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PROFITABLE NUMBER! 845-0569 THE BATTALION CLASSIFIEDS IRS gets taste of own auditing medicin The Bii WASHINGTON (AP) — It sounds like a taxpayer’s dream: The IRS was audited and struggled to explain its own financial records. “The IRS cannot do some of the basic accounting and record-keep ing tasks that it expects American taxpayers to do,” said Gregory Kutz, who oversaw the audit re leased Monday by the congres sional General Accounting Office. GAO said chronic Internal Rev enue Service problems resulted last year in millions of dollars in fraud ulent refunds, failure to keep track of such basic assets as cars and computers and substandard com puter security controls. “Think of this as not balancing your checkbook with the monthly bank statement, and at the same time having a system prone to er ror,” Kutz told the House Govern ment Reform Committee’s panel on government management at a Monday hearing. GAO said IRS is unable to keep track of unpaid taxes properly, which means it cannot concentrate collection efforts on the taxpayers most likely to pay. The upshot is that only about $26 billion of the $222 billion in unpaid taxes as of October 1998 are likely to be col lected, with $119 billion — a whop ping 54 percent — to be written off. “It’s a national scandal,” said Rep. Steve Horn, R-<3alif., chairman of the government management subcommittee. “It seems to me you shouldn’t let people off the hook like that.” IRS officials were quick to take responsibility for the problems. which they said were largely root ed in the agency’s antiquated com puter systems that date as far back as the Kennedy administration. “It seems to me you shouldn't let people off the hook like that/' — Rep. Steve Horn Chair of government management subcommittee They were clearly embarrassed by the report, coming as it does as the IRS is makes a high-profile attempt to become more efficient andi customer-friendly. ”1 am deeply disappointed we failed to meet our oblige:: said Donna Cunninghame fe new chief financial officer. T unacceptable.” The GAO found the IRT good job of collecting SUr in tax revenue in fiscal 19% main problems were found agency’s administration ofa: Lhllion annual budget, nte elude: —At least $17 million pa in fraudulent and inappropn- funds in the first nine mo:] 1998. IRS sometimesduplice: funds or fails to compared turns with W-2 forms beforti are mailed out within there;, 45 days. r< Sfo ■ Mnyl Barm. ■ The ' Bam, v\ straight Npbrask Bn test c I In tin Brnhus a (>2-54 t Bints fr 1,2-14] First Lady’s electoral considerations follows path of Eleanor Roosevelt WASHINGTON (AP) — Run, Florence, run. And what about Edith, Eleanor or Jackie? Hillary Rodham Clin ton is not the only presi dential wife ever urged to run for political office. In the 1920s there were calls to draft President Warren Harding’s widow. President Bush’s son, Jeb, currently is gov ernor of Florida. Another son, George W. Bush Jr., is governor of Texas and is con sidering a bid for the GOP presidential nomination in 2000. So far, Clinton has said little about the — B«>x and U.S. drops 30 bombs 1 on Iraq, communicatioif • 1 . . 71 il id •« sites, radar sites stniowj^; , fense wa A new round oi s | lot rh^rn Iraq today, a dav ana MOSU airstrikes nt raq (AP) northern American atl ecked an Iraqi pumpin CLINTON Florence, for governor of Ohio and Presi dent Woodrow Wilson’s widow, Edith, for vice president. Some Democrats wanted Eleanor Roosevelt to be the party’s vice presidential nominee in 1948. In 1976, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, then a book editor in New York, briefly flirted with run ning for a Senate seat. These four first ladies declined the over tures. If Clinton actually seeks the Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, she would be the only first lady to ever run for elec tive office. She is spending two days in New York City on Wednesday and Thurs day, perhaps to test the senatorial waters. “The difference with Hillary is that she is recognized and respected as a political figure in her own right,” says Carl Sferraz- za Anthony, a historian of first ladies. “Even though the other four were politi cally minded, I think they were being draft ed as a bridge to their husbands’ memory, a symbol of their husbands’ legacy.” The political lineage of presidents runs deeper with sons. Sons of several presidents went on to be congressmen, senators. On the state level. “Draft Hillary” campaign. She says only th at sends oil t hrough a pipeline to Turkey, ofi that she’s giving it “careful thought,” yet sa id. she’s getting plenty of political advice. U.S. F15-Es dropped more than 30 laserf Former New York Mayor Ed Koch says m issiles this afi ternoon o\ /er the northern no-fk “Run.” Former New York congresswoman in response to several in icidents of Iraqi radar Geraldine Ferraro advises Clinton to wait. in g on the aircr aft. Capt. Michael Blass of U.S. run later for a Senate seat from Illinois and pt ?ari Comman> d in Germ any said. then be the Democrats’ presidential candi Missiles strt ick Iraqi c ommunications sites, date in 2008. Former New York Gov. Mario lay sites and. anti-aircra ft artillery sites. No da Cuomo wants to see her run, but also sug w as reported tc ) the aircr aft, Blass said. gests she could duck elective office and The incidem ts happen ed in the vicinity of.V still be a political force. “Be Eleanor Roo a 1 city about 251 >rth of Baghdad. sevelt,” he advised. Blass denieci 1 Iraqi rep orts that U.S. planes! Eleanor Roosevelt is one of Clinton’s ta reeled an In; iqi oil pif leline running throug personal heroes. She has told of conduct ! TUrkey or one c )f its pum| ping stations. ing imaginary talks with Roosevelt about Today, the In iqi govern ment took journalists! contemporary problems and the role of the oi 1 pumping st. ation, wh ich appeared to have: first lady in the 1990s. de ■stroyed. One person w as killed in the attack The two were born in different cen- : dd ty and two w< ?re wounc led. Iraqi officials said. turies, yet have much in common, says Myra Gutin, a historian of first ladies at Rider University in New Jersey. “Both are politically minded. Both are widely re spected, but also greatly criticized,” Gutin said. Clinton, the only first lady to chair a presidential commission, was criticized for the secrecy in which her Task Force on Health Reform operated. Roosevelt was the only first lady to hold a government posi tion in her husband’s administration. She resigned as assistant director of civilian de fense after coming under fire. wer too I Sharp 12 secoi .Be tea it Buskers I "N’obi “Anythin Bid ain't ■ Gillot: Bints or Bed to, I “We I fll seaso Bi oursel flat we t Bre a t 11 H Gillon I “Our Bst go o Bve’re g n spokesman CoJ. Rtc t j iat investigating whether 1 sh a i p facility max- ha' ■ ed a tiual purpose: a aiflfflB oun( i s j nications link in Iraq’s aii defense system as tralBg 3 p 0 i r a link in pipeline operations. 4,1 ^ In Thrkey, an official at the of Ct". the flow 01 foiuieuiu i\d\| ontes( , stopped after the attack. U.N. c also confirmed the interruption. . La , The pipeline, which runs from northern\taqlg_74 j n , Ceyhan, is the only functioning pipeline in Iraqarl one of only two outlets for oil exports. 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