1 10 19 https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/files/original/551c95d09d3e002ea50433457d56c66b.pdf 9cae50067111790bf8c3652ff7396d73 PDF Text Text � https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/files/original/c4885ae9071e4a1d1eb54a4f95421c62.tif e3fd9c702aca22b4f2ba1796dbbcf22c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alan K. Simpson Vertical File Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. Archivists are happy to assist anyone with accessing the physical or electronic copies of the files. The Casper College Goodstein Foundation Library is glad to grant uses of this material that it actively manages and cares for and will provide its publication policy upon request. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. This is a collection of files regarding U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson that were used by the Casper Star-Tribune. These files and documents are part of a larger collection of Casper Star-Tribune vertical files consisting of a series of file folders arranged by people, places, and events. These files at times have a corresponding file of photographs and negatives created and used by the Casper Star Tribune from 1967 until the middle of 1995 according to a newspaper article on the donation from February of 2000. Subject The topic of the resource Politicians United States; Politicians Wyoming Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Casper Star-Tribune Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Casper Star-Tribune Vertical File, NCA 01.ii.2001.02-Alt WyCaC US. Casper College Archives and Special Collections. Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. The Casper Star-Tribune gifted 20 years of photographic negatives and prints and many of these corresponding files and article scans to Casper College early in the year 2000. The vertical files have been managed by the Casper College Archives and Special Collections housed in its Western History Center. The repository started the process of arranging and describing these files at the series level in January of 2024. Relation A related resource The finding aid for these and other items in this collection is available for viewing: <a href="https://caspercollegearchives.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/archival_objects/25364" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://caspercollegearchives.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/archival_objects/25364</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Newspaper articles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alan k. Simpson 1986 Casper Star-Tribune Articles Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. Archivists are happy to assist anyone with accessing the physical or electronic copies of the files. The Casper College Goodstein Foundation Library is glad to grant uses of this material that it actively manages and cares for and will provide its publication policy upon request. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1986 Subject The topic of the resource Politicians United States; Politicians Wyoming Description An account of the resource PDF of various scanned newspaper articles from throughout 1986 regarding U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson. The articles are part of a collection of files and photographs that were created and used by the Casper Star-Tribune from 1967 until the middle of 1995. Items in this collection may support the use of other collections in the repository or vice versa. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Casper Star-Tribune Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Casper Star-Tribune Vertical File, NCA 01.ii.2000.02-Alt WyCaC US. Casper College Archives and Special Collections. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NCA 01.ii.2000.01_PeV_AlanSimpson_Casper Star-Tribune Articles_1986 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Relation A related resource <a href="https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/collections/show/39">https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/collections/show/39</a> Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. The Casper Star-Tribune gifted 20 years of photographic negatives and prints and many corresponding files and article scans to Casper College early in the year 2000 according to a newspaper article on the donation. The vertical files have been managed by the Casper College Archives and Special Collections housed in its Western History Center. The repository started the process of arranging and describing these files at the series level in January of 2024. https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/files/original/900b2041379fd7f876ee0fed4c727b01.pdf 0bd0760e47e33bbb6438a99920f13e11 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alan K. Simpson Vertical File Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. Archivists are happy to assist anyone with accessing the physical or electronic copies of the files. The Casper College Goodstein Foundation Library is glad to grant uses of this material that it actively manages and cares for and will provide its publication policy upon request. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. This is a collection of files regarding U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson that were used by the Casper Star-Tribune. These files and documents are part of a larger collection of Casper Star-Tribune vertical files consisting of a series of file folders arranged by people, places, and events. These files at times have a corresponding file of photographs and negatives created and used by the Casper Star Tribune from 1967 until the middle of 1995 according to a newspaper article on the donation from February of 2000. Subject The topic of the resource Politicians United States; Politicians Wyoming Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Casper Star-Tribune Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Casper Star-Tribune Vertical File, NCA 01.ii.2001.02-Alt WyCaC US. Casper College Archives and Special Collections. Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. The Casper Star-Tribune gifted 20 years of photographic negatives and prints and many of these corresponding files and article scans to Casper College early in the year 2000. The vertical files have been managed by the Casper College Archives and Special Collections housed in its Western History Center. The repository started the process of arranging and describing these files at the series level in January of 2024. Relation A related resource The finding aid for these and other items in this collection is available for viewing: <a href="https://caspercollegearchives.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/archival_objects/25364" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://caspercollegearchives.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/archival_objects/25364</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Paper document Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alan K. Simpson 1986 News Releases Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="Rights%20http%3A//rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">Rights http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. Archivists are happy to assist anyone with accessing the physical or electronic copies of the files. The Casper College Goodstein Foundation Library is glad to grant uses of this material that it actively manages and cares for and will provide its publication policy upon request. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1986 Subject The topic of the resource Politicians United States; Politicians Wyoming Description An account of the resource PDF of various news releases from throughout 1986 from the office of and regarding U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson. The articles are part of a collection of files and photographs that were created and used by the Casper Star-Tribune from 1967 until the middle of 1995. Items in this collection may support the use of other collections in the repository or vice versa. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Casper Star-Tribune Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Casper Star-Tribune Vertical File, NCA 01.ii.2000.02-Alt WyCaC US. Casper College Archives and Special Collections. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NCA 01.ii.2000.01_PeV_AlanSimpson_News Releases_1986 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Relation A related resource <a href="https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/collections/show/39">https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/collections/show/39</a> Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. The Casper Star-Tribune gifted 20 years of photographic negatives and prints and many corresponding files and article scans to Casper College early in the year 2000 according to a newspaper article on the donation. The vertical files have been managed by the Casper College Archives and Special Collections housed in its Western History Center. The repository started the process of arranging and describing these files at the series level in January of 2024. https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/files/original/fcaa0d5fc8dd09cc813dea19741915da.pdf f20b3c9847eb0cb7b440f73644dc6801 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alan K. Simpson Vertical File Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. Archivists are happy to assist anyone with accessing the physical or electronic copies of the files. The Casper College Goodstein Foundation Library is glad to grant uses of this material that it actively manages and cares for and will provide its publication policy upon request. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. This is a collection of files regarding U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson that were used by the Casper Star-Tribune. These files and documents are part of a larger collection of Casper Star-Tribune vertical files consisting of a series of file folders arranged by people, places, and events. These files at times have a corresponding file of photographs and negatives created and used by the Casper Star Tribune from 1967 until the middle of 1995 according to a newspaper article on the donation from February of 2000. Subject The topic of the resource Politicians United States; Politicians Wyoming Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Casper Star-Tribune Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Casper Star-Tribune Vertical File, NCA 01.ii.2001.02-Alt WyCaC US. Casper College Archives and Special Collections. Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. The Casper Star-Tribune gifted 20 years of photographic negatives and prints and many of these corresponding files and article scans to Casper College early in the year 2000. The vertical files have been managed by the Casper College Archives and Special Collections housed in its Western History Center. The repository started the process of arranging and describing these files at the series level in January of 2024. Relation A related resource The finding aid for these and other items in this collection is available for viewing: <a href="https://caspercollegearchives.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/archival_objects/25364" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://caspercollegearchives.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/archival_objects/25364</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Paper document Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alan K. Simpson 1986 Washington Updates Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. Archivists are happy to assist anyone with accessing the physical or electronic copies of the files. The Casper College Goodstein Foundation Library is glad to grant uses of this material that it actively manages and cares for and will provide its publication policy upon request. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1986 Subject The topic of the resource Politicians United States; Politicians Wyoming Description An account of the resource PDF of various scanned "Washington Update" news clippings from throughout 1986 by U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson. The articles are part of a collection of files and photographs that were created and used by the Casper Star-Tribune from 1967 until the middle of 1995. Items in this collection may support the use of other collections in the repository or vice versa. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Casper star-Tribune Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Casper Star-Tribune Vertical File, NCA 01.ii.2000.02-Alt WyCaC US. Casper College Archives and Special Collections. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NCA 01.ii.2000.01_PeV_AlanSimpson_Washington Updates_1986 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Relation A related resource <a href="https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/collections/show/39">https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/collections/show/39</a> Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. The Casper Star-Tribune gifted 20 years of photographic negatives and prints and many corresponding files and article scans to Casper College early in the year 2000 according to a newspaper article on the donation. The vertical files have been managed by the Casper College Archives and Special Collections housed in its Western History Center. The repository started the process of arranging and describing these files at the series level in January of 2024. https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/files/original/99e74e5da3d7b2a8437e16d66bc7f59e.pdf b9d3c3a8d462ad48ab5009dea8cdd0ae https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/files/original/4a3067ecfa4220fd5a0841293052d7b0.jpg 2f383287675aa3b5abe8c6f0e37c6e6a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alan K. Simpson Vertical File Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. Archivists are happy to assist anyone with accessing the physical or electronic copies of the files. The Casper College Goodstein Foundation Library is glad to grant uses of this material that it actively manages and cares for and will provide its publication policy upon request. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. This is a collection of files regarding U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson that were used by the Casper Star-Tribune. These files and documents are part of a larger collection of Casper Star-Tribune vertical files consisting of a series of file folders arranged by people, places, and events. These files at times have a corresponding file of photographs and negatives created and used by the Casper Star Tribune from 1967 until the middle of 1995 according to a newspaper article on the donation from February of 2000. Subject The topic of the resource Politicians United States; Politicians Wyoming Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Casper Star-Tribune Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Casper Star-Tribune Vertical File, NCA 01.ii.2001.02-Alt WyCaC US. Casper College Archives and Special Collections. Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. The Casper Star-Tribune gifted 20 years of photographic negatives and prints and many of these corresponding files and article scans to Casper College early in the year 2000. The vertical files have been managed by the Casper College Archives and Special Collections housed in its Western History Center. The repository started the process of arranging and describing these files at the series level in January of 2024. Relation A related resource The finding aid for these and other items in this collection is available for viewing: <a href="https://caspercollegearchives.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/archival_objects/25364" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://caspercollegearchives.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/archival_objects/25364</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Newspaper articles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alan K. Simpson 1987 Casper Star-Tribune Articles Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. Archivists are happy to assist anyone with accessing the physical or electronic copies of the files. The Casper College Goodstein Foundation Library is glad to grant uses of this material that it actively manages and cares for and will provide its publication policy upon request. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1987 Subject The topic of the resource Politicians United States; Politicians Wyoming Description An account of the resource PDF of various scanned newspaper articles from throughout 1987 regarding U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson. The articles are part of a collection of files and photographs that were created and used by the Casper Star-Tribune from 1967 until the middle of 1995. Items in this collection may support the use of other collections in the repository or vice versa. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Casper Star-Tribune Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Casper Star-Tribune Vertical File, NCA 01.ii.2000.02-Alt WyCaC US. Casper College Archives and Special Collections. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NCA 01.ii.2000.01_PeV_AlanSimpson_Casper Star-Tribune Articles_1987 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Relation A related resource <a href="https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/collections/show/39" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/collections/show/39</a> Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. The Casper Star-Tribune gifted 20 years of photographic negatives and prints and many corresponding files and article scans to Casper College early in the year 2000 according to a newspaper article on the donation. The vertical files have been managed by the Casper College Archives and Special Collections housed in its Western History Center. The repository started the process of arranging and describing these files at the series level in January of 2024. https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/files/original/70dab3783640e43bfd855cbdf09db6d4.pdf 408aa5ff2a2601049829b4d1b7071d12 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alan K. Simpson Vertical File Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. Archivists are happy to assist anyone with accessing the physical or electronic copies of the files. The Casper College Goodstein Foundation Library is glad to grant uses of this material that it actively manages and cares for and will provide its publication policy upon request. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. This is a collection of files regarding U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson that were used by the Casper Star-Tribune. These files and documents are part of a larger collection of Casper Star-Tribune vertical files consisting of a series of file folders arranged by people, places, and events. These files at times have a corresponding file of photographs and negatives created and used by the Casper Star Tribune from 1967 until the middle of 1995 according to a newspaper article on the donation from February of 2000. Subject The topic of the resource Politicians United States; Politicians Wyoming Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Casper Star-Tribune Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Casper Star-Tribune Vertical File, NCA 01.ii.2001.02-Alt WyCaC US. Casper College Archives and Special Collections. Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. The Casper Star-Tribune gifted 20 years of photographic negatives and prints and many of these corresponding files and article scans to Casper College early in the year 2000. The vertical files have been managed by the Casper College Archives and Special Collections housed in its Western History Center. The repository started the process of arranging and describing these files at the series level in January of 2024. Relation A related resource The finding aid for these and other items in this collection is available for viewing: <a href="https://caspercollegearchives.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/archival_objects/25364" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://caspercollegearchives.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/archival_objects/25364</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Paper document Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alan K. Simpson 1987 News Releases Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="Rights%20http%3A//rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Rights http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. Archivists are happy to assist anyone with accessing the physical or electronic copies of the files. The Casper College Goodstein Foundation Library is glad to grant uses of this material that it actively manages and cares for and will provide its publication policy upon request. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1987 Subject The topic of the resource Politicians United States; Politicians Wyoming Description An account of the resource PDF of various news releases from throughout 1987 from the office of and regarding U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson. The articles are part of a collection of files and photographs that were created and used by the Casper Star-Tribune from 1967 until the middle of 1995. Items in this collection may support the use of other collections in the repository or vice versa. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Casper Star-Tribune Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Casper Star-Tribune Vertical File, NCA 01.ii.2000.02-Alt WyCaC US. Casper College Archives and Special Collections. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NCA 01.ii.2000.01_PeV_AlanSimpson_News Releases_1987 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF Relation A related resource <a href="https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/collections/show/39" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/collections/show/39</a> Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. The Casper Star-Tribune gifted 20 years of photographic negatives and prints and many corresponding files and article scans to Casper College early in the year 2000 according to a newspaper article on the donation. The vertical files have been managed by the Casper College Archives and Special Collections housed in its Western History Center. The repository started the process of arranging and describing these files at the series level in January of 2024. https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/files/original/9d284ca10753f9ce855d9be35b66b6fb.pdf 20c4e64db9c711637caf4c2f0228d8c5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alan K. Simpson Vertical File Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. Archivists are happy to assist anyone with accessing the physical or electronic copies of the files. The Casper College Goodstein Foundation Library is glad to grant uses of this material that it actively manages and cares for and will provide its publication policy upon request. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. This is a collection of files regarding U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson that were used by the Casper Star-Tribune. These files and documents are part of a larger collection of Casper Star-Tribune vertical files consisting of a series of file folders arranged by people, places, and events. These files at times have a corresponding file of photographs and negatives created and used by the Casper Star Tribune from 1967 until the middle of 1995 according to a newspaper article on the donation from February of 2000. Subject The topic of the resource Politicians United States; Politicians Wyoming Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Casper Star-Tribune Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Casper Star-Tribune Vertical File, NCA 01.ii.2001.02-Alt WyCaC US. Casper College Archives and Special Collections. Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. The Casper Star-Tribune gifted 20 years of photographic negatives and prints and many of these corresponding files and article scans to Casper College early in the year 2000. The vertical files have been managed by the Casper College Archives and Special Collections housed in its Western History Center. The repository started the process of arranging and describing these files at the series level in January of 2024. Relation A related resource The finding aid for these and other items in this collection is available for viewing: <a href="https://caspercollegearchives.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/archival_objects/25364" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://caspercollegearchives.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/archival_objects/25364</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Paper document Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alan K. Simpson 1987 Washington Updates Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. Archivists are happy to assist anyone with accessing the physical or electronic copies of the files. The Casper College Goodstein Foundation Library is glad to grant uses of this material that it actively manages and cares for and will provide its publication policy upon request. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1987 Description An account of the resource PDF of various scanned "Washington Update" news clippings from throughout 1987 by U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson. The articles are part of a collection of files and photographs that were created and used by the Casper Star-Tribune from 1967 until the middle of 1995. Items in this collection may support the use of other collections in the repository or vice versa. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Casper Star-Tribune Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Casper Star-Tribune Vertical File, NCA 01.ii.2000.02-Alt WyCaC US. Casper College Archives and Special Collections. 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The vertical files have been managed by the Casper College Archives and Special Collections housed in its Western History Center. The repository started the process of arranging and describing these files at the series level in January of 2024. https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/files/original/b033f857ea3eb63539fc8ce76949593a.pdf c0661bb05788a2fc9f2a3204067e8606 PDF Text Text Tuesday. Jan.lary 5. 1988 Slar-TriOunc. Casper, Wyo Simpson says strike bad. situation for Sheridan : By JIM NEWSOM 61 ^€tar-Tnbune correspondent SHERIDAN — Wyoming Sen. ^i^^Pson Monday described the three-month-long Decker Coal stril^as a ‘/wretched son of a bitch^' during a press con­ ference here. Simpson, in addition, reiterated a statement made by his Senate cofleague Malcolm Wallop here in November that local, state or federal officials should not take sides in the strike issue Or involve themselves in SIMPSON strike settlement negotiations. “It’s just about the worst thing that can be for any community, but it is not for me as a U.S. senator to intrude into manage­ ment and labor, and 1 do not in­ tend to, and I hope to God they can work it out,’’ Simpson said. “1 hope and pray that they can get something done that will be honest and responsible. I It s called labor-management. It’s been going on in this country since Eugene Debs, and if we didn’t have unions, we never would have had a good country,’’ Simpson added. Simpson told reporters that the National Labor Relations Board often reflects the political viewpoints of the administration in power when ruling upon issues like the United Mine Workers of America Local 1972 unfair labor practices charges currently pending against the Decker Coal Com­ pany. But he said has “no idea’’ how the present NLRB will rule in the matter. Simpson expressed hopes that both sides in the strike will “keep talking” and attempt to resolve the strike peacefully. The two-term Republican declined to comment on whether he believes the strike stems from Decker Coal Co. attempts to break the union. “1 haven’t-the slightest idea what management is intending to try to do, or what the union is intending to try to do,” Simpson said. Simpson said he plans to run for Senate Minority Leader should Kansas Sen. Robert Dole, a fellow Republican, be elected President this year. Simpson also said that he has repeatedly wrangled with Florida Congressman Claude Pepper over the issue of freezing cost of living increases for recipients of Social Security payments. During a “town meeting” with an audience composed mostly of senior citizens, Simpson talked about the U.S. deficit and recently-imposed immigration restrictions. At the beginning of the discus­ sion session, one eldci ly woman grilled the senator about being quoted in the press using “earthy language” and asked him if he reads the Bible. Simpson responded that he reads the Bible everyday, and said that his mother “does still call me when I slip into ‘earthy-isms’ that are inappropriate.” �Wednesday. January 6.1988 -Star-Tribynei Casper, . ' - ’ ■ _ ___ '_,t ■ ^nipson hears Saratogans’ concerns receive R-SARATOGA — Concerns dent aid those who also receiv public assistance can receive. about assistance for poverty-level “We are real, afraid we are going students and child care were raised i by citizens at a town meeting with ''!'to be i forced ,ot»t pR scnooR- • . Barker said. i " i Sen. Alan Simpson here Tuesday. • Students who are receiving Simpson also commented at social assistance while going to length about how the media covers school are making an effort to get people and events after Jean Rayl “off the merry-go-round” of suggested a committee be formed welfare support, Barker said. She to “take the control back of how said they thipk their efforts to ob­ people like you and President tain an education should be con­ Reagan are treated’’ by journal­ sidered an ^investment” rather ists. . than a burden. Wendy Barker with the Univer­ Simpson also said some type of sity of Wyoming Coalition child-care programs must be im­ Against Poverty told Simpson plemented to serve the single students want a change in formulas parents who must work. which restrict the amount of stu- �Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Thuisday, January 7,1988 Simpson backs cutting cost-of-living allowances Senator speaks to sonSaratoga chamber said he supports the ratifica- C^By CANDY MOULTON Star-Tribune correspondent P' SARATOGA — Federal en­ titlement spending must be cut and cutting cost-of-living allowances for Social Security recipients is one • way to do it, U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson told the Saratoga Chamber of Commerce Tuesday night. “Either we deal with the en­ titlement program, or we will not make it,” Simpson said when discussing the current federal budget deficit. Simpson said UjjP'V ’V"" he is prepared to ' support acrossthe-board spending restrictions and also said WlKfe. cost-of-living al■ 1 o w a n c e s , (COLAs) for the SIMPSON federal entitle . , ment programs such as Social Se­ curity and veterans must be brought into line. “We ought to at least have the guts to means test the Social Secu­ rity cost-of-living allowance,” I Simpson said. “The COLA is out of hand.” i In an address before the Sarato­ ga-Platte Valley Chamber of Commerce annual banquet, Simp- tion of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty. “1 think it’s a start. I don’t think it’s anything more than a very small step,” But he said he has hopes that continued relations between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev will lead to further arms restrictions. Simpson said Gorbachev “sure tossed in the gauntlet” during his Washington visit last month. But the senator also said he doesn’t think most Americans know what Gorbachev actually said. Simpson said he was told by an American intrepreter that Gor­ bachev often said “almost hostile things, some of which were almost crude.” However Gorbachev’s in­ trepreter was making the com­ ments “beautifully smooth,” Simpson said. Simpson said he., asked .Gor­ bachev (d bring me’uibcts. bf the Politburo to Washington instead of the “functionaries” the Soviet Union currently sends. However, he’s not optimistic that will hap­ pen. “If you ever brought (the Polit­ buro members) to the United States their eyes would blink like a frog in a hailstorm,” Simplon said. : �Simpson, Wallop travel different paths on two major budget bills The biggest and most unlikely surprise we could receive is to learn that we might actually .have met our spending reduction targets,’’ he said. “However, those of us • CASPER — Wyoming’s two who thought we would actually senators cast opposite votes on receive what we had requested are two major budget bills approved discovering that what all our good just before Congress adjourned intentions have brought us are last month. lumps of coal and switches and Sen. Alan Simpson said in Cas­ ashes.” per Wednesday that the continuing He said he did not have a chance resolution process that lumps to review the report before it together massive appropriations at reached the Senate floor. the end of the Congressional ses­ “By signing the report, I sion is a bad approach, yet he basically would have given consent voted for the bill because it is the to the entire document, a docu­ way Congress has chosen to run the government. , ment 1 had not seen,” Wallop said. “We had not even so much ... Sen. Malcolm Wallop told colas a summary.” leagueis in a Senate speech he voted Unlike Wallop, Simpson voted against the deficit reduction for the deficit reduction package ; package that became law late last saying he preferred it to proposed year because Congress didn’t nave Gramm-Rudmann-Hollings cuts, . enough time to review the massive that would have taken effect legislation. should the package have failed to The deficit reduction package pass Congress. "consisted of two parts — a “The continuing resolution is a '“budget reconciliation’’ bill set­ very poor way to do business,” ting out how deficit reduction Simpson said, “but the only way targets would be met and the con­ you can get your stuff moving.” tinuing resolution, which sets Still, Simpson said he continues spending levels for the fiscal year to support across-the-board cuts in - that began Oct. 1. the budget, but acknowk.iges that '• The Senate passed the reconcili­ kind of plaii has little backing ation bill by a 61-28 vote and the among his Senate colleagues. * continuing resolution by a tally of Simpson said he supported the 59-30. Simpson voted in favor of deficit reduction package instead both measures, as did Rep. Dick of sequester, because the package Cheney. will span two years as compared to All three Wyoming Republicans one. were members of House-Senate “Originally I was going to let it conference committees that crafted go to sequester,” he said, “I said component parts of the final let her rip. But that would not compromises for the reconcilia­ have been very responsible. But it tion bill. But Wallop refused to sure would be effective. But effec­ sign the conference report encomtive for only one year. ' passing the entire measure. “I figured if we go to the Despite his being unable to automatic sequester, it would be . review the package in detail, Walfor one year and we would have to , lop raised objections to specific do the same thing next year. So I .elements included in the revenue­ went for two years of getting kind raising portion of the deficit redicof weak reduction versus one year tionplan. . of pretty hard reduction.” “We are preparing to vote on Simpson blamed the Democratthe two most important bills to ^cdnK before the Senate this year, ' ic-coiiflp)jj«d,.jHousew,oi>; Repre--, sentatives ' for “loading” apprd- and we have no idea what is in­ priatioris into the continuing reso­ i’ eluded in this Christmas package,’’ lution so that the Senate cannot J; Wallop said in a Senate speech handle them. « Dec. 21. Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Thursday, January 7,1988 ByDANlEl .WISEMAN and ANDREW MELNYKOVYCH Star-Tribune staff writers Wallop said he was opposed to “this blind voting” that is a “sad commentary on the world’s greatest deliberative body. ” He also blasted the conference report for its tax-increasing provi­ sions. “The conference report has merged mediocrity, in the guise of the Senate reconciliation bill, with disaster, as concocted by the House reconciliation bill,” he said. “We have been seduced into, raising taxes.” Although proponents claimed the tax hikes are “painless,” Wal­ lop said they are “the types of taxes that rocked Wall Street in October, and are neither harmless nor responsible.” The “negative impact this (tax) increase will have on Wyoming will far exceed the alleged benefits to the nation,” Wallop said. A third of the tax increase comes from excise and employment taxes that will impose a heavy burden on the small businesses that are a mainstay of Wyoming’s economy, he said. Extending the 3 percent tele­ phone excise tax will hurt individ­ uals as well as small businesses. Wallop said. He also criticized provisions to extend certain payroll taxes and to broaden taxes on tip income and life insurance benefits. Wallop said he opposed freezing the top rate on estate and gift taxes, rather than allowing it to drop as scheduled under the 1986 tax reform law. ' “We all know what happens to rate freezes around here — thev tend to be ice age in duration,” he said. “1 hope arid pray that no ranch family or family-owned business is forced to liq ddate to pay the extra estate tax due because of this change — but we all know some will.” The $23 billion tax increase in the reconciliation measure comes on top of a $33 billion hike in Social Security taxes ,in 1988, Wal­ lop said.' Medicare fees are' due to go up $8 billion, bringing the total burden on the economy to $64 bil­ lion, he said. �Simpson says Brookliurst oollntion troubles ‘hyped About 400 attendhas “been town meeting "hyped” and should be Colorado’s bid tor the super col ,,, _J»» ...My) W ZM IH h “put in perspective.” ‘ officials will ensure th^ c Brookhurst is protected from pollution,”............. he said. gut Simpson promised to in­ vestigate Barkhart’s claim that the EPA had mismanaged its plan to supply Brookhurst with town of Evansville water ’’should it be rep i Star-Tribune. Casper, Wyo. Thursday. January 7 1 9 8 8 Al Ry DANIEL WlSEMAbL /I Star-Tribune sta ft writer n ' camper_ Sen. Alan Simpr CASPEK. sorara^t"40b *ding a “town meeting here Wed­ nesday that pollution problems at Sr Brookhurst subdivisionhave been'^'hypeJT and insisted that there is no conspiracy to threaten the health of the subdivision s res- i haTS^imention of seek­ • He ha Republican ,ng a placeo ’TrSSSouncebU»P^» tor a Republican pres.d»t^g«^ “’Sab S - betSe the Na- “onalConventionAissumM. with Canada *’'*Buving out the subdivision by "’u teS’ Wyoming’s cattle Xry “ b»"<?,r-^^ebus,nesses the state or lederai jvernmcnt is ! '^The Wyoming Republican ficid- not the answer fo. Brookhurst, •"„“?S’b:bV"SSinc«d^„w Simpson said, adding that ^h a ‘ ed questions on AIDS, protection of Persian Gulf shtpp- move would “mean it is OK to hnion that would pn^ 'agrecinenl . , , _zj ' ing, the homeless and the budget pollute.” Simpson defended foreign aid, i'ouu’Soy his intentions to deficit. . K saying it makes up on^ a small h,«,o?rs»,, -S’rtSs"Sst^>",S; ?S'gh‘?udS"dSS wSdc 'homliis proolcJ; -.“.poL^- pane and th.’ C.nada-U5 trade woulc be tally ill street people in institu- wreement .nideousblow. ” Simpson said. noting that he had i number of major spending bills. tions* - Persian Gulf " lA L Sed over to The gathering was part ot a stale, shipping should be hanaen tour. (See related story, Bir the united Nations, Simpson h. Earlier- Wednesday, Simpson Responding to a enti r said passage of the prono^ Unit­ ed States-Canada free trade . dience who chided humorist " o' agreem^t would “wipe t^t the 1 being too much : while ignonng consniuem ^P^ state’s uranium industry and he blcms, SimpsOT humor, therefore will oppose the pact. humorist. difference. ” He He said Wyoming’s uranium in­ dustry is dormant, but the effect of ; the treaty will be like “shooting a £ "ould condnue <0 ‘ corpse.” “““S'erfer interview I Later at the town meeting, ! Simpson would not commit to in' vestigating the U.S, EnvironmenI tai Protection Agency’s handling j of the delivery of water to the i “Sin‘AiS^iS w j Brookhurst subdivision in Casper, SSl'S^cSiUesiO i but promised to meet privately on i the matter. “r5:U"houia enppnr, Simpson told Brookhurst ac­ tivist Linda Burkhart that no “conspiracy” exists on the part of the stale's congressional delega­ tion, the governor, or the EPA to threaten the health of Brookhurst residents. Simpson charged that the issue �—-.uiuiiouAc. nc saiu oen. led .Timpson, K-wyo, predicted . . , arguments against , trusting fife i : Stevens, R-Alaska, * , Thursday. •wh»r, o.. Soviets are worth heeding, but ad- i ! him: ' He said the odds of such an outr there?’ S^ing to get ded that he is “with the president” • ’ out of there? corne are “75-10-25” if the Soviets support the recently sign“And Shevardnadze said ‘N begin withdrawing troops from ed INF pact when it soon comes to I. this year.’ Afghanistan. vote before the Senate. > “And Ted Stevens said, ‘Whati Secretary of State George On the difficulty of reducing the ? does that mean?’ Schultz announced Thursday the ; budget deficit, Simpson said that “And Shevardnadze said, ‘Not United States will cooperate with politicians have io provide pro­ this year,. ’ the Soviet Union’s plan to grams for their constituents or withdraw from Afghanistan by the (j “So here the year starts and now “they end up out of office. ” they are going to do it — so that ’ s end of the year by agreeing to stop “The American people will not great,” Simpson said. military aid to the rebel forces. let you cut entitlement programs,” He said the Soviets “ have Simpson hailed the move, saying Simpson said. “Someone has let removed the only argument they them know that somehow the pol­ it indicates improved superpower have ever given (for remaining in iclations. iticians are at blame, whei ’ > are Afghanistan).” Simpson credited the at blame. They want this from the “ They wanted to be sure about breakthrough in part to pressure federal treasury and by God if you the kind of government that would bom congressional leaders, who want to toui.ii this, you’ll have to replace the one there,” he said. he said told Soviet General Secre­ i pay attention.” i Shevardnadze said Wednesday ' Simpson said , he believes that tary Mikhail Gorbachev that a that removal of troops from Soviet withdrawal from Congre'js " "Id be able to make j Afghanistan would not depend on strong uu if the stock market Afghanistan would help Senate ' having a transitional government passage of a treaty eliminating were to suffer another tremendous j acceptable to Moscow. short-range missiles in Europe. j Should the Soviets leave j fall as it did in October. Simpson disclosed that Senate “It’s almost a pity that it went ; Afghanistan, Simpson said there is | back up like it did,” he said. “In Majority Leader Robert E|yrd, i a “75-to-25” chance that a treaty j l)-W. Va., had told Gorbachev I reducing strategic nyclear weapons' that sluggish condition,, they during the December summit in (Congress) would have made the by 50 percent will be signed by the Washington that should the choice to take the medicine. If the Reagan administration and the market caves in 300 points like it Soviets establish a timetable for Soviet Union. withdrawal from Afghanistan that did, it will be less difficult to get Turning to other topics, Simp­ back to the table and get results.” “it would make it eminently easier for the INF (Intermediate-range son said that Americans are at the At a town, meeting in Casper root of the country’s economic Wednesday, Simpson said pro­ Nuclear Forces) treaty topass.” , problems, and that politicians are He recalled the conversation merely following the people’s blems at the contaminated i Brookhurst Subdivision in Casper j during an interview Thursday: wishes by continuing to fuel the have been “hyped” and need to be “Byrd said, ‘Then you know, deficit. “pul into perspective.” we would have passed the SALT And Simpson expanded on his Simpson said Thursday that treaty if you hadn’t invaded Wednesday remark that con­ “people” have created an image Afghanistan. And Gorbachev kind taminationS»bK troubles have in' been' the i’ that “nobody cares about of gave him the evil eye,” Simpson Brookhurst '“'“And then Byrd said, ‘if you ^’’^^'^eople'(who') have made/ Brookhurst.” He also suggested Brookhurst “And then Byrd said, ' and Evansville residents could be were to phase a withdrawal from It out that government is not con-1 given charcoal filters for installa­ Afghanistan, if the timetable came cerned, which is false.” tion on spigots to purify water. He before we are to vote and debate; He also said that: on the (1N1-) treaty, it Would makei • Wyoming’s sagging economy reiterated that he believes water in Brookhurst and Evansville com­ it eminently easier to pass.’ Cor I mentioned by citi- plies with federal clean drinking According to Simpson ' ' |Zens on his recent tour of the state water standards. Please see SIMPSON, A8 “How that perception got out there that nobody cares, I don’t know,” he said. “It’s a shame to give the governor a bum rap and we have been riding the EPA (U.S. Environmental * Protection ' Agency) like a horse.’’ ; , J Later, he said the perception that “nobody cares” could derive from subdivsijii i residents who .‘‘live’* the problems everyday, while politicians and others have ' concerns elsewhere. : Simpson objected to Brookhurst ; activist Linda Burkhart bringing ' ' the subject of the carcinogen trihalomethane — a derivative of ■ water cholorihation treatment — into the discussion of the EPA’s plan to pump vyater from Evansville to the subdivision: He called the topic “erroneous.” “I don’t understand how you can provide a whole new water' source,” he said, “and then having somebody (Burkhart) howling like a gutshot panther and complaining about that too. To think that there are people out there that think their government is not tending to them is a travestv ” ( �f. K ■•'i, ■ -Star-Tribune, Casper, ^turday, January 9,1988 ( furkhart ^amed by Simpson ; ‘hype’ source /VAlpl i C^EVANSVILLE—Sen gE^R-Wyo.. did not^ • '•! : J have f’e says Wemc ‘he pollution proSSr/’SL^Stsiia.srtSrfi ''‘‘"•I anT,,":- i fekS" t ?ffbrt to *^dpa?' a serious • problems. *“'* B^oo'^hurst ' >nctrSdv'"J''''’?/’' Star-Tribune refeS’SvU° " speciftaiK a.™'-Simpson did noi i"di^rdS“S'‘Sm/''':'" “ ’■' tnenf tha» ... • ^"^Pson s stateS icf ‘ frustrating Watch this la newspaper and ting people done^And been Payinsl y®" been tax^ dnu "u‘ of your SLi? " R'-ookhurst.” He the woman. 'J �Simpson says he’ll do own probe of Denver EPA office “1 think a senior senator in the I By KENDRA ENSOR^' U.S. Senate, such as Sen. Simp­ \ Star-Tribune staff writer I ' son, who is on some environmen­ tal committees, will make a very CASPAR — Because it appears big impact on the EPA as a that there may be something “not whole,” Burkhart said. “1 am quite right” with the U.S. En;_ waiting now to see what the rest of vironmental Protection Agency’s the congressional delegation will investigation of the Brookhurst subdivisiotfi, U.S. Sen. Alaju do.” Adrienne Anderson, who runs Simpson says he will launch his . the Denver office of the National own independent inquiry of the Campaign Against Toxic Hazards, agency’s Denver office. said Friday that Colorado and , Simpson’s pledge- to scrutinze Utah residents previously have ’’ operations at the EPA’s Region 8 contacted their U.S. senators and office came after a Thursday night congressmen, asking them to in­ i meeting with three activists from vestigate the EPA’s regional of­ i the contaminated subdivision. fice. ! The trio, who have been barrag( But Simpson is the first • ing the' senator and the other lawmaker to actually initiate a r members of Wyoming’s congresfull-scale probe of the agency’s i sional delegation with letters askDenver Region 8 office. Region 8 ' ing for additional help, said they oversees EPA activities in Wyo­ came to the meeting armed with ming, Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Utah. Ipiles of EPA documents they have ■ “It’s gratifying that Sen. Simp­ collectedjt. ** ' , son is finally responding to a ma­ . Simpson said Friday he “just jor public health emergency,” gathered it all up” and told the, Anderson said, adding, “The peo­ three Brookhurst residents that he" ple of Brookhurst should have would “go back and snort around been evacuated over a year ago.” in this.” ' ' , Anderson said her group is “1 was impressed at the perse­ coordinating the six states’ move­ verance of these people and the ment toward a Region 8 investiga­ documents that they have obuintion. ed,” Simpson said. “And I don’t “There are communities in each know what the impact (of the in­ state that have this concern,” she quiry) will be. 1 don’t know that said. ’ we are going to find anything con­ Besides public health concerns, a trived or whatever. 1 don’t know recent audit critical of the Region 8 anything about sinister, but sorneoffice has prompted the groups to thing is not quite right, that’s ^1.” seek an investigation, Burkhart Former Brookhurst resident said. Linda Burkhart, who met with That September audit, done by Simpson, said Friday she is “just the EPA’s inspector general’s of­ thrilled to death” with the fice, shows the Denver office inef­ i senator’s response. fectively managed $6.4 million us­ 1 Please see EPA, A14 ed to help states find and clean up hazardous waste sites. The audit also suggests that many of the region’s projects were behind schedule and that the office had problems with cooperative agreements with Region 8 states. Simpson said he received a copy of the audit from ttuimx,... Simpson and his chief of staff Joe Ratliff said the senator has pledged to talk with EPA Ad­ ministrator Lee Thomas and Region 8 .■^administrator James Scherer as well as take the infor­ mation to members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, on which Simpson sits. ■ , Ratliff said Friday that he and a member of Simpson’s Washington staff, Brent Erickson, will be working on the inquiry, reping in close contact with the Brookhurst residents. The staffers will be looking into whether the Brookhurst matter “has been htndled properly from the rime it initially surfaced as a problem, and that the agencies have been properly responsive to the constituency.” Simpson added, “The important thing to remember is that we are going to assure a safe' water supply for these people.” “What has happened in the past is something we want to look at,” he said. �Star-Tribune, Casper. Wyo. Thursday, January 14, 1988 There’s a rosy GOP future out there Tne vote isn’t in yet, but the results are already obvious: Wyo­ ming will be defintely and firmly in the Republican column come November, relecting Malcolm Wallop and backing a Republican national candidate (either George Bush 01 Bob Dole) who will emer­ ge as the next president of the United States. At least that’s how Wallop’s junior colleague in the Senate, Al Simpson, sees this election year. Ronald Reagan may be retiring, the stock market has crashed and Wyoming is in the economic pits, but Wyomingites still will not re­ ject the Grand Old Party, the Simpsonian crystal ball reveals. Simpson, of course, does not rely simply on unsupported magical visions of the future. His predictions are based on some basic realities, like the noticeable absence of a throng of Democrats wanting to challenge a supposedly “vulnerable” Wallop. If grabbing Wallop’s senate seat was going to be so easy, you would think a lot more candidates would be emer­ ging, he said. And, Simpson add’ ed, Wyoming’s senior senator is in sync with state residents — he “votes just about the way they feel on the tough issues of the day.” There are other factors, of course — maybe so probably obvious that Simpson didn’t specifically refer to them during a recent interview. Like the big edge that Republicans have in voter reg­ istrations. Or the pile of money that Wallop has accumulated in a^ campaign fund, which by itself tends to tliscourage usually under­ funded and less-flush Democrats. Simpson said his recent swing through Wyoming gave him no reason to believe that Wallop might be in trouble. In fact, the opposite was true, he said. And he went on to suggest that none of the national Democratic presidential candidates had anything to offer to voters, so the next president will surely again be a Republican. But interestingly, Simpson said he also found on the road that Wyoming residents were “very frustrated ... even in a sense, hostile about their economy.” Since many Sections are deter­ mined by “pocketbook” issues, one might think that bodes not well for Republican fortunes. l>lot so, countered Simpson, because folks don’t blame Ronald Reagan and the Republicans (or Malcolm Wallop) fof their problems. One subject Simpson said he didn’t hear anything about was, how people feel about the propos­ ed Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty, which calls for mutual reductions in nuclear missies by the Soviets and Americans. It’s an issue where Simpson and Wallop are currently on opposite sides — Simpson said he will vote to ratify it, while Wallop is expected to line up with the opposition when the Senate considers it. “ There are times when Malcolm and 1 do not agree,” Simpson said. In this case, “people should be listening to what Malcolm is saying ... ‘why trust them? They lie, they’ve broken every treaty they’ve ever been in. And those are very important and vital and honest questions.” ' Yet while Simpson is urging us regular folks to “listen” to Wal­ lop, he isn’t taking his own advice. “I’m convinced that (the ad­ might be possible we will see A spirited face between John Vinich and Malcolm Wallop. It could be a time when we will see if discus­ sion of issues, rather than money, can play a greater role in an elec­ tion. But 1 ain’t predicting. I got out of the prediction business back in 1976 when Wallop first ran for of­ fice, against then-Sen. Gale McGee. At the time, I was on the radio, covering the election results. As the vote rolled in, and Not so, countered Simpson, because folks don’t blame Ronald Reagan and the Republicans (or Malcolm Wallop) for their problems. ministration negotiators) put together a pretty good treaty,” he said, adding that he was satisfied with the provisions for verifica­ tion. But whose views represent the people of Wyoming on this im­ portant issue? If Wallop is in sync with the voters, as Simpson alleges, then he^isn’t. My own view is that it’s still too early to tell who or what party will emerge as winners in November. Nationally, it would seem that the pendulum swing between political parties is in favor of the Demo­ crats, especially without Ronald Reagan. On the state level, it just the tally for Malcolm mounted, I predicted that McGee would come back, and pull ahead to win ... * * * Naked power: The latest issues of “The Rounddp,” the quarterly publication of the Wyoming Cen­ tennial Commission, carries a story about the mythical “Wyo­ ming Centennial Army,” a money-raising project of the Riv­ erton Area Chamber of Com­ merce. For $7.50, the “Army” will issue a certificate designating you as an honorary colonel. The document “bares the signature of Wyoming’s Governor,” the Roundup noted. �Wallop expects to tesify on INF treaty; won’t hit Simpson on budget package Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. > j- Friday, January 1 5 ,1 9 8 b By DANIEL WISEMAN Star-ihbunesiait wncer CASPER — Wyoming Sen. | Malcolm Wallop says he expects j to testily as an expert before a Senate panel later this month on the proposed United States-Soviet union treaty to eliminaie shortrange nuclear missiles from Europe. , Wallop, speaking, in Casper, • Thursday night, also blasted conr ■ gressman who supported a massive spending bill in December, buj| ■ would not criticize his junior col­ league Sen. Alan Simpson, who ’ voted for it. Wallop said Simpson . as a member of the Republican leadership that helped form the budget compromise “had no i choice but to” vote to support the bi-partisan legislation. The short-term future of Wyo- ' ming’s economy is far from robust. Wallop said, but he added, i; that he was optimistic the state ' would rebound over the long haul. Wallop made his comments at a dinner meeting of the Wyoming ichapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors. Wallop said he had not made up , ‘ his mind on the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces treaty that , President Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed in Washinton last month. But Wallop reiterated his con­ tention that he will have to be convinced as to why the Soviets i . should be trusted to adhere to the principles of the INF treaty con­ sidering their record on adherence .to past arms control agreements. A "I happen to be one of the few people around who believes in the process that the Senate sets up,” Wallop said. ‘'What the hell is the point of having hearings if I al­ ready have made up my mind... T: ere are a hell of a lot of people , who have made up their mind who j , haven’t even read the treaty. I’m going to wait and see w hat those hearings are. Yes, I probably will I ; testify at those hearings. | ■ But Wallop said there may be^ ' some means for the Reagan Ad: ministration to convince him that ■ It has “found a way to make the Soviets abide by this treaty.” Wallop said he currently has no i plans to actively fight the treaty or Ato support it. “The plan is to go in and ask for some answers to some very real questions,” he said. “One of them, is real simple. When this treaty is sold as eliminating an entire class of missiles, what is there around T either side that might substitute for the missiles that have been eliminated.” , • He said Westefn Europe’s secu­ rity would seem to be uncertain with the signing of the treaty, while the Soviets have another class of missiles, the SS-25, to take the .place of the ones eliminated. W allop aid he has read the treaty . lancFthe accompanying documents. “I have expressed my concerns that anytime somebody says some­ thing,” he said, “both sides can linterpret it to their own ends, which they did with SDI (the Strategic Defense Initiative)... i “Gorbachev says it means this . .and Reagan says it means that, and if it is written so unclearly that .nobody can argue either side effec­ tively, you’ve got a problem.” ot Wallop accused Congress of ar­ rogance in supporting the continu­ ing budget resolution that, he said was voted upon by both houses before members could even have hoped to read the bills more than 2,000 pages. Wallop, who voted against the continuing resolution said he favored “sequester” which would have implemented across-theboard cuts required by the Gramm-Rudmann law. . But Wallop would not criticize Simpson, the assistant minority leader, for voting for the continu­ ing resolution. , “Al is part of the leadership,” Wallop said. “He was required to go in and make that whole deal come together. That was some­ thing they all set up and decided was important. One of the pro­ blems you get by being in lead­ ership is that you get yourself hooked into what has become known as a bi-partisan solution. And I don’t criticize Al for that. He was trying to get something better and d d not get it.” Wallop sa d Congress has dem­ onstrated “arrogance” in passing spending bills, and only taxpayer “outrage” can change the situa­ tion. Sequester, Wallop predicted, eventually will have to be im­ plemented to address the budget deficit. Wallop said he has a “hard time” finding any indications of a “robust” Wyoming economy, but “in the long-term, Wyoming re­ mains an optimistic place.” The United States’ dependence on foreign sources of oil will enable OPEC to “exercise a ham­ mer” on this country that should help Wyoming’s energy industry. Wallop said. �Monday, January 18. 