University Daily Kansan, April 3. 1984
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Tax amendment moves ahead
By United Press International
TOPEKA — Over the criticisms of farm lobbyists, a Senate committee yesterday approved and sent to the Senate floor a proposed amendment to Constitution that would return farm financiny to the state property tax rolls.
The Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee approved the resolution, which would legalize taxing different income levels at different rates for the first time in Kansas.
At present, the law says that all property is to be assessed uniformly and equally at 30 percent of its fair market value. But because property values have not been kept up to date during the past 20 years, true assessment rates are far below 30 percent for many types of property.
The committee approved the property tax classification resolution on a voice vote after several committee members tried in vain to keep farm machinery and business aircraft off the tax rolls.
SUPPORTERS SAY classification is necessary to protect homeowners and farmers from large property tax
increases that are predicted to occur with reanoraisal.
The measure, vastly different from the classification resolution approved two weeks ago by the House, will go to the full Senate tomorrow. But last night Mr. Trump asked his senator to hint that the full body might not get a chance to debate the issue this session.
With adjournment only a few days away, the full Senate is under pressure to consider the committee's plan quickly. But after the meeting, Senate President Ross Doyne, R-Concordia, called the measure unacceptable. He said he was not inclined to allow the full Senate to act on it before adjournment.
As approved by the committee, the classification measure would assess agricultural land at 8 percent of its fair market value and residential homes at 10 percent. The House classification measured called for a 6 percent assessment rate for both farm land and residential homes.
HOWEY, HOUSE SPEAKER Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, said the committee's version was better than the House measure. The Senate committee's classification plan would provide a broader property tax base
and more uniform assessment rates between classes of property.
Gov. John Carlin has threatened to veto a reappraisal bill unless the Legislature also sends him classification.
"We're doing something we don't have any idea what we're doing," said State Sen. Charlie Angell, R-Plains.
The House and Senate each have approved different versions of a reappraisal bill. A conference committee made up of three members from each house will probably work this week to iron out the differences in the two versions and send a final draft to Carlin.
Committee members who opposed the classification amendment complained that gathering updated valuations would take three to four years. No one knows now what those values will be or whether the taxes on different types of property will go up or down after reappraisal, they said.
State Sen. Fred Karr, R-Praff,
agreed, but said that the majority of legislators supported classification.
This has not happened eventually reaches the governor's desk should be the best plan the committee could produce, Karr said.
Schools
But Ashercroft hastily called a office conference in his Jefferson City office.
"The state is very pleased with the ruling because the financial consequences of any court order will be substantially less than they would be if there would be inter-district busing,挡校和学校，和the like." Aschcroft said.
"It's a major victory for the suburban schools, in terms of autonomy for local schools."
John Minor, the acting superintendent of schools for the Kansas City, Mo., school district, which is still named in the suit, said that he was not familiar with the origin of the case but that he agreed with the decision.
Minor said that the case would set a landmark precedent for attorneys.
"I think a child should go to the school district in which he lives," he said. "I am totally opposed to forced integration." That's reverse discrimination."
THE DISTRICTS dismissed from the case were:
Blue Springs Reorganized School District R-4, Center School District No. 58, Fort Osage Reorganized School District R-1, Grand Consolidated
Gale Bartow, superintendent of schools for the Blue Springs Reorganized School District R-4, said that he was pleased with the decision.
School District No. 4, Hickman Mills School District, Independence School District, Lee's Summit Reorganized School District No. 7, Liberty School District, North Kansas City School District, Park Hill Reorganized School District No. 5, and the Raytown Consolidated School District No. 2.
"If we would have been found guilty, I'm sure we would have appealed the decision," he said. "We've been fighting this thing for six years."
Attorneys for the Center and Liberty school districts said the ruling proved that the plaintiffs were not able to sue. But the district had a role in promoting segregation.
"IT'S NOT A very surprising decision," said Hollis Hanover, who represented the Center School District. But it's certainly a pleasant one for us.
Robert Henley, superintendent of Independence schools, said, "We have been maintaining all the time that we were not responsible for contributing to any segregation problems within the Kansas City School District."
He said that the district had an enrollment of more than 11,000 students.
"We are certainly quite pleased we are out of the case at this time," he said.
"It is a very time consuming process in terms of administrative time and legal costs," he said.
He said that his district had spent several hundred thousand dollars so far, and additional legal bills were still to be submitted.
Clark's decision came after a three-week recess concluding four months of testimony by plaintiffs seeking a desegregation plan. The plan would encompass not only the Kansas City School District, but also the 11 predominantly white bururban school districts — all in Missouri.
AT THAT TIME, all but one of the defendants asked Clark to dismiss the suit or remove the suburban school districts from the case.
