Daily News Record (Newspaper) - August 18, 1986, Harrisonburg, Virginia Showers Windy today with a 70 percent chance of showers or thunderstorms Highs low to mid 80s with winds becoming northwest 15 to 25 Lows in the County Fair The Rockingham County which wound up on Saturday topped in ticket sales for the first time in the fairs Story on Page 271 28 Pages Monday August 1986 4332702 20 Tax Overhaul Plan Praised By Reagan WASHINGTON AP A com promise plan that would cut individual taxes by an average percent is a remarkable bipartisan achievement that will boost the economy and make big winners of the American Treasury Secretary James Baker III said Dan chairman of the 22member con ference that completed the Saturday predicted no trouble getting the plan accepted by the House and Senate when they return from a recess President in a statement issued by the White House late hailed the agreement as historic and said it satisfies my re for meaningful tax While some may not agree with all of the provisions of this agree I believe it is in the overall economic interest of the he In its good for the economy and good for the tax The most of which would take effect is variously described as the broadest overhaul of the income tax since or when the levy was first impos The American people are the big Baker said on Meet the 12 hours after House and Senate negotiators climaxed a 23day series of closed door bargaining sessions by approv ing the farreaching plan in open The would affect every person who pays dramatically slashing tax cutting individual taxes and raising the corporate burden by about billion over five and closing off shelters that have allowed some rich in and profitable companies to escape paying their tions and standard deductions would rise and about 6 million of the working poor would be dropped from the By when most of the changes would be in about three quarters of Americans would pay a tax rate of 15 A couple could have taxable income after deduc tions and exemptions of up to before moving into the 28 percent For a single person the rate would rise when taxable in come exceeds The plan would produce an average tax cut of ranging See Page 3 Sudanese Rebels Shoot Down Civilian Airplane Sudan AP Rebels shot down a civilian plane carrying 60 people as it took off from a southern provincial the of Sudan News Agency said Sun Sudan Airways officials were quoted as saying there was no sign of Officials said they did not know if any foreigners were among the 57 passengers and three crew In State Department spokeswoman Anita Stockman said American authorities believed no citizens were on the but that they were awaiting a The Fokker a twin was shot down by a missile at about Saturday as it took off from Malakal for Khar the the Sudan News Agency In Egypts Middle East News Agency quoted airline officials as reporting there was no sign that anyone The Malakal about 450 miles south of is largely con trolled by the rebel Sudan Peoples Liberation Late Prime Minister Sadiq alMahdi ordered the sion of air traffic to and from the embattled south until further In a statement broadcast by Sudans major national radio station and monitored in the gov said authorities were trying to determine the cause of the inci dent and its The Omdurman earlier reported troops had arrived at the crash but gave no In the later the station said the governor of Upper Nile pro vince announced the deaths of the victims and declared three days of There was no further in formation The rebels SPLA monitored Sunday in made no mention of the at On the radio said See Page 3 Charley Rolls Up East Coast NORFOLK AP Hurricane Charley charged up the east coast into Virginia waters Sunday night after careening across North Carolinas fragile Outer Banks with 75 mph winds and torrential Residents of coastal Virginia secured property and evacuated lowlying hours after thou sands of people fleeing the North Carolina island chain jammed highways and At 10 the storm was located near north and longitude about 10 miles east of the mouth of the It was moving north at 1015 and was ex to remain on that The weakly formed eye of the storm continued its northward trek after crossing the Back Bay section in southern Virginia Norfolk International Airport was closed as the storm ap and traffic was heavy on outbound roads from the Virginia Power spokesman Fred Ellis said customers lost power during the storms ap Hurricane warnings were posted from Virginia Beach to Sandy including Bay south of Wind mill Point and Delaware A hurricane watch and gale warn ings extended north to including the New York metropolitan All warnings were discontinued south of Virginia Workers struggle to lower an awning in Virginia Sunday the National Hur ricane Center in Miami issued a statement saying the worst weather over northeast North Carolina had already Winds were still in the 30 to 40 mph range at the National Weather Service office in and winds of 40 to 50 mph were reported over northern The storm dumped inches of rain on Cape Flooding was reported in where water was stan ding 2 to 3 feet deep in some See Page 3 Photo by Michael Ringing Joust Vicky Turner of Mount Solon oh spearing another ring at the 