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...Henry said, "the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) hasn't prosecuted anyone over the phone tax. What they've been doing is levying a lien on the person's bank account to get the money. They don't want to put people in jail, they just want the money...
...lien on the property, to insure that the City will get the money back...
...Junior Tar quickly restored his personal effects. In the U.S. district court where the suit was tried, Klim then won a greater victory. Judge Gerald Levin ruled that California's 95-year-old Innkeeper's Lien Law was unconstitutional. Tracing the statute back to its antecedents in the common law of medieval England, the judge held that the times no longer allow a hotel the right to deprive a nonpaying guest of his property without due process. The statute, Levin said, "effectively clothes the California innkeeper with the badge of the sheriff and the robes of the judge...
...yesterday's City Council meeting, Vellucci introduced a resolution asking the Board of Assessors to compile a list of all the properties-tax-exempt and tax-paying-which Harvard owns in Cambridge, and to total up the amount of taxes and in-lien-of-tax payments the University pays to the City. The council unanimously passed the resolution after Vellucci amended it to include M.I.T. and Radcliffe...
...days after Lien's press conference, the siege of Ben Het abruptly ceased, and the enemy faded away into Cambodia. A relief force of 1,500 South Vietnamese troopers last week encountered no resistance on their way to Ben Het. Why did the enemy withdraw? During the height of the attacks, North Vietnamese propagandists boasted that Ben Het represented "a humiliating failure for the U.S. in its plot to de-Americanize the war and use Vietnamese to kill Vietnamese." Having already lost 1,800 men in the battle, the North Vietnamese may have felt that they needed to waste...