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Tuesday, September 30. 1986 / University Daily Kansan
Tax break rules delay bill
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WASHINGTON — A late squabble over special tax breaks is one of the things keeping the sweeping tax reform bill from reaching President Reagan for his signature, congressional aides said yesterday.
Even in the best of circumstances, it would normally take several days for a bill the size of the tax measure, which is more than 900 pages, to be printed and delivered to the White House, the aides said.
However, there also is a relatively minor problem with the special tax breaks, generally known as "transition rules" that deal with such things as stadiums, schools and life insurance companies, they said.
The bill, passed last week by the House and Senate, contains hundreds of tax breaks worth about $10.6 billion over the next five years.
But, shortly after the House passed the measure Thursday, it also approved another piece of legislation designed to correct a number of technical errors and printing problems in the bill.
Without that additional legislation, the tax reform bill would have to be sent to Reagan with the technical and printing faults.
However, in addition to fixing those problems, the additional House legislation also added a handful of special tax breaks to the bill, aides said.
The Senate gave final congressional approval to the massive tax reform bill Saturday. Senate spon
sors, however, did not push the additional legislation passed by the House.
Aides said some senators believed that if the House could add new tax breaks, they should also get a chance to do the same.
If no solution to the problem can be found, aides said the main legislation, including the technical faults, would be printed and sent to Reagan.
As a result, the Senate did not pass any additional legislation, and aides are now trying to work out a solution acceptable to both sides.
One top Senate aide said because Congress was trying to adjourn for the year soon, there was a "less than 50-50 chance" any additional legislation would be approved.
15 Johns Hopkins' protesters jailed
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BALTIMORE — Fifteen students who defied a court order and erected a protest shanty on the Johns Hopkins University campus were arrested yesterday. School officials used a dump truck to destroy the ploywood structure.
About 100 members of the Coalition Against Apartheid helped erect the shanty moments after the Board of Trustees' investment committee refused to divest the school of its holdings in companies doing business in South Africa.
Campus police marched in two straight lines and penetrated the circle of protesters around the shanty and arrested 15 students who refused to disperse, charging them with disorderly conduct and trespassing. Minutes later a campus dump truck drove over the shanty and dragged it away.
The 15 students under arrest were held at the city jail.
Several students had met earlier with the trustees' committee, which supervises handling of some $70 million in investments.
"They keep telling us 'We're thinking about it,' " coalition spokesman Patrick Bond said. "We're sick of it."
After the meeting, the students erected the shanty, which was meant
to protest apartheid and symbolize the poor conditions under which many South African blacks are forced to live.
The university destroyed a shantytown erected by Hopkins' students last spring after one of the makeshift shelters was firebombed.
The students were convicted of arson and sentenced to probation earlier this month.
After the firebombing, the university won a temporary injunction banning the reconstruction of the wood and plastic shanties. The university successfully argued the shanties were unsafe and posed questions about legal liability.
Senate fights clock for spending
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WASHINGTON — The Senate began a record spending bill yesterday that is needed by midnight tonight to keep the government running, but immediately got bogged down in amendments and leaders predicted they would miss the deadline.
Congressional leaders said a stop-gap measure probably would be necessary to tide the government over for a few days while disagreements between the House, Senate and White House were resolved on the massive spending bill.
The second amendment, an attempt to grant an antitrust exemption for beer distributors, ran into the threat of a filibuster.
The record $556 billion Senate bill, containing spending for nearly every aspect of government, largely mirrors a $562 billion bill passed last week by the House. But there are big differences in military spending, foreign aid and arms control provisions.
Reagan threatened to veto the bill and shut down the government if military spending was not increased and
House-passed restrictions on his Star Wars space defense program and nuclear weapons testing were not removed. The House allocated $283 billion for the Pentagon, compared with the Senate's $292 billion.
In the Senate, numerous attempts at amendments awaited action, since lawmakers saw the bill as one of the last items left before adjournment of the 99th Congress. Adjournment was scheduled for Friday, but was expected to be delayed about a week.
"This is the single largest appropriations bill this body has ever considered," said Sen. Mark Hatfield, R Ore., chairman of the Appropriations Committee. "I have bad complaints that this is no way to do the nation's business. I could not agree more."
Hattief also said he would oppose attempts to add extraneous items to the spending bill because of the time they would take. He said he hoped to pass the spending bill by midnight tonight, resolve differences with the House and get Reagan's signature to avoid the silliness of shutting down the government because of a lack of funds.
shutting down the governor's office. "We are trying to keep a lot of stuff off (the spending bill)," said Senate Republican leader Bob Dole. "We might be here all night Tuesday."
But asked if getting a bill through the Senate, com-promising it with the House and getting Reagan's signature by midnight tonight were possible, Dole said, "We might have to have a short (spending bill) in there while we're in conference (with the House)."
Sudanese rebels threaten attack
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KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudanese rebels yesterday threatened to shoot down any aircraft flying to southern Sudan without their authorization as United Nations organizers prepared to airlift food to famine victims in the region.
A spokesman for the Sudanese People's Liberation Army repeated an earlier warning that anyone flying over the war-torn, hunger-plagued South would be doing so at their own risk.
Organizers of a planned airlift to southern Sudan said they would fly emergency food to the government controlled towns of Juba and Malakal in southern Sudan tomorrow. International relief agencies have estimated that 2 million people face
starvation in the South
The Khartoum government agreed to the U.N.-organized airlift, but it was not clear until yesterday afternoon whether the rebel forces had given a private green light for planes to fly to Malakal and Juba.
Speaking on the rebels' clandestine radio station monitored in Khartoum, the rebel spokesman said "commanders and air defense units in Wau, Malakal, Juba and all other areas are reminded that the initial order to shoot down any unauthorized aircraft still stands."
The proposed airlift to southern Sudan already ran into a political storm earlier as the government accused the U.N. organizers of applying lamentable pressure to get permission to fly food into sensitive areas.
Sudanese officials claimed the U.N. local coordinator, Stefan de Mistura, had traveled to neighboring Ethiopia to ask rebels for guarantees the airlifts would not be attacked.
The rebels agreed to allow food to be flown to the government-held town of Wau on condition supplies also be delivered to rebel-controlled Yirol.
But the government, under reported pressure from the Sudanese army, rejected the deal and insisted the airlift be redirected to Malakal and Juba.
The three-year war between Christian-led rebels of the African south and government troops from the Muslim, Arab-speaking north has wrecked agriculture and food distribution in the south of the country.
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Almanac predicts a fickle winter
The yellow and black paperback's 1956 annual forecast by the apocryphal "Abe Weatherwise" predicts a cold and snowy November followed by mild spells and a wintry windup that leaves the Easter Bunny "eggs- streamed冷 n' wet."
DUBLIN, N.H. — The Old Farmer's Almanac, the pocket forecaster that mixes weather with wit, predicted yesterday a fickle winter, calling it "icy then nicey, outlook dicey."
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The Almanac puts its forecast into a 232-page edition full of rustic and arcane wisdom, ranging from planting
tables to toothache remedies.
In keeping with tradition, editor Jud Hale stands by the Almanac's weather forecast 80 percent accuracy rating. The forecast is based on the premise that the universe runs in cycles.
Less than normal snowfall is forecast for the Northeast and across the northern half of the country to the Rockies, except in the mountains.
Residents along the Atlantic seaboard, in lower Florida, central Texas, the desert Southwest and the Great Basin should bundle up for a cold winter while the rest of the country should enjoy above average temperatures.
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