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Madison (jrtinnlCn steal rings esolutionin! d would hi' 1 :en the Unit* > have banl qfor its Anf on of Kuwait )ia, and oth s occupation 1 ,nk is just as® 1 on of Kuwait Trees ase ich (AP) - >day Presil 1 - igher taxes :ans in a tra* al gains rates disclosed at' 1 i over his [b' ne as Congrt 8 a $500 bill kage of tax cuts. :her, R-Tes 8 slan the toi . be raised ^ lation’sweaP' rate would 1 .5 million » : aid. The tax 11 i cut for all*’ nvestments, c-y faced an' 1 ' ongress, philosophy n tax rates, i ; reluctant to ’- ediate react' .ers. of Bush'sdi*' olic, the SW er expectatl id suggest' 1 aid never! White Ho" d Republic 1 in tax rates' •udget ntf said it was ats. il, the the i" the wealth' raised from nt, but onl' ? capital f rofits from state and of ly taxed ome. riday, October 12,1990 The Battalion Page 5 Phillips, P.l. by Matt Kowalski m,ONE LAST Tip foP* 'rH LIFE FIT filtW: ubularman by Boomer Cardinaie from mall DALLAS (AP) — Two gunmen stole $300,000 worth of diamond rings from a Valley View Mall jew elry store, according to police re ports. Witnesses said two males in their late 20s entered Linz Jewelers Tues day afternoon and asked to see the diamond solitaire rings. When em ployee Mark Feinman showed one of the men a ring, he told Feinman to put everything in a bag. The other suspect pointed a .22- caliber revolver at other people in the store. During the robbery, the gun-wielding suspect threatened to kill another store employee when he started to walk toward the suspect. Both men (led the store after tell ing everyone to lie on the door. A maintenance employee for the mall, James Larson, tackled one of the men before he went through the mall entrance. The other suspect held the gun to Larson’s head, cocked it and told him to let him go. U.S. grounds flights in Gulf WASHINGTON <AP) — The Air Force grounded all training flights in the Persian Gulf area for a 24-hour period ending to day in order to discuss with pilots the recent rash of U.S. aircraft ac cidents in Saudi Arabia, the Pen tagon announced. The “flying standdown” was declared Wednesday at noon Saudi time (4 a.m. CDT) and lifted at noon today, said Pete Williams, the chief Pentagon spokesman. The halt applied to all training flights but not to reconnaissance missions and other “operational patrols,” another spokesman. Col. Miguel Monteverde, said. “So there was no degradation of our ability to defend our selves,” Monteverde said. There are an estimated 700 Air Force combat and support air craft in the gulf area as part of Operation Desert Shield. “The Air Force declared a fly ing standdown for one day to conduct safety awareness meet ings with Air Force pilots,” Wil liams said. “To get together with everybody and just sort of review what they need to do to fly more safely.” The official death toll for Op eration Desert Shield rose to 24 on Wednesday when an Air Force F-l 11 fighter-bomber crashed on a training mission in Saudi Ara bia, killing both crew members. Two pilots were killed Monday in the crash of an Air Force F-4 Phantom reconnaissance jet in Saudi Arabia, and just hours ear lier two Marine Corps UH-1 Huey helicopters, each carrying four crew members, crashed over the Arabian Sea, killing all eight men. Williams said the Air Force was the only service that has taken special measures to review safety in the gulf since this week’s acci dents. “They’re concerned about the accidents, they’re concerned about the number of accidents that happened so quickly over a short period of time,” he told re porters. Williams said, however, that the military’s safety record in Op eration Desert Shield remained good. “Given the amount of flying that has to be done, ... I think our service people are doing very well, but any accident is cause for concern,” he said. Exiled rulers hold conference orces seek reforms in gulf states ■1 NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The ersian Gulf crisis has unleashed orces seeking political reforms in be feudal gulf states, including an xtraordinary effort to discuss the mure of Kuwait if it is freed from raqi occupation. Kuwait’s exiled rulers have invited 50 prominent citizens to a confer- ncein Saudi Arabia this weekend to onsider the future shape of a free luwait. The government is eagerly — and mcharacteristically — soliciting the ttendance of the Western press at be event. Crown Prince Sheik Saad al Ab- $ lullah made it clear that the agenda rill range from future defense ar- (ingements to the rights of Kuwaiti itizensand foreign workers. “The basic topic is liberation,” Ku- taiti Information Ministry spokes- nan Feisal Mutawaa said in a tele- itione interview from the inference site in Jiddah. But all issues that members want "No government, anywhere in the world, would fail to take heed of changing situations by beginning to adjust, whatever the prevailing situation.” — Sulaiman Mutawaa, minister for planning in the government-in-exile to discuss will be discussed,” he said. Sheik Saad has called for a new so cial covenant between the rulers and Kuwaiti citizens. It follows wide spread criticism by Kuwaiti exiles of the domination of the al-Sabahs, Ku wait’s deposed ruling family, over their nation’s important financial and political institutions. The about the mandate of other gulf rul ers, benevolent despots who have so far rejected political parties and democratic institutions. “No government, anywhere in the world, would fail to take heed of changing situations by beginning to adjust, whatever the prevailing situa tion,” Sulaiman Mutawaa, minister for planning in the government-in exile and Feisal’s cousin, said in Lon don this week. After his Aug. 2 invasion of Ku wait, Iraqi President Saddam Hus sein struck a responsive chord among the Middle East’s masses by claiming that Kuwait was run by a selfish reactionary regime whose family had hoarded vast wealth for its own benefit. To pre-empt such propaganda at tacks, the issue of power-snaring is likely to take center stage in the other gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, Mideast ex- The debate is raising questions perts say. Few observers predict any imme diate transformation to Western- style democracy in a region without such traditions. The gulf states are a political anachronism, where oil wealth and the accompanying sup port and banking industries have re inforced a tribal-based feudalism unique in modern times. The hereditary Bedouin rulers’ C ower is rooted not only in tradition, ut also in their position as the sym bolic source of the oil-fueled largesse that has created some of the world’s highest per capita living standards. “The native populations are all beneficiaries of the welfare system, except that isn’t all they want,” Shah- ram Chubin, a Middle East specialist who teaches at the Graduate Insti tute of International Affairs in Ge neva, said. “The more educated ones want some say in the running of the coun try,” he added. “It’s not that they’re excluded from the benefits. They’re excluded from any power-sharing.” coffeehouse msc town hall "a monumental event and it's absolutely free" friday, October 12,1990 rumours 8:00p.m. LSAT jMAT GRE The Test Is When? Classes Forming Now. § STANLEY H. 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