1988 Slar-lribune, Casper, Wyo Simpson: Free trade will liurt state Barring changes, he will vote against agreement HEYENNE (AP) — U.S. r ' The result would be that a great Sen. Alan Simpson says Wyodeal of Can idian energy could ming’s natural gas, livestock and become available at prices much agricultural industries will suffer lower than domestic rates, accord­ under the proposed Canadian Free ing to Simpson. Trade Agreement. “Wyoming’s natural gas in­ “Even though the Free Trade dustry could also suffer losses,” Agreement may be positive for the he said. “Canadian exploration nation as a whole, Wyoming’s and development in this area is economy will surely take it right heavily subsidized. Our industry is on the chin. I will be voting not subsidized to the same extent, against the agreement unless and is further crippled by burden­ significant changes, are made,” some federal regulations.” Simpson said. The senator also said that he no The Senate must approve the longer believes the agreement will agreement before it can go into ef­ help Wyoming’s agriculture or fect. > beef industry. , Simpson noted that all of “Last year the Canadians Canada’s energy industry has been benefitted from a $300 million heavily subsidized in the past and trade surplus in beef alone. I am there is nothing in the new agree­ not yet convinced that the Cana­ ment to prevent Canadian pro­ dians will lift current restrictions vinces from continuing to offer to the point that our U.S. beef in­ those incentives. dustry will see a real change for the better,*’ said Simpson, AL SIMPSON Economy will take it on the chin �-Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Wednesday, January 20,1988 Simpson, Cheney at -seminar on Soviets^^ GA'ASHINGTON - While most of the nation suffered through January’s cold, Sen. Alan Simp­ son and Rep. pick Ctiency went tn Jamaica to discu.ss~he thaw in Soviet-American relations. The Wyoming Republicans were in Montego Bay from Jan. 12 to Jan. 16 for a seminar held by the Aspen Institute, a non-profit, non-partisan “think tank,” The seminars on Soviet-American rela­ tions are held twice a year. Spokesmen for Simpson and Cheney said both are regulars at the meetings, which are attended j by members of Congress , and , . various experts on the Soviet L'n ion. The Aspen Institute pays the : the way for attendees. ; 'Simpson’s wife Ann ac^'cnpanied her husband, Simpson press i secretary Mary Kay Hill said. ' Mrs. Simson’s way was paid by the , Aspen Institute. Lynne Cheney also attended, but paid her own way, Cheney spokesman Pete Williams said. Lynne Cheney is chairman of the , National Endowment for the (’Humanities. �“Slar-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Thursday, January 21,1988 > Bowl rap a/bum rap,’Simpson says ■ ' Wyoming President ^rry Ro^ and Gov. Mike Sullivan got a -bum tap”'lot U>='; “’“Su KWTV "n-fe: Siippson told i^t wv>_i— P^While being interviewed on Report to Wyoming, Simpson defendr, ed spending on the controversial bowl trip. ••We took everybody in SIMPSON Wyoming to the (1967) Sugar, Bowl and 1 didn t hear anybody shriek.” Simpson said. in the “Here our fine friends m university and our fine governor I our taking a bum rap on that one. And I’m just going to say It and 1 know I will get a ton of mail on Ulis one. but let me tell you (peo­ ple in San Diego) were deeply^im pressed with Wyoming, Simpson KTWO’s %^impson went to the Holiday I Bowl but emphasized he did not make the trip at state expense. �nrorny on oiwg, L? .. ,.^.^"7"------- - ---------' ' I “ I he backlog ui cases is iiiufe* J than an embarrassment,” Simpson said. “It is a disservice to the administration of jv'tice.” WASHINGTON -Gillette, Sen. Malcolm Wallop,, Rlawyer Wade Bror^, aV a Senate I hearing Wednesday on his : Wyo., in a written statement subnomination to-become a federal i mitted to the committee, praised Brorby as “the best candidate appeals judge, defended his role in Wyoming has to offer.” He cited a controversial investigation into Brorby’s experience as Campbell drug use by employees of^mp:: County prosecutor and a lawyer bell County Memorial Hospitak engaged in a diverse private prac­ 'TJnder questioning by Sen. tice. ' . ' Howell Heflin, D-Ala., Btprby Heflin also brought up the said he, as the lawyer for CCMH backlog of cases in the 10th circuit, board, assisted in the board s in­ saying that it takes about 14 vestigation of illegal drug use at months for individual appeals to the hospital. Although his inbe resolved. vestlgalor and his law partner were “The 10th circuit needs a judge working on a parallel grand jury who can jump in, roll up his probe, the two investigations were sleeves, and get to work reducing kept entirely separate, Brorby this backlog,” he said. said. . , . Most of Heflin’s questions dealt A lawsuit filed by former with Brorby’s role as attorney for CCMH administrator Ed Frye the CCMH board in 1985 and alleges that Brorby and the hospi­ 1986, when the board was in­ tal board, acting on information vestigating drug use among its em­ leaked from the grand jury, forced ployees. A Campbell County Frye to resign. Brorby is not nam­ grand jury was conducting its own ed as a defendant in the lawsuit. investigation at the same time. Heflin also questioned Brorby Brorby said he helped the board about his limited experience in try­ conduct hearings and also super­ ing cases in the federal court s^ vised a Campbell County deputy Brorby said his last federal _ trial sheriff who was assigned to the was a mineral rights case “six or board as an investigator. The seven years ago.” deputy also testified before the, Brorby was nominated in grand jury. August by President Reagan to fill As a result of the hospital a vacancy on the U.S. Courl^L board’s probe, some employees Appeals for the lOthCircuiU Hie were exonerated while others were court is based in Denyer, and in­ fired, Brorby said. cludes Wyoming in its jurisdic­ While Brorby was acting as the tion. „ ,,, hospital board’s lawyer, his law Sen. Alan Simpson, R-wyo., partner, Tom Roberts, was an introduced Brorby to the Senate assistant county attorney and was Judiciary Committee. Simpson actively involved in the grand jury described Brorby, 53, as an old probe. friend” from the days? when the Heflin asked Brorby what steps two were classmates at the Univer- he took to prevent leaks of secret sitv of Wyoming Law School. grand jury testimony to the hospi­ “But that isn’t how he got tal board, both through the deputy here,” Simpson said. “He got here and through Roberts. because the judiciary and the law­ Brorby said he took steps to yers of Wyoming selected him.’ “insulate” the grand jury testimo­ Simpson urged rapid confirma­ ny by making it clear that the dep­ tion for Brorby. The seat for uty was to keep material given to which Brorby is the nominee has the grand jury separate from the been vacant for nearly two years, hospital board’s probe. and another seat on the same court Roberts’ involvement in the has been vacant for more than hospital board investigation was three years, he said. “next to none,” Brorby said. Frye, in documents filed in con­ nection with his lawsuit, says that on Nov. 25, 1985, he was summmoned to a private meeting of the CCMH board held at Brorby’s law office. Two hospital employees had been indicted by the grand jury on druw charges several days be­ fore. Brorby allegedly asked Frye to PyS^^REW MELNYKOVYCH StaF-Tribune Washington bureau Brorby said Wednesday that his effor: to separate the hospital’s internal investigation from the grand jury probe were successful. He and Roberts discussed how to prevent conflicts of interest from arising, Brorby said. Conflicts of interest are difficult to avoid in small communities with few lawyers, Brorby said. His firm in Gillette tried to avoid repre­ senting more than one party in a legal dispute by frequent meetings to discuss cases and by aiaintaining computerized lists of clients, he said. ’ If conflicts arose, they were resolved by recommending that one or more parties, find another lawyer to represent them, Brorby said. While conceding that he has not tried a federal case for , several years, Brorby said he has tried “at least two or three” cases in state courts in recent years, and has supervised many others. Brorr"* also discussed his role as chairman of the Wyoming Bar Association’s panel that reviews judicial conduct. In that time, the panel conducted its first henring to review a judge’s conduct, he said. “That individual is no longer a judge,” Brorby said. Before he headed the judicial review commission, many com­ plaints about judges were not in, vestigated or acted on properly, Brorby said. Simpson, who is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he sees “no problems” with Brorby’s record. “I think you presented yourself well and the record is clear on that,” he told Brorby. After the hearing, Brorby said he was not told to expect questions regarding the CCMH drug probe, but was not surprised that they came up. Brciby said his approach to resolving disputes on matters of federal law would be to “strive to do what Congress has (said) to do” in laws it passes. Many of the cases coming before the 10th circuit involve natural resource law, an area Brorby described “as still an area of de­ velopment” in terms of defining precisely how laws are to be inter­ preted? �topson precis Brorby confirmation i ' ______ n Qimnson said Simpson consideration said consideration oi oi wV/ndrewmelnykovycH-: Brorby’s nomination was delayed during the successive nominations of Robert Bork, Douglas Ginsburg h' WASHINGTON —Wyoming and Anthony Kennedy to the Republican Sen._Alan Simpson, is Supreme Court. nredicting quick confirmation tor At a judiciary committee hearing I fhe nomFnation of .GHkU^lawver Wednesday, Sen. Howell Heflin, Wade Brorby as a federal appeals D-Ala., questioned Brorby about court judged , the hospital drug inverligation. “1 know of no reason why (the Brorby said he, as the lawyer for nomination) shouldn’t go' ’'>8^^ CCMH board, assisted^ in the t out” to the full Senate from the , board’s investigation of illegal ; Senate Judiciary Committee, drug use at the hospital. Although Simpson said. Simpson is a mem­ the hospital’s investigator and ber of the committee that held Brorby’s law partner were in­ hearings on Brorby’s nomination volved in conducting a parallel grand jury probe, the two in­ Wednesday. Simpson said he knows of no vestigations were kept entirely committee members who have ob­ separate, Brorby said, L jections to Brorby’s appointment.. A lawsuit filed by former Questions about Brorby s role CCMH administrator Ed Frye in conducting a controversial drug alleges that Brorby and the hospi­ probe at Campbell Cdunty Me­ tal board, acting on information morial Hospital are . unlikely to leaked from the grand jury, forced block his confirmation, Simpson Frye to resign. Brorby is not nam. ed as a defendant in the lawsuit. i*^The conflict about the hospital Heflin’s questions’ centered on board is well-explained and he put Frye’s allegations. that to rest beautifully, Simpson The judiciary committee may vote on Brorby as early as next said «i Brorby faced a problem m a week, according to an aide to the failure tq understand how it is Senate committee. ..., '’ practicing law in a little communii ty in the West,” Simpson said. ' With very few lawyers, overlaps and potential conTicts are not unusual, Simpson said. Brorby was nominated in August by President Reagan to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th CircuitThe , court is based in Denyer, and in­ cludes Wyoming in its jurisdici tion. , Brorby’s appointment must be confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee and the full Senate. Star-Tribune Washington bureau �Tuesday, Feb. 2.1988 < j'^'^tar-Tjibune. Casper. Wyo ' concerned state’s ur" • ‘ «te s uranium market mav be h.„.f Cheyenne (ap^ /u ------- g I *n«nts must be made\n '""X “S’53««wi“.n,ani„™.. , '"ay be hurt posed trade P''^' .»i.H Canada to protect **‘h dustnes before i P?^f of U.S. Sen A c-’” supsaid Monday. — -^‘'‘Hpson,jif .so .0- „ make sure ate to ^.nstry is not hurt bv th"’^®*' "• Simpson said treaty, win!”’Wyoming ’ sisS'-s-J interview tnembers of the fute’c"®’ stonaJ deieeatinn s congresconcerned S h" Particularly <”■« which of the marketing advanlafe'^to C -^^^^iSmiHover WyomFni? ‘^^^^dian there‘ o/°h/°u"?a '‘^S^ in ■ 'Vj’omfaJ a*}?’ industry. " we can include some i may still be abl??o% got some real probMm '*'’ve together o”n 1 fist ua"ck '^''’ed are going tn ho * where we ‘ions of il^^be*'^y'i “>““0 po,“ Jjf not my intent tn c ® oertain‘«atyif iti ° ®nPPort that tain kev U'L .“^iHmental to cersense it to be righTnoi?-’ ®’’8ne w?th whers^Sco^’” Viners m Congress who - “i" th, ,ong’;™P®°?®n d. anyone is savino ./ ‘ ‘innk down the road if J® ^ears tbe restrictions’an/?«“ •????“*’ and things like thmJn farriers n would not be for tbZ "«s of the UmvJ'’%'’?« mterCanada,” he sa d nnd could get to work also ico-U s trori be”?'v^""cm think JouJd ’ a Mex-f next step. ® '^®cy important he conIi,’mld!’’»Ylu7 p ’"'’"^'ct.” Pon is to the peonL °^''«aresent and the indn J l^at you repWyoming work wiTaV^^ bring us back frnm ”■ **» tough economic time«?^i^^®-i/°08h’ uranium is the keyuj thal.”' �5 ,1 9 8 8 \ •' ■ tnont''® gtM due W ftW » ’^Jedne^'^g ^edex^' \ -Star-Tribun0<<^asper, Wyo. ; ' ■ Friday, Feb. i^=«b^SSa A s^;«sSsS^4i-«’*"^*’‘'°''’ \\ \ seuuX® i_eA.ui^®^^t,x^eTe -sox^,, OuxxxxS^. -ed P^^Xv'e axe^®^' t^lVy^xxS^^coxxxxo''®^^Anus --• \ \ \ \ sgtSS^f&ss-^-A \ ’^sgsSS-sSs-SiSS-" \^^5g2s2:_^ A dixxx^ • ----- . �-Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Friday, Feb. 5, 1988 Buffalo, N.Y., mayor touts Simpson as best presidential ‘non-candidate’ ; Maverick Democrat likes GOP prospects in election nTTcCATn MV ___ IVhrJ BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Who' is the best non-candidate of the 1988 presidential election? New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, right? Not according to the mayor of the state’s second largest city. Buffalo Mayor James Griffin, a Democrat, said Thursday he favors conservative Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyoming. “I’ve seen and heard of some of the things he’s done and tried to do and I think he’d be a great man for our country,” said Griffin, a mav­ erick Democrat, who briefly con­ sidered running against Cuomo as a Republican in the 1986 guberna­ torial election. Simpson has Harry Truman’s grit and humor, Griffin said during an interview at his city hall office. Simpson, 56, from Cody, is the minority whip in the Senate and is ■ known as a wise-cracking, “cowboy” senator. He is best known as the author of legislation to control the flood of^ illegal aliens into this country. With Minority Leader Robert ■brfMfe -TWWIBWI-................ Simn<;nn ALAN SIMPSON ‘He’d be great for our country* Dole running for president, Simp­ son has largely acted as Republi­ can leader in the Senate in his place. Kav Simpson Mnrv spokesman Mary Kay Hill said the senator was flattered by the mayor’s comments, but is interested only in being a senator. “His favorite response is that he ‘sniffs but doesn’t inhale,’ ” Hill said. Griffin said Cuomo has been a good governor, but that he is too liberal. “All the programs (he) wants have a price tag...everything you want to do usually has a dollar sig!’i connected to it,” he said. “Right now he could be the Democratic candidate,” Griffin said of Cuomo. “But (as a can­ didate) you have to face the peo­ ple. You have to take some nega­ tive comments as well as the pats on the back.” J Griffin said the Republican presidential candidates, particular­ ly Vice President George Bush and Dole, are in a stronger position than any of the Democrats. ' U.S. Rep. Jack Kemp, RN.Y., could still be a factor in the GOP race if his campaign catches on, Griffin said. Rnnkp<;man �Star-Tribune. Casper. Wyo •^^pson’s ®pefi<iu2g- ' ^Pending ’’’ore nn^ tion effn is coHecting®” SIMPSON Sho^ * £’ ed last - ?™woS s;;™'"'"" .how"?' con Sunday, Feb. 7 .1 9 8 8 ^OSt of th of iraijeS?"'"'®'. ’P the ia« u\/®Pords. P^ntpaien 19X7 tions f ’^eceived Si i-!'/-' ’he ■’W’SS’S , total 19X7 talividoaT S �Monday, Feb. 8, 1988 Star-Tribune. Casper, Wyo Simpson asks NLRB for prompt decision -Says Sheridan ‘wrecked apart’ by strike ^CHEYENNE (AP) — U.S. Sen. Al Simpson, citing the impact of a' 4-month-ol3 strike by Decker Coal Co. workers on Sheridan, has asked the National Labor Relations Board for a prompt decision on unfair labor practices charges filed against Die company. Simpson, in a letter dated Jan. 25 to James Stephens, NLRB chairman, said he believed a deci­ sion on charges filed by the United Mine Workers would help with the situation in btieridan. “The community ... has been deeply affected, literally wrecked apart, by this labor dispute, and a prompt decision by the (NLRB) would surely assist all concerned,” the Wyoming Republican wrote. “1 have no desire to ‘take sides’ in this labor-management dispute, but I am so very concerned that the situation is having a profoundly unsettling and devastating effect on the community and all ,of its fine citizens.” About 250 UMW members have been on strike from Decker’s southern Montana coal mines 1 since Oct. 1, when contract negotiations Collapsed. Decker is a i. joint venture of Peter Kiewit Sons ! and Nerco Inc. , Gov. Mike Sullivan has also L asked the NLRB to reach a deci- Mon quickly on UMW charges that Pecker violated the National Labor Relations Act Simpson .....called .....— for a ,prompt ------ rhearing and decision in the “long simmering and bitter labor dispute.” ‘‘I would appreciate your mak­ ing every possible sincere effort to decide this case at the earliest possible time,” he wrote. “It is so critical.” ., AL SIMPSON Strike has ‘devastating effect* �TW! -Star-Tribune. Casper, Wyo. Friday, Feb. 12,1988 State’s congressional delegation gets liiglx marks from U.S. Chamber of Coimnerce analysis by the f\^ting and U.S, Sen. Alan Simp­ — An son a 71 percent rating. The ratTJ S. Chamber of Commerce put ings were based on 18 votes in the all three members of Wyoming’s Senate, a chamber press release Congressional delegation at the forefront of the struggle for “free says. enterprise and continued economic' U.S. Rep. Dick Cheney earned expansion.” a 93 percent rating basecT on 15 vote.s in the House, the release The chamber’s analysis, based says. upon votes the group considers But in another survey announc­ “key to the continuation of the ed this week, conducted by the nation’s longest period of peace­ Americans for Democratic Action, time prosperity,” gave U.S. Sen. Malcolm Wallop an 80 percent Wallop was pegged as having one Jasper of tiic woisl voillig iccoidb ill the Senate on liberal issues. The ADA’.s subjective analysis of 20 Senate and 25 House votes showed both chambers posting averages of more than 50 percent, meaning each supported ADz^ positions more than half the time. Wallop, Wyoming’s seniot senator, received a zero in (he ADA survey. Simpson scored 10 in the survey, while Cheney, the state’s lone representative, reccivei a 4. �Sunday. Feb. 14, 19M New ^LsH,NOTON Stai-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. proposes major immigration eliaiiges ,NVT, - Senate’s two leading experts on immigration policy have agreed on a new bill that would make major changes in the system for deciding who can legally immigrate to the United States. The bill, a compromise between Sens. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Alan Simpson,_ R-Wyo., woulcfestablish an overall limit on legal immigration of 590,000 peo­ ple a year, that is about 80,000 above the current level. Under current law, certain types of im­ migrants are subject to a numerical limit but other types, include im­ mediate relatives of United States citizens, are not. Under the bill, a larger propor- on o, selected on the basis of occupa­ tional skills rather than ties. The new proportion would be 20 percent, up from the current 10 percent. , , , Kennedy said he expected the bill to facilitate immigration from countries in Western Europe that he dfescribed as “the older sources of immigration.’’ Kennedy, whois chairmau of the Jiidiciary Sub­ committee on Immigration, has taken a particular interest in the Irish. But other Europeans feel they, too. Were placed at a disad­ vantage by a 1965 immigration law. That law, which was strongly supported by Kennedy, abolished for issuing visas and setting quotas on immigrants. Under the new bill drafted by Kennedy and Simpson, the gov­ ernment would select 55,000 im­ migrants each year with a point system meant to identify aliens who could bcot contribute to the American economy. Points would be awarded on the basis of age, education, occupational training, work experience and English lan­ guageskills. , The bill is to be considered this week by the Judiciary Committee. Rep. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., has introduced a similar bill in the House. “It is not going to be easy, but it is possible that we could Kennedy said the bills “pick up where we left off in 1986, v,hc'u Congress approved a cornpreher! sive measure to combat illi.:'nl immigration. That law peru’li ■ ( "> employers who hire illegal ahi a; and offers legal status to maio d legal a'ieiis who are already in d" United Stales, but offered ahn-rt nothing for millions of pcop<c around the world who want to emigrate legally to the UniP d States. Simpson, who is the ' * Senate Republican leader, si about 90 percent of lego migrants qualified lor.ua �Sunday. Feb. 14, 1988 Slat-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Simpson: Powder^i^ River coal inwortani ( Hy GILLETTE (AP) — Coal from ^"Avvoinjug's Powder River Basin_ will play a major role m the coun­ try’s energy economy, according tn 11 S Sen. Alan Simpson^ Simpson, speaking in Gillette on i last week, said the size of reserves I in the basin alone make it impor{ tant in energy. ! “It can’t help but be big with i these reserves,’’ he said. “This is a 1 great place, this is a known locai tion on every energy map in the i world. I foresee big things, i especially if we finish the acid rain debate and the nuclear power i debate rages on.’’ ■ The Wyoming Republican repeated his calls for a national energy policy and noted that the greatest part of foreign energy imi ported by the United States comes 1 from Canada. j “Nobody knows what the t results of the U.S.-Canada trade agreement will be, or the i on the oil industry,’’ h^ said. It ■, might not be too good. It s cert tainly a death kneU for the uianium industry.” �Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Thursday, Feb. 18,1988 Senate confirms Brorby federal appeals court;^ , the irSTS^nate Tuesday nff£ Simpson and • confi/mation in issued^.^SX'Xs&XV" ’ fpsitgsas SSpiESsSSS ■ said ’ grace and civility.” in/S^SSd the for. Wad./’Simpson P^^^^ss witli great patience, ‘=‘’™'^"ded Judge Barrett for serv- tinue to hear cases as a '‘SoTjI,7ge/‘^O"’ ‘ �-star-Tribune. Casper, Wyo Dole rips Bush in Casper visit Kansas senator withholds support for oil import fee r.iv DANIEL WISEMAN 4 . - ' Star-Tribune staff writer CASPER — Republican presidential candidate Sen. Bob Dole said here Sunday “there is no sign of George Bush jn Wyoming,” charging the vice president is a regional candidate who “cannot win” his party’s nomination. However, Dole, who made his fifth trip to Wyoming in the last year Sunday, still hedged on the issue of an oil import fee to boost domestic production, saying “I would support an oil import fee under certain conditions, (but) I’m not advocating one.” Dole said he plans to meet the vice president “head on,” in an apparent get-tough policy with Bush, who Dole aides concede ambushed their candidate last Tuesday in the New Hampshire primary with a series of stinging television commercials. Top associates of the -Kansas , senator said Dole will not resort to “name-calling” with his chief rival for the nomination, but they added it is a “tough race” and “you can ' call what goes on between can­ didates what you will.” “This is a rough and tumble business and' 1 am not going to be intimadated by any of the Bush people,” Dole said. “...So the answer is we are going to meet every charge head on. And we have been alerted through New '■ Hampshire as to what to be ’ prepared for and we are already planning in those areas.” Dole charges that the vice presi­ dent has “given up” on Wyoming, South Dakota and Minnesota — all key campaign stops before March 8’s Super Tuesday, when 20 states, primarly in the South, select delegates. “So where is George Bush?” Dole said. “He may run from the West and the Midwest, but he can’t hide in the South. Twill challenge him in every southern state, but George may be in for n big sur­ prise: Super Tuesday is not a southern primary. More than half the delegates will be chosen out­ side the Deep South.” Monday, Feb. 22.1988 With almost every major na­ tional media outfit descending upon Wyoming Sunday to follow the candidate on stops in Casper, Worland and Cody, Dole made what probably will be his final pitch to Wyoming Republicans — who will select 11 delegates to the national convention on or before March 5. However, 110 miles per hour winds forced the Dole campaign plane to scrub his visit to Cody, but made the scheduled stop in Worland. Dole sidestepped a question as to whether he would face Bush in upcoming debates in Georgia and Tennessee before Super Tuesday, but campaign staffers say negotia- • tions are underway to have Dole participate head to head with the vice presidient. Asked whether his campaign also has targeted certain states. Dole said, “we have not made any I decision to pull out of any state j just because you think you might lose.” Dole said his campaign “may have some announcements to make in the next few day,s” in­ dicating he still plans to fight in states such as South Carolina and Texas where the vice president is ' seen to have a clear advantage. Dole said the most important issue of the campaign is lead­ ership. “^ho do you want to see sitting across from (Soviet Leader) Mikhail Gorbachev?” he asked. Dole told a breakfast gathering of about 150 people in Casper that he does not “advocate” raising taxes, adding that efforts to balance the federal budget deficit must be made on the spending and not on the revenue side. A presidential “line-item” veto and a balanced-budget amendment also are supported by Dole to ad­ dress the deficit problem. Dole said criticism leveled against Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson for not suppoiting’ciim-* paign reform is unjustified. “He is trying to put together campaign reform,” Dole said. “Don’t get carried away by that little thing called S2. If you want to destroy the Republican Party and turn it over to labor unions, you better support S2. That’s designed to put us out of busi­ ness... A lot of people say to me. ‘Why don’t you support campaign reform — it says so right in the ti­ tle.’ If we could sell everything about reform just by putting it in the title, we got it made.” Dole said the proposed cam­ paign reform bill called S2 would result in “public financing” of campaigns. It also would cap spending that would ‘‘put the Re­ publican Party out of business in the South where Democrats out­ number Republicans five to one,” he said. As for an oil import fee. Dole said prices perhaps should be stabilized at a minimum of $19 a barrel. He added that he believes the oil business is “split down the middle” on whether an oil import fee is needed. “We are not talking about any $10 fee that George Bush keeps peddling around the country,” Dole said. “We’re talking about a price of $19 a barrel, so the fee would be $1.50 or $1.60. And even under those conditions, we would have a credit or a rebate for heating oil.” Dole has done well in unofficial preference polls in Wyoming county precinct caucuses, gaining victories in two of three counties that directly will select a delegate to the national* convention.. He also has swept the other Republi­ can straw polls that have been taken. �Star-Tribune. Casper, Wyo. Thursday, Feb. 25.1988 GOP senators protest fellow senator’s arrest Simpson, Byrd agree to end filibuster WASHINGTON (AP) — Re­ nounced Wednesday night after publicans complained of “banana droning debate replaced earlyrepublic” tactics Wednesday after morning anger. armed Capitol police broke into Byrd and Simpson agreed late GOP Sen. Bob Packwood’s lock­ Wednesday to end the sometimes ed office, arrested him and hauled bitter talkathon at 5 p.m. Thurs­ him feet-first into the Senate day, some 51 hours after it began chamber in the early hours of a and with the two sides still round-the-clock filibuster. deadlocked. On a motion, by Senate Majority The two leaders also set a 10 Leader Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., a.m. Friday vote on a Democratic Sergeant at Arms Henry Giugni cloture petition to shut off debate was handed warrants for the arrest and force a vote on campaign fi­ of absent Republican senators, nancing legislation that Republithus forcing them to answet a « cans say would hurt their election quorum call. Without a quorum chances. the Senate would have to adjourn In a statement issued Wednes­ and_pemocrats pushing campaign day, Simpson said the Republicans finance legislation would lose their will “continue the debate for as leverage over Republican oppo­ long as it takes,” nents. Simpson vowed to “insure a full Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming debate on the issue of campaign has been leading the Republican finance reform. filibuster against the Democrats’ “That includes full use of the campaign financing bill. Simpson, procedural rules that were design­ who is the assistant minority lead­ ed to protect the rights of the mi­ er, is filling in for Sen. Robert nority,” he said. “Are we ready? Dole of Kansas while Dole , is on You betcha.” the presidential campaign trail. Democrats will fail in an effort The Senate’s round-the-clock to cut off debate on Friday, Simp­ filibuster will end Thursday after­ son predicted. They have failed noon, the chamber’s leaders an­ j seven times already, he said. ' “The American people should - know that they arc witnessing the i arbitrary use of power by the ma­ jority,” Simpson said. ! Simpson called for an end to i all-night sessions, suggesting that ! the Senate move on to other busi­ ness while negotiators for both parties seek a compromise. The “arrest” of absent senators “demonstrated the tyranny of the majority,” he said. “It denigrates the whole system.” Simpson was at the Capitol all Iuesday night, and was expected to continue his all-night vigil Wed­ nesday night, aides said. Fellow Wyoming Republican Sen. Malcolm Wallop has also participated in the filibusici. speaking once during the day 1 uesday. It was after midnight, more than 10 hours after the filibuster began, when Giugni and five armed plainclothes Capitol policemen began stalking Senate hideaways .and senators’ suites in nearby of­ fice buildings. I Giugni found several senators’ offices emp'y but saw Sen. Steve ;Symms, R-ldaho, running down a ‘hallway to escape arrest. Then in an extraordinary incident that the i Senate historian said had not oc­ curred since 1942, Giugni used a passkey to unlock Packwood’s of­ fice door. Bob Witeck, a spokesman for the Oregon Republican, said Packwood resisted and somehow jammed a finger he had broken two weeks ago in a fall. “He tried to hold the door closed with his shoulder, but they were able to push it open,” Witeck said. “1 had to shove in the door to get into his office,” said Giugni, a stocky Army veteran of World War 11 and former vice squad po­ liceman in Honolulu. “1 think he hurt his finger. He was very cour­ teous.” �■wr. ....... .. n ’I’* Si* t S J ■S^^Trllwne, Caspy^Ji^ - ’ '&■ 1888. - lt.'.l?,v’USf -1 • • Just then he did not,” Bird responded, “Just flow he us-^^ijed the personal pronoun ‘you.’ ” j “Mr. President, 1 do not need lican attempt to jalk the meaweV " ■ _ ‘ to- death. , “i.-l1 years,” Simpson replied. .... «.<«..□ ,u, The Byrd-Sippson discussion on , “The legislation calls for volun-^ t O l*X7 Iceilings tary ft n o on Senate w* campon 3 whom, and who fspending that range from S950,00ol ,other “ aspects to $5.5 million; .depending on P®cts of the filubuster, state’s population. The bill wouiaf.,-*^‘. at considerable length, I also prohibit, a. participating can-Si ^despite ”**"''**’ protestations by both men I didate from receiving ^orethan/^i _ 3 were not interested in <1 percent percent of of ’campaign? campaign, funds fund' from b= ‘debating the issue. It fills three I special-interesCpoliUcal SDecial-interesi'-’ nAiitinai action onrik;,"! pages, of the ,)Congressional Ry- : - ! i! j ■,” committees.*.' ■ - l^rd. < Earlier in the morning, Simpson tT' In 1986, more’ ihah; 200 Hoiise’ ._: . he- does not .. “enjoy employing I and Senate candjdates r-^jnost^pf? ■ said f them incumbentsrreceived, mpre^ these tactics,” but that the Demo­ I than half their campaign money'; crats’ uncompromising stance on ’ from political action committees.*‘’i the campaign financing bill offers I ,-Early Wednesday morniM, v. the GOP no other choice. .^ Simpson and Byrd'conductedffaT4 VI want at least ... to disclose what benumbed members of the ’..lengthy debate over iyhether Byrd| to V’*' ’®* Oenumbed had been in chamber when Sinm- j publ lie (that) can ^3* son directed some comments to| pdssibly be watching that we have ALAN SIMPSON him. Byrd contended he was notj had a most feckless exerci.se and Led filibuster present, whil^ Simpson insisted he f that is w,hy we have fecklessly gone to 3 o’clock and will fecklessly go tary maneuvering have produce^, ’ one point in the discussioq, ; on to 10 o’clock,” he said. Simpson discussed the campaign frayed tempers and at one poirii K asked that Simpson be 1 led to some angry exchanges be- ’’’ directed to refer to him (Byrd) in; financing bill itself in a speech he tween Simpson and Majority: third person, as Senate rules? delivered Wednesday afternoon. ,Campaign financing reform is Leader Robert Byrd, D-Va. " require. . Wyoming Sen. Malcolni WalW^?*^ do That, SimpsQp needed, he said. The bill pushed by the Demolop also participated in the Renut>3,f U said. v-iFTfeJl K crats limits only spending by can________ __ • • does" • didates, but not loyver the H amount that can be contributed by political action committees fc (PACs), Simpson said. “That cannot be,” he said. *#Uhat is not called fairness.” y^\.The limit bn PAC contributions •s Eto a single campaign should be cut f from $5,000 to $1,000, Simpson * ;|smd. '■■■'W-' f t Wallop criticized the DemocratM?! I “ IC' leadership for limiting the ot> 4 , i, portunities for Republicans to * . ivktenpt to amend the measure." 'X : ■5; Senate ends 53-hoiir :filibnst^ By ANDREW MELNYKOVYCH Jji^r-tribune \Vashington hureaiyx. Washington — The jjJ; >cnate ended 53 hours of coninuous and sometimes icrimonious debate over campaign inancing reform Thursday, leav- . ng Democrats no closer to victory ban when the filibuster began on . I tiesday. ‘ An agreement between Demo­ rats and stubborn Republicans tided the talking at 7 p.m., setting p a Friday vote on a Democratic loture motion to force a vote on heir campaign legislation. The ’ \ssociated Press reported. I he Democrats have the votes to ass the bill, but virtually no hope if mustering the 60 needed to win be cloture roll call. The expected ;, ss coukl scuttle the divisive issue, rr the 100th Congress. GOP Assistant Minority Leader •It. Alan Siinpson_of Wyoming !i F;"t'n""lcading“the filibuster ainst the bill in the absence of stale Minority Leader Robert lie of Kansas; who is out on the I siiicmial campaign trail. ! he long hours and parliamen- j l j While limiting a candidaie’.s campaign spending, the bill does nothing to limit cam-aign-rclaicd efforts by labor unions or othci groups not tied to a candidate. Wallop said. The bill’s proposal to spend tax money to finance campaigns is also unacceptable, he said. Democrats are interested not in meaningful campaign reform, but in a “surrender” by Senate Repub­ licans, Wallop said. “. All, over America, allies of the majority party are putting lies in the papers, -------- ----------------some’illegal, ' in =- the form of ads .from Common Cause. the one who spent more than any other lobby in America last year, seeking to assure their interests, but no one else’s,” Wallop charg­ ed. Common Cause ads critical of Simpson and Wallop have ap peared in several Wyoming news­ papers, including the Star-lribune. Wallop also blasted “Ralph Nader’s cute litle group. Public Citizen’s Congress Watch” for aiticles it has placed in the cdilorii'l pages of newspapers, again in eluding the Star-Tribune. The groups seek not “a cltani > election process,” but only “po'v er and power alone in the Aincii can political process, to weerl out any, other voice that Americans may seek,” Wallop said. Wallop also bUslpd Bytd h>r ' ■ ■ «s “putting pride, pot principle the guiding force of t|ie semue. “I ihope that somehow or another, out of all of this there is the ■ realiration that the public’s business is more important than the pride of a single individual who seeks only a victory and is willing to go to any extent to achieve it,” he said. , �Michigan congressman says NLRB ‘one-sided’ Levin stumps for Gephardt in Sheridan f^By JIM NEWSOM proximately 200 United Mine Workers of America Locals 1972 and 2055 in attendance at the mor­ ning session. SHERIDAN — The National Labor Relations Board under the The congressman’s remarks were Reagan administration has been pertinent to the union’s pending “rigged” and has become “one­ NLRB unfair-labor practices com­ sided’’against labor unions, a plaint against Decker Coal and Michigan congressman told strik­ parent companies Peter RTewit ing Decker miners here Saturday. Sons and Nerco Inc. U.S. Representative Sandy Although Levin said both he and Levin, D-Michigan, speaking on Gephardt empathize with the strik­ behalf of Presidential contender ing miners, he stopped short of Rep. Richard Gephardt, Dpledging to pressure the NLRB to Missoufl^ said Gephardt would hear and act upon the union’s complaint. change the board’s makeup should he be elected to the nation’s highe­ Wyoming Congressman Dick st office. Cheney and U.S. Senator Alan K.' “The NLRB has been rigged by Simpson recently wrote letters to i this President against the workers the NLRB urging immediate action of America, and under Dick on the matter. ! Gephardt, that’s going to be un­ Levin, one of 80 congressmen rigged, and you’re going to have a criss-crossing the nation on behalf fair crack at things under the of Gephardt’s campaign, said Gephardt administration beginning Reagan has given the country a i in 1989,” Levin, a former Detroit “dog-eat-dog” message concern­ ing labor-management and the I labor lawyer said. “AU you are rights of labor. i asking for is respect ... for a fair shake.” “The message of the Reagan administration has been if a person “The trouble with the NLRB stand.s up for their rights, crush under this Reagan administration ’em! crush ’em! crush ’em!,** is that it’s totally one-sided,” Levin said. Levin continued. “Reagan put on Levin said federal and state there as appointees people who labor laws were designed to pro­ ! thought the more you can do-in tect the rights of unions to orga­ labor organizations, the better off is America. They’ve got it nize and bargain, and that the backwards. Reagan administration has con­ sistently attempted to thwart “The businesses that work best are those that understand that the ■ prevailing labor statutes. most important aspect of their ‘‘What this administration decided to do was if they couldn’t shop or mine is their employees,” Levin said. change the law, they were going to choke it,” Levin said. “We need a . Levin’s comments drew a strong round of applause from the ap­ new President and a new NLRB.” Star-Tribune correspondent eo; s o>i 00 i cm' �-Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Sunday. Feb. 28,1988 Senators: Our votes aren’t ‘rubber stamps’ I By Aiy>REW MELNYKOVYCH Star-Tribune Washington bureau It WASHINGTON — Sens. Alan Simpson and Malcolm Wallop sav that differences in their voting records should not be used to conclude that one of them is doing a better job of representing Wyoming in Washington. ;_____ _ _______ ' The two Republicans were on opposite sides of about one of every five votes cast in the Senate in 1987. But their similar positions on more than eighty percent of the votes far outweigh their differences, they said. “We are basically voting the way the people of Wyoming would have us vote,” Simpson said. “1 read my mail.” Wallop said the voters in Wyoming would be more concerned if he and Simpson had identical and “monolithic” voting records. “The state doesn’t elect rubber stamps,” he said. “People don’t vote for you to be precisely the same (as the other), but to exercise judgment.” The differences between his record and Simpson’s reflect “some basic philosophical differences” and “honest differences of opin­ ion,” Wallop said. Simpson, who is the assistant GOP leader, is also under more pressure to vote the party line on major issues. Wallop added. But Wyoming also benefits from Simpson’s being in a leadership role in the Senate, he said. A comparison of voting records does not indicate whether one senator or the other is more “in touch” with Wyoming, Simpson and Wallop said. Wallop, who is seeking a third term this year, has been criticized as “out of touch” by Democratic challengers John Vinich and Peter Maxfield. Simpson dismissed the “out of touch” charge as “the keening cry of the challenger — and it doesn’t matter whether it’s a Democrat or Republican.” “In my 56 years of living in Wyoming, it has come up with every single representative that went to Washington,” he said. “It’n the way we are built in Wyoming, and it will always be there.” / Voting record comparisons can be a “feckless exercise” with the outcome determined largely by “who’s keeping score,” Simpson said. “It’s important that these votes be presented to Wyoming,” he said. “But I don t think (you can say) that one of us is representing Wyoming better than the other.” �•> '!,* fj'i’ifekv.'*' (^allop^ Simpson agree on sJWyoj^i^ues By ANDREW MELNYKOVYCH ■■■;-* '■ ' - , ' « coiisit^Jtions -L , JSe 19?rvotes'Tiiustrate differ^T^NDREW MELNYKOVYCH ing approaches to government . Star-'i'nbune Star-'J ribune Washington bureau f\ i? A nnivcic also prompted wallopKSff^pose . H\ < ' /Analysis M the nomination of WiHlam Verity V 'Regulation of individual conduct. WACUlwrTrtM «z.______ ‘ ’ 4 'J 1___________ „ . r ^Iiiy K WASH1NGT(5 — Wyoming ' they have in the past, Wallop _____ _____________________ J...to... become,„^eg-rtary of Comand. Simpson took opposing views fe Republicans Malcolm Wallop and In itcent years. Wallop has j^njerce.'Vetity & tdb willinglb do Alan Simpson agreed about four on government funding of abor­ received higher, ratings from the? business with the Soviet Union, J times as often as they disagreed on tions for indigent women. Wallop American Conservative Union, Wallop Said. ' -* f votes cast in the Senate in 1987. ? * sometimes receiving ■,.ky,iviiig a pcii.cvi perfect iiiaiN/'t mark ' Wallop consistently^-Rjppqsed ' .favors a ban on federal funding of abortions in most circumstances Although relatively infrequent, tin the - group ; s)''' Conversely, --'..,’,-...*.7, V; J.; attempts * VV...Q1 VS" . ’ ’s-ratings. to exercise anyicofiigres\ those disagreements, as Wallop Wallop often gets a zero .rating . . . oy®fsigbt ot^ control over . while Simpson, while personally opposed,to abortion, feels that a ■ acknowledges, reveal “some basic from the liberal Americans for ”»’ military •••U.S? action in the Persian f philosophical differences’’ and iJOemocratie A^qn. woman has the right to choose ■ Gulf, to ‘ the - extent of voting ; > i"honest differences of opinion.’’ eno terminate-a-pregna.^. Simpson hai usually/received a , against ja resolution'asking a H In a vote involving Vererans i But both men insist that the difslightly higher rating ‘ from the f report dn costs of the naval ucbrt Administration, employees^ Wal­ , ferences in their voting records in ADA and a somewhat lo^er mark - of Kuwaiti tankers; / V ( 1987 — or any other year from the ACU^ However, he still Simpson said hfe votes on the! lop supported expanded random ?' should not be used to conclude tanks ittabng'^“thie more cdnker*! Persian Gylf issuet were governed t testing of employees for evidence of illegal drug use, while Simpson ' that one or the other is doing a . xative niemben of the Senate ‘ in part, by his role as a memb^of better job of representing Wyo/Th®authoritative' = National the GOP leadership. As mino^ty 1 opposed the expanded tesii jming’s interests in the Senate. Simpson ba spending fed­ Journal, which rates’senators.on a ,I_ whip. Simpson 05, the Senate’s scale^^ has|? second-rMklng Republican. ’ ' i eral funds to supply a life­ jj In fact, many of the votes 'bn ,< liberal-bbnservative: ^ale^^ which Wallop and Simpson dif­ Tated Wallop as somewh^ mdre^? Reaching some compromise on ■ prolonging drug to AIDS patients fered last year involved legislation conservatiye than Simpson In re-il® « Congressional role in setting pol- ; who cannot otherwise pay for the having little or nothing to do with cent years,' especially on social and L.icy in the Persian Gulf was the only i ’ * medication. ' Wallop opposed the funding. : Wyoming. On measures directly foreign policy issues. j; . *5 Awy to put an end to what threat! affecting Wyomihg, they usually On foreign* policy matters, ’ ened to become an endl^ debate, f I voted the same way. ' Simpson has generally supported Simpson said.■ Most of the issues on which the Reagan administration. ‘ Wal­ His leadership role - also Simpson and Wallop took oppos­ lop has become identified with a restricted Simpson Ut) ' votes ing positions fell into three broad grotip of GOP ultra-conservatives, relating to government spending. • areas foreign affairs, govern­ the most prominent among them As a result. Wallop app^ed to be ment spending, and social issues. ’ Jesse Helms of North Carolina, 1 ‘ a stauncher fiscal cdnservative. The differences of philosophy who deeply distrust the career dip- j/t t Many^f the bills setting appro- . and opinion are few in comparison lomats at the State Department. ■ • 4 priations or fiscal priorities are to the matters on which Wallop r The foreign, policy differences r carefully crgfted compromises Mpand Simpson agree. Neverthelessi emerged several times in 1987. j proved by traders of both parties. '' Wallop emerges as more’consef- 1 Wallop voted h against lhe apWallop' said '" h^ faces less ’ vative than Simpson. pointment of two career diplomats pressure than Simpson to stick to That impression is supported by to ambassadorships in world fe the party line on such votes; Often voting record analyses conducted trouble spots, largely because he tRte; did? not, "voting against the by both liberal and conservative viewed theni a| too willing to deal s, ycar-erid deficit reduction package , interest groups, ^s well as impar* j with Marxist; regimesi ' Simpson well as many of the individual tial observers. voted forboth nominees.1" ' spending bills that preceded itJJ F s n �Simpson, ?W^op split pn^l< in 5 yot^ b/andrew MELNYKOVYCH Slat-Tribune Washington bureau tf 't —i-On’’tetf^'6a3siotis^;W^^ »1 g 1^1116 289 voies'-inciuded lfttncT^’vdtcd with the minority igahtst J niajor spendmg bills4hat SSmpsdd j survey, Wallp^and Simpson vpted opposite wa)^ 54 times (18.7 ^r-j s^ported,’#includiiig??the two / WASHINGTON — Sens.' Alan cent.) In 43 of those Cases (14.9];' measures making tip the ?4enclti Simpson and Malcolm Wallop percent), Simpson was on the win- .V r^uctioh package enacted at the look opposing positions on^ about ' ; ning side, while Wallop was on the f end of the year. one ouf of e.verv five votes taken in , losing side. Eleven times (3.8 per­ • Wallop backed, while Simp; T the Senafelast yeaiT’**-’*.-* cent) Wallop was on the winning i son opposed, an effort to end the ' The Wyoming Republicans side andt Simpson on the losing h Essential Air Service program, j voted differently on issues in­ ;>vside. A. ■ , which guarantees continued air cluding the year-end deficit reduc­ Simpson add Wallop voted the service to rural cornmuiiities, in­ tion package,' air service to small ; " same way 235 times (81.3 percent). ____ _______ cluding several in Wyoming. Wai- : communities, relief for the , ' _____ ■ ■ _ side, ■ ’ ,"but " ai j f?" They were on the winning side 160/ lop was on ?:_' the; winning homeless, clean water and confir- ! ; times (55.4 percent). Of those idO’ House-Senate conference' later ? ’ mation of American ambassadors j restored the EAS program, * f to Pakistan and Mozambique. ! ■; Votes, 49 were tmanimous,jy\ahd another 17 saw only one or two ' • Wallop was .one ; Or hhie ’ ‘ When they voted the same way, 1 senatorsvotingintheminprity.- ' y senators voting not to reauthorize ;^Uthc ’ " Wallop and Simpson were on the , In 75 instances (25,9 percent), * the Federal Trade Tr^e Corhmissbn Cornmission {uid winning side about twice as often Wallop and Simpson voted T one of only two senatorsSdfing as they were on the losing side. together on the losing side of an I1— ’"i"-* a « measure mancnrA to tn bail hail out/the,. out*the against issue;^ When they voted togetherv / Federal Savings and/ ■— But' when th^y took opposite on the losing'side. Wallop and : ? sUranceCorp.' J ' positions, Simpson was on the ' wtnning*sid«4^F^in’ea^^teiT asl Simpsoii usually had plenty of i • Simpson backed a measure to ? establish uniform energy efficic^y ( 1 Wallop. ; .< company. Standards for home : apphant^-j Only j^red/times 7- two votes The Star-Tribune exammed the IE relating to the controversial high- ?^allop was one Of ^nate voting ^cords as Usted in 1I way bill and/the' nutu ywe v» final vote on Mpose the bill. ' ?'5 . Congressional Quarterly W eekly renewng *'thi^’ special prosecutor * Three times Simpson backed Reiwrt, an authoritative weregth^wo?, Wyoming succesful efforts to increase conWashington publication. ^blication. Included inclufled i? Opnnhlirans Republicans tn m a minoritv minority of fewer gressional oversight of U.S. naval « hh^20senators. the Persian Gulf^ operations in the Persian Gulf4; • Simpson voted to confirm William Verity as Secretary of Commerce.'Wallop voted against Verity. He also voted against nominees for ambassadorships in Pakistan anCT Mozambique, while Simpson supported them. • Wallop supported, while Simpson opposed, an unsuccesful attempt to sharply restrict feder­ ally funded abortions in the District of Columbia. ;■ • Wallop voted to prohibit the acquisition of an officiaTrcsidence for the Secretary of State. Simp­ son was on the losing side of ihe 48-47 vote. " ; ‘ * • Simpson unsuccesfully op­ posed a plan to establish the na­ tion’s first nuclear; waste repository ’ in Nevada. Wallop backedthe plan. * -'■p' < ? m ; "Senators participated t»r, if,jhey did gjnjpjomjjf^jed ii^luded: # J s •Wallop Wallop backed, backed, and and Simpson Simpson not (^st a vote, annoynced a posi• whether^io renew the Qcan. fi opposed, unsuccessful efforts to j .... /, j^, s *> jf K)Vater Act. whic^ includes j^n-^ declare that Mexico and■ the i' / The survey excluded wtes on WstruCtion grants^ foir municipal'^ Bahamas have not cooperated with ' procedural matters' and multiple fesewage treatraetrf’facilities. Simp^ American drug enforcement efI votes on identical issues, such as F son voted for the legislation and to MforU. ^^ Wallop also supported a pfwhether toic«»tiff>ilahate,sin.aibill4ii override Pit^ident Reagan’s veto, r Tgile^ effort .Xo/. har JLI,Sy ,trade . I before the Senate, li) cases whereof/ Wallop yoted'against the bill and^; jj(fmjuAngola...t; ■' '■ ' ' i ian identical issue was considered j to sustaiif’ lhe veto. The measure ; Lmore than once, only the last vote “ became law dver Reagan’s veto ?