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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, April 4, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 4, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday. April 4. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 5 evangelist alive and Well a photo evangelist Orel Roberts Untley with his wife eve Lyn after announcing that he has reached his $8 million fund raising target for medical missionary scholarships. In i extended Money raising Campaign Roberts told to audiences that god would Call him Home if lie failed to reach the goal Home sales now require irs reporting Washington a if you re buying or Selling a Home you May be affected by the Federal govern ment s newest Effort to catch tax cheats. Anyone who Sells a Home after dec 31, 1986. Is requited to file a report with the i menial Revenue service. Any Cost of filing he simple form and there Are reports some lawyers arc charging As much As s150 would have to be absorbed by the buyer or seller. The irs will match the form against the seller s lax return to determine if any taxable profit from the Sale was reported As income. The report was required by Congress As part of the tax overhaul enacted Tail year. The provision was approved after lawmakers were told the government is losing an estimated $700 million a year because Many people who sell their Homes never report the profits As taxable income. The irs has issued temporary regulations spelling out How the reports Are to be filed. The Agency said that at least Tor the time being the reports will be required Only on the Sale of residential real estate involving four or fewer units. The Home Sale report must be made on a form 1099, similar to those used by Banks to report interest paid to a taxpayer. Ethics behind Challenge of foe Robertson says Washington a the Rev. Pat Robertson s motives were entirely ethical when he recruited a reporter to collect information about a political oppo nent a spokesman Tor the television evangelist says. Jack Lichtenstein a Public relations consultant rep resenting Robertson defended the evangelist s Deci Sion last year 10 arrange for the journalist to interview Farmer rep. Paul Mccloskey a Calif whom he later sued for libel. Robertson a possible candidate for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination has acknowledged in pretrial depositions that he recruited television journalist Jack Hasbruck to do the interview after Mcclos key had challenged Robertson s military record. The hour Long interview occurred after Mccloskey had alleged that Robertson used his father s influence in the 1950s to avoid korean War combat. I did it because i wanted to see what or. Mcclos key had been saying around the country about me and i was getting these reports 1 wanted to have a first hand logical account of it on videotape Robertson testified. Last october a month after the interview Rob Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today. April 4, 1947 the Senate foreign rela Tion committee approved 13-0, legislation to carry out president Truman s $400 million Aid program for Greece and Turkey. 30 years ago today. April 4, i9st Texas and Oklahoma tornadoes and Colorado s worst Spring snowstorm in 22 years left 21 dead. One Tornado Cut a Swath of destruction through Dallas. 20 years ago today. April 4, 1967 prosecutor William Martin told a jury that a terrified filipino Nurto cower ing under a bed saw Richard speck Lead eight Oiler nurses to their deaths in 1966 in a Chicago apartment. The prosecution demanded that speck die in the electric chair. 10 years ago today. April 4, 1977 Billy Carter the president s brother was to be paid More than 10,000 to appear at a swamp Busey race in Naples. Fla., making the racers who collected Only s.1.100 m Insl car s race furious. Yertson sued Mccloskey and rep. Andrew Jacobs jr., d-ind., for $35 million apiece. Robertson alleged that they circulated a slanderous letter that Mccloskey had written about his War record in the marines Robertson has described himself As a combat Veter an. But he acknowledged during pretrial testimony that he served in a rear Echelon command unit. He said he travelled to Japan periodically to pick up replacement codes for his unit and that he never was under enemy fire but thai firing began on our perimeter while he was once officer of the Day. Jacobs said Robertson s recruitment of someone to Post As a newsman to gather information was reminiscent of the so called dirty tricks of watergate Bui licht Enslein said pal s feeling on that simply is his motives were entirety ethical in that rather than bring a lawsuit based on accounts that were carried in the press he wanted to hear Mccloskey s allegations from Mccloskey. Robertson said he asked Hasbruck a California based television journalist to interview Mccloskey after the former congressman had appeared on lbs news to Challenge Robertson s War record. Evangelist pal Robertson accused of dirty tricks.1 up Trab . Compiles new info on Waldheim Washington a the Justice department s nazi Hunting unit has compiled additional information on the wartime activities of austrian president Kurt Waldheim to bolster a recommendation that wild him be barred from the United slates sources said. The office of special investigations renewed its recommendation regarding Waldheim with a 200-Page memo saying that he May have been involved in world War ii atrocities against yugoslav partisans said the sources speaking on condition that they not be identified. The memo was sent to attorney general Edwin a desc who has not acted on last april s recommendation by Osi head Neil scr that Waldheim be placed on a Walch list of people to be excluded from the United states. Justice department spokesman Patrick Kortyn has said thai Mcnese has been Busy with More pressing matters and a Csc testified recently before the Louse judiciary committee thai he expected to make a Deci Sion soon on the Waldheim matter. Federal Law states that people should be barred from entering the United states if they were associated with the nazi government in Germany. Any decision on Wallheim would be a largely sym Bolic gesture. His position As a head of slate gives him diplomatic immunity preventing enforcement of the Law s provisions. As austrian president Waldheim would visit the United slates Only at the invitation of president Rea Gan. Until a year ago Waldheim had maintained that he was Dis charged from the Ger Man army after suffering a War wound on the russian front in 1941. Actually Waldheim spent the remainder of the War As a German army intelligence officer. In the Balkans Accord wild him ing to records uncovered in 1986 by the world jewish Congress. Far much of the period he was on the Headquarters staff of army group a whose troops massacred thou Sands of sushi died underground partisans and civilians in Yugoslavia and deported Lens of thousands of jews from Greece Lona i death Camps. Group ii s com Mander German Gen. Alexander Uhlir was hanged fur War crimes in 1947. Waldheim has denied he was involved in any reprisals against yugoslav partisans and says he had no knowledge of the deportation of jews from Salonika Greece  
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