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University Daily Kansan, January 14, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International Cold damages Florida crops snowstorms assault South
The arctic blast that swept down the Florida peninsula damaged 84 percent of the sunshine state's citrus and vegetable crops.
The Florida Citrus Commission yesterday imposed a 10-day embargo on all fresh fruit shipments in and out of Florida to prevent冻害-damaged
The hardest freeze in five years damaged $1.29 billion citrus crops. The freeze promised a near-immediate increase in supermarket prices and a Florida crop reporting service's survey said 30 percent of the crop was frozen solid.
The storms that churned across the South teamed up with the coldest weather of the 20th century. The cold began its assault on the Midwest last
More severe weather assaulted the south yesterday as it struggled to free itself from the frozen shackles of a rare snow and ice storm that buried cities and towns from Texas to the Carolinas. Thousands shivered without electricity and the death toll nationwide climbed to 170.
WASHINGTON—The Internal Revenue Service issued new rules
that require all federal employees to avoid paying federal income
taxes their salaries, government officials said.
The rules, ordered by the congressmen themselves, are retroactive to 1981, meaning senators and representatives can take big deductions in their
Members of Congress also can deduct much of their travel outside of Washington. Together with standard deductions available to everyone, the new rules virtually eliminate income taxes on congressional salaries, government officials said.
The new rules were sent to each member of Congress by Donald Regan, secretary of treasury, as orders in its amendment to IRS on Wednesday. The Black Lung Project
A key provision of the IRS formula is that expenses can be deducted during congressional days? whether or not the legislator is actually in Congress.
Although reluctant to raise their salaries during a period of budgetcutting, the legislators decided to do the next best thing, lower their taxes. Members of the House and Senate have kept their salary at $60, $67.50 a year since October 1979.
Ford postpones UAW negotiations
Ford Motor Co. recessed negotiations yesterday with the United Auto Workers union until today, saying it needs time to study an unprecedented proposal that would lower car prices through union concessions.
But Peter Pestelli, Ford's chief labor negotiator, denied reports Ford was angered when it learned that the proposal approved Tuesday by General Motors Corp. had been discussed by GM and the UAW since last November. Ford didn't get the union's proposal until late Tuesday.
The proposal, to which GM agreed, slashes prices by the same amount saved on UAW benefit concessions and is touted as a revolutionary survival tool.
Roger Smith, GM chairman, praised the union for what he called a "new and novel" proposal.
Solidarity rebuffs military leaders
WARSAW, Poland—Poland's military rulers met with Solidarity members yesterday, but the union's underground leadership called on Poles to turn off their lights for 15 minutes in a silent protest, marking the first month of martial law.
In a stunning embarrassment to the government, a senior Solidarity official brought before foreign correspondents to express approval of the martial law regime, suddenly retracted earlier-statements of support, saying he had been coerced into making them.
In another development of the Polish crisis, French President Francois Mitterrand and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt held a special meeting yesterday to try to patch up Franco-German relations strained by differing responses to the crisis.
Reagan's offer fails to quell critics
WASHINGTON—President Reagan's offer to push legislation denying tax exemptions to schools that discriminate failed "yesterday to quell the temples of fear" is likely to have been met with skepticism.
"I don't even think it's a half-hearted move," said Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the NAACP. "It's silly to me. It’s Owellian double
Reagan announced Tuesday he will back legislation to ban tax-exempt status for private schools that bar black-only four days after ending an abolition of segregation.
His decision Friday to lift the IRS authority to enforce the tax exemption rule, instituted under the Nixon administration, triggered an angry gutter
But Regan's shift in position, prompted by what aides called public misunderstanding of his stand, did little to prove that those who had already met him were truly willing to takeover.
Promoter embezzles $21.3 million
LOS ANGELES-Boxing promoter Harold Rossfelds Smith was convicted yesterday of stealing $21.3 million from the Wells Fargo Bank—the largest bank embezzlement in U.S. history—and using the money to make himself the most powerful boxing promoter int he world.
A federal court jury found Smith guilty in 29 of 30 counts and his partner, the carolina was found guilty in three of four counts in a federal grand jury indictment.
The two defendants were charged with conspiring with L. Ben Lewis, former bank officer, to siphon off millions. Prosecutors said the money was spent on giant fight pursuits in an attempt to make Smith the most powerful force in boxing.
FDR recorded oval office talks
New York-President Franklin D. Roosevelt secretly recorded conversations in the oval office in which he discussed the possibility of spreading a rumor that his Republican opponent was having an extramarital affair, American Heritage magazine said yesterday.
The magazine released excerpts of the conversations, in which he talked about the possibility of spreading a rumor that Wendell Willkie, the GOP presidential candidate in 1940, was having an affair.
The magazine said that Roosevelt used a recording device for 11 weeks in the fall of 1940 to record conversations.
Rosevelt also accused Wilkie of using the "tactics of Hitler" by repeatedly promising to create jobs for unemployed Americans and characterized a Japanese official as a "damn Jap."
U.N., Israeli debate angers Svria
BEIRUT, Lebanon-Angered by "stagnation" in the United Nation Security Council debate on Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights, Syria is seeking to buy sophisticated new weapons from the Soviet Union, a pro-Soviet newspaper reported yesterday.
In Israel, Foreign Minister Vilshak Sharnir said yesterday on the eve of Secretary of State Alexander Hagh's visit that Israel would make no more attempts to reach a deal.
Shamir told the Kneset he opposed allowing Arabs in annexed East Jerusalem to voke in elections for the administrative council that would run the city.
Haig arrives from Egypt today for talks on the stalled Palestinian autonomy negotiations.
WSU adopts new procedures
WITCHTA-Wichita State University, the most penalized school in NCAA history, will immediately begin adopting new procedures to prevent future rule violations, an official said yesterday.
Whitcha State will form a "watchdog" committee, Clark Alharkh, university president, said, to help prevent violations. The National Collegiate Athletic Association is receiving the school's basketball team receiving a three-year probation this week.
"We're getting shaped up," Alhberg said. In addition, Alhberg said, he will expect improved record-rekeeping from his coaches and prospective athletes given a handbook that explains NCAA rules" so they know what's proper."
Ahlberg said that a booster's ignorance of the rules contributed to one of the six violations. The record rule infractions, including cash gifts to players by two assistant coaches, cost the school participation in post-season spring this year as well as a scholarship for each of the next two semesters.
Ahlberg said Ted Bredebeoff, athletic director, and Coach Gene Smithson also would inform booster club members of what cannot be done for the athletes.
Ahberg said Wichita State had to be especially careful because the school, after being penalized a record six times, would be watched closely by the
"This serial counting of penalties will continue to hurt us," he said.
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