Show 4 A Sts Sstjrisy Apr 7 1550 r ncatf-Eave- National National briefs Widow pleads with Congress to control the IRS WASHINGTON (AP) — The widow of 2 businessman who killed himself so bis Cheney kept in dark insurance money could finance a battle with the Internal Revenue Service pleaded about Steaith flaws wnh Congress Friday to "control the IRS WASHINGTON' (AP) — The to keep it from destroying people's fives" Air Force kepi Defense Secretary "This kind of thing should never have Dick Cheney in the dark for to me and Aka" Kay M Counhappened months after one of cil of High Point NC tod the Senate Fiused Stealth jet nance oversight subcommittee "We didn't in the Panama invasion dropped anything wrong We just got caught up a bomb "way off target" his do middle of a big IRS scte-u- p and in the spokesman sail on Friday we couldn't get out of il" The omission left Cheney reIRS Commissioner Fred T Goldberg peatedly towing the “pinpoint accuracy" of the futuristic planes despite the incident during the Dec 20 attack As well Cheney’s spokesman Pete Williams was kept ignorant of the error until after he disclosed new information about the ! aircraft at a Pentaon Tuesday briefing gon press In the days following the L'S invasion Pentagon officials said h the planes were used for the first time in combat — dropbombs near a ping 2000-pounPanamanian Defense Forces barracks in order to stun and con- fghter-bombe- rs to Jr who preceded Mrs Council on the witness stand was cot asked about her case but said his agency in general ts making a great deal of progress implementing the 1988 law known as the "Taxpayer B21 of Rights" “Citizens of this country have more rights today in proceeding against the IRS" than against any other agency "and I think that is good" Goldberg said He said employ ees have been put on notice that need to be attentive to attitudes" Nine years after the Councils got into trouble "with the IRS by writing off a “e loss Mrs Council re- eral court ruling that she and her husband $"0000 not the S 00 COO in turned home one night in June 1988 to owed the IRS nothing taxes interest and penalties the IRS find a note from her husband: tax-shelt- er ‘My dearest Kay — I have taken my life in order to provide capital for you The IRS and its liens which have been taken against our property illegally by a runaway agency of our government have dried up all sources of credit for us So I have made the only decision I can It’s purely a You will find my business decision body on the lot on the north side of the house" Mrs Council 48 eventually won a fed claimed The court held the IRS deficiency notice 2$ sent four months after the statute of limitations had expired The IRS apparently had misaddressed an earlier oouce By the time the dispute was decided by the courts Mrs Council fiaH sold her home and paid $70000 in legal fees her credit rating was ruined and as she put it "I was cheated of growing old with the man I love" long-classifi- high-tec- fuse the troops as US paratroopers dropped onto a 1 ' n nearby airfield : Bush congratulates winner of Alaska race : WASHINGTON Champion — Susan Butcher told President Bush on Friday that she has plans for her detente own brand of If all goes well Butcher said there will be a 1000-mil- e dog sled race between Alaska and Si- - 1 dog-sledd- t US-Sovi- ! 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