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Catbirds crumble Wanted: Sales clerks to work cheap page 12 Jhs lVr- ssh in Game 5 of A )love 7 page 7 7 page73 Wednesday April 9, 1986 La Crosse, Wisconsin 35 24 pages Copyright 1986 23 TMlkjGS1 AAcaini caging) Earl backing hi tote) drinking-age boost to 21 J5 i ii 73: 9" i Wisconsinites admit mixing drinks, driving MADISON, Wis. (AP) -Wisconsin motorists mix drinking and driving more than the national average, and realize it encourages higher automotive insurance rates, a survey says. The survey sponsors said 82 percent of the Wisconsin respondents believe drunken driving is a serious community mm mm r-T- problem and 79 percent think it is mntomiuire piroirsniofl edl By MONTE HANSON Of the Tribune staff HOLMEN, Wis. This is a story about, ah, well, manure. Manure isn't sexy, controversial or even remotely exciting.

Nonetheless, a couple dozen people drove out to Gerald Knobloeh's dairy farm north of Holmen on Tuesday to spend the morning talking about it. Tuesday, after all, was Manure Management Field Days in La Crosse County. And the Knobloch farm was the perfect spot to recognize the fact. "Manure management isn't something that brings out a whole lot of interest," conceded Don Franke, a county conservationist. But it should.

Manure has an impact on everybody, including city folks, he said. During the spring thaw or heavy rainstorms, washes off fields and barnyards into creeks that quickly carry it to the Mississippi River. "I don't know how people can swim in that stuff," Franke said. "If they knew what was going down the river, they wouldn't. Some of the creeks will run black with manure," he said.

That's why La Crosse County officials are hoping other county farmers will follow the example of Knobloch, who has installed a series of retaining walls and diversions to control the flow of water through his barnyard. The system also makes it easier for him to remove manure from the area. Dairy cows standing knee-deep in a soggy, manure-filled barnyard a common sight on many dairy farms in Wisconsin is a thing of the past for Knobloch. His cows stand on a concrete platform that can be quickly scraped clear with a Bobcat. Manure is stored in a holding pit until spring.

And highly pollutant liquids from the manure are diverted into a drainage area, where they flow through a grass filter strip before reaching the creek. The elaborate system, one of two in place in La Crosse County, cost more than $12,000 to install 70 percent of which was covered through state funding. Knobloch, 43, who has been farming here since 1972, foresees the day when the Department of Natural Resources or some other environmental agency will make it a requirement that such systems be installed on all farms. See MANURE, page 6 MADISON, Wis. (AP) Gov.

Anthony Earl's unexpected switch in a debate over Wisconsin's drinking age is a shocking disappointment, a tavern lobbyist says. James Boullion, a statehouse spokesman for the Tavern League of Wisconsin and the Tavern Hosts of Wisconsin, said raising the statutory drinking age to 21 could damage the financial stability of a fourth of the state's taverns. Earl, who had threatened to veto any bill increasing the age beyond 19, announced Tuesday he might authorize a special session of the Legislature in May to consider a higher age. Minnesota's age for purchasing alcoholic beverage will rise in September to 21. Earl said that was the act that at last persuaded him Wisconsin must consider going along with its neighboring states.

Rep. John Merkt, R-Mequon, who visited Monday in St. Paul, to gather strategy on how the Minnesota Legislature was persuaded, said he was pleasantly surprised by Earl's reversal. "I had to look for a place to sit down," said Merkt, a member of a coalition that has demanded a special session. "I'm just thrilled about it.

The governor is giving us everything we've been asking for." Boullion said he was "surprised, disappointed and shocked." He predicted "25 percent of the licensed establishments, if not going out of business, will be severely impacted" by losing patronage of people younger than 21. Many taverns depend on trade from recreational groups, such as Softball teams, whose members are under 21, Boullion said. a major reason for high auto insurance rates. The telephone survey was conducted by Louis Harris and Associates Inc. last month for Sentry Insurance Co.

of Stevens Point. Results were based on responses by 603 state residents 18 years old or older. The poll results coincided with an announcement Tuesday by Sentry of a new "Payback" auto insurance policy that rewards drivers with half their first year premium after five years if they have made no claims against See SURVEY, page 6 Ron Johnson ot the Tribune staff Don Franke, county conservationist, discusses manure management at the Gerald Knobloch farm in rural Holmen. jpr Khadciify vows offock Qooimf ciwilion forcif 1 1 1 a Up front 4 From Tribune wire services Leers, whistles banned by rules Leering or whistling at a coworker and referring to a fellow employee as "a hunk" can be grounds for suspension or dismissal under new guidelines prohibiting sexual harassment in Grand Rapids, city hall. City officials plan to include the new rules, devised last month after a year of research, in an employee handbook to let workers know what sort of behavior is off-limits on the job, said Barry Ott, city labor director.

Such rules have existed in unwritten form for years, but Ott said this week that city officials have decided to put the guidelines in writing. "We have complaints from time to time," said City Manager G. Stevens Bernard. "But we're no different than any other sector. I just think we need to sensitize employees to this." The policy breaks down sexual harassment into two areas: creating an offensive workplace environment through sexually oriented remarks or actions, and threatening an individual's job unless he or she agrees to a supervisor's sexual demands.

