Show 10A Ogden Standard-Examin- Thursday October 4 1984 er National aoanns'E yiiti van BATON ROUGE La (UPI) — The city has filed suit against television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart seeking $649812 in back taxes on the sale of Bibles religious tapes and booklets A lawyer for Swaggart’s multimillion dollar World Ministries center in south Baton Rouge denied the taxes were due saying the US Constitution exempts Bibles and other religious items from taxation Documents filed Tuesday in state district court by East Baton Rouge Parish and the city said Swaggart’s World Ministries failed to pay $164743 in 1980 $157852 in 1981 $159420 in 1982 and $159589 in 1983 The suit seeks payment of the principle interest and penalties “I have not seen the lawsuit but we disagree with them” said New Orleans attorney William Treeby representing Swaggart’s organization “We have paid the taxes due the city We do not owe the city the taxes it is claiming” He said the ministries already paid $380827 in taxes during the years being disputed “The city is attempting to impose sales taxes on transactions Students to work for free RI (AP) — Brown Universi- “Our mission is to sustain life to improve the quality of life to treat illness not destroy life” want the school to stockpile suicide pills that Hoffman said He said a decision as drastic a stockpiling students could take during a nuclear war suicide 700 students About pills would have to come from the corposigned petitions asking referendum on the plan to ration that operates the university The ethical that a 1 stucode of his profession would bar him from carrystore cyanide pills be put on the Oct dent election ballot ing out any such plan Hoffman said Salzman and fellow organizers circulated the The referendum issue reads: “We the underBrown of University request petitions in the cafeteria the post office and lograduate students that (Student) Health Services stockpile suicide cal student clubs “Suicide is a taboo issue on any college campills for optional student use exclusively in the event of a nuclear war” pus” Salzman said “All (the referendum) does Jason Salzman a junior from Denver who is offer us a choice a very American way to hanhelped organize the petition drive said he and dle moral problems The pills would be comfellow organizer Chris Ferguson are completely pletely optional” Student referendums on issues other than govserious about wanting the tablets available But Dr Sumner Hoffman director of Student ernment merely express undergraduate opinion and have no binding effect on the university Health Services called the idea nonsense PROVIDENCE ty undergraduates will decide next week if they exempted by the US Constitu- tion” Treeby said He compared the exemption to a Louisiana law later struck down non-bindi- by the US Supreme Court that ng 10-1- attempted to tax newspapers based on circulation “It was a violation of the freedom of speech” Treeby said “A tax cannot be imposed on the distribution of a 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Socialite to stay away from wife NEW YORK (AP) — Claus von Bulow whose conviction of twice trying to kill his wife was overturned says his lawyers have ordered him not to visit his comatose wife Von Bulow said Tuesday that the last time he saw his wife was “just after the first trial” “It was then pointed out to me” he said “that people were saying that I might try and kill her in (the) hospital my attorthat I insisted have really neys don’t expose myself” The US Supreme Court on Monday let stand the Rhode Island Supreme Court’s April decision that illegally seized evidence was used against von Bulow in his 1982 trial He had been convicted of trying to kill Martha “Sunny” Sharpe von Bulow by injecting her with insulin in 1979 and 1980 Prosecutors maintained that von Bulow tried to kill his wife because he loved another woman and wanted to get his wife’s $14 million fortune They say they’ll retry him Von Bulow 58 interviewed on WCBS-Talso revealed that he no longer believes that his 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