His ideas would also cut spending in 150 programs but increase it elsewhere. And, to rein-vigorate a soft economy, he would cut some business taxes and undertake a quick public works spending program. his amounted to "reinventing our government," Clinton told the lawmakers.

Failure to take painful steps now, he said, would amount to Please see CLINTON, A10 chairman of the House Revenue Committee, said Thurs 1993 Li By JOAN BARRON Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE Bills to increase gasoline and sales taxes to raise $102 million per year will be debated in the Wyoming House today. The proposed additional sales tax calls for allocating two-thirds of the new revenue to the state, and the remaining one-third to cities and towns. A third key bill on the House debate list is Senate File 122, the bill switching the state's accounting system to one of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. The Senate is waiting for the House to finish work on the GAAP bill so senators can consider that proposal in conjunction with the supplemental budget bill. Senate File 3, Senate Floor Leader Boyd Eddins, SD16, R-Smoot, said Thursday.

The game plan is for the Senate to use SF3, the supplemental budget bill, as a "budget balancer," said Eddins and Sen. Jim Gcringcr, SD3, R-Wheatland. This means the bill can be used to divert money from other accounts in order to balance the budget and avoid deficit spending if necessary. But another revenue bill. House Bill 1 12, to re-impose the 1 .5 percent severance tax on coal and trona, will die in the House Rev- Julia Chancellor holds a summary of Clinton's economic plan at liis sieech in St.

tamis day that House members are preparing many amendments to spend the so-called GAAP money immediately. Hines's committee held an unscheduled meeting noon Thursday to report out the GAAP bill at the request of the House leadership so the bill can be ready for debate today, he said. Hines' committee held an unscheduled meeting Thursday at noon to report out the GAAP bill at the request of the House leadership so the bill can be ready for debate today, he said. The GAAP money totals $173 million, but $53 million has been allocated to the State Auditor to set up a clearing account and pay costs of conversion to the new accounting system as well as agency liabilities for accrued employee Please see REVENUE, A3 Tax will hurt energy industry, spokesmen say 'This is not spreading the grief. It's taking a howitzer and pointing it directly at the coal Don Coovert of Amax Coal By HUGH JACKSON Star-Tribune staff writer CASPER The broad-based energy tax proposed by President Bill Clinton unfairly singles out the energy industry, and is likely to substantially reduce coal and oil production in Wyoming, industry officials say.

One coal industry spokesman estimated the Clinton tax proposal will double the price Wyoming low-sulfur coal, making it even harder to sell in an increasingly competitive market. amount the state uses to assess severance taxes, doubling those as well, said Don Coovert, a spokesman for Amax Coal, which operates the Belle Ayr and Eagle Butte mines in the Powder River Basin. "This is not spreading the grief. It's taking a howitzer and pointing it directly at the coal industry," said Coovert of Amax. But a spokesman for one of the state's environmental groups said that if industry arguments claiming that they are being unfairly singled out were true, then critics of the Please see ENERGY, A10 Figures released by the administration, however, suggest that high-sulfur coal from other parts of the nation will be even more adversely affected by the tax.

The way Wyoming severance taxes work, the Clinton tax would be included in the Sullivan vetoes measure on filling state vacancies Clinton's proposal targets western subsidies for cuts Business leaders skeptical about plan, await details By CHARLES PELKEY Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE Gov. Mike Sullivan Thursday vetoed a Republican-sponsored measure limiting the Wyoming governor's options to fill vacancies in the state's top elected positions. In a letter to House Speaker Doug Chamberlain describing his first such action of the 1993 legislative session, Sullivan said he vetoed House Bill 35 for the same reasons he rejected an identical measure in 1987 and then-Gov. Ed Herschlcr vetoed it in 1985. The bill requires the governor to fill vacancies in the U.S.

Senate or in any of the state's top elective posts from a list provided by the former incumbent's political party-Sullivan said that, like Herschlcr, he vetoed the bill because of "ambiguities and confusion" over what might occur in the event a vacancy occurs in the governor's office. "As Yogi Berra said 'It's deja vu all over wrote Sullivan. Sullivan conceded the bill now stands a strong chance of becoming law, however, because Republicans hold two-thirds majorities in both legislative chambers. Sullivan said Thursday the bill was "a clearly partisan" effort by the Republican Legislature to limit his powers to fill those vacancies. The bill, he said, would be in conflict with other existing Please sec VETO, A10 By TOM MORTON Star- Tribune staff writer CASPER Local and state business and health care professionals reacted skeptically to President Bill Clinton's economic address, saying that it was short on specific proposals and long on tax increases.