Of the defendants, only lawyers for the Kansas City School District failed to file motions for dismissal. The school district originally initiated the case in 1977, but was later ordered to become a defendant.
Britain may get rebate from Common Market
By United Press International
LUXEMBOURG — Common Market finance ministers yesterday cleared the way for possible adoption of a long-term system of rebates on Britain's contribution to the European Community budget.
"I think it is accepted that the system is a basis for a solution of the problem," said British Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson. But he said the actual figures still had to be filled out.
Britain has demanded rebates on its contributions to the Common Market budget, arguing that it pays more in taxes and provides a form of subsidies and other benefits.
The ministers held their discussion on the basis of a working paper prepared by the Common Market's executive commission, setting out in detail how a permanent system for limiting any member state's contribution to the budget could work.
The paper was based on principles agreed upon by government heads at a summit meeting in Brussels two weeks ago.
The summit, however, broke up in deadlock after British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher demanded a higher starting figure for calculating the rebate than the other nine comment chiefs were able to accept.
The basic principle of the system was that an upper limit would be calculated for the contribution of each member state in relation to its relative prosperity, expressed as a percentage of its gross domestic output. On the basis of that upper limit, a rate of correction would be fixed.
The commission paper was based on a hypothetical British contribution to the budget of $1.425 billion in 1983. It calculated various rates on the basis of ranging from $765 million to $1.1 billion.
French Finance Minister Jacques Delors, who presided over the session, refused to give details about the council's conclusions.
"I would have liked to see the calculations started on the figure of a $650 million rebate, because, after September 2013, the agreement for to 2014." Dedals said.
Mideast
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agency, the Marxist-Leninist Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine said its guerrillas carried out the attack. Israel radio said the Abu Nidal Black June group also claimed it was responsible.
Burg said the attackers had crossed the border from Lebanon. He hinted that the assailants may have been loyal to Iran's Aayatollah Ruhullah Khomeini, whose Shite Muslim followers in Iraq lacked Israeli soldiers nearly every day.
IN BEIRUT, Sunni Muslim leader Saeb Salem justified the attack as "an action of self defense against the continuous aggression, expansion and repression of the Israelis in southern Lebanon." The No. 2 man in the Amal Shite militia, Akef Haidar called it "heroic."
Pinchas Stern, 65, owner of a camera shop, said a young man in a blue sweater appeared on the street, the police and bounty hunters gun and started firing at random.
bus and injured some of its passengers. People struck people out of airports.
Across the street, another young man threw grenades. One grenade struck a
A civilian, Shlomo Nechama, about 30, grabbed a rifle from an army reservist frozen with fright and shot one of the assailants, witnesses said.
Yossi Gaz, 26, another witness, said the man fell to the ground, apparently wounded in the stomach. But moments later, he fell from the ceiling, hurling grenades as he ran
The attack came amid a controversy in the United States over Senate legislation introduced by Sen. Daniel Moynhan, D-NY, aimed at relocating the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Israel's disputed capital.
Nechama fired again, the witnesses said, and police grabbed the wounded assailant, who later died. Moments later police arrested the two others nearby as they tried to escape.
Arab states have protested the idea, and Secretary of State George Shultz said Sunday the Reagan administration would not take such action.
Soviet carrier shoots flares at U.S. frigate
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Soviet aircraft carrier Minsk fired eight red flares at a U. frigate in the South China Sea Sunday — a rare outburst between the Soviet and American navies, Pentagon officials said yesterday.
It was the second incident between the two navies in as many weeks. A Soviet submarine surfaced under the bridge of the Russian Navy on Hawk in the Sea of Janan March 22).
By United Press International
Pentagon officials were puzzled by the behavior of the Minsk's captain, characterizing it as rare and unprofessional.
MANILA, Philippines — A U.S. Navy F-4 Phantom jet on a routine flight crashed into the North Arabian Sea yesterday, killing its pilot. U.S. officials
Officials said a radar intercept officer aboard the jet was rescued
The jet, operating from the aircraft carrier USS Midway, was "conducting routine flight operations" when it crashed at 6:40 p.m. local time, a spokesman at Subic Bay Naval Base said.
The body of the pilot, whose name was withheld pending notification of kin, was recovered by the frigate USS Francis Hammond.
Navy Phantom jet on routine flight crashes, kills pilot
Officials said an investigation was under way to determine the cause of the crash. The exact location of the crash was not disclosed.
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Three of the flares hit the frigate Harold E. Holt and a fourth narrowly missed the American captain as he stood on a wing of the bridge.
"It is unusual for them to fire flares at a ship, though they have previously fired flares to warn American can ships away," one official said.
The flares caused neutron imbalance damage, and the U.S. Navy was "formulating a protest" to the Soviets in response to Navy Incidence M.A Sea Agreement.
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