Dem platform urged tighter antitrust control and reform
In San Francisco advocates pressed the 1972 Democratic platform to confront corporate power, calling for antitrust enforcement and closing loopholes. The public hearings featured 90 witnesses as reformers urged government restraint on big business and campaign finance transparency amid Nixon era debates.
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Hoffa calls for humane reforms in federal prisons
Former Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa testifies to Congress detailing 24 proposals to improve federal penitentiaries. He cites overcrowding and aging facilities, urging new smaller prisons, improved medical care, more staff training, unrestricted visiting hours, and prisoner wage and job-procurement programs to aid rehabilitation.
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Ex-general testifies Abrams knew of bombings
Gen John J Lavelle testified that General Creighton Abrams knew he ordered raids on North Vietnam that violated policy. Lavelle said Abrams did not know the public reporting was inaccurate. Lavelle described liberal bombing rules and defended strikes as necessary to counter North Vietnamese defenses and troop infiltration.
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Dinner on yacht for the Nixons
President and Mrs Nixon held a dinner aboard the Navy yacht Sequoia to celebrate daughter Patricia Cox and Edward Coxs first wedding anniversary. The menu featured steak and coconut shrimp. Patricia said she is happy in married life and denied weight loss, noting a size 3 wardrobe. The Coxes, moving from a Cambridge student apartment to the White House, will attend Harvard Law Schools graduation in Cambridge on Wednesday.
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Evacuation Bill Approved by Senate Finance Panel
Sacramento upi a bill requiring the Office of Emergency Services to encourage recreation of emergency plans for evacuation of cities below dams in the event of a flood or earthquake has been approved by the Senate Finance Committee.
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Arms limit treaty sent to Senate
Nixon sent the arms control treaty to the Senate for ratification. Kissinger forecast Senate approval in August despite mixed questions from conservatives and liberals. Leaders discussed strategy to push the agreement, which caps defensive missiles, limits offensive systems, and restrains new submarine and missile production.
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Identity of Nixon backers a secret
AP reports that major funders to Nixon's re election include PepsiCo President Donald M Kendall and Merrill Lynch and Co executives giving 15000 each. The GAO filings mark the first quarterly accounting under a new federal elections law.
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General Accounting Office
Pentagon cancels wolf fur parka hood order
The Pentagon scrapped a plan to buy 277502 parka hoods lined with wolf fur to help save North America’s timber wolves. The National Wildlife Federation estimated 25099 wolves would be slaughtered to fill the order, nearly half the North American timber wolf population, prompting Rep. William Whitehurst to hail the cancellation and note a synthetic alternative.
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R Va
Army Materiel Command
Lack of support delays vote on revenue share
Washington UPI reports President Nixon’s revenue sharing bill lacks a House majority prompting延期 vote to next week. Mayors and White House aides hope to rally 40 to 40 additional votes but opponents like Rep George Mahon urge rejection. The bill would give 30 billion over five years to states and cities for crumbling areas with limited strings attached.
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Senate considers bill to fine unlicensed tax preparers
Tax preparers face treble damages for negligent returns as a bill, approved 10-2 in the Assembly, heads to the Senate. The measure targets unlicensed tax return preparers while excluding attorneys and CPAs. Introduced amid nationwide controversy over negligent filings costing government and clients millions.
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Robert Cline
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John Vasconcellos
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