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fb ftlabdjfe Inquirer people 4-A Saturday, Aug. 15, 1981 Quarterback on the tax run credits his backf ield "Every leader takes other people's ideas, and I don 't think anybody has been more willing to give credit to other people 's ideas than I have. Rep. Jack Kemp district gave him 83 percent ot the vote last year. For his first three terms, he was considered a solid, if undistinguished, team member of the House GOP.

But in the course of the 95th Congress, the man who had been the AFL's Most Valuable Player in 1965 got serious about "moving the party and the country away from what I perceived to be mistaken economic ideas." He huddled with neoconservative policy oracles such as Irving Kristol and Jude Wanniski, a strong proponent of University of Southern California economist Arthur Laffer, and formed a congressional "cabal" of a dozen Republicans, including former Michigan Rep. David Stockman and Sen. William V. Roth Jr. of Delaware.

Kemp complains that "it has almost become an article of faith" that the tax-cut plan was engineered by Laffer and Wanniski, "but with all due respect, it all came about as a result of Bill Roth and me looking at John Kennedy's tax cut" proposals of 1962. Moreover, says Kemp, generous in victory, much of the credit goes to Norman Ture, now undersecretary of the treasury for tax and economic affairs. Since the plan was modeled on a plan by John Kennedy, Kemp was, and is, fond of quoting Kennedy's apothegm: "A rising tide lifts all the boats." But even the tide can use help at times, and Kemp was there to provide it. In the first 10 months of 1978, he made 150 speeches in 32 states, and the plan developed an enormous congressional and public following. Then the tax cut was appropriated by Reagan as a major part of his 1980 game plan.

According to Rep. Gingrich, who worked closely with Kemp in the tax fight, "Jack Kemp's specific price to campaign for Reagan was that he agree to the tax bill." Kemp says that although "there was no price involved formally, it was implicit that there would be a lot more enthusiasm in my campaigning" if Reagan adopted not just the supply-side tax policy but the Kemp-Roth name as well. "I admit that I wanted a specific allusion," Kemp says. Despite misgivings over what he labels "timidity" of some rate cuts in Reagan's altered version of Kemp-Roth, Kemp predicts that it will work. Rep.

Trent Lott a close friend of Kemp, says he believes that Kemp "embodies to a degree the future of the Republican Party." One top White House official agrees: "He's a real star with an almost unlimited potential" and is considered a potential rival to Reagan, although "we deal with potential rivals all the time. Half the Senate and a quarter of the House is running for president, and Jack Kemp is one of them." Either the Senate or governorship of New York could be steppingstones to the presidency, but one veteran Republican strategist suggests that if Kemp stays in the House, and the Republicans win a majority in 1982, he is a certain choice for majority whip, majority leader or even speaker. ByCurtSuplee WfUhinjton Posl Service WASHINGTON Former professional quarterback Jack Kemp lays it right down the middle. "My ambition," he says, "has been to help lead a revolution." And so he has. The economic play he called in 1977 turned into a long drive that culminated last month in a bloody end-zone face-off when the House and Senate overwhelmingly voted to enact a 25 percent, three-year tax cut.

President Reagan added the extra point Thursday when he signed the controversial bill into law. In the process the term Kemp-Roth entered the eponymic hall of fame, right up there with Taft-Hartley and Hawley-Smoot, and the once obscure Buffalo, N.Y., member of Congress and former star of the American Football League (AFL), may be on the way to the political Superbowl. "Name any bill that ever went through like that!" Kemp says, leaning forward from his seat on a coffee table in his Ray-burn Building office and throwing wide his quarterback hands in post-game excitement. "No one has ever done it who wasn't on the Ways and Means Committee." The big legislative games get rough, and Kemp's go-it-alone style meant that "I have stepped on some toes and violated some cherished traditions of the House" namely, that "members do not get involved in issues beyond their own purview." When the going got tough, Kemp got out of the way. "I stepped aside for two or three months" during the congressional debate, he says.

