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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 1, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 1, 1978 redeployment plans to be reviewed the stars and stripes Page 5 decision on 61s in Korea deferred by Robert Kaylor Washington up Pentagon sources said wednesday the administration has deferred its decision on where to put the troops being withdrawn from Korea partly because of disagreement on whether some should go to House speaker Thomas p Neill s Home state. It s kind of a contentious mess one Pentagon source said of the redeployment decision originally set for this summer Calif cutting income taxes by a billion Sacramento up the California legislature propelled by resounding voter approval of the proposition 13 property tax limitation wednesday approved a $1 Bil lion Cut in state income taxes. The measure which was supported by gov. Edmund g. Brown jr., will reduce in come taxes by $75 for one year for evry in come taxpaying californian. Passage of the measure climaxed sever Al weeks of political frenzy in which Brown and lawmakers worked hard to convince voters that they Are True believers of the h new tax cutting religion. On a unanimous 75-0 vote and with Brief debate the Assembly agreed to final Tatnen dents and sent the Bill to Democrat Brown. Christmas tree the package was dubbed by some legislators As a Christmas tree because it includes so Many election year goodies. It will be the first major income tax reduction for californians since Ronald Reagan rebated $83 million in 1970. The one time income tax credit for sin Gle taxpayers on returns filed next april 15 would jump from $25 to $100, while couples filing a joint return would get a credit of $200 rather than the current $50. This returns to the people of California approximately $700 million of the immense surplus we built up by overtaking people Over the years said democratic Assem Blyman Larry Kapiloff who sponsored the Bill. The remainder of the $1 billion pack age is contained in a variety of smaller tax Breaks. The Bill this year would reduce the state income tax for a family of four with an adjusted Gross income of $19,800 from $502 to $326. Cut from $259 to $171 a single taxpayer with an adjusted Gross income of $9,900 would have taxes reduced from $259 to $171. Another provision of the legislation which will remain in the state s tax Struc Ture permanently prevents Cost of living wage increases from being gobbled up completely by inflation As workers move into higher income tax brackets. And now according to sources deferred in definitely pending review of competing plans. The first unit a 750-Man battalion of the 2nd inf div is scheduled to be withdrawn by december and now will be put at a temporary base until the question is resolved the sources said. They said the army was unable to agree on whether the division would be split up among two locations in the Northeast or sent to it. Benning a. No. 1 at Annapolis rear adm. William Lawrence right becomes superintendent of the . Naval Academy at Annapolis md., during a ceremony. A former fighter Pilot shot Down in Vietnam and a pow of Hanoi for six years Lawrence succeeds vice adm. Kinnard Mckee left. At Center is mrs. Mckee. Up defense Secretary Harold Brown Wor ried about costs of building new bases for the unit has ordered a new review of the the Issue that will take months. Issues involved include Basing for about 10,000 troops from the division and housing for their families much of which will prob ably have to be built. According to Pentagon sources army Secretary Clifford Alexander favored a plan that would split the division Between fort Devens mass., and fort Dix n.j., with periodic training at fort drum n. Y. The plan is being pushed by o Neill d mass., who has blocked past efforts to close fort Devens and by other Northeast Ern members of Congress eager to get More military bases for their area. The administration has been trying to repair its relations with o Neill relations often strained by White House con Gress frictions and badly bruised when one of o Neill s proteges was fired from a government Post recently. Some sources suggested Alexander who has a political rather than military Back ground May have had this in mind when he lined up in favor of the fort Devens fort Dix option. Uniformed army leaders oppose the Dix Devens plan because it wanted to keep the division together. It favored fort Benning a traditional in Fantry base and sources said the matter was sent to Brown unresolved. The sources said the review ordered up by Brown will consider other bases As Well battling bronc fans Are Brothers Golden Colo. Up a Denver Broncos football fan has taken his brother in Law to court Over a pair of season tickets to the team s 1978 games. Donald Gregory says for 13 years he s had an Oral agreement with his brother in Law James Corbin of Littleton to buy two of the season tickets package bought Annu ally by Corbin. But this year Corbin refused to sell the tickets and Gregory went to court to ask that the tickets be provided him As they have been since 1965. A District judge last week ordered Cor bin to turn Over two tickets for an exhibition game Between the Broncos and san Francisco. But the order could t be served because Corbin was out of town. So Gregory plans to seek another order this week for the opening game against the Oakland raiders. We have no Choice said attorney Fred Mattson or. My client wants to go to the football  2cleared in kidnapping involving Moon Follower Redding Calif. A two men allegedly hired to Kidnap a Follower of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon have been found in Nocent by a jury following testimony that they got the wrong woman. Timothy Jones 28, of Buena Park Cal if., and Clifford Daniels 23, of Chattanooga tenn., were cleared by the Shasta county Superior court jury wednesday of charges of kidnapping false imprisonment and conspiracy. They were arrested Jan. 12 with Donald and Marilyn Guth of West Bend wis., who were searching for a daughter they said was believed hiding As a Follower of Moon s unification Church. But instead of their daughter 17-year old Darlene the two men allegedly picked up a woman resembling her and took her to the Mobile Home in this Northern califor Nia town where the parents were waiting. The guts were originally charged in the Case but charges were dropped in re turn for their testimony against Jones and Daniels. Guth told the jury that he had requested help from a de Programmer of sons and daughters considered alienated by unorthodox religious organizations. He said the de Programmer sent Jones and Daniels to help recover their daughter. But the woman who was abducted turned out to be Karen Lee Kraus 22, of Burlingame who told police she was forced into a car in a parking lot. Police said the abduction occurred shortly after they received a complaint from a citizen that members of the unification Church were Selling Candy and Flowers without a permit. Police said Kraus was released As soon As the guts realized the mistake. Of time criminal dishonest immoral 1q dozens of feb agents disciplined i Washington up a crackdown against such criminal dishonest or immoral conduct As drunkenness drug abuse and sexual impropriety has resulted j1 disciplinary action to dozens of Fri a gents it was reported wednesday. The general accounting office said 69 Fri employees 55 agents and 14 clerks were disciplined for violations of the Bureau s High standards of conduct from january 1977 through february 1978. Said another 22 Fri employees resigned or the Gao said in a report to the govern retired before they could be disciplined As ment operations subcommittee on govern part of the crackdown against violations ment information and individual rights again both on and off the Job. The Gao in a review of allegations against 843 of the Fri s 19,500 agents and clerks during the period said the disciplinary action included Oral reprimands letters of censure unpaid leaves and Dis missals. Employee conduct must not Only be the congressional investigative Agency proper but always appear to be proper ment l rights. The Agency said the Fri has improved enforcement of the Bureau s personnel standards by the creation of an office of professional responsibility to coordinate internal investigations. The report said Ebi handbooks stress that employees must not engage in Crimi Nal dishonest or immoral conduct on or off the  sept. 1, 1948 the baby Bunker in Hitler s Reich chancellery in Berlin where expectant German mothers were sheltered from enemy bombs during the War was to be destroyed by the soviets. The blast would demolish the badly dam aged steel and Concrete chancellery in which Hitler and his mistress Eva Braun reportedly committed suicide. Sept. 1, 1958 group capt. Peter Townsend said he would be leaving on a three month round the world trip and added i have no intention of returning to my country  he refused to Dis cuss his private affairs a reference to his Romance with Britain s Princess mar Garet. Sept. A 1968 Iran s second Earth quake in two Days brought Stone and mud huts crashing Down in villages where More than 8,000 people died in a quake which hit the previous Day  
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