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Reagan questions
Mondale's budget plans
-IN BRIEF
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press International reports
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.(AP)-
President Reagan, charging that
Walter Mondale would hike taxes $1,500
per household to pay for the federal
deficit, promised yesterday to veto any
bill increasing personal income taxes.
"I think the Democratic nominee!
owes the American people...a full ex-
planation of how and where he expects;
to get that $1,500 more per household,;
over $135 billion in increased taxes,"
Reagan said in his weekly paid political.
radio broadcast.
Speaking from his mountaintop ranch
as-he nears the midpoint of his 13-day
vacation, the president denied Mon-
dale's contention that he has a secret
plan to raise-taxes after the Nov. 6 elec-
tion.
"I will propose no increase in per-
sonal income taxes and I will veto any
tax bill that would raise personal tax
rates for working Americans or that
would fail to make our tax system sim-
pler or more fair," he promised.
When asked how long the pledge ap-
plied, deput White House press
secretary Larry Speakes said "for the
foreseeable future."
HAMMERING AWAY again at an
issue that is likely to dominate the
presidential campaign, the president
denounced Mondale for representing
"the same tired old formula - tax and
tax to spend and spend."
Mondale responded to Reagan's
charges a few hours later at a news con-
ference at his home.
"Today, President Reagan in his
radio address failed again to tell the
American people whether or how he
will reduce the deficit, completely
distorted my plan to do so and demon-
strated that he prefers canned, long-
distance charges to real debates,"
Mondale said. "The tax and budget
issue is now becoming an issue of Mr.
Reagan's credibility on this question.
"IF WE WERE to debate on national
television today, I'd cream him,
because he's dead wrong," Mondale
added. "Rather than telling the truth
about his plan or lack of it, Mr. Reagan
spent most of his time distorting mine."
Mondale again challenged Reagan to
reveal his tax and spending plans
before the election and to debate Mon-
dale on those issues.
He said he has laid out his own tax
and spending plans in detail, rejecting
Reagan's claim to the contrary. But
Mondale admitted the exact figures for
cutting the deficit by two-thirds-which
he promised last month-would not be
available until the Reagan ad-
ministration releases new budget
estimates that were due last month.
MONDALE BELITTLED Reagan's
pledge not to raise personal income
taxes, suggesting that Reagan might
propose a national sales tax after the
election.
"I'm convinced they are going to sock
it to the average American, that
'they've got in mind a national sales tax
or a value-added tax," he said.
Soviet plane crash kills 9
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A
Soviet Aeroflot cargo plane en route
to Tashkent crashed yesterday in
southern Pakistan, killing all nine
crew members, Civil Aviation
Authority officials here reported.
They said the An-12 transport
crashed shortly after taking off from
the provincial capital of Karachi,
where it had made an unscheduled
landing hours earlier to repair a
"technical fault."
Solidarity leader released
WARSAW, Poland - Adam
Michnik, an advisor to the outlawed
Solidarity trade union movement
and leader of the former workers'
rightsegroup KOR, was released
from Warsaw's main prison yester-
day, family friends said.
Authorities also released 53-year-
old Seweryn Jaworski, a
steelworker who had been deputy
leader of Solidarity's Warsaw chap-
ter and a member of the independent
labor federation's national com-
mission.
Both Michnik and Jaworski had
been held in Warsaw's Rakowiecka
Prison since the December 1981
military crackdown that banned
Solidarity. Both were released as
part of the amnesty approved by the
Polish Parliament on July 21.
Michnik was the first of four KOR
leaders to be released. Other mem-
bers waiting to be set free are Jacek
Kuron, Henryk Wujec and Zbigniew
Romaszewski.
Coleman escape attempt
foiled by prison guards
CHICAGO - Two federal prison
guards have received commen-
dations for foiling an apparent
escape attempt by alleged serial
murderer Alton Coleman, it was
reported yesterday.
