European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 4 the stars and stripes thursday. January 11.1990 Aback to sea taking advantage of High tide tuesday wildlife rescuers beached whale Back into the Gult of Mexico the Mam workers. The 40-fool-Long whale began swimming along from  City la., use a Canvas Sling to Tow a mat had been spotted 24 hours earlier by nil company Side the boat As the Sling was  economist predicts Energy crisis in . Los Angeles api a an Energy crisis May follow dire shortages of consumer goods in the soviet Union this bitter Winter a top soviet economist says. A my assessment is that situation is very difficult Quot said Vladimir Kvint a Deputy to soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev s chief adviser and a special consultant to prime minister Nikolai Ryzhkova. Winding up a visit to new York Chicago and los Angeles earlier this week Kvint consulted with . Companies that Are interested in joint ventures in the soviet Union. �?o1 think that because of wrong decisions the shortage of soap and washing powder can be followed by a shortage of Energy a an Energy  Kvint said in an interview with the associated press. A production of Oil was reduced last year by 2.6 percent and the Tempo of growth in production o f Gas slowed  he said. A i think that we Are going to Nave a very difficult  Washington it apr you live in Florida and have been sending your tax returns to Atlanta Tor years when for no reason Vou re supposed in Fife to Fresno. Calif. Why the answer is thai somebody goofed. Maybe 566,000 times. R about one in 200 of the 107 million lax Brm packages mailed by the irs last month contained return envelopes with the wrong address. Irs spokesman Steve Pyrek said tuesday. Quot for example a taxpayer in Maryland who normally would file to Philadelphia might receive a package with an envelope carrying a Cincinnati  the potential problem affects tax form kits identified with a a package 1�?o notation on the Bottom right Corner of the cover. The packages contain the Basic Long form 1040. Schedule a for deductions and schedule b for interest and dividends. The folks at the irs Are red faced but say there is no reason for panic. Quot this should t present a problem for the irs or for taxpayers Quot Pyrek said. The irs has service centers in id cities. Page 5 of the package tells you where your return is supposed to be filed. If hat address does not match the one on your envelope Pyrek said you May a use another envelope writing in the address for your service Center. A use the irs envelope but Mark out the wrong address and the postal service bar code and write in the proper address. A use the irs envelope just As it came to you a wrong address and All. Because relatively few envelopes with wrong addresses Are involved Pyrek said. Kvint said that despite the soviet bureaucratic morass and Lack of convertibility of the Ruble both the United states and the soviet Union appear ready to cure their a abnormal Quot Lack of Trade and business ventures. A it seems to me that pub Tir opinion has gathered the necessary critical  said Kvint. A proponent of and expert on free Trade zones Jik e the one being established i n Nakhod a. Nakhod a is in the lightly populated resource Rich soviet far East a Region that is developing rapidly and Kvint says should be a Ripe target for businesses trading in the Pacific Basin. He said he believes a switch to a convertible Ruble can begin if soviet demand for consumer goods can be appeased Over the next three to six years and that limited conversions should begin immediately among joint venture partners in the free economic zones. Kvint. A vice chairman of the economic Institute of the soviet Academy of sciences said the atmosphere has that will not upset irs workload schedules and will not delay processing of the return More importantly it will not delay Ani refund he added. Pyrek said the problem envelopes have been found in eight of the 10 regions. Only the Ogden. Utah Center which processes returns from most of the West and the Memphis tenn., Center which bundles returns from Alabama. Arkansas. Louisiana. Mississippi. North Carolina and Tennessee have been exempt. But that is subject to change. The irs at first thought Only seven Tensons were affected. Pyrek said but a we just found out that somebody in Delaware got an envelope with a Fresno  the problem apparently originated with one of the Many private printers the in is pays to Prim and bind tax Clum packages. A we think there was some kind of problem in the list the in mar used a stuff the envelopes into the packages Quot Pyrek said. A it s not Clear to us  the irs Lias heard of no taxpayer receiving the wrong envelope in the instructions for the simpler Basic forms the kj40a and the i040ez. Bui it is a rare year when the Agency does not make some kind of mistake in writing and priming nearly 100 different individual tax forms and schedules and the dozens of publications that explain them. Already this year the irs has corrected a goof on form 244which parents use to claim a credit for child car expenses. The form As mailed to taxpayers included a sentence on line 6 Reading a if the result Here is Zero or less. Slop Here you cannot claim the  that sentence should read a if the result is Zero or less skip lines 7 through 11, enter Zero on line 12 and go to line 13.�?� improved considerably even since Liis Iasi visit to be United slates. Thai occurred in May. When he lectured at Harvard University. A from my Iasi visit until now Quot there is much More  Kvint said in an interview at the los Angeles offices of the Law firm so Adilyn Artw. Slate. Meagher and rom. A Many companies that were just interested in May signed letters of intent or Are  he declined to identify companies but said icy included producers of consumer goods and foodstuffs investment Bankers in Chicago and new York and aerospace petrochemical and entertainment companies in los Angeles. Me acknowledged that Many attempts at joint ventures have failed a Many before they began a but insisted that the soviet bureaucracy can be overcome. Kvint pointed out that while about 5,000 joint venture applications arc pending. 130 arc approved on average each month up from a handful a year not Long  take note of study on shuffling Atlantic City. . Api a a new study indicates that casinos Don t shuffle their cards enough to baffle Blackjack experts. When a deck is shuffled it retains fragments of its previous configuration. That can be important in Blackjack a game which attracts card counters a players with copious memories and the lightning Quick Ahi Lily to calculate probabilities. If a card counter senses a pattern repeating itself hell make a huge Wager. Blackjack has lower Odds in favor of the House than most other Casino games Over the course of a few hours1 play card count cars often can beat the House. The study says that a single deck must be shuffled seven limes before the ghosts of the previous configuration disappear and that six decks must be shuffled 12 times. Most casinos use eight decks and shuffle them Only twice. In november Atlantic City s casinos took in about 544,3 million from the Blackjack tables about 20 percent of the casinos total winnings. Dave Bayer a mathematician and computer scientist at Columbia University in new York said fewer shuffles than seven increase the probability that the cards arc not mixed properly. He said that shuffling More than seven times does increasingly Little to improve randomness. Bayer conducted the study with Harvard mathematician Persis Diacont. The irs goofs on some addresses but does f expect any problems