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Inside: UKRAINE STRUGGLES WfTH CHERNOBYL A3 WYO WORKERS LOYAL TO STATE B6 IjjC A Rf 1 Chiki abase vigil Bl WYOMING'S STATEWIDE NEWSPAPER FOUNDED IN 1891 IMbime Guard, reserves await orders Reardon silent about disclosing information By TOM MORTON Star-Tribune stall writer tiiftMkf 6 Wyoming Guard has not received deployment notice By ROBERT BURNS Associated Press with staff reports WASHINGTON Bringing the Kosovo conflict closer to home, U.S. military reservists are likely to be ordered to active duty as part of a major new buildup of American air power in the Balkans, officials said Tuesday. Several hundred Air National Guard 2 1 Cs JL ft CAPER Great Lakes Aviation has shown that it can profitably compete as a United Express carrier, and Wyoming wants it to move its headquarters to Cheyenne, the Wyoming Business Council's CE( said in a statement issued Tuesday. John Reardon in the news release again did not explain why the Business Council did not provide information about the company's troubled financial past to state officials last week when it asked the state Loan and Investment Board to appropriate $1.5 million as part of a million incentive package to help lure it to Wyoming. The company's most recent public Ki-K filing annual reports all publicly-traded companies must file with the U.S.

Securities and Exchange Commission -included statements from Please see REARDON. A 10 Company says tests still valid Expert says tests should be treated as a pilot project By JOAN BARRON Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE Mistakes in the standardized tests being given to about 20.000 Wyoming students this week will not invalidate the assessments, the president of the company that designed the tests said Tuesday. mmmmmmm But a testing expert 'They don't with a Mas-, sachusetts (JO tne company whole thing in the first mean lower scores from shot some stu-u dents sug- without gested thast ever testing this vears tests be con-it OUt. In sidered a pi-, lot project for the second the state, year, they supposedly and wl" not affect stan-have dard-setting in any way," Cleaned It maintained yp' Stuart Kahl, president of Monty neii.l Advanced executive Systems of director. Dover, New national cenit.r Hamnshire.

members who already are participating as volunteers probably will not be enough to support the 300 additional planes expected to be sent to Europe in the days ahead. "There will likely be a Serbs seize border village A5 JIM MONEAP The family of Byron Todd say goodbye In Minneapolis as Todd and 27 other volunteers leave to aid humanitarian efforts in Europe on Tuesday. Enzi opposes sending infantry to Kosovo not be reached for comment late Tuesday in Washington. Last week. Thomas said he thinks the Clinton administration will eventually send United States I rani stall and wire repor ts SHERIDAN Sending ground troops to Kosovo would be a "terrible mistake" with no Missihillty of winning.

Sen. Mike KnI mmhbbmbi 'I think sending in reserve call-up." Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon said. 'The details aren't ready to be announced at this stage," including how many would be called, how soon, and for what tasks. The Wyoming National Guard has received no notice to deploy personnel to Yugoslavia, a spokesman said Tuesday. "There has been no tasking for deploying personnel at this time," said David Troyanek, deputy state public aflairs ofli-cer for the Wyoming National Guard.

Meanwhile, igniting fears of a widening conflict, Serb forces pushed Into northern Albania on Tuesday, lought an hour-long skirmish with Albanian troops, seized a border hamlet and torched homes before withdrawing. Albanian ofllclals and International observers said. With Albania a major staging ground for NATO forces, even Tuesday's Incident short-lived, small-scale, with no reported casualties brought a warning Irom Washington that Yugoslavia would make a grave mistake In expanding the fighting. In Belgrade, Yugoslav olllclals denied any incursion into Albania. The chief of the army Information service, Col.

Milivo-je Novkovlc, said on state television that Yugoslavia's defense ol Its own borders was "being fabricated as an alleged Invasion." Albania, in turn, said the Serb push Into Its territory would curry consequences. Sokol Gjoka, an Albanian foreign Ministry official, said his country would take necessary steps to delend Itsell, "In close coordination with our allies." These days, that means NATO, which Please see TROOPS, A6 FOR FAIR AND OPEN TESTING IN CAMBRIDGE, MASS Kahl's company spent nine months ground troops into Kosovo with or without congressional authorization. Thomas criticized the ongoing Kosovo operation for lacking an "exit strategy" to end American Involvement in the region. Both Wyoming senators on March 25 voted with the minority in a 58-41 endorsement of NATO air strikes against Serbian targets, but they United behind Great Lakes Aviation By JEFF TOLLEFSON Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE United Airlines remains entirely confident in the economic viability of Great Lakes Aviation and supports the company's proposed relocation to Cheyenne, a United representative said Tuesday-John Philp, director of governmental and public affairs for United Airlines, said there are various reasons that Great Lakes incurred $31 million in losses in 19516 and 15)97. Pointing out that the company made monev million in 1998, he said the losses in the two previous years do not tell the entire story.

Please see AVIATION, A 10 ground troops is? i terrible said. The Wyoming Repul-llcan said Congress is concerned about everything In Kosovo from the refugees to what will happen with the war. Congress reconvened Monday after a two-week recess. "There was no exit plan built in (to the bombing plan)," Enzi said Monday. "Now we're I'A SEN.

