| Show '' 1 i4 J i 4 I t 1 — The Salt Lake Tribune NATIONWORLD Wednesday A3 March 4 1992 i Tax Cut Clears i 1 Hurdle But Still Faces Veto il 2 lit 1 I THE ASSOCIATED 111 PRESS WASHINGTON — Brushing aside veto threats the Senate Finance Committee approved a :1 t 1 1 $300-per-chi- 1 middle-incom- e ld tax cut Tuesday that would be paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy The bill includes a capital-gain- s reduction liberalized Individual Retirement Accounts an I investment incentives President Bush has proposed to stimulate the economy About 20 million families would get the permanent tax cut Fewer than I million of the richest Americans would have to pay more The party-lin- e vote was Senate consideration is expected next week "II hope the president will work with us not obstruct the process" Chairman Lloyd Bentsen said "But if he wants to continue to protect the wealthiest at the expense of average Americans — and veto this bill because it asks 07 percent of the wealthiest to pay their fair share — that's his t I I ' 11-- 9 1 ‘ choice" Bush says daily that he will veto any bill that raises taxes even though his own budget calls for tax increases this year The Senate bill would not result in a net tax increase it would raise some taxes by a total of $57 billion over the next five years and cut other taxes by the same amount "It doesn't create one job" insisted Senate Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas "This bill is going to be vetoed and that veto will be sustained That's what the Democrats want — the fairness issue" so they can accuse e Bush of killing a taxicut The Senate bill would give a credit of $300 per child to families with incomes up to $50000 a year the credit would drop gradually and would not be available to those with incomes over $70000 By comparison the House voted a credit of up to $200 per wage earner ($400 per couple) regardless of family size or income i I middle-incom- i Social Sectui tY Van Be There for You Cox NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON — Baby boomers should rest assured that Social Security will be available when they retire Social Security Commissioner Gwendolyn King said Tuesday In a speech to the National Press Club King criticized those — including direct-ma— who she said are spreading "an apocalyptic message about the coming demise of Social Security" by warning that the system's reserves are nothing but worthless IOUs King said that by the end of 1992 Social Security will have a $336 billion surplus and that the Social Security independent board of trustees rerorted recently that the system "will co provide benefits without any increase in taxes for the next il fund-raise- rs 50 years" "It's kind of silly to predict a doomsday scenario for Social Security to incite public fear and insecurity to urge Social Security reform and retrenchment when the only basis for doing so is a set of dire predictions made in what is a very unpredictable world" King said "The sky is not falling today this year this decade and for most of us not even in this lifetime" Dorcas Hardy King's immediate predecessor warned in a recent book that "in the next century the retirement checks that should be sent to benefit millions of Americans will not be there" King said Social Security trust funds are invested in US securities backed by the federal government a system that has been in place since the program began in 1935 King also challenged those who say the elderly are receiving benefits at the expense of children She said more than $1 billion in Social Security benefits are paid to more than 3 million children each month "I want to bring an end to this concept of warfare before it gets very far off the ground" she said Despite reports that the elderly are generally well off financially King said that without Social Security benefits more than half of the elderly would have incomes below the poverty level King also rebuffed concerns expressed by some blacks that the Social Security system discriminates against them because blacks generally have a shorter life span The average black male for example has a life span of 648 years so he would not receive benefits paid at 65 "It is precisely because of the mortality rates it is because of the comparably high rates of illness and disability that afflict our community that Social Security is such a critically important program for black Americans" King said "Most Americans have the mistaken impression that Social Security is strictly a retirement program" she said Instead it "is a program offering financial protection to children to the elderly to people with disabilities to whole families that no other program or individual retirement