European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday january 10.1990 fam a we med ice cold Bud but Bud said no Salem. Ore. A Bud the Hamster sur Vived a night in the family Freezer to the Delight of his 6-Ycar-old owner. I thought he would go up to heaven and my mom would buy me a new one Bradley Snoddy  s Mother Mary Ann Snoddy said she thought Bud. Who was curled up in a Comer of his Cage was dying of old age. Bud was 4, far beyond the i i to 2 years that hamsters usually live. She said she called a pet store and was advised to put the animal out of its misery by placing it in the Freezer where it would fall asleep and not Wake  so she wrapped Bud in a cloth and set him in a paper bag inside the would be death chamber. We had a very rough night she said. We were totally devastated. My son was in tears All  but in the morning she said i opened the Freezer door and Flop onto the floor fell the Hamster. He Sal up on his Hind legs and looked at me like. Why did you do this to me " during the night. Bud had chewed through the bag. Dined on an Arctic smorgasbord of bread and hash Browns and gained a new lease on life Snoddy said. He s just Fine. Just the regular Normal Hamster that we had  veterinarian Stephanie Hazan said the Snoddy got bad advice on How to euthanize a Hamster. You can t kill hamsters by putting them in a  she said. They live for Days and  she recommended that people take their dying animals to the humane society to be killed painlessly. Severely crippled irs faces crisis study says by the los Angeles times Washington a yearlong congressional investigation has disclosed that the much feared internal Revenue service is a pitiful government giant forced by Lack of funds to impose a hiring freeze unable to modernize its aging computers and even suffering severe shortages of such Ordinary office supplies As pens and pencils. As a result according to rep. 3.3. Pickled Texas the irs will be Able to audit less than 1 percent of the 100 million individual income tax returns filed this year a record Low and the nation s vaunted self enforcing system of collecting taxes is in jeopardy. The tax Gap the difference Between the amount of Federal income taxes owed and the amount reported by taxpayers is reaching $100 billion a year. Pickle said. The irs budget crunch has contributed to its failure to collect More than $60 billion that taxpayers admit they owe. It s obvious the irs needs More resources to do its Job said Pickle chairman of the oversight subcommittee of the House ways and Means committee said. While the irs docs the Best it can with the resources Given the Agency is severely crippled with its current  irs spokesman acknowledged that expenses were being held Down by orders to freeze hiring curtail non essential travel and eliminate non essential train ing. We did not Cut any Money. To process tax re turns or get out refunds or provide taxpayer assistance however said the spokesman Wilson Fadely. The subcommittee acknowledged that about 83 per cent of the tax owed on income from legitimate eco nomic activities is voluntarily reported and paid a level of compliance that is the envy of most of the industrialized world. Even so it said the tax Gap Between the amount paid and the amount that would be paid if everyone filed a Complete and accurate return grew to $87.1 billion in the 1988 tax year and is headed higher. The irs has an annual budget this year of $5.2 billion and 120,000 employees operate out of dozens of offices and service centers. But the Agency itself says that is not  s subcommittee reported that the irs went to the White House last year with a budget request of $6.8 billion. The White House of president Reagan Cut the request by $1.6 billion before submitting it to con Gress a subcommittee aide said and the Bush administration refused to restore any of the difference. The White House office of management and Bud get had no comment on that account. My private View is that we probably did hold them Down too much said a senior administration official who asked not to be named but i think they re going to get Well in the new  president Bush is to submit his proposed budget for fiscal year 1991 to Congress on Jan. 29.the subcommittee said the cuts engineered by the White House for the current year mean that for the first time the irs will audit less than i percent of All income tax returns for the 1989 tax year. The irs audit level which peaked at about 2.5 percent fell gradually to about 1.25 percent for the 1988 tax year. In a report on the yearlong inquiry Pickle said that the irs was in a financial crisis that has increased the number