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Edited by Jennifer Mlratsky News D gest Thursday, April 6, 1995 Page 2 - _ ~ . ■■■■'- "■ ■■ Nebraskan Editor Jeff Zeleny Night News Editors Ronda Vlasin 472-1766 Jamie Karl Managing Editor Jeff Robb Damon Lee Assoc. News Editors DeOra Janssen Pat Hambrecht . n „ Douq Kouma Art Director Kai Wilken Opinion Page Editor Matt Woody General Manager DanShattil Wire Editor Jennifer Miratsky Production Manager Katherine Policky Copy Desk Editor Kristin Armstrong Advertising Manager Amy Strothers Sports Editor Tim Pearson Asst. Advertising Manager Sheri Kraiewski Arts & Entertainment , Publications Boara Chairman Tim Hedegaard Editor Rainbow Rowell 436-9258 FAX NUMBER 472-1761 The Daily NebraskanfUSPS 144-080) is published by the UNL Publications Board, Ne braska Union 34, 1400 R St., Lincoln, NE 68588-0448, Monday through Friday during the academic year; weekly during summer sessions. Readers are encouraged to submit story ideas and comments to the Daily Nebraskan by phoning 472-1763 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The public also has access to the Publications Board. For information, contact Tim Hedegaard, 436-9258 Subscription price is $50 for one year. Postmaster: Send address changes to the Daily Nebraskan, Nebraska Union 34,1400 R St.,Lincoln, NE 68588-0448. Second-class postage paid at Lincoln, NE. ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1995 DAILY NEBRASKAN SENIORS!!! ENHANCE YOUR INTERVIEWING SKILLS AND CAREER OUTLOOK with the new professionally oriented vocabulary book CEO's, Governors and Members of Congress call: -"an invaluable tool" -"provocative and innovative" -"remarkable" Read WORD POWER: Vocabulary for Success by Charles Ickowicz. 170 Pages $7.95 (+$2.50 post/handling) call 1 -800-356-9315. 15 Day Money Back Guarantee I Ready to let your hair down? 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Moments before the final vote, House Speaker Newt Gingrich sealed the case for passage, saying every lawmaker should ask: “In your con stituents’ lives, won’t a little less money for government and a little more money for those families be a good thing, and isn’t that what this Congress was elected to do?” President Clinton, who favors a smal ler tax reduction, argued the other side for the Democrats, saying the GOP’s five-year, $189 billion mea sure marked a return to “trickle-down economics.” Republicans, he said, want to cut Head Start and education “to pay for a tax cut for the wealthiest Americans. ... That is wrong.” The Clinton administration reached agreement with Senate lead ers on a package of $16 billion in spending cuts in social programs. That measure faces a final vote in the r-- --- lax cut bill The tax-cut plat before the House Wednesday was approved 246-188. The plan would cost $189 ballon over &e yeas. Key provisions: FAMILY * If • $606-per«chijd credit for children under 18 In families earning J‘ $200,000 a year or less. Would be phased out for the worthiest fomffies. • A credit of up to $145 to offset foe “marriage penalty." • The American Dream Savings Account, permitting tax-free withdrawals after five years for retirement, first-time hone purchases, higher education, medical expenses. • One-time adoption cretfc of up to $5,000. •Annual credit of up to $500 for costs of caring for elderly relatives at home. BUSINESS • Beduces capital gains tax tor corporations, profits from asset sales. • Phases out foe corporate minimum tax. • Increases size of estates exempt from estate and gift taxes from $600,000 to$75Q,000 by 1998. •Lfoeralizes rules on deducting expenses of home offices. BENEFITS • Hols back 1993 tax increase on higher-income Social Security recipients. Increases income recipients younger than 70 may earn and still receive full Social Security benefits, from $11,280 a year to $30,000 by 2000. Senate, as well as negotiations with the House that has approved $ 17 bil lion in cuts. Passage of the tax-cut bill sends the legislation to the Senate, where — along with bills on welfare, crime, changes in the civil justice system More privacy, less static for new cordless phones WASHINGTON — The static that annoys cordless telephone us ers may soon be gone. The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday more than doubled the amount of the public airwaves reserved for cordless telephones. That means less interference and improved privacy. But you’ll have to buy a new phone to reap the benefits, FCC officials said. New phones will have the ca pacity to operate xm all 25 chan nels being made available by the FCC. The nation’s largest telecom munications company, AT&T Corp., plans to have new cordless phones in retail stores by late June or July, said spokesman Herb Linnen. Cordless phones now use just 10 channels, five of which are also used by baby monitors. That’s why cordless phone owners often over hear sounds from baby monitors, said Anthony Serafini, an elec tronic engineer at the FCC. The additional channels being made available for cordless phones are less congested, Serafini said. There are 60 million cordless phones in the United States. Sales generate $ 1 billion a year, the FCC said. “Use of the new channels for cordless telephones appears to be the most reasonable means for en suring that consumer demand for these low-cost products continues to be met,” the FCC said. World. and many other House-passed com ponents of the “Contract With America” — it faces extensive alter ations. “We’re going to have a tax bill,” said Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan. Judge dismisses sixth O.J. juror LOS ANGELES — The trouble plagued O.J. Simpson jury lost a sixth member Wednesday. The loss intensified fears that a complete panel won’t survive the stresses of the trial long enough to deliver a verdict. “It’s a concern that we have, that we’ll be able to keep a pool all the way through,” said Jo-Ellan Dimitrius, a jury consultant for the defense. The ouster of the 3 8-year-old black woman, was reportedly for failing to disclose her own experience with domestic abuse. Only six alternate jurors — half of the original number — are left. If the alternative pool is exhausted and the number of jurors falls below 12, a mistrial would be declared unless both sides agreed to continue. The dismissal delayed resumption of testimony by a key prosecution witness for 70 minutes while lawyers and the judge met in chambers. When the jury finally was called into court, the judge asked his clerk to pick another juror by lot. Another black woman, a 44-year-old com puter technician with Los Angeles County Superior Court, took the empty seat. The sexual and ethnic makeup of the jury remains the same: nine women and three men; eight blacks, three whites and one Hispanic.