Is Tax plan WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House, convinced in the words of one of- ficial that so-called tax reform will be "very, very difficult" to achieve, clearly is planning to relegate that issue to the back burner as it concen- trates first on pushing it budget cuts through Congress. Although President Reagan will send Congress his proposal for major changes in the federal income tax system by the end of January, White House strategists are saying outright in private that they expect the proposal to languish for quite a while before any action is taken. BUT, WHEN Reagan gets around to trying to sell his tax changes, it seems apparent the president will stop referring to "tax simplification," as he has been calling it for a year, and start referring to Tax fairness," which is likely to have a bigger - and more positive - impact on voters. a1 / will proceed slowly I PREPARE FOR: 1 The Michigan Daily- Friday, December 7, 1984 - Page 9 BOOK SHOP SALE Whatever it is called, one official, who spoke on the condition he not be named, said, "A major tax reform is going to take a lot of time.... We would hope we could get something con- sidered this year." The first step, in the view of this of- ficial, is to "develop bipartisan support for the initial proposal," and to get the appropriate congressional committees to begin considering the plan, which probably will be some version of the modified flat tax proposed last week by Treasury Secretary Donald Regan. "AND THEN you will have a very lengthy process of hearings and a sub- stantial amount of negotiation over many aspects of that very complex reform" among the White House, Congress and various interest groups, he said. This official and others in the White House have made it clear that the cuts Reagan proposes in the fiscal 1986 budget will have priority. But he refused to concede that after an all-out effort to push those cuts through Congress the White House may not have enough political capital left to mount the kind of major campaign needed to change the tax system - especially if Reagan sticks to his in- sistence that the tax revision plan not be used as a method of reducing the enormous federal deficit. "I think seriously that if we're able to develop the (tax reform) proposal that there is potential to generate as much public support for tax fairness and reforming the current tax system as there is for spending cuts," the official said. 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(CPS) - BUT REVEII Charging violation of first amendment Strother argu rights, the Louisiana State University newspaper in th student newspaper, "The Daily violates the pape Reveille," is suing LSU for banning all rights to determin abortion and pregnancy-related adver- policy. tising from school publications: "The editor ant The charge is the most serious of a be responsible for number of recent incidents as pro and says. "It's not a anti-abortion forces square off on cam- issue. The admini puses nationwide. students' right toi AT VILLANOVA University in Pen- "The administ nsylvania, the Catholic university's such freedom of administrators ordered the campus Villanovan editor. newspaper editor to pull an ad offering THE WEEKf birth control informaton. ban, Marusak w At California's Oxnard Community cusing the admini College, the "Campus Observer" staff and of suppress: and faculty advisor were bombarded because it feelsi with protests from students and faculty fantastical way be for accepting a pro-life political adver- Villanovan facu tisement in the weeks before the Nov. 6 countered the acc election, edition saying," And Eastern Washington University against the teach students were unpleasantly surprised the Catholic Chu recently when unappetizing anti-abor- trouble it would ci tion flyers appeared on cafeteria Villanova stud tables. e buttebn THE LSU BAN stems from a business ned about the ban officer's question about the suitability THE PAPER of "pregnancy-related" advertisemen- supporting the e ts contracted by an independent ad two supporting th agency to appear in a student directory. At Oxnard C "The complaint raised the question, much reaction to 'Do we want to advertise for abortion?" in the Campus explains LSU Vice; Chancellor for faculty adviso Student Affairs L. L. Pesson. editorial defendii "We talked to the student health sibility to uphol' director and deternined the ads were speech right. in the best interests of the students," he Students and says. "The director felt it best to send labeled the ad "in students to the clinic first for advice tually inaccurat( and help, then if necessary, point them staff's judgment: in the right direction for an abortion MORGAN ad clinic." "definitely graph LLE editor Dane es including the he campus-wide ban er's first amendment ne its own advertising id ad manager should r all advertising," he pro-life or pro-choice stratin is limiting the information." ;ration should allow expression," agrees Joseph Marusak. - following Villanova's rote an editorial ac- stration of censorship ing "opposing views its own may in some e damaged." arty advisor June Lytel cusations in the same "I knew the ad was ings of Villanova and rch, and I knew the ause if it ran." ents seem unconcer- , Marusak notes. received two letters editor's position, and e ban. ollege, however, too a graphic pro-life ad Observer prompted r Gary Morgan's ng the paper's respon- d the pro-lifers' free d faculty members n poor taste" and "fac- e" and questioned the in accepting it. mitted the ad was hic" and the paper did. debate abortion not endorse it, but the Campus Obser- ver does "believe in the precepts of the First Amendment and cannot deny ac- cess so long as advertisers adhere to its advertising code." Eastern Washington University students objected as well when graphic pro-life flyers appeared on cafeteria tables last month. The flyers advertised on anti-abortion film scheduled for campus showing and sponsored by Kampus Sonshine Ministries. DINING service manager Liane Smith had not approved the flyers, although she had approved previous ministry leafletting. While the Oxnard and EWU adver- tisements stirred little lasting con- troversy, the LSU and Villanova episodes still fester. LSU and the Reveille met in federal court this week. AND WHILE editor Strother hopes to settle out of court before then, LSU's Pesson says, "the university has no in- clinaton to settle out of court." "We don't see it as a first amendment question," he adds. "We'd like to determine the constitutionality of the question. We assume the university has the right to accept or reject ads." At Villanova, a scheduled hearing on editor Marusak's refusal to pull the bir- th control ad has not yet taken place. 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