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Caperton says legislative
session busy, disappointing
Supreme Court
upholds oil tax
^pcopleoire by Scott Griffin
IriSn, FreaH Battalion Staff
ch, SvnHState Sen. Kent Caperton said
tugueseonThursday th at while the recently
ian any c completed legislative session was
iprocluctive, it still fell short on some
he tradiiiffef its education commitments,
nrtofentrB “All in all,” Caperton said, “we
its,showdHssed some 75 bills, including the
s of peopk House companions to our Senate
Russian Mis. It was a busy session, and one in
iiestry, wpich I hope the constituents and
ked firsiliople of the fifth district will find
Illinoh 'they were represented well.
nnyslvanu«“But at the same time,” Caperton
. Bd, “the session was filled with dis-
appnintm^nt
■ “We found once again that the
w'j/n.Romises of campaigns do not
>xlCH cessar ily translate into meaning-
/■ laws. We found that teachers
ea leanaB ve once again been relegated to a
ttpr.rn<mtB:ond-class status, and they’ve been
i nle , tol again through the inaction of
said, “lift legislature that while the cam-
idieivinuliftfj 11 Hme is important, when it
comes down to delivering, somehow
ye legislature falls short.”
EC ftdding that a special session is
775-60pniost certain, Caperton said, “The
ftst important thing we can do in
the special session — which I’m con-
ftced will be called — is to recog-
fte that education is the most im-
Chalupa portant thing government does for
the people.
■“We need to put it first — once
and for all,” he said.
In regard to tax increases, Caper
ton said, the legislature needs to
realize it’s going to have to increase
revenues some way.
“I’m willing to do that, but that
responsibility also rests with the
House of Representatives,” he said,
“and I call on our colleagues in the
House to join with the Senate to rec
ognize that we’re going to have to do
something in a dramatic way to
address the problems of education.”
Caperton added that the House
has not been trying to cooperate
with the Senate in raising taxes.
“They’ve just turned their heads,
looked the other way and blindly
parroted no new taxes. That may be
safe at home if your worried about
getting re-elected, but it doesn’t
meet the very real problems that we
have about quality education.”
Specifying the education areas
that need money the worst, Caper
ton said the legislature needs to
focus on teachers. He said that is
where the problem is and the area in
which there is trouble attracting
qualified people.
Caperton said the Senate’s prop
osed Education Excellence Fund
was a bill that would have provided
help by giving lump sums of money
to school districts specifically for
teacher pay increases, but that it was
rejected by the House.
Sen. Kent Caperton
ounseLine supplies information
by Robert McGlohon
Battalion Staff
^ I t h an f>ne student has turned
j / Iftl number for help in the past
//■ft years. It’s the number of the
'' ’ ^miiseLine Self-Help Tape Prog-
■ a program of the Academic
■iseling Service.
Ii fact, between 1980 and 19$2
K than 2,000 students availed
ftelves of the service, says Dr.
■ Lewis, associate director of the
Hemic Counseling Service.
In spite of its name, however, the
OOftl HinseLine Self-Help Tape Program
not a counseling service, Lewis says.
Alt’s not meant to counsel or to
solve problems,” Lewis says, “but to
provide information.”
The list of topics on which it pro
vides information is extensive. The
topics range from dating skills, to tak
ing lecture notes, to how to deal with
depression.
Tape titles include:
•“Friendship Building”
•“How To Say ‘No’”
•“How To Deal With Loneliness”
•“Infatuation Or Love?”
•“Parenting Skills”
•“Death And Dying”
There also are about 40 others.
The range of topics is large because
college students face so many prob
lems, Lewis says. Not only do students
face pressure from the academic life
of deadlines, exams and classes but
also from just being in their late teens,
he says.
“It’s a very unsettling time, typical
ly, in our society,” Lewis says of the
college-aged years.
Compounding that problem is the
fact that many students are too afraid,
shy or proud to see a counselor about
their problems, he says.
“When you come in to talk to some
body you’re taking a personal risk of
being judged,” he says, adding that
that’s a risk some students prefer not
to take.
