European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 9, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday june 9.1988 irs proposal would tax vacation pay sick leave Washington a leaders of the nation s Public and non profit employee organizations joined with legislators tuesday to denounce an internal reve nue service proposal that would tax benefits such As vacation pay and sick leave even if they Are not used. The irs decision is baffling and at some real level inhumane sen. Daniel p. Moynihan d-., said at i news conference. The moment you Start taxing suck leave that is not used people Start using sick leave. William l. Mcgowan president of the civil service employees association of new York slate the stale s largest Public employee Union echoed the senators  s doing the thinking on this in t thinking very clearly he  estimated thai if his Union s 250,000 members used All their sick Lime and vacation leave every year it would be the equivalent of an 18 percent cutback in the work  proposal at Issue was put Forward by the irs in january 1987 to change a Section of the internal reve nue.  irs issued a Public notice thai Section 457 which provides rules for certain types of deferred compensation for employees of slate and local govern ments and tax Che Mph organizations would be interpreted to apply to non elective deferred compensation. This would include benefits such As vacation pay sick leave compensatory time Severance pay disability and deals Bencil plans. Until that announcement Public and non profit employers had generally understood the restrictions of Section 457 to apply Only to elective deferred compensation or salary that an employee postpones receiving Moynihan explained. Moynihan introduced legislation tuesday to Amend the internal Revenue code to clarify that Section 457 would not apply to non elective deferred compensation. At the same time however he conceded that the Bill has Little Chance of passing this year because Congress is not slated to address a major tax Bill. He also wrote last week to Treasury Secretary James a. Baker Iii urging that the irs reconsider its position so the matter can be resolved without legislation. Rare Poe Book picked up for $ 15 brings $ 198,000 at . Auction. J. R of Ato \ new York a a rare Book by Edgar Allan poc hat a Massachusetts Man picked up for si5 in amen Hampshire Bairn was auctioned for$l98,000, put Ling inc seller in a dream world an auction House official said. The first cd lion copy of Tamerlane and of her  Only the 12th known copy of poc s first Book no it nil it la n  fit 5vnihhv of auction House i Vii 3u, Miv iviu3mt4hj3t i a lilt a ,.-j Happy rotheby s vice president David Redden said. He s still in i think a sort of dream world Over the whole  seller who demanded anonymity said he found the Book in an antique barn in Southern new Hamp Shire. The Bam was not identified. Poc who paid to have the Book published by a Boston publisher went on to write such classic poems and stories of horror and Romance As Annabel Lee the Raven and the Tell talc  in s the rarest Book in american literature it s the most famous Book in american literature said the buyer Manhattan Book dealer James Cummins. It s inc Book hat every rare Book seller Hopes to gel his hands  s had Csizi match the Book s value Al $21 0,000 to $300,000. The $198,000 Price includes the 10 percent commission that goes to rotheby s. The soft cover Book which contains the Long Lilc poem and nine Shorter ones bears no reference to Poe. Listing the author Only As a  although poc was born in Boston he lived there Only a few months before his parents moved 10 Richmond a. He live Din Boston again for about eight weeks when Tamer Lane was  work had been written about five years earlier when Poe was 12 or 13 years old. There is no Indica Tion that a single copy of the Book was Ever sold and it never has been highly regarded by critics. Edgar Allan foe s first Book published in 1827. A photo tumor removed from failing Duarte Washington not surgeons removed a malignant tumor tuesday from the stomach of president Jose Napoleon Duarte of Al Salvador but left his cancer Ous liver untouched. Medical experts said the move indicated that he had link Chance of Long term survival. A spokesman for Walter Reed army medical Center said in a slate mint that doctors removed a Luxor and a Large portion of Duarte s stomach during a three hour operation described As  the stomach cancer had spread to both lobes of the liver which was not removed. Medical experts said the extent to which the cancer had spread meant Duarte had Lille Chance of surviving More than a few months even with drug therapy. After the surgery. Or. Benjamin int Enano Duarte s private physician said the liver tumor would keep grow ing and would probably result in death within months according to a report by Reuters int Enano said Duarte would receive what Mcnol to make him More comfortable allowing him to return Loel Salva Dor in iwo or three weeks. Duane is in the bit year of a five pc artery. The Hospital statement said Duarte 61, would remain in an intensive care unit for several Days before resuming to his Hospital  the president s recuperation from surgery. This disease will probably be treated Wilh chemotherapy he statement continued. Cancer experts said chemotherapy normally had Little effect on cancers of the gastric and intestinal Trad including the stomach and liver. Bui even if Duarte s cancer which spread from the stomach to the liver responds to drugs it is unlikely the treatment will increase survival several specialists  cancer once it is advanced and spreads has a very poor  said or. Oliver Alabaster an oncologist at George Washington University medical Center stateside Chrysler plans to order recall of 81 Small autos Detroit a Chrysler corp. Will recall and repair 93,000 i9fll Small cars in August to meet a 1986 environmental Protection Agency emissions recall order Epa said tuesday. The Agency ordered the recall of the Dodge Omni and 024 and the Plymouth horizon and tc3, All Wilh 1.7-liter engines and manual transmissions because less found thai emis Sion Levels exceeded standards. Tests revealed emission Levels of 1.4 Grams per mile while the Standard for 1981 was i Gram per mile. The Epa said it believes excess emissions resulted from deteriorating catalytic convert ers. Chrysler initially contested the order charging that the less were not conducted properly. But the automaker Wilh draw its Challenge. The repair will include modifying a vacuum line to the engine s spark control computer. Pacific fisheries legislation gets Reagan s signature Washington a president Reagan signed legislation tuesday to make . Laws comply with a recent fisheries treat governing tuna Rich Waters of the South Pacific saying that inc pact will set a tone of cooperation rather than  the treaty provides for . Fishermen to Purchase regional licenses to fish for tuna in some 10 million Square Miles of the South Pacific Ocean. It will set to rest the fisheries related prob lems we have experienced stemming from our differing judicial positions concerning highly migratory species of tuna Reagan said. The president also said that License fees and a related economic assistance agreement will further the economic development and strengthen the democratic traditions of the Pacific Island states participating in the  Wallace s son in Law wins nomination to Ala. Court Montgomery Ala. A the name of former gov. George c. Wallace again surfaced in slate politics As his son in Law won a demo cratic primary nomination to a scat on the Ala Bama supreme court. Circuit judge Mark Kennedy 36, of Mont Gomery the husband of Wallace s daughter Peggy sue Oul polled Anniston lawyer . Boll on tuesday for the democratic Nomi nation to the court. Kennedy is favored Over gop nominee Robert Maxwell. Wallace who retired from politics in Jan uary 1987 after four terms As governor saw his son George jr., win the state treasurer s Post in 1986. A longtime Wallace ally associate supreme court Justice Henry Steagall also won a democratic nomination to the High court. He was Wallace s slate finance director when the governor appointed him to the Bench in 1986. Reagan names assistant for legislative affairs Washington a president Reagan announced tuesday the appointment of Mark Grcen Borg a former aide to sen. Paul Tribler a. As a special assistant for legislative affairs dealing with the Senate. Before joining the White House staff Green Berg was administrative assistant and legislative director for Trible. He is also a former chief of the minority staff of the ways and Means committee of the Massachusetts Lugi stature