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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, July 30, 1987

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes thursday. July 30.19b7 irs and Campaign will focus on big changes in tax rules Washington a Public service of tremendous import to the american people. Keim predicted it will take it least six months for an yet unnamed Agency to produce the advertisements and for the dilo be distributed to newspaper mag nines and broadcasters. Thai Means the ads should begin running about the time most people Start thinking seriously about their lax retune late next january. If the irs is Lucky the ads will capture Public Atten Tion As successfully As other Public service campaigns devised by the and Council a non profit Eliot of Adver Tising communications and other businesses. In 1942 the year the Council was formed 32 million acres of Forest were destroyed by fire and the smoke year Campaign was created to emphasize fire Preven Tion. In 19857 with Smoky still Al work that loll was Down to 3 million acres. Crime dog Mcguff was created in 1978 to encourage americans to Lake a bite out of crime  in neighbourhood watches. Nineteen million peo ple Are involved in those watches now. Of Btl noted that the advertising Campaign is Only one part of the irs Effort to make taxpayers aware of the numerous changes in he tax Law most of which went into effect last Jan. I. The Agency is increasing he level of assistance provided taxpayers and expect to have personnel ready by Telephone to answer questions about the new Law this fall Gibbs said. A series of free taxpayer publications is being updated to reflect the changes. Handwritten Draff of Bill of rights discovered in Library of Congress Washington a the Library of Congress has discovered the Only known Handwritten draft of the Bill of rights a document that offers new insights into How american civil liberties came to be a Library official said tuesday. ,., the Untig cd four Page document which had gone unnoticed lucked within the Library s Oft used volumes of James Madison s papers was discovered by James c Huron chief of the Library s manuscript division. Madison Ted in the adoption of the amendments that became the Bill of rights people obviously had seen in before but probably had t realized what it was Hutson said ". Thesis the Oaly Handwritten copy of the Bill of rights that me document dated july 1789, was want Lenny connection Delegate Roger Sherman bul not signed. The authorship was established by reviewing other handwriting samples Al the Library of Congress. Hut ton  s proposed list of rights to be granted to americans contained 11 provisions 8 opposed to the 10 that eventually were adopted a the first 10 Amend ments to the Constitution. Some of Sherman s ideas differed substantially from what a ratified by the slates Hutson  example Sherman wanted to include a Guaran Lee of the separation of Powers his provision Lor a militia did not include the right to Bear arms he specified the right to acquire property and he wanted to prevent Congress from enacting any monopolies All different from the final Bill of rights. Others of Sherman s proposals did emerge among the civil liberties now guaranteed by the Bill of rights including clauses to protect Freedom of the press and free speech Hutson  said it was impossible to stale the worn of the document bul that in is valuable because it Illus trates the development of How the Bill of rights came  said he discovered the document about six months ago while doing research and Only had time to come Back and study it in detail within the Pas month. It includes three pages of proposed Amend ments followed by a final Page identifying it As pro posed amendments to the Constitution i realized it was an important document made a menial note of it and decided to come Back and look Al it when i had More time h Ulson explained he said the document was in Fine condition and Handwritten in Neal script on Good Quality rag paper that was typical in the 18th Century. The pages Are about 10 inches by 12  said the document probably will remain in the Library s manuscript division maybe right where it was within the Madison papers since it had been included along Wilh other documents pertinent to the Lime. League chooses debate Sites ,.,.ti a i. Am Iolj a a Krait Washington a the league of women voters has announced it will hold presidential and vice presidential debate in Birmingham Ala. Boston los Angeles and Minneapolis during the general election Campaign in the fall of 1988. Continuing the fight to be the major sponsor of debates the non partisan group w pressing ahead with Lam for three presidential confrontations and one vice presidential debate despite announcements by the democratic and Republican parties that they will sponsor debates for the first Lime next year. The enthusiasm we be witnessed in communities Trou the country is proof of groundswell