Lewis says that was the original
philosophy behind the CounseLine.
It provides information to students
hesitant about going to see a Counse
lor. Not only does the information
take no more effort than a phone call,
Lewis says, but it is anonymous. No
one knows who makes the calls.
And that, he said, sometimes en
ables students to make the first step —
or phone call — that could lead to the
student seeking needed professional
help.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Supreme
Court Monday unanimously upheld
the windfall profits tax on crude oil,
which is expected to pour some $66
billion into government coffers.
The 9-0 ruling reversed a Wyom
ing judge’s ruling the tax was uncon
stitutional because it singled out Alas
kan oil for preferential treatment.
The government had been battling
to have the court reinstate the tax,
saying the revenues were crucial to
planning the 1984 budget which pro
jects a deficit of nearly $200 billion.
The windfall profits tax, passed to
block oil producers from reaping pro
fits from decontrol of oil prices, was
held unconstitutional by a federal
judge in Wyoming because it exempts
oil produced in Alaska. Justice Lewis
Powell delivered the high court’s rul
ing, held that Congress could not be
faulted for determining that Alaskan
oil required favorable treatment.
“It had before it ample evidence of
the disproportionate costs and diffi
culties — the fragile ecology, the
harsh environment, and the remote
location — associated with extracting
oil from this region,” he said.
Powell also added that, “Nothing
suggests that Congress intended to
grant Alaska an undue preference at
the expense of other oil-producing
states. This is especially clear because
the windfall profit tax itself falls
heavily on the state of Alaska.”
Crude oil produced in Alaska
north of the Arctic Circle was ex
empted from taxation by the Crude
Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act, which
President Carter signed in April
1980.
The tax on domestic oil was de
signed to recapture some of the pro
fits oil companies enjoyed when price
controls were lifted in 1981. Net re
venues from the tax in 1981 and 1982
were about $26 billion. The gover-
nent estimates the tax will net the gov
ernment $40 billion over the next five
years.
The Treasury has been collecting
the tax while the case was pending.
H.B. Scoggins, general counsel for
the Independent Petroleum Associa
tion of America, which filed suit
against the tax, said the ruling “is a
blow to the energy security of ts Un
ited States.”
He warned the decision will “cause
marginal oil wells to be abandoned,”
and vowed, “we won’t accept it.
“We will continue to fight the tax.
There are several other legal issues
involved and we’ll have to look at this
ruling and perhaps initiate several
other suits.”
But Edwin Rothchild, assistant di
rector of the Citizen Labor Energy
Coalition, lauded the ruling as “a ma
jor victory for the Treasury of the
United States” and said it shows “the
government has every right to tax the
windfall profits earned by oil pro
ducers.”
In another major ruling, the jus
tices upheld the government’s con
troversial assumption that no danger
ous radioactive waste will escape from
eventual permanent storage sites for
used nuclear fuel.
The 9-0 ruling erases a major ques
tion mark looming over nuclear plant
licenses granted by the Nuclear Reg
ulatory Commission, which has been
giving power plants the go ahead on
the assumption the atomic waste will
pose no environmental danger when
permanently stored.
There is no permanent storage
now for such waste, which remains
dangerous for 250,000 years,
although plans are being made to
stash it in salt mines.
icaragua to expel U.S. diplomats
JllffSt ■ United Press International
h FridafftNAGUA, Nicaragua — Nicar-
Ifi n m ■ Monda y ordered the expulsion
JU p.iH [ three U.S. diplomats, accusing
ft of plotting the assassination of
ftinista leaders as part of a plan to
[Stabilize” the Central American
f ation.
J Linda M. Pfeifel, a political affairs
ftal, David Noble Greig, first sec-
fty and Ermila Loreta Rodriguez,
second secretary, were all declared
persona non grata, the Foreign Minis
try announced.
There was no immediate comment
from the U.S. Embassy.
An investigation by the Interior
Ministry said all three were guilty of
“abusing their condition of diploma
tic officials by developing a growing
activity destined to destablize the gov
ernment of Nicaragua.”
