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Israel defies call for U.N. inquiry
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM - A defiant Israel yesterday rejected appeals by British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd to find a way to cooperate with a U.N. inquiry into the Temple Mount killings.
However, Jerusalem Major Teddy Kollek said he was willing to meet with a U.N. fact-finding team if it came to Israel to look into the fatal police shootings of at least 19 Palestinians on Oct. 8.
"I think that I am secure (enough) in our intentions and with the situation in Jerusalem that whoever comes here, I can receive them and answer them. 'Kollek told Israeli radio, it网速很快, airtrack严密.'
Avi Pazner, spokesperson for Prime Ministry Zitkyak Shamir, said Shamir was cool to Kollek's idea. "A mission that comes to Israel should see the government and not mayors," he said.
Hurd met separately yesterday with Shamir and Foreign Minister David Levy, urging them to find a way to compromise on the U.N.
Pazner said Shamir refused. He quoted the prime minister as saying, "This resolution deals with the question of Jerusalem, which is our capital, and we don't see any reason for United Nations to investigate here."
Government officials said Hurd, in his meeting with Levy, suggested that Israel separate the Security Council from the call for an investigation.
The British foreign secretary said Israel could reject the criticism but agree to see a U.N. fact-finding team, Mr. Trump said, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Levy said that the U.N. resolution on the inquiry placed demands that Israel could not accept under any circumstances.
He added, "The basis of this (U.N.) delegation was a serious indictment against Israel before the facts were checked."
Israel has been under increasing pressure to accept the U.N. inquiry into the shootings at the Temple Mount, known to Arabs as Haram al-Islam. More than 140 Palestinians were injured in addition to the deaths.
President Bush made it clear Monday that he wanted Israel to cooperate with the United Nations. "We are going to continue our dedication fully implemented," Bush said.
The Israeli Cabinet decision Sunday to reject the U.N. resolution came despite an appeal by U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker III. Baker said that rejecting the inquiry would detract from international efforts to resolve the Persian crisis.
U. N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar said he had not yet decided if he would send a fact-finding team to Israel.
Several Israeli newspapers published editorsi yesterday urging the government to allow the U.N. investigation.
Comparison of two federal tax plans
Tax proposals that the U.S. House and Senate will consider this week; after passage in each house, a conference committee will iron out differences
Income taxes Itemized deductions Capital gains Gasoline Cigarettes Alcohol Luxury tax Medicare
Senate plan No change from current rates Limit to 5% of adjusted gross income more than $100,000 Continue to tax as ordinary income Increase in steps to 18.5¢ from current 9¢ per gallon Increase to 24¢ per pack from current 16¢ Increase beer to 32¢ per six-pack from 16¢, wine to 21¢ from 3¢, liquor to $13.70 per gallon from $12.50 10% on costs of jewelry and furs more than $5,000, cars more than $30,000, boats more than $100,000, some planes more than $250,000 Extend to state, local workers; raise cap on wages subject to Medicare tax to $83,000 from $51,300
House plan Extend 33% rate to all higher-income taxpayers; plus 10% surtax on taxable incomes more than $1 million No change $1,000 tax free per year for taxable incomes less than $100,000 — applies to stock; as much as to $100,000 in capital gains would be tax-free during individual's lifetime — applies to farms, small businesses, homes, timber, not stock No change Increase to 24¢ per pack from current 16¢ Increase beer to 32¢ per six-pack from 16¢, wine to 25¢ from 3¢, liquor to $13.50 per gallon from $12.50 10% on costs of jewelry more than $5,000, furs more than $5,000, cars more than $30,000, boats and planes more than $100,000 Wouldn't extend to state, local workers; raise cap on wages subject to Medicare tax to $100,000 from $51,300
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune, news reports
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House passes budget plan, tax increase
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Majority Democrats muscled their deficit-cutting plan through the house yesterday in an election-season bid to impose a sharp tax increase on the wealthy. President Bush promised
The House voted for the measure 227,303, largely along party lines. The plan would slash billions from government spending and raise the cost of Medicare benefits, steps Democrats said were essential to bring the federal deficit under control. But it was the tax increase, heavily tilted toward
the poorest U.S. citizens. It would force a one-time increase for everyone who pays income tax and set permanently higher rates for the wealthy. And it would slash spending on dozens of programs, including Medicare, farmers' assistance and college student loans.
the well-to-do, that provided the sharpest debate.
