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University Daily Kansan, January 21, 1983
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Social Security proposal would raise payroll taxes
WASHINGTON — The Social Security commission, tossing its hot potato to the politicians, yesterday delivered a $168 billion package of tax and benefit changes to President Reagan and congressional leaders.
In its formal report, the panel proposes wiping out the system's immediate cash shortage over seven years with a six-month benefits freeze and a tax on checks of upper-income pensioners. The plan also suggests that the government and require new federal workers to join the Social Security system.
An incorrect calculation of the cost of improved benefits for widows reduced savings from the originally announced $169 billion.
Under the proposal, a $20,000-a-year worker would pay $3 more in payroll taxes in 1984. Social Security's 36 million beneficiaries would wait until next January for cost-of-living hikes, with single pensioners losing an estimated $132 and couples $222.
Reagan to propose savers' tax break
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, hoping his State of the Union address will help revamp the public view of his administration, will include a proposed tax break for parents who save for their children's college years, officials said yesterday.
White House officials are looking to the Tuesday State of the Union address, later messages to Congress and the 1984 budget to help Reagan regain the political initiative and supplement his existing economic program.
The new tax break would establish special savings accounts, tentatively being called Independent Education Accounts, that would give parents tax credits for the money they save for their children's future college bills.
Like the new Individual Retirement Accounts, money going into the new accounts would not be taxed until withdrawn to tuition bills
California tax refunds may be IOUs
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California's money problems are so serious that refunds on state income taxes may be paid with IOU's.
California, like several other states, has been in a money crisis since last summer. The recession has sharply reduced tax revenue and the state has a projected $1.4 billion deficit for the fiscal year that ends June 30.
Controller Ken Cory said yesterday that the future may include guaranteed "warrants" instead of refund checks for California
The registered warrants — the legal equivalent of IOUs — would be honored, with 5 percent interest, when the state has the money.
The state could run out of cash on Feb. 22, when half of a $400 million loan comes due.
Watt defends comments on Indians
WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary James Watt called yesterday for the liberation of Indians from domination by federal bureaucrats, saying, "Get Washington off their backs. That's the problem."
Watt, fending off demands for his resignation from Indian leaders, argued, "The American Indian needs help. They have too much unemployment. All these social problems are symptoms of the basic cause."
Appearing on ABC's "Good Morning America." Watt said he was not surprised by the outrage expressed over his recent remarks that widespread alcohol and drug abuse, unemployment, divorce and venereal disease among Indians were examples of "the failure of socialism" in the federal reservation system. A number of Indian leaders called for his resignation Wednesday.
FBI shoots and kills plane hijacker
PORTLAND, Ore. — A man claiming to have a bomb in a shoe box hijacked a jetliner on a flight from Seattle to Portland yesterday and was shot to death by FBI agents while 41 people aboard escaped unhurt, agents said yesterday. No bomb was found.
The hijacking ended when FBI agents climbed into the cockpit on a remote runway of Portland International Airport at 4:30 p.m. PST, three hours after Northwest Flight 608 arrived from Seattle with six crew members and 35 passengers.
CREW members and students helped the hijacker, who wore a flannel suit and combat boots, stood most of the time in the area between the first-class and coach sections as he held the shoe box, a passenger said.
In his negotiations with the FBI, the hijacker had demanded to go to San Diego. Later, he agreed to release half of the passengers if the plane would be refueled for a flight to San Diego.
Former Teamsters financier killed
LINCOLNWOOD, III. — Allen Dorfman, a teamsters Union financier facing the rest of his life in prison for trying to bribe a senator, died yesterday in a hail of bullets in a snow-speckled suburban hotel parking lot.
Dorfman, linked to the crime syndicate for four decades, most likely died on the orders of underworld associates to "shut him up," law enforcement officials said.
Lincolnwood Police Chief Daniel Martin said Dorfman and associate Irwin Weiner drove into the parking lot of the Hyatt Lincolnwood Hotel in a late-model Cadillac.
"Two subjects came up behind them (and announced a robbery) and began shooting immediately." Martin said.
began shooting immediately," said her land. Dorfman, who was shot in the head, slumped dead between the parked
Martin said five .22-caliber shells were found at the scene
Congressman accused of drug use
WASHINGTON — Rep. Charles Wilson, who served on the House Ethics Committee investigating congressional drug use, is himself under investigation for allegedly using marijuana and cocaine, NBC News reported last night.
"But federal authorities here in Washington say witnesses have told federal agents that they saw Congressman Wilson use marijuana and cocaine on a number of occasions in Texas, Nevada and Washington," Ross reported.
News reported and hinted
The network said the Texas Democrat told NBC correspondent Brian Ross that he attended parties in Houston and Las Vegas where cocaine was used, but he denied using cocaine.
Wilson, who lives in Arlington, Va., and his top aides could not immediately be reached for comment.
A federal grand jury has been investigating alleged drug use by members of Congress and their staffs, and has heard testimony that cocaine was actually used in a cloakroom just off the floor of the House of Representatives.
Correction
Because of a reporting error, Dorothy Willner, professor of anthropology, was incorrectly identified as Rose Willner in Wednesday's edition of the Kansan.
U.S. prepares for crash of Soviet satellite
WASHINGTON — The government alerted emergency teams yesterday against the slender possibility that radioactive debris from a Rupert's River mine plunged from orbit Sunday or Monday, hit the United States.
Canada, which suffered just such a strike from a Soviet spy satellite in 1976.
With Cosmos 1402 drifting ever closer on its unpredictable path toward Earth, the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Washington ordered special teams to be ready "for positional access to the scene of any U.S. impacted area."
tection Agency and the Federal Aviation Administration.
