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licome tax
leadline
s today
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Today marks the
||ne for filing federal income tax re-
ns And while Uncle Sam has paid out a
» penny in refunds so far, he should do
ter by the taxpayers who waited until
i last minute to file.
People who owe money generally file
>r,” said IRS spokesman Larry Batdorf.
3y April 4, roughly two in every three
Hican taxpayers had filed their returns
phe overwhelming majority of them
eiyed refunds. Thanks largely to infla-
ijthose refunds were averaging $590.53
up $100 from a year ago.
■the 93 million or so Americans who
: Jxpected to file returns, about 2 per-
itl-or roughly 1.8 million taxpayers —
Ibe audited. Those who make more than
),(XK) a year have the greatest chance,
■hough today is the filing deadline, tax-
yers can receive a 60-day extension
t^ply for the asking, ” an official said, by
m| out a 4868 form and mailing one copy
ihe IRS before midnight tonight.
rh< taxpayer should send in a second
py of the extension form with his com-
ited tax return before June 16.
lailer wins
'ulitzer for
Executioner’
United Press International
NEW YORK — Norman Mailer, who
ote a controversial “true life novel” ab-
t a convicted killer with a death wish, and
ioston Globe columnist who writes about
rsonal problems won 1980 Pulitzer
izes. In all, the Globe took three Pulit-
rs.
Gannett Co. Inc. won the Public Service
fil'd, the Philadelphia Inquirer won its
;th Pulitzer in six years and the spot news
lotography award went to United Press
ternational.
jpe UPI photograph showed a firing
uad in Sananda, Iran, executing Kurdish
bels and two former police officers of the
jposed shah. The photographer’s name
as'withheld for his own safety.
Mailer won the fiction prize — his
cond — for “The Executioner’s Song,” a
See related story, page 7
ovel based on the last months of executed
lller Gary Gilmore. His first was in 1969
> r Hie Armies of the Night.”
Mailer, 57, who lives in Brooklyn, said
||vas happy about the award, although
Dmewhat bothered by the controversy
ver the technique he used.
It is called a “true life novel” on the title
Ike, though the material for the book was
Mten from many documentary sources on
he killer.
Mailer said he would have added an ex-
Efiation to the book if he had known how
||bh controversy it would cause when he
||his publisher, Little Brown and Co.,
'eblished the work as fiction.
|T care about the book, and when there is
controversy over something you care ab-
Kj you d rather the controversy be about
pcentral merits and not something you
o-kler a side issue,” he said.
Ifhe Globe’s awards in the special local
ffiorting, commentary and criticism cate-
l| e s marked the second time a newspap-
B>as won three Pulitzers in the same year.
New York Times accomplished the feat
n 11978.
ghe Pulitzer Committee cited Gannett
its series on financial contributions to
he Pauline Fathers.
&he staff of the Philadelphia Inquirer
Jr the distinguished general-local report-
■ tor the newspaper’s coverage of the
j|f ear accident at Three Mile Island,
ghher prizes were awarded to:
I|r;Bette Swenson Orsini and Charles
)tanord of the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times
° f r ,la tional reporting for their investigation
Bho Church of Scientology.
R~Madeleine Blais of the Miami Herald
B eature writing — stories about families
V individual achievements that have
Beared in the newspaper’s Tropic maga-
Joel Brinkley and Jay Mather of the
isville Courier-Journal for internation-
(Jpurnalism for their reporting and photo-
on Cambodia.
K Bobert L. Bartley of the Wall Street
f°r distinguished editorial writing.
B-Don Wright of the Miami News for
B^uence in editorial cartooning.
■-Erwin H. Hagler of the Dallas Times
er ald for feature photography for a series
|the western cowboy
■"Lanford Wilson for drama for his ro-
B^hccomedy, “Talley’s Folly.”
■7 ..on F. Litwack for history for his
Aft ’ Been in the Storm So Long: The
'jermath of Slavery.”
■''Edmund Morris for biography for his
■ r ’ Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.
"s i ^ 0na ld Justice for poetry for his
Pected Poems.”
c. ^^euglas R. Hofstadter for non-fiction
p, work, “Godel, Escher, Bach: An
fir i i 9°^en Braid, ” a book of mathema-
^ Philosophy.
What goes up...
Pat Callihan, co-captain for the Texas A&M men’s
gymnastics team, dismounts after a routine on the
high bar. Callihan and other team members will
exhibit their talents during a program in the Memo
rial Student Center lounge at noon on Saturday.
Texas A&M currently is ranked second in the con
ference in men’s gymnastics.
