NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, October 4, 1984
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City filing suit against evangelist
By United Press International
A lawyer for Swaggart's multimillion dollar World Ministries center in south Baton Rouge denied the taxes were due, saying the U.S. Constitution exempts Bibles and other religious items from taxation
BATON ROUGE, La. — The city has filed suit against television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart seeking on the sale of Bibles, religious books
Documents filed Tuesday in state district court by East Baton Rouge Parish and the city said Swaggart's World Ministries failed to pay $164,743 in 1980, $157,852 in 1981, $159,420 in 1982 and $159,389 in 1983. The suit seeks payment of the principle, interest and penalties.
"I have not seen the lawsuit, but we disagree with them," said New Orleans attorney William Treeby. "He presents Swaggart's organization."
He said the ministries already paid $380,827 in taxes during the years being disputed.
"The city is attempting to impose sales taxes on transactions exempted by the U.S. Constitution." Treeby said.
He compared the exemption to a Louisiana law later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court that attempted to tax newspapers based on circulation.
Report says voting rules unfair
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Despite passage of the 1982 Voting Rights amendments, voter registration procedures continue to be discriminatory in many parts of the country, a congressional study said yesterday.
The report, produced by the House Judiciary subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, said the artificial and arbitrary registration barriers included limiting registration to a single county, barrassing minority citizens, registering to register vote, prohibiting registration drives in welfare and cheese lines and requiring registration-by-mail forms to be notarized, which critics say
THE REPORT NOTED that while electoral participation among all Americans is low, participation by registered voters is extremely high. For example, in 1980, over 85 percent of registered voters voted in the presidential election.
amounts to a poll tax.
However, the report said that a noticeable disparity still remains between white and minority voter registration in mainly southern states covered by the Voting Rights Act. A significant number of voters registered and the difficulty in registration as the reason they did not vote.
"No American should have to jump through hoops in order to register to vote." chairman Don Edwards, D-Calif., said in a written statement accompanying
his panel's report. "In order to fulfill the mandate of the Voting Rights Act we must make registration patient and accessible for all Americans."
EDWARDS ADDED. "If the states won't provide adequate registration opportunity for all Americans, then Congress must consider its roll in the registration process."
The report suggested expanding mail and election day registration, stepping up voter registration outreach programs and using public and private agencies to reach the unregistered.
Three Republican members of the subcommittee, Reps. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, George Gekas of Pennsylvania and Michael DeWine of Ohio, took exception to some of the report.
Governor uses MTV to snag votes
By United Press international
INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana's Robb Ortr. Orr, the nation's oldest governor, will woo the youth vote with the nation's first political music video.
"It is risky," John Hammond, Orr's executive assistant, said yesterday of the variation on the two-minute political spot. "But it is more than a stunt. It is a way to reach young voters."
album "Stay with Me." was scheduled at The Vogue nightclub in Indianapolis for 8 last night.
A premiere showing of the video, featuring rock singer Henry Lee Summer and the title track of his new
Hammond said the idea came to him and his wife Donna one night as they were watching Friday Night Videos.
He said the 66-year-old Orr, like President Reagan, had a strong approval rating among voters in the past and could be prompted to prompt them to go to the polls.
The youngest potential voters have a participation rate of less than 40 percent, compared with a 63 percent voting rate for people over 25.
Hammond said.
Many neglect to vote. "because we haven't talked to them," Hammond said. "Now we have the ability to actually get our message to that age group."
Hammond said the Orr campaign spent $10,000 on the video and will spend about $15,000 to run it in Indiana's large viewing areas on the music television network, MTV, and to promote the late night movies on other channels.
Orr is running for a second term against Democratic challenger Wayne Townsend.
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Today is the 27th Anniversary of Sputnik, and 802nd of St. Francis of Assisi.
Sputnik marks a significant human step.
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I load make instruments of your pose.
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O'Neill says television is helpful for Reagan
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
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it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
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where there is darkness, light;
where there is darkness, ligh where there is sadness, joy
Grant that we may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
Lord, make us instruments of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let us sow love.
where there is discord,union
By United Press International
Where there is hatred, let us sow love
The 163 page study, commissioned by G'Neill, the House of Representatives and the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, said "access to network television has provided valuable to Mr. Reagan in winning public support for administration policy," including aid to Central America and the U.S. invasion of Grenada.
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"The timing and theme of presidential forums receiving live television network coverage in certain instances appear to have had an important impact on measures being considered by Congress," the study said.
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where there is injury, pardon;
where there is discord, union;
O'Neill said the report decisively showed that "when a Ronald Reagan gets superior access to television, he can rely on personality alone. Only when people hear a
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By United Press International
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, citing a congressional study, said yesterday that President Reagan's "superior access" to television was responsible in part for his success in achieving his legislative agenda.
But, it also noted, "The public's support for Presidents Ford and Carter rose following presidential international events"
"On 36 different occasions, President Reagan has lobbed his positions on evening television." O'Neill said in a statement accompanying a new Library of Congress study on the subject. "On just five occasions has he been able to respond directly to the president on the same networks."
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Pentagon directs Air Force to complete missile study
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