Banner Graphic, Volume 22, Number 179, Greencastle, Putnam County, 1 April 1992 — Page 2

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THE BANNERGRAPHIC April 1,1992

Tyson loses in bid for bond

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Attorneys for boxer Mike Tyson plan to ask the Indiana Supreme Court to review lower court decisions requiring Tyson to remain in prison while he appeals his convictions for rape and criminal deviate conduct. A three-member state Court of Appeals panel rejected on Tuesday Tyson’s plea to be freed on bail pending his appeal. That decision upheld an earlier order by Marion Superior Court Judge Patricia Gifford, who sent Tyson to prison last week to begin serving a six-year term. TYSON, 25, was found guilty of assaulting Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America beauty pageant contestant, in his Indianapolis hotel room last July. Tyson’s attorney, Alan M. Dershowitz, said, “We’re going to pursue it with the Supreme Court as

Boskin, experts agree on problem, not on solution

WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush’s chief economic adviser says the United States is in danger of losing its status as the world’s leading economy unless U.S. productivity rises. But Michael Boskin, chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers, rejected a proposal put forward by 100 top economists that the federal

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soon as possible. We’re in the extremely unfair position of having bail denied without any explanation, without any grounds.” Dershowitz said he was surprised the appellate court decision came without comment ‘T SUSPECT the appellate court would have a very hard time coming up with opinions that are plausible,” he said. “I think they couldn’t articulate a ground for denial. It’s not clear the Indiana Supreme Court will find that acceptable.” ISCT Court of Appeals Judge V. Sue Shields, who signed Tuesday’s order, predicted Tyson’s attorneys would ask the state’s highest court to review the decision. However, she said she’s unsure what role the state’s highest court could play because there are few precedents to guide the court pro-

government boost spending to states and cities by SSO billion annually to increase productive investment BOSKIN, WHILE agreeing that increasing productivity is crucial, said the answer did not lie in inflating already-record budget deficits. “We are not going to remain the world’s leafing economy unless we get our growth rate up for produc-

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cedure Tyson’s attorneys followed to try to free him. “I DON’T KNOW because it is an odd proceeding,” said Shields. “I do know the Supreme Court has a lot of inherent power, but I don’t know there’s any particular precedent for this.” Kimberly Bradford, the Supreme Court’s administrator, said, “It’s possible the court could find it has jurisdiction to review it depending on the procedure chosen” by Tyson’s attorneys. Marion County Prosecutor Jeffrey Modisett declined to call Tuesday’s ruling a victory for his office, but added that “the winner is justice.... The benefit we want to see it that it does tell rape victims to come forth.” MODISETT SAID he doubted the Supreme Court would agree to review the denial of bail. He said

tivity,” Boskin said in a speech Tuesday to the National Economists Club of Washington. “That is the greatest single economic challenge,” he said. “It will determine the standard of living for our children and America’s leadership role in the world.” THE GROWTH in productivity, defined as output per hour of work, has been lackluster for more than two decades. Annual productivity gains averaged 2.4 percent in the 19605, but dropped to 1.3 percent in the 1970 s and fell further to 0.8 percent in the 1980 s.

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Tyson would likely now serve between six months to a year before a decision is made on his appeal. Shields predicted her court could finish work on the appeal in six months. The prosecutor said he didn’t consider the appellate court’s ruling an indication the state will win on appeal. “The court in deciding a motion like this considers many issues. They consider the risk of the person committing the same offense, they consider the risk of flight. These are very important issues in addition to the likelihood of a reversal of conviction,” Modisett said. “How the Court of Appeals weighs these factors is certainly not for me to decide.” MODISETT SAID Tyson was informed in prison of the denial.

Because productivity is crucial to boosting living standards, economists have been searching for answers cm how to reverse that trend. Just this week, a group of prominent economists, including six Nobel prize winners, released an open letter to the administration, Congress and the Federal Reserve in which they called for a SSO billion increase in aid to state and local governments. THEY ARGUED that while the increase would boost the deficit in the short-term, it would be healthy for the economy by putting resources where they are needed most to improve America’s education system and its crumbling infrastructure such as highways and airports. “Everyone agrees that the remedy for the long-run problem is more investment: in people, in infrastructure, in technology and in machinery,” the economists said in their letter. The spending makes more sense than tax cuts being proposed by the administration or Congress, the economists said. Once the economy is growing more strongly, tax increases, not tax cuts, will be needed, the group said. THE ADMINISTRATION is projecting that this year’s deficit will hit a record S4OO billion. Boskin said that, given the imbalance, the traditional pump-prim-ing approaches to ending a recession by boosting government spending weren’t available. Boskin also said, “It would be naive to think that one could draw on a blackboard a SSO billion program and have Congress sp>end it well.”

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Congressional Diary HEADLINES: House leaders and Bush administration officials scrambled to draft a scaled-back bill that would increase spending on the savings and loan bailout by sl7 billion. House Republican balked at the administration’s request to provide $42 billion more enough to last through next November’s election. Billions of dollars in foreign aid would continue flowing for six months under a bill before the Senate today and approved Tuesday by the House. Included are $l5O million for the former Soviet Union and $270 million of President Bush’s $350 million request for U.N. peacekeeping forces. Public and personal funds were found mixed together and a vault stacked with SIOO money orders was found unlocked in a surprise audit last week of the troubled House Post Office. ODDS & ENDS: House Democrats are preparing a new effort to extend unemployment benefits for a third time to thousands of Americans after losing a bid to use the peace dividend from decreases in military spending to fight the recession. The Senate defeated an effort by conservative Republicans to maintain a four-year ban on the use of fetal transplants from abortions in scientific research. A measure by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, to allow such research only with tissue from miscarriages was rejected, 77-23. Rep. Jamie Whitten, D-Miss., chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, is back at work after being hospitalized a month with minor prostate troubles. A slimmer but paler Whitten was applauded as he walked onto the House floor with the help of a cane. At 81, Whitten is in his 50th year as a House member. Civil rights activists are trying to stop Senate confirmation of Alabama prosecutor Edward E. Carnes as a judge on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. They accuse him of helping rig Alabama’s court system against poor black defendants. Lawmakers saw three “car-choppers” snip a Cadillac Fleetwood down to its skeleton in 10 minutes on the Capitol parking plaza. Allstate Insurance Co. arranged the demonstration to dramatize the multibillion-dollar business that auto theft has become. Rep. Ed Feighan, D-Ohio, joined a list of nearly 50 lawmakers who have decided to not seek re-election. Feighan, a member of the House the past 10 yeks, has been fighting allegations that he abused the House bank, but his wife said that “wasn’t the deciding factor.” QUOTABLE: “We have tried from the beginning to support the administration’s recommendations, but we have said, ‘This has to be bipartisan.’ It is not going to be Democrats voting for the administration’s recommendations and Republicans voting against them,” House Speaker Thomas Foley, D-Wash., on scaling back a new savings and loan bailout bill. “This is not a debate about abortion. This is about allowing federally sponsored research that may save thousands of lives and improve the quality of life for many others with devastating diseases and disabilities,” Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., on a bill to overturn the Bush administration’s ban on fetal tissue research. IT’S A FACT: Only once have two sitting members of Congress been married to each other. Rep. Andy Jacobs, D-Ind., and former Rep. Martha Keys, D-Kan., met while serving on the House Ways and Means Committee in 1975 and wed shortly afterward. Keys was defeated for re-election in 1978. They later were divorced. DAYS IN SESSION: The House lias met 39 days of the 81 days in the second session of the 102nd Congress. The Senate has met 43 days.

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