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Enron Continued from page 1 leader Tom Daschle called the report “a call to action and we will act.†Democrats have pushed legislation to deny tax benefits on sham transactions, but the Bush administration “has continued to oppose it even after the collapse of Enron,†said Daschle, D-S.D. “I call on the administration to stand up for hon est taxpayers instead of continuing to resist efforts to crack down on corporate tax shelters.†Big accounting firms, investment banks and law firms — including Bankers Trust, Chase Manhattan, Deloitte & Touche and fallen Arthur Andersen — that gave Enron tax advice pushing legal boundaries did not escape blame from sena tors and congressional investigators. The outside advisers, who received some $88 million in fees from Enron, colluded, said Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, the Finance Committee’s senior Democrat. “Enron and its advisers con spired to mine the tax code for tax schemes. ... They ensured that no one — particularly the IRS — would ever discover what they were up to.†Enron’s failure in late 2001 destroyed the retire ment savings of thousands of employees and hurt individual investors and pension funds nationwide, The joint taxation committee’s inquiry was among more than a dozen congressional investigations last year into Enron’s collapse. The Houston-based company paid no federal income tax at all from 1996 through l999,Jf)3,2 million in 2000 and nothing again in 2001. Enron's tax deals “pushed the concept ofte ness purpose to the limit (and perhaps beyond the panel’s report says. “Enron’s behavior illus trates that a motivated corporation can manipulate highly technical provisions of the law.†By using advice from sophisticated lawyers, investment bankers and accountants, “corporations like Enron have an inherent advantage over the IRS, it says. Lindy Pauli, the joint panel’s chief of staff, stopped short of saying Enron violated the tax laws, telling senators that Enron gained “inappro priate benefits†from its use of the schemes. “This result should not happen under the tax code,†she testified. Shuttle Continued from page 1 wing indicated that super-hot plasma had penetrated the shuttle. “I think there was a substan tial hole in the wing,†said Steven P. Schneider, an associ ate professor at Purdue University’s Aerospace Sciences Laboratory. “That would not be at all surprising. All the sensors in the wing failed or gave bad readings†by the time ground controllers lost contact with Columbia, he said. The board dismissed sugges tions Columbia’s left landing gear was improperly lowered as it raced through Earth’s atmos phere at more than 12,000 miles per hour. NASA disclosed earli er Thursday that a sensor indi cated the gear was down just 26 seconds before Columbia’s destruction. If Columbia’s gear was low ered at that speed — and in those searing temperatures as the shut tle descended over Texas from about 40 miles up — the heat and rushing air would have sheared off Columbia’s tires and led quickly to the spacecraft’s tum bling destruction, experts said. Officials said they were confi dent that unusual sensor reading was wrong. Tires are supposed to remain raised until the shuttle is about 200 feet over the runway and flying 345 miles per hour. Two other sensors in the same wheel compartment indi cated the gear was still properly raised, they said. While Columbia’s piloting computers began almost simul taneously firing thrusters strug gling to keep wings level, offi cials said, a mysterious disrup tion in the air flowing near the left wing was not serious enough to suggest the shuttle’s gear might be down. The investigating board con cluded that its research “does not support the scenario of an early deployment of the left gear.†NASA also confirmed that searchers near Hemphill, Texas, about 140 miles northeast of Houston, recovered what is believed to be one of Columbia’s radial tires. A spokesman was not immediate ly sure which of the shuttle's tires was found. The tire was blackened and sustained a massive split across its tread, but it was impossible to know whether the tire was dam aged aboard Columbia or when it struck the ground. The board’s announcement came one day after NASA released e-mails showing midlev el safety engineers in Virginiaand Houston considered the risks of tires bursting inside Columbia’s belly from heat damage. 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