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Also offeringBar/Bri, LSAT, GMAT, MCAT & SAT Mail To: Conviser-Miller CPA Review 1415 Fannin, Suite 250 Houston, Tx. 77002 The Battalion WORLD & NATION 6*~ Friday, July 27,1990 White House readies deficit package h WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Thursday readied a $50 billion deficit-reduction package calling for higher alcohol taxes, limits on the deductibility of state and local income taxes and new cuts in social programs, Republican ne gotiators said. Budget negotiators said they were encouraged that specific proposals were finally being dis cussed after 11 weeks of talks. However, they said chances seemed to be fading for reaching accord on major differences before Congress’ August recess scheduled to begin next week. “We’re at the hard stage now, trying to decide whether to stay here in August and get it done,” said Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan. House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, D- Mo. said there are “large and tough and difficult disagreements to bridge.” The third consecutive day of high-level budget talks at the White House got down to specific tax suggestions as administration officials circulated a new proposal among key congressional Repub licans. Although details of the package were sketchy, Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., said it included higher excise taxes on alcohol but otherwise re sembled the taxes Bush proposed in his January budget. Packwood and others said the proposal, which may be formally presented to budget negotiators Friday, consists of slightly more than $50 billion in savings, split about evenly between new taxes and spending cuts. It also renews Bush’s call for a cut in the capital gains tax rate and proposes sev eral minor new taxes. The deficit in fiscal 1991, which begins Oct. 1, is expected to reach at least $169 billion unless action is taken. That size shortfall would trigger $100 billion or more in spending cuts under the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law, slashing most domestic programs by 40 percent and de fense programs by 25 percent. The new administration proposal would raise about $3 billion by limiting the deductibility of state and local income taxes on federal tax re turns, a GOP bargainer said. Such deductions would be limited to no more than $10,000, said the negotiator, who asked not to be identified. However, Gov. Mario Cuomo said the adij istration could balance the budget if it raised taxes of wealt hy Americans. “If you want to find wealth, don’t comer and take it out of the pockets of childi* Cuomo said at a news conference herewiths and local officials who oppose limiting thedtt tibility of state and local income taxes. The latest administration package doesnol elude taxes on tobacco or luxury items sue jewelry, which negotiators have been coi ering, said the negotiator who asked not it identified. The official also said the package would benefit programs hy $16 billion, includingjl lion from Medicare. It would cut defensespt; ing by about $7 billion — several billion doi less than Democrats want — and pare dom e and foreign aid programs by $4 billion more The GOP plan would save more than $50*: lion over five years, relying heavily on cucj benefit programs such as Medicare but b| Social Security untouched. De Klerk meets with Mandela South Africa president suspects communist coup JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — President F.W. de Klerk held an urgent meeting Thursday with black leader Nelson Mandela in an apparent bid to per suade him that Communists within the African Na tional Congress have been plotting a coup. De Klerk summoned Mandela to Pretoria for talks a day after the arrest of senior ANC official Mac Maha- raj, who is also a senior member of the Communist Party. Dozens of other ANC members have been reported detained in recent weeks. Thursday’s meeting in Pretoria lasted two hours, government TV reported. A statement by cle Klerk, read by his spokesman, said the two would meet again next week, at Mandela’s re quest. No date or location was given. Mandela left the meeting without making a statement. Police have been quoted as saying they believed some Communists in the ANC were conspiring to overthrow the white-minority government if its power-sharing talks with the ANC fail. Newspaper reports, citing unidentified sources, have suggested the top ANC leadership did not know about the alleged plot. “It appears ... the ANC does not appreciate the se riousness of the facts which were brought to light by the South African police investigations of the past few days,” de Klerk’s office said in a statement announcing the meeting with Mandela, the deputy ANC president. At a news conference Wednesday, Mandela denied there was any secret plot, and said there was no rift be tween Communists and the rest of the ANC leadership. Like