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Even the Internal Revenue Service sometimes admits mistakes. Bowing to public indignation over the maddeningly complex W-4 form it introduced in November, the IRS last week unveiled a simpler version. The bewildering four pages of questions and instructions in the original have been reduced to two. Further minor changes are being discussed with the Office of Management and Budget, and the new form, called W-4A, is expected to be made final this week. Said IRS Commissioner Lawrence Gibbs: "We misjudged the willingness and capacity of many taxpayers to handle the additional complexity...
...homeland, spent nearly seven years under virtual house arrest with his wife Elena Bonner in the closed city of Gorky. During the February forum, Sakharov delivered three speeches eloquently expressing his concerns about human rights, U.S.-Soviet relations and the nuclear arms race. He made a slightly edited version of those speeches, along with a preface explaining his reason for giving them, exclusively available to TIME...
...This is what Pravda wrote: "Academician A.D. Sakharov noted the unsoundness of the position of SDI proponents. He also termed as incorrect the idea that the existence of the SDI program would spur the U.S.S.R. to disarmament talks. The SDI program impedes negotiations. The scientist also proposed his own version of how to achieve a 50% cut in nuclear weapons." Western radio stations have also reported my views imprecisely and incompletely. This reinforced my decision to publish the complete text of my speeches at the forum...
...Reagan's reluctance or inability to conclude a compromise SDI agreement providing for both a moratorium on deployment in space of ABM components (which is a necessary condition) and specific limitations on the testing of SDI, which involves launches of components into space or underground nuclear explosions. In the version most acceptable to the U.S.S.R., the agreement would provide that SDI work be limited solely to laboratory research. Apparently the compromise agreement proposed by the Soviet side was unacceptable to the U.S. side, since it deprived America of a free hand to proceed with...
...member UA last week voted down the commission's version of a campus code by a 4-3 vote, with four members abstaining and ten members absent...