Senate Conservatives Unveil 608.1 Million Tax Plan For Minnesota
The Minnesota Senate Conservative caucus proposes a 608.1 million two year revenue package including higher sales income and excise taxes. It would boost taxes on income over 12 500 to 20 000 and raise cigarette taxes while eliminating certain federal deductions. The plan also includes school aid waivers local levy limits and an auto license ad valorem system aiming to shift tax bases and spur a Hibbing taconite plant.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Minnesota Senate
Senate
House
Stanley Holmquist
Holmquist
Minnesota
Corpo
Elimi
Hibbing
House OKs U.S. welfare reform plan
The House approved a sweeping welfare and Social Security package. It would establish a federally administered welfare floor of 2400 dollars for a four person family and raise benefits and payroll taxes, expanding coverage and easing eligibility while reducing state welfare variation.
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Oks
U.S
Nixon
Nixon plans to release war study to Congress
President Nixon is expected to provide the Pentagon Vietnam War study to House and Senate committees after Republican leaders requested the release. Separately, two lawsuits seek release of the Pentagon Papers with Laird named in the FOIA action. McCloskey, Moss, and Reid push for disclosure while FBI agents interview him.
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Nixon
Pentagon
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Senate
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Paul N. McCloskey Jr
R-Calif
FBI
John E. Moss
D-Calif
Ogden Reid
R-N.y
Laird
U.S
Vietnam
McCloskey
Daniel Ellsberg
Ellsberg
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton
House Panel Examines U.S. Document Classification System
House subcommittee opened hearings on the federal document classification regime led by Rep. William Moorehead. They weigh constitutional issues around the Pentagon Vietnam study and Nixon era efforts to suppress it.
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Washington (Ap
House
Official
Washington
William Moorehead
D-Pa
Pentagon
White House says Viet pullout amendment won’t affect policy
The Senate approved a nonbinding Mansfield pullout amendment by 57 to 42, urging nine month U S troop withdrawal and prisoner releases. White House aide Ziegler says the vote reflects not Congress policy. House leaders indicated the measure would not become law in conference with the Senate.
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Senate
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Indochina
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F. Edward Hebert
D-La
House
Mike Mansfield
Montana
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North Vietnam
Ronald L. Ziegler
Congress
Hebert
United States
Vealey Pleads Guilty in Yablonski Slayings Case
Washington, Pa. Claude E. Vealey, co defendant in the 1969 Yablonski murders, pleaded guilty to murder and said payments were made by a man named Tony. The plea ties Vealey to the killings of Joseph A. Yablonski and his wife and daughter.
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Washington, Pa
Claude E. Vealey
United Mine Workers
Joseph A
Jock” Yablonski
Tony
Lost Mora girl found after overnight search
Kay Bellstrom eleven slept in a combine hopper on a nearby farm after a sheriff led search for a missing girl in Mora Minnesota. Witnesses at a pretrial for Captain Ernest Medina in Fort McPherson Georgia are to be questioned about a sergeant's claim of being threatened with My Lai murder charges. The steel strike probability drops to fifty percent or less per Labor Secretary Hodgson. In East Pakistan medical sources report about fifty Pakistani soldiers wounded or killed daily in fighting with Bengali rebels.
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Minn
Sheriff's Deputies
Kay Bellstrom
FT. Mcpherson, Ga
Ernest Medina
My Lai
Medina
ST. Paul, Minn
James Hodgson
Dacca
East Pakistan
Pakistan
Weight loss order for Miami mother on probation
Mary Louise Peterson must shed 60 pounds in five months or face three years in jail as a term of probation for disorderly conduct and resisting police. The 38 year old, six foot tall mother of six weighed 315 pounds at trial and has begun a protein diet aiming for 200 pounds, with a judge insisting on steady weekly losses.
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Miami
Mary Louise Peterson
Criminal Court
Murray Goodman
Goodman
Reds Drive Off Medics in Cambodian Battle
North Vietnamese troops drove off medical rescue helicopters under fire as Cambodian forces tried to extract wounded in the Battle of the Vihear Suor marshes east of Phnom Penh. Cambodians said about 20 soldiers were wounded and 33 enemy bodies lay on the field while a 5,000-man push stalled. A U S command spokesman said sapper attacks caused explosions at a large ammunition dump near the DMZ.
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Vihear Suor
Phnom Penh
U.S. Command
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Demilitarized Zone
Judge dismisses bid to force ruling on war
A federal judge dismissed a motion by 13 congressmen seeking a declaration of war or cessation of the Indochina conflict. Judge William B. Jones ruled with no oral argument that the President need not seek congressional declaration. The move follows the Supreme Court's decision not to take original jurisdiction on the Massachusetts suit.
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Washington
U.S. District Court
William B. Jones
Supreme Court
Massachusetts
Florida judge allows foster parents to keep Lenore
In Miami the Dade County Circuit Court ruled that Nicholas and Jean DeMartino may retain custody of Lenore after previously relinquishing the New York court orders to return her. The couple cried in court as their Miami attorney and supporters expressed relief and joy.
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Miami
Florida
Nicholas
Jean DeMartino
Brooklyn
New York
Lenore
Nicholas DeMartino
Dade County
Ralph Cullen
DeMartinos
William Colson
Olga Scarpetta
Miss Scarpetta
Lindstrom Teen Reaches Princess Kay Final at State Fair
An 18 year old from Lindstrom was named a finalist in the Princess Kay of the Milky Way contest in St. Cloud. Bonnie Broecker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Broecker, will represent Region 4 as the competition opens at the Minnesota State Fair in August.
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ST. Cloud, Minn
Lindstrom, Minn
Bonnie Broecker
John Broecker
Lindstrom
Region 4
Sun-Times Publishes Viet War Study Excerpt
The Chicago Sun-Times becomes the fourth paper to publish cached Pentagon war study content. It prints a State Department August 1963 memo urging Diem’s toppling if talks with North Vietnam occur, and a September 16 memo by Roger Hilsman.
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