• taken muaq in31iiderf-.tn a the ’ Star• - SimDSOII Simpson '- SUDDOrtcd. supported, / W while | taken was inCludedRio \the StatWallop opposed, legislation lo. I f i Tribune survey. » provide emergency funds to aid tte s homeless.bill passed. ■ �Tuesday, March 1,1988 Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Simpson U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson said Mon­ day he supports a top-to-bottom review of the U.S. Olympic movement in light of the na­ tion’s performance at the Winter. Olympics; i VThe Americans’ performance — just six medals — was theworst in more than 50 years. Not since 1936, when there were only 17 events compared with 46' this year, had America won fewer medals. It walked' away, from those Games at Garmisch with four medals. Four years ago in Sarajevo, the United StateS won eight medals, and it equaled its alltime high in 1980 at Lake Placid with 12. \ Simpson, in a telephone in­ terview with Wyoming reporters, said the nation’s Olympic programs need a tough review. ' < “I think that we can’t com­ pete in intemat^on^; athleti^ anymore ''with ’ mateurs.'i. fiutl boy we sure as heck could com­ pete with them as pros?’, he said. “I’d love to turn some of our NHL hockey league people into that net with any of those Olympic teams because they’re pros. “You don’t think the Soviet Union Olympic team is a bunch of pros? They feed' them and groom them and take care of them. That’s the way it is,’’ the Republican continued., “So I think we’re going tohave reappraise that. I, really., do. Unless we just want to go along and pretend that it’s just people of various countries gathering together to compete. And that’s not the way it is. These East Germans and the Soviets, they’re pros. We ought, to reassess it.” 4< £ �■Star-Tribune. Casper, Wyo. Wednesday, March 2,1988 Simpson staffer at i ^Sheridan meeting * ’ V^SHERl DAN — Leta Tanne-, U.S. Sen. Alan K, Simpson’s northeastern Wyoming field representative, will hold constituent meetings here from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. today at the Sheridan YMCA Reading Room. Individuals needing assistance concerning federal government matters are urged to attend the ses­ sion. �-Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo, Thursday, March 3,1988 Higher park fees will return to park @ CHEYENNE Crease in «""®,"park will go right stone_N2ii2!i^;Srnot affect its ESrwTH^^jT^ecording to U.S.Sen.AlS^^Jig^nc inter^‘"'P'TMSkday there apparent• view, said M • j-jerstanding at ■, handled. g„ to the in.‘We’re going to ke^P ger: tent, which fees, were vice’s fees, the en^ going to go up an rcentage do.” he said. �•Tribune. Casper, Wyo. ' Tuesday, March 8,1988 Simpson journeys to Soviet Union n, 5) WASHINGTON — Sem 'Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., and five other senators are in Moscow this week for a series of meetings with top Soviet officials. The other senators making the trip include Democrats Alan Cranston of California, Carl Levin of Michigan, and Sam Nunn ' of Georgia, and Republicans William Cohen of Maine and John Warner of Virginia. They are expected to meet with Communist Party First Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, Foreign Minister Eduard Schevardnadze, Defense Minister Marshal Sergei •Akhromeyev, and former Am­ bassador to the United States Anatoli Dobrynin. �Thursday, March 10,1988 Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. U.S.-Canada pact could kill off uranium industry in U.S. Imports played big role in forcing U.S. plants to close, critics claim ’ By ANDREW MELNYKOVYCH By Star-Tribune Washington bureau WASHINGTON — The pen­ ding U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement could kill off what lit­ tle is left of the American uranium industry, critics of the pact said Wednesday. Robert Luke, president of the Uranium Producers of America, told the House energy and power subcommittee that imports of Ca­ nadian uranium have “played a major role in forcing our uranium industry out of business. “It’s not strictly the Canadian production that has caused the demise of the U.S. industry, but i it’s been a large contributor,” Luke said. The trade pact is simply another manifestation of the Reagan ad­ ministration’s unwillingness to take steps to protect the domestic uranium industry, as required by federal law, he said. Domestic uranium production and employment in the uranium industry have declined drastically in the last five years, Luke said. The Energy Department has declared the industry “iionviable” in each of the past three years, he said. Despite the determination of non-viability, the administration has refused to impose uranium import restrictions required by federal law, Luke said. According to a law passed in the 1960s, if the uranium industry is determined to be “non-viable,” the government is required to impose “such restrictions as will make it viable.” A lawsuit seeking to mandate import restrictions will be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court next month. Luke said the trade pact will dq nothing to correct the present situ­ ation, and would exempt Canadian uranium from import curbs in the future. It would allow Canada to continue subsidizing its own ura- nium producers while denying U.S. companies the right to ex­ plore or mine in Canada, he said. “The proposed agreement in its present form will. place the na­ tion’s indigenous uranium supply in jeopardy,” Luke said. “Having the industry in the shape that our uranium industry is in is a threat to national security.” Congress should either pass leg­ islation to modify the pact or force a renegotiation of the agreement, he said.- Luke said he favors a pending Senate bill that would restrict uranium imports to no more than half of domestic de­ mand through the year 2000. Im­ ports now supply about 75 percent of domestic demand, he said......... Reagan administration officials defended the pact, saying the drop in domestic uranium production is due to the sagging fortunes of the nuclear power industry. “This doesn’t worsen the pres­ ent bad situation,” Deputy Energy Secretary William Martin said. “It maintains the status quo.” “The problem with uranium is that we didn’t get the (expected) growth in nuclear power,” he said. “It’s a market problem.” - - “We have to do something” to revive domestic uranium produc­ tion, Martin said. “To pick on the free trade agreement isn’t the way to do it.” Robert Reinstein, who negoti­ ated the portions of the pact deal­ ing with energy, said the agreement simply ratifies the existing situa­ tion. “We have had eight years of un­ constrained imports,” he said. “We do not believe this will result in the elimination of the domestic uranium industry.” Domestic demand will increase in the 1990s, “when the adjustment to the current'oversupply is com­ pleted,” Reinstein said. But the U.S. industry will not be as big as it was at its peak, he conceded. Imposing import restrictions on uranium will not restore the domestic industry, Reinstein said..’ But allowing free trade will y enhance long-term energy security and help consumers by dropping, energy prices, he said. The trade pact is based on the premise of unrestricted U.S.Canadian trade in energy, rather than trying to protect specific American industries, Reinstein said. Rep. Howard Nielson, R-Utah, said the administration did “a lousy job on uranium” in negotiating the trade pact. The pact deals a “body blow” to the American uranium industry, he said. In the past ten years, the number of uranium mills operating in the United States has dropped from 40 to four, and two of the remaining mills are unlikely to survive the decade, Nielson said. Two of the mills are located in Utah,, one is in Wyoming and one in New Mexico. Martin told the subcommittee that the trade pact will generally benefit the U.S. energy industry. It will expand imports of Canadian natural gas to the Northeast and insure that imports of gas or other fuels cannot be cut off, he said. Insuring a supply of gas will en­ courage greater usage, thus giving a boost to the domestic gas in­ dustry, Martin said. The only negative effect will be on imported oil, which will be driven out of the market, he said. “I don’t think this hurts our domestic energy producers,” Mar­ tin said. The trade pact will not take ef­ fect until it is ratified by the Senate. Both the House and Senate will have to enact aa^ompanying “enabling” legislation. Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., has already announced nis opposi-, tion to the agreement, largely because of the way it treats the uranium industry. ■ ' �______________ Star-Tribune, Casper. Wyo. Tuesday. March 15.1988 Senate opens debate on overhaul of country’s immigration system ii" Simpson calls legislation compromise to serve '^nation’s interest, ‘honest approach’ to imbalance By ANDREW MELN YKOVYCH .. Star-Tribune Washington bureau WASHINGTON — The Senate opened debate Monday on legislajlion to overhaul the system which determines who can come to the United States as a legal immigrant. , The bill, which is a follow-up to 1986 measure aimed at stemming illegal imrnigration, was crafted by Sen. Al Simpson, R-Wyo., and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. “This is a compromise that will insure that the Rational interest ^~VilLbe served,7 Simpson said in ^Sth'e opening debate on the ^measure. 5 ’ He termed the bill an “honest r approach to correct the im/ balance” between allowing im6.' migration by relatives.of U.S. cit|l izens and by those who would ti bring with them badly needed job If skills. The h>ll would retain “very f generous” preference .accorded to immediate family members while ^-giving greater weight to job skills, I Rimpson said. j But distant family members — ’ *nieces and nephews, for example J «— would find it harder to enter the fJJUnited States simply on the basis Z^pf being related to a U.S. citizen. Simpson said the bill follows “ilosely the recommendations made 1 ^n 1978 by the Select Commission ^‘on Immigration and Refugee PoliT'l'cy, on which he and Kennedy both 1 (served. I , The legislation sets the annual . number of immigrants at 590.000 for each of the next three years — 100.000 more than the current ceiling. The bill increases immigration despite polls indicating pubic op­ position to such a move, Simpson said. Of the 590,000 annual im­ migrants, 470,000 could be close family members of American citi­ zens and 120,000 would come under the job-related provisions. As under present law, there would be no sub-limit on im­ migration by immediate family members — spouses and--minor children — of citizens. The pref­ erence given to immediate family of legal resident aliens would be increased. But new, lower numerical limits would be imposed on immigration by adult sons and daughters of cit­ izens and married brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens. Most of the immigrants entering under the “fifth” preference accorded to siblings of citizens are not brothers and sisters, but rather their spouses and children, according to federal statistics. There is a backlog of more than 1.2 million visa applications in the fifth preference, according to a report accompanying the bill. The wait for a visa is now about 18 years, and even longer for appli­ cants from countries such as China and Mexico. “Suph lengthy and growing waits can hardly be described as family reunification; they are false hopes and illusions,” the report says. Limiting the preference to never-married siblings would “recognize the family’s brother or sister who is still most likely to be part of the family unit” while shortening their wait for a visa, the report says. The bill would more than dou­ ble the amount of immigrant visas allocated to those not qualifying under the preferences accorded > family members. Annual immigration by ministers of religion, former U.S. employees, and other “special” ■immigrants would be capped at 6,000. The number of skilled im­ migrant workers who can relieve labor shortages would be set at 27,600, up 600. Visas allocated to professionals and persons of ex­ ceptional artistic ability would also be set at 27,600 per years, up 600. The increase would come in two categories — 55,000 “seed” im­ migrants and 4,800 visas for enterpreneurs who would bring with them at least $2 million in invest­ ment capital that would create at least 10 new jobs. Visas for seed immigrants would be allocated on a point system that would take into consideration fac­ tors such as age, education, job / skills, and ability to communicate in English. �■ ' ■■■iz';. ■ \'\—?*'^'*'’*'''•\''*i''$’v''i ;,. ' ' . ..' ,. ► «tar-lribune, CMper^V^ox'rx^ Wednesday, March 16,1088 ■-r-.r' -— 1 •11 . ' J -1 This system has resulted in 85 j senate QKs bill to expand ■’“'legal■ immigration to 1 i . ■ Zll ‘ ‘ ' ’ ‘ • ■ usji ' . . . ’ ' ■ Under this um^ella, 470,000 factors, would be expected to ad- ’ / ’ ’ mit large nuinbers of western WASHINGTON(AP) —The Senate voted 88-4 on Tuesday' Europeans. ■. ‘ ] legislation would apply to for legislation that would expand legal immigration to the; ; The le^slation United States and open the gates wider for western Europeans those who try to ootam legal residency through normal U.S. who once dominated the flow of foreigners to this country. • ‘ nr.rmn The bill went to the House, where its future is uncertain. - government channels. Sixteen ■ months ended aj Rep. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., has introduced a similar bill ./— ------- ago. » , Congress . “ i —- —------ fc,- V i to the Senate measure. He said there may be attempts to link six-year debaU ”..¥J ®pacnp8j®6i«ation to curb massive ' illegal the bill with proposals to extend an amnesty program for some """ entries into the United States. j of those who came here illegally. The 1986 law included the pro-, The Senate rolled up its overwhelming majority because the vision granting two leading immigration authorities in the chamber. Democrat ------- w - - amnesty „ 'vto. those -j i Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Republican Alan . who came here illegally, but resided continuously in this country Simpson of Wyoming, teamed up as bipartisan sponsors. since before Jan. 1, 1982. The Sen. Dennis DeConcini of Arizona was the only Democrat one-year legalization program to oppose the bill. Three Republicans voted against it: Jesse ends May 4, and Schumer and Helms of North Carolina, Pete Wilson of California and Mark Hatfield of Oregon. j others beUeve it should be extendSimpson and Kennedy took aim at a legal immigration ed. system in which 90 percent of those Ranted visas are admitted Kennedy and Simpson agreed because they have doSe family members living legally in this not to link an extension to their country. Only 10 percent of the immigratiori visas are granted bill Jo avoid a possible fi^*ousler ,0 fill the needs ofthe labor marke.. , ‘^he S»«e'kSiX Sd' ; I ■ j It : g * maintain priority for applicants with close relatives here and’ significantly expand available visas for the new independent category. The bill also would establish an overall cap on immigration. , ' The level for the first three years would be 590,000 annually, which is 100,000 higher than the current number of visas. ; jreserved for family immigration?^ and 120,000 (150,000 after’three years) would be for the MW *i‘in» dependent” category. * J Currently, spouses and minor children of U.S. citizens can enter i the country without limitation. ' s Sen. Rudy Boschwitz, R-Minn., a refugee from Nazi Germany, said he was concerned that the limita­ tion could someday close the doors to many wishing to come here. But Simpson said the cap is more than adequate to handle to­ day’s applicants, and pointed out the cap could be changed every three years. Schumer’s bill would address this problem with a cap of 750,0(X), including refugees fleeing from persecution. The Senate cap does not include refugees, who now are admitted under a separte law that sets annual limits. The current refugee cap is 68,500. The Senate bill also would: • Revise family preferences to give higher priority to the closest family members of citizens and permanent residents,' ’ • Require the administration to report every year on the effects of immigration, and to recommend changes in the level of .immigration every three years. • Create the independent visas by combining: existing preferences • for professionals, persons of ex- , ceptional merit, and those with . needed skills; and establish a new 5S,0(X)-visa category based on a point system. ; i ' 1/ �I Friday, March 18. 1988 Delegation supporting decision to send troops By ANDREW MELNYKOVYCH and MATT WINTERS-----/^Star-Tribune staff writers WASHINGTON — The Wyo­ ming congressional delegation is backing President Reagan’s deci­ sion to send U.S. combat troops to Honduras in response to an in­ cursion by forces of the Sandinista regime in neighboring Nicaragua. The two Democrats who want to run against Sen. Malcolm Wallop in November both hesitated to criticize the action. Although the American troops will be conducting maneuvers far from the border fighting, their presence is a “powerfully impor­ tant symbol to the rest of the Democratic countries surrounding Nicaragua,” Wallop said. Nicaraguan forces crossed into Honduras Wednesday in pursuit of opposition Contra guerrillas. Reagan dispatched the four U.S. combat battalions late Wednesday night. I Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. “ThisTs a major planned inva­ Sen. Alan Simpson said the Sandinista action only proves that sion with significant organization Nicaraguan President Daniel and build-up since before the first Ortega is “bizarre” and an of March,” he said. A Democratic package of non“unstable ... madman.” Wallop and his fellow Wyoming lethal aid to the Contras — re- • Republicans have been consistent jected earlier this month by the supporters of the Reagan ad- House — would have had no i ministration’s policy in Central deterrent effect on Ortega, Wallop i America, including efforts to pro- said. Although Ortega is ‘.‘stupid ivide military aid to the Contras. J The U.S. troops were sent in enough” to tangle with American I response to a request from the forces. Wallop says that the Unit- ' Honduran government, the mem­ ed States will do everything it can bers of the delegation pointed out. to stay out of the fighting, making The United States has a treaty it unlikely that the U.S. troops obligation to respond to such a will see combat. Simpson said he does not agree request, Rep. Dick Cheney said. ! Cheney, interviewed on CBS- that the Nicaraguan effort to elim- I TV’s Morning Program, said he i inate the Contras is the direct con- I hopes the Sandinista action will sequence of Congress’ refusal to prompt Reagan to make a renewed give more military aid to the request for military assistance to rebels. Rather, Simpson suggested, j the Contras. Congress’ recent refusal to pro­ Ortega “is a madman, and this on­ vide such aid contributed to the ly shows it. How could he be so ! decision by Ortega to try to wipe insensitive?” Peace talks with the rebels are out the Contras, Wallop said. “I’m concerned that because of ' due to begin next week, Simpson the lack of support from Congress j said. Ortega’s purpose may have I we’re seeing the end-game for the ' been to make peace talks a moot Contras,” he Said. “If that’s so, point, he said. then the status of Honduras) “A cease-fire doesn’t mean much if you’ve killed all the peo­ becomes critical.” “The sad thing is that the Dem­ ple that were firing,” Simpson ocratic majority has probably said. Ortega “is bizarre. Everything! sealed the death sentence for the organized resistance to Com­ he does is bizarre,” Simpson said. ‘ It’s time to realize that this is an munism in Nicaragua,” WallopI said. ' unstable man running an unstable There is evidence that Ortega government.” had been planning for some time to move against the Contras, Wal­ lop said. Democratic candidate for Se Sending U.S. troops to Hon­ duras was not an attempt to build Pete Maxfield said that “if th* support for renewed aid to the cursion by the Sandinistas is ai Contras, Simpson said. But more tempt by them to establish a aid will be forthcoming, he manent, or at least a long-l predicted. presence in Honduras, Presi “We’ll come up with some kind Reagan’s response may well of package,” he said. “But it appropriate.” But if the Nicaraguan mill wasn’t done for that purpose.” The nation’s Central American was only chasing the Contras policy has not worked. Democrat­ is not engaging in an invasioi ic Senate candidate John Vinich tempt, “the sending of Amer said. “We’ve gone about the entire troops to Honduras, and thing wrong and it’s developing in­ number of troops that we i to a situation where it could be seems a bit excessive,” he said. all-out war down there.” “Some suspect that this may But, Vinich said, “the president ruse to increase the support fc is, of course, the commander-in- the military aid — for the < chief, and in these kind of situa­ tras,” Maxfield said, and “if tl tions 1 think as American citizens the reason for our sending tr< we’ve got to stand behind the to Honduras, then 1 would ha* commander-in-chief. ’ ’ say that President Reagan’s < “It would be easy to criticize at sion is irresponsible.” this point in time, but without Long-term involvement really knowing the situation I think he is the elected command­ American troops in Cen er-in-chief, he is the president, and America would be “very bt I don’t think right now is the time , based on existing facts. Maxi to criticize that action,” Vinich said. said. But Maxfield does sup: American troop involvenien “In terms of the military in­ Nicaragua is engaged in a ser volvement, it has to be looked at attempt to annex Honduran very closely so we don’t end up rltory. Preserving the “integrit getting into a situation like the each of the Central Amer Tonkin Bay situation and a long­ countries is strongly in our u time military war down there,” he est,”hesaid. said. Aid to the Contras has meant development of “basically an arms race kind of situation,” he added. �Friday, March 18, 1988 Star-Tribune. Casper, Wyo. Now that the indictments have been issued, there is little choice but to let the judicial process move toward a conclusion, he said. Sen. Malcolm Wallop said the indictments were ^‘perhaps inap­ propriately hard,” and also noted that the final judgment on that will be made through the legal system. Any thought of a presidential pardon should be dismissed until ' By ANDREW MELNYKOVYCH the legal proceedings are com­ Star-lribuae Washington bureau pleted, Wallop added. Sen. Alan Simpson said the inWASHINGTON Members dictments are nothing more than of Wyoming’s congressional dele­ allegations. gation were cautiously -critical on “Probably some are quite Thursday of the indictments serious and probably some are , returned Wednesday against four quite petty,” he said. “It will be a of the major figures in the Irw1 long haul — clear past the elec­ Contra scandal. ■ tion” before the cases are settled. . Rep. Dick Cheney, who was a The indictments will not affect member" of the congressional panel the presidential ambitions of Vice that investigated the affair, said the President George Bush, Simpson “prospect of indictments was predicted. fore-ordained once a special “I can’t imagine how it would,” counsel was appointed.” he said. “If they haven’t tied any­ Cheney, intervjewed on CBSthing to the president, 1 don’t TV’s Morning Program, said he know how they could tie it to the was “saddened” by the indict­ yice president.” ments of Marine Lt. Col. Oliver If Bush or Reagan were involved North and former national securi­ in the diversion of funds from ty adviser Adm. John Poindexter, and the guilty plea entered last. arms sales to Iran to the Nicaraguan Contras, that would ' week by Robert MacFarlane, have come tp light by now, SimpPoindexter’s predecessor at the . son said. _National Security Council. , “I don’t think~meh likF Poindexter, MacFarlane, and North deserve to end up being . prosecuted on criminal grounds at the end of their service in govern­ ment,” Cheney said. '• ■■'H- Delegation jqpnunents on indictments , �Star-Tribune. Casper, Wyo. Friday, March 18,1988 i Wallop mnosof p^i^ing^ trade agreement witli Canada ' i , .^By^DREW MELNYKOVYCH P.Thursd.y ,o defend 'U.e nade ' M^Stir-7n()une Wasti^gton bureau: With t^ exception of a single agreement. ^ WASHINGTON - The pen^ deposit, Canadian uranium ores Wallop challenged them to than those found in lyove that the phase-in period for ding trade agreement with Canada ^^®tes, he said. the trade pact is incompatible with IS compatible with pending legisla­ *We have an industry that has I the phase-out of import restriction that would restrict imports of he smu. said. I tions under the proposed Uranium “The r'anozi ' compete, ’r-"*"'-*''’ ’’ ■*'= uranium into the United StatesRevitalization Act. „ "e Canadian industry could not Sen. Malcolm Wallop said _________ without government su^ i „] would restrict uranium Thursday. purchasers such asHiuclear power Oesnite Rpinci • > 1 ------- ’‘a.er .-..vawavUA But Reagan administration of­ plants from ? ottt buying buying more more than than half half that t£ traS XT ® ‘;°"‘5"tion ] ficials contend that the trade pact, of their their uranium uranium from from foreign foreien iTn«r7 ‘ bar all ot which specifically exempts Cana­ producers. The import restrictioL hTnfr ’'®®‘F,'ctions, Ye,utter said ' dian uranium from import restric­ would gradually gradually he be e^ed eased over 'Son reevaluate the queswould tions, can hot be meshed with, several years. measures^ to protect the domestic Although the uranium issue is Bob Reinstein, who negotiated uranium industry. important. Wallop said the trade the energy-related portions of the & Wallop said his support for the) be viewed in its overall j trade pact, said it would not allow y Trade Agreement uranium import restrictions. In ' econohiy. : ^111 be,’-contingent ■"in part on: any case, the trade pact-v^r not hi lidT 5?® million a year (;Whether that “misunderstanding"^ worsen the condition ’ of thTmJrf TJ ’ i i ’ S^T" ’ ’ « * worseni the coridition’’df'thTiiioriwyer the Uranium Revitalization: resolved. Fellow' "Wyoming Republican Sen. Alan While conceding that Canadian what iSimpson has already said the ura-! (the trade pact) does to Wyoming uranium producers benefit from i-’nipm-r^ted provisions will make' industries ’ such as drilling equip ­ goveriment subsidies, Reinstein •;it impossible for him to support: ment suppliers and chemical mansaid Canada has “ the world ’ s f the trade pact. ; richest ore,’’ making I it hard for ■ ufacturers. Wallop said, ■ ‘ Treasury Secretary James Baker, American producers jto compete supports or opposes * Tirade Representative; depend to to a a tor buyers. 1„the ” trade pact, will "«** aepena ' u Yeutter appeared before; “I think that’s a myth.’’ Wallon^ “enabling leg^ j Finance Committee, of' said. /'I challenge, that specificaJ- agrremen/wdl '' t Wallop - is a member, i . X be implemented, he ' ' ' " ,aaaea. . ■ * ,• c m , i*- - 'I 4 ■ ■ K'--J \ J �X ■' -i Saturday., March IS, t9§^( L , r V-iK •,x»‘Sto;TriS>une, C^per. Wyo ■ ^. i Simpson thinks Dole j will stay in race g4^ J ASCHEYENNE (AP) —U.S.' i Sen. Al Simpson says he doesn’t i . expecTBob E>ole to drop out of the i presidential race, despite mounting ; primary losses to Vice President ' ! George Bush. , j I Speaking in a telephone inter- ’ ! view, Simpson said when Dole was j in the Senate this week for a vote a number of senators gathered around him, the minority leader, to welcome him back from days of : campaigning. “But he said ‘I’m not back. I’m just passing through,’’’ Simpson said. ■ The Wyoming Republican called Dole “a scrapper’’ and said he ex­ pects him to stay in the presidential race and refrain from attacks on ‘ ] Bush. As assistant minority leader, ’ ’ Simpson has been in charge of OOP operations in the Senate while Dple has been campaigning. i i- '•5' • j �Star-Tribune. Casper, Wyo. Sunday. March 20.1988 Simpson, veterans trade harsh words ( 3y ' ! i I ! J 'I i i f\t t\r “You have the audacity to ig- f Simpson’s stand on veterans’ Star" J hbune staff writer jn iwi\ nore„ .. traumas .« ” the associated- withI I■ benefits reveals ----- a - “savage I ijvuaiicas, id. . i war-time service “and infer that callousness, ” juluaL Blust act said, WASHINGTON — Hundreds disabilities of an injured knee or a ■ In an interview last week. Simpn rlofAnzlarl Vise rAmrtrVn ' of veterans and their supporters ‘big toe’ injury ... is the cause of son defended his remarks, angered by Sen. Alan Simpson’s the large and continuing deficits — ‘ “ but I’m sure ■ “1' am for veterans *"■* veterans organizations that comments in a Dec? 30 speech in you can’t be serious,” yJrote i San Diego — have written to the Chester Swafford of Sani)iego. pretend this country isn’t doings senator’s office in protest, | anything for its veterans — we do ■ Another letter writer, George An equally angry Simpson has in Stephens of Tucson, Ariz,, sug­ more for veterans than any coun- >: try on earth. i turn responded against charges of gested that Simpson ‘“owes a veteran-bashing, saying “I’m not' public apology to the Veterans of ! “In England and Australia and anti-veteran,, but 1 am an­ Foreign Wars” and other veterans Canada — the people that fought ti-bullshit.” J side-by-side with us in the impor­ groups. tant Wai's of the century — they According to local press' . “He claims ---------------------he served--two years don’t give anything to veterans reports, Simpson told members of .‘n the service — odds are that it the San Diego City Club that' y'as behind a desk pushing a pencil other than those who are combat veterans. There is no benefit for automatic cost-of-living increases! the U.S.,” Stephens wrote, wrote. for military retirees, disabled vet-JI other veterans. They can’t believe The letter-writing campaign had what we do in the U.S.,” he said. erans and Social Security recipients' landed upwards of 250 letters on threaten to bankrupt the federal Simpson’s desk by March 11, The San Diego Tribune reported pension system. his remarks accurately, Simpson ' Simpson aide Mary Kay Hill said. said, “but they couldn’t report it The Coalition of Military Simpson said that regardless of all. I’m not going to whine about Retirees asked members to also their income or financial need, that, but I’m going to say ‘wait a write letters to the editor of the many veterans receive disability Casper Star-Tribune, Hill said. minute, pal, you want to hear the pensions for injuries they sustained rest of it?’ after they left the service, or in About four letters concerning “Everywhere I (go), people say, Simpson’s remarks and two writ­ non-combat related accidents ‘what the hell are you going to do ten by Simpson in response have while serving. about the deficit?’ and I say we can been received by the paper. do a lot about it if were able to The Wyoming Republican said a The author of two letters to the military person can become legally Star-Tribune, Dick Blust of Rock J limit or freeze the cost of living al- ' disabled by breaking “your big toe Springs, branded Simpson’s San lowance just for one year to get a i looking for a case of lemon extract Diego speech “shameful” and handle on the thing and save $15 ’■ in the mess tent to finish your “patently despicable.” ; billion,” Simpson said. three-day drunk,” the San Diego “I’m talking about prioritizing “Sen. Simpson ha.s a quaint no­ Tribune reported. tion tljat the federal deficit should ' everything — I havfe voted across After learning of the remarks be made up by denying cost-ofthe board cuts in the defense through the newspaper rep6ft7“ living adjustments to the men and budget on each occasion that vote military retiree groups such as the women who served this country,” > was taken in the U.S. Senate — 3 Fleet Reserve Association and the Blust said in an interview last percent one year, 4 percent one , Coalition of Military Retirees ask­ week. He said he learned about year, and I remember one amend­ ed their members to write in pro­ Simpson’s speech from his father, ment years ago was for 5 percent” test. ■ who belongs to the Fleet Reserve 'i — I voted for those. Association. matt winters 4 �Star-Tribune. Casper. Wyo. Sunday. March 20.1988 ctorlJc “Sen. Simpson makes disparag-f s?*"® to tell horror tell mv remarks about veterans dis• tell my my horror horror stones stories that that are^ust ar» abiej non-combat situations bot^ as vital knowing the reality of the the definition of who should or situation,” he said. should not get benefits is only in “I personally knew guys in the his head,” said Butch Gogel, Mrvice —Blust couldn’t have spokesman for the Disabled Amer­ because he was never in — but I ican Veterans. did. I knew guys who went into the Simpson is “sincere” in wanting mess tent late at night looking for to define aid recipients more a case of lemon extract, which is specifically, Gogel said, but there high-potency 12-13 percent alco­ are no clear-cut criteria for holic content, knocked over a separating service from non-service^ bunch of stuff, crushed their toe, disabilities. and filed as a disabled American “A veteran never knows where veteran,” Simpson said. he’s going to be ordered to serve” “I was in the service and I saw or in what capacity, Gogel said. A i guys who were injured playing disease contracted while serving in' basketball, or football ... and a non-combat unit overseas can be they tore up their leg or tore up i every bit as debilitating as a comtheir elbow and they were service- 1 bat injury, he said. I connected disabled veterans, and I Choosing which veterans should J they still are — they’re still draw­ ! receive benefits- wpuld introduce ing the checks,” he said. ' an element of arbitrary decisionThe senator also said that per­ jnaking into a process that should sons eligible for VA pensions are be non-discriminatory, Gogel said. considered 100 percent disabled Such a system, he said, would . upon reaching age 65. “1 don’t mean “you can pick the ones you think there is anything in the world like and the ones you don’t like — that matches that. that’s our position.”, I “Furthermore, you can be under Gogel said Simpson is “tough, ' the age of 65 and be a 100 percent but he supported some good legis- ' had nothing lation as7hair ” of "thrVrtwtn Inlinn sac rkoJp” _____’^ Ind stni be°S‘’tn ®”’ Committee of the Senate haul "’®yhe even from 1980 to 1984. unbelievahip th ~ how For his part, Simpson last week about.” Sampson Sd^™ was less than complimentarv complimentary about about Gogel’s organization. disabilities The Disabled American Veterans ' should be compensated is much “is being sued by the government i more difficult than Simpson sue- ’ for unpaid taxes because they ! sPokesmM misused their not-for-profit tor a leading veterans group. status,” Simpson said. The DAV has $140 million it solicited ostensibly to help veter­ ans, but “what they give to veter­ ans — is miniscule compared to what they take in,” Simpson charged. I DAV spokesman “Butch Gogel makes more than I do — his salary is up around $85,000 a year — he doesn’t like it when you bring that up,’’ and the group’s president makes over $200,000 a year, ac­ cording to Simpson. And he suggested that venality may be a problem among some recipients of veterans aid. “We just had a Veterans Affairs Committee hearing this morning and found the most extraordinary thing ... we have 1.4 million vet- ' erans under the pension program, ' and we find that over 500,000 of them gave erroneous information’’ in applying. Comparing veterans’ applica- J tion forms with their tax returns 1 reveals that the government has ; been defrauded of over $1.5 bil- ' lion, Simpson said. ; ’’That is wrong, that is repug- ; nant. Just because a person has the ; word ‘veteran’ behind their names • does not mean that they entered ' sainthood, or martyrdom, or 1 heroism, and I don’t really have to > take second-seat to anybody. I J served this country for two years ' — I was overseas (as a platoon ’ leader in Germany) — I was not * ‘pushing pencils,’’’he said. i Raising the Veterans Ad- ‘ ministration to cabinet status in the < executive branch also would be a J “mistake,” Simpson sajd. J “1’11 be testifying on that (this) f week. John Glenn and 1 both feel -1 that that is a mistake. ” j “There is no need for cabinet level status. The Veterans Ad-1 ministration — the professional ’ veteran — is the toughest lobby in J Washington.” ’ �Tuesday, March 22,1988 ' ‘^star Trih..»<> Casper, Wyo. Simpson has acknowledged that The legislation says religious in- , • • -J- by veto i stitutions such as schools or churmany of the claims made supporters are wildly inaccurate, i ches do not have to comply with Simpson press secretary Mary Kay ! civil rights laws if those laws conHill said. Supporters of the veto flict with the tenets of that < a *"■ -a : -‘A have claimed that it would force religion, proponents" note. Nor , churches or farmers to hire AIDS- does it require any institution to perform or pay for abortions. infected homosexuals. Other exemptions apply to small In his interview with reporters Monday, Simpson said some businesses, farmers, and recipients ByXNDREW MELNYKOVYCH ----------------------- .'----- funds from discriminating against . research.money would not be barcomments on the bill he has of federal assistance such as food Star-rribune Was/un^ron b<jreau anyone on the basirsf rSce, sexT^YSTnrdsi ------ discnnJinatmg**against* discriminating against received were “tremendously emo­ stamps or Medicaid. ;'y 7 ’age, or handicap. ' " It overturns a women athletes, provided that.the tional.’’ ' Simpson believes Presidents WASHINGTON — Sen. ' Alan 1984 U.S. Supreme Court decision athletic department receiyed no’ People will call and say, ‘they Reagan’s suggestions to narrow Simpson — reversing an earlier” involving Grove City College in federal funds. --------1------— the scope of the legislation would are not going to ever make meu: hire position — announced ' Monday Pennsylvania, and the legislation is The current legislation overturns a homosexual. I’ll never hire an be a significant improvement. Hill that he will vote commonly referred to by that the court decision by specifically AIDS person. You can’t force me said. The changes would leave in­ to sustain Presi­ name. ' expanding the ^prohibition on to do this or that and they can’t tact the core of the measure and dent Ronald Simpson said in an interview discrimination to entire institu­ ,have an abortion in our church overturn the Grove City decision, Reagan’s veto of with Wyoming reporters Monday tions. It passed the House by a 315 i hospital.’ ” he said. she said. a comprehensive that he changed his mind on the to 98 and the Senate by a 75-14 i But Simpson said the bill would Wallop said last week that the civil rights bill. bill after Reagan came up with vote. “never have passed in its original bill goes “endlessly farther than Sen. Malcolm some suggested changes in a pro­ Religious fundamentalists, led form if it was of the hideous nature repe^ing Grove City.’’ He said he Wallop, k posed compromise. by the Moral Majority and the that is portrayed now.’’ Never- would back legislation that simply Wyo., voted Even though he supported the Rev. Jerry Falwell, have launched : theless, “..... _____ ___has ________ the _ President given us reestablishes the situation that against the bill earlier bill that Reagan vetoed, a vigorous lobbying campaign in > ^omT good additional information prevailed prior to the Grove City and said last Simpson said now “I think the SIMPSON favor of sustaining Reagan’s veto. and• •I am ready to ---->--------with -.l decision. go along week that he will President is right.’ A two-thirds majority is needed to him.’’ vote to sustain the veto. In the Grove City ruling, the override the veto. Supporters say the bill does not-------Rep. Dick Cheney, R-Wyo., Supreme Court said that only In the past several days, the prohibit discrimination against voted for the bill ano is expected to specific programs receiving feder^ Wyoming congressional delega­ homosexuals. While court deci­ vote to override Reagan’s veto, aid — not entire institutions — ' tion has been deluged by phone sions have deemed AIDS and other aides said Monday. are affected by federal an­ calls in support of the veto, staff infectious diseases to be handi- J The bill prohibits any institution ti-discrimination laws. Thus a members say. capping conditions, the bill says ' or organization receiving federal university receiving federal there is no imperative to hire in­ fected individuals if their condition would pose a threat to health or safety, they say. Simpson to support Reagan’s c t *' ‘i' t-* ■r ■,/ ^7' �StaMMbune. Casper. Wyo>’'5rW»clnesclay,March 23,1988;^ ■ Simpson says r^ gV L garrison plan vwble; cheyeNneHai^^ t A^impson says a lot of people ate 'skeptical about using a rail gari rison for the MX missiles, but he b ' still thinks the plan is viable. ; ’ “The more I read about it, 1 i think it is something that we could i do ’’ Simpson said m a news ! release. Me said the rail network i that intersects in Cheyenne, is one I of the keys to the project. He said he doesn’t think the idea should be &'/en up, but that s what �( Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Wednesday, March 23,1988 Contra aid should pass I iu Senate, Sunpson savs W /}3 (AP) — A. A $48 humanitarian mg to have to come up with soine- aid to the Nicaragua’s Contra rebels should have no trouble passing the U.S. Senate but may according to Sen. Al Simpson. • '"'h* come up in ‘*’wthat,” ”AnH Republican. thJmn ‘he House has i ‘he memkey right on them.” •ae Senate aid package assembled by Sens NaneJ D Borenl U-Okla., and others, would offer a one-year, $48 million infusion of humanitarian aid, as well as con­ tinued authority for the CIA to deliver vveapons remaining in rebel ere..in the House of Repre­ sentatives, he said. “I think?it ‘?‘ahy humanitarian aid and there s nothing wrong with inai. mill;------------ ^ENNE Sd'-nnrciNlNti “iJ itar/nr ‘° P“‘ any nrilJ 7,? ,®‘ha^ weaponry in there and that’s fine. We ought to do 1eZo,''Si’e;.‘' to'“rae'rTcan "ii'' argumeto Honduras ln“",VoS. America’? nssrr - ’^^’P’niscent of aS J2.5 million. In addition, it would give the Reagan administration the right to a guaranteed expedited vote^on a Simpson said Monday the approve a Contra aid package. . “It is very clear that they are go- “The troops are a long way from the combat zone. Nobody wants another Vietnam,” said Simpson “This is not Vietnam •’‘v‘7“P ®’’aPPling. ! Meanwhile, (Nicaraguan dow?fh Ortega plunders around down there in his crafty way ” the senator added. . . " f ■■ " '1 �Thursday, March 24. 1988 Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Simpson, Clieney show little interest m being vice presidential candidates Star-Tribune Washington bureau WASHINGTON - Sen. Alan Simpson and Rep. Dick Chenev. both mentioned as possible vice presidential choices, say they aren’t interested in the second spot on the Republican presidential ticket. Simpson says he could not tol­ erate being “muzzled,” while Cheney says he would not want to give up his independence. But each man says the other would make a fine vice president. Both the Wyoming legislators have been the subject of vice presidential speculation in nation­ al publications, Cheney in Time magazine and Simpson in U.S. News and World Report. Cheney has also been touted as a possible Secretary of Defense if George Bush becomes the next president. The third member of the Wyo­ ming congressional delegation — Sen. Malcolm Wallop — has not been named as vice presidential possibility. Cheney said he does not take the speculation seriously. Wyoming has only three electoral votes, and is likely to vote Republican any­ way, he said. Thus, putting somebody from Wyoming on the GOP ticket makes little sense, Cheney said. A more logical choice would be the governor of a populous state, he said. In the event that he is asked, Cheney said he is unlikely to accept a vice-presidential offer. A cabinet post also holds little appeal, he added. “Nobody’s made me any offers, and if they did, I’d not be disposed to accept,’’ Cheney said. Simpson, who is the secondranking Senate Republican, says any thought of his becoming vice president is a “fantasy.” The vice presidential lifestyle “doesn’t ap­ peal to me,” he said. Security arrangements make. Bush’s summer home in Maine “look like an arsenal,” Simpson said. “I could never imagine the Bob­ cat Ranch ... with searchlights out over the fishing stream,” he said. Simpson said wants to continue legislating in an environment in which he can speak freely on con­ troversial issues. .. you were evei in the role as vice president, you would not be allowed to just get out of your aircraft and speak with any kind of pungency or potency on any issue, he said. “I can’t imagine being muzzled like that. I would not be able to function like that.” A cabinet post would be equally unappealling, Simpson said. He chose to run for the Senate, rather than governor, because “I’m not an administrator.” ■ Wallop said he is not seeking the vice presidency or a cabinet post, nor has he sought such a post in the past. Last year Wallop was widely believed a leading con­ tender to succeed William Casey as the director of the Central In­ telligence Agency. None of the members of the Wyoming delegation have backed any of the GOP contenders, al­ though Wallop was on the prelim­ inary campaign committee formed by former Sen. Paul Laxalt of Nevada, who ultimately decided not to run. Remaining uncommitted gives the Wyoming delegation more clout with both Bush and Dole, Which is more beneficial for Wyoming, Wallop said. �' Wednesday, March 30,1988 -Star-Tribune, Casper, , ..... I " ------ -—II? 1. '■ T”- »• I Simpson opposes raising VA to Cabinet-level department (j)Move neither ‘necessary nor prudent, ’ senator tells Veterans Affairs Conunitte< ANDREW MELNYKOVYCH^^a bill to etani the VA department status are not compelling, Simpnot about to let Congress forge! The size of the VA’S constituenBy AWREW MELNYKOVYCH Star-Tribune Washington bureau WASHINGTON — Elevating the Veterans Administration to a Cabinet-level department Is neither “necessary nor prudent,” Sen. Al Simpson, R-Wyo., said this week. “I can conceive of no rational reason — and I see a lot of emo­ tional ones — that...the Veterans Administration should be ele­ vated, and I see many for why it should not,” Simpson told the Senate Government Affairs Committee. But Simpson, a member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee and its former chairman, acknowledged that he is swimming against the tide. “My voice is one of the very few in Congress that is raised in opposition.” The House overwhelming passed status. The measure has 63 Senate co-sponsors, and the support of the Reagan administration. Supporters of department statii.s for the VA say it will give the agency a stronger voice in arguing on behalf of veterans’ programs. Simpson said his opposition does not “in any way indicate that I am anti-veteran. “I have the utmost respect and admiration for those who fought to keep this country strong and free and for those who stood ready to fight,” he said. “But this issue is not one whit about whether vet­ erans deserve our respect and sup­ port.” Elevating the VA is a “real mistake and an overreaction to a non-problem,” Simpson said. The arguments in favor of elevating the VA to department son said. “Those kinds of arguments assume that veterans are now ter­ ribly neglected and overlooked,” he said. “Nothing could be farther from the truth.” The VA budget is about $30 bil­ lion, and Congress has 'always supported and . will support adequate funding for the agency, Simpson said. Veterans’ programs do “far more than provide for those who endured the rigors of combat,” he shid. In fact, no more than four mil­ lion of the 27 million veterans eli­ gible for VA programs ever served in combat, Simpson said. Veterans have an “extraor­ dinarily tough and powerful lob­ by” that is “very vitally and val­ iantly vigilant in looking after the VA budget,” he Said. “They are veterans for even one minute. AL SIMPSON Swims against tide cy should not automatically con­ fer Cabinet status, he said. By that argument, there should be separate departments to deal with women’s issues and the aging, Simpson said. However, should the VA be ele­ vated to Cabinet status, the legis­ lation should include language allowing veterans to go to court td pursue grievances against the agency, Simpson said.' '' Under present law, veterans are restricted to appealing benefit decisions adminstratively within the VA, and are effectively barred from hiring lawyers to assist them.. Without judicial review, veter­ ans are relegated to “second-class status,” Simpson said. Judicial review is not a “ploy” to kill the bill granting the VA status as's Cabinet-level department, he said.' �-Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo; ' Thursday, March 31,1988 ’ Simpson: Wyo officials need to work on getting pipeline . Si CHEYENNE (AP) — Wyoming officials need to concen­ trate on attracting a proposed natural gas pipeline to the state, regardless of the company that builds it, according to U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson. “The primary goal for us — for the con­ gressional delegation and for the governor and the state Legislature — is to see that a new market is created for Overthrust gas, regardless of who owns the pipeline, and get it out there to that huge market,” the Wyoming Republican said this week. SimpsOn applauded legislators and Gov. Mike Sullivan for approving a bill allowing the Wyoming Natural Gas Pipeline Authority alMrsUIN to issue $250 million in low-interest revenue bonds to the com­ pany building the proposed Wyoming-Califorriia pipeline. The cheap financing would allow the pipeline owner to offer low transportation rates to gas producers and is considered an incentive to get the line built in Wyoming. Currently three companies are competing for the right to serve southern California’s enhanced oil recovery market. Two of those, WyCal and Kern River Pipeline Co., propose using Wyoming natural gas for the project. “I came out publicly in support of Kern River when it was the only pipeline project fjom Wyoming to the enhanced oil recov­ ery fields in California,” Simpson said. “I would certainly support the WyCal project as well, should it be deemed to be the most acceptable project.” The senator noted that the Federal Energy Regulatory Com/ mission has consolidated the Kern River and WyCal projects as well as' the third proposal, Mojave Pipeline Co., for hearings ' on environmental aspects of the projects. \ Those hearings are set to begin April 12. “1 would say this. That from our standpoint it looks to us as if the administrative process is working very well — and of course we have no influence over that process,” said Simpson. “That’s a separate administrative process but I would say it is going well for Wyoming and the prospect of marketing our vast gas resources.” • ' �-Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Thursday, March 31,1988 By DREW ________ MELNYKOVYCH. _________ the domestic uranium industry to | , Srar-Tribune Washington bureau be “non-viable,” an import ban must be imposed. WASHINGTON — The Senate Although the industry has been Wednesday approved legislation deemed non-viable for three con­ aimed at restricting uranium im­ secutive years, the Reagan ad­ ports, cleaning up old uranium ministration has refused to restrict : mill tailings, and restructuring the imports. The uranium industry has government’s uranium enrichment sued seeking to force an import program. ban, and has prevailed in federal Approval of the bill came only district and circuit courts. The case after the Senate left intact anti­ is now before the U.S. Supreme import provisions, despite warn­ Court ings that import restrictions would Supporters of a phased-out im­ endanger the proposed trade pact port fee argued that it would be a with Canada. more reasonable solution — one Wyoming Republican Sens. which both the uranium industry Alan Simpson and Malcolm Wal­ and the administration can accept. lop backed the bill and the provf “Those of us in the Senate from sion that would raise the price of uranium mining states know that imported uranium. The Reagan there is a more sensible approach administration has done nothing to ensuring the viability of our to help American uranium pro- uranium industry than this draco­ ducerSu resulting in a 90 percent nian fiat” of a total import ban. decline in the workforce, they Wallop said. sai^a:. . . . - Sens. Bill Bradley, D-N.J., and I “The words ignore and ig- Dan Evans, R-Wash., sought to I norance have the same root, and replace the import fee with a study both portray what this administra­ of whether the state of the tion has been involved in concern­ domestic industry constitutes a ing the uranium industry,” Simp­ threat to national security. They argued that the import son said. In debate Tuesday, Simpson said restrictions would raise the cost of the bill presents a “sound, sensi­ uranium used in U.S. power ble, and well-balanced program plants by $1 billion a year. That ... to ensure that we have a translates into electricity con­ healthy competitive uranium min­ sumers spending $500,000 per year to preserve each of the 2,000 ura­ ing and enrichment industry.” Wallop said the measure is a nium mining jobs left in the United vital component of a national States, Bradley said. “Who’s going to pay?” Evans energy policy because he claimed reliance on nuclear power is bound asked. “It will be every electricity consumer in the U.S. who is serv­ f to increase in the future. . . ? - The most controtversial aspect of ed wholly or partially by nuclear ! the measure % the “fee” it wtmld power.” The import fee would be a impose on imported uranium. The ' Reagan administration has threat­ clear-cut violation of the pending ened to veto the bill if it includes U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreethe fee provision approved by. thei ment, which specifically exempts Canadian uranium from, import ^^The fee would be imposed on restrictions^ Evans ^said.^He^and anv nuclear nuclear power power plant plant that that uses uses c others fee any ------ warned --------- that — the import . fuel with more than 37.5 percent would sink the Canadian trade imoorted uranium. It would range pact and invite retaliation against from $200 per kilogram to $500 American goods going to other oer kilogram, depending on -the lountries. : , . om«nnt nf But backers of the import fe? amount of fnrpipn foreign uranium uranium used. used. After 1994, the maximum amount of foreign uranium allow­ " ■n ed would rise to 50 percent. The import ceiling would expire in the year 2001. The sliding fee system would replace a provision in current law which could bar uranium imports altogether. The law now says that if the Secretary of Energy deems U,c Please see URANIUM, A16 �-Star-Tribune, Casper. Wyo. " Thursday, March 31,1988 Each participating mill owner would pay in $2 million per site and an additional $1 per ton of tailings. Nuclear reactor operators said the Canadian trade pact ad­ would pay $22 per kilograjn of dresses only existing law, and not nuclear fuel used in the next five any legislation that supercedes it. years. States would have the option to i Canadian uranium producers enjoy a host of government sub­ contribute 10 cents per ton of tail­ sidies that give them a substantial ings. Wyoming’s share would edge over American uranium come to $5.76 million, but the state could opt out of the program mines, Simpson and Wallop said. “We arc not on a level playing without affecting the cleanup at field. The Canadian subsidies are any of the nine sites in the state. Participating mills would be massive and undisputed,’’ Simpson said. “The free trade agreement paid up to $4.50 per ton to cover will do absolutely nothing about the cost of cleaning up the mill tailings. If the mill’s contributions these subsidies.’’ Simpson derided the notion oi to the fund exceed one-third of the another study of the domestic in­ clean-up cost, the mill would receive a refund of the excess con­ dustry. “We have had enough studies tq tribution. If cleanup costs more than $4.50 choke a horse,” he said. “We’ve studied this thing beyond com­ per ton, adjusted for inflation, the prehension and come up with mill owner would have to bear the added cost. ' nothing.” If money remains in the fund Sen. Bennett Johnston, D-La., said the contention that the import’ after all mill tailing cleanup is fees would coSt consumers $1 bil-, completed, the states would lion a year is “preposterous.” The receive a refund of any contribu­ real figure is closer to $100 mil-! tions they made. Finally, the bill restructures the lion, he said. The move to replace the import 1 American uranium enrichment fees with a study was killed by a I enterprise, the government-owned two-vote margin, 47-45. The im­ operation that upgrades uranium port fee provision was then ap­ ore into reactor fuel and proved by a voice vote. The final weapons-grade uraniurn. The bill vote on the entire measure was would set up the uranium enrich­ ment enterprise as a government62-28. Income from the import fees owned corporation that would would go to a $1 billion fund that issue stock held by the govern­ will pay for the cost of cleaning up ment. Originally, utilities were, re­ tailings at 26 uranium mill? in seven states. Wyoming has the quired to repay the governmeiit for most sites — nine — although the enrichment of nuclear fuel utilities total amount of tailings in New used. The bill limits the govern­ ment’s recovery of enrichment Mexico is greater. The Wyoming sites include the costs — which some estimates American Nuclear, Pathfinder, 1 have put as high as $8.8 billion and UMETCO mills near River­ ' to $364 million. That will be paid ton, the Western Nuclear mill near by the new government corporaJeffrey City, the Exxon and Rocky tion;• V vn V, Groups opposing the bill have Mountain Energy Mills near Douglas, the Pathfinder and argued the new arrangement Petrotomics mills in the Shirley amounts to an unprecedented Basin, and the Minerals Explora­ bailout for the nuclear power in­ dustry, The Associated Press tion mill in the Red Desert. Together, they contain an reported. The measure now goes to the estimated 57.6 million tons of tail­ House, which has taken no action ings. . Contributions to the cleanup on the matter as yet. fund would come from the states, ■ the mill owners, nuclear power plant operators, and the federal ' government. The federal govern; ment’s share of the cleanup costs is i limited to $300 million. �Friday, April 1,1988 Star-Tribune, CaspetJUU*"- ---------------------- Vinich says he has ‘deep concern’ about Canadian accor ' ' ‘‘During the legislative session,^! ' fScongVeS io moiiiy »rclarify ^taFTribunestai/wnfer rhenev R-Wyo., to ?^rovisions in the K^^R-Wyo.. to push push for for x5>^tar---------certain energy provisions in the ^i^TSP~^of the; uranium im­ proposed agreement,” he said. SuJDSON — Democratic can­ port restrictions of the Atomic That resolution called for didate for the U.S. Sena^ Energy Act, according to Vinich. assurances that uranium, coal and nomination John Vinich_ says he Enforcement of that act would gas imports from Canada would have ensured a viable uranium in­ has “deep con­ be free of Canadian government dustry in order to protect national cern” about the subsidies and tax breaks. security, but the three men failed Canadian free ‘‘Malcolm is now saying that to adequately comply with trade agreement, changes cannot be made in the Herschler’s request, Vinich said. despite a protec­ treaty because we want to get it tion measure “Now, in an election year,, we passed quickly. Where was have finally got some action, he ■ Malcolm when the treaty was being passed by the said ‘‘1 wish it could have hap­ ■ Senate Wednes­ negotiated in the first place? yinpened before 3,500 uranium day. ichsaid. workers in Wyoming lost their “The propos­ “Sen. Wallop is suffering froni VINICH ed Canadian free j°Now, the proposed agreement the ‘Rip Van Winkle syndroine. trade agreement Every six years at election time presents particular problems for with Canada presents a new threat Malcolm wakes up and remembers Wyoming’s energy industry, Vin­ to the uranium industry, he said. “While 1 support the overall ■. he is supposed to represent Wyo­ ich said. ming,” he said. A bill aimed at protecting the .■ goal of free trade with Canada, In a speech in Wheatland 12 uranium producers passed by th this agreement shouldn t force our energy industry to compete against years ago. Wallop said almost ex­ .' Too IIS la« Senate Wednesday he saw. The billcomes was actly the same thing about his op­ unfair trade practices, Vinich ponent in his successful 1976 supported by Wyoming Republi­ ^^“Sen. Wallop’s office was con­ can Sens. Malcolm Wallop,and Senate bid, Star-Tribune reports from that year indicate. tacted innumerable times by mem ­ Alan Simpson., bers of the uranium, coal and gas ' “Wallop, who is running for the Vinich, a Fremont County industries, and by state legislators U S Senate seat now held by Sen. Democratic state senator who is to encourage Malcolm to he p Gale McGee said the Democrat seeking the seat now held by Wal­ protect the Wyoming energy in­ ■ ‘wakes up’ every six years and real­ lop, said inaction by the state s dustry during the Canadian free izes ‘there is a Wyoming, ac­ congressional delegation is par­ cording to a June 26, 1976, story in irade negotiations process. tially to blame for the loss of Malcolm would not respond, ,! the Star-Tribune. 3,500 jobs in the the state uranium, Vinich alleged. industry. �Sen. Alan Simpson is right to resist the idea of creating a cabinet-level Veterans Depart­ ment. He is one of the few in Congress with the nerve to face down the powerful veterans lobby and resist this particular bad idea. Simpson’s "hottest property, his mouth, got him in big trou­ ble lately with veterans groups across the country. He needlessly created an insult out of what he had intended to be a reasonable appeal to tailor vet­ erans programs to meet the greatest need, and to generally hold down spending to help the ■ country live within its means. But if we can set aside his un- ■ fortunate tendency toward verbal abuse, it is clear Simp­ son is generally correct about veterans programs and a department for veterans. He was right to note that a Veterans Department would cry out for- creation of many others, departments repre­ senting various population segments. The list could grow long:, departments of senior citizens, of youth, of native ‘ Americans, of blacks, of Hispanics, of orientals, of im­ migrants, of women, of men, of the middle aged, of whites, of the rich, of the poor, of families, of single parents, of oil and gas leaseholders, of thte lonely. It is folly to try to organize government like a collection of ; lobby groups instead of acr ? cording to general govern--, mental function. Departments of state, defense, commerce and interior, for example, are organized in a rough-and-ready way along functional lines, and rightly so. If we are to add departments, they should be functional. We could use a Department of Peace, for instance, or a Department of Individual Lib­ erty. . ' ? ■ 4, f 5 Computer phone calls intrude upon the home The NEW YORK TIMES Topics of the Times. March 31 Without the telephone and the computer, modern American life would be impossible. But combine them, and the result can seem dia­ bolical. What could be more infuriating while diapering a squirming baby, eating dinner or watching a favorite television program than to answer a call initiated by a machine? Computerized telephone calls are increasingly common. Because their ring is indistinguish­ able from that of Aunt Rosie in Dubuque or the folks across the street, so are the disruptions they cause. A man in New Jersey figures his household gets at least three com­ puter calls a week. He says he has never listened to a message all the way through. He hangs up as soon as he hears that long pause, followed by a disembodied, tooperfect voice saying, “Hi. This is New York Telephone says it gets only about five complaints a week about computer calls. Among those annoyed, however, are sev­ eral members of the State Public Service Commission, who raised the issue at a recent meeting. But there is no move -toward regula­ tion; nor, in a free society, should there be. There is a defense! the telephone answering machine. It’s emotion­ ally satisfying to think of answeri­ ng one dumb machine with ” another. Still, the notion of hav­ ing to pay for a device to screen out electronic intruders is as ob­ noxious as the intrusion itself. And then there is the principle. Even in late 20th century America, some feel that the occasional human caller ought to be greeted ' with a hearty, human “Hello.” �Saturday, April 2,1988 Star-Tribune, Casper. Wyo. Simpson back ^USSR. 1^3 . 3/W ASHINGTON — Sen. Alan Simpson is back in the USSR this week, visiting the Soviet Union for the second time in less than a; month. * The Wyoming Republican was a last-minute invitee on a senatorial trip to Moscow, press secretary Mary Kay Hill said Thursday. He wnsi asked along when another senator was unable to go, she said. ■, Twelve senators will be making thb trip. Hill said*. They hope to meet with top Soviet officials, in- ‘ eluding Communist Party General ' Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Simpson’s wife Ann is accom­ panying him. Sh^ is going at her own expense, Hill said. *1..- �-Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo: Monday, April 4, 1988 Uranium industry needs our money folks WASHINGTON — It says something about the times in which we live when the best argument a U.S. senator can make in favor of a piece of legislation is that it will cost American consumers “only” $100 million a year. That was precisely the case made by Sen. Bennett Johnston, D-La., last week in support of a measure to help the domestic uranium indiistry by imposing a hefty fee on most imported uranium used in American nuclear powerplants. Opponents of the measure argued a $1 billion a year hike in the national electric bill is too much to pay to preserve the 2,000 jobs left in the moribund U.S. uranium mining industry. The price tag. Sen. Bill Bradley, DN.J., said, would come to about $500,000 per miner'per year. Not so, Johnston countered. Bradley is wro'ng by a factor of 10, he said. The actual cost will be more like $100 million^—still $50,000 per miner per year. After all the discussion was over, Johnston’s side prevailed, although only by a narrow 47^45 - margin. Most senators from uranium-producing states, including Wyoming Renublicans Al Simpson and Malcolm Wallop, voted for the import fee provision. **• The House has yet to take up the measure and the Reagan ad­ ministration is threatening a veto if the import fee is not dropped from the legislation., There is no question that the domestic uranium industry is on death’s doorstep. Employment in uranium mining has shrunk by 90 percent in this decade. Only a small handful of mines and mills import fee would not insure a mi-;; nium content could rise to 50 per­ raculbus revival of the domestic ’ cent without triggering the fee, and uranium industry. At best, it rep- • the fee would be eliminated resents a holding action for Amer- ‘ altogether in 2001. lean producers, one that will Simpson and others argued that enable them to struggle without the import fee is needed to keep the much improvement in their current domestic industry disappearing condition. i altogether, threatening both our The import fee would not do J national security from both an much good because imports are energy and a military standpoint. not the main cause of the jjroOn its surface, the case for the blem. There simply is not enough import fee seems appealing. Why Andrew demand for uranium because there shouldn’t an American industry — is not enough demand, for nuclear, Melnykovych particularly one producing a vital power. ' commodity — be protected As Wallop said, the nuclear against unfair competition from power industry “has been victim­ abroad? Star-Tribune ized by its own optimism.” The Opponents of the import fee of­ 1960s and 1970s saw a boom in fered several good reasons. Im­ both nuclear powerplant construc­ posing the fee would increase the Things have gotten so bad that tion and uranium mining. . cost of nuclear power, which sup­ the Reagan administration has But the need for the new power­ plies 20 percent of America’s elec­ determined that the U.S. uranium plants never materialized. Instead, tricity. The added cost — whether has been “non-viable” for the past energy conservation and greater $100 million or $1 billion a year — three years. Under current law, reliance on coal-fired plants made would be passed on to everyone such a determination is supposed nuclear power uneconomic. who buys electricity from a utility to trigger restrictions on uranium The fault was not with what owning a nuclear powerplant. imports. Wallop termed “the hysterical an­ Furthermore, the imposition of But the Reagan administration ti-nuclear campaign that erupted” an import fee could threaten the has refused to protect the domestic after the accident at Three Mile pending U.S.-Canada trade pact, industry. American uranium pro­ Island in Pennsylvania, forcing fee opponents said. The pact ducers filed suit seeking to force excessive and expensive govern­ specifically exempts Canadian the administration to act, and won ment regulation. The fault was uranium from U.S. import at the district and circuit court with, an industry that was beset by restrictions, but is silent on the level. The case is now before the cost overruns, shoddy construc­ issue of import fees. U.S. Supreme Court. tion, and virtually non-existent Opponents of the import fee While pursuing judicial relief, quality control. dismissed the national security the uranium industry also sought If and when the nuclear power argument. They pointed out that help from Congress. The import the U.S. government has huge ■ industry recovers, the uranium fee measure is the result — an ex­ mining industry will recover along uranium stockpiles. Nor is Canada ample of how good intentions with it. That may occur by the be­ or Australia — the other major often produce bad legislation. ginning of the next century, or it importer — likely to cut us off could take far longer. from uranium the way the Arabs Given that uncertainty, it makes have cut off our oil in the past, The measure would impose a little sense to saddle American Bradley argued. progressively higher fee on power consumers with a 12-year rate hike plants which fuel their reactors ■ that is likely to produce little it the with 37.3 percent or more foreign way of meaningful results. ■ Even its backers concede that an uranium. After 1994, foreign ura- remain in operation. . Imports* especially fro.m Canada, undoubtedly aje respon­ sible in part for the near-shutdown of domestic mining’. Canadian ore i.s either higher grade and cheaper to mine or heavily subsidized by the Canadian government. 2^1 �A2—Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Saturday, April 9,1988 senators I _ Six oTting the suit SU^^^Soducers against »'O'“ SimP^’tb, Ja''‘° Snd P«' S-feeOOE.PJSSeS, in t^^P^Torodneets. �Stor.Trlh.™. Casper Ww,. S^livan signs ^.Tuesday. Ap« 12. 1988 agreement are not entitled, Sullivan said. CHEYENNE — Gov. Mike Wyoming is the 21st state to join Sullivan. Monday ..signed an the network, which was created by agreement for Wyoming to join a the 1986 immigration reform law federal computer network intend­ co-sponsdred by Wyoming Sen. ed to verify the status of aliens Alan Simpson. under the new federal immigration Carolyn Paseneaux, head of a law. private citizens group which is Sullivan said the system, called Systematic Alien Verification for helping illegal aliens apply for Entitlements, will reduce govern­ permanent status during a grace ’ period established by .the 1986 law, ment paperwork and save money. The main goal of the program is said about 1,000 illegal aliens in to ensure that illegal aliens would Wyoming will have applied for not get entitlement benefits; such permanent status by the time the as Social Security, to which they grace period ends in May. �Friday, April 15,1988 ' Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Simpson knocks mew-parks proposals ^CHEYENNE (AP) — Sen. Al : Simpson says he does not support proposals to create two new na­ tional parks in Wyoming. In his weekly media interview on Wednesday, the Republican from Wyoming said he thinks funding for the national parks is already spread too thin. Adding two more parks would put even more de­ mand on the money. “We even have trouble properly maintaining the road system in Yellowstone National Park, which is the ‘crown jewel’ of our park system. We have stretched budgets in all of the national lands — both park service and forest service,” he said. Simpson called the proposals counter-productive in a time of hard financial times. The lands now have a variety of uses, includinghunting and other recre­ ation, and turning them into na­ tional parks would restrict their use, he said. �Friday, April 15, 1988 Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. in Israel best tax breaF? on ttie interest and the cost is not your federal income tax returns newspaper because you need to deductible from your taxes. , when a Wyoming reporter asked this year, you probably noticed that what happens in the question about the area, and there weren’t as many deductions Middle East influences our lives in . Speaking of the deficit, the Wallop replied that he thought the available as last year. the American West in ways you deduction for contributions to United States should be more No more sales tax deductions, never dreamed of. Israel is estimated to have drained even-handed” in its dealings with no political campaign contribution Secondly, I bring this up because anywhere from $2 billion to $10 Israel and its Arab neighbors. deductions, and a more limited I have always been curious why billion from the federal treasury His reply was buried deep in the deduction for consumer credit in­ our powerful and vaunted Wyo ­ over the past two decades'. The exstory published in a Big Horn Bas­ terest. ming congressional delegatiorffes amount is not known because in newspaper and Wallop thought So if you’re looking for a really hever sponsored legislation to the government doesn’t like to no more about it until the week he keen deduction for this year, you repeal this odd deduction even as compile embarrassing statistics. was sworn into office in really ought to consider Israeli they rail against the skyrocketing Washington. savings bonds. national debt. At that time, he was visited by a That’s right: Israeli savings Perhaps you should ask them representative of .the Israeli gov­ bonds. about it the next time you see ernment, said news clip in hand Heck, you don’t even have to them, or the next time you’re in the wanting to know what Wallop buy a savings bond. You can make mood to write to your con­ meant by “even-handed” and of­ your check payable directly to the gressman. fering to enlighten him on the true Israeli government, whether it’s situation in the Middle East. for $50 or $50,000, and its 100 per­ To be fair, our delegation has Against such a tenacious and cent deductible from your U.S. sometimes shown some indepen­ all-encompassing lobby, it will be income taxes. dent thinking on the Middle East. Also note that this does not in­ aitlicult for any congressman to' You probably didn’t know Sen. Al Sirnpson, for example, clude the $3 billion annually the remain fair and independent to about this deduction — few peo­ recently joined 30 senators in sign­ United States gives — not Joans, vote with Israeli policy when it is in ple do but it’s been around ing a letter criticizing Israeli in­ gives to Israel each year in U.S. interests, to vote against quite a while and is just one of the transigence in the Middle East various types of aid. Israeli policy when it is not in more outrageous examples of the peace process, but the letter was so This type of deduction has oc­ U.S. interests, and to simply stranglehold the Israeli lobby has mild it was akin to writing a letter curred only once before in U.S. remember that Palestinians are on the hearts, minds, and pocketto Jack the Ripper, asking that he human beings, loo. our government in use a smaller knife. At least he World War II, when Britain stood Washington. signed the letter. Seventy senators alone against the Nazi butchers of Israel and the United States are did not. Keep in mind, of course, that Hitler s Germany, Congress en­ two separate and independent na­ Even in Wyoming, the Israeli ‘ oo similar arrangement couraged Americans to buy British tions. The United States should with any other country in the lobby counts. Victory Bonds by making them tax not dictate to Israel; Israel should world — even our own. Sen. Malcolm Wallop told me deductible. But that was it. There not dictate to the United States. When you donate to the United (when 1 was employed as an intern IS not now and has never been any And neither our foreign policy States, either by buying a savings in his Washington office back in other similar special treatment for or our tax policy should be written bond, a treasury bill or even if you • when he first ran for the Ireland, Zaire, Japan or any other in Jerusalem. are generous enough to simply U.S. Senate in 1976 against in­ country you can name — only Either that, or make U.S. Sav­ write a check to reduce the na­ cumbent Sen. Gale McGee the Israel. ings Bonds tax deductible. It will tional deficit, you will pay taxes Middle East was not a hot topic. I bring all this up in a Wyoming be good for the country, and I Wallop could recall only once need the deduction. �Delegation says UW should improve lobbying efforts for federal funding A.' schools to obtain federal sup. schools to obtain federal support a ♦ b/\/4 e ly concerned about the way UW for r ar-r>Tn research on »-wimethods on j Star-Tribune Washington bureau has pursued federal funding for its enhanced oil recovery, Cheney projects. But budget realities will said. require a more focused effort in “I think WRI comes first WASHINGTON — The .Ung. the future, as federal funds become because it’s an ongoing opera­ versitv of Wyoming needs to do a harder to obtain, he said. tion,” he said. “If I had to better job of “We’ve been able to be pretty choose, I would come down on the organizing its efside of WRI.” forts to obtain '’W ’ effective on their behalf,” Wallop said of the delegation. “We’re try­ A cooperative effort among federal funding ing to maintain that (by adopting) several schools probably _has a for major, proa more strategic view. ’ ’ better chance of winning federal jects, members UW officials understand the funds than a research center of the Wyoming problem and are cooperating in ' operated solely by UW, Cheney congressional addressing the need for setting in­ said. delegation say. Ililml "i'lllil i iixi stitution-wide priorities, he said. The various proposals for 1 “We get a lot CHENEY Cheney said Roark understands energy-related research projects of people whopoint out the need to set priorities, freelance — who come back here the difficulties caused by university Cheney and Simpson said. i without having gone through the departments pursuing funding in­ dependently. Simpson said he is “concerned,” j president’s office,” Rep. ; Dick “It’s in his interest and in our rather than “troubled,!’ by the interest to get one clear channel es-‘ lack of coordination in UW’s ef­ ' Cheney said. tablished,” Cheney said. forts to obtain federal funds But Cheney and Sens. Alan “In Terry’s defense, we can help through Congress. The problems I Simpson and Malcolm Wallop when we get freelancers coming are “readily correctable,” he said. j praised UW President Terry Roark back here hitting us up for some­ He has begun asking UW of­ for working to correct the pro­ thing” by asking whether they have ficials or faculty who meet with blem. Roark recently promised to cleared their request with the (UW) him to ask for help in obtaining give the delegation a listing of president’s office, Cheney said. funds whether “President Roark UW’s priorities, they said. “We need to coordinate on both knows you’re here,” Simpson “1 certainly wouldn’t want to be J critical” of Roark, Cheney said, ends, and I think we’ll be able to said. The question has produced do that.” some “flustered responses,”; he i “He’s relatively new on the job, The UW geology department’s said. and I’ve found him to be very efforts to find money for a new I helpful and cooperative.” With Congress’ increasing I “We’re interested in doing building are an example of the readiness to allocate research I everything we can for our universiproblems caused by an uncoor­ money to specific universities, I ty ... but we need to know their dinated approach, Cheney said. rather than letting the funds be The proposal called for diverting distributed through the com­ priorities,” Simpson said. *i’m money from the state’s share of the petitive grant process, many sure they have to do that with the Abandoned Mine Reclamation universities are hiring Washington I (Wyoming) Legislature and it Fund — an idea opposed by lobbyists, Simpson said. UW would be very helpful to have that Wyoming AML feclamation of­ should consider that option, he done for us.” ficials. said. As an example of the need for 1 “Those are state monies,” Che­ “It might well be worthwhile to setting priorities for projects, . ney said. “We’re not about to take look into the cost of that,” he members of the delegation cited * -some action that earmarks those said. requests for energy research funds that restricts the state’s freedom Cheney said that with Congress : for the yystern Research Institute and flexibility.” often bypassing the grant process, J on the UW campus and the universetting well-defined priorities ■ Success in getting federal money sity's proposal for a new pet­ requires a unified approach that becomes increasingly important roleum research facility. forUW. includes not just UW, "but all the Simpson said the delegation involved state agencies, the gov“What 1 would like to see is does not want to be placed in the eirnor, and the Legislature, he said. when we have a worthy project position of working to fulfill a • “When we get people coming in that deserves federal funding, for UW request, only to be asked “a individually on their own asking us to get organized and go after few months later” to promote for something that somebody else it,” he said. funding for a new project that has in the state has other plans for, But the supply of federal dollars I suddenly taken precedence. that’s a little difficult,” Cheney is not endless, Cheney said. Nor Wallop said he is not particularsaid. are there hidden sources of money Please see UW, A16 ; In the area of energy research, just waiting to be discovered and UW is seeking additional federal tapped, he said. funding for WRI, which was “There’s not a whole lot of Scheduled for a gradual phase-out money floating around,” Cheney of public money. The university said. “Everybody’s looked at also wants federal funds for a new every pot that exists ...and everybody’s looking for a pot at petroleum research center and is the end of the rainbow. But let me involved in a joint effort with the University of Texas and other tell you, it doesn’t exist.” ' d) A2 — Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyd. Sunday, April 1 7 ,1 9 8 8 JVj El L, „ ^^.itinuea rrom At lomr T 7\XZ �EDITORIAL g) WC*, ftl” —Star-Tribune, Casper. W yo. Sunday, April 24, 1988 Simpson right to face wrong against citizens But Wallop finds internment acceptable option in wartime One of the blackest marks anese ancestry. The Senate bill requires the on American history was the federal government to apolo­ ■ panicky racist decision to place gize to those wronged. Of less ■ innocent United States citizens in prison camps during World importance is its proposed grant of $20,000 to each person War II. f As many as 11,000 people of interned in the camps — a ' all ages — two thirds of them symbolic act of restitution. Despite his objections to the ! American born citizens — were held at Heart Mountain in monetary payment, Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson supported Northeastern Wyoming. For the duration of the war, the final measure for the right they lived in tar paper “hut­ reason: “to express my feelings ments,” surrounded by barbed that we incarcerated American wire, under military guard. The citizens,” he said. We applaud Wyoming Legislature added his concern. But Sen. Malcolm Wallop i further insult, making it illegal voted against righting the i for the imprisoned Americans wrong. j to vote or own property in the His reasoning was that the state. In spite of the outrages imprisonment of American Cit­ heaped upon them, about 900 izens was acceptable under the ' men from Heart Mountain circumstances. The internment of citizens volunteered to serve in the U.S. Army. They served with was “not a dishonorable act,” great heroism; 20 were killed in AP quotes Wallop saying. “It was the option of a nation in combat. At long last, the U.S. the first days of a war.” Wallop’s comment is ugly Senate has voted to make and beneath him. It suggests he j amends for this great wrong to ! citizens whose rights were needs to get in touch with the f trampled because of their Jap­ U.S. Constitution. I �Sunday, April 24, 1988 tvanfr o . Ch ^P^oii av I •••Sen A, ^^Oree ■ ■star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo ■ : ‘"’'ase “» aS°"■'"SvSR^wVS »on^: -j ^^P^esidgj^ that / ^^id hp / ^^Pts th& ^^~--~~^'"8™«;?s?.«''‘08e.ber / �Bush likes Simpson for his running mate . BY ROWLAND EVANS And ROBERT NOVAK North American Syndicate summit “is not going to be a trade summit.” GOP VEEP: SIMPSON? Although political aides say it can t happen. Sen. Alan Simpson.: the Senate s funniest man ani George Bush’s best friend, is ch^oke^ presidential ibune, Casper. Wvo • y ■ o Sunday, April 24, 1988 'WASHINGTON - Richard M Nixon, who never has held a hieh opinion of George Bush’s cam­ paign skills, has given him a twohour political briefing on how to get elected. But prospective presidential Nixon’s lesson came over the nominee Bush is certain to carry at the vice president’s aimpson s home state of Wyoming official residence in Washington anyway, and it has only three elecThe only other person present was total votes. Bush needs no Lee Atwater, Bush’s campaign regional boost in Simpson’s Rocky manager. Mountain West, but he rates com­ The subject was definitely poli­ patibility with his running mate tics, not issues, and the former ® qualification and president did most of the talking. thinks Simpson’s humor and Nixon used his encyclopedic easy-going personality would helo knowledge of American politics to the ticket. take Bush on a state-by-state tour One Bush adviser cautions of where the votes are and how to otherwise, telling the vice president get them. that Simpson’s charm and quickness with the apt phrase might only highlight Bush’s occa­ sional clumsiness and his famous WHITE HOUSE DISSENT tendency to put his foot in his .White House unhappiness with mouth. Commerce Secretary William Verity s recent trade talks in Moscow climaxed when Dwayne DEMO VEEP: NUNN? ® U.S.-Soviet House Majority Whip Tony '*as quoted as telling Coelho has joined the growing list Mikhail Gorbachev that the Soviet of prominent Democrats who want, leader was more popular in the to offer Sen. Sam Nunn two jobs: i U.S. than any American presiden­ vice president and secretary of > tial candidate. defense. j b performance upset The notion of enticing Nunn in­ key White House aides because in to accepting second place on the bushing U.S.-Soviet joint ventures ticket by giving him the Defense he appeared to put the Reagan portfolio began with Michigan’s administration solidly behind the Gov. James Blanchard. It has pro-trade efforts of Andreas and spread quickly. Coelho, a liberal several hundred U.S. business­ Cahf^nian and a rising power in men. President Reagan has made tne House, considers Southern no commitments to build Soviet conservative Nunn an effective trade. “ A ^’chael Dukakis. - Although Verity’s confidential Although Nunn’s senatorial trip report to Reagan this past colleagues doubt he would be in­ week stated that he would adhere terested in the vice presidency, he to existing bans on strategic trade, has certainly not ruled out the no­ M a cool reception in the Oval tion of the unique double-port­ Office. Reagan, concerned that folio proposal, which Blanchard Verity oversold Soviet trade, is testT^ constitutional saying privately the upcoming �I '.t''■’■ . . . ’ ■ • Wednesday, April 27,1988 5: Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo] The plant closing provision . “It has not one whit to do wit would appear to apply to cases international trade,” he said.-“I T / ’'scent layoffs at theought to be jettisoned.” ’ ' ’ - '*«* piaym,.„d ' tn Gillette. | ‘ Employees should be notifle wallop and Simpson also object far in advance of plant closini Sfar-Tribune Wasbineion bureau profits ' tax should have been, to the plant closing provision. It and layoffs “whenever that is fei Related story, A5 *’*** *'0^8’’ Bible,” he said. But requirin repealed many ^rears ago, MaxWASHINGTON — Wyoming’s field said. 1 fini i 1 • notification under a rigid set c ' two senators say they will vote P'’®'''' on’y pressure shak Wallop and Simpson have both’ dnn Lir "I ” . ' against an. omnibus trade bill to­ tunities to repeal the tax this year, V”"® wrong, companies into bankruptcy, o sponsored measures to repeal the’ whh fh k ii ® day, even though it contains a bill, it might -be -------worth - ac­ pjjjg businesses to costly litigatior the two Republicans said. windfall profits tax, which was: with the h.ii long-sought-after provision •' “The repeal of the windfall imposed when oil prices skyrock­ cepting it in order to win repeal of and discourage expansion,” Simj repealing the windfall profits tax profits tax is very important, but eted in the late 1970s. Several,' the windfall profits tax. Wallop son said. . on oil. ——— there are other ways to accomplish repeal bjlls have passed the Senate,! said. The problems with the trade bi Sens. Alan Simpson and “It’s not just plant closing,’’ he go well beyond plant closing pro that and 1 think it will indeed be but have never made it throygh the ■ Malcolm Wallop said T uesdav the t said. done,” Simpson said. House and into law. visions, he said, noting that th tax repeal does not outweigh what The bill mandate is “overly pro­ measure creates 30 neii Democratic Senate candidates The tax takes effect only when' they see as the bill’s unacceptable Pete Maxfield and John Vinich by oil prices rise above specified : tectionist’’ and “overly restric­ bureaucracies, calls for more thai provisions. contrast support the trade bill, levels. It has raised no revenue for tive’’ of the president’s power to 100 studies, and creates 160 nev Today’s scheduled Senate vote is Vinich calling it “critical” for several years, but advocates of shape U.S. trade policy, he said. government jobs. on a House-Senate compromise Wyoming. ' ' __ u.saymethe threat of the tax 1 There are hundreds of studies and repeal But the provisions are “neces that is somewhat different than a The trade bill “is a long-overdue ; discourages new oil exploration. numerous special interest provi­ sary out of fairness, to com version passed last year by the measure to level the world’s ecoeco- ; Earlier this week, Rep. Diclc sions that are nothing more than munities to ease some of the hor ; Senate. Wallop and Simpson both “pork,’’Wallop said. rible disruption of lives that result! voted against' voted against the Senate measure. It is not worth “trading the na-. from plant closures,” Maxfiek the trade bill when it was approved “It was a bad bill then, and it tional interest ’ ’ for a single provi ­ said. ‘ by the House. President Ronald hasn’t been improved,’? Wallop sion that would benefit Wyoming, Vinich said it is “ totally ridicu Reagan has vowed to veto the ■said. ■*■,.■j he said. lous” for the president to threater measure if, as expected, it is ap-' . There will be pther oppor'i' jj Several upcoming measures will a veto or for Wyoming’s congres­ proved by the Senate. _ Cheney objected to a provision offer the opportunity for a sional delegation to oppose the ' in the bill that would require com- windfall profits tax repeal. Wallop measure because of the plant clos­ . panics with 100 or more employees said. And the trade bill itself can ing provision. That provision will to give 60 days notice of any plant be salvaged if it is vetoed by help communities deal with the closing affecting 50 or more Reagan and the veto is sustained by , ^reverse-impact” of losing a ma­ J workers or any layoffs of six- ; Congress, he said. jor employer ‘ ‘ “ Simpson said the trade bill “has i ^nths or more affecting either some darn good provisions.” But or more workers or one-third the ■ plant closing provision “is of the work force at any facility. ; wholly unacceptable.” ■ ,■ Jyo senatore'^ta'yot^tno' on m ioa av �Slar-Tribune, Casper. Wyo. ■w ' Friday. April 29,1988 f Gramm said that Reagan would ' have vetoed the bill and that veto would have been sustained. He. j warned before the vote that the ex­ tension bill would raise false hopes and illegal aliens who waited past 6f grace oS?”yS?’w aS‘for Um were the May 4 deadline would “lose tem­ the opportunity to get the best gift This extraordinary act of grace porary residency as the first step America has — to be in the United ■ will end May 4 when we are in toward permanent status. May 4 States legally.” recess. This is it,” Simpson said. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. ends the one-year period. The immigration law enacted in Immigration offices will remain speaking for the extension, said, ! 1986 Was finely tuned legislation open until midnight on Wednes­ “It’s hard to comprehend the in­ that carefully balanced a legalizaday. The INS already has begun a tense opposition that some tion program for illegal aliens with program that allows people to sign senators are bringing to this . penalties for employers who up now and produce the necessary issue.” knowingly hire undocumented He said “of all the people in documentation later. workers. ' Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, America,” illegal aliens “are the The Senate vote and the narrow speaking for senators opposing the least likely to know their rights. House margin demonstrated that extension, said that illegal border But they do have rights.” . amnesty for those who came to Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., crossings — which dropped after | this country illegally before Jan. the new law was passed — have in-: also backed the extension, com­ 1, 1982, remains an emotional creased greatly in recent months. ■ menting, “We have little to lose issue. . 1 “After an initial period when the; and much to gain by extending the Aliens who came to this country , was taken seriously, the level application period.” * illegally before 1982 and have liv- 7 law Sen. Pete. Wilson,. R-Calif., said of illegal immigration has risen by, percent over the last year,” he* the extension should be passed said. “When people are asked why because “This game started late, 'ft they are coming, they say they i The effort by the INS, however don’t believe the law is going to be ' well intended, has not been suffi! enforced.” cient. There are people who are elGramtn added that the Border igible, but timid.” Patrol is finding a large increase in ‘ But Simpson, the chief sponsor the use of false documents by il- i of the 1986 law, carried the u^y» legal aliens. commenting that with some 1.3 He said the extension proposal is million applications so far, the “fueling the fire that is already legalization program Is working, sending millions of people across , Applications have been approved at about our borders illegally.’’ — a 95 percent rate. ' r “If you want to live your dream, here’s your chance,’’ he said, “lit, will never come again.” ^ate spoils dmnc^ f^ anmes^^ ^SHINOTON (AP) - The ^tbatc. The Senate will be in recess when the deadline arrives next Wednes­ day, so there is no charice that proponents of the extension can try again. The House approved the exten­ sion on April 21 by a 213-201 vote. The Immigration and Natural^ ization Seryire had recommended a presidential veto. , If President Reagan followed the advice, his veto likely would have been sus­ tained. Immediately after the vote. Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., urged all senators to tell their constituents; “May 4 at midnight -— —-----~ , is the final time for application for amnesty Senate on Thursday night virtually killed any chance that Congress would vote to extend the May 4 deadline for il­ legal aliens to apply for amnesfy. The action came on a proSIMPSON cedural vote to ' shut off debate by those who op­ pose extending the amnesty to Nov. 30. Only 40 senators voted to shut off the debate and 60 votes are needed to do SO. Fifty-six senators voted against shutting off ■ .., '■ ■■ . when .' , . L:..- extension �'star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. ’ Friday, April 29,1988 Helle: Ranchers would back wolf recovery if taken off endangered list tion. “If they’re truly interested in TODD WILKINSON ' the wolf, then they must be willing Star-Tribune corresponaent to declassify the animal when he’s out (of th^Park).” JACKSON — A livestock. in­ Helle’s stand appeared to win dustry representative says he would support frpm the Washington of­ sanction wolf recovery in Yellow­ fice , of Sen. Alan Simpson,, who stone National PaiL if the wants provisions written into the predator is “delisted’’ as an en­ endangered’ species act to allow dangered species outside Yellow­ control of wolves and grizzly bem stone’s boundaries. if they impact the ranching and Montana sheep producer Joe outfitting industries. Helle told a group of naturalists in Jackson that ranchers will accept Reauthorization of the act cur­ wolves if they are guaranteed rently is holding in Congress where “their God given right” to protect certain senators have placed a their property and shoot hold” on voting until their marauding wolves. amendments are added to the pen­ “I’m going to issue a challenge ding legislation.. to the wolve advocate,” said Helle, a member on a select en­ vironmental committee within the National Wool Growers Associa- both wolves and grizzly bears Endangered Species Act_ permits should be afforded broad federal * destruction of problem wolves and ' protection. '’^Smith and Helle debated their “He (the senator) would like to change the law to allow for the cases during a weekend forum on taking of wolves and grizzly bears wolves sponsored by the National in certain circumstances,” said Association of Interpretation. Simpson’s press secretary Mary •‘We think it (allowing wolves Kay Hill Tuesday in Washington. to be delisted) is completely un­ “Al Simpson does not have a called for.” Smith said. He hold on the Endangered Species _ (Helle) wants to control the woll Act,” she added. “He made a agree with that. It sjust the promise to folks in Cheyenne that matter •* that we disagree on.” ’ he would not put a hold on it and ' Helle’s assessment of wolf remhe is a man of his word.” Hill said trodution reflects a shift in posi­ the senator would support wolf tion by an industry which histori­ recovery if the concern of ranchers cally led to eradication of wolves from the West earlier in this cen- and outfitters are met. Those issues center on the right to protect Smith accused Sintpson ^of livestock and the ability to manage yvolf populations that adversely / dangefed Species Act. He said that affect game herds. 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The vertical files have been managed by the Casper College Archives and Special Collections housed in its Western History Center. The repository started the process of arranging and describing these files at the series level in January of 2024. https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/files/original/ecb229c87ca5a0a82dd5a97d41c836ea.pdf ffb8296e2f44d5a15046ad29b4dbf3b1 PDF Text Text Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Thursday, May 5, 1988 State delegation pressed NLRB for quick ruling in Decker strike Sheridan three days later, she said. At that meeting. Deeds asked Wallop to contact the NLRB and “push for expeditious review of V^SHINGTON — As long ago the dispute.” In his Jan. 7 letter to Stephens, Wallop says that his as January, the WjMipiyfcSOngr^S: sipngj delegaopiIi'pregSed the Nastaff subsequently contacted the Uonar Eaoor Relations Board to NLRB’s Denver office and was act on charges arising out of the told that no decision was immi­ bitter strike at the Decker coal nent. mine near Sheridan. On Jan. 7, Wallop also wrote to A review of letters from the del­ Deeds to inform the union chief egation to the NLRB appears to that “the complaints by both your refute charges by Wyoming Sen. union and the mine management John Vinich, D-Fremont, who is a are being slowly processed by the candidate tor the seat held by Sen. NLRB.” .. Malcolm Wallop, that the delegaNLRB Deputy Executive Secre­ tion, and Wallop in particular, tary Joseph Moore replied to Wal­ have done little to help resolve the lop on Jan. 22, saying that his in­ strike. quiry was being referred to NLRB After meeting with Larry Deeds, General Counsel Rosbmary Col­ president df the striking Local 1972 of the United Mine Workers , lyer. Collyer followed with a Jan. 28 letter to Wallop, saying she had of America, Wallop wrote NLRB asked the agency’ Denver office Chairman James Stephens asking for more information and would for the speedy resolution of a respond further when she received complaint filed by the union it. ' ' against Decker. Wallop responded to Collyer on “While I cannot comment on Feb. 4, again asking that the the merits of the complaint, 1 Decker decision be made as quickly would request that the Board act as ■ possible. Wallop also wrote quickly to reach a decision,” Wal­ Wyoming Gov. Mike Sullivan a lop says in a letter dated Jan. 7. letter reviewing the efforts to speed Following the recommendation up the NLRB’s decision. of agency officials in Washington, A second letter from Collyer to the NLRB’s Denver office finally Wallop, dated Feb. 23, reviews the issued a decision last week, ruling progress of the NLRB review. in favor of the striking miners on Collyer explains that the UMWA the central charge levelled against charges were referred to the agen­ Decker. cy’s Washington office after an in­ Wallop and fellow Republicans itial ruling by the Denver office Sen. Al Simpson and Rep. Dick was appealed by the union in Cheney provided the Star-Tribune with c o p i e s of their coT^ December. “Please be assured that the Of­ respondence related to the NLRB’s fice of General Counsel is acutely role in the Decker strike. aware of the variety of problems In addition to the letters from extant in this volatile situation,” Wallop, Simpson, and Cheney, Collyer says. “We will process delegation staffers also made fre­ this matter ...as quickly as quent calls to the NLRB to inquire possible.” about the status of the agency’s Deeds wrote to Wallop in Feb. review of the UMWA charges 29 to thank him for urging the against Decker, spokesmen for all NLRB to act quickly on the union three members said. charges. The inaction of the According to Wallop press sec­ NLRB has left “a very bitter taste retary Janis Budge, Deeds first in (the) mouths of members of our contacted Wallop on Dec. 8, union and the Sheridan” com­ 1987. Wallop met with Deeds in By ANDREW MELNYKOVYCH ^r-Tnbune Washington bureau munity, he says. “In this labor dispute, there is; probably nothing more you can' do,” Deeds says. “However, it should clearly state the urgency and impress upon you the need (for) labor law reform.” Simpson also wrote Stephens in January to urge a quick resolution of the “long-simmering and bitter labor dispute” at Decker. “The community of Sheridan, Wyoming, has been deeply af­ fected — literally wracked apartv — by this labor dispute and a prompt decision by the NLRB • would surely assist all concerned,” . he says. “1 have no desire to ‘take . sides’ in this labor-management dispute, but 1 am so very concern­ ed that the situation is having a . very profoundly unsettling and, devastating effect on the com­ munity and all of its fine citizens.” “It is so critical” that the dispute be decided “at the earliest possible time,” Simpson says. Collyer also sent two letters to Simpson. The first, dated Feb. 8, is essentially identical to the Jan. 28 letter to Wallop. On Feb. 26, Collyer sent Simpson a longer let­ ter that is similar to the Feb. 23 response to Wallop. The last member of the delega­ tion to write the NLRB was Rep. Dick Cheney, he wrote to Stephens on Feb. 23, saying he wished to “add my voice to the call for quick action by the NLRB.” “It is not my interest to suggest in any way how the NLRB should rule,” Cheney says. “My interest is in the community of Sheridan,’ where the strike and associated acts of violence have been anguishing and deeply divisive. “It seems clear that no progress in settling the dispute can be made until the NLRB makes its ruling,” he says. “A speedy decision by the Board would be the first step in helping Sheridan to heal.” Despite Cheney’s request to “keep me advised of your prog­ ress,” the NLRB never wrote back, Cheney press secretary Pete Williams said. �J Star-Tribune. Casper. Wyo. Thursday. May 5.1988 Simpson keeps option^ open, but says jCT m for VP slot ‘conjecture’ £■' ' - ■ . /U * The Republicans already have and ANDREW MELNYKOVYCH * the West “in a pretty good lock,” ~Star-Tribune staff writers .. and Bush instead “needs some pretty potent power” to round out CASPER — Sen. Alan Simp­ the party’s 1988 ticket, he said. The process now underway to j son says talk pick a running mate “is worse than ' about him ais a the NFL draft,” Simpson said, and vice^ presidential “it isn’t going to be circling in on candidate, is “a |Ei_nie.” bunch of conjeeA spokesman for the Bush cam­ ture” over a job H paign said the vice-president has he isn’t seeking bw|^9B|H9 not spoken with Simpson about n o r ' V e r y e n r, f thusiastic about.' WjlMKSHi , ■ the second spot on the GOP ticket.; The campaign has no list of possi­ But Simpson, SIMPSON ble vice presidential prospects, and apparently keep­ will not. develop such. a list for ing his options open,' stopped some time, she said. ' short of saying flatly that he Nevertheless, Simpson continues would turn down the second spot to figure prominently in specula­ on the Republican ticket if asked tion about who will be Bush’s by George Bush to accept it. running mate. An article in Mon­ “I can’t imagine as 1 sit here on day’s Boston Globe listed him as a May 3 getting into that,” he said leading contender. during a Senate break ' trip in “Nobody’s ever asked me,” Wyoming Wednesday. The proSimpson said, about whether any­ spect of losing his privacy, the one from the Bush camp talked rigors of the campaign trail and no him about the vice presiden- \ longer being able to legislate are ’with ey. _ . “negatives” that weigh against the Neither has Bush, who is a perposition, Simpson said. sonal friend,'mentioned it, he ad­ Still, in an interview, he stead­ ded. The Bush family relationship fastly declined to rule himself out. dates back to the time his father. “I haven’t said, ‘hell^ no,’” Milward, served as U.S. Senator. Simpson said. “But I’ve fold you “When George and I are there are many negatives which together, we didn’t talk about would change the way I w0uld live that,” he said. “1 think people my life, and sorting those through misread the relationship between 1 do not see what would lead me to George Bush and me. ” that at this time.” Simpson did say that he felt Simpson cast aside persistent qualified to be vice president, and reports that he was on a list of he saw the position as more than candidates under serious con­ “a nothing job” as some have sideration by Bush. viewed it. BvPAULKRZA ! : i 1 ’ .. The Hudson meeting was sched­ uled as part of an effort to visit “I’ve been born and bred and educated here, and 1 can handle ^all towns in the state, he said. any task you roll out of the The appearance “doesn’t have a garage,” he said. But the vice thing to do” with the fact that a presidency is “a job that would potential opponent for colleague , take me away from the thing I’ve Sen. Malcolm Wallop, Democrat­ been doing for 22 years — and ic challenger John Vinich, lives that’s legislating,” Simpson add-, there, Simpson added. “Come October,” after the ed. ’’ ------. - — His recent comments about vet­ primaries, “I’ll go anywhere and erans that have stirred some con-' work like a dog in a partisan way” troyersy have not become a liabili-' for Wallop, he said. Simpson declined to speculate ty m his political career, he said. on how Wallop would fare against Aside from some “hysterical” let-^ any of the three announced Dem­ •u? an encounter from a “ter-; ocrats seeking his senate seat. nbly hostile” constituent at a But he said so far he has found Gheyenne “town meeting,” most people “when they understand the campaign mounted by the fully what I’ve been saying” are Democrats as “interesting,” because they “don’t say anything not that critical, Simpson said. Simpson was scheduled to con­ about (their) own positions,” he said. duct town meetings in Lander and “If the whole process of the Hudson today, along with par­ ticipating in a groundbreaking opposition is simply knocking the signaling the beginning of a project other guy’s product, ... people in to remove uranium mill tailings Wyoming don’t go for campaigns like that,” he said. near Riverton. �istar-j riDune, Gasper, wyo. Friday, May 6,1988 Simpson says many Wyo gas,stations might have to close From staff and wire reports r’ CODY — Failure by Wyo­ ming’s Legislature to adopt regu­ lations for leaking underground storage tanks cotdd force twothirds of the state’s service stations out of business during the height of the summer tourist season, ac­ cording to U.S. Sen. Alan Simpsom "HTEe^ state House of Repre­ sentatives earlier this year. over­ whelmingly passed governing reg­ ulations for the storage tanks, but the Senate Majority Floor Leader Russ Zimmer, R-Goshen, refused to bring the bill to the Senate floor for cemsideration. Thy'^nvironmental Protection Agency is coming out with its own set of regulations later this year, and many small service stations may not be able to meet them and go out of business, said Simp-? {' son. , . “I’ve had calls from guys like Adolph Medina and his little gas station in Rawlins, and he would be out of business,” the Republi­ can said earlier this week during a stop in Cody. “He can’t afford a Si million (insurance) policy” as I required under the EPA guide­ lines. Gov. Mike Sullivan has said he might have to call the Legislature back to Cheyenne for a special session to resolve the problem, since i a state regulatory program would , supercede the EPA regulations. Some petroleum marketing organizations also have called for. a special session . i Simpson said it would be hard j for the congressional delegation to ; ’ get the EPA to waive its require­ ments for Wyoming businesses. “Something is going to have to • be done, or we’re going to have to go to the EPA as a delegation and ask for some kind of waiver or an i extension to keep about two-thirds of the gas stations in Wyoming from going out of business right in the middle of the tourist season,” he said. However, EPA officials are not? likely to grant such a waiver, said ' the senator. The leaking underground storage tank legislation before the. . Legislature this year was supported ■ by wide-ranging interests, in-“ .eluding small filling station? ■. owners, the Petroleum Associa-r<* tion of Wyoming, the Wyoming* Mining Association, the Sierra Club and the Wyoming Outdoor Council. But after the bill was approved ; overwhelmingly in the House on a 52-12 vote, the Senate never ; debated the issue, primarily because of opposition from two ‘ key Senate leaders, Zimmer and Senate Vice President Diemer True, R-Natrona. , True, chairman of the Senate Minerals, Business and Economic Development Committee and owner of a trucking firm, said he opposed the bill because he did not know how the EPA rules will reg­ ulate the underground tanks; True had planned attempts to heavily amend the bill had it come up for debate, but Zimmer, as ma­ jority floor leader, let the issue die without every being bought up for a vote. The EPA recently called for comment on how it should phas? in its rules regulating the underground tanks. True responded, saying he approved the EPA plans to phase in the regula­ tions. In a prepared statement, True said he favored using one of three criteria for eligibility for a i phased-in imposition of the in- . ' surance requirement; the financial strength of a company, the risk that one of a company’s tanks .might leak; or the number of tanks a company owns. But he said basing the criteria on the number of tanks owned would work best. ; �■btar-1 riDune, (jasper. Wyo. "it Kriday, May 6, 1988 , ! Tailings removal ceremony held 1 Senators, DOE officials attend event in Riverton >! CP By TOM DUNCAN ‘I think it’s fair to say that vir-" tually every possible technical aspect of the project has been ex­ RIVERTON — Gov. Mike ■ amined anu arid ic re-examined in exMalcolm haustive detail --- --- —™1, ” the governor Wallop and ^an Simpson and said. He said the project is en­ U.SPepailment of Energy officials vironmentally acceptable and will said Thursday they are glad that provide “a better and safer isola­ the Susquehanna-Western uranium ' tion of those materials and assure mill tailings pile is finally being protection for our precious moved. ground water resources.” Approximately 200 attended the Thursday morning groundbreak­ Sen. Malcolm Wallop told the ing ceremony in the Central audience he found it difficult to Wyoming College Arts Center believe that, the mill tailings Theater. cleanup project is beginning. ‘‘It has literally taken almost a decade “I have looked forward to this day with great and questionable to put this project together ... almost the length of time it takes anticipation, a little bit like a child to get a nuclear power plant to looking forward to Christmas. It seemed like it would never come,’l« receive an operating license,’’ Wallop said. >, / iw the governor said. ' The governor described the pro-' Wallop said that when Congress ject aS “thorough, even though authorized the unranium mill tail­ there have been innumerable, ings radiation control act in 1978, delays.” “we actually believed that this leg­ Star-Tribune correspondent islation would lead to a rapid clean-up of abandoned mill tail)- i ings sites.” Sen. Alan Simpson lauded this project and observed that it would help the area economy. f? I According to information pro- j vided by the Uranium Mill Tailings ' Remedial Action Project, the mill operated from 1958 to 1963 arid produced 1,700 tons of' yellowcake. The tailings pile ex­ tends over 70 acres and contains about one million cubic yards bf material. j The projected 31-month effort is expected to “provide more th^n $21 million in economic benefits to the Riverton area” with a peak employment of about 400 jobs, , according to project information? The tailings pile site is about two miles south of downtown Rivertbri near the confluence of the Little Wind and Big Wind Rivers. 