European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday february 19, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 3 japanese firms subsidiaries targeted in . Tax probe new York a Federal tax officials Are using new auditing Powers to investigate the american subsidiaries of japanese companies they suspect have underpaid corporate income taxes by billions of dollars according to a published report. The new York times reported in its sunday editions that while foreign owned assets in the United slates More than tripled in 10 years to $1.8 billion and Gross income of foreign firms More than doubled the amount of taxes paid did t change much. Data compiled by the internal Revenue service indicates that of 36.000 foreign owned companies More than half did t report any taxable income. Tax officials say subsidiaries underestimate their earnings to reduce their tax liability by manipulating transactions with Parent companies the times said. But the government often thwarted in its efforts to review the records of such companies is now armed with a new Law that gives the irs Broad authority to assess taxes on foreign owned firms that fail to promptly comply to requests for records or testimony. We Don t target a particular country for enforce  Charles s. Triplet Deputy associate chief counsel of the tax Agency told the times. Nonetheless it s pretty Clear that the japanese do a lot of Busi Ness Here and have Many . Subsidiaries acting As distributors of manufactured  the Japan tax association said the irs is partly to blame because it has failed to establish Concrete guidelines for determining the right Price of trans actions Between branches of a multinational company. Tadashi Iwashita a financial Counselor at the Japa Nese embassy in Washington said japanese firms try to comply with . Tax Laws. An unidentified irs official told the times the Agency suspects that underpayments amount to at least $12 billion. Iran official says those with Means who fail to kill Rushdie Are sinners Nicosia. Cyprus a a top iranian official said sunday thai moslem who possess the Means to kill author Salman Rushdie but fail to do so arc sinners in the eyes of god. Tehran radio quoted Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi the head of the judiciary As saying the Best reason to suffer difficulties in trying to carry out the death order is that those who die in this path will be mar  to islamic leaching martyrs go directly to  broadcast monitored in Cyprus quoted Yazdi As saying the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini s year old ruling that the Indian born writer should be killed was  Yazdi s statements followed comments Friday by president Hashemi a Sfanjani that Khomeini s ruling was Only the View of one expert on a matter of islam  a Sfanjani. Leader of a pragmatic Camp wants to Lessen Iran s Radical image to attract Western invest ment and technology to revive the country s War bal to Rcd Economy. A Sfanjani was trying to play Down the Rushdie affair which Radical iranian leaders such As Yazdi have highlighted. The radicals led by former Interior minister Ali Akbar Mohtashemi eschew relations with the West which they believe will pollute the islamic Republic. As head of the judiciary. I plainly announce that this is an official judicial command not just a religious decree the radio quoted Yazdi As saying. He said sooner or later the command will be car ried  Rushdie 42, has been in hiding in Britain under protective guard since Khomeini s death order on feb. 14, 1989. Meanwhile a Tehran newspaper condemned a Call by members of Britain s parliament for Iran s expulsion from the United nations. A statement signed by 248 members of the 650-scat House of commons called Friday for Tehran s seat at the United nations to be Given to the largest iranian opposition group the Iraq based Mujahid can Khaliq or people s holy warriors. The iranians refer to the Mujdah Cicen As the Muna Ficq can or hypocrites. At least 3 killed in Motel blast believed caused by Gas leak Hagerstown. My. A an explosion apparently caused by a Gas leak lore through a Motel sunday morning Selling off a fire and killing at least three people authorities said. The victims of the 5 30 . Blast at the super 8 Motel were not immediately identified. Ten other peo ple were injured none seriously authorities said. The whole front of the building had been blown out and was engulfed in  said fire chief Gary Hawbaker. We had debris blown out onto the High Way. It was quite a powerful  the Motel is three stories High. He said firefighters were searching for two people who were not accounted for. Part of the problem of checking on All the guests was that some of the Motel s records were burned he said. Some guests reported smelling Gas before the explosion. I had just gotten up to go to the bathroom and had come Back and my wife said Don t you sme l the Gas " said Cal Woodrick 60, of Trenton . And then it  it sounded just like a bomb had gone off Boom said his wife Joan 58. She said guests evacuated the Motel in a very orderly manner. Ron Peterson regional manager for super 8 management inc., said Motel employees were working with the red Cross to get the people and their Luggage straightened  a Small boy reaches to put his father s ballot in voting Box sunday morning in Tokyo. Ruling party keeps majority in Japan vote Tokyo a Japan s governing party will maintain its majority in the lower House of parliament based on computer projections from sunday s National election. If final returns Bear out the projections the Liberal democratic party could claim it had been pardoned by voters for a widespread influence buying scandal that Cut into its popularity and played a part in two prime ministers re signing last year. Kyodo news service and Nhok the Public supported Japan broadcasting corp., said their computer projections showed the governing party keeping its majority. Liberal democratic leaders also declared they expected the party to hold its majority though final official returns Werc not expected until monday afternoon. Party Secretary general Ichiro Ozawa told re porters the party would hold at least a Bare majority of 257 scats in the 512-Scal lower House which has Power to name the prime minister and pass the budget without assent of the upper House. The party currently holds 295 scats. Early returns showed the Liberal democrats who have held Power since 1955 when the party was formed losing some of their scats but hold ing a Lead Over the combined opposition. About 71 percent of the 90.5 million eligible voters a High turnout identical to that in the 1986 election cast ballots at More than 50,000 polling stations nationwide. Chicago Airport plan sends neighbors sky High Chicago a residents lined up against mayor Richard Daley s plan to build a third Airport in Chicago Voic ing concern that his proposal would eliminate their neighbourhoods. In t there some other place he could put this thing some other place than this town resident Mary Ann Kolojay asked. The plan would virtually obliterate her hug Wisch neighbourhood on Chicago s far Southeast Side. Hug Wisch is an old steel Mill neighbor Hood separated from the City by stretches of landfills factories and vacant lots. It is one of two neighbourhoods and two suburbs where 6,700 Homes and 47 businesses would be demolished to make Way for the proposed Lake Calumet Airport. We have All this land everywhere and they still have to flatten this town Kolojay said while working a Cash Register at a local food store. Why not Bridgeport said Resi Dent Mike Hon Nussy referring to Daley s neighbourhood. The mayor said the $4.9 billion project would rejuvenate an area impoverished Over the last decade by the decline of the Mills and other Industry. He said the Airport would generate 200,000 jobs and $13.7 Bil lion in annual Revenue. The Airport scheduled to open in 2010, would be 20 percent larger than o Hare International Airport on the City s far North West Side and 15 times larger than Midway Airport Southwest of Chicago. O Hare has been criticized by Federal officials As being overcrowded and causing National travel delays. The question of a third Airport has been under debate for months and four other Sites have been pro  transportation Secretary Samuel a Skinner and Illinois gov. James r. Thompson said Dale s proposal unveiled thursday would be considered with the others. We Are a Long Way from having a third Airport said Gregory Basic chairman of Athree stale committee conducting a $6 Mil lion study to pick a Rural South suburban site. I would View Daley s plan very sep