Show Saturday February 7 2A Ogden 1 987 Committees delay hearings on arms scandal WASHINGTON TAP) — Lead ers of congressional committees afinvestigating the fair acknowledging the complexity of the case and the absence of any previous testimony from crucial witnesses said Friday it will be sometime in April before public hearings can get under way The Democratic chairmen of the House and Senate panels and the GOP vice chairman of the Senate committee during a priluncheon meeting vate also renewed a pledge of cooperation and discussed procedural issues in probing the diversion of Iranian arms sales profits to Nicaraguan Contra rebels “In every respect we will try to coordinate our activities and to share documents and information" Rep Lee Hamilton chairman of the House com- - WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department awarded a secret $276186 contract last year to a public relations firm which sources say worked with House aide Oliver L North to rally support for giving military aid to Nicaragua’s Contra rebels The firm International Busi mittee told reporters after the meeting “We want very much to coordinate the investigation We don’t wish to present to the public a confused state of affairs" added Sen Daniel K Inouye who heads the Senate committee ness Communications Inc hosted meetings to plan a $1 million ad campaign and acted as “a reference library" for those making the ads said Adam Goodman spokesman for the Robert Goodman ad agency which produced the television spots The contract has raised ques During the luncheon which aln so included Sen Warren B vice chairman of the Senate committee and top aides from each panel the legislators also agreed to jointly interroand gate certain witnesses respond jointly to President tions about whether the payments might breach a 1943 lawr that prohibits spending federal money “directly or indirectly to influence votes by Congress except when administration officials provide information “through proper official channels" Besides participation in the Reagan's ofTer to make certain personal notes available to investigators Rep Richard Cheney the vice chairman of the House committee was out of town In Decorah Iowa Friday Attorney General Edwin Meese III Knowlton said the flat tax is fairer than either the current system or Bangerter’s proposed overhaul of state income tax brackets He said it also would be easier to administer Knowlton said it is the right time to make the change because the overhaul of the federal income tax system has provided an impetus for the state to change its own system “It’s probably making an opportunity for it now I’m not sure people are comfortable with just raising rates which is the other alternative" Knowlton said Under the current system taxpayers reach the top bracket of 75 percent if they have $7500 or more in taxable income That places most Utahns in the top bracket Bangerter has proposed raising the top bracket floor to $ 6000 taxable income and lifting the rate to 10 percent The governor would tax those with up to $8000 taxable income at a 5 percent rate and those between $8000 and $16000 at 75 percent His plan would produce $102 million in additional revenue for the state Personal and dependent exemptions under the governor’s plan would jump from $750 each to $2000 personal and $1500 per dependent Bangerter said during his weekly news briefing he was not opposed to a flat tax He said had considered it but decided it was not feasible considering the probable opposition to the elimination of deductions such as charitable donations He said the lower rate that would accompany a flat tax could help attract business to Utah From 1A voice opposition to the bill though because they said they felt the decision to consolidate should be made at the local level — not in the Legislature Rep Frank Johnson Lake blasted local school boards for failing to tackle the consolida Regional forecasts Associated Press Reporter returns from Iran American journalist Gerald F Seib who was expelled by Iran after being held for almost a week as a suspected spy tion issue themselves and said they should have the “internal fortitude" to make tough decisions “You either take care of your own destiny and manage it or it will be done less well in the Legislature" Johnson said At that point Protzman the freshman Democrat from North Ogden proposed an amendment to give school districts more flexi waves to reporters on a balcony of the Zurich Switzerland airport Friday With him is his wife Barbara bility in consolidating According to the amendment districts could submit an alternative reorganization proposal 1988 Legislature “We need to create serious incentives for districts to reorganize" Protzman said “This gives them the flexibility to reorganize the way they want to" If the Legislature did not The amendment was approved but failed to swing enough support behind the bill ap- prove the plan or the districts chose not to look at alternatives then they would be consolidated in 1989 in accordance with original bill Burningham said the bill’s defeat was the result of pressure from local school districts Per tauare cm on a gravity slide at Hospital Count proved by the Intermountain Auergy Clinic on Monday Wednesday and Friday Mold Sagebrush Regional temps Citv Logan Hortn Ogden Ogden Pose'e'io Provo San Lase St George Vernal Wenoover High Lew Preop Hamilton said he was unable to give a more precise target for beginning hearings The opinion was written by Chief Judge Patricia M Wald Judge Hubert L Will of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois who was designated a member of the panel concurred with it while Judge Stephen Williams dissented from most of it The Labor Department is reviewing the opinion and has 45 days to decide whether to ask for a rehearing by the panel spokesman Chriss Winston said Seven days after that period the court has said it would order OSHA to issue sanitation rules within 30 days Wald noting that Brock admits the need for proper sanitary facilities for agricultural workers said it is beyond dispute that the lack of toilets and water for drinking and handwashing causes the spread of infections bladder disease and heat prostration among millions of farm workers Terzi told a news conference He did not define “flesh of the kill" A Western news agency in Beirut said it received a statement from women in the Bouij el Barajneh camp asking permission “to eat the flesh of those who didn’t have the strength to stay alive" “It is rather traumatizing to The agency quoted the statethink that people can reach a as saying the refugees were stage of starvation when they can ment eating cats and dogs but few ask for an edict or some permission that they can eat the flesh of were left in the camp the kill because they don’t have “It is really shocking" Terzi anything else to eat" Zehdi Labib said “But the facts are there" Corrections & clarifications We strive to produce a fair and newspaper 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cooperation we have in receiving information that we request But we would like very much to begin the hearings during the month of April" As for will begin UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Palestinians in a Beirut refugee camp that has been under siege for months have asked Moslem leaders for permission to eat human flesh because they are starving the PLO’s chief UN1 observer said Friday The Ogden The Forecast for 7 pm EST Sat Feb 7 Temperatures Carbon monoxide levels: Bountiful (residential) Ogden (residential) Ogden (downtown) San Lake City (downtown) Provo (downtown) (Levels of 0 to 100 art considered-gooto excellent) “I did not give such advice to the president" Meese told report-er- s “And I believe that the Senate Committee misunderstood something that Mr (former security council adviser Robert) McFarlane had said We are trying to find out exactly what was testified to" Starving refugees ask to eat human flesh Extended forecasts Utah Monday though Wednesday partly cloudy A tew snowert south about Tuesday Continued mild Hight north 45 to 55 and south In the 50s and low 60s Lows mostly 20s during an appearance on the campus of Luther College said he never advised Reagan that oral consent was sufficient in authorizing a secret arms deal with Iran Meese quarreled with a Senate Intelligence Committee report re WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday ordered the Reagan administration to end a legal wrangle by issuing rules guaranteeing drinking water and toilets to farm workers in the field Citing a “disgraceful chapter of legal neglect" the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found that Labor Secretary William E Brock abused his discretion in October 1985 when he delayed the issuance of federal rules for two years with the hope that state regulators would step in to protect farm workers’ health e A panel said Brock in “an unsupported and unrealistic hope that state governments would suddenly move en masse to fill the need" flouted the intent of 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