Soft drink tax battle shifts as lawmakers eye repeal
The NC soft drink tax faces possible repeal with a large state surplus and calls to shift the levy to tobacco. Gov Holshouser warns against tampering with the tax structure while Elvis Presley delivers a Las Vegas stage incident that echoes public reaction to influence and control in entertainment.
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North Carolina
Raleigh
Senate
Jim Holshouser
General Assembly
Elvis Presley
Las Vegas Hilton
Presley
High Point weighs work with chamber to boost tours and conventions
City officials plan to hire a convention and tourism director with the Chamber of Commerce to promote tours and modestly fund the effort up to 10000 dollars a year from nontax revenues. Officials caution that High Point cannot rival Greensboro or Winston-Salem for large conventions but may attract small meetings and furniture showroom tours.
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Chamber of Commerce
High Point
Greensboro
Winston-Salem
Benton Convention Center
Haley House
Automobiles under fire as energy and safety fears rise
The piece surveys growing attacks on cars from environmentalists energy analysts safety councils and urban planners citing pollution energy use road space and deaths. It notes EPA plans announced January 15 to curb gasoline use by 82 percent during smog season and outlines potential measures from smoother mass transit to tighter vehicle controls and urban bans.
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U.S
Vietnam
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Los Angeles Area
Entangled Scandals Tie Watergate to ITT Crisis Again
Washington reports saturate as Watergate entwines with ITT. Key memo by ITT lobbyist Dita Beard links antitrust settlement to a 400000 political commitment. House and FBI probes reveal touches of manipulation and alleged document handoffs involving L. Patrick Gray and E. Howard Hunt.
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Washington
ITT
Richard Kleindienst
L. Patrick Gray
Gray
FBI
Dita Beard
White House
Washington Post
E. Howard Hunt
Denver
ITT memo faked claims and White House discredit drive emerge
The piece outlines alleged manipulation of ITT memo dates by Hunt and Gray with Gray, then FBI chief, controlling access to Justice Department files. It notes press coverage of a discredit campaign tied to the White House and Watergate figures, and contrasts tax dodging claims with Shell Oil cited by Fred Harris’s Tax Action Campaign.
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ITT
Hunt
Gray
FBI
Quentin Burdick
D-N.d
Ted Kennedy
D-Mass
Justice Department
Anderson
Washington Post
White House
Jack Anderson
James McCord
Nixon
Intertel
McCord
Watergate
Pat Gray
America
Fred Harris
Shell Oil
Shell
Internal Revenue Service
Court Packing Sparks Fierce Debate Across Sides
A columnist analyzes Justice Blackmun's abortion ruling and the uproar it provokes. He notes murky privacy foundations and cites conservative critiques including John Noonan Jr who urges a constitutional amendment and even court packing to expand the Supreme Court.
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Supreme Court
Justice Blackmun
National Review
John T. Noonan Jr
University of California (Berkeley
F.D.R
Roosevelt
Evey Justice
Shifting Power By ERNEST CUNEO
Washington report notes Senate chairmanships shift as power moves north and west through seniority. It lists current and successor figures for key committees including Appropriations, Banking, and Armed Services, with names such as Magnuson Moss Stennis Pastore Bible Sparkman Proxmire Williams Symington Jackson Cannon Hartke and others.
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Washington
Senate
Aeronautical and Space Sciences
Clinton P. Anderson
New Mexico
Anderson
Frank Moss
Utah
Warren Magnuson
Washington State
Appropriations Committee
John McClellan
Arkansas
Appropriations
Commerce
Magnuson
Sen
McClellan
John Stennis
Mississippi
Armed Services Committee
Stennis
John Pastore
Rhode Island
Alan Bible
Nevada
Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee
John Sparkman
Alabama
William Proxmire
Wisconsin
Don Quixote
Stuart Symington
Missouri
Henry Jackson
Symington
Jackson
Post Office and Civil Service Committee
Gale McGee
Wyoming
Public Works
Jennings Randolph
West Virginia
Edmund Muskie
Maine
Howard W. Cannon
Vance Hartke
Indiana
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Little Leagues
Ernest Cuneo
North American Newspaper Alliance
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United States
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