account can ever do" African-America- turned near Donegal One THE ASSOCIATED PRESS — Federal safety officials Tuesday blamed two 1991 bus accidents in Pennsylvania and New York on the failure of Greyhound Lines Inc drivto make sure its long-ha- two-yea- ul ers are experienced and trained "Neither bus driver possessed adequate driving skills nor experience to operate an intercity bus safely" the National Transportation Safety Board said The safety board announced its findings in these accidents: A Greyhound bus traveling from Cleveland to Washington ran off the Pennsylvania Turnpike on June 26 1991 and over second anniversary of the walkout "If our striking members return to work it will prevent the company from hiring any more scabs and will put our people back on the pas- senger was killed the driver and 14 passengers were in- jured A Greyhound bus headed from New York City to Buffalo NY veered off state Route 79 and overturned near Caroline NY on Aug 3 1991 Thirty-thre- e passengers and the driver were injured The safety board said an important factor in the accidents was the operators' unfamiliarity with the routes they were driving The board recommended that Greyhound create a new program to identify drivers lacking the skill to do their jobs driver-certificatio- inside" the n message said The union told Greyhound last week it was considering sanctioning the return to work said Elizabeth Dunn spokeswoman for the Dallas-basecompany hot-lin- e d REUTER NEWS SERVICE NAIROBI Kenya— Riot police enviclubbed Kenya's ronmentalist and three other women unconscious in central Nairobi on Tuesday best-know- 4 ! throughout the afternoon and fired into the air several times as they tried to drive a group of women hunger strikers and their supporters away from a park Some of the women who were demanding the release of political prisoners stripped naked to protest police treatment "They are beating innocent women" one screamed A hospital spokeswoman said later that one of the injured environmentalist Wangari Maathai was in a critical condition Maathai 53 is a leading member of the country's main opposition group the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy She is popular in Kenya for her conservation campaigns and last year won an international award for her work Police later removed a group of os P- t The Associated Press Police armed with clubs in Nairobi rush protesters demanding release of political prisoners f I t ' i 1 I ' REUTER NEWS SERVICE I t 1 1 I - 1 1 i 1 IV V PRESS UNITED NATIONS — Libya said Tuesday that it would ask the World Court to resolve its dispute with the United States and Britain over their demands for the extradition of two men accused of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 Libya's UN mission issued a statement saying it would "request the court to take the appropriate interim action" court formally known as tT7 International Court of Justice Hague is a UN body that resolves disputes among nations Countries must agree to submit a matter to the court and to abide by its decision Earlier Tuesday a British diplomat soid Libya had proposed turning over the bombing suspects if Washington restored relations with Libya But the diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity said he did not believe the Bush administration would negotiate over extradition The diplomat said Libyan leader Col Moammar Gadhafi made the offer through a UN envoy Iasi ly Safronchuk who has traveled several times to Tripoli to convey the Security Council's demand that Libya cooperate with the extradition process J 4 UN officials would only privately confirm that Safronchuk has been relaying explanations of Libya's position and counterproposals The United States and Libya do not have diplomatic relations and therefore have no mutual extradition treaty The US Siate Department said it had not seen the Libyan statement on its intentions to enlist the help of the World Court but that the Libyan action "is another in a long list of delaying tactics" A statement said "Libya's responsibility is clear" and that it must turn over the suspects wanted by the United States and Britain m the bombing of Flight 103 which exploded over Lockerbie Scotland in 1988 killing 270 people In a speech broadcast on Ltyan television Monday Gadhafi said Libya would set its oil wells afire if the United States Lied to seize them by force There have been no reports of US plans to invade the country and seize the wells Gadhafi denies the bombing suspects are intelligence agents and says they would not get a fair trial In the United States or Britain The suspects deny involvement in the bombing Turkey — An exploleast sion in a coal mine killed 52 miners