Wednesday, August 8, 1984/The Battalion/Page 3
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By Jim Earle
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“This one guy has insisted that he help me with my studies,
but I’d like it better if he were passing himself. ”
Terrorists claim mining
United Press International
CAIRO, Egypt— Iran Tuesday said
the pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad terror
ist group has claimed responsibility
for mining the Red Sea and the Gulf
of Suez and praised the campaign to
disrupt shipping as “part of the bit
ter struggle” against the West.
The Iranian report came as U.S.
mine-sweeping helicopters headed
for the Mediterranean to join patrols
by Egyptian and French ships in the
Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea. Brit
ain also was considering sending
minesweepers to the region.
Fourteen sh ips have been hit and
damaged by the mystery mines in
the Gulf of Suez and the Red Sea
since July 27, according to the Penta
gon. Lloyd’s of London, the world’s
foremost shipping insurer, lists 12
ships hit.
Tehran radio, in a broadcast mon
itored in Kuwait, reported that the
Islamic Jihad (Holy War) terrorist
O said it had planted the mines
imaged the ships.
Islamic Jihad is the same pro-Ira
nian terror group that claimed re
sponsibility for the October, 1983
twin suicide bombings in Beirut that
killed 241 U.S. servicement and 58
French paratroopers.
The radio praised the mining as
“part of the bitter struggle against
the forces of enslavement and domi
nation.”
“All the arrogant powers are help
less, unable to save the dozens of
ships facing destruction in the Gulf
of Suez and the Red Sea every day,”
the radio said.
But Iranian Prime Minister Hus
sein Musavi denied at a news confer
ence in Tehran that Ayatollah Ru-
hollah Khomeini’s Islamic regime
was involved in the mining and pro
tested the search of two Iranian
ships in the Suez Canal.
The searching of the two Iranian
ships could not be confirmed imme
diately in Cairo, but the Egyptian
newspaper A1 Gomhourisy said
“some snips” traveling through the
Suez Canal have been searched.
Musavi said that although Islamic
Jihad claimed to support the Islamic
revolution its nature was unknown
to the Iranian government, a dis
patch of the official Iranian news
agency IRNA said.
“I will not go into discussion about
the nature of this organization-”
IRNA quoted Musavi as saying.
Tax streamlining discussed
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Sen. Robert
Dole, R-Kan., said Tuesday simplify
ing the federal tax system sounds
good to almost everyone, but the
real test of support will come when
taxpayers find out how much they
have to pay.
The Senate Finance Committee
chairman’s comment came at the
first of a series of hearings by his
committee on proposals to stream
line federal taxes, including modifi
cations of the “flat tax” idea under
which tax rates would be equalized
and lowered and deductions would
be severely limited.
While there was general
agreement that tax reforms would
be desirable, the hearing foreshad
owed likely discored next year on
how to go about it.
Underlying the discussion is the
problem of whether to raise taxes to
cope with the monstrous federal def
icit, forecast at around $180 billion
next year and in the future.
Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J., and
Rep. Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., who
met with Mondale Monday, are
sponsoring a simplified tax system
—dubbed the “Fair Tax” — that
puts all Americans into three tax
brackets, with four out of every five
taxpayers in a 14 percent bracket,
ana a top bracket of 30 percent. It
retains the most widely used deduc
tions, such as the interest on home
mortgages.
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Mondale pressures Reagan to be ‘honest’
United Press International
PHILADELPHIA — Walter
Mondale kept the pressure on Presi
dent Reagan Tuesday to be “honest”
and questioned whetner Reagan will
be truthful in his assessment of how
fast the budget deficit is growing.
“You’ve heard the story of Pinoc-
chio, you know why his nose kept
getting longer all the time,” Mondale
said.
Mondale, speaking to an enthu
siastic crowd of more than 3,000 as
sembled for a Communication
Workers of America Convention,
questioned whether the administra
tion will make an honest assessment
of how large the deficit will grow in
coming years when it releases fig
ures Thursday.
Mondale used as his benchmark a
Congressional Budget Office esti
mate released Monday which pro
jects $263 billion deficit by 1989.
“Let’s see on Thursday whether
this is an honest, solid reflection of
the facts that we face or if it’s what
you might call a Pinocchio projec
tion.”
Administration sources say the es
timate is expected to be tens of bil
lions of dollars lower.
Earlier, at an appearance in To
ledo, Ohio, Mondale accused Rea-
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gan said that I wasn’t tell
ing the truth,” Mondale
told a crowd of Demo
cratic Party workers and
elected officials at the Port
of Toledo. “Well, who is
telling the truth?”
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or the 1980 Republican nomination
against the administration on a
three-day, five-state campaign trip.
After traveling to Pennsylvania,
he was set to concentrate on pivotal
Southern states — North Carolina,
South Carolina and Alabama.
Mondale again demanded that
the president “tell the truth” by mak
ing public his economic plans for
next year.
Mondale, waging a concerted at
tack on the administration’s eco
nomic policies, has said he will re
duce the federal deficit and that
Reagan, despite what he says, will do
the same if re-elected.
Reagan said Monday he had no
plans to raise taxes and that Mon
dale was not telling the truth to sug-
g est otherwise. But in Santa Bar-
ara, Calif., where Reagan was
vacationing, White House spokes
man Larry Speakes refused to say
Tuesday whether the president’s
vow to not “allow any plans for a tax
increase” next year slammed the
door on any revenue increases.
“Just yesterday Mr. Reagan said
that I wasn’t telling the truth,” Mon
dale told a crowd of Democratic
Party workers and elected officials at
the Port of Toledo. “Well, who is
telling the truth?”
He told the crowd of Bush’s
statement, made after meeting with
Reagan in California Monday, that
the door was still open to a tax in
crease.
Sakharov
on hunger
strike still
United Press International
MOSCOW — Letters from An
drei Sakharov’s wife indicate the No
bel laureate had not ended a hunger
strike he was reported to have
started three months ago, a Soviet
dissident said Tuesday.
The dissident, who asked to re
main unidentified, said reports ear
lier this week that Sakharov had
ended his hunger strike may have
been planted by the KGB.
The dissident said those reports
were contradicted by two letters
from the dissident physicists’s wife.
North Texas
rain won’t
end drought
United Press International
Parched north central Texas
towns soaked up several inches from
heavy showers and thundershowers
Tuesday, including 4 inches that fell
on McKinney in as many hours, but
it won’t be enough to relieve the
summer-long drought, forecasters
said.
The band of rain was brought on
by a wide band of extremely unsta
ble and moist air and extended from
Cooke and Grayson counties along
the Red River to just north of Dallas
and Collin counties.
The storms grew out of a surface
area of low pressure that drifted
slowly into the northwestern corner
of the Texas Panhandle.
Low clouds dotted parts of south
and central Texas.
The Bryan-College Station area
received no rain Tuesday, but has
gotten 1.13 inches during August,
and 17.29 inches so far during 1984.
Despite the welcome rains, Joe
Kopecek of the National Weather
Service in Fort Worth said the entire
state is a long way off from ending
its drought.
The worst water shortages have
gripped much of south central
Texas, including Austin and San
Antonio, where water rationing was
in effect for several days. Corpus
Christi also has had water rationing.
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