Roswell Daily Record (Newspaper) - April 15, 2004, Roswell, New Mexico SO t DAILY I SUNDAY VOICE OF THE Pecos VALLEY APRIL VOL 91 NEW MEXICO 88201 Iraqi militants execute hostage Iraq AP warplanes strafed gunmen In on and more than 100 guerrillas with grenades pounded a lone Marine armored vehicle lost in the streets a sign of heavy bat tles ahead if Marines resume a full assault on this besieged With a truce crumbling and President Bush calling for a key role to keep the political transition moving amid the a top envoy proposed an Iraqi caretaker government in a formula that abandons a Iraqi militants executed one of four Italian William of Bravo Company of the 1st looks for insurgent positions Italy The seconds after coming under fire in Iraqi captors issued demands AP Photo including the withdrawal of forces from Iraq arid threatened to kill the three oth according to the Arab TV network which said it received a videotape of the The killing of the a security is the first known execution of a foreign hostage in Iraq and could fur ther dissuade international aid contractors and jour some of whom are already restricting their activi ties in the Earlier Russia announced it will evacuate its With 22 foreigners currently held captive and at least 87 troops killed halfway into the unprecedented vio lence has largely eclipsed the political Negotiations were being held on both fronts at in central Iraq and at Najaf in the south but the military has warned it will launch new assaults if talks do not bear In the the top Grand Ayatollah All alHusseini persuad ed radical cleric Muqtada al Sadr to drop defiant negotiating demands including that troops withdraw from all Iraqi An Iranian envoy was also getting involved in the mediation with an aide to the cleric militiamen appeared to be preparing for a moving into buildings and Page A3 ILEA honors Mary Skeen MELISSA HILGEMAN RECORD STAFF WRITER The International Law Enforcement Acade gathered to celebrate its graduate and the contributions Mary Skeen has made to southeastern New Jack public relations official for explained the importance of Mary Skeen to the ILEAR The late congressman Joe her late was instrumental infringing ILEA to Roswell and getting it started in the We know that Mary had a lot to do with because know that Joe and Mary are from this Theres not a way in the world that Mary Skeen didnt have a lot to do with Swickard Van vice president for research at New Mexico is pleased with how far the program has Having students is a great accom We are always measuring every thing we and the student output is very important to a program like Romero In the Romero plans to have people from ILEAR travel to different ILEA locations all over the We will be visiting all the ILEA programs around the so that we can better nate what we do here in Roswell with whats done in We dont want to have a lot of so we want to be able to take the students to a new Romero David Williams senior vice president Worldwide Training Services Opera noted the importance of ILEA was created before but has taken on a special significance since as one of the strongest have to solicit the assistance of key foreign law enforcement cers in the battle against Many of them serve on the front lines of See Page A3 Pearce pushes to eliminate IRS STEFAN CORNIBERT RECORD STAFF WRITER The Internal Revenue Ser vice will be a thing of the past if a soon come before Congress is made Steve and John said in Wednesday speech at the Ser toma The known as the Fair Tax would eliminate not only the IRS but all income The plan calls for a shift the way Americans are placing heavier taxes on goods and services rather than taxing the amount of money a person Lin der proposed the tax in January of Linder said changing the tax system would stimulate job growth in The biggest drain on job creation in America is the tax Linder For the average small business person to gather and send it in Daily Stefan Cornibert Steve and John advocate the Fair Tax Act In a Wednesday speech at the and comply with the it the costs them Pearce and Linder are in He It costs about Mexico during the House year on average recess to promote m and ta create one new answer from the job and all that money is tied up with just complying with See Page A3 Grim reality Dally Record Andrew Poertner Dexter High School senior Shyla portrays an accident victim as Mark Hamill with the Hagerman Volunteer Fire Department hovers over her in a Grim Reaper costume during an Ever 15 Minutes program in The program educates students about the perils of Dreaded tax deadline arrives post office set to handle filers STEFAN CORNIBERT RECORD STAFF WRITER The April 15 tax deadline is at hand and Roswell residents are heading to post offices before its too Tax forms must be postmarked by Mary supervisor at Pennsylvania Avenue post Wednesday the flow of dropping off tax forms at the had already the lines have been pretty Were not going to have extended but well come up at the mail drops until Midnight is also the deadline to file an exten sion for those who have yet to finish doing their Charmaine Mar an enrolled agent with the accounting firm William Golden said filing for an exten sion is a common Were not going to have extended but well come and pickup at the mail drops until Mary Nunez Downtown post office supervisor sion until Taxpayers can d alcA a until Martin Jane a tax preparer for said although extensions offer some relief from the stress of tax those filing for exten sions still need to have most of their taxes pre the end of our you still tax season but others have to pay 80 percent of your bal beginning of extension recommend the ance due when flle sald tin recommend the people tney can just wait Martin also noted those filing for but you have to be extensions should obtain the 4868 It Js highly recommended rather said taxpayers need to be The form allows for an hurrying through it and making extremely careful with the informa tion they place on tax Simple mistakes can be Social Security numbers and birth dates are the biggest errors we Wright Its kind of surprising but it The IRS just sends them back to Joyce a certified public said taxpayers should also make sure to include medical information when they A lot of people dont realize that they need to include all medical Infor mation in their Ware That includes medical receipts for prescription everything like INSIDE COM SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICOS LARGEST NEWSPAPER OPINION IV i A10 Dow JONES NASDAQ LOW 51 4 V