Vermont considers sales tax hike in special session
Vermont lawmakers gathered in Montpelier to weigh a one cent sales tax increase to close a projected 1975 deficit of 9 million dollars. Protesters with tea bags planned a silent demonstration at the State House as debates over tax changes and transfers continued.
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Montpelier
UPI
Vermont
Thomas Salmon
Salmon
State House
Boston
Robert Withey
Gordon Paquette
Burlington
Gilbert Godrick
Rutland
House Appropriations Committee
Emory Hebard
R-Glover
Pike says CIA cheats taxpayer
UPI reports Rep Otis G Pike chair of the House intelligence committee warns the US intelligence community is drowning in information not absorbed and accuses Kissinger of blocking essential data. He says a failure to share could delay warning of a future attack and contemplates a contempt resolution if impasse persists. A CIA spokesman responded with limited comment.
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Washington
UPI
House Intelligence Committee
Otis G. Pike
D-N.y
Henry A. Kissinger
Pike
Select Committee On Intelligence
Full House
White House
CIA
Senate
Cbs-Tv
Face the Nation
Kissinger
Tas
House
America
Lee CIA
Labor Council fights Vermont sales tax rise plan
Vermont's largest labor group openly opposes Gov. Salmon's three to four percent sales tax proposal. The Vermont Labor Council backed a mild antitax measure, urged Salmon to meet labor leaders, and noted looming political trouble as Salmon may face Sen. Stafford in next year's race. The convention also backed teachers in college contracts, oil industry nationalization, and national health insurance.
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Mendon
UPI
Vermont
Thomas Salmon
Vermont Labor Council
Salmon
Organized Labor
Robert Stafford
R-Vt
Stafford
Labor Council
Inside Look at a Nation in Turmoil and Tension
A collage of items shows a teachers strike edging toward settlement in Boston while violence erupts in London and hostages are seized. Julie Nixon defends the family, and regional notices cover rate hikes for Blue Shield, plus a feature on a dubious educational “innovation.”
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Boston
London
Julie Nixon
Togo
Big House
Gerald Raftery
John Gould
The
Christian Science Monitor
Manchester
Hoosick
Springfield
Vermont
Mass
Eagles
O.J
Miami
Oklahoma
Hearst Chronology Reveals SLA Meeting and Flight Details
Rolling Stone reports Patricia Hearst sought to join the Symbionese Liberation Army after hearing Los Angeles shootout coverage. The piece says Jack Scott drove Hearst and the Harrises from California to a Pennsylvania farm, then back west, amid disillusionment and the SLA’s influence.
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Rolling Stone Magazine
Patricia Hearst
Symbionese Liberation Army
Los Angeles
SLA
Jack Scott
Rolling Stone
Howard Kohn
David Weir
Miss Hearst
Scott
William
Emily Harris
San Francisco
Pennsylvania
West Coast
Donald DeFreeze
DeFreeze
Harrises
Harris
Miss Harris
Ho Chi Minh Park
Berkeley
Kathy Soliah
Yolanda
Teko
Executions Spark Basque Strikes Across Spain
Strikes in the Basque country paralyzed towns from San Sebastian to Bilbao after five urban guerrillas were executed by military tribunals. Police used clubs to quell protests while a two day general strike shut shops and plants. demonstrations spread to Madrid and Lisbon with calls for Spain’s global expulsion from the UN.
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Spain
UPI
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Barcelona
Guipuzcoa
Bilbao
Europe
Latin America
Mexico
United Nations
Lisbon
Francisco Franco
Zarauz
Azpeita
Francisco Franco Social Security
Vizcaya
Atlantic
Campsa Oil Company
Hoffa grave search called off amid new tipster tale
In Pontiac Michigan UPI reports investigators halted a 29 acre search for James Hoffa's grave after a tipster claimed to have witnessed burial. A Senate subcommittee investigator said the tipster is being held by gangsters to extract precise clues. The effort near Waterford Township paused after police failed to locate any grave using dogs a helicopter and a power shovel.
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Pontiac, Mich
UPI
James R. Hoffa
Senate
Hoffa
Waterford Township
Detroit
William B. Gallinaro
Henry Jackson
D-Wash
Underworld
F. Keith Adkinson
Adkinson
Milk producers drive ruling widens AMPI political role
The Federal Election Commission authorized an AMPI political committee to spend unlimited sums on nonpartisan registration and get out the vote in districts favoring candidates backed by the dairy cooperative. The ruling, unanimous, overrides counsel's limit proposal and signals potential broader rules for similar groups.
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N.Y. Times
Washington
Federal Election Commission
Associated Milk Producers, Inc
AMPI
John G. Murphy Jr
Commission
CTAPE
The
Election Commission
C-Tape
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United Press International
Europa Press
Artebakarra
Ruiz Santinas de Loyala
Vincent Piersante
Kelley
Organized Crime Task Force
Piersante
Committee For
Dairy
John B. Connally
Secretary of the Treasury
Jack L. Chestnut
Hubert H. Humphrey
Connally
Chestnut
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