European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes May 1985 Jesse Jackson with 1984 Campaign manager Arnold up photo a Jackson aide to Appeal interest conflict conviction Cleveland the Jesse Jacksons 1984 Campaign Arnold says he is innocent and plans to Appeal a Jurys decision convicting him of unlawful interest in a Public the jury on Friday found Pinkney guilty of using his appointed position As Secretary treasurer of the  county port to obtain an insurance contract for his the Pinkne Perry insurance in and were going to Appeal Pinkney said after the verdict in Cuya hoga county common pleas Ive maintained from the Start that in inno i didst think anything was brought out by the state to change testified that he signed a Check drawn on port author Tad ministered Public funds payable to Pink of which he is chairman and 26 percent the Check was a Premium for lawsuit liability insurance for the port authority his lawyers said Pinkney never sought the insurance Deal and did not know of any potential problem regarding the payment of the judge Robert Gorman set sentencing for june 21 following an investigation by the county probation the conviction carries a maximum penalty of 1 i years in prison and a Pinkney was Campaign manager for Jacksons bid for the 1984 democratic presidential and his lawyers had called Jackson As a character i respected his whether it was with the handling of Money or an Jackson testified knowing ahead of time that this Campaign was going to be scrutinized so we knew that Pur judgment could be but our integrity could i trusted following his Pinkney called Richard Celeste and offered his Resig nation As Secretary of the Ohio building said Brian celestes press Celeste accepted the resignation and said he was saddened by pinkness usher he said Celeste has known Pinkney for 20 years and considered him a Man of profits from Case would be barred Nicaragua called threat to Mexico and Panama canal Washington up the marxist government in Nicaragua is an immediate threat to the Panama canal and a longer term threat to Cia director Wil Liam Casey contends in partially explaining Why the United states should Aid the rebels in that Central american in a speech published said the sandinista have taken 33 of the 46 Steps intelligence analysts say Are on the soviet unions blueprint for seizing and consolidating Casey also said the soviets and Cuba want Nicaragua for a beachhead and a launching pad to subvert the rest of Cen trial and South wave of refugees he said the threat to the Panama canal is Short to Mexico somewhat longer and the first consequence of expanding soviet influence would be a tidal wave of refugees into the United Casey first delivered the speech to the metropolitan club in new York May the Washington times published the text and a Cia spokeswoman said she did not think it had been reported Casey said analysts had studied totalitarian regimes in South Grenada and Nicara Gua and had identified 46 indicators of the consolidation of Power by a marxist Leninist he in 5vz years has accomplished those 33 Steps have included taking control of the the education systems and the secret the american intelligence Casey has concurred in recent months in four National estimates of so Viet and cuban objectives in the Hemi the soviet Union and Cuba have established and Are consolidating a Beach head on the american Are put Ting hundreds of millions of dollars Worth of military equipment into it and have begun to use it As a launching pad to carry their style of aggressive subversion into the rest of Central America and elsewhere in latin he Casey said there Are to cuban advisers and several Hundred other communist and Radical personnel in besides a local military Force of militia and reserves of nearly and soviet armoured Lehi state theart patrol boats and an increasingly comprehensive air he said the primary communist objectives Are the Oil Fields of the Middle which Are the lifeline of the Western Alli and the isthmus Between North and South he capabilities to threaten the Panama canal in the Short term and mex Ico in a somewhat longer term Are being developed in where the Sandi nista revolution is the first successful Cas troite seizure of Power on the american today we see Nicaragua becoming to Central and latin America what Beirut was to the Middle East for almost 15 years since when Lebanon became the focal Point for International and regional Casey Casey said Nicaragua is merely another chapter in the soviet design for Domina Tion that has already worked in Asia and elsewhere in latin this Campaign of aggressive subversion has nibbled away at Friendly govern ments and our vital interests Pur National Security is impaired in our immediate As Well As in eur Africa and latin he 20 minimum tax rate in new paper says Washington a a 20 percent minimum income tax would be imposed on corporations and individuals under a tax simplification plan being drafted by the Reagan the Washington Post has lawmakers in Illinois target Dotson a Illinois lawmakers Are pushing a measure aimed at barring Gary Dotson from making Money on books or movies about Bis celebrated rape recantation the As written says victims get the first Chance to pick up Book or movie profits gained by the criminals who victimized a criminal must put such profits into a special state fund and May Only get the Money after two none of his victims has filed a claim for because Cathleen Crowell Webb has re canted the testimony that sent Dotson to prison for a 25to 50year sentence in she would not be Likely to file a under terms of the measure to be consid ered in the Illinois movie or Book profits could not revert to a criminal after the two year waiting they would go into the states crime victims compensation i want to protect the people of this state and our judicial system from being used As props for two people who could stand to reap millions or dollars in Book and movie profits from exploiting this said re publican Prescott Bloom of a sponsor of the Dotson rape sentence was commuted by James Thompson but Thompson refused to Pardon saying he did not believe webbs latest version of her in webbs pastor said Friday he has been hounded with including one from a Playboy Magazine for the Story of his part in webbs recantation of rape the Carl who has been webbs confidant since she decided to deny that the rape complained that too i in on the Many people Are trying to people Call me up and say that they have the same Christian values that i have and want to write a Christian Story from a Christian when i checked one of he wrote for Playboy Nannini he certainly Doest have the same perspective that we but Paul publicity director for said Friday that the magazines Edi tors had not authorized a Story about Nannini or made him any kind of both the corporate and individual mini mum taxes would be alternative with taxpayers calculating their taxes using the regular method and the minimum tax then paying whichever is the newspaper the draft says the minimum tax is needed because the rest of the plan retains so Many loopholes without some corporations and individuals could still end up paying Little or no the newspaper the tax plan is to be announced by presi Dent Reagan on May 28 and is subject to changes until the newspaper it said it obtained copies of chapters of the draft document from congressional the tax simplification plan contains incentives that would enable some High in come individuals and corporations to eliminate their tax liabilities or substantially reduce their effective tax rates by heavy utilization of such the newspaper a minimum tax designed to limit the number of Lowmax returns should be the Post quoted the draft As the new York times said Reagan has decided that Only families with More than of taxable income would be subject to the highest tax rate of 35