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WASHINGTON - Confusion over Presi
dent Bush’s position on higher taxes slowed
congressional efforts Wednesday to start work
in earnest on a new budget agreement. Bush
showed no inclination to clarify matters, say
ing, “Let Congress clear it up.”
Congressional Democrats complained that
an apparent Bush rejection of higher taxes on
the wealthiest Americans — a reversal of the
position he look at his news conference Tues
day — would make it tougher to forge a
budget compromise.
But there was no shortage of options, as
both Republicans and Democrats began float
ing new versions of tax and spending plans on
Capitol Hill.
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole and other
lawmakers who met with the president Tues
day night said he had not ruled out the tax
boost at that private meeting, as reported by
Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore.
White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater
told reporters that Bush “listened to” the GOP
lawmakers rather than stating a position.
Bush, on a campaign trip in the South, was
asked repeatedly about the matter, but turned
away the questions with wisecracks.
He was asked as he jogged during a break in
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St. Petersburg, Fla., if he would care to clear
up the confusion.
“Confusion?” he responded.
Was he giving up on a capital gains tax rate
cut, the item the Democrats supposedly were
to trade for his support of higher income taxes
on rich people?
“Read my hips,” he said, pointing, as he
jogged by.
Could he clear up his position?
“Let Congress clear it up.”
The Senate Finance Committee indefinitely
postponed a meeting at which it was to discuss
a budget package written by its chairman,
Texas Democrat Lloyd Bcntsen, generally in
line with the tax trade Bush endorsed at his
news conference.
“I had the deal all worked out until the
president changes his position on taxes,” said
Bentscn.
Across the Capitol, the House Ways and
Means Committee considered a plan written by
its chairman, Rep. Dan Roslenkowski, D-Ill.
The package was similar to the measure Bcntsen’s
panel had readied, although it would add re
strictions on tax deductions available to people
earning more than $100,000 annually.
It also would add private planes worth more
than $100,000 to the list of luxury items subject
to a new 10 percent tax, and place a 2-cent-per
gallon tax on petroleum products—excluding
home-heating oil.
Facing an Oct. 19 deadline, congressional
committees must work out tax and spending
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details adding up to a $500 billion reduction in
the federal deficit over the next five years.
Medicare spending is expected to be cut,
though not as much as in the budget package
rejected by the House last week, and taxes are
expected to be increased on such consumer
items as gasoline, tobacco and alcohol.
Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell,
D-Mainc, said, “I had hoped for agreement on
tax proposals along the lines Sen. Bentsen had
indicated a intention to offer and ... the
president had indicated an intention to accept.
The president’s reversal of that position last
evening . . . requires us to reconsider and
attempt to determine how best to proceed.”
The confusion was also exposing rifts among
Republican lawmakers.
A group of conservative House Republicans
put together a deficit-slashing plan of their
own, raising the income tax rate on the wealthi
est Americans from 28 to 31 percent. It would
drop the rate on people who are almost as well
to-do from 33 percent to 31 percent, and not
increase the gasoline tax.
“We’re delighted to have While House input,”
said Rep. Mickey Edwards, R-Okla., the leader
of the group. “We’re not looking to the White
House for leadership.”
At day’s end Tuesday, GOP senators had
visited Bush to tell him they opposed raising
taxes on the wealthy even if Democrats would
agree to capital gains rate cuts.
“He just acquiesced in it,” Packwood told
reporters afterward.
The visit itself was yet another example of
Republican lawmakers’ unrest concerning
proposed budget deals. A majority of GOP
House members went against Bush last week as
that chamber voted down the budget agree
ment worked out by the White House and
congressional leaders of both parties.
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i Study: Young generation amoral
NEW YORK - Watergate was a
word you learned in grade school.
Your teen-age years coincided with
the “me decade.” And come job
hunting time, the “grccd-is-good”
mantra from “Wall Street” echoed
everywhere.
You belong to a generation that is
“less anchored in bedrock ethical values
than any other,” according to a study
by the Joscphson Institute for the
Advancement of Ethics.
“An unprecedented proportion of
today’s youth lack commitment to
core moral values like honesty, per
sonal responsibility, respect for oth
ers and civic duty,” concludes the
report scheduled for release today.
But critics — including educators,
ethicists and some of the 18-10-30
year-olds in question — say the Los
Angeles-based, non-profit institute’s
study is overstated.
“I don’t see rampant amorality,”
said Stephen F. Davis, a psychology
professor at Emporia State Univer
sity of Kansas. His survey on cheat
ing among 6,000 college students
nationwide was one of about a dozen
studies on which Michael Josephson
based his report.
“There arc some messages in our
data but certainly I wouldn’t go so far
as to indict an entire generation based
on it,” Davis said this week.
But Josephson said his conclusions,
which were drawn from published
and unpublished polls, articles and
about 40 original interviews, indi
cated “ameaningful, demonstrable..
. discernible disintegration” in moral
standards.
“It’s a total picture that really tells
the story,” said Josephson, whose non
partisan institute conducts ethics
programs for the Internal Revenue
Service, the Pentagon, several major
media organizations and educators.
The study’s source material in
cluded surveys conducted at the Cali
fornia Department of Education,
Rutgers University, the University of
Delaware and the Higher Education
Research Institute at the University
of California, Los Angeles.
Among the indicators Josephson
cites:
• During the 1980s, the majority
of college freshman surveyed admit
ted to cheating in high school.
• Young Americans are 40 per
cent less likely to identify frequent
newsmakers than those over age 30;
those 24 or under vote less than any
previous generation.
• Professional resume and refer
ence-checking services estimate that
from 10 percent to 25 percent of job
seekers — a large percentage of whom
arc under 30 — falsify their creden
tials.
• A recent published survey found
70 percent of girls under 18 were
sexually active in 1989 compared w ith
54 percent a decade earlier; for boys,
the increase was from 66 percent in
1979 to 72 percent last year.
“It’s an interpretation of many
isolated pieces of information. They ’re
entitled to their interpretation and
maybe they’re right, but I’m not in
agreement,” said Elaine El-Khawas,
vice president for research at the
American Council on Education in
Washington, D.C. “I find much that is
heartening.” 3
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More Americans evacuated
A plane carrying about 400 Americans and other foreign captives in
Kuwait and Iraq arrived today in Baghdad on a planned flight to
freedom in America. Earlier, an Air Force jet crashed in Saudi Arabia,
killing both crewmen.
Most of those aboard the Iraqi Airways Boeing 747 had been held in
occupied Kuwait and signed up for the first U.S.-chartered evacuation
flight from there since Sept. 22. They were taken by bus to Basra, Iraq
The Slate Department in Washington said they then flew on a 50
minute flight to the Iraqi capital.
It was not known when the foreigners would be allowed to leave lor
Britain and onward to North Carolina. Officials in Washington said it
was believed the arrival at the Raleigh-Durham airport would occur
today.
The jet crash Wednesday was the fourth U.S. military air accident
since the United States began deploying forces in the Persian Gull
region following Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2. Two helicopters
also disappeared during a training flight. In all, 24 servicemen have
died and eight arc missing.
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