European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday March 30, 19bb the stars and stripes Pago 7 irs tightening filing Extension Rule must be out of . Two weeks to qualify Washington a the internal Revenue service said monday i is Clos ing a loophole thai allowed taxpayers to leave the country Brief 1 on april i 5 and gain an automatic two month Extension on filing their income lax returns. The new ruling is effective for lax forms due not month and requires lax payers to be out or the country for at least two weeks including april 13, la qualify for it automatic intention in the past anyone he was out of the country for even a few i nulls on april 15 a eligible. Prior to ibis ruling if you lived in Elpaso Texas and decided 10 travel to Juarez Mexico for lunch on april 15 you would be Given an automatic Exten Sion said irs spokesmen Jeff Krasney. We put a Barrier on that. You have to be out of the country for at least two weeks and april 15 has to be one of those  Krasnyy said the irs had been consid ering such a change for about a year but accelerated its decision after seeing air line advertisement that encouraged peo ple to leave the country to postpone their filing deadline lie said the ads also inaccurately suggested hat the irs was encouraging such behaviour. Of did t know if the and would cause an abundance of individuals to take its  Krasney said. We Felt this would be one Way to combat those  under Trie new ruling some . Terri tories arc considered part of the country and others Are not. Travel to puerto Rico for example will not qualify tax payers for the Extension Bui a two week trip to Guam american Samoa or the Virgin islands will. Since the lax forms and instructions already distributed to taxpayers say the Extension is available to taxpayers who arc out of the country on any pan of april 15, inc irs this year will use some discretion in deciding who qualifies for the Extension Krasney said. If people submit the proper documentation such As a trip notice we Wilt Alee a took at it and determine if in fact that particular situation is legitimate he said. The irs Wil weigh different types of factors to Milci Carminc what it considered  Krasney said the crackdown was t being undertaken As a Revenue enhancing step but rather to avoid possible abuse because of the airline advertise a cols. However widespread use of the Extension would be meant the irs would have had to wait an extra two months to gel its Money from some taxpayers. Krasney said he had no estimate on How Many taxpayers Hove taken advantage of the Extension provision in the past. Task Force Calls for Federal housing program Washington up1 saying the increasing number of homeless people is Only the most visible of the nation s housing problems a private non profit Lask Force it calling for a 12-year housing program to provide fit liable and affordable homing for All americans by the year 2000." the report. A decent place to live was prepared by the privately initiated and funded National hous ing task Force. The group was headed by one of the nation s most prominent developers James Rouse and David o. Maxwell chairman of the Board of fan Nie Mac the Federal Valiona mortgage association. The report was conceived As part of the current comprehensive congressional study of the nation s housing situation being led by Sens. Alan Cranston d calif., and Alphonse d Amato . The Federal government must re Costa blah its historic role As a full partner in the Effort to revitalize housing the report said in presenting a in Point housing Reform program thai would begin with an Ini tial sit billion Price lag. While doting thai he country has made great Progress in providing housing for most americans it also said in the raid it Othis Manifest tuck ass is a growing horror Story of which the problem of  is the most visible. The rate of ownership has suffered a prolonged decline for the first time since the second world War particularly among the younger population groups thai traditionally Are first Lime buyers the report said adding that the task Force believed that problem could be addressed through Market based  the housing problems of the poor however arc top median Home prices by metropolitan areas for 1987 in thousands of dollars for existing single family Homes "j178.5 176,8 san Francisco 171.4 Orange aunly Cam harm Ord. Conn. Los san i Providence . A 166.9 157.4 139.5 note 1283 Chicago s median was 190.8 Chicago Tribune i Apoc source National association of realms beyond solution by the Marvet system alone and have fallen outside be focused attention of our society the report added. Many of the poor arc unseen or unnoticed by the majority of american. Their difficulties Seldom touch us. But none of us can fail to be moved by the sight of the homeless whose growing presence in our streets is a daily reminder of their  the problem of the homeless arc merely the tip of the iceberg a manifestation of a Graver and More pervasive condition the Large number of poor people and the decline in the Supply of housing they can afford the