European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 poll shows Public not buying Reagan plan for tax revision Washington not the Rea Gan administrations Campaign to sell its tax revision plan As a Boon to Middle in come americans has not taken Root in the minds of the according to the latest new York time subs news when he submitted his tax proposals to Congress in the president said they would reduce the tax burdens on the work ing people of this and he emphasized that theme in speeches around the country last the time subs news poll that Only 13 percent of americans believe their taxes would be reduced by the presidents two americans in five believe their taxes would be and another two fifths believe their taxes would remain about the same As they Are perhaps More in a country where the vast majority of people consider themselves Middle half of All Ameri cans believe Middle income taxpayers would have their taxes increased by the presidents the poll the administration calculates that under reagans nearly 60 percent of the tax payers in the country would pay lower taxes than they pay while about 20 percent would pay More and the rest would pay about the most people at every income level would get a tax the administration with taxes paid by individuals reduced by about 7 percent theres a real credibility said John director of fiscal policy studies for the american Enterprise who generally favors the administrations tax the poll was based on Telephone inter views with adults conducted from july 16 through the margin of Sam pling error is plus or minus 3 reagans political strategists concede that his which would reduce tax rates and abolish Many stands Little Chance in Congress unless the Public can be persuaded that most people would be better a poll taken now cannot predict How Public attitudes about taxes May be altered by a sustained Campaign by the president after labor Day to sell his Over the surveys have consistently shown pub Lic disbelief that revisions in the tax Law would Benefit them Reagan has proved remarkably successful in gaining popular support of other pro and his advisers express Confidence that he can convince the Public of the value of his tax were right on schedule according to what our plan Donald the White House chief of told the chamber of Commerce last we will pursue a very Active course this fall in sup port of tax the presidents commitment to his tax proposals is absolute and Treasury Secretary James Baker said in an throughout the respondents Opin ions about taxes were closely tied to their views of Reagan for according to the 19 percent of the people would like to see the presidents plan approved while 47 percent would like to see it passed with and 20 percent would like the tax system left nine tenths of those who want the proposals adopted without change say they approve of the Way Reagan is con ducting his compared with 60 percent of the rest of the among those who would like to see the plan enacted but with there was no consensus on what the changes should but about on third of the Public could cite one deduction they wanted to see maintained despite the Overall goal of eliminating deductions in order to lower what Reagan says youll save proposed tax reduction in percent by income groups All taxpayers less than 66 Chicago Tribune graphic source office of the White House mayor sees to it chef gets just desserts new York a Brush with the cites health department turned chef Paul Prudhomme into a Ragin but thanks to mayor Edward Koch he got what he was after a Tempo Rary Yankee Branch of his famed new Orleans Prudhomme had planned to open for five weeks a version of his Spauls Louisiana Kitchen on manhattans Colum bus but a health department inspector found about 30 health code violations in the makeshift restaurant and ordered it Prudhomme opened anyway tuesday Only Kochs spurred by Calls from Louisiana kept the chef from becoming an Koch and his buildings and health commissioners inspected the restaurant the he were relatively minor and All had been corrected or were being the restaurant would there Are few chefs who could cause this kind of but the 400pound Prudhomme has become the embodiment of cajun Cook popularizing the highly seasoned Louisiana cuisine in when he closed his restaurant for four weeks and opened a temporary out Post in san some patrons waited in line As Long As 12 this Prudhomme packed up 50 of his employees and moved them to new fresh ingredients will be flown up each Day to make the likes of crab meat Popcorn with Sherry blackened yellow Fin tuna and panned Rabbit with crab meat the problems began monday at a private party to celebrate the open Koch said a City official attending the party noted numerous violations and called the health the inspector found that Prudhomme had not tiled for a restaurant permit was unaware of the said his Saul there was no device to keep food hot food is cooked to said a Prudhomme there was a massive Fly infestation Prudhomme denies Viet vets Call rambo unrealistic propaganda san Francisco a angry Vietnam veterans have picketed Sylvester Stallones hit movie rambo first blood part complaining that it psychologically prepares youths for War and glamorize the Vietnam in the Stallone plays a decorated Vietnam Veteran who asked to return to Asia to look for american prisoners of when rambo finds the pos and at tempts to bring them Hes thwarted by the government and abandoned in Viet rambo takes on the commanders a helicopter and re turns the pos to an american base near at the rambo gives an impassioned speech to his telling him he loves his country and would die for but he just wants to be recognized for what he and other vets did in veterans picketing one theater wednes Day called the film propaganda that Aims to prepare americas youth for another Vietnam like were brainwashed with similar propaganda before the Vietnam said Eduardo spokesman for the Veter ans speakers when we got to we found that it want like the John Wayne we didst find we were fooled into sacrificing our lives or part of our rambo docs the same veterans said they would conduct informational picketing throughout the week at Heaters showing the rambo we feel the Public is forgetting the Les sons we Learned the hard Way in Cohen we dont want that to Hap Kim a member of the Alliance who saw the complained that the film paints an unrealistic portrait of to Sec Stallone take on the entire enemy and not get a scratch on his body is totally he the film is to tally the Alliance also lambasted Stallone for portraying himself As a spokesman for All Vietnam we Are offended that Stallone is presenting himself As a Vietnam he apparently feels that he can represent All but we dont like Cohen he was never involved in the he Doest know what we went reviews of the film were some critics saw it As an others deplored its historical7 group will pay Auschwitz victim los Angeles a a Man whose family was exterminated in nazi concentration Camps will receive and an apology from groups that claimed the world War ii murder of 6 million jews is a this is definitely a unconditional i refer to it As a Victory for All civilized Melvin Mermelstein said wednesday of the stipulated judgment read into the Superior court record two Days of Long sued in 1981 for Mil alleging emotional distress after the Torrance based Institute for historical review failed to pay him a Reward offered to anyone who could prove that jews were sent to Gas Chambers at the Auschwitz concentration among defendants were the Liberty lobby of washing and Willis lobby treasurer and founder of the trial was to have begun judge Robert Wenke ordered the groups to make three payments totalling by the first is due Mermelstein Gloria the defendants also agreed to accept a 1981 court Rul ing that said the murder of jews at Auschwitz was an indisputable Auschwitz was one of several slave labor and death Camps the nazis set up in Europe to exterminate political opponents and others they deemed unfit to historians say 11 million civilians were murdered by the nazis under the cover of the the is about the amount it would have taken in attorneys fees to try the said Mark von who represents Carto and Liberty it was an eco nomic in the groups officially and formally apologized to a survivor of Auschwitz and All other survivors of Auschwitz for the anguish and suffering he and All other Auschwitz survivors have sustained relating to the Allred the announcement was made in her los Angeles Law surrounded by what she termed terrible Memen toes of the including human ashes of the cremated dead and photographs of the 17yearold Mermelstein and other concentration Camp who still bears a tattooed number on his received a letter in november 1980 from the Institute for historical challenging him to prove jews were gassed at Auschwitz or have the fact of his refusal Allred said Mermelstein submitted sworn declarations and other evidence that he saw his Mother and sister driven into Gas Chambers in his father later died from slave labor at the Camp and his brother was shot while being transferred Between she who owns a lumber byproducts estimated he spent fighting the even though Allred donated her he said he never consid ered giving