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November 30, 1982
IRS owes South Texas
$800,000 in refunds
United Press International
AUSTIN —The Internal Re
venue Service would like to give
South Texans more than
$800,000 in income tax returns
but the U.S. Postal Service can't
deliver the checks.
Bob Branson, an official with
the IRS regional office in Au
stin, said, “When thejob of your
agency is to reach into people’s
pockets and take money out, you
don’t get to play the good guy
very often.
“That’s why we want to see
people get what they’ve got
coming.”
Branson said the IRS is hold
ing refund checks for 1,931
South Texans who for one
reason or another can’t be found
through the mail.
Most of the checks were re
turned because the person
moved without leaving a for
warding address, Branson said
Monday, or because the tax
payer had written an illegible re
turn address on his tax form.
Branson said the IRS has
neither the time nor the money
to track the people down and
that it is up to them to come
looking for the check.
“Sometimes we hear people
say, ‘If I owed you money, then
you’d be able to find me,’ ” Bran
son said. “But they forget that
we’re primarily a tax collecting
agency.”
Branson said the checks vary
in amount from $1 to more than
$10,000 and that one couple liv
ing near San Antonio is entitled
to a $26,000 refund but can’t be
found.
If the refunds are not col
lected, the money automatically
goes back to the U.S. Treasury
Department. However, a person
who thinks he should have re
ceived a refund can file a claim
for the money at any time.
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Klansmen gather for rally
KKK protestors rampage
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Police sav
they were stunned that their sec
ret plan to keep apart the Ku
Klux Rian and demonstrators
erupted into a violent rampage
by anti-Klan protesters.
“We just assumed that if w'e
avoided a confrontation be
tween the Klan and the demon
strators, we would avoid vio
lence,” Lt. Hiram Brewton, a
police spokesman, said Sunday.
“We were wrong.”
A disturbance broke out
Saturday after police averted a
showdown between Klansmen
and hundreds of anti-Klan de
monstrators. A police car was
overturned and several stores
were vandalized and looted.
Thirty-eight people were
arrested on charges ranging
from disorderly conduct to
assaulting a metro transit offic
er. Twelve policemen and seven
civilians suffered minor injuries.
It was the worst disturbance
in the city since the anti-war de
monstrations of the early 1970s.
Regardless, police said they
were satisfied they did the fight
thing in busing a dozen Klans
men through back streets rather
than have them march past
thousands of angry protesters.
“The situation would have
been much worse if we had
allowed the march down Consti
tution Avenue,” said Police
Chief Maurice T. Turner.
The Klansmen held a peace
ful rally at Lafayette Square,
protesting legislations that
would give amnesty to millions
of illegal aliens, and then left the
city under police escort. They
were gone before anti-Klan de
monstrators realized that the
march had been canceled and
rally held.
As the word spread, the vio
lence began.
“They (protesters) were frus
trated,” Turner said, “they did
not see any Klan, couldn’t con
front the Klan, so they took it
out on police.”
Delegate Walter Fauntroy,
the city’s non-woting member of
Congress, told a news confer
ence, “They (the KKK) got what
they wanted, pictures all over
the world of D.C. black young
people throwing rocks and over
turning vehicles.”
Sunday, merchants hit by the
violence swept their stores clean
of smashed glass.
“They got nine of twelve win
dows. They cost about a
thousand (dollars) apiece.
There was no insurance,” said
Eddie Sholl, manager of Sholl’s
New Cafeteria.
Police said thpy had not yet
determined an overall estimate
to the damage.
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Court order releases
secret Nixon tapes
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Sup
reme Court Monday cleared the
way for the release of 6,000
hours of Richard Nixon’s secret
Oval Office tape recordings for
public consumption.
Without comment, the jus
tices rejected Nixon’s bid to keep
the public from listening to the
never-before-heard tapes.
The action is a defeat for Nix
on, who resigned Aug. 9, 1974,
under threat of impeachment in
the Watergate scandal. But it
does not guarantee all his White
House tapes will be released as
planned in 1984 or 1985.
Nixon, or those named or in
volved in his recorded conversa-
tions, still can try to block their
release on a tape-by-tape basis if
they feel it would violate privacy
rights or executive privilege.
Nixon has waged a lengthy
legal battle against the General
Services Administration plan to
let the public listen to the tapes
covering his last 2'A years in
office.
The dispute stems from a law
passed by Congress four months
after Nixon left office that
ordered seizure of some 880
tapes and 42 million White
House papers. It ordered the
GSA to weed out purely person
al materials, such a Nixon’s oral
diary entries, and release the
rest to the public.
When the Supreme Court re
fused to strike down the law in
1977, Nixon went back to the
courts with the current case
attacking the plan to make the
tapes available for public lis
tening.
Nixon’s attorneys contend
the “manner and tone of his per
sonal expressions remain a per
sonal and private moment to
him” and should not be thrown
open to general audiences.
But the U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals in Washington, up
holding a July 1979 ruling by
federal Judge Aubrey Robin
son, said Nixon “can claim no
such broad right of privacy with
respect to his life while presi
dent.”
The appeals court ruled 3-0
that letting the public listen to
the tapes does not violate Nix
on’s privacy rights as an indi
vidual or as a former president.
Throughout Nixon’s legal
battle, national archivists have
been reviewing and indexing
the tapes for their eventual re
lease.
Only 31 tapes have been
made available to the public so
far — those introduced at the
Watergate cover-up trials of
Nixon’s former aides.
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