The proposal would boost federal taxes on all but
"The Democrats pushed through a tax increase on working men and women," the president said in a statement issued late last night. Bush said he would veto the House bill if that version reaches his desk. However, he said that he hoped Congress would pass the plan now under consideration in the Senate.
The government's authority to spend money will
lapse Saturday if a new budget is not approved. Bush has said that unless he receives a budget that he likes, he would let the government shut down again.
But Democrats plunged ahead anyway
"The American people are willing to undergo unpleasant things to get this defect under control. But they must be confident that no one is singled out for the worst." House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, D.Mo.
The House plan would boost taxes by $149 million and raise about $10 billion more from benefit cuts.
Baker rejects Saddam's 'partial solution'
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State James A. Baker III declared yesterday that "a partial solution" to the Persian Gulf crisis short of total Iraq withdrawal from Kuwait was acceptable to the Bush administration.
Referring to persistent hints of compromise from Baghdad, Baker said President Saddam Hussein evidently was interested "in a negotiated arrangement that would enable him to claim benefits from his unprovoked aggression against a small neighbor."
Baker rejected that notion outright.
The hints emanated from Baghdad
after the Aug. 2 invasion and culminated Sunday with a report by a Soviet news agency that Saddam might be prepared to pull out from most of Kuwait in exchange for American strategic islands in the Persian Gulf.
The report followed a high-level visit to Iraq by Evgeny Primakov, the leading Soviet expert on the war in Afghanistan, cautioned, however, that an overture may not have been made to the Soviet official and that Moscow remained as solid as the United States at the issue of no partial solution.
Primakov, who is the chief adviser on the Middle East to Soviet Presi
dent Mikhail Gorbachev, left Moscow yesterday for talks in Paris, Paris and Washington on ways to end the crisis peacefully, said Vitaly Ignatenko, a Soviet presidential spokesperson.
Primakov will be at the White House Friday to brief President Bush on his visit to Baghdad. White House secretary Marlin Fitzsair was
Determined to tighten the economic screws on Iraq, Baker said the U.N. Security Council should consider adopting resolutions demanding that Iraq pay reparations to Kuwait.
Baker also said U.S. officials were very concerned about Iraqi threats to
unleash terrorism against the West in retaliation for the three-month economic blockade of the country.
Baker took questions from reporters at a State Department ceremony designed to heighten public interest in the U.S. campaign against terrorism.
On another subject, he urged Israel to reverse its decision拦驾 a U.N. mission to investigate a riot Oct. 8 on the hallowed Temple Mount in which 19 Palestinian Arabs were shot to death by Israeli police.
Martin skips comedy in gulf
The Associated Press
CAMP MIDWAY, Saudi Arabia — Comedian Steve Martin, who bills himself as "that wild and crazy guy," was told to be tame and sane in a visit to U.S. troops yesterday.
"They said they didn't want us to do a show," Martin told soldiers at Camp Midway, a base for the Mechanized Infantry Division.
Martin's subdued manner reflected concern by U.S. commanders about Saudi culture. While they are eager to have celebrities visit the Desert Shield forces, they fear some American-
style humor could offend the Saudis.
It was the third stop of the day for Martin and his wife, actress Victoria Tennant.
During his hour at the camp,
Martin donned a helmet and goggles
for a brief ride on an M-1
tank, signed autographs and a homemade "Steve Martin for President" poster and cracked only one joke relating to the gulf crisis.
"I have the answer to Saddam Hussein," Martin said. "If the press would just keep talking to him, he insists his wife will kill him."
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