Illinois lawmakers back from break face tax reform and elections board
Illinois legislators return to a session with tax reform and creation of a five member elections board on the agenda. House advances no fault insurance bills expanding damages and limiting suits. New executive director named for the Capital Development Board. Federal agents tie missing securities to a prior theft. Civic groups seek a second grand jury probe into Du Page jail bribery allegations. A federal panel upholds age requirement for public office candidates.
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Illinois General Assembly
State Elections Board
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Senate
Board of Elections
DuPage
Chicago
DuPage County
John Howard Association
The
Better Government Association
Northwestern University
Howard Blassman
Des Plaines
Maine Township School Board
Debbi Reynolds arraigned on unlicensed antique pistol
Actress Debbie Reynolds appeared in Criminal Court on charges of possessing an unlicensed antique stage pistol. She was released without bail pending a May 8 hearing after a summons was issued April 8 when her son Todd Fisher, 15, injured himself playing with the gun. The boy is Eddie Fisher’s son.
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Miss Reynolds
Irene
Todd Fisher
West named new Illinois Higher Education Board director
Cameron West, newly chosen executive director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education, spoke at a Chicago press conference before a board meeting at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle. He will assume duties June 1 and declined to discuss funding disputes, board staffing charges, or financing changes.
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Cameron West
Illinois Board of Higher Education
West
University of Illinois Chicago Circle
Cam.pus. West
University of North Carolina
Daniel Walker
Gov. Walker
Higher Board
James Holderman
Lily Endowment
Indianapolis
Illinois
General Assembly
Campora rushes home as assassination raises pact fears
Argentinian president elect Hector J. Campora cuts short Europe trip after the leftist assassination of Adm. Hermes Quijada prompts fears the military may block a civilian transfer of power. Campora wires to plan talks with top commanders upon return.
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Buenos Aires
Madrid
Campora
Peron
President Gains One Year Wages and Prices Authority
President Nixon wins a year extension of wage and price controls after a divided Congress passed the measure 267 to 115. The Senate move came after Sen. Gale McGee withdrew a midnight talk threat and Nixon signed two hours before the deadline. The bill keeps no mandatory rollbacks but retains allocation authority for petroleum products and a wage exemption up to 3.50 an hour.
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White House
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Senate
Gale McGee
D-Wye
GOP Congressmen Seek Pay Cut For Judge Kerner
Six Illinois Republican congressmen urged the House Judiciary Committee to consider actions short of impeachment to remove Judge Otto Kerner from the bench. Kerner, convicted of conspiracy and multiple felonies tied to race-track stock profits, has offered to return paychecks but refuses to resign while appeals continue. The lawmakers named are Derwinski, O'Brien, Crane, Madigan, Michel, and Hanrahan.
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Otto Kerner
Kerner
House Judiciary Committee
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Edward J. Derwinski
South Holland
George M. O’brien
Joliet
Philip M. Crane
Mount Prospect
Edward R. Madigan
Lincoln
Robert H. Michel
Peoria
Robert P. Hanrahan
Homewood
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Howard R. Hughes
State Supreme Court
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McGraw - Hill
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Switzerland
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Washington
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Toyota
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