NATION AND WORLD
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University Daily Kansan, March 1, 1984
Senate panel wants loopholes closed Committee OKs tax increases
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate Finance Committee, working on a $100 billion deficit-reduction package, yesterday approved nearly $6 billion in tax increases, including an extension of the national telephone excise tax through 1987.
Continuing the current telephone tax, which is scheduled to expire this year, which would be $15.4 million.
The committee also agreed to raise $1.4 billion by limiting the amount of personal property a business can write off its taxes as expenses to $5,000 and have the amount had been scheduled to increase from $3,000 to $7,500 in 1984 and 1985.
Under the panel's plan, the business expense cap would rise to $7,000 in 1988 and $9,000 in 2006.
In the House, the Ways and Means Committee worked on a debt-cutting tax package of its own. It hopes to reduce revenues by $50 million in four years.
Bills approved last year in committee but still lingering in the Senate would raise $21.4 billion in revenue and cut spending by $21.2 billion for a total of $42.6 billion.
THE REST of the money would be raised by closing corporate tax loopholes, changing the way taxes are collected and several other minor changes.
With yesterday's items, the Finance Committee so far has agreed to about $18 billion in tax changes. Committee members also have tentatively agreed to about $10 billion in spending cuts, for a total of about $23 billion.
Finance Committee Chairman Robert Dole, R-Kan, has said his goal is to
THE FINANCE PANEL looked at allowing the Internal Revenue Service to hire private agencies to collect past-due taxes and studied a proposal to apply tax refunds directly to other taxes owed by a taxpayer before sending a refund check, but no action was taken
achieve half of the $100 billion in deficit reductions by cutting spending and the other half by raising revenue.
Action also was delayed on a proposal by Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D.N.Y. to cap the amount a business can deduct for a car at $15,000.
can deduct tutors. The proposals to use private collection services to glean delinquent tax payments and to withhold any back taxes from refund checks were recommended by the Grace Commission, a panel of business executives President Reagan asked to come up with money-saving ideas.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Rosey Grier, a former professional football player, Meadowlark Lemon, a former Harlem Globetrotter and Demond Wilson, a co-star of the television show "Sanford and Son," bow their heads in prayer prior to testifying before the House Republican Study Committee on prayer in schools.
Stars back school-prayer proposal
By United Press International
Also appearing before the House Republican Study Committee were ex-Harlem Globetrotter Meadowlark and Dallas Cowboys Coach Tom Lankford.
WASHINGTON — Television and sports stars swarmed Capitol Hill yesterday boosting a school-prayer proposal, and Senate GOP leader Howard Baker appeared on a religious rally in New York to support for the constitutional amendment.
The speakers told the GOP panel they opposed the Supreme Court decisions beginning in 1962 that ended state-sponsored prayer in public schools
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Mary Murray, who taught in Maryland public schools for 40 years, said, "You can vote in the affirmative and be on the side of God, George Washington, the Founding Fathers and President Reagan.
Demond Wilson, who starred in TV's "Sanford and Son," told the group, "Bringing God back into the classrooms will help in putting an end to the stabbing, rapes, drugs, alcohol and other serious problems in the schools."
THE STUDY COMMITTEE, a legislative support group led by conservatives and bankrolled by 130 Republican House members, staged the star-studded hearing. The group is led by John Ewing, who keeps the House in session all night Monday for speeches protecting inaction on the prayer issue.
Baker, on "The 700 Club," said he expected delaying tactics that would prevent the Senate from even discussing school prayer when he tried to open debate next week.
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Jetliner's trouble eluded the pilot before nose dive
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NEW YORK — The pilot of a Scandinavian plane did not think the jet was in trouble before it plunged off a Kennedy International Airport runway into a muddy marsh, an investigation determined yesterday.
"Up to now, there is no indication or communication between the pilot and the control tower to show that the crew was in any kind of situation, but the vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board.
Ten people were treated for minor injuries from the accident, which occurred Tuesday.
The minimum requirements for landing are a 115-foot ceiling and 1,300 feet of visible runway.
Goldman said that as the plane made its approach, it had a 200-foot ceiling of vertical visibility and ability to 2,000 feet of runway visibility.
the cockpit recorder should disclose any remarks made by the pilot or co-pilot during the last moments the jetliner, with 177 people aboard, then the runway before it plunged nose-first into a Jamaica Bay marsh.
NRC rejects waste plan until changes are made
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said yesterday, it would not go along with the government's guidelines for selecting nuclear waste to be radioactive waste dump unless there were major improvements in the plan.
Commissioners gave tentative endorsement to the Energy Department's guidelines for choosing a waste site, but said they would give final approval only after they made the plan more specific and gathers more scientific data to support it.
"The last thing we want is a set of loose site-screening requirements that would leave us with one marginally acceptable site," said Commissioner James Asselstine. "I think everybody realizes that the more you study the sites, the more likely it is you will find negative things about them."
THE LAW REQUIRES NRC approval of the plan for selecting a permanent dump for thousands of tons of spent fuel from commercial nuclear plants. The waste remains dangerously radioactive for thousands of years.
NRC Chairman Nunzio Palladino said the commission was giving the guidelines "tentative concurrence"
without a formal vote. The action starts discussions between NRC experts and the Energy Department on changes in the plan.
Palladino said the NRC wants the department to provide more scientific evidence to back up its assumptions, more details on how it operates and more "disqualigning factors" to screen out inappropriate sites.
The government has nine areas in six states under study as possible sites for the nuclear dump — Nevada, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Utah and Washington.
- Warned the department its guidelines must not rely on manmade "engineered barriers" for isolating the waste "to the extent that an otherwise poor geologic site could become acceptable."
- Said the plan does not require the government to review an area as wide as that which would be a potential site. As a result, the department "may neglect areas where changes occur that could have a significant effect on repository performance."
In other conclusions, the NRC
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