"1 sublimated my ego for the success of the party" because so many Democrats whose votes Reagan needed had campaigned against Kemp-Roth by name. But "my name is on that bill as much as anybody's," and he is proud of his role as provocateur in what he calls "a massive behavioral modification program, an attempt to modify the behavior of the U.S. economy by altering dramatically the reward structure." Not to mention a dramatically altered reward structure for the 46-year-old five-term congressman who in four years has risen from anonymity to presidential potential. His friend Rep. Newt Gingrich Ga.) calls him "the most important Republican since Theodore Roosevelt, the first Republican in modern times to show that it is possible to be both hopeful and conservative at once." Kemp protests: "That's an exaggeration.

Clearly, Reagan is the most important." Kemp's name has been mentioned in connection with such offices as governor of New York, senator from New York and House majority leader that is, if he doesn't run for president-There are those who speak of him in Kennedyesque terms, people whom Kemp does little to discourage. He admires and imitates John F. Kennedy's use of broad, rousing slogans like "I want to get America moving again." That sort of simple statement, he believes, "moves people. It's what any Man in the news Kemps says he did not begin reading seriously until he got married, began a family and "suddenly realized that pro football was not an end in itself." Herb Klein, editor of the San Diego (Calif.) Union (and later President Richard M. Nixon's press secretary), got him a public relations speaking job with the newspaper.

Kemp polished his speaking skills in volunteer campaign work for Nixon in 1962 and Sen. Barry Goldwater Ariz.) in 1964 and in his off-season job as special assistant to Reagan in 1967, the year Reagan became governor of Californ ia. Kemp also had been active in the AFL, having founded the players' association in 1965 and having been its president. So he was not quite a rookie when he quit the Bills in 1970 to run for a traditionally Democratic seat in the 38th District, an all-suburban enclave outside Buffalo. The the AFL championship twice.

But he hesitates to explain the genesis of his enthusiasm, lest "I be accused of using football metaphors." Nonetheless, it was in football, he says, that he developed his profound belief in the utility of incentives. "Quarterback is not necessarily a position it's a way of thinking," he says. As a quarterback, he says, "you are the leader of an enterprise, you organize the factors of that production, you energize them, you lead them, you prod them, you push them." "I love ideas," Kemp continues, but "I'm no intellectual by any stretch of the imagination." His concepts often originate elsewhere, but "every leader takes other people's ideas, and I don't think anybody has been more willing to give credit to other people's ideas in this battle than I have." real leader would do, any quarterback: Churchill at Dunkirk, MacArthur at Inchon, Philip of Macedonia or Alexander." Economic issues brought Kemp to prominence, but he readily concedes he is no economic authority. Kemp recalls a passage that he deleted from his final speech on the tax bill. "I was going to say: 'Tip O'Neill has suggested that I don't know much about economics.

Nonsense! I don't know anything about economics. But I'm an expert on How did that come about? He answers immediately: "Quarterbacking." Kemp spent 13 years in professional football, first with the San Diego Chargers and then with the Buffalo Bills, who won Royal wedding disc tops Britain's charts A woman of mystery, except for her goals Newsmakers Personality ly survivors. He ruled earlier this week that 16 cousins or their survivors on the mother's side of Hughes' family were legitimate heirs. Now the judge must determine the validity of claims of the paternal heirs, including the survivors of Elspeth Hughes. For charity a fit- The popular new duo of the Prince and Princess of Wales has toppled singer Cliff Richard from the top of the record charts in Britain.

A long-playing record of the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer has sold 100,000 copies in 12 days. The record, priced at about $9, was expected to have a total sale of It shot to the top of the long-play chart this week, ousting Richard's "Love Songs" from the No. 1 spot. The record of the July 29 wedding in St. Paul's Cathedral includes the music and spoken portions of the ceremony.

