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...murder team of anti-Castro Cubans had planned the killing, using Oswald as a decoy. Next Big Jim claimed that the CIA and FBI were aware of these plots and were covering up. So, too, he said, were powerful interests in the Eastern Establishment and the Federal Gov ernment, which had banded together to discredit his investigation...
...case of the schools, the Gov ernment for a long time accepted local assurances of desegregation, only this year began asking evidence of "substantial progress." Even then, it was content merely to defer aid to transgressors; but when Southern Congress men blocked that option by getting legislation passed limiting deferments to 60 days, the Government had no choice but to push for outright fund cutoffs...
...self-employed doctors, lawyers, small busi nessmen and farmers still refused to file tax returns, and the government figures that 95% of those who did file cheated. Indeed, had it not been for the compulsory withholding taxes taken out of wage earners' paychecks, the gov ernment might well have used up its entire income tax receipts just to pay the salaries of its tax collectors. But then until last year, tax evasion was not even a crime...
...British action against Ian Smith's government in Rhodesia. Addressing 20,000 followers at a youth rally in Lusaka, Kaunda attacked Wilson for his "kith and kin" policy on Rhodesia and threatened to propose Britain's expulsion at the next Commonwealth meeting unless Smith's gov ernment has been toppled by then. "Our stand on the rebels is final," Kaunda stressed. ";We refuse to be part and parcel of British treachery...
...strange goings-on in Uganda last week presented a variation on Africa's current crop of coups. Uganda's gov ernment was overthrown all right, but not by military men. It was Prime Minister Milton Apollo Obote himself who seized full powers, and he did it, so he said, only to prevent another coup which was being planned against...