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inter/national news From Associated Prssa rsports Reagan decides on MX missies WASHINGTON President Reagan has decid ed to scatter 100 MX missiles among 1000 shelters in the West and to build the B-1 bomber while a more advanced, radar-eluding Stealth aircraft is developed, sources said Wed nesday A key Senate source, asking anonymity, said he understands Reagan has not settled on which states will house the new generation of nuclear missiles The possibilities include shut tling them, shell-game fashion, on desert land in Nevada and possibly Utah, or basing some in existing Minuteman missile silos in other states The president is to announce those multibillion-dollar decisions on Friday as he dis closes plans to modernize the nation's strategic forces, which he contends have fallen dan gerously behind those of the Soviet Union 25 percent tax reduction for in dividuals For a married worker with two kids who earns $400 weekly, for example, the initial reduction in withholding will mean a pay check fatter by $3 70 a week The government also is mak ing it more attractive for tax payers to save, using special new, high-interest certificates exempting up to $2,000 from income taxes FTC ends TV proceedings WASHINGTON The Federal Trade Commis sion on Wednesday ended con troversial proceedings that once threatened to ban some television ads aimed at young children The FTC opened the proceedings in 1978. saying such ads might be unfair or deceptive especially to children too young to understand their selling purpose The television and advertising industries said parents, not the goverment, should regulate what their children see on TV and accused the commission of setting itself up as the "national nanny." Last year, Congress respond ed to an extensive lobbying campaign and slowed down the proceedings by saying that any regulation could be based only on deception The commission said Wed nesday that the issues are too complex and too far from re solution to justify further ex pense "We cannot justify sacrificing other important en forcement priorities to its con tinuation, ' the FTC said U.S. peacekeeping force created WASHINGTON House and Senate negotiators agreed Wednesday to spend $125 million to help operate a Middle East peace keeping force in the Sinai De sert, but barred stationing any American troops there without prior approval of Congress The money represents the United States' share of financ ing the peacekeeping force that will monitor Israeli withdrawal from most of the Sinai Peninsula WPPSS plants will be mothballed SEATTLE Sponsors of two financially troubled nuclear power plants being built in Washington state informally agreed Wednesday to mothball the plants until at least mid-1983 — at a cost of $150 million, officials said The committee representing the 88 Northwest public utilities which own the plants reached that consensus during a con ference call with Robert Fergu son, head of the Washington Public Power Supply System, said WPPSS spokesman Jim Hughes. The plan calls for the 88 owners to provide $60 million ol the total needed to mothball plant No. 4 at Hanford in Eastern Washington and No. 5 at Sat sop, east of Aberdeen in Wes tern Washington Defense lawyers charge coercion BOISE, Idaho The Bunker Hill Co put pres sure on an Idaho state senator to try and prevent a witness from testifying in a $20 million lawsuit against the company, an attor ney for nine children said in U S District Court here Wednesday Plaintiff attorney Paul Whelan of Seattle did not identify the state senator, who allegedly put pressure in 1980 on state Health and Welfare officials to prevent Dr Phillip Landrigan from tes tifying. Heart-attack victims aided BOSTON Researchers have found that a clot-dissolving medicine pro tects people from the damage that usually follows heart at tacks, and they say the dis covery could profoundly change the way doctors treat victims of America s leading killer Dr John Markis said the new approach, which is being studied at several medical centers, could have as dramatic an effect on the treatment of heart disease as the develop ment of coronary bypass sur gery more than a decade ago With the new therapy, doctors are able to dissolve blood clots that block coronary arteries and starve heart muscle during heart attacks When blood is flowing again, the heart muscle functions normally without ap parent serious damage Federal tax cuts begin today WASHINGTON Today, the government giveth some, and the government ta keth away a lot more What it giveth, as the new fiscal year begins, is a tax cut If federal income taxes are withheld from your paycheck, you can expect a modest increase in take-home pay, thanks to the first installment of President Reagan's three-year, kinko's copies 4c "!1 V M l \ li l 11 im|>tltri i/i tl \< r i i t lilk In Ml J sklri.! i i »|>lt'^ BjiidiiiH I .mini.itinii _s1 M ~<|4 I 1 4th 444 ~V14 mm f : sit \ sm.i Oregon Daily Emerald Get a s2() rebate ^_.^onthe TI-59 Programmable. 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