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GOP propos taxes by 20 WASHINGTON (AP) ? In an early glimpse of the agenda in next year's Republican-controlled Congress, GOP lawmakers introduced a bill Tuesday to 3lash income tax rates by as much as 90 nerppnt The measure, which will be reintroduced when Republicans take control of the House next January for the first time in 40 years, was cosponsored by Rep. Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., the incoming speaker; Rep. Richard Armey of Texas, who will be majority leader; and Rep. Dick Zimmer, R-N.J. Tax rates in the United States are too high," said Rep. Jim Saxton, R-N.J., another sponsor. "I want to start the ball rolling to restore some sense of reason to our tax laws." Palestinians a third of pr BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP)?Although poverty appe'ars to be fueling violence in the Gaza Strip, the World Bank's top Middle East official told Yasser Arafat on Tuesday that only a third of the international aid pledged to Palestinians is likely to reach them this year. Of the $700 million promised by international donors for 1994, only about $240 million at most was likely to be delivered on schedule, said World Bank Vice-President Caio Koch-Weseer. Arafat was attending a two-day conference in Brussels to appeal to donors to make good on aid pledges so he can relieve the economic hardship that is threatening his six-month-old administration. Dashed hopes for economic recovery since Arafat signed the peace treaty with Israel last year have helped radical Islamic groups gain backers for campaigns of violence in the Palestinian territories and in Israel. The donors ? which included the United States, Japan and the European Union ? urged Israel to help by easing restrictions on Palestinian workers and goods crossing its border. "Measures allowing more Palestinian workers in Israel... will greatly contribute to alleviate the political tensions 5jo w Alp Thii Fri THE RUSSELL HOUS ses cutting percent The bill would reduce the lowest tax rate from 15 percent to 12 percent and the highest bracket from 39.6 percent to 33 percent. The 28 percent rate would fall to 22 percent; the 31 percent rate to 25 percent; and the 36 percent rate to 33 percent. Saxton said his bill combined with other GOP promises ? such as reduced capital-gains taxes and expanded Indi vidual Retirement Accounts ? would generate enough economic activity to offset any revenue losses. Opponents of tax cuts say similar reductions during the 1980s drove up the federal deficit and national debt. to receive omised aid and the need of international economic assistance," said Foreign Minister Frank Vandenbroucke of Belgium, who opened the conference. World Bank officials estimate 20,000 Palestinians cross the border daily to work in Israel compared to 70,000 last year. Israel has tightened border restrictions in response to attacks against its citizens. Unemployment among Gaza's 800,000 population stands at 50 percent. The United Nations estimates economic activity has shrunk by more than 25 percent in the past year. So far this year, international aid to Arafafs administration has totaled $140 million. Koch-Weseer said part of the lag in supplying the aid is due to delays in the ii x j t?_i .? peace process mai causeu ruiesuuian home rule not to start until May. But he added donor nations "have not been as flexible as they might be," wanting to sponsor prestige projects, rather than concentrating on day-to-day needs. Some donors also want more guarantees from Arafat that the money will not go astray once it reaches the Palestinian territories. x Child< i&Bj )ha Om iac TTrir W I1V Autographing day, December 12:30 - 2:00 803/777-4160 E 1400 GREENE STREET C 4 The Gamecock p| Election ( COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP)?Whether vi state counties must decide again if outs should remain legal is up to tl Commission, which has been asked tc tions. The commission will hear appeal er operators in Pickens and Green\ Thursday and Friday and from And Monday, commission spokesman G Decisions will be made the day o] said Tuesday. If the commission turns video poker machine operators coi state Supreme Court. County election commissions aire the same appeals, but operators sa unfavorable rulings from local offici state commission is more impartial. "They're more removed from lo prejudices," said Calhoun Pruitt, a 1 Radioactive CHICAGO (AP) ? A radioactive tra injected into women who may have bre cancer makes malignancies "light 1 on a detector and could cut in half number of biopsies needed in this co try, a researcher said Tuesday. If the technique is proved effecti it could save millions of dollars and sp hundreds of thousands of women 1 pain and scarring that can accompi biopsies, said the researcher, Dr. 1 Khalkhali. The technique was 90 percent ac rate in identifying breast cancer in woe who were afflicted, Khalkhali and i leagues reported at a meeting of the! diological Society of North Ameri "Mammography is very sensitiv< detecting most abnormalities in breast, but only one out of every fou Auto insura COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ? South Ca pay more for auto insurance next plan approved by the governing boar that covers high-risk drivers. The $15.48 increase for drivers1 was approved Tuesday by the fund' it still must be approved by state Ir sioner John G. Richards before it c? 1. If approved, it would be the fii 1991, when losses from Hurricane t srs MS am ega \orie 2 OLUMBIA SC 29208 Wednesday, November 30, 1 commission oters in three Up- ing Anderson poker oper video poker pay- Voters in each county de< le state Election payouts legal as part of i > call for new elec- islature could not agree1 statewide ban. s from video pok- Payoffs were rejected vood counties on opponents won by only lerson County on margin was fewer than arry Baum said, was