1 ■■ �•StarrJribune. Casper^Wyo. j ®®® tihief under fire frcan veterans, ‘ardent supporter’ _ SCOTT FARRIS P Star-Tribune capital bureau t CHEYENNE — The director of the Veterans Administration Friday said Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson, under fire from some veterans for suggesting a one-year cost of living freeze in veterans ' benefits, is “an ardent veterans supporter.” i At a news conference in Chey i enne, VA Director Thomas Tur' nage declined to defend Simpson’s remarks directly because he is not sure “precisely what he said.” Simpson,has said he believes all ' federal entitlement programs should be reviewed, and said a ,, one-year freeze on cost-of-living / adjustments for veterans’ benefits would realize a substantial savings in the federal budget. i, He also said the current struc! ture of veterans’ entitlement pay­ ments should be revamped because “If you stop the rhetoric and under the current system some vet­ look at the facts, we’re doing very erans with non-combat disabilities well,’’ Turnage said. “1 believe we receive higher payments than those are on the right course when it wjth combat-related disabilities. comes to veterans benefits. ’ ’ “Does that make sense?” Simp­ Turnage said the addition to the son said in a recent letter to Wyo­ Cheyenne hospital is an example ming newspapers. of the improved services and Although Turnage did not ad­ “moral commitment’’ the Reagan . dress those remarks made by administration and the nation has Simpson, he said Simpson’s record to veterans’ health care. as past chairman of the Senate He noted the VA is “the biggest , Veterans Affairs Committee shows health care system in the free the Wyoming Republican is ‘‘an world” with 172 hospitals and 104 ardent veterans supporter.’/ affiliated medical centers. Turnage, in Cheyenne ‘ for the Turnage added that the great groundbreaking ceremony for a challenge facing the VA in the new $11.8 million addition to the coming years is improving its Cheyenne VA Hospital, also said geriatric care, because there will be THe Reagan administration has more than 9 million veterans over been supportive of veterans. f age 65 by the year 2000. He said the $27 billion , VA budget for the next fiscal year is ; / The new addition in Cheyenne is expected to be completed in June half a billion dollars more, than 1990. the current VA budget. . , - ,, �Siili JL1> OWtzVy ’ur* C V By JOAN BARRON_ Star-Tribune capital bureau CHEYENNE — Federal rules on leaking undergroundsta^ tanks are still “in a mte ol flux S^TToncerns that Wyoming ser­ vice stations could be forced out of business are premature, two Wyoming Senate leaders said Fri^^Senate Vice President Di^m^ True, R-Natrona, and Majority Floor Leader Russ Zimip^, RGoshen-Niobrara, agreed the Mature.must ultimately arloP‘ underground storage tank bill bu^ said the state needs first to know what the federal government will require. it’e « “This is not a state issue. It s a national issue,” Zimmer said. U.S. Alan Simpson__ said Thursday that the Wyoming Legis­ lature’s failure to adopt regula­ tions for leaking underground storage tanks could force twothirds of the state’s service siaions out of business during the height of the summer tourist season. Simpson also said he has receiv­ ed calls from Wyoming service sta­ tion owners who claim they cannot afford a $1 million, insurance poliS as required und^'tn^o^y> tai ProtectionA^encyTguidehnes. —t^ki^idliyatu mean­ while, haslaid he iri^ynFed to cal a special legislative session to deal with the underground storage tank '^^Aii underground storage tank bill passed the House in the 198S budget session on a 52-12 vote but the Senate never debated the issue principally because of opposition from True and Zimmer. RUSS ZIMMER Tanks not a state issue DIEMERTRUE Doubts if Simpson knew Zimmer said Friday that while there was time to debate the bi the Senate, other bills were mor mpSt and he felt “uncom­ fortable” with the proposal because of the uncertainty over the federal rules and the tax increase saw the bill «»WI have imposed a one cent per ga Ion m cTease on the tax on gasoline and diesel fuel to finance the of spills. He said this amounted to a tax increase of $5 million. Moreover, Zimmer said that at the end of the budget session in March a total of 33 other states had not adopted legislation either. True said an EP A director from Denver testified before Ids Senate Minerals, Business and Development Committee th rules were in final form and they would not be changed before the July 15 publication date. That testimony gave passing the bill. True said. HowS fhe proposed rules weren t primed inihe Federal Register unS March 31 and still are in the comment invitation stage, he said. ‘^^TrTe said he doubts if Simpson knew of the pending rules or their status when he made his ibiatement. True, meanwhile, has written o the EPA asking that the ‘‘Vf" * responsibility rules be phased in. He said Friday he doesnt believe a state of flux and we don t know ' the type of legislation that is_going to be required until we see the rules,” True said. �Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Tuesday, May 10, 1988 Wyo delegation will support state stand on Clark’s Fork .may be designated wild, scenic DI jv/cp * (AP) — U.S. Sen. . POWELL Malcolm Wallop savs he’s waiting tor state officials to take' a stand on federal protection of the Clark’s Fork River before making up his mind on the issue. “I think it’s really not ap­ propriate for me to substitute my judgment for that of the state of Wyoming,” Wallop told a group of Powell residents. “It seems Wyoming has the mechanisms in place to make that judgment.” Federal officials are considering putting the river under “Wild and Scenic” protection, which would prevent development of water proi jects in the designated area. I Wallop’s position on the matter ! echoes that of U.S. Rep. Dick ; Cheney, who has said he willalso ' support the state. ! Meanwhile, U.S. Sen. Al i Simpson said protecting the river ; from dam builders is a top priority ; for him, but he does not necessari- • p ly side with those seeking the fedI eral Wild and Scenic designation. i During a visit to Powell last I week the Wyoming Republican I said he has a personal affection for I “that extraordinary, extraordinary i place.” ► It took him just a few words to sum up his feelings on the matter: “1 don’t want to see a dam in there,” he said. Simpson, who hiked and fished in the upper Clark’s Fork area ■ when he was growing up, said he might support a state Wild and Scenic designation as an alternative to the federal classification. “1 don’t think some kind of state designation is a cop-out at all,” he said. “Maybe there are . some things we can do. Our dele­ gation will work with the state on that.’’ Wallop agreed that once the state makes a decision on the mat­ ter it will be up to the members of Wyoming’s co^igressional delega­ tion to take ovdr. But first there are fundamental decisions about Wyoming water that have to be made, at the state level, said the senator. . CLARK’S FORK .Subject of controversy ; �True, Tippets say lack of storage tank law will not force gas stations to close . By DAN WHIPPLE i Star-tribune staff writer Al 1 -Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Thursday, May 1 2 ,1 9 8 8 i CASPER — The Wyoming , Legislature’s failure to deal with lealcing underground storage tanks j in the state is not going to drive ; any independent gasoline retailers i out of business over the next two years, two legislators say. Both State Sen. Diemer True, R-Natrona, the bill’s chief opponent, and Rep. Dennis Tippets, R-Fremont, the chief supporter, said U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson’s suggestion that two-thirds of Wyoming service stations will close in the absence of legislation is not correct. Simpson, R-Wyo., said last week that bankruptcies were possible because of the inability of i small gasoline marketers to obtain $1 million spill insurance coverage, a rule .ci^rently being considered by the^'Erivironmental Protection Agency. True and Tippets debated the legislation at the annual meeting of the Wyoming Highway Users Federation in Casper on Wednesday. The two men disagreed on two major areas: the funding of cleanup activities and legislative oversight. Tippets said that there are 6,800 steel underground storage tanks in Wyoming, “and they’re starting to leak.” “The solution is a difficult one,” Tippets said, “but I have concluded, because we have over 120 now identified underground storage tank situations, it is something we are going to have to face upto.” Tippets said the proposed legis­ lation, which passed the House but never came up for a vote in the Senate, was closely based on model legislation he drafted with the national underground storage tank committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures. Tippets’ bill proposed setting aside $5 million each for two funds, one for cleanup of spills and one to establish an insurance fund. The insurance account would be set up so that each oper­ ator would pay $50 a year and help the service station operator meet the financial responsibility re­ quirements. Under proposed__regulations. each service station operator is re­ quired to have a $1 million in­ surance policy to cover cleanup of underground tank spills — a poli­ cy that is not presently available ; anywhere in the U.S., according to True. It was this insurance requirement that led to fears, expressed last week by Simpson, that service sta­ tion operators would be driven out of business under the cost burden, without state help. However, both Tippets and True believe that this requirement will be mitigated in new rulemakings — probably to a $500,000 policy that will be gradually phased in over several years. The cleanup fund, as proposed by Tippets, would be funded by a one-ceni-per-gallon tax on all fuels sold in Wyoming. The money would be administered by the Department of Environmental Quality. When both funds reach $5 mil­ lion, the tax would be removed, and if either one dropped below $2 million, “the Department of Rev­ enue would turn the tax back on,’’ Tippets said. True objected to both the new tax and to leaving such a large “pots of money,” as he put it, in the hands of a regulatory en­ forcement agency without legislative oversight. “1 want all of that money ap­ propriated by the Appropriations Committee. 1 want you to hold the Legislature responsible,” True said. i True said that he has drafted a j bill for the next session that incor­ porates his concerns. “It does not contain a fuel tax,” he said. Instead, he suggests a tank fee that would bring in $600,000, add­ ed to $1 million from DEQ fines, forfeitures and fees and using the resulting total of $1.6 million as the clean-up fund. WWWJJM ----------- True said the DEQ has all the authority needed to institute the leaking underground storage tank prograrn except the financial re­ sponsibility and insurance por­ tions, or the authority to sue “responsible parties’’ for costs of cleanup incurred after it undertak­ en by the government. “It seems irresponsible as a mat­ ter of good public policy to give any agency a $5 million refillable pot of money with no legislative oversight,’’True said. Tippets argued, however, that $1.6 million in the cleanup fund would likely be inadequate. Cleanup costs of the projects range from about $100,000 to several million. “When a leak is close to a water supply, $1 million is nothing,” he said. “I don’t think the $1.6 million is a drop in the bucket” considering the 120 known spills in the state. Tippets said. Tippets said a national franchise chain was considering purchasing some land in Riverton for a build­ ing site and was negotiating at a price of around $200,000. However, since the area was near some service stations, the company ordered core drilling to look for leakage. Under existing Wyoming law, the owner of the property is responsible for the cleanup, rather than the source of the contamina­ tion. “They checked for leaks,” Tip­ pets said, “And by 4 p.m. that afternoon they had drilled into obviosuly contaminated soil. That $200,000 property was worth zero.” True denied that he tried to kill Tippet’s proposed legislation. He said he enabled it to be reported out the Minerals Committee, which he chairs, even though “I could easily have laid that bill back” because it came in late on his docket. �-Star-Tribune. Casper, Wyo. Funds for rail-based MX survive in Senate By ANDREW MELNYKOVYCH f\Star-jhbune Washington bureau WASHINGTON — The Senate Thursday decisively defeated an attempt to slash funding for de­ velopment of a rail-based version of the MX missile. By “a vote of 61-36, the Senate killed a move to transfer $500 mil­ lion in fiscal year 1989 funds from the MX program to a variety of conventional weapon programs. The move would have left $200 rnillion — rather than $700 mil­ lion — for development of the rail-based MX. Wyoming Republicans Malcolm Wallop and Alan Simpson both voted to kill~tEe fund transfer proposal. Thursday’s action sets the stage for an eventual compromise with the House on the issue of landbased strategic nuclear missiles. The House version of the fiscal year 1989 defense bill includes ' $100 million for the MX, but $600 million for development of the small, mobile, single-warhead missile dubbed “Midgetman.’’ The Senate bill contains only $50 million for Midgetman. Friday. May 13, 1988 A House-Senate conference committee will have to resolve the differences. The result is likely to be roughly equal funding for both missiles, congressional leaders have said. The Reagan administration favors the MX over the Midg­ etman. But congressional leaders and Defense Secretary Frarik Carlucci generally agree that the final choice between MX and Midgetman should be left for the next administration to make. Cheyenne’s F.E. Warren Air Force Base is' slated to be the headquarters for the rail-based MXs. The 10-warhead missiles would be deployed in pairs on special trains. , In times of crisis or international tension, the trains would move out of their “rail garrisons’’ onto the vast American commercial rail network. The Air Force says the. plan would enable the MXs to evade and thus survive a Soviet at­ tack, increasing their value as a j deterrent to such an attack. I Critics charge the missile trains would be extremely vulnerable to a sneak attack, and would increase the chances of such a first strike. Critics also cite the potential for sabotage or accidents involving the ■ missiles. Sens. Paul Simon, D-Ill., and Carl Levin, D-Mich., introduced the proposal to cut funding for the rail-based MX. Leaving $200 mil­ lion for the missile would preserve the next president’s options, they said. Levin argued that U.S. military spending should be focused on the greatest potential threats to Amer­ ican security. Conventional war is a far greater threat than a nuclear exchange, he said. Furthermore, if a nuclear war occurs, it is likely to be the result . of the escalation of a conventional conflict. Levin said. The best deterrent to nuclear war is thus a strong conventional deterrent, he said. Although the U.S. nuclear deterrent is more than adequate, the Air Force wants to spend bil­ lions on “redundant strategic systems like the rail-based MX,” he said. The MX would contribute only marginally to the U.S. ca­ pacity to respond to a nuclear at­ tack, Levin said. While billions are spent to build up strategic systems, conventional forces go begging, he said. Navy pilots in the Atlantic Fleet are buy­ ing commercial highway radar detectors for their planes because they have not yet received the radar detection equipment the Navy is supposed to install. Levin said. The Simon-Levin amendment would have provided $30 million for such equipment, $70 million for 2,000 Army anti-tank missiles, $100 million for Army supplies, and $300 million for spare parts for Air Force planes. Debate on the measure lasted less than an hour, , with the two sponsors speaking in favor of the measure, and only Sen. James Exon, D-Neb., speaking against it. �: . ■ •■. .• , ;jf 5“ -V)*’’ • . < ‘ Saturday, May 14,1988 -Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo?"/* i sc-""l’■‘on VI '*”age. • / I .;’'•‘^iiiii if^ • '^ys Q ^"ited cn hook^ be dam^^'^^'on '■ord.” '■'ailed "[^‘^^Sed by // ■ ■’• I • or Ss^anf’^S > e,/onu,j^ p''and-tell’> ^’ or wdi’ I • ^^*1, �-Star-Tribune. Casper, Wyo. Sunday, May 15,1988' Rimpson says cutting benefits «ill shrink federal deficit JAP) Drottrnm. to tzs achieve entitlement programs Repubhean leaders in the Senate any meaningful reduction in the I eassured the nation’s top business deficit. executives Saturday that the • • deal honestly with outlook IS good for shrinking the Medicare, Social Security, veter­ federal budget deficit. an s benefits, then we’ll get some.' he Business Council, composIhing done. All else is dancing in -'d of 61 chief executives of the nathe night,’he said. lon s largest corporations, heard He said he believed the national rom Sen. Pete Domenici, Rcommission would propose a sen­ <M.. and Sen. Alan Simpson, sible package because the co<-Wyo., as the grou~wrapped up chairmen, former Transportation I iwo-day conference. Secretary Drew Lewis and Simpson, who is deputy RepubWashington lawyer Robert ican leader in the Senate, spoke to btmuss, “are pretty gutsy guys.” lie executives Friday night and to On another matter, Simpson -porters Saturday. said he was optimistic that Con­ He said that the government gress, despite a tight schedule, will lust limit the growth of federal pass a second and better trade bill _ .. after President Reagan vetoes the bill sent to him last week. Simpson said two key Demo­ cratic leaders, House Speaker Jim Wright, D-Texas, and Senate Fi­ nance Committee Chairman Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, were unlikely to let the legislation die because of strong support in their home state for repeal of the windfall profits tax on oil, which is included in the massive trade bill. The business executives, as they opened their twice-a-year confer­ ence at The Homestead, a plush resort in the mountains of south­ western Virginia, issued a generally upbeat assessment of the nation’s economic prospects this year, but warned that the budget deficit re­ mains ‘‘disturbingly high” during such a period of good times. Edmund Pratt, chairman of Pfizer Inc., a health care corpora­ tion, said many business leaders enjoying the moderate economic growth have a sense of ‘‘living on borrowed time” because of gov­ ernment red ink. “1 think most of us still regard the budget deficit as the No. I problem facing us,” said Robert Kilpatrick, chairman of CIGNA Corp., an insurance company. The executives, in a forecast representing a consensus of mem- her corporation’s chief economists, said that the budget deficit would rise from $150.2 bil­ lion last year to $154 billion both this year and in 1989. The Con­ gressional Budget Office estimates he deficit will be $157 billion in 1 700. . Domenici said ”we*ve made significant strides” and predicted the government would ‘‘very easi­ ly” meet the $136 billion, 1989 target of the Gramm-Rudman def­ icit reduction law. He said he did not want to prematurely divulge the positions lie will be taking in the delibera­ tions of the national commission. �-Star-Tribune, Casper. Wyo. Monday, May 16, 1988 Now & then, wolves & men gotta howl \x/A WASHINGTON — Anyone' who expects the Wyoming con­ gressional delegation to drop its opposition to the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park is howling at the wrong moon. Wolf proponents nevertheless are always on the lookout for signs of hope, no matter how small. To them 1 offer the follow­ ing selections from the Collected Interviews of Sen. Alan K. Simpson. »u« the Jiz-in delegation z4/^Acn doesn’t’t hav#> have its facts straight ... I’m not just sit­ ting here ringing the gong about wolves.” April 20,1988: “Well, I’ve never been anti­ wolf. I’ve just said ‘look, why don’t we study the history of the Magic Pack that is there in Mon­ tana, study the issue in Alaska, and how they do with the wolf population in Canada.’ Those studies show that an adult wolf will consume a tremendous Spring, 1986: “Wolves eat things — human and alive. They say they don’t, but why would there be the whole his­ tory of the grey wolf, the 'Tales of Russia and the North Woods’ if they didn’t take on a tasty human being occassionally — but leave that out...They are too fearsome a thing. Don’t forget that one of their little items of diet is baby grizzly bears.” Sept. 30,1987: “At least for myself, the issue of wolves is not something where I’ve just thrown up my hands and said ‘Oh, I’ve seen those pictures of wolves eating human beings on the steppes of Russia.’ That’s not me. I’m talking about several thoughtful things, like having studies to determine if the rein­ troduction is going to have a nega­ tive effect on big game.” “It is always interesting to me how some groups seem to get emotional about the issue and then make the officious statement that Andrew Melnykovych Star-Tribune number of ungulates and especial­ ly the moose population. Are we ready for that? That’s all I’m say­ ing.” In the September 1988 interview, Simpson also took to task radical environmentalist Howie Wolke, who had predicted that private cit­ izens might take wolf reintroduc­ tion into their own hands. Wolke “is not exactly at the top of the list of those people who do rational things,” Simpson said. “1 think those kind of people bring an element of extremism into what 1 hope is going to be a thoughtful debate.” Marlene Simons, the Republi­ ran can u/hn who rpnrpQpntQ represents Crnnk Crook Countv County in the Wyoming House, appears to have thought a little too much about Wolke’s prediction. Simons claims that two wolves were deposited at the Afton airstrip in March. An unidentified plane touched down, someone kicked the wolves out the door, and the plane flew off, she said, adding that she was told of the in­ cident by two eyewitnesses. The wolves ran off into the coun­ tryside, and Simons said she is sure that they were tracked down and killed. This story proved too much for even Wyoming Farm Bureau Ex­ ecutive Vice President Larry Bourret to swallow. Bourret, who is as willing as anyone to believe and repeat bad things about wolves and environmentalists, dismissed Simon’s tale as a “third- or four­ th-hand rumor.” As Nancy Reagan and other studenft of the celestial objects doubtlessly know, the presence of a full moon brings out the worst in both wolves and people. Fortunately, the full — or is is fool — moon was waning when the Wyoming Republican Party met in Cheyenne earlier this month. Had the state GOP con­ vened a week earlier, who knows what sorts of intemperate com­ ments party chairman Mark Hughes might have made. In honor of the bright future of the Wyoming Republican Party under underHuchcs Hughes’ stcadv steadyleadershiD, leadership, 1 I offer the following song for defecting Democrats (with apolo­ gies to the Beach Boys and “Bar­ bara Ann,” whoever she was). Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jimmy Watt Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jimmy Walt Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jimmy Watt Oh, Jimmy Watt I’ve changed a lot Oh, Jimmy Wall I ’ll stop hugging all those trees If that’s what it takes to please You Jimmy Watt Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jimmy Watt Tried Mike the Duke Tried Mike the Duke Tried Mike the Duke But he was a liberal kook Oh Jimmy Watt Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jimmy Watt Jimmy Walt Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jimmy Watt Jesse Jackson’s coalition Is surely headed for perdition Jimmy Watt Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jimmy Watt Thought the GOP Wasn't right for me Talked to Jimmy Watt And at last the truth I see Oh Jimmy Watt Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jimmy Watt Jimmy Watt Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jimmy Watt You ’ve got me out here on the right wing Hoping it’s the right thing Jimmy Watt Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jimmy Watt �•Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Monday, May 16, 1988 Simpson says Congress may pass acid-rain legislation o„^PKvvMF.MV.cnvYrH By ANDREW MELNYKOVYCH Star-Tribune Washington bureau /VVi iC * zSv/r WASHINGTON — Congress may pass legislation this year to reduce emissions of air pollutants that contribute to acid rain. Sen. Al Simpson said last week. “Acid rain is a serious problem that should be addressed,” the Wyoming Republican told the American Industrial Health Council. “We cannot escape that debate.” But Simpson also tried to tie Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, the likely Democratic presidential nominee, to environmental “extremists.” He criticized Dukakis for his ‘ continual drumming” on the acid rain question. Dukakis “makes statements as a Northeasterner that are going to terrify the energy-producing states,” Simpson said. “He knows very little about the West or the Southwest or the South.” Sens. William Proxmire, D- ■ Sens. William Proxmire, „ Wise., and George Mitchell, DMaine, are working with him to craft a compromise on the longdelayed reauthorization of the Clean Air Act, Simpson said. “We are ready to make signifi­ cant adjustments that will increase the possibility of its passage,” he said. A possible compromise would call for a reduction of 10 million tons a year of sulfur dioxide (SO2), the air pollutant most closely linked to acid rain, Simp­ son said. Most SO2 pollution is the result of the burning of highsulfur content coal in power plants and other industrial facilities. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., poses a major obstacle to acid rain legislation, Simpson said. Byrd fears such leg­ islation will further depress the market for high-sulfur coal mined in his economically troubled state. “It is the height of folly to ex­ pect Byrd to simply buy off on whatever comes out” ohhe Senate the measure will address the p^- ?ravha,e environment committee, Simpson said. But Byrd is not an “irresponsi­ ble legislator,” and is willing to consider a compromise, he said. Such a compromise could include a two-phased reduction in ’ SO2 emissions, along with extended deadlines for complying with the reduction requirements, Simpson said, Simpson did not say how the reductions would have to be achieved. He has always favored a “free choice” approach that would not impose a requirement to install expensive pollution control equipment, thus encouraging coal users to switch to low-sulfur fuel, much of which is mined in Wyo­ ming. blem of ozone pollution in urban areas, he said. Other legislation awaiting action includes renewal of the En­ dangered Species Act and the Resource Conservation and Re­ covery Act, the nation’s basic haz­ ardous waste management law, Simpson said. Work on those might be com­ pleted before the end of the current Congress, but no action is likely on bills to deal with indoor air pollution, cancer-causing radon gas, and groundwater contamina­ tion. he said. Simpson described Dukakis’ statements about western water rights and environmental issues as “alarming.” The Massachusetts governor has a “coterie about,him of some very alarming people,” he said. Unless Dukakis can “dampen that, he will lose support among moderates,” Simpson said. “1 would think the extremists in the environmental movement will whatever droves they have...and it will frighten many people,” he said. Any air pollution bill is unlikely to deal with the “very controver­ sial” question of toxic pollutants emitted by chemical plants and other facilities, Simpson predicted. It is also uncertain how .in AL SIMPSON Dukakis’ statements ‘alarming’ �■Tuesday, May 17, T Qgg ■ >> ■ r ■ ■■ ■ r ■ —- . . ------. ..... „■ • Simpson defends Nancy from attacksJn 3‘Kiss and i tell’ books By ANDREW MELNYKOVYCH Star-Tribune Washington bureau fluence the president’s schedule and actions. When Reagan first took office, WASHINGTON — Sen. Alan his wife was criticized for being Simpson has ridden to the aid of* “uninvolved,’J Simpson notes. first lady Nancy Reagan, defending Now she is being “portrayed as her against the “bum rap” she has some sort of flaky, all-powerful received in books written by sever­ oracle. What guff.”' al of her husband’s former aides. Regan’s contention that Nancy “She deserves a hell of a lot bet­ Regan helped get him fired is ter,” the Wyoming Republican dismissed by Simpson^ writes on the opinion page of Fri­ “Nancy Reagan didn’t drive him day’s Washington Post. “For out,” Simpson says. “There were when we elected her remarkable a lot of people lined up in the bat­ .husband to this job of president, ter’s box to do just that.” she was — and surely, is — ‘part Simpson says he was present at of the deal.’ ” several meetings during which “She took on a tough job that Ronald Reagan was urged “and, has no definitions but many de­ yes, even directed” to fire Regan. . mands,” Simpson says. “She has “The congressional press crew fulfilled her obligations and duties and galleries worked overtime in to her country and to her husband those days to accommodate the with great grace, class and distinc­ calls for Regan’s resignation and tion.” to provide the long knives to lop Simpson said he wrote the piece off his head,” Simpson writes. because he had a “bellyful” of ' In his conversations with Nancy criticism of the first lady, accord­ Reagan, Simpson says he saw that ing to Mary Kay Hill, his press sec­ she had reached “her own firm retary. conclusions about her husband’s The Post was the first newspaper , best interests.” Other first ladies contacted about printing the arti­ have offered their husbands ad­ cle, and accepted it immediately, vice, he says. she said. Simpson was determined “Only a damn fool would sug­ that the piece be printed. Hill said. gest that the wife of the president “It was going to run some­ of the United States has no role where,” she said. whatever in the governing of our _ Simpson’s lengthy defense is country,” Simpson says. “It directed largely at former White might not read that way in the House spokesman Larry Speakes civics texts or statute books,/but and former White House Chief of that’s the way it is in real life.” ‘ Staff Donald Regan, both of The Reagans rely on each other whom have written “kiss-and-tell” “to deal with the political world,” books that are highly critical of he says. “They know where to Nancy Reagan. turn when you don’t know where “How ironic to see two fine men to turn.. who I have known ... bring “They have deep reservoirs of themselves down to a lesser level faith in a higher being, in by spewing out these rather themselves, and in each other,” vengeful portrayals,” Simpson Simpson says. “For them, his suc­ writes. “Their luster leaves their cess is her success. Nancy’s ac­ personalities as the bluster leaves complishments and strengths are their pens.” part of the president’s triumph and Simpson does not mention character too.” Regan’s most controversial allega­ Those who criticize the First tion — that Nancy Reagan relied Couple are motivated by envy, on advice from astrologer’s tp inSimpson suggests. “I think one of the things that' spooks people about Ron and Nancy Reagan is that they have a great thing going,” he says. “It is called a love affair — and it has spanned 36 years and counting. “They hold hands, they smooch, they share their lives and experiences, they wholly support each other, they laugh, they giggle, and all that pretty much threatens people who don’t understand it or who don’t live it,” Simpson says. Simpson praises Nancy Reagan for putting “her own distinctive and unique trademark on the role of First Lady,” largely through her efforts to combat drug abuse. “How sad that anyone would be> titillated by what is really a vengeful portrait of a beautiful * lady,” he says. Throughout the ‘ remarkable presidency of Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan has been ' right there. “She was the one at his side while they plucked a bullet from his chest or cut a section of colon ' from his body,” Simpson writes. “She has always been the one to nurture and sustain him,” he says. “You can bet the lunch money that he is right there now serving her in, the same moving fashion.” ALAN SIMPSON ‘Grace, class and distinction’ �XA/VO ' Wednesday. May IB. ■’9®® , Casper, 'Simpson: tojight hard for Wyo gi&EVENNe en. (ui VTyoming is out of touch and claims thrt h desperawiththestatearea«g g Alan tion. according/o u.s. Sim^on^ weekly in“'Siffipson, reporters, tcrview with colleague defended his^ V Democratic and criticized Ute one enough to, even ^id “What the hell; S«n doing for 12 years? �SiliipsoiiV/Wallop vote against Helms effort to delay action on INF Treaty X A" ! * rc Wednesday’s vote provides* ao jjgp will be to move iRE^WMELNYKOVYC H (indication ByATTPki..,, .v.xux.... , ------------ - of - the strength of the .^^rd completion of a treaty to „ ; 1' v-.u --------------.u- .Mc long-r^gc nu­ Star-Tribune Washington bureau hard-core opposition to the INF Treaty. However, other conser- clear weapons, Simpson said. WASHINGJON 4-Wyoming vative Republicans, including While saying that he has no illu­ Republicans Alan Simpson.; and.. Wallop?'Pete Wilson of Califor- sions about the nature of the nia, and Dan Quayle of Indiana Soviet system, Simpson said Gor­ MalCQlm' W3I-, are expected to offer a series of bachev represents an improvement ilgp on Wednesl ^y voted uAurn amendments to the verification over past Soviet leaders. Gor-eI back the rfirst and enforcement provisions of the bachev is a direct, forceful leader, j chaHeng€ ; to. pact. ; he said. , Simpson said America has a I Senate, appfoval Earlier Wednesday, Simpson I of the lntermedihailed the INF accord as a,“very stake in the success of Soviet leader Nuclear small” and “very necessary” first . Mikhail Gorbachev’s programs of 1 I it-orces 1 reaty. step toward establishing a perma­ ■ economic and social change. In a Alt h o^u g h i^IMPSONs nent peace between the United - recent meeting Gorbachev told him *--Wallop ha$ ; “You better hope it works, too, States and the Soviet Union.*. . endorsed the trgaty» while ; “After 44, years of doing Simpson said. ■ V.f Simpson has given it his full sup- , nothing but talk, and drafting ' “1 am not naive, but we should keep talking” with the Soviets, ' p<y:ti they both voted to bypass a “ treaties that were never signed ... «..u trying to implement treaties <.. , Simpson said. “It matters no^ procedural hurdle raised by Sen. and that were never ratified ... finalthe agenda is. . i Jesse Helms, R-N.C. ly, after talking the talk, we re , Wallop has not yet delivered his j.;.. Helms objected to Senate cpnsideration of the treaty on the' walking the walk,” the Wyoming Qpening statement on the treaty. Republican said. z • ■_ ' I‘^founds tbat Soviet leader Mikhail Simpson’s comments came a? ~ I Gorbachev should not have sigtied the Senate entered a second day of . ■ the document. Gorbachev, who what is expected to be a lengthy , holds the title of first secretary. ’the Communist Party of the' debate on the INF pact. Siinpson, U.S.S.R., represents only a po- . the assistant GOP leader in the • Senate, has supported the treaty litical party, not the Soviet gov­ since it was announced in ernment. Helms argued. December 1987. ■ , , The absence of an “official” “To my mind, it’s just a very Soviet signature makes it impossismall first step, but a very nece^;«» . ble for the Senate to consider rati------ • - sary one,7’ he said. “Some people j fying the INF pact. Helms said; think it is no step. Some people « But only five other senators think it is just dramatic.” agreed, and Helms was defeated by > The INF Treaty is a “very com­ mon-sense approach” to the pro­ a vote of 92-6. Those supporting Helms were blems facing the two superpower, ' Republicans James McClure and. simpson saW. At the same time fSteven Symms of Idaho, Larry that the Senate is moving toward Pressler of South Dakota,-Gordon' ratifiying the INF pact, the Soviets ^Humphrey of ' New. Hampshire, g^e beginning to withdraw their fe;:.and Strom’* Jhurmond of South troops from Afghanistan, he. r Carolinarr^22^*.'r±^....if x noted. .... i �f Thurs0ey. M^V -Star-Tf’bune, Casper, Wyo. Vinich: Simpson doing Wallop’s‘dirt^cgk’ k ; • i I I 1 f I; r f I WASHINGTON Sen. Alan Simpson is doing U.b. sen. , Malcolm Wallop’s “d^y ,1 by attacking the ^hree timocratic Senate candidates, state Sgn. Jon_^ Vinich said Wednesday . •‘Six years ago Malcolm ped out of the race during the last . two weeks of his campaign against \ (Democratic candidate) Rodger McDaniel and had Al Simpson and (U.S. Rep.) Dick Cheney do his dirty work for him,” Vinich said. “It looks like they’re up to their \ old tricks.” . , ,,, . ~ Simpson, during his weekly interview with Wyoming reporter^ ' defended Wallop and chastised Vinich and his Democratic rivals , who have said Wallop is out of ! touch with the state. But Vinich, who is spending tne ' w iek attending meetings and conducting research is repeated his charge that Wallop has done little for the state and said “Malcolm should speak for , ** Noting that Wallop was in Wyoming campaigning earlier this ' week when debate on the INf i ty with the Soviets began in the '^nate, Vinich said “it seems to me he should have been here when the ; starting gate opened.” ■’, 1 1 �Wallop says ; treaty jjvotiW bring * ‘collapse of political order m Europe’. \ ...—■ •■uMuiKxf cooperation ... ’ exactly what its responsibilities against a major drug trafficker.” Lehder could face up to 150 years « are.” Star-Tribune Wa^ingtga bureau Senate President John Turner, in prison and $350,000 in fines for ,r R-Teton-Sublette, said that while he his convictions on all 11 counts, J Sen . agiccb i - ------------- ’ - — ur iliuillclb, the LIIC UL agrees Wllll with Thomas, commis- ranging from possession of cocaine ‘ to running a continuing criminal • Malcolm Wallop Thursday de-, sion had to face “reality,” . nounced President Reagan’s agree­ “We’re not sure that even one enterprise. His co-defendant. Jack , ment with the Soviets to remove all simulcast can make it,” Turner said, Carlton Reed, 57, of San Pedro, ' medium-range nuclear missiles from citing the state’s small population. Calif., was convicted of one con-. » Europe. , Thomas made the statements spiracy count and faces a maximum ! Wallop declared the Intermediate after Connie Eaton, an LSO at- ' 15-yearsentence. J Asked if Lehder will spend the « Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty will torney, said the commission had not ultimately destroy NATO, usher in changed its disputed rules on rest of his life behiffd bars, Merkle i the “collapse of the political order simulcasting although it promised said, “I certainly hope so. That is ; in Europe,” and allow the Soviet to do so. going to be my recommendation. ” J When the verdicts were read, j Union to dominate Europe. The management council, headed, “The INF Treaty represents the by House Speaker Patrick Meenan, Lehder looked down briefly, then 5 abandonment of the seriousness R-Natrona, has refused to approve stared straight ahead. Two female • jurors cried, one sobbing into her • about (nuclear) deterrence” in the the rules. defense of America’s European “The commission is running a hands, as their seven days of delib- ! allies, he said. erations ended. ' -I' very sloppy shop,” Eaton said. Lehder’s aunt in the audience also ; “In the wake of the INF treaty it Commission Executive Director may be impossible to stop the col­ Donald A. Johnson could not be cried and slumped down on the I lapse of the political order in reached for comment Thursday bench. I Following the verdicts, the jury ’ Europe,” the Wyoming Republican afternoon. had to consider government mo- * said. “A nation can expect good Bill Thompson, a Cheyenne friends only when it has military lawyer representing Mec- . tions seeking the forfeiture of milsuperiority.” ca/Trackmate, one of two losing 1 lions of dollars of Lehder’s properWithdrawal of the intermediate applicants for the simulcast license, ' ty in the Bahamas, including land, t.JBUsiles will ultimately leave said the company never has received i homes, an airstrip and planes. The seven-month trial included 22 , Europe with no credible defense. any written final decision from the I Wallop said. He ^d Soviet con­ commission explaining its choice of jI weeks of testimony from 115: gov­ ernment witnesses, along with ventional forces are superior and Ladbroke or its denial of Mecca’s ■imounds of documents. Lehder was that there is no assurance the United request for a re-hearing. extradited to the United States last j Thompson said the only anStates would use its long-range nu­ year following a firefight and'|iis clear missiles to defend Europe. I riouncement of the commission’s arrest by the Colombian army at a , n S In his 70-minute speech before the selection of Ladbroke was in the Medellin mansion. ■ Agnate, Wallop, R-Wyd.. took al press. During the trial Merkle called He said Wyoming is the first state position sharply at odds with that of the President and of fellow-Wyom-1 to allow simulcast off-track beti ng ' Lehder the Henry .Ford of drug trafficking, the man who turned co­ and said the state must insu;? m Republican Sen. Alan Simpson, caine smuggling into a modern, fairness and propriety in the opera­ ^e treaty has received broad biparhigh-tech operation, using airdrops tion. Thompson also said the state Usan suppon and appears destined and speed boats. Division of Criminal Investigation Prosecutors and government had not completed its inquiry into . Wallop said the pact gives the witnesses described Lehder as a Ladbroke before the Pari-Mutuel .Soviet Union a license to violate its one-time New York street hood Commission awarded the license to ■?' provisions and “blows a hole” in who put together a vast cocainethe company. 7 the American strategy for defending smuggling empire after he was Last week the DCI cleared Lad­ \ Europe. deported to his homeland, becom­ broke to do business in Wyoming. There is only a “very slim ing a key figure in the ColombiaThe DCI report said there \^?s no chance” that the treaty can be evidence that Ladbroke, a British i based Medellin cartel. amended in order to make it acceptThe cartel has been blamed for a off-track betting company, has any able. Wallop said. The treaty’s wave of violence across Colombia, current ties to organized crime. backers are unwilling to recognize Ladbroke has been approved by i including the assassination of a or debate the flaws in the agreecounty commissions in Uinta, Al­ ■ former justice minister and the slay­ ' ment, he said. - bany, Laramie, Sweetwater and ing of jop U.S. DEA informant “It appears to me that the Senate Adler “Barry” Seal in Baton Fremont counties and hopes to r, of the United States is set to suspend Rouge, La. Up to 10 armed marreceive approval soon in Sheridan < judgment,” Wallop said early in his and Natrona counties, spokesman i shals were visible in court during speech. “It is the patience of those . Mike Lane of Cheyenne said Thurs­ I j Lehder’s trial. " who wish to get it behind them that Witnesses talked of his flamday. ■’ Cis being tried. rather than the merits i boyant personality, which included State Jaw requires the county commission where the betting L' admiration for Adolf Hitler and Please see WALLOP, A3 slain former Beatle John Lennon. parlor is to be located also to ap­ prove the simulcast operation. The management council members voted to send a letter to Sulli­ van about their concern over the commission rules. By A^^W MELNYKOVYCH —Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Friday, May 20, 1988 J | , i �i' ■ ■ . ; '. A2—Star-Tribune. Casper, Wyo. . ■ Friday, May 20. 1988 ....... '' -Fi 1 '■'- ■ / ■ *-»» » KJ ' V A C i ?' “discredits” the “center-right agenda” espoused by Thatcher and others, while lending strength to the /.“European Socialists who have re­ adopted Marxism and taken on a pro-Soviet, anti-American tinge.” West Germans are already mov­ ing closer to the Soviets, supporting the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua and the Palestine Liberation Organization and opposing Ameri­ can plans for a strategic defense system, he said. \ “Indeed, in any given controversy ... German foreign policy is likely to be on the Soviet side and against us,” Wallop said. “German leaders race to Moscow to vie for the Soviet leader’s favor.” The West Germans are likely next to demand the removal of American tactical and short-range weapons from the front line opposing the Warsaw Pact, he predicted. Remov' ing those weapons would force U.S.^forces to withdraw from West Germany, Wallop said. ' “I will not tell my sons to go fight in Europe without nuclear >■ ^weapons';” he said. ’ Wallop siid the INF Treaty does not herald a new era in U.S.-Soviet relations. “An arms control treaty is an ex' pression of distrust,” be said. “This is not an expression of some new ;; ................. and fundamental trust.” " The Soviets have violated every previous arms control pact, and are likely to violate the INF Treaty, Wallop said. Yet the United States has never confronted the issue of treaty violations, he said. “When we see the Soviet Union violate this one, as they have vio­ lated every treaty in the past, the ac-tion of this Senate ^, will most likely'be to further constrain the' behavior of the United States, not the behavior of the Soviet-Union,” Wallop predicted. '* In an absence of a commitment to hold the Soviets to the terms of the treaty, the document has no mean­ ing beyond its domestic political implications, he said. In its zeal to sign a treaty with the Soviets, the ^teagan administration has aban­ doned its commitment to try to in­ sure adherence to earlier agree­ ments, Wallop said. < • Only a week before Reagan and Gorbachev signed the INF Treaty last December, the administration released a list of Soviet violations of earlier pacts. Wallop noted. “What are the Soviets to think about the seriousness with which we approach treaties?,” he asked. Ratifying the INF Tieaty in its present form is ..to “ratify past Soviet behaviot and license it in the J ‘ C 'J ' f ■ . I .. /' i , future,” Wallop s<id. * Wallop warned the Senate not to “suspend judgment in the pursuit of peace when we (are) not at war, in pursuit of peace when we already (have)it.” ' ' After his speech. Wallop criti­ cized Senate Foreign Rela^ons ' Committee Chairman Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., and Sen. Richard Lugar, R-lnd., the tOp Republican on the committee, for not respond■ mg to his questions. Both men, J who were in the Senate chamber ddring the speech, simply ignored nim, _ X Wallop said. ' I “Nobody is willing to debate the questions,” he said. “1 don’t t^hink it unfair to examine both the ■mili­ tary and political implications” of the treaty. j Although he will offer at (least ' two amendments to the treaty, Wal­ lop said it is “not my purpose to delay the thing.” • J Wallop, in a joint effort with several colleagues, will offer an amendment to strengthen the com­ pliance provisions of the treaty. He said he also plans to offer an amendment dealing with destruction of the mobile launchers for the mis­ siles and a provision to correct a drafting error. , - ' V �Riuiup says JLIH^ u'eaiy would T^coUapse of political order iii Europe’ ZBy ANDREW MELNYKOVYCH StaT-iribune Washington bureau WASHINGTON —Sen. ■ Malcolm Wallop Thursday de­ nounced President Reagan’s agree­ ment with the Soviets to remove all medium-range nuclear missiles from Europe. Wallop declared the Intermediate J^uclear Forces (INF) treaty will ultimately destroy NATO, usher in the “collapse of the political order in Europe,” and allow the Soviet Union to dominate Europe. “The INF Treaty represents the abandonment of the seriousness about (nuclear) deterrence” in th^ defense of America’s European allies, he said. “In the wake of the INF treaty it may be impossible to stop the col­ lapse of the political order in Europe,” the Wyoming Republican said. “A nation can expect good friends only when it. has military superiority.” Withdrawal of the intermediate missiles will ultimately leave Related story, A12 Europe with no credible defense. Wallop said. He said Soviet con­ ventional forces are superior and that there is no assurance the United States would use its long-range nu­ clear missiles to defend Europe. In his 70-minute speech before the Senate, Wallop, R-Wyo., took a ■position sharply at odds with that of the President and of fellow-Wyoming Republican Sen. Alan Simpson. The treaty has received broad bipar­ tisan support and appears destined for certain Senate approval. Wallop said the pact gives the Soviet Union a license to violate its provisions and “blows a hole” in the American strategy for defending Europe. There is only a “very slim chance” that the treaty can be amended in order to make it accept­ able, Wallop said. The treaty’s backers are unwilling to recognize or debate the flaws in the agree­ ment, he said. ' “It,appears to me that the Senate of the United States is set to suspend judgment,” Wallop said early in his speech. “It is the patience of those who wish to get it behind them that is being tried, rather than the merits Please see WALLOP, A3 .a- Continued from Al ~ B ^wSlor^mged the Senate not to rush to approve the treaty prior to -a the May 29 Moscow summit jneeting ' ■ between President and Soviet leader Mikhail Gor- 1 ; cracking.”. * Eliminatirtg the last missiles in Europe “means an end to our relationship with curred since World War II, Wai lop said. U.S. missiles have been the only protection for a that is incapable of defending itself. "^“We should not be playing ‘beat / the clock’on our deliberations over this treaty,” he said. “We ought • not to be rushed by the artificial e deadline of the summit.’’ ■ He will not use amendments as a r tactic to delay ratification of the pact. Wallop said. . f -pjie pact would eliminate p medium-range missiles in Ei^P^ U^The United States would give up I Pershing H and cruise missiles it ■ S Uloying only five years inf Tl'^^Supporters of the WF Treaty• "have refused to deal with its serious“ military and political consequences. Wallop said. . . ... ; Wallop argued that the missiles the United States will give up are vital to the defense of Western ' Europe against the vastly superior .. conventional forces of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies. \ “American nuclear ‘ been the glue that has held NATO < together,” he said. “Ever since Ae . ' “emly ' 1960s, that glue has been W; ■■ i MALCOLM WALLOI Critical of INF treaty fy'.'iii-' * I mo' missiles are not a credible deterrent, | no ■ one believes the threat 1 from the ICBM’s, why are we I removing the only credibk: threat j I from Europe?,’ „ I 1 Defending Europe with conven1 tional wea^ns would cost too l I much in terms ol’bothI equipment li and manpower, he said. In fact, . | After World War 11, “Europe there is no coherent plan for such a ■ ■< was unable, and later it proved un­ defense. Wallop said. . _ . I 2 willing, to provide for itself yoops In strategic terms, the INF Treaty m >< and armaments it needed to defend makes ho sense, he said. li itself against a Soviet invasion. “It appears more than passingly ll obvious that the fundamental ob- ■ Wallop said. CD Only the fear of a nuclear war iective of arms control in the United; |l CD with the United States has prevented CD States is political, not military, , ( a Soviet invasion, he said. Until the Wallop said. i mid-1960s, the United States had a But the political effects of the, significant advantage m nuclear INF Treaty will ultimately prove weapons. Wallop said. But the disastrous. Wallop predicted. The balance of power has now swung to treaty abandons the victory the the Soviets, Wallop said. United States gained in the wly With the Pershing and cruise miy 1980s when its NATO allies; over) siles removed, the only credible considerable opposition, agreed to deterrent to a Soviet nuclear attack allow Pershing and cruise missiles j on Europe would be Ainerica s to be based on their soil, he said. | ^tratefiic nuclear forces, he said. . By now deeming those missiles to ■ “What would U.S. strategic be unnecessary, the Reagan ad­ forces shoot at?,” WaUop asked. ministration has created domestic “And what would the Soviets do problems for those politicians, such as British Prime Minister Margaret ‘"since using U.S. ICBMs to de­ Thatcher, who supported deploying^ fend Europe would invite retalia­ the weapons, he said. j tion directed against the United Wallop saW the INF Treatyi States itself, America s long-range .1 co ■a $ - 4 .1 3 �5 senate kills efforts to link W, treaty to ending cheating on other a^onb i Opi^m staff ant^ire repmts— WASHINGTON - Amid giUwine nressure fromlRepubl^un leadSf m pe^d action the:^ on Friday crushed a bid by^l^P rieht wing to tie the U.S.