OPA Gas Coupon Fraud Echoes in War Time Ration Clash
The Monroe newspaper notes a parallel between World War II price controls and current shortages. It cites Treasury figures on black market gas, counterfeit coupons, and theft of 300 million gallons in 38 months. Officials warn of a potential renewed rationing fight as Nixon aides debate restrictions.
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Japan
Germany
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Treasury Department
Treasury
Nixon
IRS revises income tax forms to simplify filing
The IRS announced new income tax return forms aimed at speeding filings. Taxpayers may report total medical payments and aggregate dividends without itemizing sources. Commissioner Donald C. Alexander projects 81 million returns in 1974, up from 79 million this year, with forms arriving after January 1.
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IRS
At&t
Savings and Loan
Internal Revenue
Donald C. Alexander
Vilcabamba Longevity Mystery Attracts Global Attention
The Ecuador village Vilcabamba, famed for centenarians, faces scrutiny as modern influences threaten its ecology and culture. Researchers study Miguel Carpio, 128, and diet, climate, and genetics as possible longevity factors while public interest and political tensions rise.
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Vilcabamba
Ecuador
al Capp
Miguel Carpio
Miguel Salvador
Kissinger outlines U.N. peace force for Middle East
In private talks with congressional leaders Henry Kissinger sketches a plan for a U N backed peacekeeping force including Soviet participation to stabilize Sinai and advance a Mideast settlement. He argues Soviet power grows with ongoing Arab Israeli conflict and calls for restoring Sinai to Egyptian sovereignty under a strong UN presence.
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Washington
Henry Kissinger
Mideast
UN Security Council
Kissinger
Capitol Hill
Soviet Union
Sinai
Mediterranean
Israel
U. S
West
Egypt
Saudi Arabia
Sinai Peninsula
Elusive Water to Fuel Formula Recalls Navy Interest
Washington reports revived talk of a water to fuel formula tied to John Andrews, a Portuguese inventor who allegedly demonstrated a water powered engine to the U S Navy in World War I. Navy officials reportedly offered $2 million, but Andrews vanished amid rumors and scattered letters from observers.
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Washington
EFS
U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings
E. P. Jessop
USN
New York Naval Shipyard
Jessop
John Andrews
U.S. Navy
Navy
Andrews
Royal Navy
Ernest Nibbs
U.S. Naval Institute
New London
New England
Massachusetts
Hyman Rickover
Naval
Office of Research and Inventions
Harvard Avenue
Allston
Standard Oil Company
South America
Sao Paulo
Rio de Janeiro
U.S
Motives of Lee Harvey Oswald, a Political Crime
The piece asserts motives in the Kennedy assassination were settled by Albert H. Newman in The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: The Reasons Why. It cites Oswald’s alleged family issues, communist ties, rooming house evidence, and three attempted assassinations as evidence that his actions were rationally political rather than random madness.
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Sinai
Nixon
Charles G
Bebe) Rebozo
Howard Hughes Organization
Rebozo
John F. Kennedy
Lawrence F. O’brien
Hughes Organization
Hughes
Chalmers Wylie
Ohio
Columbus
Sen
Russell Long
Louisiana
Kennedy
Lee Harvey Oswald
New York Times
Oswald
Albert H. Newman
Reporter Magazine
Newman
Prisilla McMillan
Cuba
Trotskyite
Socialist Workers Party
Edwin Walker
Richard Nixon
Walker
Castro
Miami
John S’. Kennedy
CIA
Fangs and Rumors Surround Nixon in Impeachment Talk
Washington rumors swirl around President Nixon as impeachment chatter grows with Gerald Ford poised as Vice President. Insider accounts cite secrecy about nerve, health, and alcohol use, while Melvin Laird backs Ford and questions indictment support.
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Washington
D.C
Gerald Ford
New York Times
The
Washington Post
National Security Council
Mideast
Carly Able
Melvin Laird
Nixon
Laird
Ford
Congress
Richard Nixon
Monroe News-Star masthead and policy statement
The Monroe News-Star prints daily except weekends and lists its publishers officers directors and staff including John D Ewing Jr and Robert Ewing Brown as board chairman. It is an independent newspaper endorsing what it believes to be right regardless of party politics.
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Vileambamba
Miguel Salvador
Vilcabamba
John D. Ewing
Wilson Ewing
Robert Ewing Jr
Willam H. Bronson
News-Star— World Publishing Corporation
North 4Th and Wuilve Streets
Monroe
Robert Ewing Brown
Mildred Hunt Ewing
Edmund Graves Brown Jr
Robert Ewing
Jack S. Campbell
Edmond G. Brown
Jack C. Gates
William C. Hardin
Associated Press
Wil News
Focal News
Branham-Moloney Company
National
New York
New Orleans
Chicago
Atlanta
Detroit
St. Louis
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Dallas
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Charlotte
Boston
Miami
Monroe News-Star
Irri
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U.N. Peace Force Kissinger Goal
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Robert Novak
Novak
O’brien
Rehozo
Jaworski
Connally
John
Leon Jaworski
Houston Corporation
Texas
Archibald Cox
By Kevin Phillips
Jeffrey Hart
Radio Havana
White House
Schlesinger
Whitehouse
Lyndon Johnson
By Holmes Alexander
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