European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and stripes thursday Mays 198g weekend open House planned at Tempelhof Ity Joe Mapother staff writer the annual Alpen House at turn Palhof can incl air Smirl i Iii Drew 500,000 visitors last year will be. Held no Ian this weekend despite the april terrorist bomb inns Blini killed one so Dick in i discotheque. Air Force officials in Berlin said wednesday the Deci Sion aug upend with the open House was guided by i heir commitment to put the military Airport on display 10 the Public Anil la help get tilings Bach to Normal within the military Community in the divided City -. Tin open House would have been cancelled had the american military Community in Europe maintained Zijic red suite of Alert declared in the Wake or the discotheque bombing and retaliatory strike by american Plains i Jaiml. Libya said it. Col. Fred n. Brownjr. Project officer for open House 8fi Al Tympel hot. Security measures were relaxed in Lute april although a heightened stale of Security remains in effect. " we were kind of like an firmed comp around Here after ii Belle the disco bombed a Iril s ,1 Brown said. We be got to continue ofic Ruting. There Wilt be a tra Security of course and it will be immediately apparent to visitors when they come to the Brown declining to provide specifics drown said the measures will resemble Security in effect at Many airports including requiring visitors to pass through Metal Decicc ors. Brown said the Security measures probably will inconvenience some visitors but he was optimistic thai sunny weekend weather would draw More than 198i s hair Mil lion guests the Airport open House will run from 10 . Id 6 . Saturday and in rely of police forces including the West Berlin police and . Army , will assist in providing Security. Brown said. Static displays will include nine . Air Force planes and eight von the British Royal air farce. . Army equipment and a variety of planes from civilian airline companies servicing Berlin also will be on display parachutists and the West Berlin police motorcycle team will highlight open House events which also will include a wide variety of music by military bands of the three Allied Powers in the City. Ira from Page 1 Sions for iras Wurl who ure nil covered by a company pension plan will be allowed to continue As under present Law they May contribute up to j2.000 0 year $2,250 if the spouse has of income la an Ira and neither the contribution nor interest it earns will be taxed until withdrawn workers covered by a company pen Sion will be allowed to set aside up to $2,000 n year $2,250 total if an unemployed spouse is involved in an a but they will have to pay taxes on the contribution. However the interest the contributions earn will Noi be taxed until with drawn. The committee s package would Lake away a bout 90 percent of the Tux benefits of iras. The Bill would Cut individual income taxes by an average of 6.2 percent shifting about $100 billion of inc Federal tax Burden from individuals to corporations Over he nest five years. About 6 million lower in come families would be removed from the. Federal Tat Rolls. The legislation would Cut the 50 percent id individual lax Rale 10 27 percent and the corporate maximum now 46 percent to 33 percent. It would almost double the person Al exemption to $2,000 and raise the Stan Dard deductions significantly to $3,000 for single people and �5,000 for couples. The general lax reductions would be financed by strictly limiting the non business deduction or interest repealing the preferential treatment Long accorded capital gains restricting the write off for medical expenses wiping out the investment tax credit scaling Back the advantages of tax shelters and toughening minimum lax Laws aimed at wealthy investors and profitable corporations that have managed to escape their share of the lax Burden. Special lax Breaks enjoyed by the Bank ing Oil Timber and mining industries would be continued with few changes us would he tax exemption for bands issued by state and local governments in its final hours of work on the Bill the committee held closely to Whit pack Vood had recommended. It rejected an attempt to retain full deductibility of business meals and entertainment expense and beat two efforts to water Down the Tough minimum lax provisions in Packwood s plan. There was no Effort 10 preserve the full deduction for contributions to iras which Are held by More than 28 million families. Sen. William Roth a Del offered an amendment to retain present Law on iras and finance it by raising the tax on gasoline by 6.6 cents a gallon. He withdrew the amendment when in became obvious in would have lost. The hearing room tuesday was packed with lobbyists and hundreds More rep resenting every imaginable interest jammed the corridor outside and an auditorium downstairs the new York times reported a brokerage House in radio advertise ments thai were broadcast in Washington tuesday urged listeners to Call their senators to oppose the abolition of Ras for. Must taxpayers several senators reported that their offices were clogged with lobbyist and their phone lines were tied up inc titties said by Voles of 13-7, inc committee twice refused o restore to Parkwood s Bill a full deduction far stale and local sales taxes. The Bill continues the deduction for income and properly lairs. By deleting the write off for tales taxes sen. David r mtnn., contended to arc playing with the tax policies