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THE BANNERGRAPHIC December 23,1987

IRS says it plans to drop SB6 million in penalties for underwithholding

WASHINGTON (AP) Americans are getting an SB6 million Christmas present from the Internal Revenue Service, which is admitting it made a mistake in originally making its new W-4 tax withholding forms too complex. After a year-long effort to get Americans to fill out the new forms, the IRS threw in the towel Tuesday and said no taxpayer would be penalized for having too little in taxes withheld from their paychecks this year. IRS Commissioner Lawrence B. Gibbs cited the confusion over the W-4 forms and a desire to make this year’s tax filing go smoothly as key reasons for the decision, which he said would

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Attorney General’s friends indicted in Wedtech case

NEW YORK (AP) The indictments of three people, including two former associates of Attorney General Edwin Meese 111, do not signal an end to the federal inquiry into the Wedtech Corp., investigators said. “We don’t know where the end is going to be. We don’t know where it is yet,” said Thomas L. Sheer, head of the FBl’s New York office. U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani announced Tuesday that a federal grand jury had charged Meese’s long-time friend and former attorney, E. Robert Wallach, 53, and former financial manager, W. Franklyn Chinn, 45, both of San Francisco, with racketeering and conspiracy to break racketeering laws. R. Kent London, 44, of Honolulu, an associate of Wallach and Chinn, also was indicted on racketeering charges. THE INDICTMENT charged the three sought to influence Meese illegally, but the attorney general was not accused of wrongdoing. Each defendant was charged in three of five separate schemes to defraud either Wedtech, a financially ailing defense contractor, or the government, through false documents and bribery. In Washington, a court-appointed independent counsel who has been investigating Meese’s role said he hoped the prosecution of the three would produce evidence to implicate or exonerate the attorney general. The counsel, James McKay, said the three had invoked their Fifth Amendment rights to silence in the investigation of Meese, leaving un-

resolved questions. McKay said he is “actively investigating other matters” unrelated to Wedtech “concerning the conduct of Mr. Meese vis-a-vis E. Robert Wallach, W. Franklyn Chinn and others.” IN A COURT filing Tuesday, McKay said that prosecuting Wallach, Chinn and London “will serve the ends of justice. Following the disDOsition of these matters, the independent counsel once again may seek the testimony of these individuals.” Giuliani is barred from investigating Meese because the attorney general is the U.S. attorney’s boss. Giuliani said he has not discussed the Wedtech case with Meese.

Scientists find gene that determines sex

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) The ancient quest to understand the ultimate difference between the sexes may have been solved, according to scientists who report finding the gene that makes a man a man and a woman a woman. The gene was located by Dr. David C. Page and colleagues at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during a race between labs in several countries. “People have been fascinated from the time of Aristotle about what controlled sex,” said Dr. Robert Erickson of the University of Michigan. “To have finally probably found the gene that does it is the answer to a 2,000-year search.” IF PAGE’S theory is right, the gene acts as a sort of master regulator. It appears to start a chain reaction of hormones that eventually leads to development of a male. The gene is on the Y chromosome, which is part of the inborn genetic library of men but not women. The researchers believe that a virtually identical gene determines sex in all other mammals. “We think we have identified a single gene on the Y chromosome that is the sex-determining switch, and we think we can infer certain things about its mode of action,” said Page. While Page says he has assembled “a strong circumstantial case” that the gene really is the sex trigger, he cautioned that more work will be needed. THE DISCOVERY may someday provide new ways to treat infertility and problems of sexual development, but its greatest importance is the insight it provides into one of the basic questions of biology. “Although it doesn’t tell you anything that you’ve always wanted to know about the difference

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Wallach, in a statement released by his attorney, said, “I deny any wrongdoing whatsoever and I am confident that the truth will win out and that I will be fully vindicated after a fair trial.” Chinn’s lawyer, Cristina C. Arguedas, said die indictment was based “solely on the testimony of former officers of Wedtech who cheat, steal and lie and have admitted so in court.” There was no listing under London’s name in the Honolulu telephone book. FOUR FORMER Wedtech officials are cooperating with prosecutors after pleading guilty in federal court to conspiring to bribe city, state and federal officials.

between men and women, it tells you how that difference was first laid down,” said Nobel laureate David Baltimore, director of the Whitehead Institute. Dr. Peter N. Goodfellow of tho; - Imperial Cancer Research Fund hi; -: London, a competitor in the race tb: *: find the sex trigger, said he believes: *: that Page almost certainly has: >: located it. For the first six weeks or so qf>; development in the womb, ail -I; fetuses are sexually identical. Page * I believes that the newly discovered gene called TDF, for testisdetermining factor rules whether '; they will grow testes or ovaries. EVERYONE IS bom with 46 strings of genes called chromosomes. Two of these, called »; X and Y, are the sex chromosomes. - Women have two X chromosomes, • while men have an X and a Y. To find the sex trigger gene, the I; researchers studied about 60 XX I males and XY females. These are “sex-reversed” people who appear •; to be exceptions to the rule. The > XX males are sterile, but otherwise • ; are physically normal men even though they have the XX !’ chromosomes of women. XY females appear at birth to be ordi- • ’ nary girls but do not mature sexually and have the chromosomes of men. Through a genetic mixup, the XX males actually carry a tiny bit of the Y chromosome on one of their X chromosomes. And the XY females are missing the same portion of their Y chromosome. Page’s research, published in today’s issue of the journal Cell, set * out to find the piece of Y chromosome that the XX men had and the XY females lacked. By / analyzing the genes, he narrowed down the target to one snippet of genetic material. Inside this stretch of genetic I code, he believes there is one gene ' that is essential for maleness. Like other genes, it oversees production ! of a protein. ;