The BBC said its 116-minute videotape of the wedding, priced at $72, also is selling well in Britain, Denmark and Sweden. Home too soon Former hostage Donald Hohman still sees a psychiatrist and suffers from insomnia and fear of crowds. He says he and others held captive in Iran shouldn't have been rushed home. "We should have had at least another week in the hospital in Wiesbaden. They should have let our families come over there.

Then we should have had a week alone with our families at West Point. But the way it was, we didn't even get a chance to get our feet on the ground," he said. Hohman, 39, is an Army sergeant stationed in Frankfurt, West Germany. His remarks, made during a leave to his West Sacramento, home for the funeral of his mother, were published Friday in the Sacramento Bee. Hohman said he decided to seek psychiatric help "after I started dripping tears in my soup in a restaurant on Bourbon Street when they brought most of us there for Mardi Gras.

There I was crying all over the place, and I didn't know why." Hughes mue Probate Judge Pat Gregory ruled yesterday in Houston that the beneficiaries of one-half of Howard Hughes' estate would be determined by one question: whether a cousin of the late tycoon was legitimate or the issue of an illicit love affair. Gregory agreed to hold a separate trial, to begin Aug. 24, to determine whether the late Elspeth Hughes was the legitimate daughter of Hughes' uncle, Rupert Hughes. Gregory ruled last month lha: Hughes died without leaving a will or any irfijncdiate fami- By Murry Frymer Knighl-Rfditer News Service SAN FRANCISCO There are those misguided people who think that all that movie writers do is sit around fancy restaurants with gorgeous starlets. Obviously, this is not so.

In fact, as I was saying to lovely, sloe-eyed Barbara Carrera, star of the new Disney film, Condorman, at L'Etoile the other night. "What's a gorgeous girl like you doing in a gorgeous place like this?" Smile. The assured smile of knowing the compliments are true, that with proper care the smile, and the beauty, will endure. "The human body is not meant to change or grow old," she said, by way of explaining her philosophy. "Animals do not grow old.

They don't get wrinkles or gray. It is man's diet that has destroyed him." I suck in my gut while she tells me about a holistic doctor whose books she reads. "He lived to be in his 90s," she said. "You know, one time to show how his body worked, he cut his arm with a knife and then he watched it heal." Interesting. But let's talk about Nicaragua, Carrera's homeland, where her father was a wealthy diplomat and whom she doesn't want to talk about.

She is, it seems, a woman filled with all kinds of mysteries that she doesn't want to talk about. "I haven't been home since I was 10," she said. "Every time I plan to go, Managua is destroyed by an earthquake or there is a rebellion. "My father is dead," she continued. "He was involved with the government somehow or other.

We did not have a close rapport." And your mother? "My mother was his last wife." Did he have many? "I don't know. But he was the type that would have many." Interesting. Have you been married? "No," she said. "Not really." Not really? "Well, I was married for a little while. It was a short marriage.

It's nothing to write about." Who shouldn't 1 write about? "I would rather not give you his name. He was no one. I was very young." We moved on to her days at an American boarding school. Naturally, she wouldn't say where. (Sleuthing found it to be St, Joseph Academy Associated Press in Memphis, Tenn.) "My parents could not control me," she said.

"So they sent me to a school for difficult children I did all sorts of things to be a troublemaker." Needless to say, her so-called schooling was not completed. Even so, she speaks five languages and in any one of them she will not tell you that she is an accomplished pianist and a painter. "One day, I just took off," she said of her departure from school when she was not quite 16. I wanted to be free. I was ready for an adventure." One day, shortly thereafter, on a shopping trip to Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, standing on a street corner, she was approached by designer Lily Dache, who said something like, "What's a gorgeous girl like you doing on a street corner like this?" "She planted the idea in my head that I could be a model," Carrera recalled.

"I was on my to Paris then, but I changed my mind." A few days later, Carrera visited the Eileen Ford modeling agency to see whether a career could be started. But the Eileen Ford look was not her look. Carrera says that her dark features were out of style. Carrera said she tried very hard to look like other models, but it didn't work, so she took the opposite tack. "I decided that if modeling was going to work for me, I would have to be natural," she said.

