Industries May Drop Tax Protests in South Carolina
The South Carolina Tax Commission expects eight large industries to withdraw their tax protests following J.P. Stevens Co. and plans to issue county directives within three weeks to meet the 1982 deadline for property valuations. Nine counties will meet the original 1981 deadline.
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Columbia
South Carolina Tax Commission
J.P. Stevens Co
J.P. Stevens
Tax Commission
Robert Wasson
Wasson
Commission
Berkeley
Charleston
Clarendon
Darlington
Kershaw
McCormick
Saluda
Sumter
Union
O'Connor Confirmed as First Woman Supreme Court Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor was confirmed by a unanimous Senate 99 to 0 as the first woman justice on the Supreme Court. She will be sworn in Friday at the Supreme Court building in a ceremony possibly attended by President Reagan and opens the 1981 82 term on Oct. 5.
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Washington
Sandra Day O’connor
Senate
Supreme Court
Arizona
George Bush
Reagan
O’connor
Jesse Helms
R-N.c
Helms
Jeremiah Denton
R-Ala
Judiciary Committee
Haig Pushes Peace Aims With Russia
United Nations Secretary of State Haig stresses peaceful settlement of the Polish crisis. He will tell Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko at their first meeting that Moscow must refrain from military intervention to improve U S relations. Haig also meets Polish Foreign Minister Czyrek to stress the gravity of Poland's problems before talks with other regional allies.
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United Nations
Alexander M. Haig Jr
Reagan
Haig
Andrei Gromyko
United States
Jozef Czyrek
Poland
Czyrek
U.S
China
Venezuela
Five Charged With Bribery Against Drug Case
Five people are charged with offering Solicitor Jim Dunn a 50000 bribe to dispose of a drug case set for trial this week. Jack Fisher Brown Jr. 36 of Hartwell Georgia is named among drug suspects. Undercover SLED agents arrested Virgil James Thomas 42 of Travelers Rest as he left Dunns mobile home after a late-night meeting.
Earth Stability A Question In Summer Hearing
The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board reopens its hearing on the V. C. Summer Nuclear Plant license. The 900 mw uranium plant near Jenkinsville, owned by South Carolina Electric and Gas Co., cost over $1 billion and raises stability and emergency planning questions.
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Columbia
Earth Stability and Emergency Planning
Federal Atomic Safety and Licensing Board
V.C. Summer
Jenkinsville
South Carolina Electric and Gas Co
Poland says Solidarity declared war on nation
Poland's deputy premier says Solidarity declared war on the communist system and damaged government labor cooperation. He calls the move a funeral for the idea of partnership and notes talks in Radom on hunger and shortages. Soviet Tass accuses the union of provoking crises to seize power.
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Warsaw
Poland
Solidarity
Independent Labor Federation
Mieczyslaw Rakowski
Gdansk
Anwhile
Tass
Union
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Russia
South Carolina
Tiorkius Wit
Aiken Jaycee County
Aiken
Saar Welliiae
Tate
Radberry’s
Bankers Trust
Treasury
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
FDIC
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