European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4the stars and stripes thursday february 6, 1992 71% in poll sceptical of Bush tax plan new York a almost three out of four americans believe president Bush a tax proposals would not make a significant change in their personal finances and just 38 percent say he deserves re election according to an associated press poll. Among those surveyed however just 29 percent said they expected to derive some personal Benefit from those proposals while 61 percent said they would not and 10 percent expressed uncertainty. Results of the poll highlight the considerable Challenge facing Bush As he prepares to launch his Campaign for a second term while under pressure to revitalize the recession bound Economy. Forty eight percent said Bush does not deserve re election to a second term. That View was shared by 21 percent of republicans and 52 percent of independents whose swing vote could prove crucial in deciding the outcome in november. The rest said they did not know if Bush should be re elected or did not answer. The poll showed pessimism about the Economy As a Clear influence on those saying Bush has not earned re election. Democrats were named by 41 percent of those polled As the party that would do the Best Job in dealing with the Economy while 32 percent said the nations economic problems would be safer in Republican hands. The interviews began the night after president Bush delivered his state of the Union address outlining Steps designed to lift the Economy out of what economists say could turn out to be the longest recession since the 1930s. Bush proposed a variety of tax Breaks for businesses and individuals including tax credits for first time Home buyers. He announced that the government would withhold less from individual paychecks a move designed to pump More Cash into the Economy. Only 42 percent of republicans polled expected to Benefit from Bush a proposals. The Telephone poll of 1,000 americans was conducted wednesday through sunday. Looking at the candidates six of the candidate for president hav filed reports detailing their personal incomes. Here Are thumbnail a Teh a of their finances. _ Jerry Brown income estimated at Between $130,000 and $292,000. Major assets valued at Between $432,000 and a million including Cabins and 160 acres in Northern California. Liabilities none. George Bush income $453,000, including $200,000 presidential salary. Major assets family vacation Home at Kennebunkport Maine with a tax value of $2.2 million. Liabilities none. Tomarkin income estimated at Between $141,000 and $168,000, including his Senate salary. Major assets estimated at $212,000 and $771,000, including a vacation Home in the Bahamas. Liabilities a mortgage of Between $50,000 and $100,000. Bill Clinton income reported at Between $69,500 and $84,900, including his governor s salary. Major assets Clinton listed Between $82,000 and $230,000 in savings accounts government funds and a life insurance policy. Liabilities reported two Loans from his 1990 gubernatorial re election Campaign valued at Between $65,000 and $150,000. Republican candidates Patrick Buchanan and David Duke have not yet filed their disclosure reports. Bob Kerrey income estimated at Between $348,000 and $364,000, including a $98,000 Senate salary. Assets valued at Between $1.6 million and $2.46 million including partial ownership of a restaurant Chain. Liabilities valued at Between $266,000 and $665,000, including three mortgages. Pau Tsongas income estimated at Between $100,000 and $1 million but estimated by his Campaign As closer to $350,000. Major assets valued at Between $1.47 million and $3 million including two Massachusetts Homes. Liabilities one mortgage valued at Between $500,000 and $1 million. Source the associated press piece of air plane found on Island linked to Earhart Wilmington Delaware jupi1 a Sheet of aluminium found on a Remote Pacific Island is almost definitely part of the air plane of Long lost aviator Amelia Earhart a researcher said tuesday. A a we re 90 percent sure that we have a piece of the Earhart aircraft Quot said Richard Gillespie who Heads the International group for historic aircraft recovery. A we Hope to be 100 percent sure in the very near future. A Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared Over the South Pacific on july 2, 1937, during an around the world flight. The Fate of the fliers has been a mystery since. Gillespie said researchers found a nearly 2-foot-Square piece of aluminium aircraft skin oct. 18 on the atoll of Nikuma Roro formerly Gardner Island about 1,800 Miles Southwest of Hawaii. It was found amid vegetation washed ashore by an unusually Strong High tide. Attached to the Sheet was a length of Copper wire remnants of insulation a rivet and traces of a manufacturers Labelling Gillespie said. Subsequent analysis showed that nearly All the features on the artefact match perfectly with Earhart a aircraft a Lockheed Electra he said. A what we have is better than a fingerprint Quot Gillespie said. A a it a like having a whole researchers Are hoping that several other artefacts found on the atoll during last years expedition will provide the final clues. . Will ease Haiti embargo to relieve plight of workers from wire reports Washington a the Bush administration said tuesday that it plans to ease the Trade embargo against Haiti taking pains to portray the move As neither breaking ranks with the hemispheres other democracies nor undermining efforts to restore civilian Rule to Haiti. Officials said they hoped the move would ease the economic Impact on workers who lost jobs because of the ban on Trade. As the state department announced that the administration would be a Fine tuning its economic sanctions efforts in Congress to Grant a temporary protected status to More than 10,000 haitian exiles in custody at the . Naval base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba were running into serious problems in both the House and the Senate. This status would freeze the return of refugees until the end of the haitian crisis. A the time is just not right a said Arthur c. Helton director of the refugee project of the lawyers committee for human rights one of Many rights organizations religious groups and prominent individuals protesting the resumption of the forced return of haitians on saturday. Several Hundred would be refugees Are being returned daily. State department spokeswoman Margaret d. Tut Wiler said tuesday that the administration would be collecting evidence on alleged financiers of the sept. 30 coup or backers of army and police violence so that any assets they held in the United states could be Frozen. The deposed haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide has been advocating this asserting that while poor haitians Are suffering Rich and influential ones Are drawing on american Bank accounts. The Treasury department would also Grant licenses to american companies to resume assembling goods in Haiti for re Export the state department said. More than 40,000 haitians have lost jobs in the Assembly sector because of the embargo. Tutwiler said she did not know when these new measures would be put into effect. At the same time new diplomatic initiatives Are being taken by Washington Ana other nations in the Region to persuade the wavering democratic forces in Haiti a parliament and some cooperative officers in a split military Hierarchy to unite As a matter of urgency behind a new prime minister Rene Theodore. His nomination is stalled in the legislature. In Haiti Relief groups and International agencies pledged to watch for any cases of state sponsored persecution. But some doubted that monitoring efforts could track All haitians being returned by the . Coast guard
