Wednesday, April 15, 1987
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Daily Nebraskan
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MOSCOW Mikhail Gorbachev of
fered Tuesday to eliminate Soviet short
range nuclear weapons In Europe, which
the official news agency Tass said went
beyond arms control proposals he made
last week.
It quoted the Soviet leader as saying
to Secretary of State George Shultz
during a 4 12-hour meeting: "What are
you afraid of? We are for a reliable
agreement with the most stringent and
all-embracing control."
Gorbachev said during a visit to Cze
choslovakia last week that the Soviets
would be willing to discuss reductions
in tactical, or short-range, nuclear wea
pons apart from negotiations on elimi
nating medium-range missiles from
Europe. Wshington says the Soviet
not clear immediately. The two sides
have been working toward an agrees
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advantage in tactical missiles is 130-0.
The effect of the latest proposal was
ment on weapons with a range of 600
3,000 miles, but Gorbachev's offer app
lies to those with a range of 350-600
miles.
NATO allies in Europe have expressed
concern about vulnerability to Soviet
superiority in tactical weapons and
convention forces if medium-range mis
siles are withdrawn.
Charges of espionage by both sides
have surrounded the Shultz visit, but
nuclear arms dominate his agenda U.S.
and Soviet arms experts have held
separate meetings in an attempt to
narrow differences.
A dispute over the 130 short-range
Soviet weapons has delayed an agree
ment on medium-range missiles.
State Department spokesman Char
les E. Redman called the Shultz Gor
bachev meeting 'Very intensive, serious,
businesslike."
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of? We arc for a rel
iable agreement
with the most
stringent and all
embracing control.'
Gorbachev
Before it began, Shultz handed Gor
bachev a new invitation from President
Reagan for a summit in Washington,
but the Soviet leader said: "Generally,
without reason, I do not go anywhere,
particularly America."
"This cannot be just a stroll," he
said. "When I will be nearing retire
ment, then I may travel just for plea
sure, but now I need business."
Gorbachev, 56, has steadfastly res
isted Reagan's invitation, even though
the two leaders decided at their 1985
meeting in Geneva to hold summits in
both Washington and Moscow.
"You're welcome to come," Shultz
said. "I have a letter from the president
and it says so."
Reagan and Gorbachev held an "in
terim" meeting last October in Iceland
and reached tentative understandings
to reduce nuclear weapons.
Workers pay
1st four months'
wages in taxes
WASHINGTON Just when you
had finished your 1986 return and
thought it was safe to forget about
taxes for awhile, the Tax Founda
tion predicted Tuesday that the typ
ical American will have to work
another 19 days to pay up for 1987.
Tax Freedom Day 1987 is May 4
two days later than last year.
Economists at the non-partisan
research organization calculate that
if every cent a worker earned during
the first part of the year were ear
marked for federal, state and local
taxes, he or she would have to toil
for the tax collectors through May 3.
Viewed another way, an average
person will have to work two hours
and 43 minutes of each eight-hour
day to pay taxes.
"This year, the American tax
payer has returned to the same
point he was at prior to passage" of
the 1981 federal tax cut, the foun
dation said. Those across-the-board
reductions were wiped out by sub
sequent federal tax increases and a
growing tax burden at the state and
local levels, the analysis said.
The news came a day before the
deadline for filing federal tax returns
a chore that perhaps 10 million
Americans were putting off until
the last hour. Returns must be
postmarked by midnight Wednesday.
As the deadline approached, fi
nancial institutions were doing a
booming business in Individual Re
tirement Accounts, which after
these returns will no longer be
universally deductible.
Professional returns preparers had
all the business they could handle
and Internal Revenue offices were
swamped with last-minute pleas for
advice.
The IRS expects 6.5 million cou
ples and individuals to avoid the
filing deadline by mailing a Form
4868, which will bring a fourth
month extension. But that form
must be accompanied by a check for
any estimated tax due.
Judge warns residents against
vigilante action to parolee
MARTINEZ, Calif. A plan to parole
a convict who hacked the arms off a
15-year old rape victim has caused so
much anger in Antioch that state pri
son officials are considering changing
the parole location, a state deputy
attorney general said Tuesday.
A judge continued until Friday a
hearing held on a suit to stop the cor
rections department from sending Law
rence Singleton to Antioch. Police on
Monday had warned angry Antioch res
idents not to take vigilante action if
Singleton was paroled there as planned
April 26.
