Administration Promises Tax Reform And New Credits
The Nixon Administration pledged to seek this year congressional action on tax reforms aimed at equity in the tax system and to consider new tax credits to spur private investment for urban and disadvantaged areas. The plan would review federal state local tax relationships and broader economic impacts while examining when reforms and credits could be sent to Congress. The Treasury team warned of possible tax equity advances but offered no decision on timing or specifics.
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Eileen Shanahan
New York Times
Washington
Nixon
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
David M. Kennedy Kennedy
Treasury
Johnson
Joseph W. Barr
Kennedy
Edwin S. Cohen
Senate
Treasury Department
Nixon Administration
Johnson Administration
Von Braun Testifies Three Hours in German War Crimes Trial
Dr Wernher von Braun testified for three hours in New Orleans in a German war crimes trial. He stated he had nothing to hide and was not implicated. The case concerns three former SS guards accused of executing about 100 inmates at Nordhausen concentration camp.
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Ben Thomas
Associated Press
New Orleans
Wernher von Braun
Germany
von Braun
Essen
Nordhausen
Huie Arrested On Contempt Citation
William Bradford Huie biographer of James Earl Ray was jailed on a contempt of court warrant after testifying before the Shelby County Grand Jury. He posted $1,000 bond and was released. The contempt related to a no pretrial publicity order. Huie had written Look Magazine pieces alleging a conspiracy behind King's murder.
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Memphis
Huie
Judge Battle
Ray
King
Look Magazine
Origin of Fatal Town Creek Fire Unknown
Authorities cannot determine the fire’s origin in Town Creek that killed 90 year old Pattie Crompton. Her four room home burned to ashes while she was alone. her great grandson Milton Allen and her son-in-law John Williams tried to enter but were driven back by smoke. The body was found in the former bedroom as the fire department responded to the noon blaze, about a mile south of town.
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Mike Jones
Town Creek
Pattie Crompton
Bob Dunnavant
Lizzie Mae Williams
Milton Allen
Crompton
John Williams
Prosecution Witness Says He Was Hypnotized By Conspirators
New York. Charles I. Spiesel testifies in Shaw trial that a gang including New York police and a psychiatrist hypnotized him from time to time. He recalls a June 1963 party near the French Quarter where Shaw hosted and a discussion of assassinating President Kennedy.
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Shaw
Don McKee
Associated Press
New Orleans
Clay Shaw
New York
Charles I. Spiesel
French Quarter
John F. Kennedy
Spiesel
David W. Ferrie
Airlines
Ferrie
Lee Harvey Oswald
Kennedy
Oswald
Ater
le See
Nixon Basks In Florida
President Nixon moves from a busy Cabinet meeting to a Florida weekend in Key Biscayne with William P. Rogers and Henry Kissinger to prepare for an eight country Europe trip starting February 23. They will meet Western allied leaders and Pope Paul VI during visits to Brussels London Bonn Berlin Rome and Paris and the Vatican.
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Washington
Nixon
Florida
Europe
Key Biscayne
William P. Rogers
Henry A. Kissinger
Brussels
London
Bonn
Berlin
Rome
Paris
Pope Paul VI
Vatican
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United States
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Thieu
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Abrams
U.S. Navy
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da Nang
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Behrens
Navy
Vietnam
Link
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Mr. Shaw
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