New hope for lifting the sales tax burden
Illinois lawmakers debate ending the sales tax on food and prescription drugs. The Sangmeister bill would phase out the tax over three years adding tax exemptions for meat poultry dairy and drugs first year then produce and bakery second year and all off premises food by Aug 1 1982 while restoring the 5 percent rate on non essential merchandise to fund the plan. Governor Thompson compares costs and recession fears while Southern Illinois advocates push for total elimination citing relief for low income households.
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Illinois
James Thompson
General Assembly
Thompson
George Sangmeister
Kenneth Buzbee
Gene Johns
Sangmeister
Ralph Dunn
Do We Really Need the MX Missile
Tom Wicker weighs the MX mobile-missile plan in Congress and public debate. He notes shifting designs, cost estimates from 30 to 90 billion, political protests in Utah and Nevada, and competing options like SUM subs and the Trident program. He questions whether land based ICBMs remain necessary given advances in submarines and cruise missiles.
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Tom Wicker
New York Times
Pentagon
Congress
Utah
Nevada
Harold Brown
William Perry
Senate
Pacific
Atlantic
Brown
Perry
SAM
Red Flag Exercise Shows U S Readiness for Middle East War
The Rapid Deployment Force conducts the largest U S air combat drill to date at Nellis AFB Nevada. About 140 warplanes and 2 300 personnel practice bare base operations to project rapid power to Middle East or other Third World trouble spots.
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Michael Klare
Pacific News
Nellis Air Force Base
Nev
U.S
Iran
Pentagon
Moscow
Tehran
Middle East
Air Force
United States
Red Flag
Desert
Las Vegas
Nevada Desert
PNS
Tactical Air Command
William Creech
Egypt
Oman
Saudi Arabia
82Nd Airborne Division
Ft. Bragg
N.C
Carter
Caribbean
ADF
America
Creech
Afghanistan
Nellis
Washington
Vietnam
Desert One
Those Were the Days When Presidents Made Music
Russell Baker argues presidents should resemble a tuneful theme, easing public blues. Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and FDR exemplify musical leadership, while Kennedy, Anderson, and Reagan miss the required harmonies, leaving Americans starved for a unifying political melody.
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Russell Baker
New York Times
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt
Dwight Eisenhower
Ike
FDR
Teddy
Eisenhower
Anderson
Carter
Reagan
Wendell Willkie
Willkie
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Robert
Soviet Union
Persian Gulf
Council On Economic Priorities
Secu
Zachary Taylor
Lewis Cass
Franklin Pierce
Winfield Scott
James A. Garfield
Winfield Hancock
Calvin Coolidge
John W. Davis
Thomas E. Dewey
Harry Truman
John Kennedy
White House
Robert A. Taft
Teddy Roosevelt
Bix
Satchmo
Philadelphia Orchestra
Gerald Johnson
War Horse
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