MIKE ENZI. WYO also pledged support for the troops already deployed in the Balkans. Cubin, who Is also a Republican, voted March 24 In favor of a House resolution supporting the troops already engaged in the action. She said then that she strong talking about troops. There is no possibility of winning, he said.

"Especially when we don't have a clear objective." "I think sending in ground troops would be making a terrible mistake." Spokesmen for Enzl's U.S. Senate counterpart, Republican Craig Thomas and for designing the customized test that Wyoming fourth-, eighth- and llth-graders are taking this week. Late last week, public school educators found a number of flaws in the Wyoming Comprehensive Assessment System (WYCAS) tests developed by Advanced Systems (AS). For example, the multiple choice questions were marked through while the answers were labeled "1" through "4." The Wyoming Department of Education set up an emergency committee late last week that decided to go ahead with the testing anyway. The committee also gave the school districts the option ol letting personnel correct the errors in the tests over the weekend.

During an interview Tuesday morning, Kahl emphasized that he isn't trying to make excuses for the mistakes. "We dropped Please see TESTS, A 10 ly objects to bombing a sovereign country Wyoming U.S. Rep. Barbara Cubin could engaged in a civil war. Dr.

Jack Kevorkian sentenced to 10 to 25 years in Michigan pen Test predicts who's at risk for cardiac arrest Noninvasive test first of its kind l-f t'f-: I lb 8) The grouch Yikes! Imagine sharing a cell By DIRK JOHNSON The New York Times PONTIAC, Mich. A Michigan judge Tuesday sentenced Dr. Jack Kevorkian to 10 to 25 years in prison, despite emotional courtroom pleas on his behalf from the widow and brother of the terminally ill man he was convicted of killing. Judge Jessica Cooper of Oakland County Circuit Court, who denied bail to Kevorkian, 70, said his flouting of the law had given prosecutors and the courts no choice but to remove him from society. "This trial was not about the political or moral correctness of euthanasia," Cooper said.

"It was about you, sir. It was about lawlessness." Referring to the "(i0 Minutes" program that featured a video tape of Kevorkian's administering the lethal injection that resulted in the charges, Cooper said that Kevorkian had "the audacity to go on national television, show the world what you did and dare the legal system to stop you." "Well, sir, consider yourself stopped." The corridor outside the courtroom was crowded with foes of Kevorkian, who burst into applause after the sentencing. Kevorkian, who had talked on a cellular telephone in the courtroom before the sentenc- matically jump-starts a heart sliding into an arrhythmia, or abnormal heartbeat. Until now, most patients identified as needing defibrillators were those lucky enough to be revived by paramedics after cardiac arrest, or only about 10-15 percent of arrhythmia victims. The Alternans test "has extraordinary potential for impacting on the problem of sudden death," said Dr.

David Rosenbaum of Case Western Reserve University, who helped discover that "T-wave alternans" signals predict future cardiac arrest. "It's something patients should be aware of and talk to their physicians about if they have heart disease," Rosenbaum said. About 9 million people a year take treadmill-style stress tests to diagnose their risk for the artery clogging that causes most heart disease. But irregular heartbeats aren't caused by clogged arteries they happen when the electrical system that pumps the heart goes haywire. A regular stress test PleaseseeCARDUC.AlO By LAURAN NEERGAARD Associated Press WASHINGTON Thousands of heart disease patients may soon be taking a "super stress test." The government approved the first nonsurgical test Tuesday to predict who is at risk of sudden cardiac arrest in time to prevent death.

The device, made by Cambridge Heart Inc. of Bedford, works by enhancing one of the world's oldest heart tests, the electrocardiogram. With it, patients taking a simple EKG-monitored treadmill stress test have special electrodes placed on their chests. The Cambridge Heart Alternans system then can measure unusual, extremely subtle heartbeat patterns that indicate patients are at risk of ventricular fibrillation, a lethal irregular heartbeat. Some 350,000 Americans die each year of sudden cardiac arrest, collapsing when this deadly irregular beat stops their hearts.

If doctors knew a patient was particularly at risk, the patient could receive an implanted defibrillator, a tiny device that auto VAUOHN QURGANMN'AP Dr. Jack Kevorkian is removed in handcuffs from the court room by Oakland County Sheriff deputies after being sentenced in his murder trial in Pontiac, on Tuesday. with that guy. Index CALENDAR A2 CASPER AREA B6 CLASSIFIED C4-10 COMICS D5 CROSSWORD C8 ENJOY! CI 2. C4 LANDERS.

BROMPTON C3 LETTERS A9 MARKETS B4 MOVIES B5 OBITUARIES B3 OPINION A8 SPORTS Dl 4 WEATHER A2 WYOMING Bl disease. His widow, Melody Youk, gave a statement to the court Tuesday that bitterly criticized prosecutors and cast Kevorkian as someone who was merely carrying out the wishes of her husband. Saying that she wished she had been able to spe ik at the trial, Youk said that her husband "would be greatly distressed that the man who brought him peace at the end Please see KEVORKIAN, A10 ing, smiled as he was led out by bailiffs. He had declined to speak in his defense. One of his lawyers, Michael Schwartz, said that on hearing the sentence Kevorkian had softly uttered, "Justice?" A jury convicted Kevorkian on March 26 of second-degree murder in the death of Thomas Youk.

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