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Telephone Registration: May 4-5 Late Registration: May 11 □asses Begin: May 11 For a class schedule, call the campus nearest you: San Jacinto Collage Central: 281-47G-1819 BOBO Spencer Hwy v Pasadena San Jacinto College North: 281-459-7129 Uvalde Rd. at Wallisville Rd v Houston San Jacinto College South: 281-922-3432 13735 Beamer Rd., Houston PS The San Jacinto College Thursday‘Apfij Tax deadline brings ritual of IRS basl WASHINGTON (AP) — As mil lions of taxpayers scrambled to meet the tax filing deadline, politi cians and activists engaged in their own springtime ritual of bashing the IRS and pushing for changes. Supporters of a flat tax and back ers of a national sales tax held events Wednesday ranging from a re-enactment of the Boston Tea Par ty in Boston to a mock funeral out side the Baltimore IRS office to sym bolize burial of the tax code. But whether big changes were on the way was another question. “Until the politicians can satisfy the public that they are not going to pay more tax under these alterna tives, I think tax reform is dead in the water,” said Lawrence Gibbs, a former IRS commissioner in the Reagan administration. And Sheldon Pollack, associate professor at the University of Delaware and author of “The Fail ure of U.S. Tax Policy” agreed: “I don’t think anyone realistically be lieves it’s going to happen.” Perhaps one measure of the public’s mood was the attendance at the “Taxpayer Day of Outrage” rally in Lafayette Park across from the White House. Journalists outnumbered par ticipants at the event, sponsored by GOP strategist Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform. Still, Republicans kept hitting hard at the tax issue everywhere. “Campaigns will send out mil lions of direct mail pieces this year, but the one mailing that will garner the GOP the most support in this ^Americans have had it up to the gills with this tax code...” Billy Tauzin Rep. of Louisiana election is due back to the IRS today,” said Rep. John Under of Georgia, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas, and Rep. Billy Tauzin of Louisiana staged their own version of the Boston Tea Par ty by dumping the tax code — safe ly contained in a water cooler — in Boston Harbor. "Americans have had it up to the gills with this tax code and they are prepared to join us movement to beatWa?; this one,’’ saidlauzir cates a nationalsalesis vors a fiat tax. Congress is expe: i an IRS restructuring!;.) that would providenf.l innocent peoplewbog for collection oftajdr former spouses. The bill also wouldr board consisting of pri\c : oversee the taxcoDector The Senate version also would suspend it certain penalties when: not notified a taxpayer; 1 , that he faces a penalty A Senate vote isexpe ly May, but not before: Committee holds fourd ings focusing on allege; I RS enforcement agents Meanwhile, the IRS a: ton administration ate improve customer sen variety of initiatives. “We are not putting on the IRS,’’ Con Charles O. Rossotiitc tional Press Club on! “We are fundamental! the IRS. We are faciny problems and our dial Abi SCO: o d; ts’V “ItV nili< iair Veel lb 1 ' 1 tapi laM 1 Navy looking for company to destroy napa^ \ \ 7 A Cl ITTVT N T r A Dt r T' /-x Mmrw coo rr* o /H rA n e~\\ ro I o ft c rA o r^r\ri t o i or*c e WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy searched on Wednesday for a place to store a moving rail shipment of napalm and for a company to destroy the jellied gasoline that was destined for recycling until politi cians objected. The 12,000 gallons ofVietnam-era napalm had left California Saturday on the way to Pollution Control Industries of East Chicago, Ind., but the company abruptly backed out of its $24 million subcontract, leaving the shipment riding the rails to nowhere. On Wednesday, the one railcar load — part of 3.3 million gallons to be transported batch by batch over two years — moved through Oklahoma toward Kansas and Missouri. Transported by the Burlington Northern/Santa Fe Railway, it was originally sched uled to arrive in the Chicago area this weekend. The Navy and Battelle Memorial Institute, the firm that holds the main military contract and hired Pol lution Control Industries for the job, were hoping a company would take the napalm off their hands. “The ideal solution is to find somebody that could take it and treat it,” said Robin Yocum, a spokesman for Ohio-based Battelle. “We want it to happen now.” But finding a company with the proper permits and approval from environmental and health au thorities might take some time, meaning the load of napalm may have to be stored before it can be de stroyed, Yocum said. The chemical has been stored near San Diego for two decades, but California officials sought its re moval after some containers began leaking official, speaking on condition of anonymitv Navy doesn't want to risk more headaches!! ing the 12,000 gallons to California. The Navy' is assuring the public there isnc transporting the nonexplosive napalm, whicfe in the Vietnam War to hum foliage. Italsokilk® jured villagers, including a young girl wh • C graphic image remains a searing image of the« “We have been buss u iih rails all day,'\.:iL , Cheryl Austin, one of three members of a Ns f c ivarh office lhat opened Wednesday ii lC( ' ; , tine ii n the media but wehavei 1 ing with concerns, too." y ] f 1 ] Lt. Cmdr. Jon Smith, a Navy spokesmai I M’ 1 military still wants to recycle all the napa P/ 1 toi ige. most likely using am>iliei sliIhu:; P^ u "I the job. “We’re working it as aggressively and* P ly as possible so we can to find a responsibksi ■'m to all of this,” he said. 0ns Pollution (iont ml Industries said itbaclfflBM the deal because of political pressure.Thep Robert Campbell, said his company hadbffti in a tug of war among U.S. government apcie members of Congress. Rep. 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