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...gave delinquents a 90-day grace period, ending last week, to pay their back taxes plus interest. The opportunity persuaded an astounding 130,000 tax dodgers to open their checkbooks, and netted the state approximately $50 million. Exclaimed Revenue Commissioner Ira Jackson: "The amnesty has been extremely successful...
After a dozen years of dedicated careerism, Koppel astonished colleagues in 1976 by giving up his coveted beat and taking almost a year to be a house husband while his wife Grace Anne started law school. Says he: "I finally understood viscerally what women go through. People focus on those few months I took off and not on the years that my wife put her career on hold." Koppel worked part-time anchoring an ABC weekend newscast until Arledge became president of ABC News in 1977 and stripped...
...Koppels, their children (Andrea, 20; Deirdre, 18; Andrew, 13; and Tara, 12) and Grace Anne's father live in a modern house in Potomac, Md. They spend little time on Washington's social scene. Says NBC Correspondent Marvin Kalb, who collaborated with Koppel on a bestselling 1977 novel about diplomatic intrigue, In the National Interest: "Ted has very strong family feelings and does everything with dedication." Says Koppel: "Our idea of an enjoyable evening is dinner, usually Japanese, and a movie." His hobbies include reading, running, skiing and playing tennis. "I do them all at the same time...
...Grace's team persisted and by last month had produced a 263-page report listing some 150 examples of legislative opposition to needed reforms and naming the big spenders in Congress. When the group closed up shop last week, however, the specific boondoggles had been deleted and the report no longer named names. Grace contended that so many instances of congressional meddling with sound business practices had been found that it was impossible to list them all and unfair to cite only a few examples...
Reagan is considering appointing a new bipartisan panel to forge a consensus on the tough tax and spending measures needed to reduce the nearly $200 billion deficit. He will undoubtedly find the Grace report of great help as he tries to score rhetorical points in his continual campaign against congressional spendthrifts, even those in his own party. But the findings also pose a political challenge. If such huge savings are possible, Democrats can ask, why has Reagan failed so dismally at cutting waste...