of errors in official advice Given to taxpayers seeking assistance undercut enforcement and Al Lowed sophisticated tax scofflaws to escape Justice. The threat to our voluntary tax system is real and a serious crisis looms around the Corner Pickle said in a statement. Divers May have found gun used in Boston slaying. F. I. ,1_-.i _ _. T. La. My to. I non Clint Kun a in lip of ninth the n3b Tours Delv. Boston a divers searching for the revolver used in the wounding of Charles Stuart and the killing of his preg Nant wife found a gun tuesday in the River where stuarts brother said he dumped it. Police said. It fits the description said police spokesman Larry Gillis. Hopefully a major piece of the Puzzle has fallen into  had searched for the gun since Charles Stuart. 29, committed suicide thursday. Stuart jumped from a Boston Harbor Bridge after his brother mat i How. Implicated him in the slaying of Carol Stuart whose premature baby died 17 Days  were expected to per form ballistics tests to see if it is the Mur Der  agent Jack Decourcy said it is possible to detect fingerprints on a gun found in Salt water depending on How Long it was submerged How Rusty it was and whether it was found in Silt. Stuart who is White originally told police he and his wife were shot by a Black mugger who forced his Way into their car oct. 23 As they left a childbirth class. Police listening to Stuart s pleas for help Over his car phone found him and his dying wife by listening to their sirens Over the phone. Matthew Stuart 23, told authorities last week that he took mrs. Stuart s handbag which contained personal items and the gun from the scene of the shootings and threw the items separately into the Pines River in Revere. Police found the bag thursday but the gun had remained a missing clue in the Effort to unravel the baffling and racially inflammatory Case. Jay Kakas co owner of the fur store where Charles Stuart worked told police a revolver was stolen from the shops Safe a representative of the store Olio spoke on condition of anonymity said monday. Investigators refused to com ment on that report and on rumours of insurance or a romantic relationship As motives. Paper says tapes confirm Barry ridiculed Jackson Washington a the los an Geles times says it has tape recording confirming that mayor Marion Barry ridiculed Jesse Jackson by saying Jack son Don t Wanna run nothing but his  assistant managing editor John Brownell denied in interviews monday that the newspaper s reporter misquoted Barry in a profile. The conversation about Jackson is on tape he told the Washington Post. The times quoted Barry in the sunday profile As saying Jackson a former presidential candidate supported by Barry and now a potential mayoral rival would be come the laughingstock of America if he ran for mayor of Washington. But Barry told reporters sunday after attending Church. I Don t understand it. 1 could possibly have said what they said i said i Don t talk like  Brownell told Washington s Wila to that Barry most certainly did make the comments and his newspaper re ported them  Brownell said the reporter who wrote the Story used a combination of notes she look while talking to the mayor. Brownell told the Post that Barry made the remarks while talking to the times reporter at a local bar. The reporter Bella Slumbo. Spent one entire Day and parts of several others with the mayor last november. Barry refused monday to elaborate on his earlier remarks. I m in the process of Reading the Arti  he said. I have not read it fully yet. It s a rather Long article. After i read it i will put together a very definitive re action to  Barry was quoted in the article a boasting he was invincible despite being linked to a series of scandals and predicting he will get at least 65 percent of the vote in the democratic mayoral primary this fall. Jackson who was supported by Barry in his presidential campaigns moved from Chicago to Washington last year amid speculation he would run for mayor. Jackson has said he would not directly Challenge Barry but he has not flatly ruled out a mayoral bid and some of his remarks have been seen As Sug Gesting Barry should not run for re elec Tion. Sharon Pratt Dixon former treasurer of the democratic National committee who is running against Barry for mayor said the remarks demonstrated that Barry is visibly agitated with Jackson and that his judgment is not  a comforting reminder those tired travellers staying at the los Angeles Stouffer concourse hotel need Only to look at the carpet in the elevator to remember what Day of the week it is. Ricardo Morlano handled the Carpel duty on monday