Johnson hints at a tax hike if inflation worsens
President Johnson said Congress may be asked to raise taxes by about five billion dollars if prices keep rising. He suggested a modest increase could be preferable to deep government spending cuts or new controls, noting surveys on possible federal economies next month.
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Washington
Johnson
Congress
White House
Joanson
Budget Bureau
John W. Byrnes
Wis
House
Ways and Means Committee
Byrnes
Boggs
George Mahon
D-Tex
House Appropriations Committee
India
China
United States
Peking
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Luci Baines Johnson
Executive Mansion
President Johnson
Brezhnev Calls for Better Ties with U.S. and China
Moscow dispatch reports Soviet leader Brezhnev at the 23rd party congress urged improved U.S. and Chinese relations, conditionally linking closer ties to U.S. Viet Nam policy and China’s stance. He revived a Stalin-era term for the Presidium and urged bilateral talks with China while noting unsatisfactory relations with Albania.
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Communist Party
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Soviet Union
United States
Red China
Brezhnev
Soviet Communist Party
Politburo
Josef V. Stalin
Viet Nam
Peking
China
Kremlin Palace of Congresses
Washington
U.S
United Staes
Albania
Communist
Japan
New Zealand
North Viet Nam
North Korea
Brezhnev Promises Five Day Week and Good Life for Soviets
At the 23rd Soviet party congress Leonid Brezhnev outlined a new five year plan promising the good life for citizens. He pledged a five day week a guaranteed income wage floor of 60 rubles monthly and a shift to monetary pay for farmers while noting farm troubles hinder growth.
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Moscow
UPI
Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
Brezhnev
Senator Warns Transportation Decline Spurs Cabinet Plan
Sen Warren Magnuson warns of a 50 percent drop in railroad passenger miles since 1950 and calls the merchant marine in need of improvement as Senate hearings begin on Johnson's plan to unify transportation under a single department. He tests the bill before the Government Operations Committee, with leaders noting a lengthy study ahead.
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Washington
Senate
Johnson
U.S
Warren G. Magnuson
D-Wash
Magnuson
Senate Government Operations Committee
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Sen
Henry Jackson
House Grants Go Ahead to Great Society Programs
The House advanced an omnibus appropriation bill to the Senate funding rent subsidies and the teachers corps as part of the Great Society. The vote was 269 to 122 with GOP efforts to cut the programs defeated amid inflation and tax fears.
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Washington
Johnson
House
Senate
Congress
GOP
Four US Army Divisions Not Fully Combat Ready
Defense Dept says four regular divisions in the United States lack full combat readiness as they train recruits and draftees. The 4th Infantry at Ft. Lewis, 5th Mechanized at Ft. Carson, and 1st and 2nd Armored at Ft. Hood are listed. Some may reach full status by June as planners expand training capacity.
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Washington
Defense Department
Army
United States
Ft. Lewis
Wash
Ft. Carson Corp
Ft. Hood
Tex
Los Angeles Times
Defense
Pentagon
Robert S. McNamara
Southeast Asia
McNamara
Kidnappers Target Wealthy Miami Builder's Family in Ransom Plot
In Surfside Miami detectives say Daniel Goldman 18 was abducted to pressure his father Aaron Goldman a wealthy apartment builder and bank director tied to a failed bank. The kidnapper demanded 20 000 rising to 25 000 and warned of doubling the price if not paid by dawn. Authorities including FBI pursued leads as a federal grand jury probes the bank seizure.
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Miami, Fla
Daniel Goldman
Aaron Goldman
Warren Dalrymple
Surf
Dalrymple
Goldman
Daniel
Par
Larry Vardell
Dade County
FBI
Sally
Vardell
Goldmans
Pollice
Miami Herald
Miami Bank
Ky Warns Buddhist Agitators
In Saigon Premier Nguyen Cao Ky warned Buddhist agitators of very strong measures to curb unrest seen as threatening Vietnam’s war effort. The days saw Vance en route to visit U.S. and allied forces amid anti American overtones and White House aides responding to the crisis.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Nguyen Cao Ky
Viet Nam
Defense
Cyrus R. Vance
U.S
Washington
Variety Studies Sales Tax Cuts Albany Action In Legislature
The Assembly and Senate advanced rival sales tax exemption packages, Democrats pushing a $65.5 million plan with a collection fee for merchants, while Republicans backed a smaller $13 million package without a fee. Both houses moved ahead before the two week Easter Passover recess.
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Assembly
Senate
Flying Saucer Pioneer Defends Realness of Objects
Kenneth D. Arnold, who sparked the flying saucer era, says sightings over Michigan California Wisconsin and Nevada may be real and even alive. He recalls his June 24 1947 sighting near Mount Rainier describing nine saucer like objects forming a long diagonal line.
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Boise, Idaho
Kenneth D. Arnold
America
Michigan
California
Wisconsin
Nevada
Arnold
Boise
Mt. Rainier
Wash
United States
Earth
Space
U.S. Air Force
Dayton
Ohio
Rockefeller Signs Hard Line on Cop Killing
Gov. Rockefeller signed a bill clarifying that the death penalty remains for killings of police during a holdup or other crime. He also announced an eight percent state employee raise totaling 49 million dollars in the first year and other policy actions.
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Albany
Rockefeller
New York City
Anthony Portelli
Jerome Rosenberg
Ecuador Ousts Junta as Cle mente Yerovi Named Provisional President
Armed forces deposed the ruling three man junta and Quito economist Cle mente Yerovi Idaburo was proclaimed provisional president. Yerovi, a liberal former agriculture minister and UNESO envoy, was chosen within hours after protests forced the change. Students celebrated in Quito and Guayaquil as guards kept palace gates secure.
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Quito
Ecuador
Clemente Yerovi Idaburo
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Yerovi
Ling
Galo Plaza Lasso
Plaza
National Planning Council
United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Paris
Europe
Guayaquil
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