Reagan barters on tax cut
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pres. Reagan and the
Democratic congressional leadership failed
Monday to find common ground for a multiyear
tax cut, but the administration still held out hope it
could fashion a bipartisan majority for a bill to its
liking.
And for the first time, the president personally
confirmed he was prepared to back off somewhat
from his longtime call for a 30-percent, across
the-board slash in individual income tax rates
over three years.
House Speaker 'Tip" O’Neill Jr. said after an
Oval Office meeting called by Reagan that the
session was "more of a media event any any
thing else” and that the president’s position is
set "pretty well in cement.”
Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, who
attended the 90-minute meeting in the Oval Office
with five key Democrats from the House and
Senate, said afterward, "I’d characterize it as
lengthy . . . we’re widely divergent on some
issues, particularly as they relate to policies and
principles.
However, key administration figures who
asked not to be named said they were optimistic
that Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-lll., chairman of
the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee,
remained open to a compromise acceptable to
the president. And Rostenkowski acknowledged
he was ready to continue talks on the issue.
The administration officials said they have
been trying intensively over the past two weeks to
convince Rostenkowski to break with the
Democratic leadership and develop a measure
that could prompt enough party conservatives to
join the GOP in the same sort of coalition that won
passage of the president’s budget guideline
earlier.
Court protects nude dancing
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Constitution pro
tects commercial nude dancing against local
attempts to ban all such performances, the Su
preme Court ruled Monday.
By a 7-2 vote, the justices struck down a Mt.
Ephraim, N.J., zoning ordinance that had
prohibited all live nude dancing.
“Here, the borough totally excludes all live
entertainment, including non-obscene nude
dancing that is otherwise protected by the First
Amendment,” Justice Byron White wrote for the
court.
Stating that past decisions established that
"nudity alone does not place otherwise protected
material outside the mantel of the First Amend
ment,” White added that the Constitution protects
“entertainment as well as political and ideological
speech.”
The decision apparently does not mean that
any community now must allow commercial nude
dancing. A narrowly written zoning ordinance
conceivably could be ruled valid
The ruling also leaves open the possibility
that a specific form of nude dancing could be
classified as obscene. The court has ruled that
obscenity is not constitutionally protected.
In other matters, the justices:
Ruled by a 5-4 vote that poor people have no
right to free legal help when the state tries to take
their children away. The court said the right to
free legal representation is almost entirely
restricted to cases in which a person’s
"personal liberty" is at stake.
Backed out of deciding what could have been
an important decision on the use of racial quotas
in "affirmative action" programs.
Portland mayor hires new police chief
PORTLAND (AP) - Mayor
Frank Ivancie named Ronald
Still the new chief of police in a
bureau juggling that bumped
City Commissioner Charles
Jordan from control of the
police department.
At a mayor's press confer
ence today, Ivancie appointed
Still, 49, a 27-year-veteran of the
police bureau, to replace Bruce
Baker.
Baker is retiring for medical
and personal reasons.
The command change takes
effect immediately. Ivancie will
meet with Baker today to plan
the change-over.
"The bureau needs new lead
ership to solve the problems
that have been in everyone’s
minds recently," said Ivancie
aide Jim Redden Jr.
Portland’s police department
has been wracked by a drug
arrest investigation as well as an
incident in which opossums
were dumped on the doorstep
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Two officers were fired fol
lowing charges of racial
harassment from Portland's
black community.
Ivancie's announcement
came on the heels of a comment
by Baker that the next
commander should come from
within the department.
In Ivancie’s sudden juggling
of the bureau’s command
structure, Jordan was switched
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