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This Sunday there will be a "Dump Nixon" rally in Providence, Rhode Island, organized by Allard Lowenstein, who organized the successful "Dump Johnson" movement in 1968. Congressmen Bella Abzug, Donald Riegel, and Pete McClosky, and Senators Birch Bayh and Edmund Muskie are co-sponsoring the rally, which will be held on the steps of the State House beginning at 4 p. m. Alex Taylor, Joni Mitchell, and Paul Butterfield will also be on hand, apparently to show people that protest politics can be entertaining...
...April 24 march, which is scheduled for both Washington and San Francisco, has been endorsed by a number of liberal Congressmen, whose ranks swell daily. They include Bella Abzug, Michael Harrington, and Benjamin Rosenthal in the House, and George McGovern, Edmund Muskie, Harold Hughes, Philip Hart, and Vance Hartke in the Senate. In addition, there are the old Moratorium standbys (John Lindsay, Francis Sargent, and retired Army General Hugh Hester) lending their endorsement, if not their presence...
Speakers at the rally will include Lowenstein, Senator Edmund S. Muskie (D-Maine) and Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) Entertainment will be provided by Paul Butterfield, Alex Taylor and Joni Mitchell...
...April 24 mass demonstration, billed as legal and peaceful, has drawn the support of many liberal congressmen, including New York Democrats Bella Abzug and Benjamin Rosenthal, and Democratic Senators Philip Hart of Michigan, Vance Hartke of Indiana, Harold Hughes of Iowa, Edmund Muskie of Maine, and George McGovern of South Dakota. Retired Army General Hugh Hester and New York Mayor John Lindsay have also endorsed the April 24 antiwar demonstration, NPAC organizers hope to draw as many as half a million people to the Washington and San Francisco rallies...
...reductions in personal income taxes scheduled under present law to take effect in 1972 and 1973. Two weeks ago, Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns suggested that the Government may have to do that, as well as reinstate the 7% investment tax credit for business. Last week Senator Edmund Muskie, front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said that "we must accelerate some of the personal tax savings now scheduled for 1972 and 1973." Economist Alan Greenspan, a onetime Nixon adviser, figures that the odds are 2 to 1 in favor of the Administration's doing that. Estimated annual savings...