European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes saturday july 26.1986 conferees near tax rate agreement Washington up lenders of he House and Senate tax Reform Confer ence tentatively agreed Friday that a Compromise measure should not exceed he Low individual tax rain of 15 percent and 27 percent written into the Senate still. Alter a private morning session with the House tax Reform delegation. Rep. Dan Rostonkowski Leader of he Home forces said he believed inc negotiator should Loch in at least temporarily where we want to be and that s with the the rates the Senate has provided us both individual and Rostenkowski chairman of the House ways and Means committee met later Friday with the Leader or the Senate Force. Finance committee chairman Bob Packwood to try to work out abroad outline Tor a Compromise that ii expected to rely heavily on the Senate bin. The two men then planned to present that outline to the other tax Reform negotiators for their approval. However not All of he House negotiators were Happy with even tentatively accepting the Senate s Raies and some Aid they May try to change some of those Levels to provide More help to the Middle class and Cut Down on the la Breaks tee Senate s top tax rates would give the wealthy. The level of the rates has been a Cru Cial Point of disagreement for the conferees. Both Bills would curtail tax Breaks in return for lower rates but the Senate plan is More sweeping. The House Bill has four individual tax rates with a top of 38 percent. The corporate rate would be 36 percent. The Senate Bill would have Only two individual rates of is percent and 27 percent with a corporate rate of 33 percent. However despite the movement the most immediate problem the Senate negotiators faced was that new Revenue estimates showed the Senate Bill thought to be Revenue Neutral would actually increase the deficit by j2i.2 billion in the next five years. Senate negotiators vowed to find a Way to erase that shortfall. They were pleased that Rostenkowski was willing to accept the Senate Rale Levels the first signs of Progress on devel Oping a Broad outline came thursday following a week of relative inaction by the 22 House and Senate conferees trying to reconcile the differences Between the two tax Reform measures. I think we re hallway there pack Wood r-ore., said alter closed door ses Sions thursday. He contended the Law makers were making extraordinary Progress toward an agreement on the Road outlines of a Compromise. Despite the Progress Packwood s &v-v3bs&b saving the whales in Florida a is cd worker from the Meluni set for Freedom off Marco Island. Rescue Orlando converged to save the sell workers from the Seaqui Iam the Flor muted 30 whales stranded off the is Pilot whale bound in ropes struggles Tai Marine patrol and so world in land. Stressed that even if a Compromise out line were reached negotiators would still have some very hard choices about whether they want to keep tax rates at the lowest pm Sihle level or save various tax deductions. Rostenkowski agreed and noted thai even though he wanted to Start with the Senate s Low lax rates that May change when lawmakers Start to make decisions on whether to keep sensitive lax break for things such As individual retirement account contributions. Rostyn Kosti emi., said he wanted to keep Ira deductions at least for peo ple up to a certain income level of about $40,000 or $50,000. He also suggested the Compromise should include some of the House provi Sions that were tougher on businesses than those in the Senate Bill. Various rank and file Senate negotiators said they were optimistic. City ponders giving Needles to addicts san Francisco up1 City officials fearful of the rising spread of aids among drug users arc considering a plan to give free Needles to the estimated 12,000 Needle using addicts in san Francisco. Or Tom Peters. Inc associate health director said Friday the free Needle proposal is being considered. He said about4 percent of the More than 2,100 san Francisco residents with aids Are Nee dle using addicts. Health officials in new Jersey pro posed wednesday that it be the first state to offer addicts free sterile Needles. But or. James Curran director of i Heads task Force of the National centers for disease control in Atlanta is against the plan. You give somebody a free Nee dle and then they go out and share it. I we re serious about stopping aids among intravenous drug abusers we should consider seriously going after the drugs at their source Curran said. San Francisco officials feel something must be done because he number of Bay area addicts infected with the aids virus has doubled within the past year. Peters said the idea was first discussed with new Jersey officials about a year ago. They told us look if we had been in a position then to know what you Guys do now that Needles Are unmistakably a transmission agent we d have Don everything in our Power to bring it up As a policy Issue and get those dirty Needles out of circulation " Happy explorers head Home after final titanic dive Woods Hole. Mass. Up after completing the to pal successful dive of their historic Mission the very Happy explorers of the titanic headed Home with a photographic record of the sunken luxury liner that they plan to share with inc world next week. The 56-member research Crew aboard the Mother ship Atlantis ii began a four Day journey Back up Woods Hole oceanographic institution thursday after spending 13 Days and making 11 dives at the exploration site in the icy North at lactic some 400 Miles South of Newfoundland. Woods Hole spokeswoman Nancy Green said the team led by Robert Bol lard was very Happy about what they be accomplished on the Mission which is being funded by the Navy to develop undersea exploration technology they Are All looking Forward to be returning Hack Home added Woods Hole spokeswoman Shelly is a Little bit of a Celebration going officials have said Ballard planned to make a Brief statement when he returns to Woods Hole monday and will hold news conference tuesday in Washington to release some of the thousands of Pic Tures and videotapes of the rusted ship its severed Stern and the Tomb like a Cansfield. The 882-fool, 46,000-ton titanic considered the largest and most luxurious liner of its Day struck an iceberg on its Maiden voyage and Sank april 15, 1912,killing 1,513 of the 2,224 people aboard. On thursday a three Man team in the mini submarine Alvin descended 13,000 feet to the ship for a final took inside with Jason jr., the picture taking robot that had been kept from action the pre Vious two Days by a crushed wire. Mane vering the swimming eyeball on a 200-foot tether the team led by Ballard feathered Jason or. Into the ship s promenade deck from the port Side of the vessel near the wheelhouse in the Riskiest Entrance of the Mission. Today was clearly the Best dive in the entire series Jason performed flawlessly Ballard said we look our most dangerous penetrations Ballard said the researchers read a brass placard near the Entrance to the Bridge that read Entrance to the Bridge for Crew use Only he declined to say whether Jason or. Entered any of the cab ins in the Bow where the Pride of the White Star line s wealthiest guests stayed in $4,000 Cabins. We had a problem at the end when Jason s Cable got entangled in some wreckage. But we worked ourselves free Ballard said we recovered our transponders listening devices put into he water from Atlantis Viand we re on our Way Back Home the final dive began after the re searchers located and repaired the crushed wire inside Jason jr., which dashed plans to explore the Interior of he vessel the two previous Days. The researchers extensively photo graphed the rusted exterior of he Bow and the severed Stem completing their inspection before the Start of the Nort Atlantic Hurricane season. Jason or. Toured the ship through a skylight Over the liner s grand staircase photographing he still intact Crystal chandeliers the researchers left behind a plaque on the Stem honouring the victims of the disaster and dedicated to a colleague who died before the wreck was found in sep tember by a team Ted by Ballard. It is Ballard wish thai the wreckage be left in peace officials said. The sentiment they had was to leave everything intact Green said. The ship is in such a condition that i can t be raised. It s a
