4 Page 4 - The Michigan Daily - Sunday, August 5, 1984 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 (Continuedfrom PageS) 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." Member of the Associated Press Vol. XCIV- No. 33-S The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967X) is published Tuesday through Sun- day during the fall and winter terms and Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday during the spring and summer terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscription rates: September through April-$16.50 in Ann Ar- bor, $29.00 outside the city; May through August-$4.50 in Ann Arbor, $6.00 outside the city. Second-class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Postmaster: Send address changes to The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109. PHOTO STAFF: Carol Francovillo, Rebecca Knight. 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