A JOINT INFORMATION center was set up to report on any such emergency operations by contingents from federal agencies, including the Energy Department, the Environmental Pro-
U. S. space experts think, however, there is only a 2 percent chance that debris from the two-ton craft would drop on the United States and a 3 percent chance that Canada would suffer a second strike.
The spy satellite is not expected to burn up completely on re-entering the atmosphere, as Soviet officials have predicted.
A Pentagon spokesman said the crash is expected anytime between 1 a.m. Sunday and 2 p.m. Monday. But there is no way to plot the satellite's precise course, or predict just where it will land, unless its return through the atmosphere.
THE SPACECRAFT dropped another five miles in a 24-hour period, the spokemen said, coming within 109.2 miles of Earth at its lowest point and
A sister satellite, Cosmos 954, began breaking up in space Dec 17, 1977, and dribbled radioactive fragments on the Moon's Northwest Territories Jan. 24, 1978.
In Ottawa, Canadian government scientists geared up for an airborne search operation using the same radiation-detecting spectrometer equipment that located the debris in 1978.
114. 6 miles at its highest, as of 5 a.m. yesterday
Officials in some areas of the United States prepared against the tiny chance the debris might hit there. Others were having a little fun with the subject.
"We have a man in a rowbow in the East River," said Peter Barrett, a spokesman for New York City's Department of Environmental Protection. "No, seriously, we haven't made any preparations, nor have we been given
any indications that it's going to land in New York City."
A SPOKESMAN for the San Benardino Sun in California said the newspaper was offering a space debris insurance policy that covered its 83,000 worldwide and was automatically included in the price of a subscription.
The Soviets announced the breakup of Cosmos 1402 Jan. 7, saying the estimated 100 pounds of uranium it used as a power source should burn up in the atmosphere and pose no threat of scattering excessive radiation.
Cosmos 1402 was launched Aug. 20. When it began breaking up in space, the two-ton piece carrying the nuclear reactor failed to respond to radio signals that would have boosted it into a spacecraft. It could have remained for up to 800 years.
Director promises more active ASK this semester
The Associated Students of Kansas will work around criticism and student apathy in its efforts to voice student concerns to the Kansas Legislature, the new ASK campus director said Wednesday.
ASK director Scott Swenson said ASK had been criticized for doing little to help students. But, he said, students must be taught on campus and in Topeka this session.
He said ASK would work to lesspenay they could by showing students they could make a difference by working together and present their views to the Legis. lature.
"I don't think abolishing ASK is the answer," Swenson said.
ASK started planning its strategy and goals for the legislative session during a Wednesday night meeting.
wage and an increase in state assist-ance for graduate students.
About 40 people discussed financial aid programs such as an increase, based on ACT scores and need, in the state scholarship program, student employment and training opportunities, maintenance of the minimum
beer-drinking age to 21. Swenson said.
He said that anytime the Legislature considered tuition increases or issues such as raising the drinking age or reducing university funds, the students needed a voice in Topeka.
One KU student, however, said ASK was ineffective.
David Teoporten, who ran an unsuccessful campaign for student body vice president last fall, said the track was overrated. ASK had been "less than illustrious."
next to nothing in the past," Teporten said.
"We felt like they had accomplished
Mark Tallman, executive director of ASK, disagreed, saying ASK does a good job of representing students. He said the results of the Student Senate elections proved that students wanted to continue KU's association with ASK.
THE CANDIDATES who supported the student lobbying group beat Tempest.
Swenson she wished more students would get involved in ASK and Student Senate committees and pay more attention to the Legislature.
KU wants discrimination suit dismissed
By JOEL THORNTON Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas yesterday requested that the U.S. District Court in Topeka dismiss a discrimination suit filed in December by a KU anthropology professor.
Dorothy Willner, the professor, has named the University and 12 administrators and faculty members, including former Chancellor Archie R. Dykes and former interim chancellor Delbert M. Shankel in the suit, alleging she was a victim of sexual and religious discrimination.
BUT THE University, moving to dismiss the suit, alleged that Willner had made certain procedural errors when she filed the discriminatory suit.
Willerer did not bring forth sufficient facts and did not have legal basis for claims.
She also alleged that she had been the object of retaliation and harassment for trying to eliminate discrimination at KU.
According to Willner's suit, the defendants conspired against her and verbally abused her at anthropology department meetings.
The University's motion says that Willner cannot sue individual defendants for back pay under federal regulations.
The motion also says that the University was not in violation of the Equal Pay Act and so Willner's suit should be dismissed.
motion for damages and back pay, the motion said.
In the suit, Willner is seeking $3 million in damages, back pay and waiver of claims.
The University alleges that the court lacks jurisdiction because Willner's claim of slander is a state court offense; because the individual defendant Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor of research, graduate studies and public service, was not notified in accordance with federal civil procedures; because Wilner did not file the charge within 180 days of the alleged violation as required by federal regulations; and because the University was not served in accordance with federal civil procedures.
WILLNER'S SUIT alleged that since 1968 she had received a lower salary and lower salary increases than her
Wilner declined comment on the matter.
white, male colleagues because she was a woman and Jewish.
OTHER DEFENDANTS named in the suit include Robert P. Cobb, executive vice chancellor; Robert S. Hoffmann, curator of the Museum of Natural History; Robert J. Squier, chairman of the anthropology department; Anta Montet White, curator of the anthropology museum; Felix Moos, John M. Janzen, Michael Crawford, professors of anthropology; and David Frayer and Donald Stull, associate professors of anthropology.
Rose Marino, associate general counsel of the University, is representing KU in the case. She was not available for comment.
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