i ' i ■' - * -. j i f e . , ....... m m im i , „ G o o j imorning j M i n ii s t e r i sI fifettii n g v e r R L ed Ar l m y Today’s forececast: The Asiodated Press foreign intelligencem ce agency. i Partly cloudy ancand hazy w ith east w inds - The sprawlingng Russian republic, with - ; S to IS miles on1 hour.h< Highs in the 40s. M OSCOW — Facingng ia restless army that B ush waniits to meetvw ith YeltsinI 147 m illion pecyle)ple, is inheriting the bulk o f- I Lows 15to20degregrces. no longer has a countr:ntry to fight for, the the-Soviet Unionion’s central government, ____ Pa g o A2 ___ ,dcfcnsejninistcrs, of_tlf_theformcr-Sovicl- —Tl‘II m Associated Press____.: ___________ been.w ithth tlthc.old K rem linJcadcrship-P—; --------- including-its-foreijireign m inist^, -intelligence- _____ EfipubUcs-mct T^ut&i -------------- ; = ------ donU-have-the-concept-on-ththeir -------- nctworirand-militaiilitaryrindustrialcomplex.------ reorganizing or diimanilantling the powerful WASHINGTON — Pre’resident Bush part of vic’Wcwirig th e U nited States, as‘son The top itemi Ofion the agenda of the new iTBffW TOTiB said Thursday he’ll “stayy i:in very, veiy enemy, osa s happened ov er all the yei ..4 m m J i m M i k Soviet miliuity. _ • sa r'cors C om m onw ealthh ofo Independent Stales is A day after Mikhaillail S.'Gorbachev’s clclosc” touch with Russiasian President ofthe Coldlold War," Bush said a day afteraf how to share, or divide, the 3.7 million resignatioa as Sovicviet president, the ' BBoris Yeltsin and propos)osed an early the Soviet'ict Union passed into histcUory troops and hugeIg e arsenol of the former I > Asew-sewWcHd .transition from the hihighly centralized summitsi to discuss the fat<fate of nuclear w ith.the^le^resignation of Presidedent Soviet omied forccjrccs. Soviet state to a loosesc commonwealth< of wweapons dnd other pressingng issues. Mikhails,S, G orbachev. Defense chicfliefs and parliomentary Scott Gardner:r 1has been making his sovereign nations was/os moving quickly, B ush also suggested at a 'White Hoiise Bush ' sisaid he is satisfied withw representatives} of all 11 republics in Ihe j- •; own clothes everr sisince h e can rem em ber, despite economic friciriction between the news coiiference that fifuture armS’ assurances»s he has received from Yclt:ltsin new.commonweawealth met behind closed f ' to the envy o fh isis f«fellow Sth m d e rs . republics and the stickick y q uestion o f the controlcc agreements mighttit b1 e easier — — w ho nonow has C9ntro! over the sosome doors Thursdaylay at the former Soviet I '• . 1 ^ A 5 ' m ilito ^. ninot harder —- to readich with the 27,000 nucnuclear warheads -that formenerly Defense Ministry.ly . • • Inside the Kremlinlin, a few diehard independent republics thithan they had Please see MEET/>r/A2 A spokesman,n. (Col. Ivan Skrylnik, said Robbery link'Ik ? riawmakcrs dissolved the Soviet legislature, |___ ___ I they were consideridering “problems of mutual whose speaker told th<them in a farewell:- .. defense” andI didrafting proposals for >lice say a .Twin Falls g i r l ' Tw in F alls polic< ‘'Until we meet again,n, \wher6ver that may talkk ai bout w hat h e w ould do) mnext He flatly Yeltsin,in, the Russian Federation pn^resident consideration1 by the presidents of the recently arrested:d ini Utah has admitted be." . rulece d out tw com ing an oppositisition leader. ' w h o is clcclearly first among equalsIs in th e republics a t a meimeeting Dm; 30 in Minsk, she W09 involvedd inii a gang-related arm ed' - Gorbachev told repotporters at a goodbye DiDisputes among commonwiiwealth leaders .new con:ommonwealth, on Thuliursday' the BelarussianI caicapital. robbety last week;ek that allegedly netted party that he w as goinglg co n vacation for two wcr<:re already surfacing, paiparticularly .in appointeeled former Gorbachev adviserai No other detoletails of the talks were •- $19,000 in jewelr'dry from a Twih Falls . w e ^ in the Moscow/ orarea, burdeclincd to rcgai{ard to economic policy. - • ------ -Y e v g e nny y Primakov.