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flnC A Rp ft Burlington to settle gene-test lawsuitA2 WYOMING'S STATEWIDE NEWSPAPER Cardinal Law gives court depositionA2 FOUNDED IN 1891 i I J. Powder River Basin Anguish in Israel 811 1 ILCLP disclose funding mm m4 MOM11 Oil One-fourth of Bebout's war chest from outside Wyo By TOM MORTON Star-Tribune staff writer Eli Bebout's governor campaign war chest is bigger than the other three Republican can 1 volvement in the basin," Griles said. Griles made the comment at a press conference here Tuesday after meeting separately with environmentalists and industry representatives on oil and gas issues. Griles did not say whether the decision was his own or if it came from higher authorities. The draft PRB-EIS analyzes the impacts of some 51,000 wells in the basin.

The analysis is being headed by the Bureau of Land Management, which manages nearly 70 percent of the natural gas resource in the basin. In April, the Environmental Protection Agency's Please see GRILES, A14 By DL'STIN BLEIZEFFER Star-Tribune energy reporter DENVER Deputy Secretary of the Interior Stephen Griles said he will distance himself from an interagency rift over the draft Powder River Basin Oil and Gas Environmental Impact Statement (PRB-E1S) because of his past associations with the coalbed methane gas industry. Before his appointment to the Interior, Griles lobbied for the oil and gas industry. He'd also worked for a law firm in Cheyenne that often represents oil and gas companies in Wyoming. "I'm going to distance myself from this EIS decision because of my prior in EEEOUT didates contributions combined, according to early posted and estimated finance disclosures.

About one-fourth of Bebout's contributions come from sources outside Wyoming. The former Wyoming House Speaker from River-ton has raised $283,081 in enate Basses HUNKINS i 4 if '4 f. rarm measure proved the legislation, 64-35, over the objections of Republicans who said it was too expensive and a step backward in policy. "This farm bill marks a dramatic and wildly expensive step away from the goal of building a market-based agriculture economy," said Sen. Craig Thomas, who voted against the measure.

His Republican colleague from Wyoming, Sen. Mike Enzi, also voted against the bill. Enzi said he believed it could constrict trade markets for American producers and Please see FARM, A 14 By PHILIP BRASHER APfarm writer WASHINGTON The Senate gave final approval Wednesday to a farm bill that will shower billions of dollars in new subsidies on political battleground states and scrap a 1996 law that was intended to make growers less dependent on the government. President Bush has promised to sign the bill, which is expected to swell agriculture spending by nearly 80 percent over the cost of existing programs. The Democratic-controlled Senate ap cash from about 850 individuals including a personal $42,000 loan -and political action committees (PACs), according to the list.

More than $64,000 came from out-of-state sources, according to the list. Bebout's list did not include in-kind donations, which will be tallied later, said spokesman Chris George. Wheatland lawyer Ray Hunkins has raised $182,666 in cash including $208 in in-kind donations and a $150,000 personal loan from 106 individuals, according to a list released May 1. Hunkins' list did not have any PAC contributions. Out-of-state contributions to Hunkins' war chest comprise a much smaller percentage than Please see GOP, A9 FBI: Suspect admits he placed pipe bombs By DON THOMPSON Assocuited Press writer EITAN HESS-ASHKENAZIAP Sharon, the son of Ratzon Sharuck, cries over the body of his father wrapped in an Israeli flag during his funeral in Tel Aviv on Wednesday.

Sharuck was killed during a suicide attack which killed at least 15 people and injured at least 60, late Tuesday in the coastal city of Rishon Letzion. For coverage of the Mideast turmoil, see Page A5. House OKs nuke dump plan Yucca Mountain would start holding waste in 2010 er reactors. Half of the House Democrats joined all but a handful of Republicans in supporting the president's decision, approving the resolution 306-117. "Where are my colleagues who are advocates for states' rights, local control?" asked Rep.

Jim Gibbons, R-Nev. He maintained that the Energy Department has failed to ensure that the waste would be kept safely isolated for the expected 10,000 years some of its isotopes will be dangerously Please see YUCCA, A 14 By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press writer WASHINGTON Ignoring protests from Nevada, the House on Wednesday overwhelmingly embraced President Bush's decision to bury tens of thousands of tons of nuclear waste in volcanic rock 90 miles from Lis Vegas. The lawmakers by a 3-to-l margin approved a resolution to override a veto by Nevada of Bush's plans to develop Yucca Mountain as the central repository for 77,000 tons of used reactor fuel and other highly radioactive waste accumulating in 39 states. Opponents, including Rep.

Dick Gephardt, the Democratic leader, argued that it would be too risky -especially after last September's terrorist attacks to ship the waste across the country by truck and rail. But supporters of the radioactive dump argued that the waste poses a greater risk if it remains at more than 130 locations, including at 103 commercial pow RENO, Nev. The FBI said Wednesday that 21-year-old college student Luke Hekler con FILEAP An employee of the the Yucca Mountain Project walks through a tunnel in the mountain near Mercury, on May 22, 2001. The House on Wednesday endorsed President Bush's decision to send U.S. nuclear waste to Nevada, voting to override the state's objections to a radioactive dump 90 miles from Las Vegas.

fessed to planting 18 pipe bombs in rural mailboxes in five states. Six people were injured in the spree. Using a map, Holder pointed HELDER Feds offer single-sex public school guidelines On tho Hct: National Association for the Advancement of Single Sex Public Education: The Young Women's Leadership School: to towns where he placed eight bombs in Illinois and Iowa on Friday, FBI agent Mark Heavrin said in an affidavit. The bombs were planted along with notes that carried an anti-government message. Holder admitted he made 16 more bombs in a room at a Nebraska motel near Omaha and placed 10 of them in Nebraska, Colorado and Texas during the weekend, Heavrin said.

The other six bombs were found with him when he was arrested Please see SUSPECT, AH Public Education, The Harlem school currently has a waiting list of 1,200 for three ninth-grade slots, said guidance counselor Chris Farmer. Congress' education bill, approved last year and signed by President Bush In January, clarified federal law on single-sex schooling, saying school districts could receive federal funding for single-sex schools Please see SCHOOL, AH New guidelines on the legality of single-sex schools and classrooms, to be issued Wednesday, could pave the way for other schools like The Young Women's Leadership School. Only 10 single-sex public schools exist now, with two more expected to open this fall, according to Dr. Leonard Sax, a psychologist and physician who heads the National Association for the Advancement of Single Sex school it's a public school in the Harlem section of New York City serving a mix of rich and poor students, almost all of whom are black, Asian or Hispanic. For all of Its six years, the school has essentially been operating under the radar of federal regulations, which prohibit public schools from discriminating on the basis of sex.

Advocates of single-sex ed- By GREG TOPPO AP education writer WASHINGTON As its name implies, all 370 students at The Young Women's Leadership School are girls. They wear uniforms and call teachers by their first names. Last year, all 32 seniors went on to college. This year, all 34 are expected to do the same. But this isn't a private ucation say things are about to change.

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