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    CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Wyoming may send a speedy - and speeding -
message to Washington: 65 mph or bust.
    That's the plan favored by most state senators, vowing to increase
speed limits despite a possible loss of $52 million in federal highway
aid.
    The Senate tentatively approved the measure Monday on a 16-11 vote.
It planned a final vote on the bill today.
    Wyoming could lose nearly $52 million in federal highway
construction money if the bill becomes law, but Sadler suggested the
Legislature could increase mineral taxes to make up for the loss.
    Blessed with little traffic congestion and wide open spaces, Wyoming
drivers always have been speeders and now average close to 65 mph.
    Some drivers argue the speed limit has increased traffic deaths
because of drivers' boredom and inattention. Wyoming's fatality rate
has been the nation's highest for three straight years.
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    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Roy Clark, the jovial hillbilly of ''Hee
Haw'' who took his hootin' and hollerin', pickin' and grinnin' to
standing-room-only crowds in the Soviet Union, is setting his sights
on a China tour.
    A guitarist, fiddler and banjo picker, Clark was the first country
music singer to take a show to the Soviet Union. The 1973 Country
Music Association entertainer of the year played to sold out concerts
in Moscow, Riga and Leningrad in 1976.
    ''We're trying to be the first to tour the People's Republic of
China,'' Clark, 45, said Tuesday in a telephone interview from Monte
Carlo, Monaco.
    ''We've sent a telegram to Huang Chen, China's minister of culture,
in Peking. We just offered it to them.
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    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Persuasive television ads are causing serious
conflicts between children and their parents - conflicts that are a
way of life for some families, mental health and consumer experts say.
    ''Where is it written that the new family structure should be
parent, child and General Foods?'' asked Harry Snyder, director of the
West Coast office of Consumers Union, a New York-based consumer
research organization.
    Snyder, other consumer advocates and university researchers
testified at a Federal Trade Commission hearing on staff
recommendations to limit TV ads aimed at children on the grounds they
are ''deceptive'' and ''unfair.'' Hearings here end Jan. 26, then
move to Washington.
    One proposal would ban commercials aimed at children under age 8.
    Psychologists contend TV ads generate peer pressure and serious
conflicts between parents and children, who often take ads as gospel.
    Advertisers, who spend about $500 million a year on ads aimed at
children, say the FTC staff is behaving like a ''national nanny.''
    
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