of the s Home stale has no sales lax. Sen. Dnniel Patrick Moynihan said that although the Burden of sales taxes varies widely several Stales depend on hem for half their revenues. Moynihan s amendment would have paid far retaining the deduction by Seeling Back the individual and corporate R.T. reduce Lions. Packwood cautioned against Chang ing the Rales set in his package saying to do so would risk killing the whole Bill. Anyway he said because. The House passed tax Bill would retain full deductibility of slate and local taxes the deduction is Likely to remain in the final Bill. Frenchman 84, kidnapped in Beirut Beirut Lebanon a two gun men kidnapped an 114-year-old Frenchman wednesday on a Seaside Boulevard in mos Lem West Beirut police and French embassy Sou Rees said. Cumile Sontag was driving his car with his wife when the two armed men forced the vehicle to Slop on inc bin Are Issei Cor 11 15a.mpolicesaid. The dragged Sontag and his wife Blanche of l of i ctr automobile Ihen hauled i m Inlo a Solher car and sped away leaving mrs. Sontag behind screaming police reported. There in no immediate claim of responsibility for the kidnapping. Sontag was the ninth Frenchman la be a Baucic in militia filed Wesl Beirut since March 1985, after her husband s abduction mrs. Son Long rushed to the lebanese information ministry five blocks away to report inc kidnapping. She also railed French Ambas Sador Christian Graeff police said. Mrs. Sontag went from the information ministry to Justice minister Nabih Bern s heavily fortified House near Beirut s dividing Green line to seek his assistance. Barri Heads amyl Lebanon s largest militia Force mrs Sontag later called on Deputy parliament speaker Munir Abu a incl a Christian. He told the associated press he has urged various militia commands in West Beirut to rack Down Sontag s Kidnap pers and free him. Soap who to peal fluent arabic has served since 1947 As chief representative of the French automaker pc col in Beirut. The islamic jihad terrorist group which is believed to be made up of shiite moslem Zeal ots Loyal to Iran claimed responsibility for the kidnappings of four frenchmen last year. Another four frenchmen members of a television Crew from France s Anlenne-2 station were abducted March 8. A previously unknown group cutting itself inc revolutionary Justice organization claimed in abducted the to crewmen islamic jihad or islamic holy War claimed in March Tinl it killed one of in hostages research analyst Michel Surai 37, in retaliation for France s deportation of two pro iranian iraqi dissidents. His body has not been found islamic jihad has Long demanded that France suspend military supplies to Iraq which is at War with Iran As a condition for " releasing the frenchmen it holds. Belgium bans practice bombs in Wake of mishap by Jean Albright Tilburg Bureau the chief of staff of the belgian air Force has banned All exercises in Belgium thai use a Type of practice bomb that fell from a . Air Force Plune on a House monday a spokesman said wednesday. A practice bomb was dropped on a House in Hasselt Belgium by in f-16 from Hahn a Germany. The bomb Dummy unit called a Bdu-33, missed the Hal Chalern practice Range by a half mile. There were no injuries the ban is on use of thai specific Type of bomb in radar bombing belgian 2nd it Jan a ulcers said by Telephone from Brussels the bomb is a 25-Pound Cement filled practice bomb widely used by . Fighter aircraft. No nato aircraft will be allowed to use the bomb in Belgium Keut can said. He could not say How Long the policy will remain in effect u5afe tactical fighter wings thai had been using the Range were the 20th at Raf upper Scyford England the 48th Al Raf Luck Heath England and the s 1st at Raf Ben Waters England the 50th at Hahn Germany the 52nd at Spang Dahlum a Germany and the fifth at a Nuslein a Germany. This is one of several Central Region ranges which Safe uses to conduct air to ground training said capt. Gail Hayes a Safe spokeswoman Al Ramstein. The loss of Access to any of these ranges will have an Impact on Safe she said the command will attempt to revise air Crew training programs and move certain events to other ranges in Europe. A ban on the 27mm gun used on German Tornado aircraft is still in effect in Belgium following an april 16 incident. Bullets from the gun sprayed into a Street near inc Range frightening out not injuring people there Ceuleers said. The com Millie also Defeated on a 9-9 tie a proposal by Mynihan and sen. Dill Armstrong r colo., thai would have continued the full deduction for business meals and entertain ment the Benefit thai has become known generally As the Ihrck Marlini lunch the Bill would permit deduction of so percent of expenses. It is simply unjust to single out one classification of business expense and limit it Armstrong sen John Chafic r-r.t., said he could feel no sympathy for those people up in the executive besides he said Long be fore there was an income tax people were going out for meals and people will continue to eat even if the Cost is not deductible. Re jelled on votes of 13-7 and 9-9, Sim Ilar proposals by Sens. John Heinz a a. And David Boren a okla to scale Back the toughened minimum taxes in the Bill which Are aimed at requiring profitable companies and Well to do investors to pay some tax regardless of How Many deductions they use. Temperatures l the it " go 34 in to 13 u 57 91 3 a 14 ii 544a a. 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