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...Representative Benson Ham bitterly opposed the measure on accident-prevention grounds. Snapped Ham at one of his antagonists in the legislature: "I'm not surprised to see a funeral director speaking for this bill." The move was defeated. Police in many states enthusiastically support the lower limit. Says Maryland State Police Captain Milton Taylor: "Here in the Northeast Corridor we've got so much congestion that it's almost impossible to drive sanely at more than 55." Taylor concedes that there are regional differences. "Out in the prairie states or the Southwest they...
...Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, who succeeded John Mitchell in 1972, was indicted for perjury during a state bar investigation. Most interesting of all from a legal standpoint, former Vice President Spiro Agnew suffered some setbacks in an unusual taxpayers' suit that stems from his years as Governor of Maryland. The suit, scheduled to go to trial in Annapolis this week, is attempting to recover kickbacks that Agnew allegedly received from Maryland contractors...
...received between 1967 and 1972 for the awarding of certain engineering contracts. But as part of the 1973 agreement, the Justice Department refrained from forcing him to admit any guilt in the alleged kickback scheme. Ever since 1976, however, Agnew has been fighting off a suit brought by three Maryland taxpayers, one of whom came up with the idea in a Georgetown law school class on legal activism. Their novel theory: the $200,000 in kickbacks that he allegedly took have been held by him "in trust" for the state and should be turned over to its treasury. Including interest...
...First, Judge Bruce Williams ordered Agnew's attorney to give the plaintiffs seven years' worth of his client's tax returns, including the unpublished record of the 1973 tax settlement. Then, Co-Defendant Jerome Wolff agreed to testify against Agnew during the trial. As head of Maryland's roads commission between 1967 and 1969, Wolff was accused of receiving some of the same kickbacks. In return for his testimony, he will be dropped from the suit. A third defendant, Real Estate Developer I.H. Hammerman, paid the state $52,500 last November rather than continue fighting...
Despite a 9-2 thrashing of the University of New Hampshire, the laxwomen slipped behind Maryland this week to a third place ranking in the United Press International's national poll...