The guards discovered a
makeshift bedsheet rope hidden in
Coleman's cell in the Metropolitan
Correctional Center last Thursday.
the Chicago Sun-Times reported
in today's edition.
Authorities believe Coleman, a
suspect in eight murders in six Mid-
west states, intended to use the
makeshift rope to escape from his
maximum-security cell, the
newspaper said.
Striking British miners
attack coal truck depot
LONDON - Some 200 striking
British coal miners armed with
bricks stormed a National Coal
Board truck depot, bashing parked
vehicles in the latest violence in a 21-
week old walkout against proposed
government mine closures, police
said yesterday.
The miners caused $4,500 worth of
damages in the Friday night raid on
a truck depot in Derbyshire in cen-
tral England. They escaped before
police arrived and there were no
arrests.
European Space Agency
launches 10th rocket
PARIS - Europe's Ariane rocket,
a direct commercial challenge to the
U.S. space shuttle, blasted off on its
10th mission yesterday after four
technical delays caused by com-
puter errors, officials said.
Twenty-one minutes after liftoff,
the Ariane III rocket, more powerful
than its predecessors, launched two
communications satellites into orbit
22,500 miles above the Earth.
The white, needle-nosed rocket
developed by the 11-nation European
Space Agency blasted off from the
Kourou launching site in French
Guiana at 10:33 a.m., 1 hour and 29
minutes afters its scheduled launch.
Justice Stevens says some
Court rulings too sweeping
CHICAGO - Supreme Court
Justice John Paul Stevens said
yesterday that his colleagues on the
high court are incorrectly making
some sweeping rulings when
narrower decisions are enough to
resolve the cases.
Stevens, speaking in remarks
prepared for delivery at the
dedication of a new building at the
Northwestern University Law
School, said that in several impor-
tant rulings during the recently con-
cluded term, the justices made "en-
thusiastic attempts to codify the law
instead of merely performing the
judicial task of deciding the cases."
Czech student defects
in homemade aircraft
VIENNA, Austria (UPI)- In a
daring break for freedom, a
Czechoslovakian engineering student
escaped into Austria yesterday in a
homemade "ultralight" aircraft
powered by pedals and a tiny 2-cylinder
engine, authorities said.
The 24-year-old man-identified only
as Ivo-spoke fluent English and asked
for -political asylum and wanted to
emigrate to the United States or
Australia, police said.
Police said the man took off in the
canvas-winged craft from the town of
Lozorno, about 6 miles inside
Czechoslovakia, at 3a.m. and landed at
Vienna's Schewat airport about 4:45
am., a 25-mile trip.
The student, wearing a bright yellow
crash helmet, flew the craft only about
100 to 200 yards above the ground for
the entire trip, arriving "with his last
drop of fuel," an airport spokesman
said.
"Nobody saw him," the spokesman
said.
Police said the man, an engineering
and science student in Czechoslovakia,
parked his homemade, 3-wheeled craft
with a basket-like seat outside an
Austrian Airlines hanger used for DC-9
jets and sat there until airport em-
ployees spotted him.
Police said the student told them he
had planned his escape for a year,
making secret test flights of the
ultralight aircraft.
500 demonstrators eneirele
Wailed Lake weapons plant
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Bill Gerchow, a survivor of Pearl
Harbor was also on hand to protest the
protest.
"I'm disgusted at the number of
people here," he said. "In fact, I see
some gray-haired people over there
that I'm astounded would be there.
People like that ought to know better."
But Virginia Jordan, a silver-haired
woman walking along barefoot with the
rest of the anti-nuclear protesters,
resented implications such as those by
Gerchow.
"We don't look on ourselves as
naive," she said. "Perhaps we are
more sophisticated than if we closed
our minds to the issue."
John Singer, one of the protesters
who has been to similar actions at
Williams International, said he was
pleased with the turnout.
"You've got a minority of radicals
left," Singer said. "Once you get mid-
dle America involved - the people who
make life run - that's when you start
building strength. Maybe in five years
it'll be alot easier."
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