Photo by Jane North
‘Kramer’ wins 5 Oscars;
Hoffman takes best actor
United Press International
HOLLYWOOD — “Kramer vs. Kram
er” — a film of a man, a woman and their
small son rebuilding a web of love broken
by divorce — swept the Academy Awards
Monday night, taking five Oscars including
best picture of 1979, best actor for Dustin
Hoffman and best supporting actress for
Meryl Streep.
Sally Field won the best actress award tor
her portrayal of a spunky Southern mill
worker, trying to manage her family and a
struggling labor union, in Norma Rae.
Veteran performer Melvyn Douglas, 79,
who made his first movie 49 years ago, won
the supporting actor award for his perform
ance as a dying presidential crony in Being
There.”
“Well, the soap opera won, commented
Hoffman — winning for the first time, after
four nominations going back to “The Gra
duate” in 1967.
He was honored for his portrayal of a
loving father in “Kramer,” which also took
the statuettes for best screenplay taken
from another medium and best direction.
Streep, a swiftly rising star, won for her
portrait of an independent woman deter
mined to both build a life outside of mar
riage and reclaim her small son.
“They said this couldn’t be done,” said
Field, who was long held back by her old
image as TV’s “flying nun.”
Douglas, best known as a suave, sophisti
cated leading man of the 1930s, was not
present to collect his second Oscar. He had
been nominated three times, and won the
supporting actor Oscar in 1963 in “Hud.”
Robert Benton won the director’s award
for “Kramer,” and then followed up with a
second Oscar for the film’s script, as the
best screenplay adapted from another
medium.
“Kramer,” a box office smash, was the
expected winner for best picture.
The chief competition came from “All
That Jazz,” Bob Fosse’s musical based on
his own flirtations with women and death,
which came in second in the Oscar sweep-
stakes, with four awards — best adapted
score, art direction, costume design and
film editing.
“Apocalypse Now” — Francis Ford Cop
pola’s lavish vision of the Vietnam War as a
circus of death, drugs and rock n’ roll —
collected two, best sound and best cinema
tography to Vittorio Storaro.
The best original song Oscar went to “It
Goes Like It Goes,” from “Norma Rae, ” by
Norman Gimbel and David Shire.
The best original screenplay award went
to Steve Tesich, who came to the United
States as a teen-ager and drew on his youth
in Bloomington, Ind., for “Breaking
Away,” the tale of four non-college youths
growing up in a university town.
The best foreign language film award
went to West Germany’s “Tin Drum,” from
the novel by Gunter Grass.
Hoffman, his voice breaking, presented
a special award to Sir Alec Guinness for
Guinness’ career advancing the art of
screen acting, which drew a standing
ovation from the crowd.
Guinness became the only performer to
be honored with such an award after win
ning an Oscar on his own. He strode on
stage to the strains of the march from “The
Bridge on the River Kwai,” for which he
won the best actor award in 1957.
The visual effects Oscar went to “Alien,”
the story of a monstrous extra-terrestrial
taking over a spaceship.
Israelis hope
for solution
United Press international Begin said about the date. “We must try to
WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minis- fulfill it.”
ter Menachem Begin says he hopes to use He also pledged to try to reach agree-
his meetings with President Carter begin- ment with Carter on ways to speed up the
ning today to quicken the pace of the stalled discussions but “in any case we will always
negotiations on Palestinian autonomy. be prepared to continue negotiations to
The critical discussions about the future reach agreement.”
of the Arabs living in the occupied territor- Begin meets the president twice today
ies are targeted to end in less than six weeks and will be the guest of honor at a White
and Begin said he wants to speed up the House dinner tonight. His schedule closely
talks. follows that of Sadat who met with Carter
The Israeli leader however, is said to be a Ln of
against the proposal agreed to by Garter
and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat that
the meetings be shifted from the Middle
East to Washington.
“We shall do our best to bring about an
acceleration of the pace of the negotiations
and creating the possibility of fulfilment of
the second part of the Camp David agree
ment,” Begin said on arrival in the United
States Monday.
The autonomy plan deals with the future
government for the 1.1 million Palestinians
in the occupied West Bank of the Jordan
River and the Gaza Strip.
Under the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty
signed last year, the autonomy talks are to
be completed by May 26. “This is a goal,”
111C IMacil ICcuaci ciiau j^iana a kjl
congressional meetings before returning to
Israel Thursday.
Israel’s Cabinet gave Begin wide-
ranging authority to discuss all proposals in
the talks with Carter, but sources said
rather than moving the autonomy negotia
tions to Washington, Begin favors alternat
ing meetings in Cairo, Jerusalem and
Washington.
On the question of Israeli settlements in
the occupied territories, another issue sure
to be discussed, Begin indicated before
leaving Israel that he will refuse to consider
a temporary freeze on settlements to ease
tensions during the weeks left for the
autonomy talks.
