New IRS head vows change in tone and urgency
Johnnie M. Walters sworn in as the new IRS commissioner pledges to replace the old heartless image with urgency and sensitivity to taxpayers. He argues for quicker answers, warns against tunnel vision in enforcing tax laws, and aims to scrutinize tax exempt status of private schools linked to desegregation circumvention.
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Washington
Internal Revenue
IRS
Johnnie M. Walter
TRS
Senate Finance Committee
Walters
Justice Department
Principal Resigns Over Missing School Funds in Decatur
Centen nial Laboratory School in Decatur sees principal Douglas L. Paulson resign after an audit found $1000 unaccounted in the activities fund he disbursed. He says he mishandled money though not a thief and claims expenditures benefited the school staff and students.
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Decatur
AIP
Douglas L. Paulson
Centennial Laboratory School
Paulson
Viet Cong mines injure U S troops and South Vietnamese
Viet Cong mines ripped through a U S armored vehicle and a South Vietnamese bus south of Da Nang, killing four Americans and 20 civilians and injuring 18 others as two separate incidents occurred within ten miles. A heavy mortar barrage near Fire Base Fuller disrupted a six week lull with no deaths reported. U S aircraft losses rose to seven thousand eight hundred ninety five.
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Saigon
U.S
da Nang
Slutary Zone
Fuller
Resigned IBI Chief Mitchell Ware linked to Panther case probes
Mitchell Ware, 37, quit as Illinois Bureau of Investigation superintendent after Gov Ogilvie ordered limits on his role as special investigator in charges related to grand juror influence in the Chicago Panther case. Ware had led an elite unit since 1969 and faced criticism for campus drug raids and undercover operations.
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Tlinois
FBI
Chicago
Mitchell Ware
Illinois Bureau of Investigation
Ware
Illinois
Richard B. Ogilvie
Herbert D. Brown
Joseph A. Power
Cook County Circuit Court
Ogilvie
Panther
IBI
Barnabas Sears
State Police
Old Public Safety Department
DePaul University Law School
DePaul
General Assembly
Northern
Ilinois University
DeKalb
Springfield
Jackson
Williamson
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
SIU
State Crime Laboratory
Champaign
IBS
Richland Country Club
Olney
Olney Petroleum Club
Flora
Martin urges sweeping overhaul of securities industry
William McChesney Martin Jr. proposes a national securities market integrating the NYSE AMEX and regional exchanges while excluding the over the counter market. He seeks bans on institutional membership and on mutual fund management by exchange members along with antitrust exemption aligned with SEC oversight.
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New York
William McChesney Martin Jr
New York Stock Exchange
Maxtin
Federal Reserve Board
Wall Street
YSE Board of Governors
Martin
NYSE
American Stock Exchange
Securities and Exchange Commission
Panther trial in Chicago grand jury saga continues
A Chicago grand jury investigating a police raid in which two Black Panthers were killed faces turmoil over missing transcripts and new inquiries. Judge Power slated Aug 17 for hearings on petitions to quash indictments as Mitchell Ware steps in then resigns amid conflict concerns.
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Chicago
IBI
Richard B. Ogilvie
Ware
Union Leader Breaks With Nixon Over Red China Policy
The Manchester Union Leader editorially repudiates Nixon's Red China policy. Publisher William Loeb signs the front page statement days before Nixon's planned New Hampshire visit, paired with a cartoon of Nixon appeasing Red China as the Statue of Liberty weeps.
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The
Manchester Union Leader
Nixon
William Loeb
New Hampshire
China
Central Illinois Deputies Split on Health and Welfare Budget Vote
U.S. representatives from central and southern Illinois split along party lines over amendments to raise spending for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Labor Department. Republicans Arends, Melvin, Springer, and Findley voted to reject the NIH and related funding increase. Democrats Price, Shipley, and Gray supported the amendment.
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Congressional Quarterly
Washington
U.S
Olney
Kenneth Gray
West Frankfort
Lawmakers approve major HEW Labor Budget expansion
Lawmakers pass the HEW and Labor Department appropriation totaling 20.4 billion with broad support. An amendment adding 82.4 million for vocational rehabilitation programs gains passage while a 64 million aid for child welfare services is defeated 198 to 201. Shipley joins Republicans against the child welfare amendment. overall votes: 372 to 25.
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Labor Department
HEW
Shipley
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Helsinki
State Post
Michael Robinson
Associated Press
Securities Industry
Power
Aberdeen
Scotland
Annie Blake
British Women’s Temperance Association
Travelo Homes Corporation
Mt. Vernon
Manchester
Manchester, N.H
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Rep. Gray
Trank
Cherrin
BITE
Appleland
McGuire's Orchard & Market
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