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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1976
Page
2
Senate begins voting on a large tax bill to extend federal income cuts beyond July 1. It would limit some tax avoidance schemes for the wealthy and add new breaks while eliminating others. If not enacted, families face tax increases. projections show a $245 rise for a family of four earning $6,000, among other shifts.
Canterbury authorities say Robert F. Carr III, a 32 year old parolee, directed a digging party to a Connecticut grave containing a 21 year old woman. Carr had been flown from Florida where he is jailed then aided police in locating other graves of alleged victims in Louisiana and Mississippi.
Marie Lorenz says she was recruited by the CIA in 1960 to poison Fidel Castro. She claims she called Castro to apologize before a New York Daily News disclosure, but did not reach him. Lorenz says she met Castro in 1959 and lived in his Havana Hilton suite as his interpreter before becoming a prisoner.
Tornadoes roared through Lemont and surrounding suburbs causing at least two deaths and more than 23 injuries. Eight blocks in Lemont leveled, about 75 homes destroyed. Dozens rescued, a shelter opened as crews search for missing residents and fight ongoing storms.
The Supreme Court refuses to review the Garrity desegregation busing order affecting 21 000 pupils in Boston. The decision leaves intact a court ordered plan amid ongoing racial tensions and calls for one black teacher for every white teacher until faculty is 20 percent black.
Syrian forces swept into southern Lebanon and launched artillery on Sidon and Moslem hill towns north of Beirut. Palestinians and their leftist Lebanese allies denounced the move while Iraq accused Syria of a broader siege. Kamal Jumblatt warned of a famine and said Syrian warships blocked food ships, amid scarce gasoline and flour in Beirut and available fruit from southern farms.
Rep Morris Udall along with Frank Church release delegates to support Jimmy Carter. Church urges Carter as a unifying candidate and the tally boosts Carter toward the 1,505 needed for nomination while Udall weighs endorsement prospects and New York events unfold.
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