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University officials maintain that this rapid reversal of the exemption can be explained by a change of heart by Paul Menton, the associate House counsel, Lewis Armistead, assistant vice president for government and community relations, said recently. Menton ruled in 1979 that the bill would be unconstitutional if it failed to exempt Harvard. This year he allowed the exemption to be repealed...
Fortunately, there is one author in a position to do something about this situation. Senator Daniel P. Moynihan (Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding) plans to introduce special legislation that would exempt publishers from the Thor ruling. The bill would join one sponsored by Senator Gaylord Nelson, who favors a moratorium on implementing Thor. In the meantime, publishers searching for loopholes might consider the tax credits available for energy conservation. Books stacked against the walls of warehouses might be considered insulation. For the more literary, who prefer a Swiftian modest proposal, there is always the book-burning stove...
...words, "a minority of secular humanists and amoralists are running this country and taking it straight to hell." Carter's "failings," in their eyes, deepened their despair. The last straw for many evangelicals was a 1978 attempt by the Internal Revenue Service to take away the tax-exempt status of private schools suspected of practicing racial discrimination...
Upset by such examples of "intervention," pro-choice advocates fought back last week by filing a suit in New York federal court against the IRS, asking it to cut off the church's tax exemption. The suit charges that through letter writing, articles in church newspapers and other activities, the church is violating the IRS code under which tax-exempt religious institutions may discuss issues but not campaign for particular candidates...
Even if the Senate does finally approve a bill, it will probably clash sharply with the House version, Congressional staffers said yesterday. The House version does not exempt journalists or researchers from prosecution...