“Such investigations have demons
trated that among the criminal ac
tions the diplomats in question plan
ned to undertake were organizing
attempts against the lives of leaders of
the Sandinista revolution and high
functionaries of the Nicaraguan gov
ernment,” the Foreign Ministry said.
The ministry accused the diplo
mats of having had meetings and
clandestine contacts in Nicaragua and
outside the country with Nicara
guans, including government offi
cials “with the object of recruiting
them, training them and give them
the means necessary to execute their
criminal actions.”
The Nicaraguan government will
send a formal protest to the United
States after the incident, the ministry
said.
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Wice stop traveler en route to Houston
H 1
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Explosives found in car of Colorado man
|I United Press International
r JpRSICANA — Investigators say
have no clues about what a 20-
Kr-old Colorado man intended to
ftwith 10 pounds of high-intensity
'(plosives potent enough to level a
^Suse.
Texas Department of Public Safety
■copers arrested Clyde Ura Cain Jr.
Monday on Interstate 45 about 40
miles southeast of Dallas. A search of
Cain’s car uncovered the 10 pounds
of explosive gel, homemade detena-
tors and a radio-controlled igniter,
authorities said.
Cain, who gave police no home
town and told them he was en route to
Houston, was jailed in lieu of $ 10,000
bond on charges of possession of
illegal explosive devices and posses
sion of marijuana.
Trooper Reese Morgan said he
and his partner, Mike Price, stopped
Cain because they had received a re
port he had left a service station in
nearby Ennis without paying for a $5
gasoline purchase.
A Fort Hood bomb squad was cal
led to detonate the explosives, Mor
gan said.
$700 cap proposed
for Reagan’s tax cut
United Press International
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Thomas O’Neill Monday proposed a
$700 cap on the third year of President Reagan’s tax cut, eliminating the huge
tax cuts that go to high income individuals.
Speaking to an audience of the wealthy — stock market officials — O’Neill
said that as benificiaries of Reagan’s policies," “The financially well off must be
asked to sacrifice to reduce the deficit.”
O’Neill’s cap would affect mainly those making more than $50,000. He
noted in his speech to the American Stock Exchange that someone earning
$100,000 a year would gain $2,300 from the tax cut scheduled for early July.
O’Neill also proposed a military buildup of 5 percent above inflation.
Reagan asked for 10 percent.
“We need to slow down the defense build-up right now,” O’Neill said in
remarks prepared for the group.
An aide said O’Neill was particularly anxious to make his proposal before a
forum in which all the participants make far more than $50,000.
“He likes the idea of doing it before an audience like this,” the aide said.
O’Neill’s proposed $700 cap is a middle ground between those who want to
leave the tax cut alone and those who want to eliminate it altogether.
The proposals come a day before House Democrats are to meet to decide
how to attack the 10 percent tax reduction scheduled for July 1.
The House is expected to pass a bill quickly, probably the week of June 13,
arid send it to the Senate, where GOP leader Howard Baker has promised
Democratic leader Robert Byrd he will bring it to a vote.
The aide, who asked not to be identified, said O’Neill also feels placing a cap
on the tax cut rather than repealing it will force Reagan to think before a veto.
“He (Reagan) will have to say, ‘I’m for the rich,”’ to veto a tax cap, the aide
said. The aide said the tax cap would increase projected federal revenues $6
billion, a relatively small figure in light of budget deficits approaching $200
billion, but that the burden would be placed only on the wealthy, who can
afford it.
O’Neil also called on the Federal Reserve Board to intervene in financial
markets in an effort to weaken the dollar in overseas markets and solve
balance-of-trade problems with Japan and other western trading partners.
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ies becoming clear to partly
udy today with a high of 83.
rtheasterly winds of 10 to 15
h. Tonight’s low near 62. Clear
partly cloudy and warmer
ednesday with a high near 87.
African organization
faces possible collapse
United Press International
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The
Organization of African Unity’s latest
effort to meet faced collapse today
with leaders divided over the Western
Sahara and Chad — issues that have
twice postponed the 19th summit.
