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...year Sweden simultaneously cut its income tax and increased its national sales tax from 4.2% to 6.4%. Denmark has a similar reform in the works. Even the Russians, notes the First National City dourly, recognize the adverse effect of income taxes on incentive, and proclaim their ultimate intention to abolish income taxes entirely...
Income tax in Russia brings in more propaganda than revenue; it represents only 7% of the government's income. In 1960 Nikita Khrushchev promised to abolish it altogether, in stages, over a five-year period. But last week, just a few days before workers with a monthly salary of 60 to 70 new rubles ($67 to $78) were to be ushered into the promised land, Izvestia announced that the third phase of the cut would be "postponed temporarily until further notice." Predictable villain: an "increase in the aggressive schemes of imperialism...
...LITURGY. The council will not abolish Latin as the liturgical language of Western-rite Catholics, but will probably let regional or national councils of bishops make vernacular translations for the parts of the Mass specifically addressed to the congregation-the Epistle and Gospel, for instance. At the request of their priests, some bishops will push for a drastic shortening of the breviary, the collections of psalms, verses and readings that ordained clerics must recite every day. Missionaries may get more authority to incorporate native customs and religious practices into baptism, marriage and funeral rites...
...fief for Italians. The council may also provide more freedom for individual bishops, or national councils of bishops, to handle matters that until now have to be bucked on to Rome. Some Catholic radicals have suggested that the church impose a retirement age for all prelates except the Pope, abolish the medieval vestments, titles and privileges (such as rings that Catholics kneel to kiss) that accompany the rank of bishop. Most bishops are unimpressed by the necessity of such sacrifice...
...Colonel Robert Debs Heinl Jr., chief of the 50-man U.S. Marine mission sent down to train Haiti's soldiers, has indicated still more U.S. displeasure. In a note, approved by the highest levels of both the Pentagon and the State Department, he coldly suggested that Duvalier abolish the brutal 8,000-man militia that operates as the dictator's irregular private army, terrorizing the French-speaking Negro republic...