European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday november 30. 1985 tax Reform measure has image problem astr scion it l l a Rne mid dle Inci me  omit out pushed Mlo higher Bra Keis under the a use a is Mil Means of Miucci s version it  Reform raising i Public relations dilemma fur the plane in though to payments  n l of " up 1 he shift into the in her brackets for some of the american mini file class is one  being exam Neil in lax analysis in and i  Llull is  in no hrs to to Ite Cule whether to Puppiri the com Ini Ilee  i Antler the committee s plan there ire four tax rates is percent. 2 percent. 35 percent and in percent president Reagan wanted three brackets 1 percent. 25 percent and percent As Parl of an Ell i to raise Money to pay for other tax Breaks the chose to keep the   ii Cej to lower the income lev Els  Niue a taxpayer into a higher bracket i under  m s , a married couple lilnu1 .1 i him  return must have taxable incomes if k to be forced into a top marginal   of 35 percent. I under the original plan by rep. Pan rostenkm.,. Im1i. Chairman of the  and Means committee that income level  Mojo. Hut Umler the committee Bill married couples with a taxable income of $43,000 get forced into the 35 percent rate a higher marginal rate than the 33 percent level the arc at now. Tor single people the Story is Simitar. Under Reagan s plan they would nol be in the 35 percent bracket until they had a  income level of 541000.  had proposed they reach the 3 5 percent rate at 539.100. The committee Bill would Force people with a s30.000 taxable income into the 35 percent rate. They no have a marginal rate of 30 percent. Committee aides stress that because of other changes in things such As the Stan Dard deduction and personal exemption virtually All taxpayers would receive tax cuts under the plan. New committee figures show that under the proposal the average tax Cut would be 9 percent while Reagan s average reduction would be 10.5 percent. The president s plan would give More of a tax break to the wealthy than the committee s blueprint. Supporters of the committee plan also say that keeping the state and local lax deduction which Reagan would have eliminated is another key advantage of the com Mittee s Bill. Others contend the committee s rate Structure Nuy make its plan less attractive than the president s version even with the other changes. The people who Are going to get really hit. Is the individual or couple who is Middle income and has Only the mortgage in Tercel deduction noted one democratic tax expert from the Senate who asked not to be identified. The Senate aide agreed that most tax payers would see a tax Cut but the perception of moving into higher brackets might cause problems fur americans who like to View themselves As advancing in their Ca Reers and earning More Money. Accused spy for China did major damage paper says  Cill is u la accused spy 1 Arry Ulai Chin had Access to nearly every lop secret i s intelligence report on Asia for at least 2 1 years and is thought to have i in most of them to the chinese government the i of Angeles limes reported i riday. Govern mint documents died since Chin  arrested nov and attuned of up Iii for the chinese have described him As a Low level  fur the cd a who retired from the Agency s foreign broadcast information service which monitors foreign government broadcasts. Hut intelligence officials told the times thai Chin also served As a document control officer during much of his career handling highly classified reports for the entire . Intelligence Community. The unidentified intelligence officials said damage by c Hin far exceeds that of the other two accused spies arrested in separate cases last week former National Security Agency specialist Ronald a. Pelton. Accused of spying for the Soult i Nion and alleged israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. Pelton. They said is thought to have com promised a multimillion Dollar electronic espionage project within the soviet Union that just stopped working in 19k.v How Ever he is not suspected of disclosing Sensi Tive . Codes. The Fri and Cia Are continuing investigations of the Chin affair and at least one More arrest is possible. Hut the damage has already been found to be extraordinary and lasting said the officials who spoke on the condition that they not be identified. Fri agents escort Larry we Tai Chin right from a hearing in Alexandria a. Among other probable effects Chin s alleged spying May account for the dismal results of . Espionage operations in China for some 20 years and probably gave the chinese an inside look at . Policy during the Vietnam War. He had Access to All of it. He photo graphed it and he gave it to them one intelligence source