The third attempt in two years to
convene the summit failed Monday,
as did Libyan leader Moammar Kha-
dafy’s chances on becoming the chair
man of the OAU, delegates said.
After nearly eight hours of infor
mal discussion among at least 21 Afri
can nations, African delegations and
especially Libya were pessimistic the
summit would take place.
Disputes over the seating of West
ern Sahara’s Polisario Front and
Chad, together with Khadafy’s
pledge to fight for the chairmanship,
threatened the very existence of the
20-year-old organization.
Conference sources said moves by
moderate African states to block Kha
dafy’s chairmanship created bitter
ness in the informal sessions and
dampened any chance of comprom
ise over the Western Sahara and
Chad.
Delegations said Ethiopian Presi
dent Col. Mengistu Haile Miriam, a
close ally of Khadafy but considered
less radical, was the main contender
for the chairmanship should the 19th
summit get off the ground.
By late Sunday, at least 32 heads of
state and government had arrived but
it was not clear exactly how many
were present Monday. At least 34
states, two thirds of the organization,
is needed for a quorum.
Kenyan President Daniel Arap
Moi, the current OAU chairman, and
other African leaders have said a
third failure could spell the end of the
pan-African body.
Moi is staunchly pro-western and
considered a moderate by his fellow
African statesmen, compared to Kha
dafy, who is opposed by moderate
African leaders for his revolutionary
politics.
Underground group takes
blame for Libyan shooting
United Press International
A gunman pumped seven bullets
into Libya’s highest-ranking diplo
mat in Beirut and an underground
organization opposed to Libyan
leader Moammar Khadafy Monday
claimed responsibility for the assas
sination attempt. The shooting
occurred only hours before Israeli
troops in Lebanon were told to
watch for possible attacks Monday,
the first anniversary of their inva
sion.
The underground Front for the
Liberation of Lebanon from Fore
igners claimed responsibility for the
attempted assassination of Libyan
Charge d’Affaires Abdel Kader
Ghouka,. who was shot seven times
as he entered the lobby of his Beirut
hotel late Sunday.
“Catch him, catch him. Don’t let
him get away,” shouted Ghouka as
his assailant slipped out of the
Napoleon Hotel and down a dar
kened" street after the shooting at
11:30 p.m.
Ghouka was reported in serious
but stable condition at Beirut’s
American University Hospital.
The Front, which has claimed re
sponsibility for attacks on Syrian
and Palestinian targets in the past,
gave no reasons for its attempt to kill
Ghouka.
“We declare with pride that we
are responsible for the assassination
attempt. We also declare that we
have taken it on ourselves to free the
world from Khadafy,“ The Front
said in a statement.
It was not known if the attack was
connected to a month-old mutiny by
radical Palestine Liberation Organi
zation leader Yasser Arafat, who ac
cused Khadafy of financing the re
bellion.
Last month, Arafat vowed to “cut
off the tongue” of Khadafy and cal
led the Libyan leader “an ant” who
should “get back to your hole.”
In Damascus, Syria, Algerian
President Chadli Jenjedid urged the
PLO to unite and pledged his efforts
to end the mutiny.
No further fighting between rival
factions of A1 Fatah — the largest
PLO guerrilla group — was re
ported Sunday and PLO officials in
Damascus said accounts of clashes
Saturday were exaggerated.
Police sealed off streets in the
Hamra district of Moslem west'
Beirut in their search for Ghouka’s
assailant, described as a young man
who spoke with a Lebanese accent
and wore a denim jacket and a sport
shirt.
Doctor’s operated on Ghouka for
several hours at Beirut’s American
University Hospital. One hospital
official later said he was “out of dan
ger” but doctors expressed some
concern and said he would need
blood transfusions.
The assassination attempt occur
red as Lebanon was about to mark
the first anniversary Monday of the
Israeli invasion to crush PLO guer
rilla camps along Lebanon’s south
ern borders of the Jewish state.