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...Department of Justice have long felt certain that they know who killed former Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa in 1975, as well as why he was slain. But they have never been able to collect enough evidence that would stand up in court. Nonetheless, the Justice Department last week permitted one of its informers, a self-confessed Mafia hitman, to present his version of the motive for Hoffa's murder. Testifying behind a screen that obscured his features, the man, who now calls himself Charles Allen, told a Senate subcommittee investigating labor racketeering that Hoffa was killed so that...
...deduction limit. Unwilling to endure the public's wrath alone, the House reluctantly followed suit. Massachusetts Congressman Silvio Conte sneered at the Senate: "You got a bunch of fat cats up there raking in the big bucks. They can be big statesmen because they can collect those big honoraria." Utah Senator Jake Garn gibed that House members were "just as gutless" for retreating on their tax deductions...
...episode showed that the system can work if the proper people apply pressure at the right time, but the reaction could have been terrible. Adverse news is one thing, but un certainty at the core of adverse news can create widespread panic." Even if the banks manage to collect something from Drysdale, the anticipated after-tax loss of $135 million that Chase expects to suffer from the affair will probably wipe out the bank's earnings for the second quarter...
Slow the Growth of Benefits. Despite much demagoguery, no one is talking about snipping so much as a penny off present benefits; anyone now receiving an average pension check of $379 a month can count on continuing to collect at least that much, unless the trust funds do indeed run dry. But it seems imperative to keep future inflation from pushing up benefits as rapidly as it did from 1975 to 1981. Besides saving money for the trust funds and helping to trim the overall budget deficit in the short run, a limit on future increases could also help build...
...ahead nearly 50 police officers and Murfy, a pot-sniffing dog, were checking out cars in one of the largest roadblocks in recent years. After 22 hours, the team had nailed 489 people on offenses ranging from expired licenses to possession of marijuana. St. Francis County expects to collect $20,000 in fines, and Sheriff Sam Ashworth pronounced the roadblock just about the best thing since sirens for scaring troublemakers out of his county...