-tO'hcad RuLussia-’s available;— — family. PageAS A iviskI day afterI. , ~ | Gem1 lottery ^ —Bfonco-honoitored ticketrt sales MikeCroelofthfthe Denver Broncos has ^ bera cited os thele <ouUtanding defensive f . rookie in the Natioitio n ai Football League. Pa9«A9 slip slsharply Noll leaves StS t e e l e r s ^ Drew DeSilverIvcr Tim es-N ew s wTiter rite After 23 yeares olo f sharing tbe basem ent and the penthous<use. Coach Chuck Noll . BOISE-Idahoiho Lottery tickci sales from and the Pittsburghgh Steelers have come to July through Novelovembcr dropped 9 pcrccnt the end ofthe trail.ail. __ from th e same_p<e_p_crip.djas,t_ycar.._but_thf_ ____________ ^ A 9 ____ Lottery’s marketin;cting c h ie f isn 'l worried. “ W e think w/e’ve e’v seen the bottom," said B ob CoopCT. thele L o ttery 's deputy director for m arketing, on T1 hursday. - « Total ticket saleslales for the first five monlhs' Wt~ - ' •ofthe 1992 fiscalseal year that started July I Artist emphahasizes shapes were down 9 perecereeni com pared to the some period in the provjrevious fiscal year. Cooper :rt Moo're says being Artist Robert said, despite a surgesun in November that was t h im em phasize shapM - - colorblind helps hi sporked by a S4S47 m illion Super Lotto irc th e first things the eye P w hich he'M ys arc ja c k p o t . \ . sees in a scene. Paae Bl “Even with our 9 percent decline, we’re c: '--n ^ the b^tiit-lbci-tbe Industry;” C ooper said, •'« ——M o h th -to -mnonth o r -sales* were down - - "Newlfeiir^EI E v e t d e b r a t i o n s slightly in Julyily and August and more Plannihgtogogo but oh New-Year’s - s h ^ l y in SeptemIlember and October, he said, t some of the blame on the Eve? A variety, olo f pftrties awaits you - placing at least sc from a form al six*c6ursesiX' dinner, in Sun natiorul recession.ion. A s o f the endid oof November, the Lottery Valley to a potluckuck dinner and dancing iir ____ - "Twin'Falls:----------- - - had taken in justist o v er $21 m illion. Sales o f I P»g«B1 |ih sta n t-sc ra tc h1 tietickets occount for $13.3 _______________/I ______________ million, or 63 penpercent o f the total revenue, Super Lotto tickecket sales account for $5.5 AWY ARSKZm* ThBw4«) million, or 26.22 percent;p« Fantastic 5 ticket, sales accountt fofor $1.8 mjllion, or 8.5 ' - S h o p p e r s w e r ea bback In the stores/lndigilding J.C Penney, onn 1Thureday rea m in g ChiC h r is tm a s g if ts a n d percent; ond break-openbr ticket sales I ■ looking for bargar g a ln s . <•': t : account for $460,050,000, or 2.3 percent Reassess nucii c l w r o l e _____ Despite thec d<downturn. Cooper said Idaho politicalcat leaders and federal \ carryover from1 ththe November sales surge, ' energy, o f f ic iaals ls must cooperate to iristmas^ along w ith th e: intintroduction of new games fidn’t sccare ^hi > of others, ishould enable the Reccession d and revom ping o f _ reassess Idaho’s)’s role in tbe nation’s nuclear future,^ io light of a changing Lottery to ochie>hievc its projected 5 to 10 world, today’s edieditorial says. A meeting percent growthil overo fiscal 1991 sales of M next month coulcluld be a good place to $51.5 million. I “We’re real haphappyaboutv/here-welsrc^- - i bH!S ^tailers rreport s ta rt T T ^ isiness_a Pa0«A12 By C c ^ Lincoln. Mifianager a D on .C handler saic;aid. “And last ChondlciHer s^d'that rnall shoppersrs did' hef"?; , sUites h av e seen lottery sales Tuhes^News writer OEU* :was on i n c ^ b l e year;r^' tso to m eet o r h av e sppraorodic.'buying patterns andd !k ep t W hile a few suii r a t tho% figures is' ratisfyinjing.” retoilersguiguessing.-r increase, Coopi>oper said, several have Irops o f 25 or 30 percent in ; TWIN FALLS-A- A ll things considered, v • -C•Chandler estimated the mimail’s holiday • “ W e expirxpected a real n i^ the firstt \wMk experienced drop m onths. • ^ |8 year’s holiday’ shshoppcfs were good to - sahBljQS'Wcre up 5 percent frdmlaSyew. m ! - ofterThankBiiksgiving i>efcause. w e.had fi is p inning.m any o f its hopes d they entered shoeing; ddi a j^ Eetw eeh Thanksgivingngand- - ThcLotttijrisi . sm ithem Idaho retailcoilers. ‘ • SSome areo retailers said t >reak-open" instant tickets, i shrugged off national the lay, spending to C h ris tmms," a s Chandler said. “Butit th a t' Anxiety nottundersto^ u ■ .,^<Those shoppers sh le season expecting holiday 1 sale in e ariy November, economic problem:sms and continued to - be given worries didn t happappen. Itc a m e th e l a ^ tw o w eeks w hich w ent on sal e down from last.year, gi A lth o u ^ hes e;iexpect break-open sales to President BuBush says he can’t spend money in a Ilocol economy that, oyc ly.