Discover Family, Famous People & Events, Throughout History!

Throughout History

Advanced Search

Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, August 9, 1978

You are currently viewing page 5 of: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, August 9, 1978

   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 9, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                William Webster can happen in the us August 1978 the stars and stripes Page 5 overrides Carter objections House votes Carrier funds Iblis mood Fri director says w York up Fri director Wil Webster said monday terrorist Active i the world is changing Ameri negative attitudes toward licence there is a change in Public Jcu Larty 1 think As a result of an ring concern for error prism in this Webster told a breakfast gather at the annual american bar associate said there a Public recognition it is happening in it can Hap in the United be already have our share he citing Fri statistics that show there e 100 terrorist related bombings in 1976 terrorist acts said americans Are wondering the United states is getting intelligence information to prevent we Are getting enough intelligence 1 be he but he added the lean Public should understand that Fri is limited to investigations of acts planned acts that fall under a Federal bomb May go off before we have lion that it is going he Terter also said that he is seriously about the flood of Freedom of n act requests the Fri gets for were encountering some problems in developing confidential no and keeping confidential info be there Are areas where it is not serving Public he said of the free of information Washington i a the House Over Rode objections from president Carter on monday and voted to spend billion to build a nuclear powered aircraft the ship was approved As pan of a billion defense spending the largest appropriation measure in the nations the Overall Bill was expected to be approved on the ship would be the fifth nuclear Carrier in the navys on a 218196 the House killed an amendment by Sidney to delete funding for the the administration argued it did not want to build a Carrier until next and that next years ship should be fuelled by Oil rather than atomic and should be smaller than the giant if were going to build a we ought to build the Best there said Kenneth who argued that delay merely would increase the Cost of the opponents said a Large Carrier is too costly and too Robert chairman of the budget commit said a nuclear Carrier puts All our eggs in one Basket that makes such an inviting target for missiles and other instruments of George chairman of the appropriations said carriers will not be a decisive element in any War with the War against the so Viet Union will be he in earlier the House also rejected efforts to slash billion in across the Board cuts from the supporters said the cuts would Force the Sonds of time ins soviet to seize control All food rationing and distribution Powers in Berlin forced the noncom Monist food administrator out of us soviet sector splitting the department be tween East and the Berlin Magis at a special two hour authorized its food administrator Paul fun quack to move with Bis staff to new Quarter in one of the three West 1mb the White House Laid that Secretary of state John Foster Dulles will Bead the delegation to the special general Assembly on the Middle East and that president Eisenhower May also ims More than 9m National guardsmen and Deputy sheriffs patrolled the it Yeti of the Liberty City negro Dis picking their Way through the rotting remains of the racial violence that left three people dead and others Economy moves and help eliminate opponents argued that the defense appropriation was carefully and there was no excess Money in the the to finance defense spending in the fiscal year beginning is Bil lion higher than the current appropriation and million More than was sought by the Carter Harold proposed a two percent reduction in spending for military which was rejected and then a two percent Cut in opera Tion and maintenance which was turned Down on a voice Jack Edwards of a rank ing Republican on the we didst come to the floor with any pad Ding in this Point of no returns by a 252128 the House voted to consolidate army and Navy Basic helicopter training programs now carried out at fort and the naval air Sta Tion at to a single pro Gram at fort the House has passed similar legislation in previous but the Senate has rejected it the House also approved million for military assistance at the 1980 Winter olympic games at Lake As drafted by the the Bill contains billion for military payrolls and benefits billion for pensions and other payments for retired personnel billion for maintenance and operations billion for weapons procure ment and billion for research and de court is True to jails taxpayer rebel a Robert Awerkamp has been sentenced to a year in prison for taking the fifth amendment on his Federal income tax he says an swering questions about them would prove he had broken the i have engaged in activities that were illegal but not said in that what in try ing to prevent telling Awerkamp tax returns Are splashed with references to the which provides a constitutional guarantee against the lax form asks him to name his de pendent Awerkamp replies unable to answer and protect the rights guaranteed to me by the 5th Gross income he balance due the irs taxes overpaid 5 probation in addition to the year in Awer Kamp was sentenced last week to five years probation for failing to file proper income tax returns for 1971 through District judge Waldo who sentenced said govern ment depends on voluntary contribution of taxes something has to happen As a deterrent toothed says he is Tak ing his Case to the the Federal appeals court at Awerkamp is arguing that if he provided All the information required on the income tax then id be testifying against he Calls the return form a confession John who prosecuted the Case for the attorneys said fed eral appeals courts previously have re fused to allow taxpayers to refuse to answer questions on the form because of the fifth James an internal Revenue service official Here said its just one of the positions some of these tax resisters desserts handed fruit Sampler Washington Iasi a woman who convicted in june of illegally consume t two strawberries in a supermarket re her sentence Moonay a half boor in a Public god that sighed Joe Catcher after judge Howard Chas banded Down she could received an 18month jail term and a for the crime of Petty shoplifting the judge said he would strike her Crim Inal record from the books if she refrained from any More illegal fruit sampling for the next six the supermarkets floor detective said he saw Datcher Sample two strawberries last he wanted her to at 59 cents for a Small they were Worth about two but she denied eating even a single Strawberry and refused to pay one a jury apparently believed detective Smith when he testified in june that he saw the whole thing and caught Datcher while eating the he saw two strawberries go stressed the states at Gary said Samuel the defense i guess i made a mistake by asking for a jury have who now lives in la says he began answering questions with the fifth amendment on his 1970 tax in addition to 1971 through the years covered by the Federal he said he has filed Simitar forms for 1975 and judges ruling benefits Abc in incitements it san Francisco a a judge ruled monday that the plaintiffs attorney in an million suit against Abc will have to prove that the network wilfully sought to incite rape when it televised the 197 him born the decision by judge Robert Dossee in san Francisco Superior court prevents at Torney Marvin Lewis from proceeding on grounds that Abc was negligent in Snow ing the which depicted a sexual As Sault on a girl in a reformatory by other girls using the wooden handle of a plumb ers Lewis represents Valeria who Al Leges that the film prompted a similar As Sault on her 9yearold daughter in 1974 by three girls with a bottle on a san Francisco Beach four Days after the additional requirement last week Dossee said Lewis would have to prove and monday imposed the additional requirement of proving Lewis said the ruling was an impassible Burden of proof and that he had no in Tention of proving and no evidence that Abc Ever intentionally coerced or incited people to go out and rape girls with artificial the ruling marked a Victory for the net according to Abc attorney Floyd who said he planned to move that the judge dismiss the Case because Lewis has said he has no plans to observe Dos see s ground rules for the Abrams has argued that the telecast was protected by the free speech provi Sions of the first amendment to the con Lewis said that he would take the Case directly to the state court of Appeal if Dos see dismisses the Case or if he prevents Lewis from trying the Case on grounds of negligence and civil  
Browse Articles by Decade:
  • Decade