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Thursdav. October 23, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
News Briefs
Soviets report execution of man convicted of spying for the U.S.
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union announced yesterday that it had executed top aviation design expert Adolf Tolkachyov after逮捕 him of spying for the United States. Tolkachyov was reportedly exposed by CIA defector Edward Howard.
Tass, the official Soviet news agency, said Tolkachyov, a researcher at a scientific institute in Moscow, had been an operative for U.S. intelligence services working from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
Tolkachyov was an expert in aircraft design and specialized in "stealth" technology — the ability to make aircraft virtually invisible to enemy radar screens.
The Wall Street Journal reported shortly after his arrest last year that Tolkachyov had saved the United States billions of dollars by passing Soviet aviation and design secrets to the CIA.
Tass said Tolkachyov was convicted of treason and sentenced to death, but it did not give the date of his trial or execution. It said an appeal for mercy was turned down by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the country's parliament.
Tolkachyov was arrested in June 1985 and formally denounced by the government as a U.S. spy in September 1985.
Howard, who escaped from the FBI in New Mexico, surfaced in Moscow in August after a year on the run, and he was granted political asylum by the Kremlin after almost running U.S. spy operations inside the
Reagan signs tax bill into law
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, ending a two year struggle with special interests and legislative inertia, signed into law yesterday a revolutionary revision of the tax code that will affect most Americans.
Reagan signed the 797-page law before an audience of about 1,500 guests on the South Lawn of the White House and declared it was "less a reform than a revolution" in the country's income tax system.
Reagan said the 33-plus-pound document is "fair and simpler for most Americans," and marks a "return to the first principles" of the nation, which "began in a revolt against repressive taxation."
The measure wipes out many deductions but slashes top tax rates for individuals from 50 percent to 33 percent for the most wealthy, and removes some 6 million of the poorest taxpayers from the rolls. Corporations also will have lower rates, but virtually no chance to avoid paying taxes altogether.
The law, which will begin taking effect Jan. 1 and become noticeable on taxes paid in 1988, will eventually drop individual income tax rates to their lowest level in about a half-century, exchanging the present 15 brackets ranging up to 50 percent with what will effectively be three rates — 15 percent, 28 percent and 33 percent. The corporate rate will drop from 46 percent to 34 percent.
Those rates will be in effect in 1988 for taxes due in 1989. Next year, there will be transitional rates of 11 percent, 15 percent, 28 percent, 35 percent and 38.5 percent for individuals.
Gorbachev says progress made
Kremlin leader Mikhail Gorbachev told the Soviet public last night that the Iceland summit brought the United States and Soviet Union closer to agreement while clearly defining the many obstacles to arms control.
Speaking on national television for the second time since the summit with President Reagan, Gorbachev said the Oct. 11-12 meetings in Reykjavik encouraged the Soviet leadership on the possibility of reducing nuclear arms.
"It was perhaps the first time in many decades that such a big stride was made in the quest for nuclear
However, Gorbachev said the summit also threw in bold relief the difficulties on the way to a nuclear world. "The circles associated with militaria are frightened by the progress made in Reykjavik."
disarmment," he said, according to a Radio Moscow translation of his address.
Gorbachev's speech on the evening news program "Vremya" came hours after the Soviet Union announced it was ordering five more U.S. diplomats out of the country. Five U.S. diplomats were given expulsion orders Sunday.
Professor freed in west Beirut
BEIRUT — A Lebanese Christian professor, suddenly freed by his Muslim captors after five months, returned to the American University yesterday.
The fate of Beirut's latest U.S. kidnap victim was uncertain, police said.
Nabil Matar, a 37-year-old humanities professor at American University of Beirut, was freed by his Muslim kidnappers Tuesday night — hours after the Revolutionary Justice Organization reported the kidnapping of Edward Austin Tracy, a 56-year-old converted Muslim from Vermont.
Matar declined comment on the identity of his abductors and the circumstances of his surprise release. He said his abductors left him under the cover of darkness late Tuesday to walk home in Muslim west Beirut.
S. Africa has non-white envoy
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — South Africa yesterday appointed Frank Quint to become its next envoy to the Netherlands, the first mixed-race "colored" person to be appointed to the rank of ambassador.
The appointment of Quint, now a member of the President's Council, was announced in Pretoria by Foreign Minister Roelof Botha.
"I am very excited about the appointment and always welcome a new challenge." Quint said. "I am pleased that I am the first of my people to be appointed
to this position, but I will ensure that I am not the only one."
Guyot is the second non-white to be appointed ambassador. Bhavnad Ranchor, an Indian diplomat, was given the rank of ambassador and appointed as envoy to the European Economic Community.
Quint is a lay preacher in the Methodist church, a member of the South African broadcasting board and a member of the executive council of the University of the Western Cape.
Uncooperative official arrested
Rep. Phil Bradley, who was indicted by a grand jury late Tuesday, turned himself in at the solicitor's office and was released on a $1,000 personal recognizance bond after a brief court appearance.
COLUMBIA, S.C. A state lawmaker was charged with obstructing justice when he refused to reveal the names of legislators he said he saw using cocaine and other drugs on the House floor was booked on obstruction of justice charges yesterday and released on $1,000 bond.
Bradley was charged because he refused to cooperate with a grand jury investigation that was prompted by his own allegations of cocaine and amphetamine use on the floor of the House.
Bradley has said he would not reveal the names of the lawmakers but instead would try to help them get off of drugs. But Fifth Circuit Solicitor James Anders, who asked for the indictment, said he was "a little appalled" that a legislator would not cooperate with a drug investigation.
Bradley, a Republican from Greenville, testified briefly before the grand jury Tuesday in a closed hearing.
Anders said he wanted Bradley to name the House members so he could prosecute them. But the lawmaker has repeatedly said he would not name them, but would rather help his colleagues stop using drugs.
From Kansan wires.
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