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A Irish fighting WYOMING'S STATEWID rt9j nixes deal FOUNDED IN 1891 PAGE At nice 1 ERrm i i (1 Lummis, Wallace, Hill named to Geringer transition team i Vf 1 1 0 By HUGH JACKSON Star-Tribune staff writer CASPER Governor-elect Jim Geringer has named retiring state Sen. Cynthia Lummis, former GOP congressional candidate Rob Wallace and Geringer Campaign Manager Mary Kay Hill to his transition team. In an interview Thursday, Hill said the team's top priority would be to make recommendations to Geringer about cabinet positions and other appointments to state agencies, and appointments to Geringer's own staff. Geringer gets to appoint an attorney general and 14 cabinet members, as well as a number of sub-cabinet level posts. Hill said she and Geringer have not discussed whether members of the transition team would be precluded from serving in the administration permanently.

"It is my guess that we probably won't end up in this administration, but again, it is way too early to make a definitive statement." Hill, a former press secretary for U.S. Sen. Al Simpson, said that during the campaign, Geringer or the campaign was approached by several people interested in serving in the Geringer administration. The transition team has already begun collecting resumes, Hill said. "There are no guarantees right now for any position in the administration, and Jim wants us to have an open mind," Hill said.

Current cabinet directors or appointed officials in the administration of Democratic Gov. Mike Sullivan are not necessarily precluded from serving under Geringer, Hill said. "He's not interested in change just for change's sake," Hill said. "But he is committed to developing his own team." Hill said she was not aware of any applications from Sullivan administration officials to serve in the Geringer administration. Please see GERINGER, A12 Riverton trona trucking firm plans big layoff Transportation rate war cited CAROLYN STEWAETAP Bob Dole, the soon-to-be Senate majority leader, prepares to board his plane Thursday in St.

Paul, after a brief stop during his 'Republican Victory Rod Grams walks behind him. Moderates resist rightist tide Incoming Republicans plan changes, A3 From staff and wire reports i 'RIVERTON One of Riverton's largest private employers has announced it will lay off about half its workforce. About 75 people will be affected by the move, Bonneville Transloaders Inc. officials said. The move was made necessary by a change in transportation methods for soda ash from southwestern Wyoming, company owners Ron Vosika and Jim King told workers.

It is unclear exactly what BTI will do for the employees who lose their jobs. Company owners could not be reached for comment. For more than nine years, BTI has hauled as much as 1 million tons of soda ash per year from producers near Green River to a Burlington Northern Railroad line north of Shoshoni at The route has provided an alternative to the Union Pacific Railroad for soda ash customers in the East, and represented a savings opportunity for those customers, Vosika and King said. But several other railroads and trucking companies began shipping out of Utah, reducing Union Pacific's soda ash tonnage by more than 16 percent, and creating a bidding war, according to a release from the BTI. The release said over the last several years, the delivered cost of soda ash routed to Chicago has dropped from $43 per ton in 1986 to $33.50 per ton.

"These actions have put the end to the economic viability of BTI-BN Chicago routing, which is about one-half of BTI's business," the company said. "It's a shame that our company, which seems far removed from outside economic pressures and is but a very small shipper of soda ash, is being Please see LAYOFFS, A12 By JILL LAWRENCE Associated Press writer WASHINGTON Newly elected conservatives are about to swell the Republican ranks on Capitol Hill, but party pragmatists are signaling they aren't about to abdicate control of next year's agenda. The shape of health and welfare reform, the size and possibility of tax cuts, the future of abortion rights and gun control laws all could well for the welfare state." The past year brought out intra-GOP differences as fundamental as whether there should be modest health reform or none at all; whether deficit reduction or tax cuts are a higher priority; whether tax increases are ever justified; whether government can ever be constructive. "I think there are a lot of people who consider themselves conservative who still understand the gov-Please see GOP, A12 hinge on which faction prevails. The moderate-conservative split is personified by the incoming GOP leaders.

Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, soon to be majority leader, even recalled with a laugh this week that House Speaker-to-be Newt Gingrich once branded him "the tax collector Iraq prepared to recognize Kuwait, borders IN SPORTS; 100 miles 100 km SYRIA iraq Baghdad iran JORDAN. 1 Kuwait KUWAIT1 By BARBARA CROSSETTE New York Times writer UNITED NATIONS Iraq said on Thursday that it would recognize the independence and present borders of Kuwait, a major step apparently intended to allow at least some U.N. sanctions against Baghdad to be lifted. A declaration of the Revolutionary Command Council, signed by President Saddam Hus sein, said that Iraq accepted the "sovereignty of the state of Kuwait, its territorial integrity, and political independence." The recognition, more than four years after Iraq invaded Kuwait and provoked the Persian Gulf war, was also approved by the Iraqi Parliament and ordered published in the government's gazette, as required by U.N. resolutions.

If Iraq follows through on the pliance by holding out at least the prospect of rewards. American and British diplomats said that recognition of Kuwait was only one step toward a level of compliance with resolutions that would allow the council to consider lifting sanctions on Iraq imposed before and after the gulf war in 1991. "There is a very long list of things Iraq has to do to get sane-Please see RECOGNITION, A12 pledge, and ceases to portray Kuwait in any way as an Iraqi province, this would be its first formal recognition of an independent Kuwait since the small emirate ceased to be a British colony 33 years ago. The Iraqi move brought only a guarded response from the United States and other members of the Security Council, including the French, who have tried in the past to encourage Iraqi com Lights out on ShowTlmo Dl Ski pile Gallagher: Low Wyo jobless rates conceal harsh realities Many families stressed by work schedules Tho grouch I'm stressed, and this is all do all day. By TOM MORTON Star-Tribune staff writer CASPER Wyoming's unemployment rate plunged to 3.8 percent in September, but such a happy statistic may conceal an overstressed work force often working extra low-paying jobs to make ends meet, according to a Department of Employment official.

"The quality of the work environment does not support traditional family living," said Tom Gallagher, of the department's research and planning division. The tensions with the new workplace in part fueled voter anger against the Clinton administration in Tuesday's elections, he said. Wyoming's low unemployment, a statistically insignificant decline from 4.6 percent a year earlier, reflects seasonally adjusted rates elsewhere in the region that are much lower than the U.S. average of 5.6 percent See UNEMPLOYMENT, A12 -Jf aJ ft jgggrr ml, rm Report: 83 of new firms still open i i Indox CALENDAR A2 CASPER AREA CI. 2 CLASSIFIED C5-12 COMICS D5 CROSSWORD Cll LANDERS.

WALKER C3 LETTERS A9-11 MARKETS B3 MOVIES C4 OBITUARIES B2 OPINION A8 SPORTS Dl-4 WYOMING Bl CASPER (AP) New companies in Wyoming were doing a good job of surviving the critical first year of business, according to a new state report. The Wyoming Employment Resources Division tracked the success of 321 businesses formed during the first quarter of 1993. It said that 267 of them, or 83.2 percent, were still open at the end of the first quarter of 1994. Most new business have to provide unemployment insurance for employees, which allow the division to track the firms. Business acquisitions were considered turnovers, instead of new firms, the division said in a release this week.

The sector that accounts for fi-Please see BUSINESSES, A12 HAKC G. CRAND ALL ST AH TRIBUNE Clint Howard organizes skis Thursday in preparation for the Casper Mountain Racers' ski swap to be held today through Sunday at the Casper Recreation Center. Swap hours will be 7-8 this morning for people willing to spend $5 to get in early, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. for walk-up patrons, and Saturday 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Save money with national brand coupons in the Casper Star-Tribune.

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