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"Hindsight is always better than foresight, from time-to-time. So hopefully we can learn. But losing over a million acres of Yellowstone is almost incomprehensible," he said. But Quayle stopped short of calling for the resignation of National Park Service Director William Penn Mott, a step demanded by Wyoming's senators. Fight against fires in Yellowstone area appears to be almost over -A 5 Jt- Coohe City Stauff er backs Roark's college prep proposal Burmese soldiers open fire About 100 people reportedly killed RANGOON, Burma (AP) Soldiers loyal to the new military government opened fire on thousands of demonstrators who surged into the streets Monday to protest a military coup.

About 100 people were reported killed in Rangoon. Demonstrations also broke out it other cities, including Mandalay. Witnesses and other reports said a total of about 150 people, including 17 soldiers, had died in the violence that swept Burma after Sunday's coup. The military placed the death toll at 23 Monday, but gave no details. Military commander Saw Maung 'engineered the newest change in power in Burma by overthrowing civilian President Maung Maung.

Undaunted opposition leaders vowed that students, Buddhist monks and striking civil servants would continue to demonstrate for democracy. Maung Maung's whereabouts remain unknown. A Western diplomat familiar with Burma said from Bangkok, Please see BURMA, A14 Senate OKs trade pact with Canada WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate approved a landmark free-trade agreement with Canada on Monday, clearing the way for America's part in phasing out tariffs on $131 billion in merchandise that crosses the border each year. President Reagan lauded the Senate for approving the measure "83-9, saying negotiators for both countries had reached an accord that "will benefit our people for generations to come." "The agreement will create jobs and stimulate economic growth on both sides of the border and create the largest open market in the world," he said in a statement read by spokesman Roman Popadiuk. U.S.

Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter said in a statement, "Today's overwhelming vote by the Please see TRADE, A14 Casper Area A3 Classifieds B8-14 Comics B4 Community B6-7 Crossword B3 Enterprise All Landers, Omarr B3 Letters A13 Markets A10 Movies B5 Obituaries, Diary B2 Opinion A12 Sports A7-9 Wyoming Bl Old Grouch But the firefight among politicians will flame longer. RESULTS The Star-Tribune Classified Section is not ust for selling unwanted items! If there is something you would like to buy or trade for, don't wait for someone else to place a 'For Sale' ad in the try running your own advertisement in 136-Want to BuyTrade. Many of our customers have had" great results from advertising there! So give it a try! Call 266-0555 or 1 -800-442-691 6 (toll-free.) 5wP v.Yrllawston, By KATHARINE COLLINS Star-Tribune staff writer YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK An end may finally be in sight for a fire season unprecedented in size, cost, intensity, national publicity, and bickering among politicians. Precipitation throughout Yellowstone National Park on Sunday, overcast skies and high humidity Monday, and another weather front expected Tuesday have officials optimistic but not "complacent." Plans are even afoot for the dismantling of the Greater Yellowstone Area Command, which has coordinated firefighting resources and strategy since the end of July. "Mother Nature has helped us turn the corner, along with the 1,400 people we have working on the fires," Dan Sholly said Monday.

Sholly is the park's chief ranger and also incident commander of the fires around the park's headquarters at Mammoth. "The crews that are coming due to leave, we're not replacing," Sholly said. "Numbers will go down by 20 to 40 a day. By the 25th of the month we expect to have all the civilian crews gone, and we'll have one battalion of Marines. '7 Sholly said by that time the Marines, who "are doing an excellent job already," will be "thoroughly trained and up to speed." Two battalions of Marines arrived in the park last week and have undergone additional firefighting training in mop-up operations around the park.

In addition to the battalion at Mammoth, another battalion is stationed on the North Fork fire at Madison. He said the forested areas around Mammoth are still more vulnerable to fire than other areas in the park, having received only .05 inch of precipitation within the past two months. Many other parts of the park have gotten measurable amounts of snow from the two fronts that have moved through recently. By TOM REA Star-Tribune staff writer AFTON The chairman of the House Education Committee Mon day praised University of Wyoming President Terry Roark's proposal to establish a required college-preparatory program for high school students STAUFFER who want to attend the university. "I think it's a great idea," said Rep.

Alan Stauffer, R-Lincoln. The proposal would do even more for high schools than for the university, Stauffer said. Once the university makes the requirement, high schools will quickly toughen their standards due to local pressure, he said. In addition, the proposal will benefit the university by relieving it of the expensive necessity of teaching remedial classes to many entering freshmen who aren't yet ready for college work, he said. Quayle also said in the interview that the coming presidential election will be "a horse race." He also endorsed his friend Sen.