of Public support for nonpartisan independently sponsored candidate debates said the league president. Nancy m. Neuman in a statement. Each of the Citie that won a debate promised to raise ii least 1150,000 toward Lite Cosu provide 300 Jotun Ternand is rang Community support. The league did thai ils general election debates will be held in september and october i9ss, but thai no specific debate have been determined. Grant Thomp son executive director of the league belittled the Par lies announcements of specific dates for their Debaci. To try to set Dales More than a year in Advance is an exercise in futility Thompson told a breakfast meeting with reporters. One needs to be supple and flexible about  also said the panics claims of commitments from the candidate to participate in the party debates May just be written in Sand. The time to wonder about commitments is after the conventions. When the parties fade into it live obscurity and the campaigns take the fore Thompson  parties encouraged by the league s debates in the last three presidential elections Are trying to Puih the organization aside and Lake the role of sponsor of the general election debates. Earlier in july they announced they would try to hold debates on sell. 14, sept. 25, oct. 11 and oct. 21 Nel year. The flood of debates during the 1988 primary a a n Watn More than two dozen scheduled will no harm the league s plans for four veil of i bail a. Thompson added lbs announced plans last week to hold Oeh Atn the la Days before the league s already announced March i-6 detain in Nashville  league Abo has announced debates in new Hampshire feb. 1j-i4. Bomb scare halts traffic near Cardinal s residence new York. A police closed two mid town Manhattan blocks for nearly two hours tuesday snarling traffic while bomb experts examined a briefcase left by a seedy looking Fel Low next to the residence of Cardinal John o  ease was a Rayed by Remote control bounced by a robot and sniffed by a dog before a bomb squad officer opened it and found paper inside eliciting cheers and applause from Pedes Trian behind   person approached an Lori cer on fifth Avenue and said they saw a seed looking fellow leave a Valise on the Corner said police Deputy inspector Edward Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald said the ease would be returned to ils owner if ils contents gave his name. House oks Bill to Settle wampanoag indians claim Washington a the House on tues Day approved a land claims settlement to end a longstanding dispute Between the wampanoag indians of Martha s Vineyard and the town of Gay head on the Massachusetts resort Island. Under the legislation the Federal government and the state would each pay j2.2s million to wampanoag Indian tribal Council in exc Nai the tribe would drop its claims to another 3,t plus  measure by rep. Gerry e. Studds d maa., would implement a november 1983 tet tic men reached by negotiators for the tone local landowners the town and the state. A similar Bill was pasted by the House and Senate last year but it died As the be Surve clock ran out in the final Days of the 1986 ses Sion before the House could approve the altered Senate version. Measure creates award named for Baldrige Washington a a Senate committee approved a Bill tuesday that would create a award named for the late Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige. To be Given to businesses that dramatically improve the Quality of their prod the measure creating the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality award was approved unanimously by the Senate Commerce science and transportation committee. Legislation creating an award for ene Clive Quality control was introduced in May by  Graham a Fla. The House passed similar legislation in  Baldrige s death saturday after a Riding Accident in Walnut Creek calif., the sen ale committee sped its consideration of the Mea sure and renamed the award after him. Balange had worked on the proposal. Few Blacks applying for teaching scholarships san Antonio Texas a scholarship Money for aspiring Black teachers is going untouched the president of a National educators association  National sorority of Phi Delia Kappa inc a group of 12,000 educators has More than 1100,000 to award in scholarship annually but there Are few applicants. President e. Lucille minor  9 percent of Leachen Are Black now. Down from a High of 15 percent she said. The u s department of education estimates Black accounted for 16.2 percent of the students in Public schools in 1984. Minor said her organization is worried be cause the number of Buck teachers is decreasing As the number of Black students i rising we dam i necessarily and Black on Blue. Bul the children need u see a Black Penon ran be a teacher Tan achieve that she  car the organisation will launch a pro Gram to pair a Leach Rand a etude no m an Effort Lompoc More children to leaching she said  
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