Editorial Page In Our Opinion IRS ought to be watchdogged
The piece argues that IRS audits were used for political harassment across administrations. It cites John Dean III testimony and memos about targeting political enemies, and recalls Randolph Thrower's resignation after resisting White House pressure. Rep. Mills plans an investigation and suggests a permanent watchdog like the GAO to oversee IRS affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Internal Revenue Service
Senate Watergate Committee
John Dean III
Dean
Randolph W. Thrower
White House
Wilbur Mills
House
Ways and Means Committee
IRS
Congress
General Accounting Office
Aldeburgh Portrays Chaos and Order Through Britten Opera
Anthony Lewis surveys Aldeburgh’s festival scene highlighting Benjamin Britten and the Death in Venice premiere. He contrasts local restraint with Watergate excess, praising intimate venues, community roots, and Pears as Aschenbach while noting critics of Britten’s inward style. The piece frames a central clash between chaos and order across art and society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aldeburgh
Yesteryear
Billy Orrell
Watergate
East Anglia
Times of London
Atlantic
Senate Committee
Adelburgh
East Suffolk
Benjamin Britten
Britten
Venice
Peter Pears
Aschenbach
Thomas Mann
Pears
Biddeford Saco Journal Local Staff and Rates
Biddeford Saco Journal prints with staff listings for Alta Foster and W Paul Casavant, publisher and editor, plus Gladys Whitehouse. Published daily except Sunday at 11 Adams Street Biddeford Maine. Rates show one month 3 dollars six months 18 dollars one year 36 dollars. Associated Press rights noted. National ad reps listed in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Paul Casavant
Charles C. Sutton
Gladys M. Whitehouse
Adams Street
Biddeford
Maine
Associated Press
IRS go fast order slows audits of giant firms
Washington directs auditors to finish reviewing all pre 1870 tax returns of the 1600 largest corporations within eight months to June 1973. Despite fewer man years spent on big-company audits, the move yielded shoddy work and omitted dubious items under 10000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Anderson
Washington
The
Revenue Service
Atandary
New York
IRS
Settlement Refuted By ITT Letter To The Journal
A letter responds to Jack Anderson’s column linking a $26,072 value in lawn maintenance and materials to an ITT related settlement. It explains the 3 hole San Clemente golf project predates ITT and clarifies Scott materials were donated before ITT, refuting timing and pledge claims about Republican conventions. The piece also includes public sentiment in Biddeford about local politics and calls for accountability in city offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ITT
Journal
Jack Anderson
San Clemente
Golfing Friends of
White House
O.M. Scott Company
I.T.T
Scott
California
Anderson
Sheraton Corp
San Diego
Convention and Visitors Bureau
Scott-Itt
Watergate and Nixon ethics beyond the June 17 break in
The Nation columnist contends that the June 17 1972 break in at the DNC is only the tip of the iceberg. It argues Nixon may have known or should have known about broader abuses including illegal mail and wiretaps, the Plumbers, and political misuse of FBI CIA and IRS power. It questions Nixon’s fitness and urges structural reforms to limit executive secrecy and presidential overreach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RAMCO
IRS
United Fruit
AMK Meat Packers
Nixon
Commission
Neiman- Marcus
Broadway- Hale
Broadway-Hale
Montgomery Ward
FTC
Miss Jones
The
Tom Wicker
New York Times News Service
New York
Charles Colson
Richard Nixon
Colson
Democratic National Committee
Justice Department
F.B.L
Nation
White House
United
Vietnam
Cambodia
John W. Dean
Ellsberg
Lhe
Iddy-Hunt “Plumbers
F.B.I
C.la
Internal Revenue Service
Byrne
C.i.a.’S Department of
China
Brezhnev
Maine Democrats push to craft new party charter ahead of 1976
State Democrats met to review the McGovern Fraser Commission ideas and revise dues, financing, and delegate selection. Maine's 1500 invited members weighed open membership and finances, gender representation, and avoiding platform-subservient stances. The session aimed to shape a permanent charter before the next presidential campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryline White
Augusta
Miami
McGovern-Fraser Commission
National Party
Maine
Cogent
Violet Pease
Hollis
Muskie
Joe Brennan
Senate
Democratic Party
Rose McClure
Tony Buxton
Charter
Marilyn _—_ Schoenberger
Also Mentioned on This Page
Anthony Lewis
New York Times
England
Billy Burrell
Billy
Piddeford
Saco Journal Aes
B. F. Whitehous
Alta W. Foster
Mathews-Shannon Cukben
Lame Duck
Federal Trade
Mary Gardiner Jones
FYC
Ake
Basil Mezines
Israel
United States
Saigon
Amas
South Vietnam
David H. Kiernan
Public Aire
the People Will Act
Board of Police
Courtois
Saco
Rioux
Board of Education
Board of Police Commissioners
Boucher
Wilfred Caouette
Guinea Road
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