report added. To address the problem of housing the poor the task Force recommended a id Point program including establishment of a 3 billion housing Opportunity pro Gram designed to Foster and stimulate stale and local initiatives to develop renovate and conserve Low in come housing. Rejecting the Reagan administration argument that new production programs for Low Cost housing Are not needed the Lask Force said that in re no year fewer than 25.000 units of federally subsidized Low income units have been produced annually while in the decade from 1973-1983, about 2.s million Low Cost units were be moved from the nation s private housing Stock. And the private sector without subsidy cannot produce housing for Low income Hogue Holove the report said. The proposed j3 billion housing Opportunity pro pram to be augmented by j1.5 billion in state and local funds would tint at building renovating re pairing or acquiring 150.000 to 200,000 units of fit and affordable housing for Low income people. Reagans lease luxurious estate in los Angeles Washington a president Reagan and his wife arc leasing a $2.5 million estate in the luxurious Bel air District of los Angeles. The White House says. Elaine Crispin press Secretary to first lady Nancy Reagan said the Rea Gans signed a lease and mailed it within the last 10 Day. Crispin said she did not know the amount of lease pay ments. The i a acc estate is owned by Wall management services a group of about 20 friends of the reagans who bought it with them in mind. The three year agreement gives the reagans the option to renew the lease or Purchase the property which includes a secluded Home with 6,500 Square feet of living space and a Pool. Wall management bought the Citable on aug. 21, i9b6, from a 90-year-old woman who the investors said would lease it Back from them until the Rea Gans were ready for it. Crispin said the previous owner hoi since died. She said the lease agreement was worked out by the reagans attorneys the White House counsel j of ice and the office of government ethics. The reagans lived in Pacific Pali Sades in the Western part of Lai an Geles before his election As president. That House has since been sold. They own a Century old Spanish style Adobe House of five rooms and 1,500 Square of t Ai Rancho Del Cisclo their ranch on a 2,250-fool-High Mountaintop 30 Miles Northwest of Santa Barbara. Drug dealer ordered to pay restitution new York a a judge made creative use of the state s victims compensation Law monday and or dered a heroin dealer with extensive real estate hold Ings to pay s2 million in restitution toward drug Cha Bili Talion programs. Stale supreme court Justice Lewis Douglass said he reached the figure by multiplying the Cost of drug rehabilitation by the number of addicts Agapito Lopez could have supplied with the six ounces of heroin seized when he was arrested. Douglass said in a Telephone interview he believes it is the tint time a stale Law allowing restitution for crime victims was used in a drug Case. Defense attorney Frank Ortiz said he would Appeal the order. He argued thai when legislators approved the restitution Law they were thinking of crimes in which there is a specific victim like robbery or rape. He also argued thai the Law requires a hearing to be held for any payment of More than is 0,000, Lopez 44, was convicted in 1987 of drug Sale and Possession. He is serving a 25-year-to-hfc sentence imposed by Douglass last year. According to the judge s calculations if the sin ounces that were seized when Lopez was arrested in 1985 had made it Loire Street and each addict bought 20 bags of heroin the six ounces would have gone to about 900 addicts. Douglass said be contacted drug rehabilitation Agen cies to find what the Cost of the least expensive treat ment would be and was told it was $2,400 annually for outpatient care. He said he will ask mayor Edward i. Koch to designate a drug rehabilitation Agency to receive the Money. Lope sold 2,200 bags of heroin to an undercover officer for 526,000 and was arrested after the officer arranged for another Sale according to Nancy Young a spokesman for Brooklyn District attorney Elizabeth Holtzman at that Lime officers confiscated the six ounces of heroin and seized $440,000 in Cash from his apart ment. Random drug testing is started by Dea Washington a the drug enforcement administration this week to cried 75 headquarter employees for drugs marking the Start of random drug Iciline procedures covering All 5,000 of the Agency i workers. The Deaha been testing agent trainees for drug since june 1986. The Agency has 2,800 agents and 2,200 support personnel. Agents found to be using drugs illegally will be Dit Mii cd non agents in less sensitive positions May face suspension or reprimands for first time offences said Thomas c. Kelly the Dea Deputy administrator. The Agency s office of professional responsibility will conduct inquiries when test results show drug use. All 650 test administered to the Agency s trainees since mid-1986 have failed to turn up any evidence of illegal drug use