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'7? at ? a -1-3 '5lhe„ Tuesday, April 14, 1987/The Battalion/Page 9 World and Nation mmsssmasa tile Colis' Colls r f . 1 "on’i« ildrali' Shultz, Shevardnadze alk of arms reductions MOSCOW (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz held three unds of talks Monday with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. She- Irdnadze, taking up the critical is- sut of nuclear arms reductions at an unscheduled late-night session. There was no immediate word on : outcome. At the California Bhite House, meanwhile, presi- lential Chief of Staff Howard H. kerjr. said he would not be sur prised to see a decision on a super- wer summit emerge by the end of ifniltz’ three-day visit. ■The Soviet news agency Tass, llwever, accused Washington of “a pesh cock-and-bull story” of Soviet espionage at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. The dispatch said the Pen tagon came up with the “spy scare” ill an effort to undercut the State Department. The meeting was held after a Pas- |er Seder attended by Shultz at U.S. Embassy with about 40 lominent Jewish “refuseniks,” — me: k it in 1 got ting 11 itbpk 'izemi >ts.' \’om nan tieid mdro August ieNe»' f Philad# ick Di'lr’ a pie I" ies 9-lisS eries.ii® ctian] einp ne 1 thfW' licago® i tlie ^ is "dl f brdf* IRS braces for late flood of tax returns I WASHINGTON (AP) —The Internal Revenue Service, head- ng down the homestretch of a iuccessful tax filing season, is pacing for a flood of last-min- tite returns and reminding pro- rastinators they’ll have to wait a bit longer for their refunds. “We’re on target and our in ventories (of unprocessed re urns) are especially low,” IRS pokesman Larry Batdorf said londay. The filing deadline is midnight Wednesday. Although the agency has been rocessing returns at a pace that as produced refunds in four or live weeks, the big end-of-season roush means a wait of six to 10 eeks, Batdorf said. Through April 3, the latest figures available, the IRS had re ceived 58.1 million returns. The [gency is forecasting 105.5 mil lion returns for all this year, al though many of them will be de layed in filing by several months, from last Friday through the deadline, the IRS was expecting 23 million returns. “This is not an unusual |runch and we expect no prob lems in dealing with the last- minute filers,” Batdorf said. From all accounts, there has |een no recurrence of the com puter problems of two years ago in the 10 service centers where Jeturns are processed. Those jbreakdowns were responsible for the worst filing season in IRS ||istory and required millions of scpeople to wait 10 weeks or nger for their refunds. On the other hand, tax ad vis its and return preparers say fiat passage of the big tax over haul last year has many taxpay- jrs confused, and that may be 'esponsible for some of the late returns. Whether late filers run into ouble with the IRS could de pend in large part on how care- [ully they fill out their returns. Year in and year out, the most lommon errors found in the forms are in arithmetic. To avoid such mistakes — ivhich can delay refunds for an other two or three weeks — the IRS recommends that once tax- pavers complete their returns, they put them aside for a few ours and then recheck the math. people who have been refused per mission to emigrate. Shultz attended the Seder, which recalls Jewish deliverance from slav ery under the Egyptian pharaoh, to demonstrate continued U.S. support for Soviet Jews. He told them U.S. citizens are praying for them. Shultz and Shevardnadze held two rounds of talks Monday morn ing and afternoon to try to stabilize relations in the midst of a bitter ex change of spy charges. Those sessions and a working lunch were held at a Foreign Min istry guest house about a mile from the Kremlin. A special van was set up to pro vide secure communications for Shultz to Washington and for meet ings with his staff. The United States has accused the Soviets of infiltrat ing the embassy with the collusion of some U.S. Marine guards and gain ing access to classified material. About three dozen reporters and photographers were taken on a tour of two rows of red-brick townhouses where American diplomats have lived since late last year. Construc tion on the new embassy building stopped in 1985. Shultz planned to complain to Shevardnadze about a “pattern of intrusiveness and hostility.” But he also said before coming to Moscow on a three-day visit that he wanted “to find our way to a more construc tive relationship” and to lower the level of nuclear weapons. No details of Shultz’s talks with Shevardnadze were made public. The Soviet news agency Tass reiter ated its critical view of Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative and said “nuclear and space arms” were on the Shultz-Shevardnadze agenda. The brief Soviet report said Shultz and Shevardnadze were “con sidering in a concrete way prospects for working out an agreement be tween the U.S.S.R. and the United States on removing medium-range nuclear missiles from Europe.” Tutu, other clergy push for resistance to limits on speech CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other clergymen urged people at a special prayer service Monday to defy new limits on speech and as sembly. The U.S. ambassador was among 700 people in the congrega tion. Ambassador Edward Perkins is sued a statement saying: “It is sad that a government which claims to uphold the values of human dignity, and which