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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 2-12-1993 The BG News February 12, 1993 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News February 12, 1993" (1993). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5492. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5492 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. Weather Local Freezing rain, sleet and Pharm Country: As Food Town BG basketball coach Jim snow this morning, changing closes one store, an area Larranaga is still looking for a to rain later. High in mid-30s. drugstore chain might move in. Mid-American Conference Title in seventh season. 10 G The BG News Friday, February 12,1993 The BG Nevus Volume 75, Issue 98 Clinton proposes tax increase for wealthy The Associated Press many years as Americans," Clinton $75,000 or less would still pay a lower Clinton also told business leaders he gains tax for long-held investments in said. rate. would seek to offset the higher corpor- small businesses and seek to make WASHINGTON - President Clinton He also began a series of meetings White House communications direc- ate taxes with an investment tax credit permanent a tax credit for research and asked Americans on Thursday to heed with Democratic members of Congress tor George Stephanopoulos said that for businesses. development, participants said. the "alarm bells in the night" and rally to outline his plan. Clinton hadn't decided yet on a final John Sculley, chairman of Apple behind his economic plan, including an figure for the increase in the top cor- Computer Inc., one of a handful of the Clinton, in the larger open session at- increase in the top tax rates for both in- A day after Clinton indicated in a porate rate, suggesting he could move it business leaders who had a separate, tended by business leaders, made a dividuals and corporations. televised town hall meeting that his even higher than 36 percent. private meeting with Clinton, said Clin- direct appeal for their help. "I need He also told 230 business leaders in a plan would include higher taxes on "I want to make a proposal that deals ton clearly Indicated he would propose your support and your contribution," he White House meeting to expect some middle Americans, the president told with the fact that the tax code should no an "energy tax in some form." added. "I ask you to do your part." form of a broad-based energy tax to be 230 business leaders he would also pro- longer subsidize excessive pay of chief The president also said he would pro- in his package. pose raising the top corporate tax rate executives and other high executives - pose some mechanism to ease the bur- Then, aiming his message beyond the Clinton used stark terms as he stepp- above its current 34 percent. excessive defined as unrelated to the den on the neediest, Sculley said. business community, Clinton said: ed up his campaign pitch for the plan Administration aides said that Clinton productivity of the enterprise," Clinton "Americans are at their best answering that he will unveil next Wednesday, say- was expected to propose raising the said. Administration officials have said alarm bells in the night." ing the current economic crisis is rate to 36 percent - the same top rate he "There is no question that there are that a gasoline tax is unlikely and that a "every bit as profound as those we have has suggested for households earning higher taxes across the board coming broader tax on all energy forms was Clinton said his decision to raise the faced in the past." over $200,000 a year and who now pay down," Barry Rogstad, president of the more likely. top corporate tax rate followed his de- "We risk losing the standard of living 31 percent. American Business Conference, said At the private session, Clinton also cision to raise the top individual tax that we have taken for granted for so Corporations with taxable income of after the session. said he would propose a reduced capital rate. Mandela accepts Filtering Out The Wires University degree by Jen! Bond student government reporter University President Paul Olscamp received a letter Monday from Nelson Mandela stating he will not be able to come to the University to receive an honorary doctorate degree for public service. The University notified Mandela of the award last month Mandela accepted the degree, Doctor of Public Service, in his letter and than- ked the University for the honor. "I have great pleasure in accepting, both for myself and, more es- pecially, for all the people of South Africa who have suffered and fought for freedom and the right to live in peace and dignity in their land," the letter stated. It also indicated he cannot receive the award in person this year because of responsibilities to his home country. "1993 is going to be an historic year for all South Africans as we an- ticipate that the first democratic elections in South Africa's history will be held this year," the letter stated. "For this reason, I greatly regret that I doubt I will be able to visit your University this year." However, it said Mandela will visit the University "when the op- portunity avails Itself." Undergraduate Student Government President Jason Jackson said USG should be commended for its efforts to notify Mandela of the a- ward. The University had previously been contacting the wrong peo- ple to get In touch with Mandela. "First, I have to commend several people in USG and the Prog- ressive Student Organization for pushing forward with this effort," he said. "It forced University relations to push forward and correctly notify [Mandela] and that is all we asked for in the first place." Jackson said even though Mandela cannot attend the University, a representative ceremony should take place. "Someone should stand in [Mandela's] place so we can at least get the award to him," he said. "It is a great thing that students have worked for. We pushed the University and now it is done. At least [Mandela] knows he has the award." Vice-President of University Relations Philip Mason said a repre- sentative ceremony is not likely to occur. "Why duplicate the effort?" he said. "Based on the letter we The BG Nrwi/TIm Nomun received, my intention is to work with his offices to find his best time Carefully examining wire conectlons, senior computer science said he has been working on the filter, which Is part of an Infrared to visit the campus," he said. major Bob Lee works on an electrical signal filter In Overman proximity detector, for about a month. Mason said the next time he is in Washington,D.C., he will attempt Hall's physics electronics laboratory Thursday afternoon. Lee to set up a meeting with Mandela's chief representative there. Man angered by U.N. actions Toledo airport to be fixed in Bosnia hijacks German flight Repairs new include outdoor lights, curbs, canopy The Associated Press the airport "etched and dirty." The Associated Press in the United States. Before the hijacked plane ar- The twin-engine Airbus 310 rived, the airport's four runways Frank Beans, a local architect who designed the landed safely at Kennedy Inter- had been operating normally. TOLEDO - Operators of the Toledo Express exterior improvements, said the canopy will be NEW YORK - A gunman re- national Airport at 3:50 p.m. and The plane was hijacked on a Airport said Thursday they will spend $600,000 to impressive. portedly angry about U.N. ac- taxied to a remote area of the flight from Frankfurt, Germany, spruce up the building in a campaign to help boost "It will be a dramatic change for the image of tions in Bosnia hijacked a Jetliner airport. to Cairo, Egypt, and Addis Ababa, its sagging image. the terminal. It will create a new contemporary fo- with 104 people aboard Thursday The hijacker was taken into Ethiopia. Officials said the plane "When people step off the plane, we want them cal point and hide the old terminal building," he and forced it from Europe to New custody about 20 minutes later, took off from Frankfurt at 4:45 to see one of the most attractive airports in the said. York, where he was taken into said Det. Joseph McConville, a am. EST, carrying 94 passengers United States," said Mark Sweeney, spokesman for The project comes a few months after comple- custody. police spokesman. Many law en- and 10 crew members. the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority. tion of a more than $1 million face lift of the ter- It was the first trans-Atlantic forcement officials could be seen In New York, McConville said Funding for more than $600,000 in exterior re- minal's interior. The new interior features bright hijacking in more than 16 years. rushing onto the plane. the police department had been pairs was approved Thursday by the authority's blue carpeting, mirrored ceilings and new lighting. .The ordeal lasted about 11 hours. Dozens of FBI agents, police informed the hijacker was a Bos- board. The repairs include new outdoor lights, The Lufthansa plane was hi- and airport officers were spread nian traveling with a Norwegian curbs and a canopy at the front of the terminal.