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...notes came due, the city admitted it was unable to pay. Cleveland Trust Co. was the first to demand its cash. "We should put Cleveland Trust to the test and see if it is willing to destroy the city," cried Kucinich. The council refused to accept Kucinich's plan for a citywide vote on raising the city income tax from 1% to 1%%, unless the mayor would agree to raise still more money by selling the debt-ridden Municipal Light Plant to the private Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. "I will not be blackmailed," insisted Kucinich. "When Jesus Christ went...
...object of the hearings held last week in Washington's ornate Departmental Auditorium was a well-intentioned, but possibly disruptive plan by the Internal Revenue Service to promote integration in the nation's 20,000 private elementary and secondary schools. Such schools qualify for exemptions from federal taxes as nonprofit institutions. But since 1970, federal courts have canceled the exemptions of more than 100 schools, many of them Southern "white flight" academies. Last August the IRS proposed a new racial test of its own for those schools that have grown rapidly or been created following desegregation. The service...
...majority of the nation's private schools are religious schools, some of which limit enrollment on the basis of belief; as a result, religious organizations were particularly worried about the plan. But so were many secular private schools, which were sure to perish if their tax exemptions were withdrawn. More than 120,000 letters, most expressing vitriolic opposition to the plan, descended on the IRS after the proposal was announced...
...which already requires tax-exempt schools to advertise their absence of racial discrimination, the new plan had seemed a logical next step. In Louisiana and Mississippi, courts have halted state aid to discriminatory schools but have left their federal tax exemptions intact; the new procedure would allow the IRS to lift those exemptions. Says IRS Commissioner Jerome Kurtz: "Existing procedures have permitted some schools to obtain tax-exempt status by having 'paper policies' of nondiscrimination, while in fact continuing to operate in a racially discriminatory manner." U.S. Civil Rights Commission Chairman Arthur Flemming supported Kurtz at last week...
Still, the odds are that the IRS will modify its plan, a move that would win support from such Senate liberals as Edmund Muskie, Thomas Eagleton and John Chafee-all of whom have urged the service to give more thought to the needs of "innocent private and parochial institutions." Said Commissioner Kurtz: "This is a question we are very concerned about and will be examining closely." Although he gave no hint of the IRS's response, Kurtz made it plain to the chorus urging him to revise his plan that he had got the message...