Maharaj, many members of the ANC’s 35-mem ber National Executive Committee are also members of the South African Communist Party. Maharaj was detained by police Wednesday night un der the Internal Security Act. The act allows police to hold detainees indefinitely in solitary confinement, without access to lawyers, and to interrogate suspects until they provide “satisfactory answers.” Maharaj is one of scores of high-ranking ANC offi cials who have returned home from exile since May un der a presidential promise of indemnity from arrest for past acts. A Communist Party spokesman, Jeremy Cronin, said Maharaj was arrested because the government wanted to derail plans for a rally he was organizing. The gathering, to be held Sunday in Soweto town ship outside Johannesburg, is to mark the Communist Party’s emergence as a legal group after years as an un derground movement. The party was legalized in Feb ruary. OPEC agrees Meeting ends in dispute to raise price Koreas try to end strife of crude oil Souter brushe aside question regarding lette WASHINGTON (AP) - St g rerne Court nominee Dan; outer brushed aside quest® Thursday about a letter he «toi nearly a decade ago opposingb islation that would have forat judges to make decisions on ate lions for teenagers. Souter, making a round q courtesy calls in the Senate, tot reporters he would disclose wh is “constitutionally appropriate at his confirmation hearings, Meanwhile, one of thejustka he will join if confirmed, This good Marshall, said he’d neve; heard of Souter before he wasse lected and suggested the non; nation was a political move. Marshall, in a dwindling libeni minority on the court with the;• tirement of Justice William J. Brennan, said he didn't thiri President Bush had “eve: stopped” running for preside: and “this las last appointment is thi epitome of what he’s been doing I The National Right to I.;: I Committee, the leading aiit:| abortion group, said it conclude I the letter “reveals nothing”akJ Souter’s views on abortion or !L'| legality. H Tor one rollt GENEVA (AP) — OPEC oil min isters said Thursday they agreed to raise the cartel’s ceiling price for crude oil, and OPEC President Sa- dek Boussena criticized members who drove down the price by ex ceeding production quotas. His comments were apparently di rected in part at Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, who are blamed for keeping oil prices low by cheating on their quotas. OPEC’s decision to raise the ceil ing price came after it received as surances that overproduction by Ku wait and the U.A.E. would end and that overall world production of oil would decrease. The price of wholesale unleaded gasoline rose 2.2 cents a gallon Thursday on the New York Mercan tile Exchange, settling at 65.26 cents — partly in anticipation that OPEC members may soon reach a formal agreement for cutting oil produc tion. PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) — North and South Korea agreed Thursday to have their prime min isters meet in an unprecedented at tempt to end hostility. But within an hour of the signing of the accord, a new dispute had the nations trading insults again. Controversy erupted after a plan by five North Koreans to cross into South Korea was scrapped because of a feud involving their accommo dations while in South Korea. The name-calling, protest and rhetoric threatened to cloud the premiers’ talks. The North Korean civilians were to help plan a joint unification rally with South Korean dissidents, which is planned Aug. 15. They would have been the first civilians to cross the heavily fortified border with ap proval of both governments since 1985. The Seoul government insisted the North Koreans stay in a luxury hotel, saying it was for security rea sons. The North Koreans wanted to stay with South Korean dissidents at a church house, and travel in the dis sidents’ cars. Eight hours after the crossing was to take place, it was effectively canceled. North and South Korea were di vided in 1945 at the end of World War II. Despite years of hostility and a three-year civil war in the early 1950s, unification of their homeland remains a cherished dream by Ko reans on both sides of the border. Lawmakers accept changes in farm bill c “A political show,” said Lee Hae- hak, one of three South Korean dis sident leaders who had gone to the truce village of Panmunjom to wel come the North Koreans. “Down with (President) Roh Tae- woo who blocks unification!” the dis sidents shouted after being told the border crossing was canceled. “Our desire is unification,” the three sang. Officials on both sides of the bor der hurried forth with explanations. WASHINGTON (AP) - 1 House has accepted only a I changes a bipartisan coalition led Rep. Dick Armey sought in thefai bill. But Armey said Thursday work has been worth it. Armey, R-Copper Canyon, a about 100 other lawmakers wan: the House to wipe out some coma dity support programs and subsidies to farmers with adjis gross incomes of $ 100,000 ormon Armey sponsored an amend® remov to abolish the two-tier peanut p which gram while others fired shots honey, sugar and cotton programs But the House only changed wool, mohair and dairy program And, in a 263-169 vote Wednesds refinei they defeated the cap on subsidies farmers with less than justed gross income. CA Coast doubh oil spi the w tankei “We major 120,0( Capt. ’ He after transfi barge Ship C p.m. S Gre 48,00C House reprimands Frank WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Thursday to repri mand Rep. Barney Frank for using his influence on behalf of a male prostitute.