and about 300 were still missing 10 hours after the blast a union official said early today Selahaddin Burkucu Kozlu branch chairman of the Genel en-Is miners' union said 52 bodies had been recovered from the Black Sea mine and rescuers were struggling to reach about 300 missing miners "We don't know exactly how Mad- 1840-foot-dee- p REUTER NEWS SERVICE - A speeding ex- press and a freight train collided and caught fire near marshland west of Moscow on Tuesday killing at least 27 people Latvian radio quoting Russian rescue workers said :6 bodies were found at the crash site near the town of Nelidovo about 190 many men were in the mine the time of the explosion" Edip Guthe mustas materials manager mine told Reuters He said lethal clouds of carbon monoxide produced by the blast were slowing rescue efforts Just before dawn a group of miners watched in sibodd lence as the stiff ies of two of their colleagues were lifted into ambulances from the mine shaft in Koz1u near Zonguldak about 170 miles northwest of grim-face- d dust-cake- miles west of Moscow Another person died in a hospital of his in-juries it said Russian television in its report on the crash of the overnight Riga- Moscow express and the freight put the death toll at "about 30" Many others were hospital- ized it said The accident turned three pas- - six-mil- e on the ground said Huron County sheriff's dispatcher Dave Blashill There were no immediate reports of damage jets were from Sel- fridge Air National Guard Base in Mount Clemens and were on a rou- tine training flight base spokes- woman Alice Errington said F-1- 6 ii f - -:- - n ' i -- 4 J -- - " 1 t1 :4- 4 41 q '' '5't ' geT5k' ' s I t '1 - 4 i ' : ' ' 41 4 r 11 11 - A THE WASHINGTON State James Baker was warned in sharp terms Tuesday that Con- gress may not fund large increases in UN peacekeeping activities in Cambodia Yugoslavia and other places where diplomats have beeir striving to stop bloody fighting Chairman Neal Smith and other members of the House Appropriations - st mind-bogglin- In the parking lot outside the blackened steel hulk of the pit head an old woman wailed a singsong lament for her dead son "Oh my son oh my poor son" she wept Miners' union official Sadettin Aydin said rescue teams were expected to reach the lower parts of the mine by midday but said he held out little hope of finding many survivors senger cars on the express into a blazing mass of twisted metal and the fire burned out of control for five hours it said s news agency said The rescuers were hindered by marsh-trailand around the tracks Doctors were flown to the crash site and ambulances ferried people to a nearby hospital for surgery ltar-Tas- n Collide One pilot survived the late afternoon crash said Petty Officer Sharon Machon of the US Coast Guard The pilot ran to a farm-Thhuse and called police Machon said The second pilot) body was discovered near the crash Blashill said e h subcommittee handling State Department funds complained at length about the rising costs of UN peacekeeping: which is a rapidly growing item in a US budget that includes cntbacks for many other programs Under current arrangements the United States is committed tc pay 30 percent of UN costs for peacekeeping activities Peacekeeping is "indeed going to continue to increase" Baker said largely because "we are in a new day and with the collapse O the confrontation we are seeing the resolution of a lot more of these regional conflicts" that afflicted the world in past decades "Calling UN peacekeeping Baker said "we have good buy" spent trillions of dollars to win the' Cold War and we ought to be willing to spend millions of dollars to secure the peace" But lawmakers were particulaf- ly upset by the large peacekeeping operation planned for Cambodia' UN plans call for a peacekeepink force of 22000 troops at a cost of $19 billion over the next 187 months there Rep Stephen Solarz chairman of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific said it would be "in--and uncredible forgivable" for the United States to cut back on its assessment while' Cambodia hangs in the balance The Bush administration asked Congress to supply $81 million for UN peacekeeping activities w fiscal year 1990 and $116 million in 1991 For the current fiscal year of 1992 Congress has been asked for a special appropriation of $350 million for the US share: of UN peacekeeping efforts and the same amount is being soughp in the fiscal 1993 budget Even these sharply increased sums will not be enough to cover-th- e full US share of all peace-- c keeping efforts under way or: planned State Department officials said Ankara F-1- 6s POST WASHINGTON — Secretary of single- g Texan Put to Death: to For Strangling : Woman in Her Tul-THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HUNTSVILLE Texas — A man was executed by injection early Tuesday for strangling a old woman in her bathtub at air apartment complex where be had been fired as a maintenance w3rk 74-yea- er Edward Ellis 38 went to after the US Suprenie Court refused a stayir: His lawyers claimed Monday tö have new evidence that another man who died a year ago was the': e: culprit "I just want everyone to know the prosecutor and Bill Scott are some sorry sons of bitches" said in a final statement Scott was a former inmate who testified rg against Ellis The killing was one of three in 1983 that became known as the Housten bathtub slayings Ellis was not implicated in the others Prosecutors said Ellis' fingerr prints were on the apartment door ' of victim Bertie Eakens and that he was seen driving a car like hers' and selling jewelry like the items-- I taken from her home In their appeals Ellis' lawyeri') contended another man killed Ea kens ": th last-minut- e 4 t ' r Iv 1 Congress UN Battle Over Price of Peace: demonstrators - i Gwendolyn King since President Daniel arap Moi announced last December the country would switch to a multiparty system after decades of -party rule 1 ( : M East-We- i 1! UN-sponsor- nt - I 01e-- - 04"' ---- about 30 women who had remained sitting in the dark in a corner of Uhuru (Independence) Park They were pushed into police vans shortly before midnight witnesses said Police said the women were briefly held at a police station and then driven to their homes Meanwhile Somalia's two rival warlords signed a aimed at stopping three cease-fir- e months of fighting in Mogadishu the capital But they failed to agree on how the truce should be monitored "The cease-fir- e agreement is effective immediately but in practical terms the observation team is not yet there" UN UndJames Joersecretary-General nah told reporters on his return to Nairobi capital of neighboring Kenya The unrest was the worst confrontation between police and Pilot Dies Other Parachutes to Safety After THE ASSOCIATED mass ELKTON Mich — Two military fighter planes crashed during a training flight Tuesday killing one pilot while the other parachuted to safety officials said Debris was scattered over about area according to rea ports No injuries were reported v-- 1 Russian Trains Collide in Flames Kil ling 27 MOSCOW 11 ii L Libya Wants World Court At Least 52 Die in Turkish Mine Blast at To Take Extradition Case KOZW at at THE ASSOCIATED I n The police used tear gas '- - i t it: it Kenyan Police Bludgeon Women Hunger Strikers 0 t it 1 Greyhound and the union have since exchanged letters to discuss priorities for rehiring the striking drivers and will likely meet later she said When the strike was first called two years ago some 60 Greyhound drivers were based in the Salt Lake City area according to union member Dave Johnson He said many have moved out of the area but 36 drivers remain Johnson said the drivers will go back to work based on seniority but the company will have final say about where they will work and when they will be rehired Some union leaders said they were confused by the union's decision "Either you're a scab or you're not a scab" said Willie Tate chairman of the Greyhound union that includes 150 strikers in the Dallas area Other leaders wondered how Greyhound would treat strikers "We're leery" said Alphonse D Gallion Jr who leads the Greyhound union in Albuquerque NM "Everybody that I've talked to they won't go back" Inexperience to Blame for Bus Crashes WASIHNGTON 1 r!- n family-protectio- TRIBUNE STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS senting 5000 Greyhound Lines Inc drivers said Tuesday its members could return to work after a r strike although the walkout against the bus company was still technically on "We're saying that it's not a violation of union policy for people to go back to work" said Earle Putnam general counsel for the Amalgamated Transit Union parent of the Amalgamated Council of Greyhound Local Unions that represents the drivers "It's just one of those weird situations one confronts in the field of labor relations when some things are not settled and disputes persist" Putnam said "The strike is on But as a practical matter there's little or no picketing taking place" he said Union leaders meeting in Phoenix on Saturday decided to allow striking members the opportunity to return to work while the union presses its issues against Greyhound in court They announced their decision to members on the union's strike hot line Monday the Told 0 OMerS Striking Greyhound Drivers May Be on Road Again DALLAS — The union repre- t I inter-generation- - I I Pli e - |
