2The Daily Ta- Heel Wednesday, October 12, 1988
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From JUtocUttd Press reports
WASHINGTON The Senate
headed toward passage Tuesday of
a package of miscellaneous tax
provisions after soundly rejecting an
effort to liberalize a tax benefit
targeted on low-income working
families with children.
The bill would clear up errors and
ambiguities in the 1986 tax overhaul,
relieve farms and some other busi
nesses from paying the federal tax on
diesel used for off-road purposes,
extend severd expiring provisions
and raise taxes by S2.7 billion over
three years to pay for the benefits.
Safety rales delay restart of nuclear plant
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON Energy
Department officials declaring a
need to "rectify past sins in the
department's operation of atomic
reactors, on Tuesday announced that
the introduction of new safety proce
dures would delay restarting the
Savannah River Plant, which produ
ces nuclear weapons materials.
Energy Undersecretary Joseph
Salgado also gave assurances that
plutonium and tritium supplies are
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Included in the legislation is a "bill
of rights" designed to strengthen the
hand of taxpayers in dealing with the
Internal Revenue Service. It would
require the IRS to inform taxpayers
fully of their rights and triple to 30
days the notice required before
property is seized.
Standing in the way of a final vote
was a stack of amendments to delete
some provisions from the bill written
by the Senate Finance Committee or
to add new ones to it.
Senate passage would send the bill
to the House, which has passed a
adequate to ensure that existing
nuclear weapons would not degrade
or be cannibalized to assure a con
tinued strategic deterrent.
The three aging reactors at Savan
nah River, in Aiken, S.C., have been
shut down for safety considerations.
Construction of new reactors to
produce nuclear weapons materials is
not expected to start until the early
1990s.
Salgado, addressing a midday news
conference, said Energy Department
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similar but larger version that would
raise taxes by about $7.5 billion over
three years. Congressional leaders
hope negotiators can hammer out a
compromise between the two bills
before the House and Senate adjourn
for the year at week's end.
On an 85-2 vote, the Senate
defeated an amendment by Sen. Bill
Bradley, D-N.J., that would have
raised the earned-income credit by
about $116 billion, increasing the
maximum credit from $875 to $978.
The credit goes to low-income work
ing families with children. Only Sen.
Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., sided
officials have ordered engineers at the
Savannah River Plant to start up the
K-reactor in December during a four
week phased operation that should
bring it close to full steam in early
January.
Department officials have also
decided to postpone restarting the
plant's P-reactor, which experienced
problems in August. In congressional
testimony on Sept. 30, Salgado said
the P-reactor could be restarted
within 30 to 45 days, but department
officials now have decided it should
not be brought back into operation
until late 1989, he said
The third facility at the plant, the
L-reactor, is scheduled to be restarted
in the first three months of next year,
he said. . '
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with Bradley.
"The disparity between rich and
poor is now wider than in any years
since the (Census) Bureau began
collecting these data in 1974," Bradley
said.
No one spoke against the increase
only against how Bradley pro
posed to pay for it. His amendment
would have deleted several popular
benefits in the bill, including exten
sion of the credit for business research
and of a benefit for workers who
receive employer-financed education
or legal service aid.
All three reactors will be started
slowly, using what Deputy Assistant
Energy Secretary Richard Staro
stecki described as a "phased" oper
ation designed to test and assess each
step before the reactor is brought to
full power.
An Energy Department statement
issued after the news conference said
"three Savannah River reactors are
the nation's only source of the tritium
needed for the nation's nuclear
deterrent." Plutonium, also produced
by the reactors, has a longer half-life
than tritium, and therefore does not
pose as critical a problem.
"At present, all three reactors are
out of service for routine maintenance
and accelerated safety upgrades," the
statement said.
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Political, economic strife
continues in Yugoslavia
From Associated Press reports
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia
Serbian Communists demanded
Tuesday that three senior party
leaders be fired in Kosovo, an
autonomous province whose
Slavic residents claim to be vic
timized by the huge majority of
ethnic Albanians.
The demand is the latest devel
opment in weeks of strikes, public
protest and political maneuvering
over ethnic rivalries and economic
crisis in Yugoslavia, which has not
had strong leadership since Pres
ident Tito died in 1980.
Hatcher trial continues
RALEIGH Timothy Jacobs
testified Tuesday that he and
Eddie Hatcher decided to take
over a Lumberton newspaper
office because it would be a good
target for drawing attention to
their concern about problems in
Robeson County. "
"We agreed that nobody would
be hurt at The Robesonian,"
Jacobs testified. "And we agreed
that we would be in and out of
there in two hours because we
thought Governor Martin would
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call when Eddie wanted to talk to ,.'
him."
Jacobs testified that Hatcher."
told him two days before the.
takeover that Robeson County ,
Sheriff Hubert Stone wanted to,"
kill him because of evidence that,
he had linking law enforcement,
officers to drug trafficking.
Pope's speech interrupted
, STRASBOURG, France
The Rev. Ian Paisley, a militant -Protestant
leader from Northern
Ireland, disrupted Pope John Paul
IPs unity speech to the European :
Parliament on Tuesday by shout
ing, "I renounce you as the
Antichrist!"
The pontiff had just begun
delivering the key speech of his '
four-day trip to northeastern
France, a talk in which he urged
Europe to adopt a common pol- :
itical structure. The European '
Parliament is an advisory body to
the 12-member European Eco
nomic Community.
Record
House amendment denying federa
benefits to drug offenders, Rep
David Price's statement was incor
rectly quoted. It should have read,.
"I believe the omnibus drug bill
passed today by the House will be!
an effective weapon in the war oft !
drugs. I am especially pleased witrV ',
the bill's multi-faceted approach I
aimed at law enforcement, education
and prevention." '
Also, the amendment targets ;
anyone who has been convicted of M
drug offenses and served one year in, !
jail for them, but it does not target
educational loans. Rather, it is foj;
federal contracts, loans, licenses and
grants, but does not include retire
ment, welfare, health and other,
"safety net" benefits. '
The Daily Tar Heel regrets the;
errors.
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