“I should have known bet ter,” the Massachusetts Democrat apologized. The 408-18 vote, after debate that was both solemn and emotional, im posed the lightest punishment the full House could have given. Con servative Republicans pushed unsuc cessfully for more serious penalties, either expulsion or censure. Frank told a hushed chamber the actions he was being punished for had been taken in part to “conceal my homosexuality” at a time when he had not yet made his gay lifestyle public. He apologized, saying he knows better now “but it’s a little late.” The House first voted 390-38 to reject a move by Rep. William Dan- nemeyer to expel Frank. Pils ics) needs to be solved and it needs be solved immediately. (Continued from page 5) More than an hour later, it voted 287-141 against a move by GOP Whip Newt Gingrich to censure the Massachusetts Democrat, a move that would have stripped him of his subcommittee chairmanship. Rep. John T. Myers, ranking Re publican on the ethics committee, fought to uphold the panel’s recom mendation for a reprimand. degree, using universities as a step ping stone to professional athletics. What I find even more appalling is the fact that Texas A&M refused to release any information, claiming it would invade the privacy of those involved. In asking Karl Mooney, the* demic advisor for A&M’s athlete was told that release of such mation constituted invasion off vacy and was quickly told of Propt tion 24, passed at the last 1C convention. weren “An (the su now, \ spill i Ions,” 100 ,°C : he said The nel wh ton Ba collide | der to\ Coa: believe rian-re Mond: ship is The Fusion (Continued from page 1) stitute which funded major portions of them. Barbara Kline, public relations representative for the Electric Power Research Institute, said decisions pertaining to the funding of certain projects are based on scientific fact and not allegations made in any arti cle. The Electric Power Research In stitute is a non-profit organization which funds research and devel opment for the electric utilities around the country. “Cold fusion obviously would greatly affect electic companies, so we’ll probably continue funding re search in that area until something definite is found,” Kline said. Although the theory of cold fu sion has lost support in the scientific community, A&M is continuing to look into puzzling aspects cold fu sion experiments have produced. Fackler said A&M is reviewing re sults from its own cold fusion experi ments and evidence from other sci entific reports around the world to try to understand the controversial subject. “Presently, we’re looking into the facts,” Fackler said. “We have no reason to say we understand what is going on. Until we can gain some sort of understanding, we will con tinue our experiments.” A&M was one of only six schools that refused to say how many ath letes graduated and how many didn’t. This is a world-class university, with one of the top athletic pro grams in the country. I can’t under stand why we would join the likes of Albany State, St. Cloud State and Stephen F. Austin in not letting the public know about a major flaw in college athletics. The proposition states that in 1 tober of 1991 all universities® release its graduation rates to [ NCAA. These rates will bedash hy sport, gender and ethnic orif The rates will also be comp the graduation rate of theeniire! : dent body. What kind of role model are these athletes providing to the youth of this nation? What kind of message are we sending to those who see a survey where Texas A&M refused say how many graduated and how many did not? Is there something to hide? The problem of athletes leaving school without enough education to hold a normal job (other than athlet- This is a step in the right d® tion, hut consider this. This infort tion must be sent in by 0< her, 1991, then it must be procei- and analyzed by the NCAA. The 1 must go back to the school fr which it came to be cleared of mistakes. It will be late 1992 before an) this information is distributed to public. T he athletic program at something all Aggies are extreff proud of and it’s a program m ^ others admire. If there is a proW 33^ at A&M with our graduation si! tics, it would be better to make it public and deal with now instead two years down the road. Am can cj ion’s ] prove ne BA' Me; •eatur files ol