Senate committee votes tax hike to boost Social Security benefits
The Senate Finance Committee approved a six billion dollar tax increase to fund new elderly and disabled benefits as part of a broader Welfare Reform and Social Security bill. The plan raises the payroll tax rate from 5.5 to 6 percent starting January, affecting both employers and workers and lifting annual Social Security payments for higher earners. The bill, tied to continued reforms, faces a tough floor fight with uncertain prospects.
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N. Y. Times News Service
Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Congress
Weather and health notes mixed with regional crime report
Mostly sunny skies give way to afternoon clouds and a 70 percent rain chance tonight. Highs in the 60s to 70s with a cooler Friday. lows upper 50s to low 60s. Rainfall totals for Middletown Newburgh and Monticello shown. In Canandaigua a Rochester man is sought in the shooting death of 33 year old Robert Heavey. his body was found last Friday in Victor, with rival car found in Rochester.
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Newburgh
Monticello
Canandaigua
UPS
Rochester
Robert Heavey
Victor
Middletown paper rates and circulation figures 1972
The edition lists publication details for Gate Way Newspapers in Middletown New York with rate information current as of August 1972. Home delivery costs 90 cents per week and single-copy stands price 5 cents. Circulation totals show 52,612 for August 1972 and 48,814 for August 1971.
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Gibbons
Israeli consul in Montreal targeted by bomb envelopes
Montreal Israeli consul Montreal Shaanan and a group of embassy staff worldwide received bomb laden envelopes in a Wednesday mail scare. The booby trap detonated safely after the consul opened the ordinary white envelope with a tight sticker closure. Shaanan said he felt honored to be among those selected and that all are in this together.
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Montreal
P. Shaanan
Shaanan
U.N. eyes 1973 vote on divided Korea
United Nations Steering Committee recommended deferring efforts to resolve Korea's division until 1973. In a 16-7 vote with one abstention, the committee urged removing the Korean question from the current agenda and delaying discussion, signaling an end to immediate UN presence debates in Korea.
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United Nations General Assembly
Korea
Soviet Union
China
U.N
General Assembly
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