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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
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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
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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.”
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