said. It s a goddamn  Chin. 63, so completely fooled Cia officials during his 33 years of work that the Agency awarded him its career intelligence medal for Superior service when he retired in 1981. The Agency then hired him As a part time consultant and tried to persuade him to come Back to work full time. Intelligence sources said in addition to monitoring chinese language publications and broadcasts. Chin also routed finished intelligence products through the Cia the defense intelligence Agency the White House and the state and defense depart ments. The work which requires top secret clearance and Access to code word material. Exposed Chin to the entire realm of analytical intelligence on All of Asia outside the soviet Union. Because Chin was one of he few Cia employees who spoke fluent chinese he was routinely asked to translate documents pilfered from the chinese government. His knowledge of where documents were being stolen would have allowed the chinese to plug most intelligence leaks. Snow rain make travel dangerous As dead Winter grips Northern areas by a filed press International the rain and cold that made for an icy thanksgiving persisted in the Northeast Friday keeping roads dangerously Slick while the temperature dropped to 30 below Cro in the Midwest. Snow weary residents in the West pre pared for up to a foot of new Snow and More record cold. Bone chilling cold gripped the Northern part of the nation for the 12th Day in a Row Friday pushing the temperature to a record 30 below in bist Nark . Five record lows were reached Early Friday and ii on thursday in the Northern Rockies and Northern Plains. It was a record 28 below in International Falls minn., a City that has earned a reputation As the nation s  it was the third consecutive Day a record Low was set there. We be come to expect these kind of win ters Here said Tom Klein editor of the daily journal in International Falls. Then too there s a certain amount of notoriety with being the nation s icebox and a bit of Pride involved the icy cold however caused More of a stir in Nebraska. We re in dead Winter said Gerry Osborn Ainsworth postmaster and an observer for the National weather service. The state Low Early Friday was 4 below Ero at Ainsworth. I be been taking weather records for nearly 20 years and my father for 20 years before that he said. "1 have no recall of the sustained cold we have experienced  since nov. A temperatures have risen above free ing Only twice and in nine of the past 10 Days Ainsworth has recorded sub Ero lows. Snow dusted the upper Midwest Early with 4 inches falling in upper Michigan. Residents in the West who were digging out from up to 20 inches of Snow that com d schools Ana roads near Seattle geared up for a storm Friday that could dump up to a foot of Snow forecasters said. Higher elevations of the Sierra Nevada thursday were buried under 10 to 20 inches of Snow and up to 2 feet of new Snow is expected there by saturday. A Winter storm watch was issued Friday Lor the Northern Sierra Nevada and a Winter storm warning was posted for the Lake Tahoe. Nev. Basin. Traveller advisories were issued from the Sierra Nevada and Southeast Oregon to Colorado free ing drier la and dense fug made travel  in new York. In Nosy Kania and new England Friday. Up to .1 lout of Snow buried parts of new York thursday and nearly half a fool fell in new i Lampshire. The Slick roads made highways already crowded with Holiday travellers Evert More dangerous. At least 72 people have died on the nation s roads since the thanksgiving Holiday weekend began at h p m local time wednesday. Rain fell Friday from the Central and Eastern Gulf coast Region to the Middle Atlantic coast. The South basked in record warmth thursday. New High were reached at nine locations including Savannah ga., where it was 82 degrees. Doo Dah dandies set to March sunday Pasadena Calif. A the return of the living dead mouse pc to cars is one of the highlights of this weekend s 9th occasional Doo Dah Parade the More or less annual so Dup of the Rose Parade. Annette and cubby arc Back and they re ready to parly said Peter Apanel 34, the Parade organizer who expects 2.200 people to step off at noon sunday in i 25 Parade entries from 60 cities. The Parade also features the re turn of the business suited briefcase Drill team which twirls its White Collar tool boxes in precision patterns while strutting Down the Avenue in corporate Loci step. But there will be a few twists this year like a group of 38 people marching As briefcases that twirl Little people dolls said Apanel who originated the Parade in 1978. The event has been held nine limes since 1978 because organizers decided to hold it twice one year. As Many As 60,000 have turned out to watch