Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Monday, September 9, 1985 COMMITTEE PLANS TO DRAFT BILL Con gress works on tax reform WASHINGTON (AP) - Taxpayers. will jump on the bandwagon of tax reform as soon as the House Ways andI Means Committee begins drafting a bill, Chairman Dan Rostenkowski (D- Ill.), predicted yesterday. As members of the tax-writiing panel returned to Washington from a two-day seminar on taxes, Rostenkowski and Treasury Secretary James Baker were op- timistic that Congress will be able to. complete a bill this year. They said+ the committee's closed-door sessions. produced no decisions and no com-+ promises because that was not their+ purpose. ROSTENKOWSKI told reporters he is disappointed that House Speaker Thomas O'Neill had expressed skep- ticism about public demand for tax; overhaul. "We're on schedule," the chairman said. "Once we start put- ting together a bill, it will be highly visible and people will rally to the cause."_ Although Senate Republican Leader Robert Dole has said that most people consider tax reform less important than the budget deficit or the U.S. trade imbalance, "it certainly doesn't come as a second priority to none," Rostenkowski said. Many members of Congress have said they found little public demand for tax reform as they toured their districts and states during the August recess. Reagan, who has pegged tax overhaul as the chief domestic con- cern of his second administration, is trying to whip up public support in a series of campaign-style appearan- ces. BAKER, WHO attended the tax discussions with 33 Ways and Means members in nearby Warrenton, Va., said the session were "a very produc- tive and useful experience and ... we moved progress forward con- siderably." Rostenkowski's sessions were negotiation. He repeated observation that the for education, not According to several members who attended, the secretary made no threats about what the president might do if the committee changed parts of the bill that he outlined in May. However, Baker emphasized the four points that Reagan won't negotiate: Any tax change must help the poor; the highest individual tax rate must be 35 percent or lower - it now is 50 percent; interest on the mor- tgage on a principal home must remain deductible, and the new system must raise about the same revenue as current law. Beyondl indictedI sweeping that, members said, Baker that other parts _ of the proposal are negotiable. Baker ... expresses optimism Campusparties proliferate (Continued from Page 1) on E 3 u w Oda ' milajse oooelt ch as a01 E IR o99, M. 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THE START of another football season gives University students one more reason to roll out the barrel, and South Quad's Taylor House residents are not the type to pass upa party op- portunity. Saturday morning the students wil throw an "M Go Blue" party before the Notre Dame game. "Toast them 'til they get toasted" is the motto of Natural Resources sophomore Dan Freiss who, along with LSA sophomore PaT "The Bar- tender" Shin, has a reputation for engineering South Quad bashes, ac- cording to their hallmates. The two are planning a "boxer short" party this Friday, followed by a "hangover party" Saturday before the game. Preparing for a party is a major operation, according to Freiss and Shin. They must collect $5 from every person on their hall to buy the essen- tials. Then at the party, the male par- tygoers are charged $2 for brew, while all women drink free of charge. ALTHOUGH most of these students are under 21, obtaining beer at cam- pus parties is not a problem for most. Students get around the law with a fake I.D. or the help of an older sibling or friend, claim several anonymous underclassmen. No one faces cancer alone. Call us. AMERCAM CANCER SoCJE1Y The dorms place a few constrictions on student parties. Alcohol is permit- ted in the rooms, but not in the hallways, party organizers say. This doesn't reduce gathering in the hallways, but it means a watchful eye from the resident advisor. Rules for fraternity parties are a bit more strict. According to LSA senior Allan Lutes, president of the inter- fraternity Council, a lot of preparation is necessary for a frater- nity party. They should be coor- dinated with the police, as well as the housing office, and it is necessary to have both a noise permit and a one- day alcohol permit. SECURITY guard must also be present, Lutes said. "This is a new safety program to watch for irrespon- sible people, high school students, and loiterers. It ensures that we'll have safe and responsible parties," he said. A group of party organizers from South Quad say they feel the most im- portant ingredient for a successful party is the presence of females, ex- plaining why women are admitted to parties free of charge. Apparently, even in the era of the liberated working woman this has not sparked protest. Some University women say they are well aware of the party discount usually offered to them. "We know our value and take ad- vantage of it," said one LSA sophomore from Markley. Not everyone is able to handle the rigorous party schedule. Freshmen seem to have the biggest problem ad- justing to the widespread party chaos that has them up until the wee hours of the morning. "When we start partying early, I'm all partied out by midnight," said LSA freshman Kelly Jackson. "This whole scene is more than I expected." IN BRIEF Compilied from Associated Press and United Press International reports Botha rejects meeting with African National Congress JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - President P.W. Botha said yester