Malcolm Wallop, calling him a man of "keen intellect," and "one of the few intellectuals" in the Senate. Comparing Dukakis with former Democratic President Jimmy Carter, in his speech Quayle said that the Massachusetts governor i "a little-known liberal governor who will do a great deal of damage to America if we give him a chance." Speaking at an afternoon campaign rally attended by many Natrona County and state Republican officials, Quayle lashed Dukakis' record as governor, saying Massashusetts has not experienced an "economic miracle" as Dukakis claims, but rather an "economic manacle" due to high taxes and state debt. "When it comes to his own Please see QUAYLE, A14 Such students would still have to be provided for "somewhere in the system," perhaps in the community colleges, he said. "Where we have one university, we do feel we have an obligation to every kid in the state, but I think there's not a kid in the state who can't qualify if we don't work on him hard enough," he said. Some resistance to the idea may come from those who teach high school electives that might "get pushed out of the way by more rigorous academic standards," he said.

When a subject such as music is involved, it could "a pretty tough call," he said. "I've had music teachers tell me" that every time standards are toughened students leave the music program, he said. "Music to me is just as much an academic course as Math is," because a good number of students go on to make their living by it, he said. And other electives may no longer be taught during school hours, he said. Drivers' education, for example, might have to be Please see UW, A 14 these mortgages, and we will pursue judgments wherever and whenever it is appropriate," Demery said.

The New York Times reported last Friday in an article from Aurora, that investors and homeowners who defaulted on their FHA-insurcd mortgages had bought new homes at lower prices at FHA foreclosure sales. The article said that in economically depressed areas like Denver, where neighborhoods are glutted with foreclosed properties, defaulting on home mortgages has taken on an air of acceptability. Demery said that HUD's new policy was developed within the last two months and would be the subject of a directive to be sent to the agency's regional offices. He said the federal agency had no statistics on the number of mortgage manipulations in Denver and elsewhere, but added that the practice was not believed to be widespread. "Up to now, we haven't pursued these deficiency judgments," Please see HOl -wvr- snown -J WYOMING Zbigniew BzdakSlar-Tribune Casper llilton Inn Monday Yellowstone National Park Vp a.

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Stan Pederson. "Now they're out here, they know what they're doing and they're really ready to get at it and get it Please see FIRES, A14 becomes ill spokesman says The "Cowboys on Everest" are searching for Mallory and Irvine's camera to try and learn if the two Britons reached the summit about 30 years before New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenz-ing Norgay were credited with the first official conquest. Bob Skinner, 56, unlike his 52-year-old brother Courtney, who last week was evacuated from 22,000 feet with acute altitude sickness has just a "mild case" and only will need to rest at the base camp for "a couple of days," Mary Skinner said. "He seems to be doing fine," she Please see EVEREST, A 14 HUD will sue homeowners who default, then buy at HUD sales Shoshone Ijike 'A-'A- Hudt Fir. Fire growth 01 Sept.

19 Original fires as of July 25 Suurce Ntuonsl Park Service "We saw (Saturday) what two days of sunshine and the wind would do, and the fire moved very actively in a number of locations. It gained over 1,000 acres." But for the fires to really get out of control again at Mammoth, Sholly said, there would first have to be two days of sunshine with temperatures back into the 60 to 70 degree range. The resulting drying of fuels and lowered humidity would have to be followed by a day of sustained winds. That combination of conditions, he said, would rekindle blazes in heavy fuels, some of which are currently smoldering. "We've had some mental days it is," according to spokesman Mary Skinner in Pinedale.

"I don't know if they will make any further attempt to ascertain whose body (it is)," Mary Skinner said. "There are a number of bodies on Everest." She said "it would be very unlikely" that the body found was either Andrew Irvine or George Mallory, the two Englishmen who were lost June 8, 1924, after saying they were "going strong for the summit." Bob Skinner's latest message would indicate that the body found was too low on the mountain to be either Mallory or Irvine, Mary Skinner said. TetorTX L-i National I 0 Hunter Rr. Second Skinner brother Climber finds body in ice' on Everest, WASHINGTON (NYT) In a new policy, the Department of Housing and Urban Development plans to sue investors and homeowners who default on government-insured mortgages in economically troubled regions and then buy new homes at lower prices at government foreclosure sales, an agency official said Monday. The new policy was prompted by reports from the Denver office of such mortgage manipulations, Thomas Demery, the agency's assistant secretary for housing, said in an interview.

Demery is also commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration, which insures the mortgages. "Rather than let it become an epidemic, we decided to shut it down," Demery said. Although such manipulations are not crimes, Demery said, those who default on their mortgages are responsible for repayment of the amount they borrowed. He said they would be sued for the amount of the default; "There is financial liability under By DANIEL WISEMAN Star-Tribune staff writer MOUNT EVEREST A second Skinner brother leading the Wyoming Centennial Everest Expedition has experienced altitude sickness and has descended to a base camp at feet to recuperate, a spokesman for the climbers says. The report of Bob Skinner's illness was accompanied with word that another expedition climber discovered a body "in ice" on the trek up Everest.

The climbers on the "Cowboys on Everest" expedition will likely "respect the body and leave it where.