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Friday, March 4, 1977
University Daily Kansan
News Digest
From our wire services
Foreianers help Rhodesia
JOHANNESBURG—About 1,200 foreigners, 400 of them Americans, have joined the Rhodesian army in its war against black nationalist guerrillas.
These men, also from Britain, Australia, Portugal, South Africa and Canada and several other European countries, are mostly persons who were involved in the terrorist attacks.
The Rhodesian government is reluctant to talk about the foreigners in its 8,000 man army and is annoyed by any reference to them as mercenaries. Technically, the men are immigrants who have happened to join the armed forces of Japan with a minority regime to fight in the escalating four-year-old guerilla war.
Ugandan purge continues
NAIROBI-Refugees from Uganda said yesterday that President Idin Aimin was continuing a bloody purge of Christian tribes in his troubled East African country. Kenyan church sources in contact with American missionaries in Uganda, however, said that they had received no reports of Americans being harassed. The sources said the missionaries appeared determined to remain in the country to continue their work.
Other missionaries, they said, are waiting in neighboring Kenya for the right time to go to Uganda.
Independent confirmation of refugee reports is difficult to obtain and there is no accurate estimate of the number of people killed.
Reports from refugees who reached Nairobi said Amin's purge of Acoli and Lang tribesmen and Christians involved widespread killings and arrests.
Reoraanization bill passed
WASHINGTON - The Senate passed legislation yesterday designed to give the authority he requested to reorganize the government's executive agencies.
The 92-0 Senate vote sends the measure to the House.
Under the measure, when Carter subruns reorganization plans to Congress, the plans take effect automatically unless disapproved by either the Senate or the House.
The bill would allow Carter to submit plans that abolish, transfer and consolidate agencies. However, he couldn't create or aball Cabinet-level departments or establish an agency to administer the plan.
Tax plan passes first test
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Carter's economic stimulation program passed one test in the Senate yesterday but faced another challenge that tried to junk his proposal $0 tax rebate.
The Senate agreed to amend the current year's budget to allow $7.5 billion worth of spending.
Republicans made clear that their votes for the amendment didn't commit them to support Carter's tax-cut plan, but showed they understood the need for some economic stimulus.
The House, meanwhile, hepaid for a vote on Carter's modified $1.3 billion plan of tax cuts and spending cuts to the Treasury.
His wife says that doesn't include countess inch-long barbs they have pulled out themselves. And there are still many more to be pulled out.
HOVEN, Denmark (AP)—A 63-year-old man known as the "human hedgehog" may be near the end of a six-year saga of pain during which doctors say they have removed 32,131 barbary thorns from his body.
It began April 20, 1971, when Tjens Kjaer Jensen fell into a heap of thyrm branches from a barberry hedge, common in Europe and the United States, that he had been trimming around his home in this west Judaland village.
Needled Dane assuaging pain
He tried to get up but kept falling back onto the needle-sharp thorn until he fainted.
When last at the hospital 10 weeks ago, the doctors pulled 281 thorns from his arms and legs.
Jensen, living on a disablement pension for previous aliment, finds the affair more painful.
"That brought the count to 31,231 thorns removed since Jensen was first hospitalized here in 1971," said chief surgeon Erik Galatius-Jensen.
This月 later Jensen will make his 24th visit to the county hospital at Tarm for removal of thorns which have continued to emerge from his body in a quantity that has ensured him a niche in Danish medical history.
"Only this morning my husband was again troubled by thorns working their way out through the skin of his legs," his wife Marie said yesterday.
Americans and a permanent tax reduction for 45 million couples and individuals.
"But it is nothing new compare with the wall we have been going through for years," she said.
The first hurdle facing the House was a republican effort to shelve the Carter rebate plan and substitute an $11 billion across-the-board permanent tax cut. That reduction would help all taxpayers, but a share of benefits greater than Democrats prefer would go to families above the $20,000-income level.
Jensen was hospitalized for six months after he fell into the branches. The thorns were lodged in every part of his body except his face, which he had managed to protect.
Report says computer could invade privacy
WASHINGTON (AP)—A massive computer system proposed by the Internal Revenue Service could offer "invisible" opportunities for illegal government intrusions on Americans' privacy, a congressional study says.
The computer system, which the report says could cost $1 billion, would make Americans' income tax returns imminent. It could send thousands of terminals in IRS offices.
The draft report by Congress' Office of Technology Assessment suggests that hearings need to be held to answer questions about the security and privacy implications of the proposed computer, as well as the Tax Administration System (TAS).
The unpublished draft report has been
submitted to House Ways and Means
culled subpoenaed.
Currently, only about 10 per cent of each year's 132 million tax returns are instantly available on IRS computers in a limited manner. The department also demands magnetic maps that take days to obtain.
"TAS will make large quantities of personal information about people available in the time it takes to snap two fingers," the report said.
The IRS will ask for funds to start on the system for the next fiscal year, according to Patrick Ruttle, assistant IRS commissioner for tax administration.
"Although laws may make it illegal to disseminate IRS information for illegal or unconstitutional surveillance purposes, these laws may not be enough."
"It may offer resources for surveillance,
"it through identification and location of
people, that could prove irresistible, or at least highly tempting to future congresses, who have long been skeptical.
Ruttle said that TAS will mean better, faster service for taxpayers and "a more efficient tax system." He added that the tax would be more secure than the current one.
"This is actually going to reduce the danger of disclosure," he said. "This is a second generation system. It will further improve security for employees and institute new system checks."
Under TAS, 10 regional computer centers would contain all the tax returns for the past three to five years for all the taxpayers in each region. All the returns for that region will be displayed on a screen throughout each region on terminals with screens similar to television screens.
More than 48,000 IRS employees would have access to the computer through more than 9,000 terminals scattered across the country.
Cost trend for new homes soars
NEW YORK (AP)—If present trends carry into the 1890s, the average cost of a new home will be $78,000“and only the most affluent buildings would be able to afford them,” says a report issued by a joint MIT-Harvard conference vieday.
Only 27 per cent of American families can afford the 1978 median new-home price of $44,200, according to the report, "The Nation's Housing Needs, 1975 to 1988," done by the MIT-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies.
The increase in the new-home sales price has been nearly 90 per cent between 1970 and 1976, or double the rise in median price of houses from $8,967 to $14,950 in the same period.
Monthly ownership costs, including utility
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