European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday october 18. 198b the stars and stripes Pago 7 vote could be taxing for electorate measures affecting revenues on ballots in 6 states by the ass tinted press voters in a Halm Ottn Stales face an Eclectic mix of tax measures nov 8, from a Steep hike in cigarette taxes to tax culs reminiscent or California s decade old proposition 13. Bui in arc Are signs inc Ami lax fever that gripped the nation after californians enacted proposition 13 in june 1978 has cooled As inflation cased the Economy has improved and taxpayers no longer feel so squeezed. Only in South Dakota Utah and Colorado will Vot ers decide issues this november thai would Force Dee cuts in taxes. Voters arc protecting what exists but not going further. And in some cases it looks like the electorates wilting to approve More so than in the 70s or Early 80s, very specific taxes for specific purposes said Patrick Mcguigan editor of 1he free Congress Initia Tive and referendum report a monthly newsletter published in Washington. Californians for example will consider a Meas Relo raise Cigar Ltd taxes by 25 cents a pack using proceeds to promote health. The lax revolt peaked in the a1e 970s and Early 19805 when voters passed lax limiting measures in Massachusetts Missouri and Washington and 21 state Legislatures enacted taxing or spending limits according to the National conference on state Legislatures in Denver. Some key tax issues facing voters this november South Dakota Dakota proposition ii would Roll Back property taxes on agricultural property to i percent of 1984 values and 2.5 percent on non agricultural property in stages by 1991. It would limit increases in property valuations to 2percent a year. Local governments could impose special taxes i flow thirds of the voters approve. Supporters argue the stale Over relies on property taxes and a cur lived up to promises to Reform taxes after a similar ballot proposal was rejected in 1980. Opponents including gov. George Mickelson cite a University of South Dakota study that warns that local governments stand to lose Sib million to ii12 million a year and that schools would be hardest hit. Colorado having survived Legal challenges. Amendment 6, the so called taxpayers Bill of , would require voters to decide All future lax increases except in emergencies Cut income lax by about 10 percent and limit residential property taxes to 1 percent of Market value. Gov. Roy Romcro said the measure would be like throwing a bomb at state government. He and other political and business leaders who oppose the Issue say it would Cut stale revenues by $65 million in the first year and $ 130 million the second. Utah voters face three lax initiatives thai together would reduce slate and local revenues by $329 million. One would limit property taxes a second would Roll Back 1987tax hikes on income sales gasoline and cigarettes and a third would give tax credits Lor private education. A poll this month forecast an Uphill Battle for the initiatives which Are opposed by Republican Cov. Norm Bangerter his democratic challenger Ted Wil son and a wide Range of agriculture education and wildlife groups. California a tobacco Industry led coalition has spent $10 Mil lion to defeat proposition 99, which would boost cigarette taxes for inc first time since 1967 from 10 cents to 35 cents a pack. Opponents Call it an unfair tax that would trigger a wave of cigarette  measure which could raise $600 million a year would finance anti smoking programs in schools medical care for the uninsured and tobacco related medical re search. It is backed by a variety of medical and health care groups As Well As the american cancer society and the american lung association. Arkansas the fair tax amendment backed by gov. Bill Clin ton would make it easier for the legislature to enact personal income tax increases. Income tax increases currently require a 75 percent majority vote in inc legis lature the amendment would lower that to 60 percent the slate has had an income lax since 1929 but it has been raised Only once in history in 1971. Anti tax activists have filed a lawsuit challenging the amendment and representatives of some business groups oppose the idea of making income lax increases easier. But Clinton said that if the amendment passes Testate will still be one of the hardest slates in the coun try to raise a tax  Nerada question 9 on the ballot seeks to impose a constitutional ban on personal income taxes even though Testate docs not Nave one. The gaming Industry is backing the measure on the theory that if new taxes Ever became necessary the measure would Force the legislature to look for other ways to spread the tax Burden through corporate in come taxes As Welt As existing properly sales and Gam ing related taxes. They argue existing slate taxes place too big a Bur Den on the gambling Industry while other forms of Industry have relatively Light tax loads. Seabrook demonstrator a protester is dragged off by police at the Scab Rook , nuclear Power plan sunday during anti nuclear demonstrations. Thirty nine people were arrested after trying la climb a Gate while others were charged for blocking an Entrance. Heart was kept beating after death to test drug Philadelphia a doctors at a new York University kept the heart Ofa dead Man beating for an hour after he was declared dead to lest a new drug designed to prevent blood clots thai can Lead to heart attacks or strokes a medical journal reported an editorial accompanying the article in inc annals of internal Medicine called the Experiment ethically  researchers at the slate University of new York at Stony Brook and cent Cor a pharmaceutical firm in Malvern a said the test successfully prevented blood from cloning during the Experiment. The new drug known As 7e3 also did not cause excessive bleeding on possible Side effect of heparin and Warfa Rin two commonly used anti cloning drugs. Researchers used a portion of a monoclonal or single cell antibody to Block the cloning action. Monoclonal antibodies Are often called map bullets because the seek out a specific kind of cell. The Experiment was conducted on the body of a 78-year-old Man at the Stonybrook Hospital by researchers led by Barry Collar a hem apologist at the University on new York s Long Island. Relatives of the Man who had been in i coma from a brain Haemorrhage and inc Hospital s institutional review Oard gave researchers permission to lest inc drug on the Corpse. The article in the journal s oct. Is edition did not say when the Experiment was conducted. The Advent of a specific treatment such As the antibody without causing Side effects would be a very Welcome and important addition to available therapies or. Hamid Al Mon Dairy a he Matol Gisl at the Penn stale Milton a Hersey medical Center and a research Erin anti cloning agents said in a Tele phone interview. The editorial s author or. John la Puma of lutheran general Hospital a Park Ridge iii., said the Experiment raises such fundamental issues that i needs to be explored before you can Call in right or  la Puma a clinical Eli isl and physician added that the report did not out line details regarding informed consent that he considers essential. He noted the researchers received consent from the Hospital and were not the ones to con tactic patient s physician to ask for consent. The newly dead should be considered for such experiments Only when the work is of value to physicians treating patients rather than Basic biological re search said la Puma. He said he found three reported in stances of scientists experimenting on newly dead patients in this Century. Coder said using a newly dead patient allowed the investigators to study the effects of several doses of the treatment. Using live volunteers would have in creased the time necessary to Complete the study he said. Infected food preparer May be cause of illness Minneapolis up slate health officials believe an info Clad food preparer rather Levin contaminated food May have caused the illness of Sev eral Hundred people including members of the Minnesota Vikings football team on 60 Northwest airline flights. Slate epidemiologist Michael osterholm of the Minnesota department of health said the investigation began after 21 Vikings became ill after eating food prepared for the flight to Ihei oct. 2 National football league game in Miami. He said the investigation now shows the illness shag Cleosis a severe form of diarrhoea apparently affected several Hundred people who were on 60 flights of the airline Briw can sept. 15 and oct. 10 and ale food prepared by Marriott in flight services. Osterholm said he Hopes action taken by Marriott has ended the problem but it is too Early to be sure. He said people who reported becoming ill ate some kind of cold food but inc meals did not include any particular food or ingredient Hal would indicate it was contaminated and caused All inc illness. He said that leaves the possibility of an infected person or persons preparing inc food bul no infected worker has yet been identified. He said investigators Al first gave equal consideration to both theories but now lean More toward inc theory of an infected food handler. Or he said there May be something else we just Don t