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) Libyan leader Col. Moammar Khadafy said today he and his top commanders have completed military plans to challenge the United States. He renewed his threats against American military and civilian targets worldwide. "We have just finished making military plans for confrontation in response to the latest American threats to us," Khadafy told reporters who had been called to his heavily guarded bunker in the Libyan capital. He spoke in Arabic and his remarks were translated by an official government interpreter.

"It is axiomatic that America will be defeated Khadafy said. "It is axiomatic that if aggression is staged against us, then we shall escalate the violence against American targets, civilian and non-civilian, throughout the world." About 10 reporters were invited to Khadafy's news conference, his first since U.S. and Libyan forces clashed in the disputed Gulf of Sidra last month. The Libyan leader called in reporters the day after a senior U.S. official in Washington said U.S.

intelligence has learned that Khadafy is encouraging his embassies to guide new terrorist attacks against the United States. The U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, would not say which Libyan embassies are involved in sponsoring such attacks. Other U.S. officials have said there is mounting evidence that Libya was involved in Saturday's bombing of a West Berlin nightclub packed with GIs and the bombing of a TWA jet that killed four Americans a week ago.

The journalists invited to see Khadafy were escorted behind a sandbag barricade to the tent where the Libyan leader conducts many of the affairs of government. Shortly after the reporters were placed in position about 30 yards from the front of the tent, about 20 top-ranking military commanders ended a meeting and See KHADAFY, page 6 i It also spells trouble for the jobs of young people employed in taverns, he sad. Earl said he made his decision after conferring with Attorney General Bronson La Follette, Senate Majority Leader Timothy Cullen of Janesville and Assembly Speaker Thomas Loftus of Sun Prairie. See EARL, page 6 Fall sign-on slated for TV station By ELIZABETH FLOR Of the Tribune staff Come September, TV viewers in the Coulee Region will have another option. When you turn on the tube next fall, Channel 25 will give your screen some relief from network programming.

WLAX, an independent alternative station, is ready to go, said Jim Tomlin, general manager of Channel 26, WGBA in Green Bay. "It is just a matter of putting it on the air." The Green Bay station, which is overseeing the new station, is owned by Family Group, the same firm that will operate Channel 25 in La Crosse. Family Group, based in Tampa, purchased land on "antenna hill" in La Crescent, for a tower and transmitter, Tomlin said. But the company is still looking for a studio building in La Crosse, according to Doug Maszka, project manager of Channel 25. The ultra-high frequency station's coverage area will be equivalent to Channel 19's, said Lyle Evans, a consulting engineer for Family Group.

And as an independent station, WLAX will be a commercial station competing for advertising to survive, said Karl Friedline, an instructor and manager of the media center at Western Wisconsin Technical Institute. Though it will operate primarily with its own staff and programs, Maszka said, WLAX will also receive some programs through satellite links with the Green Bay station. The station will follow about the same format as WGBA in Green Bay, Tomlin said, which means sports, movies and other alternative programming will air from about 5: 30 to 2:30 a.m. "There will probably be more sports, old-time movies and old reruns of Jackie Gleason," Friedline said. "That is their lifeblood." While network affiliates often hesitate to pre-empt network programming with local shows, Friedline said, independent stations See CHANNEL 25, page AP photo Clint's a winner Actor Clint Eastwood gives the victory sign during a press conference Tuesday night after winning the election for mayor of Carmel-By-The-Sea, Calif.

Story is on page 6. Europe's radicals resurging Index 1 bombers and assassins that some authorities now trace to a 1981 terrorist gathering in Paris. In a barrage of attacks over the past 14 months, West German, French and Belgian radicals have assassinated prominent members of the European defense establishment and set off bombs at a U.S. air base, military pipelines and other North Atlantic Treaty Organization installations. In narrowing their focus to NATO, the extremists may actually broaden their appeal, since it aligns them with millions of young West Europeans who have demonstrated against U.S.

-NATO missile deployment plans. "From the Red Army Faction point of view, the only opportunity to fight NATO suppression around the world is to organize a kind of illegal guerrilla war and get in contact with more and more people," said a source close to the German underground group, speaking with a reporter on condition of anonymity. Unlike such nationalist movements as the Irish Republican Army and Spain's Basque separatists, the "ideological" terror groups born in the late 1960s See TERRORISTS, page 3 EDITOR'S NOTE: "The key is revolutionary war as a strategy for Western Europe," terrorist Brigitte Mohnhaupt declared at her 1984 sentencing in West Germany. A new wave of home-grown terror is rolling over Europe. This is the third of a five-part series on international terrorism.

By CHARLES J. HANLEY Associated Press Writer WIESBADEN, West Germany The "armies" of Western Europe's terrorist left are rising up again in a lethal new generation, waging an anti-NATO campaign that may enlist more and more dissident youth, say police and other security experts. A decade of police successes, tough anti-terrorist laws and damaging defections has not stopped let alone crushed the continent's urban guerrilla movement. "Time and again, they have come back," acknowledged Heinz Doehla, an anti-terrorist specialist with the West German federal police. And this time West Germany's Red Army Faction and other European terrorist groups are coming back together, in an "anti-imperialist" brotherhood of Advice and ideas 19 Business 11-12 Classified ads 21-24 Comics 18 Crossword 18 Editorials 4 Horoscope 18 Movies 17 Obituaries 10 Sports 13-17 State-local 7-10 Television 20 Weather 6.