But until they know more, they remain uncertain about what impact it will have at the shop, store and the doctor's office, they said. "I am nervous," said Wotco co-owner Dick Jahn in reaction to Clinton's hour-long speech on sacrifice, deficit reduction, health care reform, fiscal stimulus and tax By DAVID HACKETT Star-Tribune Washington bureau WASHINGTON Western miners, farmers and livestock growers would pay a large portion of the costs of reducing the federal budget deficit under the economic plan proposed Wednesday by President Clinton, according to critics. The plan calls on recreational users of public lands to pay about $265 million more in user fees from 1994 through 1997. Some of the money levied in Wyoming could come back to the state under Clinton's plan, however, in the form of increased federal expenditures on roads, pro Jahn was one of the 326 business, labor, academic and other participants at the December economic conference Clinton sponsored in Little Rock, Ark. Deficit reduction, fiscal stimulus and health care packages took center stage there, Jahn said, but Wednesday night's emphasis on tax increases little discussed in Little Rock surprised him.

Clinton admirably commended small businesses such as the 228-employee Wotco as the prime engines of job creation. Jahn said, "but he turns around and makes it more difficult to create jobs." Overall, he said. "I felt the Please see BUSINESS, A 10 grams for poor children, Indian schools, loans for rural wastewater systems, rural housing assistance and other programs. In one relatively brief document, the Clinton administration sets forth a plan that would settle, for a while at least, a host of public land-use issues that for years have generated mounds of political propaganda both in the West and in Washington. For example, Clinton proposes establishing a 12.5 percent royalty on the gross value of all hardrock minerals mined from federal lands, and impose a permanent $100 annual holding fee on the more than one million Please see COMMODITIES, A10 Calendar A2 Casper Area CI Classified C7-I0 Comics C2 Crossword CIO Landers.Omarr C3 Legislature A3-4 Letters A7-9 Markets B3 Movies C5 Obituaries B2 Opinion A6 Sports DI-4 Wyoming Bl Security Council: Set trials for Balkan war criminals Old Grouch The last time we had a Democratic president, Wyoming got rich.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) The five permanent members of the Security Council agreed Thursday that an international court should be set up to punish war criminals in former Yugoslavia. Agreement by the United States, Britain. France, Russia and China virtually assured passage of the resolution, which was to be taken up by the full council Friday. British Ambassador David Hannay said he believed it would be adopted Monday. Also Thursday, Bosnian Serbs dealt peace talks a blow by announcing a boycott unless the negotiations are moved back to Geneva.

There also were doubts that Bosnia-Her7cgovina'r presiden. would attend. The develo followed increasing tensi n. ver U.N. aid shipments in war-torn Bosnia.

A top U.N. official cut ofi aid to Sarajevo and eastern Bosnia o'l Wednesday because Serbs ind Muslims were blocking food shipments to furihet their political goals. With no details worked out for a war crimes tribunal, there is no prospect for any trials to be held soon. But one goal of the effort is to deter further atrocities in Bosnia and other former Yugoslav states by raising the possibility that war criminals will be pursued. Many of those eventually tried may likely be Serbs, who are fighting to link Serb-dominated regions.

A commission set up to study the idea of a court blamed Serbs for the bulk of the war's atrocities. As well. then-Secretary of State Lawrence Fagleburger named Serbian President Slobodan MiIomnk and Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadic in December as possible war criminals. He also released a Iim of seven Serb and Croat nulitaiy leaders accused of atrocities Still, the move toward a wai crimes court could also futtlier com Please sec AM St II If--'-' If u.r-. 1 i -J if' mn nrni'r tnrTi AP It's True You can choose the price of your own ad! If the value of the Item you want to sell the ad is bSi is $5 $126-5250 the ad is S10 Call 266-0555 or 1-800-442-6916 (Toll free in Wyoming) for more Information.

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