165th an Natural Chimneys Jousting Tourna ment See story Page Gunfire Wounds 10 In 5th Day Of Riots Pakistan AP Opposition groups marshaled their supporters Sunday on the eve of na protests and rioting kept up for a fifth with at least 10 people shot by the Protesters fought riot police in Karachi and other cities across southern setting fire to government buildings and private according to Police shot 10 including three when protesters pelted them with stones and bricks in Karachis district and advanced on police units despite baton and tear gas the witnesses Two of those wounded were in crit ical condition at Central Karachi doctors Rioting flared across the country after the government cracked down on political foes last banning meetings and arresting hundreds of opposition leaders in predawn raids on their Opposition leader Benazir arrested was still in jail President Mohammad Zia and his political oppo nents are poised for a confronta tion to determine who will rule See story on Page near Karachi Four opposi tion activists were shot to death in Lahore The rioting was the worst since when clashes with the army and police killed dozens of people in Karachi and Sind The tests over the last five days been larger and more President Mohammad Zia is facing is widely regarded as the most serious threat to his rule since he took power in a 1977 military The Movement for the Restoration of an alliance of 11 op position called for huge pro tests today to demand Zias In messages sent from to Pakistani opposition leaders said Monday would kick off a campaign that would not end until Zia was They insisted that the protests be How many protesters take part will be viewed as a major barometer of In Karachis Lyari district Sun police fired shotguns at pro testers who pelted them with stones and bricks and who blocked roads with burning tires and other A government statement Sunday said four policemen were wounded by gunfire in fighting the day Hospital who insisted on said about in 12 treated Saturday for mostly shotgun pellet Angry crowds burned four railway stations in the Sardu district of Sind province local journalists Botha Assails For Seriate Sanctions Vote DEA Agent Mum On Alleged Kidnap AP Federal drug agent Victor Cortez said Sunday that he was happy to be but declined to answer ques tions about his alleged abduction and torture by Mexican wearing a shirt and tie and showing no outward signs of inju appeared at a news conference with Jack administrator of the federal Drug Enforcement Im glad for the quick action the DEA agents in Guadalajara took in trying to locate Cortez If it hadnt been for I dont think that I would be here in the United Cortez declined to answer ques tions from reporters about his alleg ed abduction and torture by Jalisco state police in Guadalajara last Lawn said Cortez would not be made available to the media again until after investigations by the FBI and Mexican authorities are Lawn did not say when those in might be and said he would have no comment on their Terrence head of the DEA office in said Cortez was not allowed to answer questions because he would be the key witness in any prosecution or other legal ac tion that results because of the inci Lawn said Cortez had been beaten and subjected to electrical shock treatment and had numerous con on his Other officials have charged that stationed in jara since was beaten and tortured with cattle prods for six hours by Jalisco state Judicial Mexican officials said Cortez was but they disputed allega tions he was Lawn said Cortez and his family See Page 3 South Africa AP Foreign Minister Botha said Sunday the Senates ap proval of broad sanction against South Africa would encourage radi trying to create a society in which no American would live in the first official reaction to the Friday night vote in said the Senate action constituted interference in South Africas internal affairs and was not in the best interest of the United two landmine sions Sunday in a rural area near the town of Nelspruit killed five blacks and injured two blacks and two the governments Bureau for Information It said three black women and two of their including a mon thold were killed and two black men were injured when their car detonated a mine on a farm road outside 180 miles east of The bureau said that earlier in the a white woman and her son were injured when a mine exploded under their It did not suggest who might have been but security forces usually blame landmine incidents on guerrillas of the outlawed African National Botha said that by pushing for members of Con gress were hampering his gov efforts to negotiate a con that would bring blacks into the national political By taking this they are en the inciters of Botha told the South African Broad casting It is a pity that the Senate cannot be brought to the realization that See Page 3 Todays Index Classified Dear Jeane Local Valley Valley Deaths Albert Copeland of Pendleton Nursing Home Roland William of James Arthur of Harrisonburg Margaret Emma of Harrisonburg Mary Lou of Har risonburg Mary Florence of Stanley Samuel Rodney of Bridgewater James Edwin Ned of Harrisonburg Woodrow of Monterey Meldora Davis of Details on Page 16