Burt Lance trial
goes to jury soon
United Press International (;
ATLANTA — Bert Lance is “delighted”
his bank fraud case will probably go to the
jury by Wednesday afternoon in the trial’s
14th week.
Before deliberations begin, attorneys for
both sides must give their closing argu
ments and U.S. District Judge Charles A.
Moye Jr. must give the six-man, six-woman
panel instructions on the law.
The defense for Lance and his three co
defendants, now charged with only 19 of
the original 33 counts, rested Monday
afternoon.
“I’m delighted it’s over,” Lance said as
he left the courtroom. “I’m just glad it
didn’t take us long to refute 13 weeks” of
government testimony.
Lance’s defense took only 234 days. He
spent more than a day on the stand himself,
fielding questions and denying he broke
any laws. He told of his rise for government
reorganization.
His testimony was bolstered by the
plaudits of some heavyweight character
witnesses, including: Lillian Carter, Dr.
Martin Luther King Sr., and Tom Cousins,
Atlanta real estate magnate and owner of
the Atlanta Flames hockey team.
The court threw out another charge
against Lance co-defendant Thomas Mitch
ell Monday, narrowing the list of counts
from the original 33 outlined in the indict
ment to 19.
Of the remaining counts, Lance is
charged with 10 counts of misapplication of
bank funds, which carries a maximum pen
alty of five years in prison and-or $5,000
fine on each count, and two counts of mak
ing false statements to banks, which carries
a maximum of two years in prison and-or
$5,000 on each count.
Mitchell faces four counts of making false
statements to banks relating to written re
ceipts for stocks he removed from the
Calhoun First National Bank, which Lance
once headed, where they secured Lance
loans.
Six counts remain against co-defendant
Richard T. Carr, including four misapplica
tion counts and two false statements to
banks, and four counts remain against H.
Jackson Mullins, including three misappli
cations and one false statement.
Court deals blow
to Texas
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court
has dealt what could be a death blow to
three Amtrak trains discontinued in last
year’s reorganization of the country’s rail
passenger service.
The court rejected an appeal by Minne
sota seeking to revive the Chicago-Houston
Lone Star, the Chicago-Seattle North
Coast Hiawatha and the Chicago-Miami
Floridian.
In November, the court turned down an
appeal from Kansas asking temporary re
newal of service on the trains, which served
dozens of cities in the Midwest and South.
Among them were Dallas, Houston,
Birmingham, Louisville, Nashville, Mont
gomery, Kansas City, Oklahoma City,
Minneapolis and Chicago.
Amtrak said it would have lost $200,000 a
day operating the trains.
Kansas, Minnesota and Nashville initial
ly brought suit to keep the trains moving,
arguing that dropping them would cause
irreparable harm to communities they
served.
The three routes originally were sche
duled to be shut down on Oct. 1 as part of
Amtrak’s reorganization plan. But U.S.
District Judge Frank Theis of Wichita,
Kan., issued a temporary order barring
Amtrak
their termination.
Minnesota renewed the appeal in the
Supreme Court, arguing the U.S. transpor
tation secretary should have considered the
impact on communities before drawing up
a plan for shutting down service.
When Amtrak decided in August 1979 to
discontinue six passenger trains, several
states asked that service continue until the
secretary complied with the National En
vironmental Policy Act which requires an
assessment of the impact of major federal
actions.
Theis ordered the trains to continue tem
porarily, but following Congress’ passage of
the Amtrak Reorganization Act, he dis
solved his order.
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
affirmed, holding Congress’ passage of the
1979 act had settled the issue.
Minnesota Attorney General Warren
Spannaus told the Supreme Court that
since the 1979 reorganization act did not
repeal the environmental policy act, train
service should be renewed until the secret
ary complied with the environmental act’s
procedural requirements.
Opposing review, the federal govern
ment maintained the environmental act’s
requirements apply only to agency — not
congressional — actions.
Castro stalls Cuban airlift
United Press International
Cuban President Fidel Castro has
charged some Cubans holed up in the
Peruvian Embassy have no right to
leave, stalling the airlift of the Cubans
from Havana. In Washington, President
Carter accused Castro of obstructing the
exodus.
Bad weather off Florida Monday
forced Cuban exiles in Miami to aban
don plans to sail a mercy fleet of small
boats with relief supplies to their esti
mated 10,800 countrymen crammed
into the tiny Peruvian Embassy com
pound.
Carter announced the United States
would offer exile to 3,500 of the Cubans
and called on Europe and Latin America
to ease a “humanitarian crisis” by open
ing doors to the rest of the people inside
the embassy.