European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 if if the stars and stripes april Shultz pledges Battle against protectionism Washington up Secretary of state George Shultz opened a conference with officials of six Southeast asian nations tuesday with a pledge to fight protectionism at Home and an Appeal for an opening up of foreign we fight protectionism very hard and it is Tough when you have a Trade Pic Ture like the one that we but it will not diminish our efforts to keep our markets Shultz said in welcoming re Marks to a today Trade conference of the association of Southeast asian the countries Are the Singapore and taken As a they Are the fifth largest trading partner of the United with two Way Trade Topping billion in Shultz did not mention the Reagan administrations dispute with Japan Over that country restrictions on on Mon he said negotiations with the japanese had been very frustrating and but he made an Appeal to the Asean countries to eliminate protectionist i believe that you from the Asean countries have a Challenge to not Only in examining the ways in which our Market has its deficiencies from your Point of View and letting us know about but exam ining your markets and what sort of restrictions you Shultz ask yourself whether that is in your and i think basically the answer is he Shultz noted criticism from abroad that Washington has protectionist policies and if we Are a protectionist were doing a Lousy Job of he said political pressures around the Globe have fostered a worldwide quota system and that not my idea of How to run the delegation to the dialogue is led by Allen undersecretary of state for economic who spoke out for free Trade in his opening about 50 representatives of the foreign and economic ministries of the Asean countries Are taking part in the being held in a state department the dialogues held every two years Are a review of economic relations in investment and cooperative measures such As joint Aid and technical the focus this year is on Trade and ways of improving Market Asean officials have indicated to american officials that they will want the United states to ease tightened import restrictions on textile they also have indicated that they would not look with favor on any retaliation toward Japan for japanese Trade restrict since such sanctions have a Way of spilling Over to other countries which then suffer loss of Access to edible portraits up photo artist Peter Rocha of san Francisco Dis plays some of his portraits Pope John Paul president Reagan and Elvis pres Ley during an exhibition at Marshall Fields department store in the portraits Are made of allowed when patients will never regain consciousness Pom supports withdrawal of lit support units new York a doctors should be allowed to with draw mechanical life support systems from comatose patients who will never regain according to a majority of respondents in a Media Genera associated press a majority also said they believe that people suffering incurable diseases should be allowed to end their lives before the diseases run their the nationwide Telephone poll of adult americans sought opinions on issues from the care of deformed infants to treatment of the terminally some of the findings More than two thirds of the respondents said doctors should be allowed to turn off respirators and other life support units when it has been determined that the patients would never regain Only two in 10 said doctors should not be allowed to take that and the rest were More than two thirds said people dying of painful disease should be allowed to end their lives before the diseases run their about six in 10 said parents should be allowed to order surgery withheld when a severely retarded infant is born with other defects that would kill the child without about two in 10 said parents should not be Al Lowed to make that and the rest were slightly More than half of the respondents 54 percent were in favor of transplanting animal organs into about a third opposed such and 12 percent we rent knowing the sex of an unborn baby was unimportant to 80 percent knowing the health of an unborn infant was very important to 68 theologians and patients and their families face new ethical and moral questions because of medical inventions that keep people alive Long after their brains cease to three quarters of those aged 18 to 34 supported the right of the seriously ill to end their own while Only 54 percent of those Over 65 supported the race and sex were also three Quad ters of College graduates supported the right of the seriously ill to end their compared with 51 percent of those who never finished High sixty nine percent of Whites favored compared with 51 percent of and 73 percent of males favored compared with 63 percent of respondents included a random scientific sampling of adults across the country As with All Sample the results of Media Genera Lap Tele phone polls can vary from the opinions of All americans because of Chance variation in the for a poll based on about the results Are subject to an error margin of 3 percentage Points either Way because of Chance variations in the that if one could have questioned All americans with there is Only 1 Chance in 20 that the findings would vary from the results of polls such As this one by More than 3 percentage the results could differ from other polls for additional for differences in exact wording of in the timing of interviews and in interviewing methods could also cause Media general a communications company based in publishes the Richmond time Dis Patch and the Richmond news Leader the Tampa and the Winston Salem journal and the Winston Salem Sentinel in North the Compa nys television stations Are Weflin a cd in and woks in House democrats push top level tax hike Washington up calling their plan More a matter of fairness than a tax a group of House democrats is pushing to raise income taxes by at least billion per year but Only for corporations and the the people in the country Are crying put for something like said Charles the sponsor of a Bill to impose a minimum tax on individuals and companies with adjusted in comes above were All concerned that tax increase has a bad Schumer but this is not a tax increase in the eyes of the this is Marty a said one of the things this int is a new tax its a Way of seeing that peo ple who Are not paying their pay their the which has 26 would toughen the Way corporations and individuals compute their adjusted Gross income and impose a 25 percent minimum tax on those with adjusted incomes of More than for individuals Between and the minimum tax would be gradually phased although the sponsors released some aides said the actual Bill is still in the working growing attention is being paid to companies that have made huge profits but paid no or received Schumer and Russo circulated a list of 65 companies including several major de sense contractors Between 1981 and each made More than Mil lion in profit but paid no taxes or received we have a billion Russo something needs to be done to raise Russo said the chairman of the House ways and Means Dan had assured him every thing is on the table and has Given us the Green Light to go ahead and do what we want to Schumer and Russo believe their plan could be an alternative to the widely Dis cussed tax simplification which Are designed to be Revenue Neutral not significantly raising or lowering the amount of tax two House subcommittees monday examined other measures that would add taxes to discourage cer Tain hostile corporate takeover attempts that end up not being but often provide enormous profit for the corporate were trying to put enough of a tax on it to More or less take away the advantage of a questionable hostile takeover said David