-Soviet medium-range missile treaty to en­ ding Kremlin cheating on other arms control accords. amendAll five sections of the amenu ment offered by Sen. Steve Symms, R-ldaho, were overwhelmingly re­ acted in back-to-back roll call totes of 85-11.87-10, 86-11, 82-15 « ^”other attempts to treaty also were decisively rebuffed. ' o Ai,r, Wyoming Republican Sen Simpson voted to • kill, all five atdelay V.S. comgian^ Geneva Convention on Chemical ^e^va 1 interim Weapons provisions ,be suppdr. of ".oje!ha5 "> .heW Simpson and SSance ’.hh various ofter p g , ,11 m amiidmen. offered by &n. Oor ’’" J I Wyoming Republiwn Ma»^^ xten. Malcolm Wallojg only ■ the last ol iRTseries of five amendments. It would have tied the Sve Mockpiles of weapons, amINF treaty to the never-ratified muSn. aSd fue, <; T 11 strategic arms agreement. voled for provision ’ keep them in battle for at least to linking the INF pact to the Anu Ballistic Missile Treaty, -Please see INF. A12 , Atomic Test Ban Treaty, the 1925^^ f i ow ai Continued from Al Continuedfrom^ licans may be dragging their feet,’J ■ l^puWi^a^ Leader Bob i | “I’m optimistic, but less so than I | was yesterday,” Dole said. • . One Democrat, ----Sen. ----------James txsaid the president will ' — be ’ partly to blame if he goes to i ' Moscow with the treaty unratified , and said Reagan “should put his • foot down” and demand the sup-. port of Republican senators. , Exon said passage of the Symms proposal would “cripple the presi-, Humphrey and Sen. Jesse^lehns. R-N.C./were responsible for most of Friday’s delaying tactics aimed at making sure the INF treaty is nc)t ratified prior to the Moscow summit meetinga week from today. fAlthough Wallop said he will ot­ ter an amendment of his own on Monday, he said he does not intend to engage in any effort to drag out the ratification process. . !. But Senate leaders, increasingly frustrated by attempts to learn how many further States and the free world”, at the^ offered. made clear they are losing ?Moscow summit. ■ ,7 ' ’I j confidence the Senate can ratify the . The Symms amendment, which I treaty before President Reagan was opposed by the White House, meets Soviet Leader Mikhail Corr . i, bach« a. .he Moscow summh °"y would have barred the treaty from was , j! going into effect un^ Reagan was . viay , . the situation,' ' if the , able to certify .L. “:,,llninnU.as ^ “As 'l »see the CSoviet Union was “ As I see the situation, if the Senme doesn’t cohere ^drk on in full compliance with five^^ ^e treaty on Monday it is going to ; previous arms control agreements. , , be increasingly difficult to wrap up n noted that Reagan previously work on the resolution of bas toiu told uongress Congress me the ouvitio Soviets are m- I: oi ratifica; mum-a, ... nas tion by next Saturday,” said Senate violation violation o.f o.fthe theSALT SALT 1 1 and andSALT SALT ( ( Majority Leader Robert Byrd, Dn arms limitation treaties, a 1963 I . , ■ W.Va. pact banning open-air nuclear tests, 1 W.Va. Bvrd Senate v».. cana 1925 vieueva Geneva iProtocol on ,,; byra said saia that mat if ii the me ociiaiv iv,iwvw. ban -not approve the text of the treaty chemical weaponsjind the 1972 An-^ j ' * 4 early next week and move to the " ti-Ballistic Missile • Treaty. resolution of ratification, “then the Symms said his amendment chances of having that little package ' “simply means that the treaty does ' yvith the blue ribbon tied around it , not go into effect until the president in the president’s pocket by the time can report the Soviets are in com-jhe goes to Moscow are going to =, pliance with existing arms treaties.”.^<.' diminish daily and hourly.” But Dole called the proposal a’/ i He said he may keep the Senate^ -’/killer .amendment’.’, and other ■ Working on ^he pact late into the .■5enators ■ deh0unced it as (night next week and may schedule a “nonsense,”, “extraneous” and an Saturday session in an attempt to ' . obvious attempt to slow Senate j (complete action on the treaty. CSilS^o^^'h'looiriE'Rcpub=o»id=ra.ibnor.hepac.. •* - K) I « Vl O fil ® § co i t 0> >< ro (O CD 03 f �><01 depi a'-ms ue^^'hing ' S • halted ®’’ter a do ^’’eaty I cou’ldi°^^ ^^^IPSoZ '^^^hat’s W^ahaJt k ■.^?Pthis;^^,onJy Jibuti “M K ' <’^,y ,,, ••'‘I ■» r’ ^'0- ^ ”>'>■/ S.is£3s;iC SSSSxSjS ^esaPd / '"°‘’‘'^^"<Si',^r^^^^^^ ^‘‘^Pson / ’^^»the ! ^":r--n**PnSi.Vg V/ ^‘^getm I co S’ 03o X3 $ s �Simpson donated about half his fees for giving speeches to charity r '■ ■ ‘‘ "s .y V '" r V M ay24, 1988 ti ■ '"I'- s' /is-; y;--; $71,425 Casper, VVyo; 7 _ Senate rules require that certain income and assets be listed not as precise amounts, but as falling with­ in a specified range of values. Per­ sonal residences, and any mortgages on them, do not’haveto be listed. In addition to his income, Simp­ son listed four transactions that brought in a total of between $32,000 and $110,000. Sale.s of Husky Oil Co. stock and Cody municipal bonds each returned be­ tween $1,000 and $5,000. The fig- Equitable Life Assurance, $2,000; Amer. Trucking Assn., $2,000; Motor and Equipment Manuf., $2,000; Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, $2,000; I Pillsbury Co., $2,000; U.S. League of Savings Inst., $2,()00; Assoc. Equipment Distrib., $2,000; Carpet & Rug Instil., $2,000; Grocery Manuf. of Amer., ' $2,0(X); Natl. Coun. of Agricultural Empl., $500; Chamber of (Tommerce, $500: Amer. Bus. Conf., SI.OOO: Paine TOTAL HONORARIA: ($34,425 retained). ? Together, his Senate pay and out­ side income brought Simpson’s 1987 $n2 9lV° $119,917 and Webber, $2,p(X); Epstein, Becker, Borsody & Gree, $1,000; Natl. Assn, of Chain Drug Stores, $2,000; Natl, Assn, of Retail Drugists, $2,000; Amer. Soc. for Personnel Admin., $1,000; Brook­ ings Instit., $300; The Fay Improvement Co., $2,000; Natl. Assoc, of Manuf., $1,000; The BOC Group, Inc., $2,000;. Soc. for Indep. Gasoline Marketers, $2,000; Timmons & Co., $2,000; Motor Vehicle Manuf, Assn., $2,000; FMC Corp., $2,000; 20/20 Group-E, ' BruceK Harrison Co., $2,000; Natl. Assn, of N Home Builders, $2,000; Amer. Retail ■ Fed., $2,000; Natl. Auto Dealers PAC, $2,000; Petroleum Assn, of Wyoming/ Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas Assn., $1,500; Amer. Dental Assn., $2,000; Natl. Beer Wholesalers Assn,,' $2,000; Steel Shipping Container Inst., $1,000; $2,000; Bell South, Akin &;' Gump, '■ $2,000; Footwear Retailers of Amer., $2,000; IChamber of Commerce, $500; Amer. IPetroleum Inst., $2,000; The Federal Forum, $1,000; Fluor Corp., $2,000; Natl. Retail Merchants Assn., and Allied Products $2,000; Machinery I Inst., $2,000. Flonoraria (Articles): Gannett Co., $125. ’ ! tires represent gross, rather than net, < earnings on the investments. Simpson also cashed in a life in■ WASHINGTON — Sen. Alan ... 1 surance policy and a retirement fund, with each bringing between Rimpson’s speeches outside the: $15,000 and $50,000. Senate chambers brought him more Simpson listed stocks and cash' than Pl,000 last year — mostly in assets worth between $63,000 and $2,000 chunks from corporations $220,000. He listed loans and other and business groups. Senate records liabilities of between $35,000 and . show. , , $80,000, but all had been paid off In order to stay within legal limits on the amount of honoraria a ! by the end of the year. Simpson’s wife Ann listed assets member of Congress may retaijx, iWn/I Wyoming Republicanxtf^ate^ II of between $52,000 and $110,000, mostly in the form of a Cody rental $37,000 of his 1987 speaking fees to property valued at between $50,000 various charities, most of them in and $100,000. She listed rental in­ Wyoming. come of between $5,000 and Simpson’s outside income and $15,000, and annual salary of “over other details of his personal fi­ $1,000” from her job as a real estate nances are included in an annual , salesagent. disclosure report released last week. In addition to his speaking fees, As he did last year. Sen. Malcolm Wallop. R-Wyo., asked for and i Simpson also received substantial amounts in reimbursements for receiv^ a 30 day extension on filing travel to and from various speaking his report. Reports for House members are due to be released this I engagements. Ann Simpson acweek. j companied her husband on five such In addition to his Senate salary, trips, receiving nearly $3,500 worth Simpson listed other income of at of air travel, according to The least $42,517. He retained $34,425 report. in honoraria, received^ $3,592 for Al Simpson’s travel reimburse­ acting as the executor of an estate, ments in 1987 totalled about and listed interest income, stock di-’ $12,500, not including local ac­ vidends, and capital gains of be-| commodations and airfare for por­ tween $4,500 and $17,5(X). '* I tions of an April 1987 trip to France Simpson accepted only $77,400 of and Sweden to examine methods of his Senate salary, press secretary storing' and disposing of nuclearMary Kay Hill said. Current Senate wastes. pay stands at $89,500, but Simpson A list of speeches and appear­ has not accepted recent pay in­ ances for which Simpson received honoraria includes; creases. ANDREW MELNYKOVYCH Star-Tribune Washington bureau �Simpson says Hatch Aci protwts workers euy who didn’t support them.” j The U.S. Senate is studying reforms of the act, whictTprohibits federal employees from making speeches or organizing rallies for a, candidate, among other things. . j It was created in 1939 to prohibit political appointees from trading political contributions for jobs, The Wyoming Republicai posts are often based on loyalty to Simpson said. , i speakingTSTHF^omS^SSa the administration, there are many But many of the delegates atten­ tion of Letter Carriers or'Saturday, people who are committed to squar­ ding the association’s -said 11 CoQsre^rep^s the 1939_aa ing the politics score, Simpson said. Saturday said they considered the or makes major changes in it, ted “1 know these zealots, he said. act a violation of their constitu­ eral employees will be open to po“1 know what they do. A lot ot tional rights because they are not these guys spend the whole rest of political appointees. , a (GOV. Michael), their political lives trying to get the Dukakis guy working the troops . over at the water cooler, passing out (AP) — (campaign) buttons and parapherAct, a measure preventing federal Sia and yon preach the word and ■’workers from being active in politics (Vice President George) Bush or seeking partisan office, has been wins,” he said. “I’ll tell you who defended by U.S. Sen Al Simps^ or 4 loses. It’s you. Suddenly you’re as a protective measure for i loses iJ^^'^sTcause selections to f«d«rd �y w vo * Tuesday, May 2 4 ,1 9 8 8 Judges don’t let citizen-as-attorney - BILL PATTON Saratoga •Star-Tribune. Casper, Now residents are told that fe everything is rosy and we can ex-! pect money left over at the end of 1 the fiscal year. I A utility tax was enacted to raise money to pay back water and sewer funds (?), but things seem to have taken care of themselves without using this money. (It’s being held in escrow pending the district court legality ruling.) I’m wondering if the utility tax collected will be returned to thos^ who paid it? I Citizens For Fair Government contended that the tax was unwar­ ranted and unnecessary. 1 Could this utility tax issue that , has resulted in court action, J Mountain Bell vs. the town of Sar- P atoga, have been solely for the i benefit of the Wyoming Associa- ?, tion of Municipalities and not for j*. the citizens of Saratoga? ; . U It makes one wonder since the ) legal fees are presumably being I paidforbyWAM! e ; 11 �I Wallop loses first attempt to amend missile treaty jCOa 1 — •• By AiyREW MELNYKOVYCH Star-Tribune Washington bureau . - — - Th/» rnntrnvprdfll language lanaiiaffe is in a H Cnroinn Pr Com­ The controversial Senate ForeignCAl^tir^rrc Relations provision dealing with the similarity mittee Chairman Claiborne Pell, between the Soviet SS-2() missile, D-R.l., also had several exchanges which is banned by the treaty, and with Wallop. Pell conceded the WASHINGTON —Sen the longer-range SS-25 missile. The disputed language in the treaty is Malcolm Wallop Monday failed to I missiles have first stages which are “pretty clumsily drafted,” but he ’ j virtually identical. convince the argued that changing the treaty is Senate to clear Treaty negotiators intended to unnecessary and would further up ambiguous allow the Soviets to continue pro­ delay its approval by triggering new language in the ducing the SS-25 first stage, but negotiations. Intermediate Nu­ sought to bar production of an SS- j Wallop dismissed the renegotia­ clear Forces 20 second stage, which is similar to tion problem. If the Soviets agree (INF) Treat? the SS-25 second stage. Instead, the on the intent, renegotiation should with the Soviet treaty language can be interpreted | take very little time, he said. Pro­ Union. so as to explicit allow production of ' tracted renegotiation would call in­ After the a second stage indistiguishable from to question whether the Soviets ever, WALLOP Senate killed his that used on the SS-20. intended to comply with the ac' j amendment by a Allowing production of the se­ cepted intent of the language ir. _ cond stage would vastly complicate question. Wallop said. verification of Soviet compliance By refusing to amend the treaty, the Senate is shirking its respon­ .Wyoming with the , ban on the u SS-20.i, Wallop ih’s Repubhear/ blasted his rolleagues -amendment sought to change the sibilities, he said. Tor "sleepwalking” and fnr treaty language to explicitly bar “1 don’t knowhow to penetrates “panicking at the knees of the j Production of an SS-20 second stage this somnolence that the Senate has! great bear.” J or its equivalent. found itself in,” he said. “The least! Both Wallop and Wyoming Re“The Soviets agree that the (treathat the Senate can do is to try ta publican Sen. Alan Simpson rh<. .ty) language is wrong,” he said, make the treaty say what its propoA minority whip?" broke witr the though the present Soviet nents say it should say. ” 1 A j_. . -.1 regime accepts the ban on producKeagan Administration on the The Reagan administration’s in-’i issue. The administration has urged I! tion on a second stage like that on terpretations and reassurances do I , JNF treaty be approved j the SS-20, there is no guarantee that not bind the Soviets, Wallop said. I without change. I its. successors would not try to use r, Senate Minority Leader Robert I the ambiguous wording to justify a ■ Only unambiguous language can do j that, he said. •’ Liole, R-Kansas, meanwhile said “it fi treaty violation. Wallop said. It is the Constitutional responsi- ' would be an embarrassment” to !I Therefore, the treaty should be changed to foreclose that possibili­ President Reagan if the Senate does bility of the Senate to make the nec- , essary change in the INF Treaty, not ratify the treaty before Reagan^ ty, he argued. Wallop said. He said he “weeps for J_ Senate Armed Services Commit­ fo’’ the summit next tee Chairman Sam Nunn, D-Ga., a Senate” th^ shirks that responsi­ weekend, The Associated Press and Sen. John Warner, R-Va., its bility. reported. senior Republican, both agreed that Wallop said he “weeps” for a “Why do we sleep?,” Wallop the language in the treaty is am­ asked. “Why is this Senate so timid Senate that is too “tirhid” to accept biguous. But it can be fixed without in the exercise of the rights the Its, responsibilities. Senators “can­ amending the treaty, thus forcing it Founding Fathers gave us? ” not walk out of the chamber with to be renegotiated, they said. After debate on the Wallop '' «fter Nunn said the INF negotiating re­ amendment end^d, the vote was said amendment. Wallop cord is clear about the treaty’s in­ postponed until after a vote could tent. There was a “meeting of be held on an amendment offered ,1, Senate was not against what minds, the vague wording not-i earlier by Sen. Jesse Helms, Rthe amendment did. The Senate was withstanding,” he said. The Soviet) N.C. ■ gainst doing the amendment,” Union understands that any attempt i Wallop said. “It is the wrong thing Pell then sought a_ further delay to bypass the treaty intent would be; to do to say that this document is so of the vote on the Wallop amend­ viewed as a violation, Nunn said. i purely conceived and so im­ ment in order to give GOP leader Warner’s request that Wallop; maculately presented that it cannot! Sen. Robert Dole of Kansas and ambiguity in his propos- ■ Secretary of State George Schultz, De changed under any cir­ ed amendment led to a heated ex­ cumstances.” j who were scheduled to meet later in change between the two. Wallop Simpson, siding with Wallop the afternoon, an opportunity to try changed the wording of his amend­ to resolve the matter. voted against killing the amend­ ment, but not until he and Warner ment. But Helms objected to the delay, had argued sharply, Wallop was seeking to alter Ian- * thus forcing an immediate vote. Al­ senator though it drew the support of only guage that even treaty proponents (Wallop) off, but 1 was not about 26 senators, Wallop’s amendment conced, e is ambiguous and subject to stand here and catch some of his received II more votes than any to varying interpretation. The sauce before he knew what 1 was previous attempt to change the trea­ oenate Armed Services Committee about,” Warner said. ty. ___ _ m Its report on the INF Treaty, said the ambiguity needed to be resolv.rCd. , r1 I | Star-Tribune. Casper. Wyo. Tuesday. May 24. 1988 �, fricl^y,May27.1988 ♦ jB^allop jJ|p»U4aw|^edjiile r , visit to the senior citizens center. He ” Wallop plans 'y'’’l.''*sit his local steering commit/! tummitSZ'J . ■ 1""“ , ------- 7' »U jjpvanston. i ; ' > *^^^ting with economic and his local campaign steering ln_Evanston, Wallop will meet St .Je^levelopment' groups in southern committee -■—■>■ with the his county steering commit­ / #5'''yoming, ahd attending the Wyp-‘ ' ' i ' i F X ming Stock Growers Assoclatmn" Wednesday, June 1, Wallop ' tee and conduct a downtown busit ---------- 3:^yocidLion—plans the General Superness walk at 3:30 p.m. ' f>;,'and Wyoming BroadcasteTs Friday, June 3, Wallop will join ■ conventions, his ram? __ intendents: Conference of the National Park Service jn Jackson at 9 Sen. Alan Simpson and Rep. Dick ;. J I ;paign onice announced. a.m., follbwecf by a “meet' the _____ Cheney for a panel discussion at the ■ I * ■ On^emorial Day, May 30^ Walcandidate: luncheon” in *:Rock' Wyonting Stock Growers Associa^'l Springs at noon at the HolidayTKH^'.'l^^n't-'onventiori at. tHe ClrgyeniT^ ■; J lop will participate in an observance ; ■>, # in Worland and will have lunch at 1 5-tlie American Legion Post. Later, . he will be in Tensleep for more cer; Ic, emonies and a reception with local ■ is S *^®®*‘lents at the senior ' citizens i 5 centers ra Thursday, June 2, Wallop will ' with his steering committee here, s *' a.m. Tuesday, May 31, have a breakfast meeting with the Saturday, June 4, Wallop will 1 S’ )''al‘OP will visit with Saratoga res-. ’ ■ „ Development' receive the Wyoming Broadcasters j. ’ IS idents during a downtown business Associaiion, before traveling to ' Asscxiation^s “kerm kAth LnpnH “ ? J* E walk;”r At noon, he will speak to downtown business of Broadcasting Award” at the i i IJS the Carbon County Republican- walk beginning aL it a.m. ^d^a , Casper Hilton lnn.at 7:30 n.m ■ /? ( 5 t si 'ira■ ■■ ■■ congresiJp>sional recess atten;1 rtfng Memona Day in5^'a?d Latef-Tuesday, meeiinoc wiih SS, �Wallop and Simpson were of like" mind on two other votes. They supported a provision making a series of corrections — already agreed to by the Reagan administra­ tion and the Soviets — to the treaty. The provision passed on a 96^0 vote. Simpson and Wallop both voted against killing an amendment of­ fered by Sen. Jesse Helms, N.C., that would force President Reagan to consult with the Senate before signing a strategic arms reduction (START) treaty with the Soviets. Senate to vote today on Wallop’ $ proposal -Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Friday, May 27, 1988 By ANDREW MELNYKOVYhux Star-Tribune Washingion bureau WASHINGTON — The Senate will vote this morning on a proposal by Sen. Malcolm Wallop, R-Wyo., I that spells out how the United States should deal with Soviet vio­ lations of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (1N F) Treat y. Wallop’s amendment was to have been voted on late Thursday, but was postponed due to a fight over an amendment sponsored by Sen Pete Wilson, R-Calif, The partisan wrangling threat­ ened to delay final approval of the pact until after the summit meeting between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gor­ bachev. Reagan is due to arrive in Moscow Sunday. Majority Leader Robert Byrd, D-W.Va.. said that “Mickey Mouse amendments’’ by conser­ vative Republicans were threatening approval of the treaty. Byrd will decide this morning whether to move to cut off all further debate oh the treaty, thus limiting further amendments. Wallop’s proposal calls on the president to make an “appropriate response’’ to violations, or face a Senate vote that asks that the United States withdraw from the treaty. The proposal is not binding. The INF Treaty mandates the removal of all land-based, medi­ um-range ballistic and cruise mis­ siles from Europe. It does not af­ fect battlefield nuclear weapons or strategic nuclear missiles. Wallop said his amendment is a response to a pattern of Soviet vio­ lations of past treaties. The United States has not responded to such violations in the past, he said. Treaties “ought not to be based solely on trust,” Wallop said. His amendment, which would be at•**- “i* • • *n I tached to the resolution by whicl j the Senate ratifies the INF Treaty asks for an annual report on Sovie compliance with the pact. In the event a “clear violation” is discovered, the president would have 90 days to notify the Senate of the administration’s response, or to certify that the violation has been corrected. The Senate would then have 90 days to disapprove of that response. If the Senate disapprove of the, president’s action, it would be sen-' ding a signal that it believes the^ United States should withdraw from; the treaty. Opponents of the amendment said it would reduce the president’s flexibility to respond to violations. ■ Wallop said that the amendment is non-binding, and thus does not tie the president’s hands. “If all that happens is that the ' Senate disagrees, then this is an ut­ terly useless amendment,” Sen Robert Levin, D-Mich., said. Wallop responded that the amendment simply seeks to send a message to “take compliance seriously.” The vote on the Wallop amend­ ment was delayed when Byrd voiced strong objections to the Wilson’s move to specify that the United States would not be bound by any INF Treaty interpretation not agreed to by the Soviets. The Wilson amendment was kill­ ed on a vote that was largely along party lines, with both Wallop and Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., voting against killing the provision. j Earlier in the day, the Senate ap( proved, by a vote of 72 to 27, an amendment that would prevent ei­ ther the Reagan administration or future administration’s from reinterpreting the terms of the INF treaty. The Reagan administration did not actively support or oppose the provision. Simpson, the second-ranking Senate Republican, joined 19 other members of his party to support the limitations on reinterpretation. Wallop voted against the amend­ ment, saying it represented a blatant intrusion by the Senate on-presiden­ tial power. ( Although the motion to kill the amenament was defeated, 38-6U, tne vote was reflected a parliamentary wrangl, rather than support for the prpposal. The helms amendment was scheduled for a separate vote later, and apppeared headed for defeat. In action late Wednesday, the Senate rejected an amendment pro­ posed by Sen. Fritz Hollings, DS.C., to exclude conventionally armed cruise missiles from the INF Treaty. The treaty bars all of the low-flying, subsonic missiles from Europe. Hollings argued that cruise mis­ siles armed with convential warheads could be a potent com­ ponent of the NATO arsenal. The missiles could hit key targets with pinpoint accuracy, he said. Opponents of the Hollings amendment countered that conven­ tionally armed cruise missiles would be impossible to distinguish from those carrying nuclear warheads in violation of the treaty. Verifying compliance would thus become im­ possible, they said. . Hollings proposal was a “killer” amendment that would prove unacceptable to the Soviets and would doom th INF Treaty, the opponents of the provision argued. Wallop was one of 28 senators who voted for the provision, despite the opposition of the Reagan ad­ ministration. Simpson and 68 other senators voted against the amendmemt. After voting down the Hollings amendment, the Senate approved, by voice vote, two amendments that do not affect the treaty itself. The first, introduced by Se. Den­ nis DeConcini, D-Ariz., requires the president to seek Soviet com­ pliance with existing agreements that • guarantee human rights to Soviet citizens. Wallop was one of 18 • senators who co-sponsored the ■ amendment. Also winning approval late Thursday was an amendment by Alaska Republican Frank Murkowski. It puts the Senate on record as opposing limitations on conventionlly armed air-launched and sea-launched cruise missiles in any future strategic arms agreement with the Soviets. �Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Saturday, May 28, 1980 Tstal Service issues new Buffalo Bill stamp S KV. .IO r. *1 c nv . who served as a symbol of the West The U.S. POSt^xiz K/Cba Ciil’rliirino and uftpr hk lifptimp and C<___ .... -------, during and after his lifetime and Wyoming Gov. Mike Suf vice will introduce a new stamp carried mail in 1860 on a Pony Ex­ and ■featuring Buffalo Bill with a cere­ U.S. Sens. press run in Wyoming. Malcolm Wallop and other guests mony at the Buttalo Bill Historical In 1883 Cody, who had been a ' are expected to participate in the Center, representing the first such buffalo hunter, Army scout, ran­ ceremony. dedication in Wyoming in 48 years. cher, actor, author and founder of Buffalo Bill’s great-grandson. Kit Col. Wiyiam F. “Buffalo Bill” the town of Cody, introduced Wild Carson Cody, will participate in a Cody is portrayed on the 15-cent West Shows. Pony Express r e-enactment beginstamp, part of the Postal Service’s The colorful shows were presen­ *ning 30 miles west of Cody at the TE Great Americans series. ted on two continents for 30 years Ranch, formerly owned by Buffalo The First Day Issue ceremony is and helped establish an image of the open to the public beginning at 10 Bill. American West. The BBHC staff will use First Day a.m.'june 6 on the center’s front Collectors may purchase First stamps on a special envelope ad­ lawn, Day Cover cachets at the Historical dressed to President and Mrs. Regional Postmaster General Center on the day of the ceremony. Reagan, inviting them to attend the Jerry' K. Lee of Chicago and Jack The stamp reflects the new picture national exhibition, “ Frederic Rem ­ Rosenthal of Casper, who adapted post card rate. ington: The Masterworks,” which the drawing used for the stamp from For more information contact opens June 17 at the center. an old dining car menu, will make David Little, 587-4771. The stamp recognizes the man special appearances at the ceremo- BUFFALO BILL STAMP Part of Great Americans series �Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Saturday, May 28, 1988 1 of 5 voting against treaty PoSd"r°he proS ‘,hp been apUa * president would havp "’3' he op- The INF treaty would never have siXVon “Of in­ — Sen sisted on strengthening U.S forces Malcolm Wallop R-Wvo from and beginning work on a strategic . ’, was• Europe. The L'.S onToToniy-nv^ defense system, Simpson said, Europe had been placed there at senators to op­ great political risk to leaders of the der'’y°"l believes that wasn’t pose ■ the Reagan QSnJ ""a of ‘he eaSy America sallies, he said.' administration ®",d. SDI (the Strategic and vote against u.pa ‘hat removing the weapons could open the door to a dnnefh '"'“nt've) that got this plv to''ch‘’‘“^'''L'^^®'n‘endedsimratification of done, they re wrong,” he said. So k Ik ‘he Senate is ‘'‘^"‘“-''^^'■'^3‘'on of West­ the Treaty on In"‘^emandinr Soviet Despite their differences siimn " ern Europe. If that occurs, Soviet ter media t'F: son praised Wallop and other uS' compliance with the treatv OnJ, ^npcriority in conventional forces Range N I I opponents for their insistence on sSvfiTIr’"''' WAtLOP the NaIo h’ dismantle tough standards for verifyS and tne NATO alliance, he predicted. soviet Union enforcing compliance with the pact Friday. “In the wake of the INF treaty it Before voting on the resolution approved by voice may be impossible to stop the col­ of ‘■^‘'i'cation for the INF treaty Senate Min"Ser°Sobkle lapse of the political order in week^^’ "^“hop said earlier this series of proposed amendments tn he treaty. An inability to «t time hans all U.S and hmits on debate on some 5 tS^se ‘^'■'‘'eized the treaty fXEurlSV?^^^^^^ for what he said was its implicit ac­ amendments had created a parlia­ quiescence to Soviet violations of mentary logjam earlier in the week earlier treaties. ''ote was on a Wallon But Simpson said the vote to ap­ Srsd^T^"' -as debated late the''*^r^ii''^^*’°’’ '‘ eould bring prove the INF treaty was one of £ inursday. The amendment, which of EuSS”,??'’' ordef rare occasions in which the Senate ws^kS tfiod'd^P-ation opposed was killed by vote of 66 to 30 takes an action that is truly historic, V Purope, Simpson said the trea Simpson and Wallop voted for aa dme, because Killing the amendment. for 44 years these two superpowers talk^” he" "“J^h mo^e than 'he said. “We will nowJiegin Also approved Fridav wnc a., to make real progress.” Tn Sen. Jesse Helms ' to'^ikhll^ ‘J"’®" beginning suit iJith the Af ,'* “ .hdraw its troops from and enforcement nr erification t'h? ratification of on a StramBFc A ®" ’’"g^'fa'lons with the treaty. compliance (START! ! ® Reduction dino “ sends a corresponlaiAKI) agreement. The ani»nri side ” 5^“'"''^ ‘■'■O'n our side, Simpson said. AmeCn NAT? b/'X^inrS mY'^^^’NGTON uc — 5 m vote, with both Wallop and son supporting it. �^yo. ’ Sunday, May 29, 1988 SalLiteintliebrave, a,; wh^are make peace editorial Prpident Reagan, WvoKtS"A-pson a'n^d except for a tinv woJ?d^h®^/ th® St ? historic arms-reducthX-H® f'tter on to tht dedicated to the memory of those who have given their lives in the quest for peace. alike. I,” the real world and it S e^y for the weak to bS " .•; pendTheh'™'’'"''"®’’ Sy‘'’W?he“XS’.^ dangers. ® But we are convinced that for every danger, the Sd SfS, opportunity, a chance to build, a placeifor hope promK'\? of peri'end promise. It takes the ereatpr f^'^n'd ? P»lhi« 5 sidestj. two TnH a useful°n treaty Kip from"'?'’ ^O"^® AThaSe“fXTe"'’^'“'*So''’®t lead­ ership. The Soviets, swamped bles^'^ha°”’h trou- salute the P*‘°“‘’ lo '^ho 1 thS fith^ better things to do haw iffe nave offered their lives for a th S' oT/'*';»e Xte ' tne U.S. and a losing hot tneir peacetime successors one in Afghanistan. Simp.’ hoth^ 8t'®®t enemy of so?‘the\^^^®^’ both peace and prosperity I son, the Senate and the manv fahh'anH^” ‘hek States and the Soviet Union work Kk “ ^bis great work, this necessary small step. �-Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo, Saturday, June 4, 1988 ^^ifelo' miliir.^. "I'llionc ,:r'for ‘’'’ ‘he sta.A ; ■ ^ “ « 'hroS !o ind ’’'■“Ss.'^^Sllomi^^ oonal efiAr,, Rein 2-Sop, snj^ ^^''^ioXTeS'"® " ° BBW-sBbs '”'"8 «ed j?„±’”a.=-s to?” “‘•‘ing the S’?1%“ HL^’'’g‘odo -t‘ ’s Were "“toa-y ‘he^ifAnu ^^’’’^s but about recn SimSoni ’?:*''”".state bucksM^^^^V. “"ion like ,T^^‘e ?'no 5,’, ^‘itled ttjii/i ‘hat. if 'n the S^sv-a “So g(5»"5 to """“"OWwerto^" ''-"SS icy hac ■ at? . ^‘“i nat^nil '"'"TOcd",^/ 'g^ty Wl^^!5!£2!!lwa°r„?ap„b?i,fJ'"«™s "45 “"“-"'--aS aon t k “SaXX"''policy ^hc '^nioco'DenS''''’^®® *O talk *^*f' Io A“i of u/ P^^op/c (aK„ S—'PinS”’'"*"’ Wa'snigOT «“ lavt ,„ selling at $2 72^^ stuff barrel OU, ‘-■'ianik.ri'.-^' *‘'"d of^'"’”'*®"- ol commerce. '^^'eling �Se»-f^^^="Av,e‘'"’Sv»®'‘ A ’D^^^r.<:.OX'’^„ae'’^''^« S'XP’P°A \ COXt^^'\ \W ’»^'' ‘w'®' '\T'^3S''‘ '4k *' ' ^eS'°'’'^'°'>'< „,»4'° W W c»V)'?%\\\'’J^'L, toax* �■Star-Tribune, Casper. Wyo. Friday, June 10,1988 Simpson, Wallop support ‘far from perfect’ bill to expand health care CHEYENNE (A^-V^o- ming’s U.S. senators joined the majority of their congressional col­ leagues in approving a catastrophic health care bill that expands Medicare covera^ for America’s elderly. Sen. .Malcolm Wallop on Wed­ nesday called the measure “far from perfect but still necessary.” He said he would have preferred a private sector solution. Sen. Alan Simpson said before the vote that he would support the bill that helps people who would be bankrupted by catastrophic ill­ nesses. “Yet we have a lot of people who are over 65 who will not be wiped out. And that’s the ploy in this business,” he said. “You show me the people that need the help and the care and at­ tention, and I’m ready to expend this nation’s bucks to do that.” Simpson said he would not sup­ port another bill before Congress that would have cost $30 billion in the next five years for long-term health care. That measure, which would have provided extensive home benefits for people not sick enough to re­ quire hospitalization or nursing home care, was killed by the House in earlier action Wednesday. The catastrophic health insurance bill, which was approved in its pres­ ent form by the House last week, is now waiting for President Reagan’s signature. The legislation makes marginal increases in home health care bene­ fits already available, extends the coverage available for people who need skilled nursing care in nursing homes and makes changes that enable an elderly person left at home to keep more money when his WALLOP SIMPSON or her spouse has to go into a nurs­ ing home for an indefinite stay. The main part of the bill, the first significant expansion of Medicare since the program was born 23 years ago, takes effect next Jan. 1. Wallop said he surveyed the state county-by-county last October to ask people’s opinions on increased catastrophic health care coverage. The majority of respondents listed acute hospital care as their top pri­ ority, followed by physician services and long-term nursing home care. “This legislation should actually be called something like the ‘Medicare Expansion Act’ rather than the ‘Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act’ because it fails to address long-term care — some­ thing that is obviously of great con­ cern to Wyoming’s senior citizens,” Wallop said in a news release. “However, the responses to my mailing lead me to believe that the additional coverage this legislation will provide to Medicare recipients is still important and in many cases essential,” he said. �Saturday, June i1,1988 -Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Candidates attack, laud health bill vote By MATT WINTERS Star-Tribune staff writer (A LARAMIE —One Democratic U.S. Senate candidate applauded Wyoming’s two senators support this week for a catastrophic health insurance bill, but another attacked incumbent Sen. Malcolm Wallop. for trying to gut the bill. University of WyomingTaw Pro­ fessor Pete __Maxfield said in a release that Wallop and Sen. .Alas Simpson were correct in voting for the bill, which he said is a “first step” toward the “crucial second step” of long-term health care. Long-term health care and the fi­ nancial burdens placed upon fami; lies by the need for such care is a subject of concerns among Wyo­ ming senior citizens with whom he has spoken. Maxfield said. “This new bill will require the federal government to pick up more of the cost burden and, in the long run, will reduce social costs of el­ derly spouses on welfare rolls,” he said. long-term care legislation is the next Maxfield said he is “absolutely major priority for seniors. committed” to long-term health “We’ve already demonstrated in care and a home care insurance plan Wyoming that home health care is for all age groups, including the el­ cost effective, not counting the derly. . . benefits of allowing our seniors to State -Sen. John Vinich said in a maintain their independence and release that Wallop voted for the diginity at home,” he said. health insurance bill because of “It makes a lot more sense to pay election year political pressures public health nurses to run a home after having earlier attempted to health care program than to institu­ amend the bill to make the program tionalize the elderly in nursing financially insolvent. Wallop also homes at a cost of $2,000 per person fought the prescription drug fler month.” coverage segment of the proposal, Vinich also attacked what he Vinich said. characterized as unfair government “Luckily, it’s an election year, so subsidies for congressional food after all that he voted for the bill,” -service. Vinich said. On a fecent trip to Washington, Vinich said “I’ve talked with Vinich said, he paid $11.50 for senior citizens who are spending breakfast at a hotel, but paid $2.50 half their social security checks on for the same meal at a congressional prescription drugs.” dining room. The “catastrophic-care health in­ “1 asked about the difference and surance program” now awaiting they said to me, ‘Don’t you know? presidental action will partially cover certain prescription drug costs JThis is all subsidized,’ ” Vinich said. • ' . for Medicare beneficiaries, Vinich ' “What’s good for the goose is notel good for the gander.” he said. Like Maxfield, Viflich said that �Saturday, June i 1.198^ -Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo- Democratic candidates criticize Senate for sustaining I^agan’s trade bill veto CHEYENNE (AP),^Three^given\^e U.S. trade representative Wyoming Wyoming DemocratieP^randidates Democraticp'-------------for Congress have criticized the U.S. Senate for not overriding President Reagan’s veto of the^rade bill. Lynn Simons, one of three candidates for the U.S. Senate seat held bv Malcolm Wallop, R-Wyo., said this week that Wallop’s vote to sustain the veto “shows once again, that Malcolm Wallop will sacrifice the needs of real people in Wyo­ ming in favor of his rigid idealogy.” Earlier this week the Senate decided not to reject Reagan’s veto, and both Wallop and Sen. Alan Simpson voted with the majority. Democratic U.S. Senate can­ didateJohn Vinich said the Senate failed the working people of Wyo­ ming by, not overriding President Reagan’s trade bill veto. And pemocratic candidate Pete Maxfjplft said, in a release, “By sus­ taining the president’s veto, the state of Wyoming has been hurt. We have enormous trade imbalances that have left America and, therefore, Wyoming vulnerable to the investment decisions of our new foreignereditors.” Maxfield said the bill contained many provisions that would have improved the U.S. trade policy. He noted a provision that would have the right to investigate trade viovio­ lations by foreign nations and companies. He said the bill also would have given federal aid to workers who have lost their jobs because of im­ ports of foreign goods. The money would go toward job training. Both Maxfield and Simons criti­ cized the Senate for not standing up to the president on a provision of the bill that would have given workers at least 60 days notice of plant closings. “This vote is a slap in the face to working men and women in Wyo­ ming and throughout America,” Simons said in a news release. “The administration chose to veto the trade bill because of the plant clos­ ing notification requirements, and the Republican senators chose to vote with the administration, in­ stead of the people.” “The Senate has failed the work­ ing men and women who are the backbone of our economy,” Vinich said Friday in a release. “And 1 don’t mean people back East somewhere, 1 mean people right here in Wyoming.” i “We could have put more people to work with the small business and agricultural export assistance pro­ gram included in that bill,” Vinich said. “And we sure could use the money that would have com< money that would have come for retraining of displaced wor workers, with the recent layoffs in the energy and timber industries. “1 don’t think that sliding from the world’s biggest creditor nation to the world’s biggest debtor nation is a sign of economic prosperity. Part of that is due to other nations’ unfair trade practices, which this bill would have helped eliminate,” the candidate continued. LYNN SIMONS Cites Wallop’s ‘rigid k' �' « •’ -' '' ' ,- ' ' '■■ "■ • ’■ -Sti-Tribune, Casper. Wyo.' ‘':^^', Saturday, June 18,1588 Sis6if?efends hisTecortf on veteran issug Legion convention in Casper; R. Vets continue to agack him during. The Republican Republican has hasbeen attacked American Veterans and the Para-^ The been attaci for remarks he made in a San Diego lyzed American Veterans. speech' and he reiterated those He said he has taken steps to pr^ statements Friday. < j / tect veterans from steep cuts in ;ASPER.=Cr A conciliatopf but ‘ ,“1 think we have to make a dif-, health and other benefits that might epentimt Sent .^Jao Simp^n have been forced by the Grammsnded his record on veterajis^ , ference between a veteran who ed six months, never left the U.S., Rudman-Hollings balanced budget es in the'face of hard questionand doesn’t know a. mortar tube from members of the American^ bill. t from either end and a veteran who In response to the question that jpn attending their state conven- served in a combat theater or com­ lumped him among “the assholes in I ui Casper Friday.iT«AiK bat era — that’s what I sai4 ~ h s Washington” who have tried to cut ;i don’t mean to sound defensive .called priorities.;>; > veterans benefits, Simpson cited his nasty, but f sure can tell you one “And then 1 said it seems to me record on obtaining funds for a vet­ li, 1 didn’t g^o to .Washington to ' inappropriate to say that a disabled erans’ cemetery in Wyoming, an ^e in the Senate of the United * American veteran, a guy w^ tears ,I addition to the Veterans Hospital in tc to hurt the, veterans,’’ Simp*. , up his knee oh iJstii slope while It.J Cheyenne, and other accomplishI saidM^-S.. > t/! Some, veterans 'an^yeteraiw ' leave, from Fcbt 'Carson, BTv M..U Hips have sharplyJai^CKM:Simp- . 7 receive the same_^b^fits ^^a ser^ Legion National Commander *' isitions om^^e^;ji£sues.t z\w'** isRiies.l’ fvice-connected‘;^*disablecl " veteran Jake Comer, who questio^ E-J"'........ ii.. .-. ,v- . ’ agreed the who served in combat. ThaLJs wh^ son on other points, *■ has called T ' BniitmgWbsl-of-^^L , 11 said,” Simpson averred. * L senator has been instrument^ in ig incteases'fai veterans’ benefit^, '* The senator also repeated his those areas but questioned. Simp-.' »oses raising' the- Veterans * Adi ] charge that some disabled veterans son’s attempts to attach an amend-; listration to cabinM-levei statusFj receive benefits for injuries received 'ment to the bill raising the YA to . I wants to gi\te veterans the right-j 'cabinet-level status in the executive app^. Vrt&M^Adi^istfajjonA; when they tripped over a case of f department. • lemon, extract while ending a isiohV'about’’ tnefr’Kenefit^hj^ said that he wants to atthree-daydrunk.,,. 5Simpson ---“*rhat’s pretty tough stuff, f 'Hach his amendment giving veteraiis irtipson'r fellow. Legionnaires^ | don’t do that to be a smartass. 1 do the right to appeal VA benefits deci1-their,.jiational,cdmmander.4nrl jt-becauseT guess I must be of the i'sions to court, to. the cabinet status ndance, cont^Ued/the attack; | old school — you know it says ‘For ‘ bill, which he said is “veto-proof.” 1 one member saying Simpson is t e o f .“ t h et/a s s h o 1 e S y in; | > Cod and Country’ on the cap,” he i The amendment will, not endanger Mud. '.y. f the chances of the parent bill, which shington” who’have tried to cut j'“It seems to me if we’re going to I he said will pass by a large mar^ni * ‘ Tans benefits. ' f cut programs of everybody else in V "AC . lut Simpson cited ms time’as > rife entire United States, we ought to irman of the Senate Veterans 6g doing that with the veterans, too, airs Committee and legislation which hejia^ played a role as , gxcept for those who served in •eombat and in the combat theater. (OPof his long-term commitment Arid I don’t care if they were rtterans’interest^ Wounded or not just as long as they ’It’s important that we talk were in a combat theater or even a wt things —I’m one of those combat era.” d of guys — I’m not sure : - Simpson said he has to take “a ether it’s a strength* or a failure, lot of crap from the professional ause I have been involved in vei­ Veterans,” but the American Legion ns’ activities since I left the ser^ i4“the least offensive,” of the vet­ 5,” Simpson said. “I’ve been inerans groups. In response to a ques­ ved in a lot of stuff for veterans, tion, Simpson said his criticisms are )t of good stuff, with my name aimed at “professional fundraising it.? i. Veterans groups,” like the Disabled 'oiiceding that* some of his larks have “bordered between id humor and smartass,” Simpinsisted that “If I get to take my ips, I think it’s important that 1 to tell you what I have been dotoo,” , • ■■ T* atht »' '' ot cb a v �Wallop’s speaking fees much less than Simpson’s, ^lieney’s -oiHi-1 riuutie, Gasper Wvo __________ ^ u rd a y , June 2b. 1 yaa By ANDREW MELNYKQVYCH Star-Tribune Washington bureau TFe total value of Wallops assets is at least $1.58 million. But the total could be far higher, WASHINGTON —Sen. because there is no top value estimated for three of his major Malcolm Wallop earned about assets. $33,000 giving speeches last year, The mortgages on the two ran­ about average for a senator, but less ches are the only liabilities listed by than half as much as fellow Wyo­ Wallop. Each mortgage is listed as ming Republicans Sen. Alan Simp­ son and Rep. Dick Chenev. in excess of $250,000. If the mort­ gages and value of the ranches afe Wallop’s financial disclosure assumed to offset each other. Wal­ statement also shows he is a member lop’s net worth would stand at justof the Senate’s millionaire club, over $1 million. with assets above $1 million. The statement indicates Wallop According to his financial paid off between' $250,000 and disclosure report, Wallop earned $550,000 in loans last year. Between $32,750 in speaking fees and $600 $100,000 and $250,000 of that sum for writing articles for three conser­ was a short-perm loan taken out in vative publications. Although 1987, while the remainder represents Senate rules allow Wallop to keep t all of his Speaking and writing fees, three loans taken out in 1986. Wallop sold at least $611,000 (he donated $5,789 to charity and re­ worth of stock in 1987, much of it in tained $27,561. the process of liquidating a blind Wallop filed his 1987 personal trust. He also sold about a half financial dislosure statement this million dollars worth of Treasury month, after receiving a one-month bills, but purchased a similar extension. Simpson and Cheney fil­ amount. ed their statements in time to meet a In addition to speaking fees and May 15 deadline. his senatorial pay of $85,000, Wal« Simpson was the sixth-leading lop listed other income of between recipient of speaking fees in the $94,000 and $226,000, most of it Senate. He donated $37,000 of his earnings from his ranches and in­ $71,425 in fees to charity, retaining vestments. just less than the $35,000 limit. Wallop took in $74.42 in oil and Cheney’s speech income was gas royalties, and between $5,000 $79,350, fourth among members of and $15,000 in mineral lease rentthe House. He kept $25,885 — the . maximum allowed in the House — als. Wallop reported that he received and donated the remaining $52,615 paid trips for himself to Irvine, to charity. Wallop’s 1987 financial Calif., Dallas, and Chicago, and disclosure statement indicates that that he and his wife received trips to speaking appearances he made in he is a millionaire. But because Miami and California. congressional rules require that A complete list of Wallop’s writassets and income be listed as falling within specified ranges, it is im­ , ing and speaking fees follows. possible to do more than estimate a _ Articles Washington Times ($300), American member’s financial status. Spectator ($100), Conservative Digest Wallop lists assets worth at least. $200). $1.6 million. They include a pair of Speeches , blind trusts, one worth between American Natural Soda Ash Council $250,000 and $650,000 and the other ($2,000), Natl. Construction Industry valued at $315,000 to $830,000. His Council ($2,000), Citizens for Reagan major stockholdings outside the ($250), Tobacco Inst. ($2,000), Harris trusts include more than $250,000 in Corp. ($2,000), Amer. Trucking Assn. (2 IBM, $100,000 to $250,000 in x $2,000), Ethics and Public Policy Center ($500), Natl. Strategy Informa-’ Syntex, and between $50,000 and tion Center ($500), Govt. Research $100,000 in American Express. Corp. ($1,000), Amer. Stock Exchange Two ranches Wallop owns near ($2,000), Global Security Symposium Big Hom are valued at more than ($1,000), Natl Assn, of Broadcasters $250,000 each. The value of Wal­ ($2,000), Amer. Mining Congress ($2,000), Chemical Manuf. Assn. lop’s 17,000 shares in Community ($2,000), Amer. Council for Capital Media, Inc., of Sheridan is listed at Formation ($2,000), Van Ness, Feldman, between $50,000 and $100,000. The Sutcliffe & Curtis ($2,000), Fertilizer In­ company operates two radio sta­ st. ($2,000), Charls E. Walker & Assoc. tions. Minor holdings include four ($1,000), Davis & Harman ($1,500), Chicago Mercantile Exchange ($2,000), oil and gas properties. Chicago Board of Trade ($1,000), Amer. Security Council ($1,000). �' i-Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo.. . Tuesday, June 28.1988 • .i. v. Simpson: Channel , drought i^ef CASPER-^HFederal drought relief needs to go to farmers on “hard scrabble country” and not tQ ;' “heavy hitters and. . .fat^.^eatsi’# Sen. Al Simpson said Monday. “There’s a v/ay to get that money i■ without dipping into the Federal ! Treasury and that is to go get-. it , from the guys who are going to be millionaires when' they finish with ; ; . this twisted agriculture program,’-* Simpson said in a radio interview. Simpson said Congress is “head­ ed into some Jiighly partisan stuff” in working out how to fund drought relief, which will cost taxpayers “a : lot of bucks.” But Simpson added . , that he is “not interested in always seeing the taxpayers pay more,” and . I feels the government has to mov^ j away from subsidizing agriculture.t* i ' Simpson also said he doesn’t ; ! think the proposed Deer Creek Dam j is any threat to downstream irrig^ t tion and whooping-crane habitat ift J Nebraska. J “That is just a fiction, fantasy — a fear that is really uncharacteristic ' , in a downstream stat6,” Simpson J said. “I think that the court will throW them out one more time,” SimpsOn said . of Nebraska’s suit against Wyoming over thedam. ’ u: ■ ; j 't �Wyoming senator also lauds Meese BtSA^LVANNMtrHIIOV d„n„g „ ■' by Charles Brown of KTWO-TV A transcript of the interview w^ rekased by Simpson’s Washington Sirapson. Wednesday said you can t rule out” Sen. Malcolm Wallop said the possibility “^*«hlyPproba that the Iranian airJiner carrying ^’■anian plane was on a 290 people and k mission aimed at building domestic support for Ira­ shot down by a nian authorities. ror iraU.S. warship in the Persian Gulf thA ^hot^ of bntcalling said! Sunday was ordered to fly SIMPSON toward the ship. situation. That’s why we are eoinc to havea board of inquiry.” ® ® 1 ^“’’Pson praised Attorney General Edwin Meese, who an­ he is willing to look at the possibility of comnounced his resignation this week ^nsanng families of the passeSSs ter saying that an independent on the Iranian plane. prosecutor s probe of allegations of the^'^llin^’®®'’ possibility that E»°hta' •‘««»»P‘e«eIy. vi„. Alon r* k sent the A300 airbus toward the USS l?ok at the whole reord you are going to find out that ;nTtk""D^’ "’’®sile cruiser patrollkmd^of some * „™?’te a tremendous difkind of incident. “The fact the intPson said of Meese. Th^Wyoming Republican made ■airhner was out of the normal ailPlease see SIMPSON Alfi vuniinu^trirom Al Simpson saia iiiv?v ways for; civilian traffic, was traordinary difference” between the decreasing in altitude and ac­ Iran incident and the Soviet celerating towards the (ship) may shooting of a Korean airliner five tell you Iran had something of their years ago. own in mind,” Wallop said Tues­ “Soviets were sitting next to the day. aircraft and had it under visual con­ The three candidates for the tact and let them have it. Here in Democratic nomination to oppose this situation was an aircraft nine Wallop in this fall’s general elec­ miles away or six miles away and no tion suggested Tuesday that Wal­ one seeing it up close. In the lop’s comments show he is “para­ Soviet-Korean airline situation, they noid.” saw it, rode shotgun on it and But Simpson said Wallop may brought it down. That’s a pretty big know more about the incident than difference.” most. “Malcolm Wallop has been Simpson said there arc “a lot of in the forefront of our nation’s se­ things that might be very positive” curity. He has been on the In­ coming from the tragedy, though he telligence Committee. He knows did not elaborate. and has the grasp of issues and facts “No one should believe that the through his resources on the In­ Iranians have ever had our best in­ telligence Committee even though terest at heart when they penned up he is no longer a member of the our Americans — 52 of them for committee. He has an extraordinary over 400 days. That’s who we are array of things before him.” dealing with.” Simpson characterized the inci­ Asked if he would support repa­ dent as, “a true tragedy,” and rations to the families of the Iran remarked on the “terrible things” airline victims, Simpson said, “The that happen in war zones. president has indicated that that is “It’s always odd to me how peo­ not off the table and we will sure ple somehow believe that in war, look at that too.” only the combatants are killed,” he Speaking of Meese, Simpson said said. “1 think anyone who really that Meese and his wife Ursula believes that — that you can have a “were held hostage by the Judiciary limited warfare and not involve Committee for 415 days and they women and children, and the inno­ threw every brush at him, every tire, cent — just doesn’t know war. And ball, the whole works. I think that here’s another example of it. A true he feels in his own mind and heart tragedy.” that he was vindicated. You don’t Asked why the warship could not have to like Ed Meese. Leave that tell if the oncoming plane was an out. He was vindicated. F-14 or a commercial airliner, “(Independent Counsel James) Simpson responded that there was McKay has been after him, this is the no “AWACS” — an acronym for second special counsel investiga­ Airborne Warning and Control tion, and the USA has spent 2 mil­ System, a sophisticated radar system lion bucks looking for a way to plant Ed *Meese. And they have mounted on a modified Boeing jet — flying in the area at the time. failed,” Simpson added. �T, p inC(^ COD^ syiai2i___ „ mer jILB_5S*- '• rpieRscd froin. ?si'o”’XspW’snSrf <0 ‘hj ..JJffSi*' Simpson, who's ^^r^ed^ls Simpson sJ^^J^f’rom ^954-58^^^ ming’sgo''«;%5. Senate m/he term m tne 1960s. > �-Star-Tribune, Casp^Wyo. Friday, July 15.1988 McQiire; Wyo delegation pressured more on wolves ching population that their liveUhood and economic survival will CHEYENNE — Conservative noybeatrisk.” Cutler noted McClure is “not Republican Sen. James McClure of ..J agenerally regarded as a friend in Idiio says Wyoming ’s con^essional delegation has received • conservation circles,” but McClure “more one-sided” pressure from said he believes wolf reintroduction can solve some game management the ranching industry to oppose the problems in the park. » reintroduction of wolves into Yel­ “Wolves are a natural part of an lowstone National Park. ecosystem that will function better ' McClure surprised conserva­ with their presence,” he said. tionists this week when he voiced his “Without predation, the nunbers of support for reintroducfion during an interview with Defenders of big game animals in the park can get .. » Wildlife President M. Rupert, outofhand.” ..’