Nationwide manhunt targets San Quentin suspect Bingham
State and federal authorities press a national hunt for Stephen Mitchell Bingham 28 Yale educated attorney and grandson of a former Connecticut governor charged with five counts of murder in the Soledad prison case. The case ties him to the Marin County courtroom raid linked to Angela Davis and the Soledad Brothers.
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Calif
UPI
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Bingham
Connecticut
Soledad
George Jackson
San Quentin
Jackson
Angela Davis
Soledad Brothers
Marin County
FBI
California
Miss Davis
Bruce Bales
Peter A
Bales
Fleeta Drumgo
John Crutchette
Ruchell Magee
Jonathan
Bennington tax hearing questions 95 percent value rule
Vermont House Ways and Means Committee held a two and a half hour hearing on Bennington property assessments. Residents and officials urged reform of the 95 percent of sale price listing rule, the personal tax on merchants, and the need to shift from elected listers to appointed assessors. Local officials defended the policy but acknowledged calls for a taxpayers revolution if relief is not found.
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Bennington
Board of Sisters
Ways and Means Committee
Vermont House
Vermont
Listers
Buckley
Sen
William F. McGuinness
Harrison Ave
Sisters
Board of Civil Authority
State Board of Appeals
Deane C. Davis
McGuinness
John E. Kelly
Winooski
Clarence LaClair
Burlington
Kelly
Frank Hogan
State
Shaftsbury
Hogan
Ben- Lee
Vermont lawmakers eye phaseout of inventory tax
Bennington merchants received strong encouragement from state tax writers that Vermont may end the personal inventory tax on retail stock. Ways & Means chair Peter Giuliani said a bill to begin a gradual phaseout will be introduced next legislative session. Critics cited inequities and administration problems, noting firms have moved to New Hampshire for its lack of such tax.
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Bennington
Vermont
Ways & Means Committee
Peter Giuliani
Norman Greenberg
H. G. Savage
Greater
New Hampshire
Savage
Giuliani
Nixon cites executive privilege to shield aid data
President Nixon invoked executive privilege to block Congress from obtaining a five year plan for the Foreign Military Assistance Program. Senator Fulbright urged the committee to have the plan to judge continued funding of 705 million dollars annually, warning of possible U.S. entanglement in new Vietnam like conflicts. The GAO had threatened to halt aid expenditures until the document was produced, under a 1961 law, with a midnight deadline looming.
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FBI
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Foreign Relations
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D-Ark
Cambodia
Laos
United States
General Accounting Office
GAO
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Southern calm praised in school desegregation effort
United Press International reports Nixon aides commend the South for calm and leadership in enforcing desegregation, amid few protests since term starts. President Nixon and HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson cite public understanding and local compliance with court orders. In Winston Salem a Supreme Court ruling on busing receives mixed reaction. Alabama moves to shield parents from trespass prosecutions over neighborhood school enrollments. Chinese families in Chinatown oppose busing rulings. A Columbus Georgia judge maintains an injunction against desegregation progress despite potential federal contempt.
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Nixon
South
Dixie
Pontiac
Mich
Elliot Richardson
Richardson
Washington
Warren E. Burger
Winston- Salem
N.C
Alabama House
George Wallace
San Francisco
Quentin Kopp
Inside Stranded U S Students Befriend Pan American
Readers learn about U S students stranded in Europe finding friendship with Pan American routes and services as pages reference page numbers for related features. The item hints at cross continental ties and travel assistance amid the era's context.
Legal Aid eyes Vermont education tax challenge
Vermont Legal Aid may challenge local property taxes funding public schools. The California ruling finding the tax structure unconstitutional due to unequal education quality prompts study by John Dooley. Tax officials doubt any Vermont impact, while a reform path of equalized education tax gains cautious interest.
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VPI
Vermont Legal Aid
California Supreme Court
California
John Dooley
Vermont
Arthur Bradshaw
Property Tax Division
The
Tax Department
U.S. Supreme Court
Bradshaw
Philip H. Hoff
Thieu Sole Candidate Amid Ballot Reversal in Saigon
Saigon retains Thieu as sole presidential candidate after the Supreme Court again bars Nguyen Cao Ky from the ballot. Protests erupt in Saigon as students clash with police while Minh denounces U.S. officials over election pressure.
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Saigon
UPI
Nguyen van Thieu
Supreme Court
Nguyen Cao Ky
Duong van “Big
Minh
Thieu
U.S. Am
Bloustein leaves Bennington to lead Rutgers as 17th president
Edward J. Bloustein departs Bennington College after six years to assume the Rutgers University presidency. He describes the move as a response to urban education needs and envisions Rutgers as the first great urban university in America. During his Bennington tenure the college grew from 380 to about 600 students, added housing and facilities, and completed major buildings while transforming the institution.
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Bennington College
Rutgers University
Camden
New Brunswick
Newark
N.J
North Bennington
Dickinson Science
Tishman
Bennington
Bloustein
New York City
Rutgers
America
New Jersey
Berkeley
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