day it would be disloyal for a group of this country's leading business executives to meet with the African National Congress, and flatly reje ted talks with the outlawed black guerrilla movement. In new violence, police reported that they killed two blacks overnight during fierce anti-apartheid rioting near Cape Town. Police said earlier they killed one black as youths rampaged through Cape Town's Guguletu black township following a funeral Saturday for 11 riot victims. Later they said police shot a second black man to death. That brought the toll to at least 31 people killed around Cape Town since the government banned an Aug. 28. march demanding the release of Nelson Mandela, former ANC president imprisoned 21 years ago for plot- ting sabotage. Two police officers were injured in the Gugletu violence that killed the two blacks, aged 19 and 28, were killed, police said. Pope reinforces abortion stand ESCHEN, Liechtenstein - Pope John Paul II vowed yesterday that the Roman Catholic Church will never relax its strict teachings on sex, divorce, and abortion and he condemned those who "kill the child in the mother's womb." The denunciation of abortion was one of the pope's most vehement at- tacks to date, and he repeated it in three speeches during his one-day visit to this mountain principality. "Abortion and taking the child's life are repulsive crimes," the pontiff said in an address to government officials. "The unborn being's right to live is one of the inalienable human rights," he added. The pope raised the issue of abortion and other moral questions earlier in the day at an outdoor Mass before 30,000 people, about 4,400 more than the population of 61-square-mile Liechtenstein. Many in the crowd were pilgrims from Switzerland, Austria and nearby West Germany. He repeated the church's condemnation of living together outside marriage, "unfaithfulness in marriage, the increasing divorce rate, the misuse of marriage and abortion." Chemical spill forces evacmaion MECHANICVILLE, N.Y. - A freight train derailed yesterday, spilling highly flammable liquid from two tanker cars and forcing the temporary evacuation of about 150 homes, police said. No injuries were reported after five cars of the Boston & Maine Rail Road freight jumped the tracks about 3 p.m. at a crossing outside a railroad yard, said Lt. John Gonnelly. Two cars tipped over and leaked methyl-methacrylate, a clear liquid used to make plastics, he said. The chemical's fumes can irritate eyes and the respiratory system, said Chuck Bassett, a spokesman for the state Department of Environ- mental Conservation. He did not know how much chemical leaked from the cars. Evacuees went to the city's civic center or stayed with friends or relatives, but returned home after firefighters contained the spill around 5 p.m., authorities said. The freight train was heading from Mechanicville, a city of 6,000 people about 20 miles north of Albany, to East Deerfield, Mass., said state Tran- sportation Department spokesmdn Ben Zodikoff. Engines probed in latest crash MILWAUKEE - Investigators found damage to the right engine of a Midwest Express Airlines jetliner that crashed just after takeoff, killing all 31 people aboard, a federal official said yesterday. Workers, who by Saturday had found engine parts on the runway the ill fated DC-9 used a day earlier, found more parts yesterday, said National Transportation Safety Board chairman James Burnett. Burnett has identified the pieces as belonging to a Pratt & Whitney JT8D engine of the type used in the twin-engine plane that crashed. The also said the right engine was not working when the plane crashed, and a witness said the right engine was aflame as the plane plunged nose- first into the ground. Witnesses said Flight 105, bound for Atlanta from Madison via Milwaukee, rolled before crashing about a half mile beyond the runway at Gen. Billy Mitchell Field. Arafat offers new peace plan WASHINGTON - Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yassar Arafat offered to exchange "peace for land" with Israel yesterday and expressed hope his plan would get the Reagan administration's support. Arafat, speaking via satellite hook-up to the annual convention of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee here, summed up what appeared to be a new joint PLO-Jordanian initiative for peace with' Israel. "We hope this initiative will be accepted by all of international public: opinion, by the United Nations, and especially by all the democratic and advanced forces inside Israel to accept our initiative - peace for land." "I hope the American administration will help us...to achieve...the peace that can be reached. And this is the last chance to achieve peace,"' Arafat said. The PLO-Jordanian proposal for an internation conference on the Mid- dle East was issued before the May visit to Washington by Jordan's King. Hussein. hi72e Hit-cht- a B a Vol XCVI- No.3 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967 X) is published Monday through Friday during the Fall and Winter terms and Tuesday through Saturday during the Spring and Summer terms by students at the University -of Michigan. Subscription rates: through April - $10.00 in Ann Arbor; $20.00 outside the city. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and Sub- scribes to United Press International, Pacific News Service, Los Angeles Times Syndicate, and College Press Service. Classes in ballet, modern, jazz, tap, and ballroom. New Classes beginning September 9. A For current class schedule and more information call 995-4242. , . $, . k: '\ '. 711 N. 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