k0 fI Levin st conprot WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) launched a last-ditch campaign Monday to sink what he calls a lousy tax overhaul package being considered'by Congress, but he conceded his chances of success are slim. Levin maintains the tax bill would be unfair to middle income Americans and make it harder to reduce the federal deficit, although it enjoys widespread support among his colleagues in Congress: S "'m convinced that the tax bill ... is the wrong bill at the wrong time," Levin said. "If it passes, many middle income taxpayers will find that they'll be paying more in taxes, not less." LEVIN, one of just three senators to oppose the tax package that first passed the Senate, said he'll make a series of floor speeches and contact senators individually to argue against the compromise version approved by a House-Senate conference committee. Final passage of the tax package is expected this month in both chambers. The plan generally would lower tax rates and close many loopholes, shifting about $120 billion in taxes from individuals to business. ONA SCALE of1to10, with 10 being the best likelihood of blocking the tax plan, Levin says his chances of success are 2 or 3. He said there's growing disenchantment with the bill both in the public and in Congress, but "the chances are still very great that this bill will pass." "The chances of stopping it are at least now possible," he added. Daily Photo by SCOTT LITUCHY Levin said that should the tax bill be scrapped this year, the next Congress could start over and put Taking it in together a better tax-overhaul Chris Simmons, a teaching assistant for Economics 202, takes a lunch break at Zingerman's package which could claim the Chriystemmona tsmapublic support this one lacks. Deli yesterday. "WE'RE GOING to reform this tax bill," he promised. "If we don't do it this year, we'll do it next year. But the public insists Captains sink with ships; on it and they're right." le" C ata iluMichigan's other U.S. senator, Democrat Donald Riegle, is s pilots stay wit ples ong those who think the House- shoupla es Pt Snate compromise is rightfully LONDON (AP) - The escape leading French daily, commandeered airliner of Pan Am's cockpit crew at the editorialized Monday. grounded could outweigh all other start of the 17-hour hijacking in "One will never know whether considerations. Pakistan has stirred debate over they fled to protect themselves or to "It's not a question of bravery whether the ancient rule that a help bring about a rapid or cowardice," he said in an captain never abandons ship conclusion," the newspaper said, interview. "It is a question of should apply to jetliner although it said the crew should doing the most sensible thing to hijackings. not be condemned for following get the hijacking over with as An informal Associated Press airline security policies. quickly and safely as possible." survey Monday found TERRY MIDDLETON, A British Airways pilot, Chris :disagreement on the issue among executive administrator of the Orlebar, said he had no doubt pilots, airline officials and the London-based International what he would do in the same hijack victims themselves. Federation of Air Line Pilots circumstances. "I would stay on Opinions ranged from one Associations, which represents board and somehow disable the survivor who called the cockpit 60,000 pilots in 66 nations, said the aircraft," he told London's Daily crew's action "absolutely superb" advantage of keeping a Mail newspaper. A to a spokesman for a competing airline who said it was "unthinkable." Experts predict a new By escaping through a hatch in the roof of the Boeing 747 soon wave of terrorism after terrorists boarded the plane0 Friday, the three-man flight crew (AP) - An expert on terrorism bombings. I think they're going effectively grounded the jetliner said today that the attacks on a to lay off airplanes for a while," at Karachi Airport. Pan Am jetliner and a Turkish he said. BUT IT LEFT the nearly 400 synagogue could signal a new Kupperman said he sensed a passengers and remaining crew wave of international violence. Palestinian influencein without an authority figure and "This airplane and the Friday's abortive hijackingand confronting four terrorists, who synagogue atrocity is just a first subsequent attack on passengers in the end blasted them with step in my view for a lot of very aboard the Pan Am jumbo jet at grenades and machine-gun fire, unfortunate things to come," the Karachi, Pakistan, airport, in killing 18 people. Robert Kupperman of the which 18 people were killed. On. "If one refers to the maritime Georgetown Center for Strategic atedabbath sers world, where the tradition would and International Studies said on attendg Sabbath services at an have the captain of a sinking ship NBC's "Today" show. Isacby sy a gunen be the last to leave the deck, one "IT COULD be a Rome, whssnled by themselve could find quite cowardly the Vienna-type airport attack; it who then killed themselves. conduct of this crew,"Le Figaro, a could be assassinations, IsrasUntd Nins ambassa dor ei n+r.. The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, September 9, 1986-- Page 3 ruggles to dump rised tax package headed for final approval. "The tax bill will pass --- we have to make it work: I think we can," Riegle said Monday in a speech prepared for delivery to the Economic Club of Detroit. "It is not perfect --- there are aspects I don't like --- but on balance I think it is better than the existing tax code." 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