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...request that Congress approve a 5% income tax surcharge on personal earnings above a certain amount?possibly $15,000 for families and $7,500 for single people???to help pay for federal emergency relief measures for the poor. The surcharge would raise about $2.5 billion in revenues...
...Brennan, 70, and both received severe stomach wounds. Once outside the bank, DeFreeze fired again, at Pharmacist Ken Outlander, 62, but missed. The bandits raced away in the station wagon, their escape covered by the four accomplices in the Hornet. Police and FBI agents could not identify the four people???either four men or three men and a woman?but believed that some were among the five S.L.A. members sought in Patty's abduction. They are Angela Atwood, 25, Emily Harris, 27, and her husband William, 29, Thero Wheeler, 29, and William Wolfe...
That mystique-enveloped term carries such a patriotic appeal, and reflects so much legitimate public concern, that Nixon may well have won over many people???or at least bought himself some debating time?by evoking it. Indeed, 22 top congressional Republicans gave Nixon an ovation when they met in his office and he vowed "to continue measures to ensure secrecy." Said Senate G.O.P. Leader Hugh Scott: "I hope that the President will receive the same credence that is sometimes given to thieves who purloin documents...
...Daley. Dick Daley is a proud man, sensitive. That organizational support out there is essential. George is going to have to reach an agreement with Daley if he is to carry Illinois. It's going to be difficult to do now." Then, somewhat wistfully, Humphrey added: "Well, these new people???they're establishment now. It happens fast. We'll see how they like it." Between now and November, McGovern faces the task not only of defeating Richard Nixon but also of keeping together enough of the old Democratic coalition to prevent a ruinous shattering...
...Jewish feelings among peopie who didn't know they had any." It also tapped a flood of Jewish cash. Financial support for Israel, always strong, crested to a new high: the 750 Jewish families of Charleston, S.C., alone raised a remarkable $250,000 ?nearly $100 per person. Young people???and sometimes their parents?suddenly found themselves on jets to Israel, ready to fight, or at least to take the soldiers' places in the kibbutzim...