IRS friction dents organized crime strike forces morale
Washington reports reduced IRS cooperation and a clash over strike force tactics. Justice officials urge more revenue agents while former AG Saxbe warned that cutbacks lowered morale and reduced investigative time from 22.2 percent in 1972 to 15.7 percent in 1974.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Internal Revenue Service
Justice Department
Edward H. Levi
Treasury
William E. Simon
IRS
Interagency
William B. Saxbe
Simon
Donald C. Alexander
Alexander
Saxbe
Levi
Miami
Good news and bad news for U S housing industry
George Marder reports the new U S tax credit for home buyers could boost demand for new homes and houseboats while dampening sales of existing homes. The credit equals 5 percent of the purchase price up to 2000 dollars, with about 500 000 new houses and 250 000 condominiums eligible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Marder Washington
UPI
Marinas of America
Ford
Connally bribery trial shows alienation of longtime friends
The bribery trial of former Secretary John B. Connally Jr. unfolds as a bitter drama of ruptured ties with his 25 year friend Jake Jacobsen. Jacobsen testifies about giving Connally 5000 dollars on two occasions and plans to cover it up, while both men deny truth amid mutual accusations and past Texas high offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Treasury
John B. Connally Jr
U.S. District Court
Connally
Jake Jacobsen
Jacobsen
Texas Statehouse
Congress
White House
Texas
Price Daniel
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
Houston
John F
Money
Navy
Richard M. Nixon
Robsen
Austin
Tex
Johnson
Connally and Jacobsen ties in milk price fight and payments
Treasury official Jacobsen testified he told Connally about milk producer troubles and that Connally pressed Nixon to raise raw milk price supports in 1971. Probes say Jacobsen gave Connally five thousand dollars twice in 1971 for help, with alibi schemes and later plea negotiations.
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Treasury Department
Jacobsen
Connally
White House
Nixon
Watergate
Texas
Miners rally to oppose U.S. strip mining plan in D.C.
Wise County coal dependent leaders miners truckers and store owners head to Washington with 600 to 700 coal trucks and 30 chartered buses to protest federal strip mining legislation. They fear an 85 percent cut in surface mining and massive layoffs in Southwest Virginia.
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Wise
UPI
Wise County
Virginia
John Kilgore
Wise County Board of Supervisors
Washington
Kentucky
Tennessee
House
Senate
World Airways CEO Seeks 747 Rice Airlift to Phnom Penh
Washington report states Edward Daly of World Airways urged Kissinger and President Ford to deploy a Boeing 747 to boost rice deliveries to Phnom Penh. A State Department spokesman said no reply had yet been sent. Daly’s cable was dispatched from Saigon March 27 proposing a weekly airlift starting Tuesday.
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Washington
UPI
Ford Administration
World Airways
Edward J. Daly
Phnom Penh
State Department
Daly
Secretary of
Henry A. Kissinger
Ford
Kissinger
Saigon
Cambodia
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