portrays itself as secure and strong, should be so intimidated by the peaceful protestations of its citizens that it declares those protes tations to be illegal.” Perkins’ attendance and his statement represented one of his most vivid gestures since he became the first black American ambassador to South Africa last November. The ambassadors of Canada, Swe den and Austria also attended the ecumenical service dedicated to peo ple detained without charge under a nationwide state of emergency the white government imposed 10 months ago. Regulations issued Saturday by Police Commissioner Johan Coetzee make it a crime to call for release of detainees by word, action or in writ ing. Gatherings in support of detai nees also are banned. Penalties for breaking the rules range up to a fine of 20,000 rand ($10,000) or 10 years in prison. Tutu, the black prelate who is An glican archbishop of southern Af rica, organized the service. He was joined at St. George’s Cathedral by Jewish, Dutch Reformed and Ro man Catholic clergymen in defying the regulations. Although Law and Order Min ister Adriaan Vlok said prayer serv ices at churches were not prohibited. Tutu and his colleagues openly vio lated a section of the rules making it a crime to urge other people to sup port detainees. Tutu said he would make similar statements inside or outside church. “I will continue to urge, as I do, the authorities to release all detai nees or bring them to court, and I hope you support me in such a call,” he said. Coetzee issued a statement Mon day saying the regulations did not bar prayers for detainees at “bona- fide religious gatherings” or prohibit political candidates from addressing the detention issue in speeches. Population bureau reports world birth rate on the rise WASHINGTON (AP) — The rate at which people are being born is speeding up again, just as the plan et’s population edges past the 5 bil lion milestone, a population study group reported Monday. The private Population Reference Bureau cited an easing of strict birth limits in China as a prime reason for the turnaround in population growth. The Bureau’s new World Popula tion Data Sheet for 1987 estimates that the July 1 population of the world will be 5.026 billion. The United Nations has projected that the world will pass the 5 billion milestone early in July, while an other private study group, the Pop ulation Institute, calculated that the event occurred last year. In its new report, the Population Reference Bureau estimated the worldwide birth rate at 28 births per 1,000 people, up from 27 last year. The world’s rate had been 27 for two years, down from 28 in 1984 and 29 in 1983, the group said. “If Beijing continues to ease up on its population policy, it will shatter current assumptions about a contin uing slowdown in the global popula tion’s growth rate,” bureau specialist Carl Haub said. “China’s sheer size dominates the entire demographic picture.” China’s policy of one child per family had been very effective in re ducing growth in recent years, but that has not been stressed as heavily this year, said Mary Kent of the bu reau. As a result, China’s birth rate jumped from 18 per 1,000 people in 1986 to 21 this year. . ■art formally announces plans >lo win ’88 Democratic nomination dtte ■ 0 cal' Denver (AP) — Gary Hart, standing coatless before the snow- c apped Rocky Mountains, an- ;ClT nounced his bid for the 1988 Demo- ^atic presidential nomination Mon- fa) and promised a return to erican ideals and a “presidency you can be proud of.” rOUS“ ifThe 50-year-old former Colorado ^senator opened his second presi- ipential candidacy stressing idealism —O attO the power of ideas — themes thai almost wrested the 1984 Demo- ttatic nomination from former Vice President Walter Mondale. Wfliis time it is Hart who is ahead m the early polls, with the rest of the increasing field of candidates bunched far back. ■‘I intend to be a candidate for the presidency of the United States in 1988 and I do so for one single rea son: and that is because I love my country,” Hart said as he stood in Red Rocks Park for the morning an- nouncment. Later, Hart asked several thou sand supporters at a rally in down town Denver to give him their help and their time: “You give me 20 days in the next 20 months and I will give you a presidency you can be proud of.” Invoking the idealistic rhetoric of John F. Kennedy, Hart concluded: “Let us go forward from this day committed to restore this land to all of its people, to restore a sense of genuine true patriotism to America. And if we do, we will have done the greatest thing for this country any of us could ever do. “March on!” His formal announcement at Red Rocks, a park 16 miles from down town Denver, was before his wife and daughter, reporters, cameras and staff. Hart said the. park, begun with federal funds during the De pression, “is a symbol of what a be nevolent government can do.” “Sadly, in recent years we’ve fallen far short of the ideal of America,” Hart said. “We’ve let personal greed replace a sense of social justice and equity and the national good. We’ve let right-wing ideology skew this na tion’s basic priorities. We’ve increas ingly let narrow special interests fi nance our campaigns and control our political process.” f Problem Pregnancy? v we listen, we care, we help 4 Free pregnancy tests ♦ concerned counselors ^ Brazos Valley Crisis Pregnancy Service t. We’re local! 1301 Memorial Dr. 24 hr. 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