•»>•< “From my perspective,'we have a Cutler.,, problem with too many elk in Yel­ McClure’s position is contrary to lowstone Park. It’s an unnatural that taken by Wyoming’s threecondition,” McClure added, noting member, all-Republican congres­ wolves in Yellowstone were “un­ sional delegation, who have oppos­ naturally” eliminated from the park ed wolf reintroduction. when they were killed off by Pressure from Wyoming Sens. humans in the early part of this cen.Malcolm Wallop and ^an Simty son and Rep. Richard Cheney is t»“YYellowstone Park lies partially "crSited with halting plans by Na­ within Idaho’s border, and McClure tional Park Service Director William Penn Mott to pursue wolf said he would also favor wolf rein­ troduction into certain designated reintroduction into Vellowstone. wilderness areas along the IdahoIn the interview with Cutler, Montana border where there is little.' published in the environmental livestock grazing. group’s magazine for July, McClure McClure said he is worried the said he was not being critical of the controversy over wolf reintroduc­ Wyoming delegation, but said they tion has “become so polai^zed have received “more one-sided” there’s no forward motion,” Md he pressure to oppose wolf reintroduc­ is working on a compromise be­ tion from the ranching industry. tween those who support apd op­ “The reason for the opposition is ’ that Wyoming has a very strong pose wolf reintroduction. One proposal put forth luy Mc­ ranching tradition,” said McClure, ranking Republican member on the Clure would be to take wo ves off Senate Energy and Natural the Endangered Species Ac: list in Resources Committee and on the those areas where wolves afe rein­ appropriations subcommittee that troduced. This wQiUd alb IW officials to kill troublesome Iwolves oversees the budgets of the Interior who stray outside the park : ihd kill Department and the Forest Service. McClure, whose views generally livestock, he said. “If we can reintroduce them in a parallel those of his Wyoming col-_ leagues, said rancher opposition to way that minipiizes that conflict reintroducing a predator into Yel­ with man and man’s raising of live­ lowstone is “predictable,” and the stock, then I thiiik we will have ac­ wolf reintroduction plan must in­ complished somethipg,” McClure clude a way to “reassure the ran- said. By SCOTT Fy^RIS Star-Tribune capital bureau I ! ' i I f ji j r �- - T^Hnne. Caspe/wyo. Friday. July 15.1988 Congress OKs bill that would force decision on MX Decision involves rail-basing The Reagan administration had Star-Tribune Washington bureau^ . requested $793 million for the rail­ based MX and $200 for Midgetman ■W - The^ouse m FY 1989. The House voted to Midgetman program to M ^ate Thursday passed legi^ $600 million and slash the MX to tion that would force the next $100 million. The Senate cut MX president to decide early next year funding to $700 million while V mobile version of reducing Midgetman to $50 million. the MX missile. Those votes reflected a tacit Until the decision is made, the agreement by congressional leaders measure allows equal funding for to let the next president choose development of the rail-based, 10which new missile system to deploy,! warhead MX and a small, mobile, Each chamber expressed its prefer-; ’ ?J?^-*'arhead missile known a^ ence while positioning its conferees measure covers to choose a middle ground. ■ » The conferees decided to allocate Od $250 million for each of the com­ Ch^enne’s F.E? WaVren Air peting mobile missiles. The money z^orce Base IS proposed as themain is to be used to keep both programs u mobile MX. Warren going until early 1989. \ S ttiissiles By March 31, the president must proposed demde whether to go ahead with base for the Midgetman. MX or Midgetman, or both, or nei-' Wyoming RepubUcans Malcolm ther. Once a decision is made, an , and Alan SimpsCT wc;^ among 30 senators who opposed the j additional $250 million would be' measure. GOP opposition in the j released to the selected program or Senate fessed on the reduced fun- , pro^ams. j Vice President George Bush, folthe® MX “rail garrison” and ; lowing the administration’s posi-. ) Initiative J tion, favors the rail-based MX. ) and on provisions j Massachusetts Gov. Michael ^‘**’e’’“ce with arms I Dukakis, soon to be the Democratic control agreements. ' presidential nominee, says he wants Senate passage of the defense bill to scrap both the rail-based MX and came on a vote of 64-30. The House the Midgetman. margin — 229-183 — was closer, as The rail garrison proposal call’s liberal Democrats and conservative for placing 50 MX missiles, two to a Republicans voted against the train, at as many as 10 Air Force measure. bases around the country. In a Rep. Dick Cheney, R-Wyo., who U.S.-Soviet crisis the missiles is at home recuperating from a mild would be moved out of bases and heart attack, was not present for the orito the vast American commercial vote. All three members of the rail network. Wyoming congressional delegation Backers of the plan say that the have been strong backers of the missile trains would be hard for the rail-based MX. Soviets to detect and attack, and While the Senate margin indicates could survive to retaliate against a enough support for the measure to Soviet attack. That retaliatory ca­ overcome a presidential veto, the pacity would discourage any such House vote was far short of being Soviet first strike, supporters of the “veto-proof.” A number of Re­ rail garrison say. publicans in both chambers Thurs­ Critics of the plan say the missile day urged President Reagan to veto trains parked at their bases would be . the measure. easy targets for the Soviets. The rail The bill approved Thursday is the garrisons would thus invite attack, 1 result of an agreement reached by rather than discourage it, opponents House and Senate conferees. The say. • stage for the compromise was set earlier this year when each chamber passed its own ve-cion of the By ANDREW MET NYKO VYCH ashington Opponents also claim the missile trains would be subject to sabotage and prone to accidents. The AuForce says the risk of accidents would be extremely small, but has not disclosed how the trains would be protected against saboteurs. The proposal for the Midgetman calls for 500 missiles — carrying th6 same number of warheads as 50 MX "7 to be based at Air Force installa­ tions that have Minuteman missiles. . Two mobile launchers would be parked at each of 250 Minuteman silos.. In the'event of a Soviet attack, the Midgetman launchers would “dash’,’ into the sffrounding area,, where they would wait out the at­ tack. Backers of the plan say much of the Midgetman force would sur-, vive an attack, thus making the mis­ sile a potent deterrent. Opponents contend the Midg­ etman would offer no more sur­ vivability than the rail-based MX. The sm^l missile system’s $45 bil­ lion estimated price tag is about three times the cost of MX rail gar­ rison and is prohibitively high. Midgetman opponents say. �•Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. ” • Thursday, July 21,1988 ' Simpson tells Sweehvatcr group lie prediets Bush-Dole ticket Senator also vows to support trade bill he says will boost trona exports By KATHARINE COLLINS South western Wyoming bureau ROCK SPRINGS —U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson Wednesday^gJtoed a Bush-Dole Republican^resiJential ticket and criticized the Demo­ cratic Party’s soon-to-be presiden­ tial nominee. During a stop in Rock Springs, Simpson also vowed to support a U.S. trade bill he says will boost trona exports. Simpson said he bases his hunch that Sen. Bob Dole. R-Kansas, will be Vice President George Bush’s choice as a running mate on “a sense you get around Washington.” He also said that Bush and Dole have “reconciled” any conflicts they had during the presidential ■ primaries. “You see what Dole is doing, with his allegiance and exhausting schedule, and Bush is observing that, and pleased with it, and they keep in touch ... I’ve been present at those sessions where they (recon­ ciled their differences).” The two-term U.S. senator praised Dole’s strength on farm belt issues, contrasting the Kansan with Dukakis who he says lacks credibili­ ty among farmers and Westerners. “There isn’t anyone more knowledgeable about agriculture ... than Bob Dole,” Simpson said. “Certainly not Michael Dukakis. That is foreign territory to him, just as foreign to him as Western water law. He understands nothing about the West ... He believes in gun control and he does not believe in capital punishment. Now if that’ll wash in the West, then I’m lost in the swamp.” But Simpson stopped short of saying that he personally supports the choice of Dole as vice president. “I have to watch that,” he said. “If 1 recommend Dole, it sounds very self-serving. If Dole were the candidate and he were elected he would have to relinquish (the post of Senate minority leader) and so if he did I would certainly ... run for the post of our party’s leader in the Senate.” Simpson also noted that passage of pending foreign trade legislation will increase worldwide markets for Sweetwater County trona, and open up markets for Wyoming products. “I think you’ll find (the bill) is truly going to make a difference in Wyoming ... All (the Japanese) do is talk about trona. Malcolih’s been over there four times over the last five years, and I’ve been over twice, going right to the people of Japan and South Korea. They nod their heads, and smile and they’re gracious and they do nothing, abso­ lutely nothing. “It should help all markets ... It says either you open your markets, and give us access or we’ll slap a tariff on yours. We’ll get some flak, but it’s got some real hog in it — it should help.” ALAN SIMPSON Lauds Dole’s knowledge ofa^ �Simpson on Bush’s VP call list Senator says he’s pushing for Dole By ANDREW I LNYKOVYCH Star-Tribune Washingion^reau itar-Trtbune. Casper. Wyo. Friday, July 29, 1988 n e Simpson said several other Senate colleagues have been asked to pro­ vide information to the Bush cam­ paign. He named Pete Domenici of New Mexico, Bill Armstrong of Colorado and Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas. Before agreeing to provide the in­ formation requested by Bush, Simpson said he consulted with his wife Ann, with Dole of Kansas, and with fellow Wyoming Republicans Sen. Malcolm Wallop and Rep. , Dick Cheney. He then called Bush to again say that he is not interested, Simpson said. Simpson said he urged Bush to select Dole as his running mate. “I strongly support the selection of Robert Dole,” he said. Dole has experience in the House :and Senate, as GOP national chairman, and as a candidate for both vice president and president, i Simpson said. I Most of the senators on Bush’s ! list of prospects are providing the -j I information the Bush campaign has I requested, Simpson said. I While disclaiming any interest in WASHINGTON — S^ Alan Simpson of Wyoming is still under consideration as a possible running mate for George Bush on the Republican presidential tick­ et. Simpson con­ firmed. Thursday Bush is consider­ ing him for the ticket, but he said SIMPSON he told Bush that he is not interested in the job. Instead, Simpson said, he urged the prospective Republican presidential nominee to choose Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole as his running mate. “I have no personal desire, ambi­ tion, or even lust to be vice presi­ dent,” Simpson said. “My abilities are best-suited to legislating.” If Dole becomes vice president, Simpson, as assistant Republican , leader, would be the leading con­ tender to assume fhe Senate lead­ ership post. Bush has called more than a dozen prospective running mates on his widening list, aides said Thurs­ day. Bush himself said merely that his selection effort has been orderly and that public speculation is in­ evitable. Simpson said that he is providing . ! the Bush campaign with financial ' and personal information it re­ quested on Monday. Despite his professed lack of vice-presidential ambitions, Simpson said he is cooperating with the Bush campaign out of a belief that Bush “should have a full range of options.” Simpson is unsure how he would react to an offer from Bush to be his i running mate. “I honestly don’t 1 know how I would respond,” Simpson said. “I can’t imagine that the wheel would ever come around tome.” “He’s only talking to people he’s considering,” said the aide. “I would suspect that process is complete,” the aide said. “That doesn’t preclude some new calls tomorrow or the next day. The process is fluid and he’s controlling The AP reported that campaign sources said the vice president had earlier placed similar calls to — or contacted personally — his strongest primary-campaign rival. Dole; Dole’s wife, former Trans­ portation Secretary Elizabeth Dqle, and Sens. Domenici, Kassebaum, Simpson, William Armstrong, RColo, and John Danforth, R-Mo. Also already contacted, the sources said, were Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., Governors Thomas Kean of New Jersey, John Sununu of New Hampshire, Carroll A.Campbell of South Carolina, George Deukmejian of California, and former governors Lamar Alex­ ander of Tennessee and Richard Thornburg of Pennsylvania, who recently was nominated by Presi- dent Reagan to be attorney general. The AP reported that Dole wasn’t the vice-presidential nomination, acknowledging his call, at least • Simpson said he is looking forward publicly. He joked that he and his' to campaigning for Bush in the wife had been “waiting for the: coming months. “My commitment is to seeing that i phone to ring at home. I can’t get' George Bush is elected president. | Elizabeth to leave the house.” Speaking at a fund-raising The issue isn’t ‘Where is George?’ I breakfast, the Senate minority lead­ but it’s ‘Who’s Mike?’ ” he said, 1 er joked that he hoped Bush’s • referring to Democratic presidential choice of a running mate would be nominee Mike Dukakis. narrowed to just him and his wife, Meanwhile, The Associated Press j “and I dropout.” reported that Bush’s widening list of i However, Bush himself told: prospects includes Sen. Daniel reporters last week that Dole would Quayle, R-Ind., whose name did be on “any list” of potential runn­ not figure in earlier speculation. ing mates. Quayle spokesman Jeff Nesbit The vice president told reporters said that the vice president had call­ outside his White House office on ed Quayle on Monday, and that the Thursday that speculation over his call was followed up by a visit to running mate was inevitable. “You Quayle’s office on Tuesday by can’t avoid speculation,” Bush Robert Kimmitt, the Washington * said. lawyer who is overseeing the screen­ “The process is going along in an ing process of potential candidates. i orderly fashion. Hopefully, it “He would accept it if asked,” I won’t be demeaning to anyone,” h® Nesbit said. said. Domenici also confirmed on Thursday that he had been ap­ proached by the vice president, say­ ing he was proud and honored to be on the list. “I know it will be a dif­ ficult decision for the vice president to make,” he said in a statement. Bush, who says he will not make his final choice until the Republican National Convention next month, has now all but completed calls to prospective candidates on his socalled “long list,” according an aide who spoke to the AP only on the condition of anonymity. �Simpson slated on, KCW’ RIVERT0I3 - Wvomivg puW»t proiobi* gram, I I n will feaiure an inicrMcLaughhn, 'v ^en. Alan_SjUiiw-i-'Jview with U.^>* ihisSunday al 1 P.m,,,eciion Republican of the ' nosiiiou '<-’1 vkc six. Cable subseri byanteqna. may �lliree Democratic Senate hopefuls blast away at Wallop, -Star-Tribune. Casper, Wyo. Saturday, August 6 ,1 9 8 8 or»H wire wir<* reports rennrt’i who-orofltcd frOHl il11“ , From staff and from those who profited from CHEYENNE —With t h e legal practices,” he said. i primary only 10 days away, WyoWallop has not done enough to ; ming’s three Democratic candidates stop the problems, he added, for the U.S. Senate Friday “The fact is, with all of his se- i jockeyed for position by criticizing niority that he claims is of such their common foe on pay raises, benefit to the sute, there has been senior citizens and trade legislation, (this spending frenzy in defense,” he University of Wyoming law Pro- said. “It is time for a change, for a fessor Pete Mmcfield noted that voice of common sense for the state la me members of the U.S. Senate recent- and the people. people.” Ii Simons, meanwhile, announced ly gave themselves a $12,000 raise. “Two Washington top senior While Sen. Alan Simpson rejected that i " the raise, the Democrats’ target, in­ citizen watchdog organizations have cumbent Sen. Malcolm Wallop, did rated Malcolm’s senior record among the worst in the Senate. not, he said. “Wallop even voted on May 3rd, State Supt. of Public Instruction 1985, against restoring funding for Lvnn Simons said that since 1981 “Wallop has voted against Social Medicare and Medicaid benefits. • Security on at least 25 measures.” This vote passed the Senate 93-6.” “Our seniors contributed to Simons said she would instead focus Social Security for years, and they on cutting Pentagon waste. And State Sem John Vinich. said should not have to watch as their monthly checks are slowly eroded that while Wallop “finally did the right thing” in voting for the om­ by inflation. “Our incumbent senator has nibus trade bill, the incumbent was voted repeatedly to cut cost of liv­ still “playing politics with jobs.” ing adjustments; I would instead “This demonstrates just how out focus on cutting the waste out of the of touch Wallop is with the state,”,i Pentagon’s budget,” Simons con­ Maxfield said of Wallop’s decision cluded. to to keep the pay raise. Vinich said Friday that the trade Both senators had opposed the bill Wallop voted for this week was raise and sponsored a measure call­ the same one President Reagan ing for senators to reject it. Wallop vetoed earlier this year — except has pointed out, however, that even this one did not include the plant if the raise is rejected, it is still closing provision. reported as income. '‘Only three months ago In addition, the federal govern­ Malcolm voted against this bill, > ment should recover billions of saying it was ‘overly protectionist | dollars lost through defense project' and full of ‘pork,’” Vinich an­ I frauds and use it to reduce the fed-1 nounced. “Frankly, even though Malcolm ! eral deficit and help individual states. Maxfield said. i finally did the right thing, I resent Maxfield, speaking during a news the flip-flopping,” the candidate conference, said about 40 percent of said. “Wyoming will benefit from several provisions in this trade bill the money lost could be returned to and we could have those benefits the state using a method similar to that much sooner with some sup­ the one in which the Exxon Corp, port from our senior senator.” was forced to repay energy over­ Vinich said Wallop also percharges. Another 30 percent could be ! formed some election year “sleight. returned to the U.S. Treasury to i of hand” on the catastrophic health > insurance program. . reduce the federal deficit and the “He fought the partial prescrip­ - remaining 30 percent could be ear­ tion drug coverage, not to mention marked for special needs such as sponsoring an amendment on the veterans’, assistance programs, floor of the Senate to gut the entire education programs and daycare program, but when the final roll assistance, he said. was called, he voted yes to make Maxfield called for the aggressive sure he wouldn’t be crossways with j prosecution of all cases of potential our senior citizens in an election fraud and for the federal govern­ year,” Vinich said. • 1 ment to do all it can to reclaim lost Vinich said that during his cam- ', funds. . ,. oaign he’s met elderly people who “I want to get every penny back [ .JS "wic''^tlmn''‘ha^’'of' their: '^'lithly Social Security checks on_'^ prescription drugs. » y . i■ , “It’s not fair. We’re the only in-1 ' dustrialized country in the 'world that does not have some kind of.' ■ medical jJfogram for its people,” ie said. “You bet I’m in favor of a universal health care program that �sS’th“’™»s ‘“issns'rAToi ‘v joiejSd fot'^silio'nhy critieWng niority •5“^'’'„5e‘There hTs ten « “mSHoS S To'ire of common se^e (or the aute ’tiT’?ca„«hi,. ^--d emselves a $12,000 raise “Two Washington top senior Alan Simpsonjrejected f^.^^^^a^chdog organizations have he Democrats Democrats’’target, target, ininMalcolm’s senior record - thP raise the cunSent’ Sen. Malcolm Wall^ w^iinndid did the worst in the Senate. •‘Wallop even voted on May 3rd, "°SutVs?pt. of Public instruction 1985 against restoring f^ing for Lvnn Simons said that since 198 Scare and Medicaid benefits. "^‘Wallop hM voted against Soci^ This vote passed the Senate 93 . SMurhy on at least 25 measures. Sis said she would instead focus . WUle Sen. A1-- m& S bin, the incumbent was ■ Estill “playing politics with jobs.” H “This demonstrates just how out . ! of touch Wallop is with the state, i pentagonVss hudeet, budget. ” Simons con i MSd said tTf Wallop’s decision clude£ . ^he trade | “S,KS'S-OPPO.d^he « raise and sponsored a rneasure call hf the raise is rejected, it is still the sme one except ' closing provision.^ months ago '«aSn“?he .J^ioSoS; ment should recover billions of ^ sayitw .^<0^ vinich an- ■ ' dollars lost through defense project and full ot po . , frauds and use it to reduce the fed- - noHSviv even though Malcolm " eral deficit and help mdividual right thing, I resent states. Maxfield said. lly • .. the candidate Maxfield, speaking during a news the benefit from conference,, smd said avvuu about -;C 40 percent of ons in this trade bill lost could be returned to several provi. n^ benefits the money d„. 1--------. m„hod similar 10 and J’™ ,,h some sopthe state using a method similar to the one in which the Exxon Corp, was forced to repay energy over­ charges. STa^d'^o-'lSSaslS^^^ Another 30 percent could be returned to the U.S. Treasury to i ,.reduce the federal deficit and the •i V remaining 30 percent could be ear­ tion drug coverage, not to marked for special needs such as veterans’ assistance programs, S;d“=”o"ed%»™« education programs and daycare assistance, he said. Maxfield called for the aggressive prosecution of all cases of potential fraud govern- year,” Vinich said. . f ■ and for the federal ~ ment ment to to do do aU all it it can can to reclaim ------- - lost < vinich said ‘^atjiunng hi cam V naian he’s met elderly people wno funds. ■ “ -ny badc*i soend more than half of t “I want to get every penny-----rSnthly social Security checks on / duswialiied country . that docs not have some kmo m, mcdicaUJtog^Joriwp^. “You bet I m in lavoi w* StWcrsal health erne pw’” l™or’t,ua&°’-a,c.. l care.” �-Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. __ :------------■ ■ Thursday, August 11,1988 -------------------------------- ■ fesuecouldlpji, party -Alan Simpson said he hopes dele­ gates to the Republican National —Convention, next week don’? become locked in a debate over -X^rtion because the issue will mark the party’s downfall this election yenr. The Republican long has been pro-choice on the issue, and fears that staunch anti-abortionists could seriously divide the GOP during the invention, opening the way for Democrat Michael Dukakis to win the^presidential race. It is the same kind of special in­ terest thing that destroyed the Democratic Party in their presidenbal races in the past, and it sure as certain will destroy ours,” SimpSon his weekly telephone inter­ view with Wyoming reporters. if •i Bush, the senator long has has .ia said he he ij* Humphrey, R-New isn t interested in the job. His proHampshire, plans to set up an ad choice position on abortion also is Ji hoc committee at the GOP conven­ seen as a roadblock toward his tion stressing the need for a strict selection by Bush. anti-abortion presidential ticket. “I formed that opinion on abor­ Bive purpose is to tion when I was in the Wyoming give the punty test down there. I Legislature,” said Simpson. ‘‘It was guess It IS kind of like the old ‘rule one of the most emotional and ex­ society that always brines traordinary debates that 1 ever pitv^X*wRepublic^ recalled Democrats and Republi­ Harty down,” said Simpson. ‘‘I cans alike — it was something I don t know how that solves their shan’t forget. kind'^f’ J®** '^hh that And from that and from my 18 kind of attitude it is difficult to years of the practice of law, I have ‘hat sometimes Anyway, they are doing the ' come to this decision,” he said “1 have shared it with people, and it is gjpy h is the test I alway! nothing secretive. 1 am not a mem­ ber of any organization pressing mv Simpson has been view on my fellow man. 1 just ’ mate for Vice President Georj■‘R----- believe that a woman, after conI sultation with her physician and her pastoral counselor and her husx"-’ should have that choice.” Simpson fully realizes that some members of his party will criticize ms position, but remains committed tbit. It is really funny, how people can be so compassionate and loving apparently in another area and then he said. 1 hat is kind of hard to believe but you don’t get used to it, you just get hardened to it.” ■ sipn oS — ■StXniS —..winy wmp saio ^4 �Simpson Senator confirms he spoke with Weyrich Ry ANDRFW MFT NrVVQVYCH Star-Tribune Staff writer Related story, A5 CASPER — Sen. Alan Simpson las “threatened... retaliation” igainst right-wing Republicans who versation. lave been working to torpedo “I called Weyrich because he’s iimpson’s chances for the GOP the only one who has any sense ice-presidential nomination, ac- 'among those guys,” Simpson said ording to a syndicated column in Saturday. “Weyrich is the only one oday’s Casper Star-Tribune. I can talk to.” Rowland Evans and Robert He said he told Weyrich that the say that the Wyoming ReNew Right’s tactics ate not in the n vowed retribution during a best interests of the Republican Par­ phone conversation with tylew Right leader Paul Weyrich. “Don’t ask me for help” in ad­ /eyrich and other ultra-conservancing the Republican right’s atives object to Simpson’s proagenda in the Senate, Simpson said tioice position on abortion. he told Weyrich. Simpson confirmed that he spoke * Evans and Novak say Weyrich ith Weyrich, but offered a some___ a “sounded the alarm” against hat different account of the con,Simpson vice-presidential "nominai'*' Please see SIMPSON, A16 ■■ Continued from Al his support of a woman’s right to choose whether or not to have an abortion. “They love to hammer me on that one issue,” he said. Weyrich said he explained his public attack bn Simpson as a move to “energize our people,” Simpson said. “I told him ‘If (Democratic nominee Michael) Dukakis can’t excite your people, you’re going to hav^ to jump-starr corpses out there.’ " Although the conversation with Weyrich was very frank, “I didn’t spsecit ap with profanhy,” Simpson jiiKi. In a column due to appear Mondav. Evans and Novak imply that objecaons from the New Right prompted Simpson to take himself out of the running for vice presiticntr “WhaLa.buoch oT crap,” Simpscat said m response. “I took myseff out weeks ago.” While consistently disavowing any interest in joining Vice PresidenJ^ ‘ tion when Simpson emerged as a leading contender last week. Weyrich said 200 to 300 GOP con­ vention delegates would vote against Simpson because of his op­ position to a Constitutional amendment banning abortion. According to Evans and Novak, “Simpson telephoned Weyrich in a flare of anger and choice epithetsfor which he is famous in the Senate.”. While again disavowing any interest in the vice presidency, Simpson told Weyrich that “he would be in the Senate a long time and would be heard from when it comes to Weyrich’s New Right agenda,” the columnists report. Simpson said Weyrich and other ultra-conservatives have long viwed him as an “evil poop” because of George Bush on the Republican ticket, Simpson did fulfill a Bush campaign request for background information on himself. Simpson press secretary Mary Kay Hill said her boss and Weyrich have tangled in the past. The most recent phone call was prompted by the ‘very personal attacks being laun­ ched” on Simpson, she said. Hill said Simpson has said before that abortion is not the only issue that matters to voters and that he (Simpson) is conservative on ques­ tions such as defense and the econ­ omy. But Weyrich and others con­ tinue to focus on the “one test” of the abortion issue, she said. The suggestion that Simpson took himself out of vice-presidential consideration because of New Right opposition is “absurd and in­ accurate,” Hill said. “Conservative groups, and Paul Weynch in particular, have nothing to do with whether Al Simpson is chosen as George Bush's running mate,” she said. �Monday, August 15, 1988 / ' ■ Sim] . : J . ' Continued from Al Thornburgh and Sen. Pete sacred cows. ... I would be a lia-J’ bilityforGeorge.” : / ; • ' On taxes, Simpran suggested he|’ ' Domenici of New Mexico. .. t Former Gov. Lamar Alexander believes the next president may. bel j ' of Tennessee, also among the men- ' forced to ask for a tax ihCTarase.ttyt tinned, was in the convention city deal with the deficit. .; ®; / fotr only a few hours to address a “Good lord, somebody is going! 1 Westing of GOP governors. to have to do something inlhat areaP^ Asked if he were on Bush’s list, or we’ll be off the wall,” he said;' ”’*'J; ^Alexander said, “No one’s told me. In separate talk. show appear-|; :;lf I’m on anyone’s list, it’s a list no ances, Quayle, Dole and Kemp J the list, said “1 would a liabilirge ‘ NEW ORLEANS (AP) _ - ty ” and disclosed he had asked the hne’s told me about.” He said he concentrated on criticizing^Dukakis, { Bush guarded his vice presWential GOP nominee-to-be to drop hun has had no communication from an activity that would' be at the top ' pBush or his aides about the vice of the agenda for whoever beeves deliberations Sunday, while one of from consideration. ; ; 'presidency. . • the vice presidential nominre, \^^ i his prospective running mates said But another name popped up ; The Doles were guests of honor he didn't want the job and others again for consideration — Interviewed front Evansville/ft acted like they were auditioning for White House Chief of Staff Howard •at a reception and they told Ind., on the ABC show, “This-; Reporters that Bush aides asked both Baker. Republicans outside of the ‘^ Bashing Democratic presidential of them last week for additional Week with David Brinkley,” Quayle, campaign are urging Bush to take said Dukakis’ Democratic * Party background information. nominee Michael Dukakis was the another look at the former Senate, “stands for a party in'retreat. It ' .The selection of someone to fill order of the day for Sen^ Dan leader,, a source sai .the No. 2 spot on the ticket was the stands zfor a party of doom and Ouayle of Indiana and Bob Dole ot 'gloom. They don’t have an agenda Bush keeot r suspense at the convention and Kansas, and Rep. Jack Kemp of for the future.” hk delibera* conservatives were actively lobbying New York —- all on Bush s list of^ residence m As for his own .prospects for .being his own couns He had to get one of their own in that spot. . potential vlce'prcsidenis. " ' . ----------------- ----- 2 J tions on a running mate^ . S Gordon Humphrey of New ing on the ticket, Quayle said, “I ^V'^Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming, K"JTS S Hampshire, eppe.^inj’on .he NBC would like ... .................. to believe that I would * g UUBn RUU-Wllb also was on be acceptable to the whole party.’*' r I 1 - t .. . _ _ Dole said, “I’m hot running for p "S’* Und workfed on his acceptance MtYbHshftienr'RepuWidM' n Lt I ■ J.,., * *1^ ■ Lm 1 * V* f nar /t * I*hi?'' *A vice president.” In a joking refer-f ence to his wife, the senator said, n speech. uov,. mnfer- running mate, we will have someEven top aides, who nave c thiii|i "much W'6rse-Tlihii''a’"gehdef" ! “I’m not campaigning-for anyone,^ red regularly with Bush, disc m conservative .but she would be a great addition to ft . . . . any knowledge of whether he W .... theticket.” \ f leaning toward one prospect « ; Humphrey express^ reservations Dole brushed off his attacks onF s’''“H?il probably tell us maybe 10 ’Jout Simpson and Dole and said Bush when they were competing forS ? f find out’’be most acceptable people being the presidential nomination. L S"p^^^SS'ier’£^A.wa..,mM fe ahou. were Kemp and “Obviously in the primaries,' I* was not talking about; ,hisB iSrSnWic™-NauiSreonv^^^^^^ B». .h« the New New Hampshire Hampshire senator senator • strengths,” said the Kansan. ■ |i Thornbugh said it was “very flat-|i said that “On Friday of j,next (ion will convene on Monday. tering” to be mentioned but, t“IjAtwater said there was no enwge sunnortine the ticket ” . _ine ticKet. have a job to do for this presidents in Bush’s plan to keep his choice a pmg to oe supporting in pusn » h ^nrnina The t My record IS is just as conservative (Reagan) and until I’ve heard any-|: Secret until IburstW ‘ ' senator Humphrey’s.” said Dole! thing from the vice president,‘rm’’ convention w^L,,ni„ht of nam-p’e" about the criticism of‘ ready to go to. work as atjprney’ formally Wednesday night^ot^na^ . _______ ________ general of the United States.”i! ’It V«i I 2 A ’'’®' i “Senator Humphrey’s influence Thornburgh was sworn in to his newf*?: noniinee. fre-> not widespread,” he added. " y post on Friday. ' ‘ The names m [Conservative opposition to Craig Fuller, Bush ’ s chieffcofi quently were .. f’|mpson was based on the Wyoming staff, said, “He will make a gQod|: SXh^MrS, ISIpS pator's positions on abortion and attorney general,’’ when asked; .-about Thornburgh. When asked i^. ALAN SIMPSON .Quayle, VI’ve had a very checkered cahe vjete saying Thornburgh, 'lie’d'be jjsbihty j said Simpson, during an informer governor of Pennsylvania,! TMiaf'Hi ! ' J|l . !■, ., ,tt '. I terview on “Meet the Press.’’'“I’ve was not under consideration, FuUet' S?,” 'W' * , punched the lights out of a lot. of said, “1 didn’t say for how long,’\ be drop fromVPlist m m mam �Tuesday, August 1 g -o “ » Z'5 3 S re 83 «« fb S.-” 3" 2 2 ” s o 8 3 n _3 < 14 ft CZ5 3 8 T < re a a: 3 «> © ® <5 o $ c I ? rt © as oo 3 5. K'S. 3 2. a r'. F.2 = 7 □ k“ « re 3-3 W*' tbsstei ? 3 3 t Continued from At/ et regardless of Bush’s choice for the second spot, Cheney said. Cheney said he expects the fall presidential campaign to be “nega­ tive in a sense that it will talk aboutthe Bush record and Dukakis’ re­ cord.” , . “The image of Dukakis being the smooth, competent inanager just doesn’t hold up in the light of day, Cheney said. “I don’t see that as negative campaigning, depending on how it’s handled. It has to be in good taste, it has to be based on substantive issues.” Cheney said he expects Bush, “just like Dukakis, will rise to the occasion” and give a good accep­ tance speech at the convention Thursday night. “I think he’s got to go out there and energize the troops for the fall campaign with a damn good speech that tells us why he wants to presi­ dent,” Cheney said. ' Cheney will address the conven­ tion today to give the report of the Rules Committee. Meanwhile, the Associated Press reported Monday that Mark Hughes, chairman of Wyoming’s convention delegation, said that despite Simpson’s assertion that he has done everything he can to take himself out of the running, he could still get the nomination. “You just don’t know,” Hughes said. “It’s still wide open. 1 think he’s out, but that’s just my own personal opinion.” Asked who he would support as Bush’s running mate, Simpson en­ dorsed Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas. He said Dole would satisfy conservatives who have threatened to abandon the GOP because they are dissatisfied with Bush as the presidential nominee. ■ “They’d go for Dole in a minute,” said Simpson. If Dole becomes vice president, aimnson who wiiu is is now uuw assistant . ................ Simpson, minority leader, would be in line to move^up into the party’s top spot in the Senate. As routine business dominated convention proceeding during the 83 day Monday, most Wyoming dele­ gates found more interesting things wdo. , , . But Mary Freeman of Lusk,, adorned with the customary badges, and credentials, sat alone in Wyo-, ming’s section of the cavernous Superdome. She conceded that what was going on might not be too exciting, but it was more exciting than Hat Creek. Freeman, 53, opted to stay while others — from places like Smoot, and Meeteetse, Buffalo and Sun­ dance — left during a speech by^ former Secretary of State Al Haig. “It was really too bad,” she said,, “but some members wanted to go^ to Nancy Reagan’s luncheon ^d. others wanted to take the plantation, tour.” It is Freeman’s first Republican National Convention. Kenneth i Freeman, her husband, did not at-, tend. He’s back at the ranch, meeting with a tattlebuyer videotaping part of the rreei^ family herd fof sale in Denver next month. �» Simpson, Donaldson duel at bar fonfab 4 CHEYENNE — More thL 500 ■Wtoming lawyers begin a three-day st^ convention here today, conJ eluding with a Friday ni^t dud of(j'^wits between U.S. S^. Alan Simpson and ABC News White House i conespondent Sam Donaldson. ' i Wyoming lawyers will also hear ' an address from Gov. Mike Sulli­ van at the Joint Judiciary Luncheon on Thursday. ? Registration for the Wyoming State Bar , 1988 Annual Meeting ‘f opens today at 8 a.m. at the Little ; America, with continuing legal ­ education seminars beginning at 9 : a.m. with the annud “Wyoming"} Law Update." ; - Other seminars on a variety of ] legal topics HU out today and { Thursday, including a joint presen- ; tation with the Wyoming Press . Association and the Society of Pro­ fessional Journalists oh “The Right , of Fair Trial and Free Press,” at > 1:45 p.m. Thursday. The annual banquet at 7:30 p.m. Friday features the SimpsonDonaldson faceoff. : ft.’ - i ■ « �5II Simpson Suf-Tribtne graphic by Ong Kearney The problem this year, according : to Clary, was that park officials t Ifailed to realize in time that 1988 was not going to be a typical summer, following a seven-year pattern j of dry winters compensated for by wet springs and summers. “We realized by mid-July that we were not going to get a typical . year,” Cleary said. In the 112 years of Yellowstone s “some real mistakes” in initially weather records there has been no failing to put out a series of other June through August period devastating fires in the park. of such drought, according to Simpson recently spent four days in northwestern Wyoming at his Clary. He said that in the last 16 years ranch near Cody, and said he has the next largest forest fire in the i^ “never seen more irritation” among tional park involved only 9,(XM) residents than they have expressed acres, compared to the spreading about how the federal government Clover-Mist Fire which had grown has handled the fires. to 237,700 acres both inside and “They want to know of their of­ outside Yellowstone this week. ficials, ‘What are you doing to get Fires of this magnitude come in this resolved,’ ” Simpson said. 200-year cycles, he said, with only Simpson said the firefighting, in­ 20 to 30 similar events since Yel­ volving 10,000 people, has cost the lowstone emerged from the Ice government more than $60 million. Age. Simpson said he sent a letter to If park officials had had hind­ Interior Secretary Donald Hodel sight, he said, “we would have ex­ Friday, expressing “in a purer form tinguished every fire we had in Yel­ than ever before” his displeasure lowstone.” with the way the Park Service and Now it might take help from the U.S. Forest Service have handled weather gods,” according to the fires. Clover-Mist Deputy Incident Simpson also said he is ad­ Commander Wayne Eddy, to extin­ vocating compensation to outfitters guish the fires in Yellowstone and and other tourist-related businesses its environs. who have suffered economic dam­ “Maybe taxpayers should be sen ages this summer because of the ding their tax dollars to the weathe fires. gods,” countered one irate man ii Compensation is “an easy call,” the audience during a question an< Simpson said, because he thinks the answer period following the presen damages can be easily documented. - days. ' , ration by Clary, Eddy and others it Please see SIMPSON, At4 “That’s how unaware and un­ charge of combatting the fores able” the Park Service was to deal fires. , with the fire, Simpson said Fire briefings drew about 151 “There are places in the park that people in Cody Thursday night and are just plain burning away,” Siinpabout 100 people in Powell Wed­ son said. “A fourth of this nesday night. magnificent park is burning or has The owner of Cody Lumber drew burned.” . . applause Thursday when he said the Mistakes have also been made in fires were taking the timber base on fighting the fires, Simpson said, the north Shoshone National Forsuch as delays by the Park Service in . est, and therefore his livelihood. using aerial infrared cameras to Officials answered that saving the identify the hottest parts of the1 timber base in the area is a third fires. , ,: priority after protecting lives and Simpson told a meeting of the property. Laramie Chamber of Commerce on1 I The audience also expressed conThursday that fire suppression t cern that many outfitters have been policies on government lands most “burned out” of business by the certainly will come under review. spreading forest fires. The Associated Press reported. He Several in the audience were crit­ said Congress likely will consider ical of fire management, but had some form of compensation for praise for the firefighters businesses whose injuries he believes themselves. , are the fault of the federal govern­ “It seems to me we re talking ment. , , „ „ about the corwn jewel of parks ... In Cody Thursday night, Yellow­ I don’t think you’re doing stone’s Assistant Supt, Ben Clary enough,” one man said of fire sup­ said it was failure to outguess dry pression efforts. weather, not the park management of forest fires, which fanned flames in Yellowstone this summer. Clary said the park’s muchcriticised fire policy was not a “letit-burn” ponej oui atiuaiiy allow­ ed for a range of suppression activi­ ty, from no action to total suppres­ sion................ ._____ ■ ' (» MlTirMSOn Y1O1 Continued from Al ’ Simpson had no estimate on what . , • laims might be filed by private a-w-k rintslz ■»^^a-k-»»'Jsinesses, but quipped it would be c j ss than what we have spent trying ■ 7 jo{)Ut out the fires.” ' * Aj«„Simpson’s statements Friday difBs5CQli£ABJ8J3 ^^'%r from a statement he issued Aug. Star-Tribune capital bureau that indicated he believed the and CAROLE LEGG ’ ?ark Service had simply been fol­ Star- / ribune correspondenr owing the federal law that man­ dates that the parks and wilderness CHEYENNE —Sen. Alan areas be managed “as natural set­ Simpson has reversed his position on tire control in Yellowstone Na. tings to the greatest extent possi­ ble.”, , . . tional Park and wfiile a “fine line has to be now says federal walked, Simpson said Aug. 24 the ■fire_pfficials have public must recognize that fire “is a mismanaged the basic and natural part of the fires. ecosystem,” and that the fire will A little over a help the forest regenerate. week ago Simp­ More recent visits to the park son called for have now convinced him that the public under­ Park Service should have been standing of SIMPSON aware of the extraordinary fire “natural” fire danger this year, Simpson said, management. But Friday the Wyo- j' “Somebody made some real ming Republican said he has for­ mistakes at the beginning,” Simp­ mally lambasted federal officials son said. Gov. Mike Sullivan, for their handling of the fires, and present at Simpson’s interview, said will seek compensation of commer­ he agreed with that statement. cial users of the park who have lost i The extremely dry weather had business. created a fire danger in the park that Meanwhile, at a meeting Thurs­ occurs only every 200 to 400 years, day night in Cody, federal officials ' Simpson said. defended their fire management re­ But when the Park Service set up a cord. series of worst-case scenarios based Simpson said Friday a recent visit on the potential of the fires to to Yellowstone has convinced him spread after they first began in June, the National Park Service made Simpson said the 30-day worst-case V, ■ V scenario was surpassed in three I II U ULJV IJOO MH S 0> T- IV says fires ly handled �Sunday, September 4,1988 debate role of reporters Star-i'ribune capital bureau reporters and public officials’ right to privacy and di^ity Friday night in Cheyenne CHEYENNE — Reporters dcwfore a meeting of the Wyoming Hberately ask officials embarrassins State Bar. “ questions. Sen. Simpson, who once accused Alan Simnson reporters of trying to “stick it up says. (President Reagan’s) gazoo,” said But ABC News public officials are “raw meat” White House where the media is concerned. correspondent He said one top Washington Sam Donaldson reporter once confided to him that says questions White House reporters “never ask don’t hurt ofthe president a question we think he 'u I a 1 - DONALDSON can answer.” though the an­ If reporters asked the president swers sometimes do. only questions he could answer, Simpson, a frequent critic of the Donaldson quipped, “we wouldn’t media, and Donaldson, known for have many questions to ask at all. ” his aggressive reporting style. Donaldson added that while reporters arc accused nf qciino reporters are accused of asking leading questions, “questions never hurt anybody ... but sometimes the answers do and I don’t get to give the answers.” Donaldson, who has covered the White House for ABC under both the CartCT and Reagan administrations, said criticism of a reporter’s treatment of the president is gener­ ally based on political bias. When Carter was president, Donaldson said he received “boxes full” of letters from Democrats ac­ cusing the newsman of being biased against Carter, and now he receives letters from Republicans who ac­ cuse him of slanting the news against Reagan. Donaldson said his job is to pro­ vide u... j______ vide information, but he does not believe the opinions he expresses on? talk shows like “This Week With' David Brinkley” influence voters’ opinions. Simpson said Donaldson’s con­ tention that he is not a public figures is “a bunch of horsepucky,” and said the media is “the most power-, ful force in America,” exceeding the influence of Congress, the president and the judiciary. Simpson also said it was the. “heighth of arrogance” for reporters to justify their behavior!on the basis of a “public’s right to know.” Instead, reporters “produce their t own agenda,” focus on “banal”. Please see DEBATE, A16 �i ' J Friday, September 9,1988 ■ • • ' Top Simpson aide nominated to NRC ' s '' •; ■' • '7’ r ■ WASHINGTON — Jim Curtiss, son, the senior GOP member of the ,a top aide to Sen. Alan Simpson, subcommittee, sponsored the legisR-Wyo., has been nominated to be ’ lation.*' ‘ » 'i 'a member of the Nuclear RegulaThe measure has passed the ■torv Commission — a job Curtiss ? Senate. It has not been scheduled and his boss have been trying to ' for action by the House before ^eliminate. ' Congress adjourns early in OcCurtiss, who is the top Republi-... tober. can staffer on the nuclear nower ■ Curtiss’ nomination by President subcommittee, helped draft legislaReagan to a full five-year term on tion that would reorganize nuclear 7 the NRC was'announced Wednesregulation along the lines of the day. A confirmation hearing before Environmental Protection Agency, the Senate Environment and Public replacing the five-member NRC Works Committee has been schedwith a single administrator. Simpuled for SepJ^ 13i . The NRC is responsible for regulating and licensing nuclear powerplants. It also regulates the handling and disposal of radioac­ tive materials used in research ano industry. ' ‘ Simpson and other backers of ar^ NRC reorganization contend that the five-member structure is un-'wieldy and inefficient. Placing the -agency under a single administratoi strean^ne without weakening itr ability to regulate the nuclear powei industry or enforce its regulations they say. I4 ‘ f ' ' �Friday, September 16,1988 a Simpson cKastises DiikakLs upon park visit Sarcastic note says Democrat uninformed about West 6"'^ ■ . ■ • '■ ' ' ■. . ' ' ■' -rr* 1 I __UovrA «r/Mt mrA* ]n rkiir wnnHar. Dili- Cimner\n the 'VAllnwcf/itiA Yellowstone firAC fires ae as' cr soon as But Simpson, ao long-time per- T>tilr«>V<e Dukakis eoizl said tnin TttnA June lOfiA 1986, “I do From staff and wire reports Have you ever been in our wondersonal friend of Bush, charged that not believe in people owning guns, -■ they are extinguished. CHEVENNE — Warning Sen. ful state of Wyoming when you Wallop'told Sen. Dale Bumpers, Dukakis lacks knowledge of issues > only police and military. 1 am going Man Simpson, says Democratic have not been running for presiimportant to the Western states, in- ■ < to do everything I can to disarm this . D-Ark., he would especially like to iresidential candidate Michael dent?” Simpson asked. examine the issues and policy decieluding publicland? and water state.” :)ukakis’ visit Thursday to see fireBush vacationed in northwest itibned " sions relating to the “let it bum” management Simpson also ment' avaged Yellowstone National Tark Wyoming in July, but did not visit Simpson also attacked Dukakis ’ Dukakis’ stand against the MX 1' mis- management plan. gratuitous?’ the fire scene, Simpson said, . _ s “shallow and gratuitous. “While actions pursuant to the because his visit was “tdtally per- • record on gun control, crime and sile — another issue that interests In a letter to Dukakis, addressed let it burn policy have already been sonal. He wanted to enjoy the national defense, saying his views Wyoming voters. ‘Dear Mike,” Simpson asked wilderness because of what it means are at odds with those of Wyoming ' Sullivan, meanwhile, told taken and we can’t restore the for-' Dukakis, “Have you ever been in to George Bush.” residents. Dukakis he will “insist” the federal ests, we can prevent this type of )ur wonderful state of Wyoming Dukakis met Thursday with Ida- ' “Your recently acquired concern government be “an active partner” decision in .the-future,” Wallop vhen you have not been running for ho Gov. Cecil Andrus, Mont^a ’ and interest in this part of the coun-; in assisting Wyoming, Idaho and wrote. " resident?” Gov. Ted Schwinden and Wyoming try seems shallow and gratu-, Montana with efforts to'promote Simpson, the second-ranking Retourism to the area next year. itous at best,” Simpson said. ijublican in the Senate, said his own i/Gov. Mike'Sullivan, all Democrats, “It will take a public-private. but Sullivan spokesman Dennis > “Keep in mind that your oppoparty’s presidential nominee. Vice Curran said Sullivan did not view nent George Bush — knowS. partnership to convince people that President George Bush, has not us.d the park fires “for a TV news the meeting as a partisam political what it all looked like before the,' Yellowstone will be reborn next trip. fires burned. George has camped' spring and will always remain one spot.” fo the crown jewels in America’s Curran said Sullivan believes the and hiked and fished and enjoyed “Welcome to wonderful Wyo­ park system,” Sullivan said. many of the park and wilderness ming,” the Wyoming Republican three states surrounding Yellow­ areas of Wyoi^g and Montana,” The Wyoming Recreation Com­ began his letter released to the press stone will need to work closely with mission, meanwhile, Thursday Simpson said. on Thursday. “Now that P^k Ser­ whoever is the next president to en­ vice and Forest Service officials in sure the park and tourism to the , “You should know that there are, lifted its five-day ban on alt open some other issues of key importance .» fires in state parks and recreation Wyoming and Montana are working park rebound quickly. -------of - --------- . in aj-eas. Sullivan met just last weekend .to_ those us out--here the West, like dogs to contain the tragic? fires, Commission Director Max Maxwith three members of the Reagan ' We treasure our way of life, our we see you ,are arriving on the administration, including Interior* rugged independence. So while you field said the ban was lifted because scene.” Simpson recounted the ways Secretary Donald Hodel and Agri- are here, jJease tell the-people of rain and cooler weather have diminished the danger of new fires. Wyoming about your po'sitidn on Wyoming and Montana business culture Secretary Richard Lyng, Also, Sen. Malcolm Wallop has owners have been affected by the Curran noted, and said the governor gun control,” Simpsoq wrbte. '• The Wyoming senator suggested written to the chairman • of the fires which have burned about half . would also be glad to meet with Senate Subcommittee on Public Bush to discuss the fue situation if, Dukakis repeat a statement he made of the 2.2 million acre park. ALAN SIMPSON ____ on the Bush visits the park and both men’s two years ago in his home state of Lands, National Parks and Forests “And now you arrive George knows Wyoming asking him to convene hearings on scene, sifting through the ashes.) schedules would permit a meeting. , - Massachusetts. Simpson said �Sunday, October 2, 1988 Rimpson backs USFS Little Hom proposal son said last week for some development? ’ ^™P' �-Star-Tribune. Casper, Wyo. Garbage a decision for states to make: Simnson CHEYENNE (AP) — State officials, feoetltl goveminent, will have to decide how to handle proposals to dump garbage from east and west coast cities in Wyoming, according to U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson, The Wyoming Republican said Wednesday that while a con­ troversial proposal to use abandoned coal mines in Hanna as dump sites appears to be a “bum deal” for Wyoming, the pos­ sibility of dumping is something the state may have to consider. “The state of Wyoming, and its Legislature, are going to have to make some determinations about what they do inter­ nally with that,” Simpson said in his weekly interview with Wyoming reporters. - “As I always say to people when we get into this area of •waste,’ I take it up one notch, or maybe 10 notches higher, and that is about high-level nuclear waste.” Spent fuel rods from the 108 nuclear reactors around the country are being stored in pools of demineralized water next to those reactors, and a potentially critical situation could arise if that water disappeared, according to the senator. “I am not talking about Wyoming as a (dump) site — we have never even been on that scorecard,” said Simpson. “But 1 don’t know what good it does when these plants are right near some of the greatest metropolitan areas in the United States, and here are these highly, highly critical spent fuel rods — and we do nothing. “So the statement ‘not in my back yard’ is going to be some­ thing that is going to haunt us for a long time in this country. But what will haunt us even worse is doing nothing,” he con­ tinued. Simpson added that those hoping to find a perfect solution to the nuclear waste problem are asking for more than can be expected realistically. Friday, October 7,198i �SEN. MALCOLM WALLOP Less from Wyoming SEN. ALAN SIMPSON Largest Wyoming share But Cheney said his backers receive no advantages in terms of access or voting decisions. “I don’t personally pay that much attention to who contributes to my campaign,” Cheney said. Some contributions come from unexpected, even, puzzling sources, he said. For example, Cheney said he doesn’t know why the tobacco industry gives him money. “I consistently vote against the tobacco industry,” he said. “I’m noted as a vigorous ex-smoker who will give you the complete ‘don’t smoke’ lecture.” The explanation may lie in the fact that PAC administrators are judged by how many successful candidates they back, Cheney said. Thus it is no surpise that PACs back those candidates already in office, he said. “When 98 percent of incumbents win, it doesn’t take a great genius to figure that out,” Cheney said. Simpson said the tobacco in­ dustry and other corporate PACs Even in spai»v.