Senate to begin debate on sweeping 1974 tax cut plan
The Senate will debate a large income tax bill that stalled $30 million in 1974 refunds. It aims to cut personal taxes by 150 to 500 dollars in 1974 and 200 to 750 in 1975, exempt up to 1,000 in interest income, and allow 1,000 yearly tax free savings for first homes.
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Ginny Galt
Ottawa
Senate
Commons
John Turner
Perrault
Banking, Trade and Commerce Committee
North Vietnamese Attack Seizes Ban Me Thuot Core City
North Vietnamese tanks and infantry battled house to house in Ban Me Thuot trapping nine Americans including an AID official and eight Missionary Alliance linguists. Overrun Duc Lap district town and heavy shelling hit Pleiku as Cambodias Lon Nol regime endures renewed pressure.
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Saigon
Ban Me Thuot
United States
U.S
Paul Struharik
Agency For International Development
Christian Missionary Alliance
Take
Duc Lap
Highlands
Cambodia
Lon Nol
Phnom Penh
Pleiku
Central Highlands
Associated Press
Union rejects PSAC offers in renewed Ottawa talks
The Public Service Alliance of Canada rejected two settlement proposals after three days of talks with the treasury board in Ottawa. The union represents about 18,500 federal maintenance workers and has halted grain shipments and disrupted mail and air services since a selective strike began February 17.
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Public Service Alliance of Canada
PSAC
Treasury Board
Ottawa
Bill Doherty
Jean Chretien
National Capital Commission
Thunder Bay
Ont
Winnipeg
Calgary
Edmonton
Lethbridge
Alta
Vancouver
Canadian Wheat Board
Mid-West
Fredericton
Saint John
N.B
Moncton
Newfoundland
Goose Bay
Halifax International
Halifax
Regina
Air Canada
Montreal
Canadian Forces
Defence Research Establishment
Suffield
Leo Potter
Federal Treasury Board
Potter
GLT
Medicine Hat
Kissinger Heads to Ankara as Cyprus Talks Loom
Kissinger flies from Jerusalem to Ankara to press Greek Turkish Cypriot talks amid Cyprus crisis moves and UN involvement urged by Archbishop Makarios. He later meets Rabin and his team to push for renewed Israel Egypt negotiations and a broader peace path.
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Jerusalem
U.S
Henry Kissinger
Turkey
Cyprus
Nicosia
Makarios
United Nations
Kissinger
Ankara
Yitzhak Rabin
Israel
Anwar Sadat
Egypt
Hafez Assad
Syria
Denye
United States
Golan Heights
Jordan River
Black Panther killer hunted after teen heiress found dead
Scotland Yard's murder squad hunted a nameless, dangerous fugitive dubbed the Black Panther. Lesley Whittle, 17, was kidnapped Jan 14 from Highley Shropshire and found suspended 60 feet down a drainage shaft near Kidsgrove. She inherited 200000 from her father. Police cite a ransom demand and multiple postmaster killings during raids.
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Kidsgrove
England
Scotland Yard
Lesley Whittle
Britain
Lesley Jan
Highley
Shropshire
West German vote shifts as CDU leads in Rhineland Palatinate
In Rheinland Pfalz the CDU won 53.9 percent to 38.5 for the SPD, up 3.9 points from 1971 while the FDP dipped to 5.6. The election reflected a broader trend favoring conservatives, with minor gains by the left and right groups and no major change in Bonn’s governing coalition. Five more local elections precede the federal vote, including May 4 in North Rhine Westphalia.
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Bonn
West Germany
Christian Democratic Party
Helmut Schmidt
Social Democrats
Christian Democrats
Rhineland-Palatinate
National Democratic Party
Communist Party
West Berlin
Peter Lorenz
South Yemen
Rhineland-Westphalia
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Ish
Columbia
Cullen
Danny
Ciophus
Breezy
Joanne Teeter
Jim Mill
National Assembly
Doherty
Parliament Hill
Henry
Sadat
Davar
Histadrut
Dr. Kissinger
Ronald
Pease
Free Democrats
RCMP
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