fewer than 2,000 vol f the hearings, he Poker operators, who down the protests, in television, radio and n lid appeal to the by a grass-roots network < low-tech message through >arlv Vinvp refused stirkers tid they expected In some protests, pol als. They say the ordered off church prof places, even though the cal passions and tance from the polls, awyer represent- Some also complained tracer may eli cer five suspicious lesions seen on a mamsast mogram turns out to be a cancer," said ip" Khalkhali, an associate professor of rathe diology at the University of California on- at Los Angeles. Khalkhali cautioned that the methoc ive, is still experimental, are The new technique, called scintithe mammography, costs about $600 and my employs a radioactive tracer first used raj to detect heart disease. The patient is exposed to about the same amount oi :cu- , radiation she would receive on a crossnen country airplane trip, col- Biopsies typically cost $1,500 tc Ra- $3,000. About 700,000 a year are done ica. to evaluate breast lumps. 2 at The new technique has the potential the to eliminate the need for half of them r or Khalkhali estimated. "We can no longei ince fee to inci rolina drivers will coupment fee" to $61.95 summer under a Recoupment fees are -d of the state fund high-risk pool, which p owners who otherwise mi with clean records Carolina requires all vel s board. However, Those in the high-ris isurance Commis- claims this year, said SI m take effect July industry spokeswoman "There are more acci -st increase since filed. There are more pe lugo drove the "re- Neither she nor Jan [pi 1 Come hee Iperspec T TT"\ J ni v Ri C ?? II v_/uiei yi All Day: We: 5:45 pm: I Cai 6:00pm: C 7:00pm: Mu Thanks to the USC AIDS Advij Housing and Residei .994 to hear pok< ator Richard Green Sr. places had sig nded Nov. 8' whether to keep payouts, a compromise after the Leg- Anderson whether to accept or reject a listening to w in 12 counties. In Anderson, i^es ranging 49 votes. In Greenwood the of supporters 120 votes and in Pickens it - Poker ope ^es- mission shou spent more than $ 1.3 million ^81 people w ewsDaDer ads. were ODDOsed , ,i , * 1 ' " Danots in que )f opponents who spread their , , , ,, Lawyers t church sermons and bumper sider sworn s ter operators said they were were una^e >erty that served as polling keen c^anSec y were within the legal dis- 1? Picken cials failed to . that churches used as polling ing votes ant urinate many 1 afford to do a biopsy on every suspicious I finding seen on mammography," Khalkhali said. The researcher said the equipment needed is already in virtually every hos1 pital's radiology department. Dr. Steven M. Larson, chief of nuclear medicine in the radiology departl ment at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Canl cer Institute in New York City, said the ; technique holds promise, but its place F in medicine is still to be determined. Khalkhali said scintimammography has been tried on more than 600 women > at Los Angeles Harbor-UCLA Medical ! Center, where he is breast imaging chief. He reported on 147 consecutive patients I who required biopsy for 153 suspicious , masses. Scintimammography correctly iden ease; more cla assistant, hf chained to cover losses in the the losses tl rovides insurance to vehicle , . , , fees ight not be able to get it South recoi: hides to have insurance. r ? i n ,, , ,, tor the more ik pool have filed more costly n vers without laron Cooper, an insurance ^ ? . The fee is idents and more claims being extrer ople driving," she said. 10 points on les Byrd, Richards' executive ment would ILD AIDS )ecember 1, 19 Panel Discussion ving with All 'ersonal Stori ir about HIV/AIDS fror tive. Three people will /AIDS has touched thei issell House Thea 4:00pm orld AIDS Day i ar q PpH DiWhnn tr* elim J.X U 1WU XV1UUV/11 cvy OilV 1 vdeet outside the Russel tidlelight walk to Stateh Candlelight ceremony al lti-denominational wor: Trinity Cathedral Call 777-8248 for more informati >ory Committee, Student Health Center, OPEN ntial Services, BGLA, and SPA! Funded in par 3 er appeals ps outside urging people to vote against County commissioners spent eight hours itnesses who alleged election irregularfrom misaligned ballots to harassment by poll managers and opponents, rators in Anderson County say the comld have considered as evidence a list of ho voted in the wrong precincts and the sstio'n. also said the commission failed to contatements from 30 people who said they to vote because a precinct location had 1. s County, lawyers argued that local offitest the tabulating machines before count1 failed to properly secure ballot boxes. jreast exams tified cancer in more than 90 percent of cases, Khalkhali said. There were 11 false positives ? suspicious findings that were identified as cancer by scintimammography but turned out to be noncancerous. There were four false negatives ? lesions not identified by the technique that turned out to be cancerous, he said. If the scintimammography indicates cancer, doctors recommend a biopsy, he said. "If results are negative, we recommend that the patient be followed with periodic mammography or physical exam," Khalkhali said. A clinical trial involving 50 hospitals flwnnrrlmnf TTrntoH HAorcm in April, and sites in Europe and Latin America have been added. Results are expected in about six months. rims blamed id specific figures on the claim rate or le insurance pool must cover with the ipment fee will increase from $34 to $49.48 than four out of five South Carolina driviolations on their records, Cooper said. 3 higher for drivers with more violations, ne case, for drivers with the maximum of their records, the annual recoupment payincrease from $2,000 to $3,300. DAY 94 DS: es n a personal share how r lives. itre \ activities: v your support 1 House for louse ; Statehouse ship service at / ion DOOR, PSE's, Friends for the Quilt, tby Student Activity Fees.