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...officer in camouflage fatigues standing at attention nearby, Mobutu shows no signs of fearing the turmoil that threatens to engulf him. "I have rendered my country and people an enormous service," he says, beckoning to a servant who rushes up with an iced Baccarat tumbler of Coca-Cola. "They owe me everything." Then why not hold elections? "I plan to. I would win them." Then he leans back in his gold thronelike chair, staring into the distant jungle. "If ever I leave power, it will be only in conditions of beauty, never under pressure...
Actually, the IRS has long been lenient with those who voluntarily offer to pay overdue taxes. According to a policy statement issued last December, "the vast majority of nonfilers need only be concerned about filing and paying what they owe." Moreover, anyone who employs an illegal alien can pay Social Security taxes through a special irs account, and the agency says it does not automatically report such filings to the Immigration and Naturalization Service. But there is a catch: the IRS naturally notifies the Social Security Administration, and that outfit does share information with the immigration office...
...means that the students still owe money to the University, and they have to make their payments before they can register," said Susan L. Schnare, supervisor of the Student Billing Office...
...sympathy of millions of parents who face the same predicament. But when a couple with a net worth of more than $2 million hire not only an undocumented nanny but a driver as well, when they fail to pay the Social Security and workers' compensation taxes they owe, when a topflight corporate lawyer married to a renowned Yale law professor blames their troubles on "bad legal advice," the sympathy hardens into fury. As consumer advocate Ralph Nader observed, "This was a family that could afford to hire Mary Poppins...
...rank-and-file GOP members owe Baker any loyalty. Baker is closely and perhaps irredeemably tied to Bush, hardly the most popular man in prominent Republican circles these days. His fuzzy stand on abortion and lack of any clear ideology offend the party's more partisan members. Besides, many moderate Republicans are so busy counting down the days until Jack F. Kemp's Presidential Inauguration to take Baker very seriously...