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Show Wednesday, January 1, 1992, THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, WEAR choreographer Martha Graham, to jazz giants Stan Getz and Miles g Davis, and to Nobel author Isaac Bashevis Singer. U.S. Sen. John Heinz was killed in a plane crash. 4 Newspaper tycoon Robert Max, well died mysteriously when he fell or so investigators said Jt off his yacht. His sons inherited a financial nightmare, and soon Maxwell's holdings were in bankruptcy. It was a bad year for airlines, too. Eastern, Pan Am and Midway all went out of business. The award for most convoluted business failure of the year went to the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which was shut down by regulators worldwide who found global fraud and intrigue. If you went to a movie theater in if'. 1991, you might have seen "Dances With Wolves," which dominated the Academy Awards, or perhaps the popular "Terminator 2: Judgment Day. " If you read a book, it might have been "Scarlett," the g to "Gone Wind." With the sequel " Or perhaps "Harlot's Ghost," Norman Mailer's 1,307 page novel that challenged the capacity of printing presses. but on the Not yet published 4 . horizon was the autobiography of Earvin "Magic" Johnson. He M - ' moved from the sports pages to the it front pages in November when he announced he was retiring from professional basketball because he AP Laserphoto had been infected with the AIDS virus. A young Kurdish girl, soaked with rain and mud, waits at a refugee What was AIDS? That, young camp on the Iraqi border with Turkey in early April. The Kurds fled people, is another long, long story. Iraqi troops but found little hope of a better life in the camps. Prize-winnin- (Continued from Page A5) old republics. The Soviet Union, Ronald Reagan's "Evil Empire," the nation against which the United ' States had measured itself for dec-- ; ades, was simply vanishing off the face of the Earth. : "There will be no more red flag," Yeltsin declared. Elsewhere in what had been communist East Europe, Yugo-- 4 slavia became mired in a civil war. i And the Warsaw Pact commu- nism's answer to NATO dis- solved itself. Suddenly, the world was a much " different place. When the United I States helped convene Middle East ' peace talks, its almost-silepart- ner was its old foe, the Soviet Un- - i nt ion. The Mideast became a less for- bidding place in other ways, too. On Dec. 4, Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson was released after almost seven years as a hostage of extremist I Shiite Muslims. He was the last of the American captives in Lebanon. Those were the big international stories of 1991 . On the home front, it was a year of mostly grim news. The U.S. economy slumped into fa recession and stayed there. The electorate became angry, resent- jful. Incumbents lost elections with shocking regularity. Politics became even uglier than usual. f; t A man with a history as a Ku Klux Klan leader and Imade a serious run for the governorship of Louisiana. David Duke "lost, but his candidacy sent a message that voters were fed up with politics as usual. More trouble befell the Kennedy clan. After a night of drinking with 3iis uncle, Sen. Ted Kennedy, William Kennedy Smith was charged :with raping a young woman at the family's Florida estate. He was acquitted, but the case dramatized how far the family's image had fallen since its glory days in the neo-Na- zi " . ft t mega-sellin- if -- ..'': cap- tured the nation's attention as much as President Bush's nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. What fascinated Americans was not that the conservative Thomas was only the second black nominated to the court. Rather, it was a remarkable televised Senate hearing into allegations that Thomas once sexually harassed an aide, Anita Hill. In the end, the Senate sided with JThomas and confirmed his nomination. Americans were disgusted J either by the confirmation or the jvay the Senate handled it, or both. For sheer revulsion, though, nothing compared to what unfolded in Milwaukee in July. Jeffrey L. Dahmer, a factory worker, was charged with 17 counts of murder after the dismembered bodies of 1 1 people Were found in his apartment. Other jodies were found elsewhere. Dahmer confessed almost The language of a poke affidavit captured the horror: "Dahmer further stated that he would drug these individuals and jsually strangle them and then he rould dismember the bodies, often boiling the heads to remove flesh So he could retain the skulls." Americans made fine distinctions in the terminology of death. he Dahmer was a serial killer killed over years. George on the other hand, was a he killed 23 peomass murderer burst of ple in a single rage. It happened in a Texas cafeteria on Oct. 16, and was the worst d mass killing in U.S. history. Hen-nar- d, Most taxpayers should ceive their or 1040EZ week, but have their eager local re- Form 1040, 1040A by the end of next a few may already packages thanks to postmasters who ig- nored IRS instructions and jumped the gun. The IRS said it is mailing 1 0 million forms, at a cost of $32 million, or 29 cents each. Forms and instructions are also available at banks, post offices, libraries and local IRS offices. The tax forms, for the third year in a row, will be largely unchanged from the previous year. However, there are a number of important changes to keep in mind, particularly for 1 high-incom- and e low-inco- taxpayers. The basic tax rate for the taxpayers has been upper- -bracket 2. to reflect inflation. For a single person, the firs Z $20,350 of taxable income iv z taxed at 15 percent; the next $28,950 at 28 percent, and erything over $49,300 at 3U; ", percent. The first $34,000 of a mar- -. ; ried couple's taxable income is Z taxed at 15 percent, the nexf ' $48,150 at 28 percent ami all '; over $82, 150 at 31 percent. ev; Both the personal exemption and the standard deduction also , have been adjusted for inflation. You now may exempt $2,- - ; 150 for yourself, your spouse ; and each child, up from $2 .050. ; The standard deduction claimed by people who do not itemize rises to $3,400 for a single person, up from $3,250. The deduction for a couple in- creases to $5,700, up from $5,- - 450. 24 Exp., 48 Prints 36 Exp., 72 Prints i Get a second set of prints with any order for KODALUX Processing Service with this coupon. I 10 anJ 26 color rnnt film ji tinw of One roll xrr coupm. Applm to ?5mm. di Doo not apply to panoramic pnntsor 12 frame 35 film. Giupon must accompany or Ji r I t. me at time of processing. 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For those who itemize, inter- est on personal debt, such as credit card borrowing and auto loans, is no longer deductible. 12 Exp., 24 Prints 15 Exp., 30 Prints Buy One Set Of Prints, Get A Second Set Free. disabled Stanford University junior who came into a $200,000 trust fund when he recently turned 18 has turned the money over to a scholarship fund for students in his ancestral country, i Patrick Chang, an economics student who enrolled in college at age 16, describes his endowment tQ education officials in China's Zhejiang province as an incentive for his own success. "I have to succeed now because I cannot fail," he said. But many poned the date again. cut from 33 percent to 31 percent. The rates for the lower brackets, 15 percent and 28 percent, remain the same, although the income ranges covered by . the brackets have been adjusted I If .'Student uses jtrust fund for scholarship - WASHINGTON (AP) -The Internal Revenue Service offers this sobering reminder to anyone nursing a holiday hangover 110 million tax forms will start appearing in Americans' mailboxes Jan. 2. After years of mailing its packages just after Christmas, the IRS this year decided to turn its annual Christmas card into a New Year's greeting. Last year, the IRS moved the mailout from Dec. 26 to Dec. 28. This year, in what agency officials described as a further effort to avoid dampening holiday spirits, the agency post- (C-4- his own. I One of U.S. history's worst natural disasters struck the brushy lyllside neighborhoods of Oaka terriland, Calif., in October fying wildfire that destroyed 3,000 homes and killed 25 people. Death came more quietly to Norway's King Olav, to dancer- - i STANFORD, Calif. 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