Morris Lenk, a state deputy attorney
general, said in court that the Depart
ment of Corrections is taking resi
dents' anger into consideration and
might change the parole location. Offi
cials have said there is a possibility
Singleton could be paroled to a state in
the South where he has relatives.
The 59-year-old former merchant sea
man picked up Mary Vincent hitchhik
ing in September 1978 and raped her,
cut off both her arms below the elbow
with an ax and left her to die on a road
near Modesto. He has been in prison
since 1979.
Antioch residents complained and
started petition dirves as soon as the
plan was disclosed, and Police Chief
Len Herendeen said that some resi
dents have been circulating Single
ton's photograph.
"One thing's for sure: If he's not a
danger to us, we're a danger to him,"
said eigth-grader Amy Rickerson, who
attended a Monday night meeting of
the Antioch Police Commission.
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KOKOMO, Ind. A man on trial for
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refused to comment further, and other
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sives might be inside. Authorities also
feared that the building had received
severe structural damage that could
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Andrews said confirmation of a fatal
ity would come only after the county
coroner was allowed into the blast site,
but by late afternoon the coroner still
was not allowed into the building.
Andrews said Gray had the briefcase
with him when he went into Sheriff
John Beatty's office with his attorney
shortly before his trial was to resume
about 2 p.m.
The prosecutor said authorities had
expressed "some concern about that
briefcase," which was near Beatty when
the explosion occurred.
The other known injured were iden
tified as Jack Adams, a Kokomo police
officer: Indiana State Police Trooper
Doug Schultz; Charles Scruggs, Gray's
attorney, and Beatty."
Katherine Walsh-Miller, a spokes
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stable condition, and would undergo
surgery "to clean the wounds."
She said Beatty was bumed over 25
percent of his body, suffered numerous
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Gray was on trial on two counts of
dealing in controlled substances. He
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DENVER A civil rights complaint
alleges that a club linked to the Ameri
can Water Works Association promoted
racism and job discrimination practi
ces at the public utility association's
headquarters.
Cynthia Maslanik, a Japanese-American
who was employed by AWWA for
three years, described the club and its
alleged effects on AWWA policies in a
job discrimination complaint she filed
with the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor
tunity Commission, The Denver Post
reported Tuesday.
The club, whose members primarily
were traveling salespeople in the water
industry, was known as the Road Niggers
Association or the Road Negotiators
Association, referring to the hard work
and time they spent on the road, former
RNA members told the Post.
It was managed through the market
ing department of the AWWA, where a
racist atmosphere prevailed, said Mas
lanik and Janet Beardsley, another
former AWWA employee.
In the complaint filed in July, Mas
linik alleged that she was denied pay
raises and passed over for promotion by
her boss, Mark Abusamra, who allegedly
called her a "Jap" and a "harbor
bomber."
Abusamra told the Post that he was
not allowed to talk to reporters.
Maslinik said she resigned in June
because "I couldn't take working there
anymore."
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Bcarjans' pay 0123,517 in taxes
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. President Reagan and his wife Nancy paid
$123,517 in taxes on an adjusted gross income of $336,640 in 198",
according to a copy of the pair's tax return.
The Reagans' tax form, which they signed on Monday and which the
White House press office made available to reporters Tuesday, shows the
Reagans got a tax refund of about $31,000.
They set aside $15,000 of the refund to apply to 1987, the forms
showed.
The Reagans donated approximately $30,000 to charity, including
$11,800 to Reagan's alma mater, Eureka College in Illinois.
Webster: won't change 'hoosier' definition
INDIANAPOLIS Merriam-Webster Inc. says it's not about to
change its definition of the word "hoosier" just because an Indiana
senator dislikes its connotations.
Quayle introduced a non-binding resolution on the Senate floor which
reads: "Whereas, Indiana University's basketball team displayed the
real meaning of the word "Hoosier"; therefore, be it resolved that a
Hoosier is someone who is quick, smart, resourceful, skillful, a winner,
unique and brilliant."
Omaha mayor has chest tumor
OMAHA Mayor Bernie Simon has a tumor in the middle of his chest,
and tests will determine Wednesday whether it is cancerous, a doctor
said Tuesday.
Dr. Leo O'Brien said radiation treatment is under way for Simon, who
was admitted Monday to Methodist Hospital with what was first
described as a pneumonia-like illness.