^ r-. Wyoming, campaigning is* expen­ sive, Simpson said. Television ads are a necessity, he said. But the big­ gest expense paid for by campaign funds are frequent trips to and from Washington when Congress is in session, Simpson said. Nevertheless simply “collecting great piles of money” does not guarantee success at the ballot box, he said. “You lose because something else is going on,” Simpson said. “I don’t think you could save yourself in Wyoming just with money.” Cheney agreed that the cost of running for office is becoming “ex­ cessive.” , “I don’t like the expense of cam­ paigns,” he said. “I don’t know what you do about it.” “The reality of it is that most seats are relatively safe,” Cheney said. “There is a lot of money rais­ ed that doesn’t need to be raised.” Wallop said the “total disclosure” required by federal law ^lows voters to make their own judgments on whether a candidate is being unduly influenced by cam­ paign contributions. “That’s why I’m 100 percent in favor of disclosure,” he said. “If it can be made an issue, it will be made an issue. “It is its own self-limiting area,” Wallop said. “If somebody can make the case, they ought to make the case.” Campaign fund-raising “doesn’t take as much time as people think,” he said. Wallop said he does “99 percent of his” at times when there ' is no Senate business to be con­ ducted. Evidence of the limitations of money came in 1986, Wallop said, when a number of Senate Republi­ cans “who thought they could be re-elected by spending a lot of money” were turned out of office. If he or his colleagues ever appear to be in the grip of PACs or other monied interests, they will suffer the same fate, Wallop said. “If it appears to them that (cam-' paign contributions) are a profligate attempt to buy my favors, I know Wyoming voters well enough to know they will say ‘Just stick it in your ear,’ ” he said. A2 —Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Cheney and Simpson said the tobacco industry, for instance, sup­ ports them even though they both vote against tobacco interests. PACs apparently simply regularly support incumbents, Cheney said. In recent years, Cheney and Wal­ lop have received about two-thirds of their campaign funds from polit­ ical action committees (PACs) sponsored by corporations and in­ terest groups from outside Wyo­ ming. Simpson has received slightly less than half his contributions from PACs. As a group, the all-Republican delegation has raised at least fourfifths of its money outside Wyo­ ming in the last six years. Wallop has the highest proportion of outof-state contributors — 91 percent. But Wallop and his colleagues contend that receiving most of their campaign money from outside Wyoming does not indicate that their political interests or obliga­ tions lie outside their home state. “I just don’t buy that argument,” Cheney said. “I’ve heard it over the years from people who can’t raise money.” Many of the out-of-state cor­ porations whose PACs back the Wyoming delegation play a vital role in Wyoming’s economy, Simp­ son said. That is especially true of the energy and minerals industry, which provided nearly one-fifth of the delegation’s campaign funds in the last six years, he said. “Oil and gas is our bread and butter,” Simpson said. “The little guy in Wyoming eats off the plate of some of those corporations.” Wallop said out-of-state cor­ porate PACs that have donated to his current campaign for a third term represent 28,(XX) employees in Wyoming. And in any case, senators and congressmen do more than just rep­ resent their home states or districts, he said. “You have national decisions which affect a variety of interests,” Wallop said. “You couldn’t limit yourself to votes that solely affect Wyoming.” Wallop serves on the tax-law­ writing Senate Finance Committee and that means making choices that Sunday, October 9 ,1 9 8 3 �Candidates insist donors get nothing special for their gifts By ANDREW MELNYKQVYCH Star-Tribune Washington bureau Sunday, October 9, 1983 ^^^Keneral impression is that political eunuchs,” Cheney often try to “cover all the bases” in a race, sometimes backing more than one candidate in a primary. “The tobacco industry seems to believe that it would be good that they contribute,” he said. “Meg­ while, 1 keep voting against the in­ dustry, with a few exceptions.” While some corporate or industry lobbyists remind his staff members of campaign contributions made by their firm or organization, Simpson said those reminders don’t ac­ complish anything. Simpson said he puts more stock in a small contribu­ tion from a constituent, for whom $20 may be a real sacrifice, than in large contributions from PACs. Simpson said he is uncomfortable with the rising expense of political campaigns and the amount of time needed to raise money. “I go out and have my fun­ draisers, but for me it is the least delightful part of the operation,” he said. Going into his first reelection race in 1984, Simpson said he was unsure of who his opponent might be. He had heard rumors that wealthy Jackson lawyer Gerry Spence might run. As it turned out, the Democratic candidate was retired University of Wyoming chemistry professor Vic­ tor Ryan, who received only 40,500 votes. Simpson spent $862,000 on the campaign, and defeated Ryan by nearly 105,000 votes. “It was embarrassing...(it) made you scratch your head and say ‘Boy, Al, what did you do?’ ” Simpson said. Among the 1984 campaign ex­ penses were a $200,000 computer that proved to be unnecessary, Simpson said. But he defended the practice of gathering enough money for an all-out campaign, saying that “I don’t know how many potential opponents I may have run off.” -—oiu.nooulated A2 —Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. WASHINGTON — Financial backers of the Wyoming delega­ tion’s re-election efforts are getting neither influence nor access in return for their campaign contribu­ tions, members of the delegation say. “1 try to see anybody who wants to see me, especially anybody from Wyoming,” Rep. Dick Cheney said. “I don’t leel I’m undei ally constraint to agree with people who support me politically. ” Sem Malcolm Wallop, running for re-election this year, said, “The process of politics is tending the vineyards back home.” “You would not be able to hold (political office) in Wyoming if all you represented were the rich and the powerful, ’ ’ Wallop said. But campaign contributions don’t' play a role “in either my voting behavior or in access to my office,” he said. “They’re not trying to buy me off,” Wallop said. “What’s in it for them is that I continue to behave on behalf of them in the interest of a strong, job-producing economy.” Sen. Alan Simpson said Wyoming voters are hllUfied to any sign that a politician is losing touch with his or her constituency. “You can’t fool Wyoming peo­ ple,” he said. “The longer you are in office in Washington, no matter what party (you belong to), the more you fall prey to the charge that ‘He’s no longer Wyoming’s voice in Washington, he’s Washing­ ton’s voice in Wyoming.’ ” Cheney said PACs get vep? little ^n direct return for the millions of they pour into congressional affect every segment of society. Wallop said. That in turn attracts a diversity of supporters, albeit often ones with competing interests, he said. In general, contributors to his campaign share his “general philo­ sophical approach” of supporting an economy based on free enter­ prise, Wallop said. Those con­ tributors often hold conflicting views on specific issues, he said. Wallop said none of his campaign contributors has ever predicated their support on how he votes on a particular issue. And he has turned down contributions from some sources because he disagrees with their viewpoint. Wallop said. He declined to name those sources. Cheney said he believes most of his campaign contributions come from people who wish to support his general philosophy. His role in the GOP leadership also attracts some donors, he said. �Senator Simpson Campaign funds from January 1983 to June 1988 Star-TribuneGraph by Greg Kearney �itiUi Simpson wiUwinelectio^b® CHEYENNE ?s Boing to win that ” “George B^h«going^.^g thing, and 1 th gjng to runaway. And l £'>’™&RSss;-ah, SSb"'^’- �./■,;>-J i *»;vv ;•■ . ‘ ( -■" . 1 * 'I ? fu ’ Wednesday, October 19,1988^’^ X :^' X™ Sessional , Wegafon “S‘StIS5? «ec«ive director I ; ?th^ 9Jing Mining Associ^ | °/ had not been nuiiCT i Uon, said he ha ej 5 million | : - pounds IS a Qunt is J S state’s uranium in-, J '^a ioint- statenfeht.’^ Sens. 1 ■s^&ssss finder Mmes Providing million t - howVngi outside Wyoming., but j ' KtS Howe, Cheney S^ ad-^ �Saturday, October 29.1988 i ................................. .. .................................... . ..................................................... . . ... ..., .. .. . lop vows to continue ioreign soda ash market ettorts Medical society endorses senator; senior citizens’ group backs Vinich “abysmal record” on senior citizen “not conclusive, just helpful,” and from staff and wire reports issues. ' - . he gave some of the credit for the GREEN RIVER — Speaking at a “During his entire career, Sen M successful outcome at Church & detergent plant dedication Friday, Malcolm Wallop has voted anti Dwight to local attorney ' and U.S. Sen. Malcolm Wallop vowed senior 91 percent of the time,’ 1 V' ' former Democratic state Sen. that if re-elected he will continue his NCSC political director Gayl Robert H. Johnson. Wallop said efforts to develop foreign soda ash Dratch said in a Vinich campaigi Johnson was one of those who con­ markets. release. “Ever since he came to th tacted him aljout the need for “It’s really important to us,” U.S. Senate, Wallop has been a legislative intervention in the com­ Wallop said. “We have to go on to the forefront of a relentless attacl pany’s behalf. reduce these tariffs and remove the on the Social Security system and it “It does show what can happen barriers so the products of Wyo­ beneficiaries.” on a brpartisan basis,” Wallop ming can go as the products of Vinich, in contrast, sponsored said. “I’m glad to have had a little foreign countries can come here.” bill in the state Legislature pro role.” Also in Wyoming politics Friday, viding Wyoming seniors witl Sen. Al Simpson also spoke an organization representing Wyo­ rebates on state sales and use taxes briefly at the dedication and lun­ ming’s physicians and another rep­ and has fought for utility rat cheon, attended by local elected of ­ resenting senior citizens announced reform and establishment of th ficials and top company officials their endorsements for national of­ State Commission on Aging, hi from Church & Dwight head­ fice. release said. quarters in New Jersey. Wallop delivered his remarks at Vinich was also endorsed earlie Meanwhile, Wallop and his the dedication Friday of Church & this week by the National Commit Democratic challenger John Vinich L *1 ■ Courtesy Photo Dwight Co.’s new detergent fac­ tee to Preserve Social Security am both received additional endorsetory, which began operations in Church & Dwight Co.’s factory was dedicated Friday Medicare. ments Friday. 1986 west of Green River. The oc­ In other political news, Wallo| The Wyoming Medical Society casion also commemorated the said his debate with Vinich showei (WMS) endorsed Wallop, while the plant’s 20th anniversary. ‘ after the detergent factory expan­ National Council of Senior Citizens _he has tried to answer the question Wallop said that in spite of slug­ The Green River plant is the larg­ of Wyoming’s residents during hi sion was already under way* They (NCSC) endorsed Vinich. The est sodium bicarbonate production gish exports, trona manufacturers in 12 years in office. said the expansion project would WMS also endorsed incumbent Sweetwater County have increased facility in the world, with an annual Speaking Thursday at a rally ii not have continued without Wal­ Wyoming Rep. Dick Cheney in his capacity of 200,000 tons, 12 times production 20 percent during the Riverton, Wallop said “what lop’s help and the area would have race against Democrat Bryan Sharwhat it produced when it opened in first quarter of 1988 compared to heard and what I saw and what th lost the 40 to 50 jobs created by the ratt. the same period last year. 1968. < people of Wyoming heard and sat expansion. In announcing WMA’s endorse­ “This is in the face of enormous “When you have a product like was a person who is full of rhetori “To take that away mid-stream ment, the group’s president, Meade (soda ash) that is better than any domestic competitioii from the oil and slogans but has no comprehen seemed unfair,” Wallop said. O. Davis III, a Cheyenne orthope­ made in the world, purer than any­ and gas industry — chemicals,” sion of the issues vs. somebody whi “And when the bill left the Senate it dic surgeon, said Wallop and Che­ where found, and cheaper than Wallop noted. “Lots of things are ney “have worked very hard to rep- 'has tried very hard to answer th had no provision to provide a tran­ anywhere produced, it ought to not now glass that once were, they questions and inform the people o sition rule ... Somehow we were ■ resent the interests of Wyoming cit­ have access to those markets,” the are plastics and other things. So Wyoming as to what the issues ar izens, doctors and patients alike. • your production is rising in the face able to add a transition rule that Republican said. and how they might best be ap The WMA represents 675 Wyoming preserved the capital commitment, “We went to Japan, and tried to of enormous competition.” proached,” he said. “John ha physicians. Company officials praised Wal­ and the risk that this company had break down (tariff barriers) and . rained down a series of inaccurat ■ In announcing NCSC’s endorse­ have done some, but we have lots lop for his role in salvaging an in­ taken ... so that the project could accusations and a lack of under . . ment of Vinich, the group’s more to do with these and other vestment tax, credit which disap­ continue.”; standing of things... ” spokesman said Wallop has an Wallop-said his own role was peared in the 1986 Tax Reform Act, products of Wyoming,” he said. �BuyoutCS-T, Simpsoi^sugg^ ROCIC^PRINGS, (AP)— f Wyoming residents should buy out I the state’s^ largest newspaper I because of its biased coverage of I this year’s congressional races, ac; cording to U.S. Sen, Al Simpson. , l. . Simpson, speaking ddllllg ST Re- |! P'^^Jican rally in Sweetwater Coun- L on Friday, said the Casner-Star [• ^innnf;.tends to favor Democrats and those who run contrary to the I establishment and suggested the • 1 y ' purchase of the newspaper so it can H ■, be used as a positive force in the ' state. I ^Biit Dan Neal. Star-Tribune' city n editor, defended the newspaper’s .1 coverage of the campaign. 5- I “I stand by the Star-Tribune’s coverage of the 1988 elections at aU ' levels, ’ he said. “If Mr. Simpson |, • A would like to come down and I ■. report on our school board races in I i ^ Natrona County, I would be happy y to'employ him...' The senator I' should remember that the job of a * , newspaper, as some people have I / said, is to comfort the afflicted and ' P > 40 afflict the comfortable.’’ ; If >. “We ought tp get a bunch of cap- ? B < itahsts in Wyoming, buy the boobs |, out and send them back to Califor-.. } nia, where they draw their wages,’’, j Simpson said. “I think though the I. ; , Casper Star-Tribune could be a K y force for good in Wyoming, they’re 'I * They’re a very negative force. ' J They slash (Gov.) Mike Sullivan " they slash (U.S. Rep.) Dick Che-, ('J-S- Sen.) , Malcolm Wallop.’’ i f :Such biases rfave been displayed ' I m the newspaper, owned by How­ ard Publications of Oceansid^ I' <^if., despite the fact the congres­ sional campaign has been a fair one I' Simpson said. , ’ ' “i think the people of Wyoming, they know what fairness is,’’ he said. , , : Saturday, October 2 9 ,1 9 8 8 ’5 �Sunday, October 30,1988 suggests Wowt QLSta^Tribme *1 SPRINGS, Wy„. ,.P) _ Wyoming residents should buy out , “I stand by the Star-Tribune’s, coverage of the 1988 elections at aul t^ state’s largest newspaper because of its biased coverage of would hke to come down and* 11 ■y^^®.‘^°"®'^cssional races, ac­ cording to U.S. Sen. Al Simpson. board races in Natrona County, I would be happy Simpson, speaking during a Re­ him... The senator‘ publican rally in Sweetwater Counshould remember that the job of a I^^day, said the Casper-Star newspaper, as some people have Democrats comfort the afflicted and' f '*’’0 contrary to the to afflict the comfortable ” establishment and suggested the •’“"Ch of cap., purchase of the newspaper so it can i^sts in Wyommg, buy the booM positive force in the out and send them back to Califor-f nia, where they draw their wagesM .But Dan Neal, Star-Tribune citv _ Simpson said. “I think though the/ Casper Star-Tribupe could be 2 defended the news^S , in Wyoming, they’rei campaign. rock : tZ } 1 �Simpson expects many forest fire hearings JACKSON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Alan Simpsqn expects the months ahead to be filled with hearings looking into ’his year’s forest fires in and around Yellowstone Nation­ al Park. Simpson also said he finds it in­ teresting that, years after he first suggested it, the committee that reviewed the forest fires is recom­ mending that the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service consider prescribed burns in their forest policies. “I’m the one who has been saying they should have been having prescribed burns tn the park ... 1 spoke to that about five years ago,’’ said the senator. “They called that planned burns and now they’ve gone to planned ignition. But whatever it is, 1 think it’s something that should be done.” �Thursday. November 3,1988 SirnpsoniZ Continued from Al , shot,” he said. The same difficulties do not ap­ ply to a possible Vinich victory, however, Simpson said. “John Vmich I know very well,” he said. I watched him come into the (Wyoming) House of Repre­ sentatives when I was a member, watched himwork hard. He’d come. bimpson prefers Wallop, c»uld v^rk with Vinich By DAN WHIPPLE Star-Tribune staff writer CASPER — U.S, Sen. Alan SiUPson says that he can work with John Vinich if the Democrat is elected to the U.S. Senate, but “I much prefer to work with Malcolm Wallop.” He said Vinich was a hard worker who “did a good job” in the Legis­ lature. Simpson also criticized the length of presidential campaigns and said “We should get rid of PAC (politi­ cal action committee) money.” He urged a return to individual con­ tributions, with a limit of about $10,000. Simpson also objected to nation­ al coverage of the presidential cam­ paign and criticized the Star-Tribune for failing to boost the state. Simpson’s latest comments about Vinich were much different from his 1982 statements about Wallop’s Democratic challenger, when he leclared that he would “not want to serve Wyoming beside a man like Rodger McDaniel....” _ The issue is not John Vinich or Ins personality or his persona, the issue is, ‘what does he stand for?’ ” V Simpson said. Simpson also said that Vinich had done well in the Wyoming Legisla­ ture during the time they were both legislators in Cheyenne. “I watched him in the Legislature,” Simpson said. “He did a good job. He worked hard. I didn’t ever see him when he got into his issues. I watched him in his first couple of years where he was working and listening and learning. Then when he got going, he put in some bills which 1 think were frankly were quite, quite... I don’t know what they were put in for. But they didn’t seem to have much chance of pass­ age, they just seemed to be directed at a populist approach to govern­ ment.” In 1982, Simpson and Republican ifP’ Cheney wrote a letter about then-Democratic Senate can­ didate Rodger McDaniel which said. Neither of us would want to serve Wyoming beside a man like Rodger McDaniel, a man who has no inteE- * rity.” ® ! Simpson said, “I have repeatedly flogged myself” about the letter t calling some phrases in it “harsh, * nasty. It was an ’“unfortunate Please see SIMPSON, A16 1 into the chamber at night, he didn’t have an office to work in.” “I just don’.t think the people of Wyoming go for a campaign where he just chops away on Malcolm Wallop and whether he buys expen­ sive suits. You gotta do better than that if you’re going to win in Wyo­ ming.” But Simpson said, “I can work with anyone. My whole public life has been working with people on .both sides of the aisle... that is . something I’ve always done, work­ ing with people on the other side of (the aisle.” But he said he prefers to work with Wallop and Cheney because “I .know them, know how they work, know how they legislate.” 1 Simpson spoke at a press conferjence in his Casper office on Wed‘ nesday afternoon. , He said that two-year-long presidential campaigns were getting .out of hand. People are “sick and .tired” of the campaigns, he said. “We’ve got to change the system. We’ve had good people in both par­ ties disappear in the tedium of it. “We’ve got to revise the system People^ aren’t ready for a two-year campaign in this country. It’s just disabling.” Simpson also praised the Reagan administration’s “peace through strength” dealings with the Soviets saying that previous policies weren’t working or “we would have had arms reductions. ’ ’ Simpson also criticized the na­ tional news media for its coverage of^ the presidential election cam­ paign and the Casper Star-Tribune, for its coverage of Wyoming issues. Simpson said the Star-Tribune isbiased against agriculture and the timber industry, and that the news­ paper thinks of Wyoming “as a colony. That somehow we are being exploited in board rooms of cities far from us.” Simpson said that the role of a newspaper should be as booster for the state, especially during tough times, a role he said the StarTribune is not fulfilling. He cited several other state papers which he called a “force for good in their own communities,” including the Riverton Ranger in Riverton ■Wyoming Eagle and Tribune in Cheyenne andjhe Sheridan Press. He challenged the newspaper’s management, editors and staff, along with the state’s politicians, to meet in a public forum at the Wyo­ ming Press Association and answer questions Simpson said the candidates for national office have been talking about the issues, but that the media have been not been reporting them. “The issues in the political cam­ paign were completely lost,” he said. �Friday, November 4,1988 Simpson to appear in bank fraud trial By JOAN BARRON Star- i'hbune capital bureau CHEYENNE — Federal Judge Alan Johnson has recessed until Tuesday the bank fraud trial of Don C. Davis and Daniel M Burke, both of Casper, because of the death of a juror’s husband. The judge said the husband of a juror from Cheyenne Wednesday died after a long illness and funeral services will be held Monday. Johnson said the juror expressed her strong desire to continue to serve on the panel. He said the trial therefore will recess until Tuesday when the woman juror will return. The delay in the trial schedule means two prominent political fig­ ures won’t be testifying until later. Oov. Mike Sullivan, a former Casper lawyer, had been subpoened, apparently by the attorney for Davis, to appear Monday. Also subpoened to appear Mon­ day was U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson, a Simpson spokesman confirmed Thursday. No information was available on the specific relation- shipto __________ ship the case of______________ either Sullivan or Simpson. Earlier this week on Tuesday, Johnson permanently excused another woman juror for un­ disclosed reasons, reducing the size of the panel to 13 members. If the woman whose husband died also was permanently excused, the jury would be down to 12 members. “The presence of a 13th juror is an insurance policy that makes it vital for a tri^ like this to go for­ ward,’’ Johnson said in announcing plans for the recess. “We must have a unanimous verdict of 12.” He said the jurors don’t know which one of them is an alternate. Noting the trial has been in prog­ ress for nearly a month, the judge said it would be impossible to duplicate the evidence “and that’s the reason for taking this extaordinarystep.” Johnson said the trial may go cn a five-day week to make up lost time. Because of the complexities of the case, the judge had scheduled the trial for four days a week to give . the attorneys enough time to prepare. Tom Hogan, former president’Of the Guaranty Federal Bank in Cas­ per, was the last witness to testify for the government before the triil recessed Wednesday. a ALAN SIMPSON On witness list �Thursday, November 10,1988 -Star-Tribune. Casper, Wyo. Siiiipson: 2-term flap caused close race ‘Probably biggest factor, in Wallop’s near defeat MELNYKOVYCH Simpson said Wallop had done a 1 ribune Washington bureau —of j • explaining « ............. good job his reasons for running for a third term. Wal­ WASHINGTON — The “two- lop emphasized inc the benefits of set^erm issue was largely responsible , niority in the Senate, lor the narrowness of Sen. Wyoming’s sagging economy, —MillcQjm Wallop’s victory over anger over this summer’s fires in Democratic challenger John Vinich, _ Yellowstone National Park, and the Wallop’s fellow Wyoming Repub- efforts of organized labor to lican. Sen. Alan Simnson, said “target” Wallop also played a role Wednesday. in the closeness of the race, Simp­ “Underneath it all was the two- son said. term issue,” Simpson said. “It Simpson said he did not know probably was the single biggest fac­ whether his statement that he could tor.” “work with” Vinich in the Senate Wallop, who won a third term by added to Wallop’s electoral woes. a margin of only 1,310 votes, had “I certainly would hope to God it defeated Democratic incumbent didn’t,” he said. “I was pained Gale McGee in 1976 by making an when I saw it” used by Vinich. issue of McGee’s three terms in But his comments were not Washington. Wallop said anyone reported completely, Simpson said. who served more than two terms Simpson said he labelled Vinich as would lose touch with Wyoming, an “ineffective” lawmaker in all and he said he would limit himself but his first term in the Wyoming to 12 years in the Senate. Senate. “Nothing is going to be taken quite correctly in the pages of the Casper Star-Tribune,” he said. The ease of Rep. Dick Cheney’s win over Democrat Brian Sharratt does not reflect on either Wallop or Cheney’s personal style or popu­ larity, Simpson said. Wallop sim­ ply had more formidable forces ar­ rayed against him, he said. “Malcolm has been the supreme target of the union movement,” he said. Organized labor poured more than a quarter of a million dollars into the Vinich campaign in the week leading up to Election Day, Simpson charged. That money allowed Vinich to air numerous television ads attacking Wallop he said. Wallop was also subjected to ‘the continual drumfire of all three people in a very active Democratic Simpson said. House members have primary,” Simpson said. “He had a much easier time getting back to almost a year of that heavy, heavy their districts at little risk of missing hammering.” votes, he said. “That steady drumfire made it a Facing the electorate every two tough and difficult race,” he said. years, rather than every six years, In contrast, “there wasn’t a piling also gives Cheney an edge in visibili­ on going on” in the Democratic ty, Simpson said. challenge to Cheney. In a related matter, Simpson said In sum, Vinich had stronger back­ he spoke Wednesday with both ing and more money than Sharratt, President-elect George Bush and he said. Vice President-elect Dan Quayle. The success of Vinich’s attacks on He and Bush discussed the com­ Wallop will probably lead to more ing agenda for Congress, Simpson such negative campaigning in said. Bush did not ask him to serve Wyoming in the future, Simpson on a transition team, he said. predicted. Should Wallop seek a Simpson said a group of Repub­ fourth term, he will have to be lican senators from the West are prepared to face a similar barrage, planning to meet to discuss recom­ Simpson said. mendations for Interior secretary “He has to be prepared for that and other appointments of impor­ kind of campaign because it was tance to their states. Simpson said successful,” Simpson said, adding he has not heard who the leading that he expects to have to deal with contenders for those posts might be. an attacking opponent in two years, when he is up for a third term. Wyoming’s sagging economy gave Vinich a ready-made issue, -Simpson said. “The lesson is always to keep a close eye on the economy of the state of Wyoming,” he said. “And we thought we had, all three of us.” The Yellowstone fires generated an unprecedented outpouring of hostility toward the federal gov­ ernment and everyone connected with it, Simpson said. Vinich made a campaign issue of Wallop’s re­ sponsibility as the top Republican on the Senate subcommittee that oversees the national parks. Wallop was at a disadvantage, relative to Cheney, because of the Senate schedule, which allows little time to travel back to Wyoming, �Simpson; dei icit requires tax hike, sp< inding cuts By MATT WINTERS Star- Tribune staff writer THERMOPOLIS — Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson said. Thursday that reducing the federal deficit will require new taxes combined with cuts in defense K and entitlement I programs like Socii Security. Simpson, who is unopposed in his bid to become I the Senate’s *" — second-ranking SIMPSON Republican, outlined several ways to cut federal spending — but stopped short of supporting any specific tax hike. He did say that Congress may be asked to consider a hike in the gas tax or imposition of a national sales tax. At a town meeting and in a speech to the Wyoming Hotel-Motel Association convention, Simpson “All those things are being look­ ed at — every one of them,” he said. The commission was intended to “look honestly at entitlement pro­ grams” like Social Security, “and give Congress cover, because every time you mention Social Security, you get hammered flat” by special interest groups, he said. If Social Security benefits are maintained at current levels there will be a “dramatic drawdown” in system reserves beginning in the year 2030, he warned. Simpson said the system now pays out $3 for every $1 it takes in, that there are only three people paying in to the system for every one taking out — compared to 16-to-l in 1950, and that recipients now get all their contributions back plus interest in ;the first 5 ‘A years of retirement but have a life expectancy twice that long. “And the worst part of it is ... in the year 2030, the average wage earner will be putting 35 percent ol his wages into the system if you want to keep the current level ol benefits,” he said. “And we don’t dare touch it, anc I think that’s wrong. I think that’i not what we should leave ou: children,’’ Simpson told th< Hotel-Motel Association. At the earlier town meeting Simpson also spoke about the neec to reform the Social Security systen Gramm-Rudman-Hollings oeficit reduction law is succeeding in grad- ; ually reducing the extent of new ' deficit spending. At the state level, Simpson said “I’ve got to admire the governor — ! he says he’s got to look for new ! revenue, and he’s talking about cig­ arettes and beer.” Wyoming’s taxes i on those commodities is very low and should be looked at, he said. While cautioning that it is a mat­ ter for decision at the state level, Simpson also voiced his support for j legislation allowing triple trailers on Wyoming’s highways, an opin-, ion he said he holds despite safety concerns. Allowing triple trailers in Wyo­ ming “would be appropriate,” he said. “I think it would do things for a state that relies on its road net­ work — we don’t have a good air transportation system — we have a tremendous road system that I think -^tar-1 noune, (Jasper, w yo. Friday, November 1 1 ,1 9 8 8 is just ace-high in the whole U.S.,” Simpson said. “I have that same concern about, you know, driving down that road near Wheatland where that wind­ sock is, you pass one of those babies, you’re going to get sucked into the undercarriage — I’ve lived here all my life,” he said. But with its many miles of interstates the state should consider allowing triples, also praised the Democratically the state’s junior senator said. controlled Senate for several ac­ Simpson said that he. Sen. tions it took this year, including Malcolm Wallop, and other West­ passage of a catastrophic health in­ ern senators have a meeting sched­ surance bill, welfare reform and uled with Bush to express their ideas ratification of the Canadian Trade about who should be appointed to Pact. head the departments on Interior Simpson also commented on the and Energy. National Economic Commission Simpson said Sen. James Mc­ which was set up by President Clure, R-Idaho, has been mention­ Reagan to study ways of reducing ed as one possibility for Interior the federal deficit. Though the secretary, as has Wyoming con­ in order to deal with the deficit, but commission was “pretty well gressman Dick Cheney. repudiated’’ by President-elect made it clear that the system is sol­ But Cheney, he said, is in a posi­ George Bush, Simpson said he vent well into the next century and tion to take over the minority lead­ believes the panel will “give us the said current recipients should not be ership in the U.S. House,; “and if evil brew in March ... a terrible concerned about their level of bene­ the Republicans took over in 1990 potion, because they’re going to tell fits. after reapportionment and census, But if changes are needed in the he could be speaker of the House.” us we have to do something with the $220 billion a year Social Security Social Security system,’’ Simpson On other subjects, Simpson said said. i program, it is also necessary to real­ he would support legislation mak­ Simpson said he hopes that Bush ize that cuts are called for in the ing English the official national will review the commission’s fin­ $300 billion a year defense budget, language, but does not support a dings with an open mind. Bush will Simpson said. constitutional amendment doing “We’ve got some trimming to do that. have to make a couple of appoint­ all around, including the defense ments to the commission, he added. He said he also supports a 10-year get, especially now that we have phasing out of federal agricultural Simpson said a variety of new INF Treaty in place,” he said, subsidy programs. Presently, he taxes are possible, despite Bush’s pson mentioned no specific said, “we have people who know campaign promises to the contrary. pons programs he would target how to work the system better than “The president-elect of course for cuts, but said at the town meet- they know how to work the land, has said ‘no new taxes,’ ’’ he said. ig that “I really do think we can and I know ’em, and they always But “an easy tax is a 1 cent a gallon ask me about the deficit. ’ ’ S on gas — it raises $1.2 billion )wer our NATO commitment.” A bill passed by Congress earlier Simpson and his wife Anne visited bucks,’’ he said. The maximum in- , lis year requiring a commission to Yellowstone National Park by crease in gasoline taxes would be 5 xommend closure of unneeded themselves recently and found cents a gallon, he said. The Republican said the imposi- ' efense bases around the ‘country destruction there “not as ill also provide needed savings, he devastating from the car.” Efforts tion of a 1 percent national sales tax , lid. F.E. Warren Air Base in are underway, he said, to counteract or a valued-added tax is also possi- : heyenne is not at risk, he noted. ble. the “large load of hype and hoorah” that has Easterners con­ vinced that the park was destroyed by this summer’s fires. �Sunday, November 13,1988 I .............. Simpson: Ag product subsidies wiU likely be phased out ByPAMDlCKHAUS Star-Tribune correspondent WORLAND — Subsidies for sugar and other agricultural pro­ ducts are needed nSw", but will likely be phased out in coming decades, ^n. Alan Simpson says. ,, Simpson, speaking Thursday at a town meeting” said “I will and have supported” the Sugar Act as ****.?.® Wool Act and wheat subsidies for southeastern Wyo­ ming. But Simpson said he feels sugar producers need to pay attention to a downward trend in sugar consump­ tion. According to Simpson, the consumption rate nationwide has dropped from 93 to 63 pounds per capita and will continue to fall. As we support the sugar system we might be destroying it in the pro­ cess, he said. Corn syrup con­ sumption is “going up on a per ce told sugar producers should be aware of consumption trend capita basis just as much as the other UCllU (sugar) graph goes down.” That Is body w'il/^hL?’^Only a certain number of De Only a certain number of people something the “ something for for the “sugar sugar beet beet peo­ ple to ponder.” Simpson added that he thinks eventually there will be a move to phase out subsidies over a 10 or 20 year period. audience that the Legislature has do some­ thing because new federal regulations governing leaking underground storage tanks are now m place. One member of the audience told Sim(Kon that he had been sued by the Department of Environment^ Quality for noncompliance in clean up of contamination caused by an underground storage tank - some***“ * believe was his fault What they have to do is take the financial burden off the guys with “®, underground storage tanks, Simpson said. .“It?’ the tank owners the premium to buy in­ surance, Simpson said. Legislation should permit a gas station owner to purchase up to $2 million worth of coverage and the “premium should be totally within his means” because it would be “somehow ad­ justed or subsidized by the state” to give him the ability to have in­ surance. When the discussion turned to veteran s benefits, Simpson said he felt noncombat veterans shouldn’t be entitled to the same benefits as combat veterans. ThCTe are 28 million veterans and only 3.5 million were “ever in a combat,or heard a live round the “guys (who) shake the loudest” are those who ‘never left the U.S. and don’t know a mortar tube from either end, Simpson added. go to combat and go to combat and the “rest of them get away traveling on their ticket hillion dollar a year ticket, Simpson said. “I’m saying take care of the combat veterans their widows, their orphans, whoever and write the ticket. But tor heaven’s sakes to believe that every single veteran is entitled to every thing a combat veteran receives is something I do not agree witn. audience he thinks George Bush will be very good for the West” because he has spent some time here and knows the Slsnh"* industries which are important in Wyoming. . Of Quayle, he said, “You’re go­ ing to be very proud of him. You’ll see a very steady man, a very careful guy who will pay attention” in Es role as vice president.' I. �Wallop staff: no recount; Simpson cost votes By MATT WINTERS Star-Tribune staff writer _| with wire rep^s v BILL HILL Analyzes Senate race CASPER — U.S. Sen. Malcolm Wallop’s chief of staff said Monday the Republican — narrowly re­ elected to a third term last week — will not join his Democratic oppo­ nent in requesting or paying for an optional recount of statewide returns. Bill Hill, Wallop’s chief of staff, also said in an analysis of the Senate race that the Wallop campaign suc­ ceeded in overcoming voters’ “nat­ ural move for a change.’’ But positive statements Sen. Al Simpson made about Wallop’s op­ ponent Democratic state Sen. John Vinich “may very well have cost us 2,000 or 3,000 votes,” Hill said. Vinich, who lost last week’s elec- . ‘ | ; j ' j ‘ Please see WALLOP, A12 Also figuring in the election. Hill said, were Vinich ads highlighting Wallop’s acceptance of speaking fees from a group controlled by Korean cult leader Rev. Sun Myung Moon, ads and phone bank calling i that he said distorted Wallop’s Social Security record, and ads say­ ing Wallop had the seventh-worst attendance record in the Senate. J The Wallop campaign in some cases failed to swiftly and effective­ ly counter Vinich’s charges, he said. 1 I Tuesday, November 1 5 ,1 9 8 8 Simpson said in a news confer­ Continned from Al The Wallop campaign has not ence that Vinich worked hard as a received Vinich’s letter requesting state legislator and was someone he cooperation on a recount but will could work with in the U.S. formally reject the proposal, Hill Senate. said. But the campaign strategy was to Vinich said Monday that he will convince Wyoming voters “that not decide whether to ask for a re­ there was no viable alternative” to count until after the state Canvass­ Wallop by portraying Vinich as a ing Board meets on Wednesday. poor legislator. Hill said. “We’re still waiting for the of­ “Late in the campaign Al made ficial records. I think that’s only some off-hand comments that may appropriate,” Vinich said. have given some credibility to John Vinich said the. vote count was so as a legislator and that very possibly close that he feels he owes it to the tended to negate some of our efforts nearly 90,000 people who voted for , and may very well have cost us 2,000 him to “to take a close look at the or 3,000 votes,” he said. outcome of this race.” The secre­ Despite Simpson’s remarks, the tary of state said her office’s unof­ Wallop campaign was successful in ficial tally shows Wallop had overcoming the “natural move for a 91,121 votes and Vinich 89,806. change,” which follows eight years Karpan’s office made a precinct- of even a successful national ad­ . by-precinct review of ballots late ministration, Hill said. ‘ last week and the secretary of state “George Bush bucked that trend said she was satisfied there were no nationally and Malcolm Wallop Jjroblems in the election. bucked that trend in Wyoming, and If Vinich calls for a recount, he the way in both cases; I feel, that -would have to pay for the exercise. they managed to buck that trend The process would cost up to was ... to try to make the elector­ ate feel like that there was no viable $11,500. Vinich said he’s not worried alternative,” he said. Hill conceded that Wyoming’s about the money. : “We’re getting letters and phone economy remained an effective issue •calls from all over the state from for Vinich, even though Wallop people offering to pay for a re­ campaigned extensively on the pro-' position that he was successful in count,” he said. Hill told the Casper Republican helping bring business to state in­ Women’s club that many factors dustries while helping avert poten­ 'contibuted to the narrowness of tially harmful federal legislation. “I think one of the underlying Wallop’s victory. Hill said Wallop appreciates factors has to be the fact that •Simpson’s help in his re-election ef­ Wyoming — our economy — has forts, but said some remarks Simp­ been troubled for a number of son made late in the campaign may years,” showing some signs of have directly undermined Wallop’s strain when Wallop ran for re-elec­ tion six vears ago. Hill said. ' central campaign strategy. tion by 1,315 votes, on Saturday asked Wallop to join him in re­ questing an optional recount of the roughly 180,000 votes cast statewide. Vinich would have had to come within about 900 votes of Wallop in order to qualify for a mandatory recount. “I would suggest that that’s the most absurd request made in this election,” Hill said. “No, I would say that Malcolm is very content with with the efforts of the county clerks and secretary of state. ’ ’ Hill noted that Secretary of State Kathy Karpan “is certainly no friend to the Republicans.” And the Vinich campaign, using the resources of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, can easily pay for the recount itself, Hill said. �Saturday, November 19.1988 I personaUy - and 4iffpr with Dick on this — know 1 differ v, u-ve that they re — LPtoTave tVfind something. and I don t know what they’re go- jfs a con- coming Cong ..y' ..p^s^Qne recovbe acid ram. agriculture • Sn’b'lW. industry rm '■ i* ’■ Simpson also noted jj. ^p , expensive ’ssu®® CongresSnllVssion “we^d^dn’t cvenjcnow billion to aid bill and . ____ __SIMPSON JVobiuFon'to SIS billion to bail out • ALAN New taxes may be necesyry , filing savings and loans. ,, ** J . . , i �J' Cheney dismayed by talk of Bush retreat onn 1 (y' By DAN WHIPPLE Saturday. November 19,1988 - Star-Tribune staff writer. CASPER __ says he is dismaye gressional debate on budget deficit reduction is ^ready focusing on the . question of how soon President­ elect George. Bush will retreat from his “no new taxes” promise. “There are a lot of us on the Re­ publican side in the House, who will not be a party to any discussion of any tax increase long as there is any prospect that it’s simply gonna be spent on more federal programs. We will not do it,” Cheney said at the Wyoming Heritage Founda­ tion’s annual public forum. But 11.S. Sen. Alan ^imnsnn said that Congress may have to find some additional tax revenues in its ’ effort to cut the federal deficit. Cheney said, “I think the deficit is the most serious economic, domestic legislative problem we face... I think if we fail to deal with it, if we fail to continue to make progress — and we have made progress, the picture’s not all bleak, we’ve gone from $220 billion down to about $150 billion — if we fail to make progress on the budget deficit, we are in effect going to be in a world of hurt.” However, by concentrating the debate on raising taxes to solve the problem, the Republicans are giving away their bargaining chips, he said. If the problem is as serious as everyone claims, Cheney said, then Congress ought to be prepared to develop a plan that has no new spending programs. “But that’s not what I’m hear- DICK CHENEY Deficit most serious problem ing,” he said. “What I heard all across the country during the cam­ paign — and my candidate frankly said some of these things as well — was, ‘We gotta have a new child care program, we need new educa­ tion programs, we gotta do more on the environment, we gotta do more about our infrastructure, our roads, our bridges, etc., etc., etc. “Now all of those things are im­ portant, but I don’t think any , of them is as important as dealing with the deficit.” Simpson, also speaking to the Heritage Foundation forum, said that perhaps Bush’s “read my lips” pledge of no new taxes should be �Monday, December 19,1988 Simpson’s‘old pals’ Simpson phone startine ihe from acquaintanc^'I^ho'*'’ ,5 ^-“fru^aSa- JiomSown"’cody°f,5“ w"'i,’"“’ ">! buddies want to co ha . Army requests says be sentto the Bufc^-’^ and one in particular ha STnle?er“""«-«'S^tg ,&oS".?a:ss Department. Interior oilrnan ^har^the^^^® ^®^Per skills to deal wkh thTw^TJ'^^^on bureaucracy and that Morton for the joL ‘Salifies �—Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Simpson doubts Mott will in Bush adujinistration -Moiii-cnjicized by W^^ing’s conaske’d Kp^;o?t;-^-stt fri» ’’3d not Bush, a close When Simpson first suggested JlrP Yellowston? fires were raging out of control ove^ so^’bun ?? Simproughly half of the '2.2 million-acre th^new t be retained by park and were featured on network the new administration news shows daily. Reporters and firms'in'’v d’’’' summer’s photographers from acros.s the na­ and i.c y^”‘’'^stone National Park tion also followed the story daily Tn and Its sui rounding national forests nr?d’'ty," that Mott be) their newspapers. ok thought there was an the^hin^p de'-astation, (because of) Eto reading and the' d’^ Republican said Sson reading,” said called fn?Z®n®''y “°del had Rimpson. And now, goine into on ^11 nr/2 ^“PP'^ession efforts the park in late Octobe® iUs nS on all fires, and that if Mott devastated. It is certainly- there an^ d'^sjegarded that order he should be are'^'h'"^'^'^!.* ^^^^tures and wonders are there and we have to promote congressional hearings on year “fhrre'h® “P next soS'onS*^ ’’“Ped y ar, there had been some specula2’ die congressional hearines Po" that there might be a call for could be held near Yellowstone Mott s resignation. But during a news conference Thursda7®th? least on! “■y conduct at cSe.'°'^ '^°“'d not be the munities” '2 gateway comsaS3Taay."^"-^^22.^^^ inmSr®?ji’' "cw secretarv of k!5 ’ ^"d he or she will select ‘M fPpT''" .PcoP’c.” said Simpson, nd, dU'te certain Bill Mott will S "cw administra­ tion. There won’t be a need for him some h '"Ould get some honest comment, because people think there’s bee a coverup.” said Simpson. Friday, December 23,19& �—Star-Tribune, Casper, Wyo. Simpson: If terrorists downed jet, them CHEYENNE 1 Pit’s determined that a bomb destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland, then those responsible should be executed, U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson said Thursday. “1 happen to be one of those chaps who believe in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,” the jiepublican said. ’ “And I think if they find the responsible group for that, waive extradition, bring them here and do what we used to do with the old western vigilantes; Give them a fair trial and hang those sons of bit­ ches,” he said. Flight 103 crashed Wednesday in Scotland, killing all 259 people aboard and more than 20 people on U-S. and British Officials said the plane probably exploded before the crash. The night originated in Frankfurt with a Boeing 727. Passengers and luggage were transferred to the 747 at Lon­ don’s Heathrow Airport. . Simpson, home in Wyoming for Christmas, told reporters that while .he hadn’t been briefed on the crash. It likely was linked to terrorism. Friday, December 23,198( �Sinipson y^on’t support salary iucrpase Cl^ By KURT J. REPANSHEK Associated Press writer CHEYENNE — U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson doesn’t want to hear any talk that he’s getting fat on congres­ sional pay raises, especially since he didn’t accept the last raise and isn’t supporting current efforts to in­ crease salaries. Simpson also said that political action committees, which con­ tribute millions of dollars for elec­ tion campaigning, should be abol­ ished. “I do not make $89,000, I make $77,000, or $77,200, (or) $77,400,” Simpson told reporters recently when talk turned to efforts to raise congressional salaries by up to 50 percent. “I have been paying that money (the difference between his current salary and the $89,000 salary of the last raise), back to the general treasury for two y4fcrs,” said the Republican. “But I can tell you one thing: I of course will not support that (pending) raise.” Simpson does not object to his colleagues fighting for a raise, and acknowledges there are some mem­ bers of Congres.s who truly need more money to maintain a residence Continued from Al $34,425 and gave about 52 percent — or $37,000 — to charity, accord­ ing to his disclosure form. Under current law, U.S. senators are allowed to keep up to $35,000 ‘ annually in honoraria. Simpson said he turns 60 percent of the money he makes in honorariums over to charities and non-profit groups in Wyoming. “I always write a little note (to the groups), ‘Please know that when 1 leave public office, do not send me any more mail because this is not my money. 1 am not rich and therefore not a philanthropist’,” the senator said. “But I tell you,” he continued. “I think they ought to get rid of honorariums. And 1 think the American people, I know, are of­ fended by this.” Banning honorariums would also take a burden off congressmen, said Simpson. both in Washington, D.C., as well as their home state. The Wyoming senator, though, is able to make ends meet on his $77,400 salary, income from a radio show he does with Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., on the Mutual Radio Network, and on a portion of the honorariums he receives for speaking engagements. In 1987, Simpson was one of the top 10 recipients of honaria among his Senate colleagues. He took in $71,425, according to financial disclosure forms members of Con­ gress must file every year. He kept Please see SIMPSON, A8 “I’ve had many occasions where House members come over to me • and say ‘Uh-oh, gee, what happened to such and such bill that we passed over there?’ And I say, ‘Well, it s in committee.’ ‘Well, kill it. Because I’m torn to pieces. I’ve got a group who’s for it that’s laying it on me, and a group who is against it laying it on me. Just leave it hung there.’” The senator said once honorariums are done away with, someone in Congress should in­ troduce legislation to abolish polit­ ical action committees. ‘‘If you get rid of that (honorariums), and then separately get into an honest discussion with the abolition of PACs, politi­ cal action committees, the salary raise would have (seemed) more ra-! tional,” said Simpson. “Getting rid of honorariums would be a great stroke, and a great benefit to good legislating,” he said. ■ Wednesday, December 28,1988 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Alan K. Simpson Vertical File Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. 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These files and documents are part of a larger collection of Casper Star-Tribune vertical files consisting of a series of file folders arranged by people, places, and events. These files at times have a corresponding file of photographs and negatives created and used by the Casper Star Tribune from 1967 until the middle of 1995 according to a newspaper article on the donation from February of 2000. Subject The topic of the resource Politicians United States; Politicians Wyoming Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Casper Star-Tribune Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Casper Star-Tribune Vertical File, NCA 01.ii.2001.02-Alt WyCaC US. Casper College Archives and Special Collections. Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. The Casper Star-Tribune gifted 20 years of photographic negatives and prints and many of these corresponding files and article scans to Casper College early in the year 2000. The vertical files have been managed by the Casper College Archives and Special Collections housed in its Western History Center. The repository started the process of arranging and describing these files at the series level in January of 2024. Relation A related resource The finding aid for these and other items in this collection is available for viewing: <a href="https://caspercollegearchives.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/archival_objects/25364" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://caspercollegearchives.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/archival_objects/25364</a> Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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