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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, September 15, 1988

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday september 15,198b irs is a Day late and $100 million Short Washington a somebody at the inter Nal Revenue service forgot to look at the Calendar and the goof could Tost the government As much As $100 million in taxes. The irs confirmed wednesday that it was on Day late in filing a notice of Appeal in an important Case an Appeal that some Legal experts expect the irs would have won. An Agency spokesman disputed the estimate of what the error could Cost. On May 26. The . To court entered a decision holding Hal the irs was wrong in requiring at to to pay lax currently on customer Security deposits. Under the jaw the Agency had 90 Days to Appeal a period Ihal ended aug. 24. Tic notice of Appeal was tiled aug. 25. Underscoring this embarrassment is the fact that he service prevailed in Tho Only appellate decision addressing the Issue presented i n he at to Case reported tax notes an authoritative lax journal. The publication noted a previous appeals court Vert in in favor of he irs in a Florida Case involving Security deposits paid by Gas customers a similar Case involving deposits paid to Indiana Polis Power & Light co has been appealed by the irs to the 7th circuit court of appeals. Despite inc error in inc at to Case irs spokesman Frank Keith said wednesday. Irs has no in Camion of abandon ing its position on customer  tax notes estimated the goof could Cost $100 million in disputed lanes and interest. Keith con tended however that because the Issue is essentially one of when taxes should be paid inc potential loss would be less. Fri takes action against 6 workers after probe Washington a Fri director William so Sinns said wednesday he is suspending three Burea employees and censuring three others for mishandling a terrorism investigation into political opponents of hit Keagan administration s Central american policy. I am disciplining these individuals. Because Hoftke managerial or supervisory inadequacies displayed by them during a Bureau investigation of the com a Villec in Solidarity with the people of Al Salvador sessions told a congressional committee. The mistakes in judgment that took place during the c1spes investigation were serious ones and 1 can nol emphasise Loo strongly my firm conviction Hal Thor a is no place for such mistakes in the work of the  session told the Senate intelligence committee. Sessions who formerly headed inc Cia became director of the Fri in november. He disciplined the agents for actions taken from March i98j to june 1985, when will Iain webs it was he Fri s Boss. Sessions said inc six employees work at inc supervisors unit chief and Sirion chief Levels and hit the include personnel from Fri Headquarters in washing Icin As Well As it fill held of ticks. Three of inc employees whom he did Tiol name have been placed on prob Alfon and suspended from duty for 14days. The til her three were formally censured he said without adding what form the censures took. The director said a seventh employee whose performance would in All likelihood would have have merited dismissal has resigned. Sessions testified that the investigation was launched in March 198.v based largely on information provided by informer Frank Varolli. The probe concentrated on the organization s Headquarters in Washington us Dallas chapter and on a handful of other Cispus chapters. The investigation was prompted by tips thin key members of Cisi is were involved in covertly furnish gunman who feared world s end caught Gibsonville . A weapon firing Man who barricaded himself in a House far More than 30 hours certain that the world was coming to an end As prophesied in a religious Boomer. As overpowered by police and arrested wednesday authorities said Ricky Odell Chavis 27, fired shots at passing motorists and a police officer but no one was injured police said. Lie was  d up Seiil had on religion said Cha vis aunt. Joy Chis sell. She said that two door to door missionaries for inc Jehovah s witnesses sect apparently convinced hemp How thai he needed in Gei right because tuesday would be the Day that tied i ailed True believers to a leaven. Lid Gar c. Whis Nani Pri dieted in his Booklet "88 reasons Why the rapture will a in 198s." that Jesus Ouid rapture inc Church and Lake the faithful 10 heaven by Sui isei tuesday. Whisenat said tuesday he still believed that the rapture was imminent Bui if Al he had revised the moment to 10 55 . Wednesday. I m still on go with this. 1 sail believe this message is True Whise Nant told the liitle Rock ark., radio station Raav. Hut the world also survived the wednesday dead line. Calls on tuesday to Whisenant s rapture 88 ministries in Little Rock were not returned Chivvis was arrested after negotiators got him to Ste outside his Back door shortly after 2 . Wednesday said police dispatcher Susan Garinger. Sheriff s deputies then lobbed concussion grenades at Chavis stun Ning him she said. Chavis was charged with assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon and terrorizing he Public. William sessions ing funds and material to a leftist group seeking to seize Power in Al Salvador. Varolli told the Bureau in 1984 that Cispus Mem Bers were plotting to assassinate president Reagan and disrupt the Republican National convention in Dallas. Fri officials now say Varolli supplied them with disinformation and misinformation he stopped work ing for the Bureau in 1984 and filed suit in 1986 to gel some Back pay he Felt he was owed. The major problem came when inc scope of the investigation was unnecessarily broadened in october 19 83," sessions testified the broadening of inc investigation. In essence directed All Field offices to regard each Cisi is Chap Ter wherever located As a proper subject of inc invest  sessions said that based in the available documentation there was no reason to believe thai All Cisne members nationwide knew of or had any involvement in support of Al salvadoran or . Terrorists thus in arc was no reason la expand the investigation so  the Fri director said inc decision to broaden the probe unnecessarily was made at a comparatively Low level and. Supervisory personnel at Fri Headquarters who should Nave reviewed and Analysed this Deci Sion and appreciated its significance. Tailed to do  the Cispus probe involved surveillance in Dickov or attendance at meetings interviews with Organiza Tion members and checks of Telephone and Utility com Pany records and records of License and credit bureaus As Well As Law enforcement Agency record checks. The probe was closed when the Justice department concluded the group was involved in political activities protected by the first amendment and not involved in terrorism details of the Cispus probe became Public in february when a new York lawyers group obtained documents showing that Fri agents photographed protes ters at peace rallies recorded License plate numbers and investigated nuns Union members and allege Stu dents. Renaissance revisited h was a question of sword versus flame in Cambridge mass and from the look on King Richard s Bee watching with Queen Kalherine in background. Us Man had the sword and the sword was t winning. The not so deadly Dud was part of King Richard s false Renaissance gab that nuts weekends through oct 30  
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