"I accentuated-all the things I had tried to hide. They had said my lips were too sensual, my hair too slick, my face too shiny. I went for that look." And in a few years that look was the look, the Carrera look. She became the Ford Agency's star, one of the highest-paid models in the world. And then with the Elite Agency in Paris, Barbara Carrera traveled the world doing covers for Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar and Viva.

Then along came actor-producer Tom Laughlin (Billy Jack) who was searching for an actress who resembled Barbara Carrera for the lead in The Master Gunfighter. Though she had never acted, Carrera thought at least she resembled Barbara Carrera, so she tested for the role, and won it. Later, after more modeling, she got a part opposite Rpck Hudson in Embryo. Other recent films Barbara Carrera plays a Russian spy in 'Condorman' Oil millionaire and philanthropist Edwin W. Pauley, a longtime supporter and friend of President Franklin D.

Roosevelt, left most of his estate to his charitable Edwin W. Pauley Foundation, according to his will filed for probate in Superior Court in Ixs Angeles. Pauley died at age 78 last July 28 at his Beverly Hills home after a long illness. The documents filed Thursday listed no official estimate of Pauley's wealth, but executor William R. Pagen said yesterday that Pauley was a multimillionaire and that more than half of the estate went to the foundation.

He said he could not be more specific until after a full accounting of the estate was made. The Pauley foundation, established in 1962, provides construction grants to cultural, civic and educational institutions. Elvis Presley's estate Col. Tom Parker, longtime manager of the late Elvis Presley, will not receive any more money from the Presley estate, a probate judge ordered yesterday in Memphis. The judge also ordered the estate's lawyers to file a lawsuit to recover an unspecified amount of money from Parker.

Probate Court Judge Joseph Evans issued his ruling before a courtroom crowded with lawyers, reporters and Presley fans in town to observe the fourth anniversary of the singer's death tomorrow. Evans said he reached his decision after analyzing reports of investigations into the business relationship between Presley and Parker. Estate lawyers and Blanchard Tual of Memphis, the court-appointed attorney for Presley's 12-year-old daugh "A man who loves romance! A man who showers me with diamonds. He must look like Adonis, He must never be deceptive. His hair must be sour cream!" Sour cream? "It's an inside joke," she said.

"He will know it if he reads this." The gossip columns say that Carrera is keeping company with ballet star Alexander GodUnov, that she has kept company with actor Richard Gere. Neither, as I remember, has sour-cream hair. Carrera is equally mysterious about her age. "Say I am in my 20s. I am not afraid of getting older.

I get better with age. I'm a Capricorn. I believe everything I want I can get. I believe nothing is impossible. If you believe it, there is a magic that happens.

The trick in getting what you want is in having no doubts you can get it. "I know I can do anything I want to if I put my mind to it. Anyone can, unless they are too lazy. I would like to win an Academy Award. "And I will.

I am going to get it." have been The Island of Dr. Moreau in 1977 and the TV movie, Centennial, in which, as an Indian named Clay Basket, she ages from 15 to 89. Recently she was seen in "Masada." In Condorman, Carrera plays a Russian spy in a James Bond-type spoof. The plot involves her defecting to the West through the aid of a cartoonist (Michael Crawford) who is testing escapades for his new comic-book character called Condorman. Mickey Spillane's I The Jury is next.

"I want to become the greatest actress," she said. "I've been trying to break the stereotype of Latin women. Everyone thinks a Itin actress must be like Delores Del Rio." As for her personal life, Carrera says: 1 have a list of what's important in life. In order, they are health, love, money and the time to enjoy them." She said marriage was indeed possible if she could find the man who is "exciting, fantastic, and last, but not least, has his own wealth." ter, Lisa Marie, began looking into the Presley-Parker financial rela tionship in 1980. -Bill Thompson.