Tax Exemption Boost To $800 Is Favored
Senate debates tax reform with partisan lines over raising the personal income tax exemption from 600 to 800 dollars. Senators Percy and Gore push competing plans as Nixon signals likely veto of higher exemptions, while the majority shifts toward 800 with gradual increases to 1973.
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Tennessee
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Charles H. Percy
Illinois
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Red Attack Repelled In Mekong Delta Assault
North Vietnamese troops attacked a district town in the Mekong Delta but 300 militiamen police civilians and pacification workers repelled them. Reported enemy fatalities reached 150 with 29 defenders killed including 15 civilians and about 50 wounded. It was the Delta region’s largest assault in six months.
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Mekong Delta
Delta
Court Rules Out My Lai Press Ban
The U S Court of Military Appeals rejected a pretrial ban on news and images about the My Lai massacre. The unsigned ruling says both press freedom and a fair trial must be protected, denying any blanket gag on media coverage of the case. Calley, stationed at Fort Benning, faces murder charges for the 1968 village killings.
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Washington
U.S. Court of Military Appeals
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William L. Calley Jr
Supreme Court
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Aubrey M. Daniel Iit
Vietnam
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Ft. Benning
Harrisburg House-Senate panel to decide school unit bill
A Pennsylvania conference committee will decide the fate of a bill to abolish 67 county school offices and create 29 intermediate units after the House refused to concur with Senate changes. The vote to not concur was 64 to 14 amid a lengthy debate over salaries and staffing limits. The measure would unify 29 service units governed by nine-member boards elected by district directors, with a companion bill listing units and districts already sent to Gov. Shafer.
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Mrs Nixon Recalls Poverty During Depression Era
Mrs Richard M Nixon told about 1200 women at the White House Conference on Food Nutrition and Health that her family lived on a 12 acre Artesia California farm and that she worked in a hospital during the depression saying they did not have anything and she saw breadlines there.
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
White House
Nixon View on Hunger Criticized at Conference
Washington AP Gov critics from White House hunger conference fault President Nixon's plea for support of welfare bills and a $5,500 annual minimum income for the poor. Delegates demanded immediate food relief and questioned the adequacy of his family assistance program while some praised parts of his message.
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Robert J. McEwen
McEwen
Department of Economics
Boston College
Searchers Recover 32 Bodies From Ruins of Quebec Blaze
In Notre Dame du Lac Quebec a fire at a former school converted home for the aged killed 32 people. Police say 21 survivors are in hospitals with as many as 29 possibly escaped. Local officials cite electrical or boiler faults. Premier Bertrand orders a full inquiry, coroner Laine warns months for results.
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Charron
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Border
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Charles-Antoline Laine
Repos de Vieillard
Welfare Department
GE strike widens as unions discuss pay on 38th day
New York UP I reports that on Tuesday General Electric and the two largest unions among 14 striking groups faced renewed talks over money issues. The nationwide strike by about 147,000 GE workers at 280 plants entered its 8th day today.
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UPI
General Electric Co
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