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Show V Our Phone Numbers Springtime News, News Tips Home Delivery Sunny and warmer through Thursday. Daytime highs in the mid 50s. Low tonight near 32. Details, weather map on Page NO. 7 3 24-4415 521-353- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 6 2 The Mountain West's First Newspaper 10c PAGES Pakistani UPI. AP Report President WASHINGTON Tax, Spending Changes To Fight Inflation Nixon today told Congress he would submit proposals next month to reform the nations tax structure as part of the By LEMMY PINNA Gen. Yahya Khan, a KARACHI (UPI) professional soldier and the new ruler of Pakistan, told the nation today he will not tolerate se agitation in his efforts to bring the divided country back from the brink of civil war. new Administrations attack on the economic aggression of inflation. ommendation, which will go to Congress, next month, would be aimed at closing loopholes used by foundations to earn tax benefits for In a special tax message to the House and Senate, Nixon said the problem cf inflation also can be met by extending the income tax surcharge at least until and by making significant cuts in federal spending. Administration sources said the Treasury Department rec- - their founders; ending tax write-off- s of large corporations that merge into conglomerate business arrange-meatand eliminating tax breaks enjoyed by , hobby farmers. . In spelling out the need for an extension of tie surtax, Nixon reported that at least ; s, mid-197- 0 d half of the budget surpluses envisioned in January by former President Lyndon B. Johnson already have evapoin some cases berated cause of inflation and in others because of overly optimis' tic estimates. - - ' f Faced with that situation, Nixon said he will propose budget revisions for the fiscal year starting July 1 that will reduce spending significantly below the . amount recommended in January. He gave no details. Extension of the surtax on incomes, he said, is necessary to stop the economic aggression of inflation. Mr. Nixon said the tax By STEWART HENSLEY WASHINGTON (UPI) Administration officials said today South Vietnams announced willingness to hold private talks with the Viet Cong could lead to a breakthrough in the deadlocked Paris negotiations. It will depend, they said, on whether the Communists are , negotiating in good faith now that South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu has made his 'C1EAM TEEMS' offer. L This M4k The United States for tome time hag urged upon the Saigon regime the wisdom of agreeing to talk privately with the National Liberation Front. the, political arm of rebels in the south. Officials here consider such discussions, along with the private Hanoi-U.S- . talks they are encouraging, the best possibility of reducing military activity in moving toward some political settlement UPt Ttktfrate . aerial view shows Brockton, Mass, homes isolated by flood waters from melting snow, heavy rdims. i i v FILL APPROVAL . A d m inistration SNOW, I . I than a foot of water surrounded homes in much of the city. Eighteen children were evacuated from a school for the retarded when it was swamped by floodwater and some 800 children were taken from another school when water touched off a fire alarm. Civil It was, the nations 14th commercial airline piracy this year. The Newark-to-SaDiego Tuesday hijacked jetliner, night, left Havana shortly before 8 a.m. today. Among its passengers were" 18 Navy recruits en route to San Diego : for basic training, s ;; Crew members told authorities that the hijacker, who identified himself as a Venezuelan, occupied a first row seat in the tourist section. They said he pulled the pistol and forced his way into the cockpit with a stewardess and gave orders sending the plane to Havana. Crew members did not talk to newsmen in Miami. The plane was commandeered 10 minutes after it took off from Lfoe Field In Defense officials dered ' V'"', - ' . - - . i Wind gusts up to 100 miles an hour were reported in Visit To Africa Ver- mont. airplane skidded off a runway at Chicago's Meigs Field as the city was dusted with a cover of snow. The plane burst into flames, but the eight occupants escaped injury. On the city's West Side, a car skidded on the snow-slic- k pavement and crashed into a bus, injuring 10 - to North Africa today for official visits to Algeria and Morocco. Pravda said the trip was an Important step in strengthening friendship and cooperation between the two countries and the Soviet Union. , flew ; Reporters had asked whether use of the wwd critical in Tuesday persons. 111$ ' refuel and discharge its 93 passengers. In Amsterdam, Holland, the International Federation of DhIIor. Wood radioed the Fort Worth control tower for permission to make a left turn. He was asked if he was . planning to return Field, i t No, I'm going to Havana, ' Airline Pilots Associations warned today that It may call a worldwide strike for 12 or 24 hours if airline i hijacking is Wood repaed. f not suitably punished. Later, according to the FedA resolution unanimously eral Aviation Administration,' adopted by the federation's Wo:l radioed for directions s he passed over Sarasota, annual conference said it may actions take these Fla. He said nothing about the also against nations that don't punhijacker. He must have him in the ish hijackers: 1. A ban on all air traffic cockpit," said an FAA spokesinto the country. man in Miami. - . 2. Coordinated action to reIt was the 21st hijacking of strict movement of the counthe yeur, including seven fortry's aircraft and to restrict eign planes. There have been five attempted hijackings, the movement of cargo to and latest a week ago today when from the country, either by an FBI agent overpowered a air or surface. The federation represents 70 gunman who had taken over a Delta airliner, but allowed it per cent of the world's 6,500 to land in New Orleare to airline pilots. ; I . ? y . A commuter Soviet MOSCOW (AP) President Nikolai V. Podg-orn- y . four-part- River in Vermont and the Weather Bureau said many small streams were raging out of their, banks in and Hudson New Yorks Mohawk river systems and in Mountain Adirondack the area. State Department late Tuesday to secure American reaction to Thieus declaration, v Efforts to move substantive discussions at Paris from the WASHINGTON (AP) -doctors Army reported today the condition of foriier President Dwight D. Eisenhower semipublic proparemains critical and evidence ganda arena at the formal of his congestive heart failure ' talks into private negotiations persists despite the fact that among the various particiall appropriate therapeutic pants is a major portion of measures are being utilized. the strategy bring discussed here by President Nixon and A morning medical bulletin with read to reporters by Col. John other U.S. officials Ambassador to Saigon EllsL. Bradley, executive officer of the Walter Reed Army Hos--. worth Bunker. j pital, also said Eisenhower PRIVATE TALKS ' slept comfortably through Nixon indicated without spemost of the night. cific reference to Thieus BRIEF VISITS remarks he thought private, He continues to enjoy brief talks eventually would lead to' visits with members of the an end of the war. ? immediate family, it added. If we are to make progress sandbag protection along 600 feet of the or- - ' officials, after reading the full text of Thieus news conference Tuesday, expressed complete approval of his handling of the subject They conveyed this approval to Saigons ambassador to the United States, Bui Dim, when he called at the EiscnhoVcr Remains 'Critical', rain; WIND Severe Spring Storms Blast Eastern I A hijacked MIAMI (UPI) Delta Air Lines jet returned to Miami with Its 114 occupants today nnd the captain identified the air pirate as a Venezuelan armed with a chr pistol. Capt. William Wood ad the other crew members were led into a Miami Airport building for questioning about the !jac ng to Cuba but the passengers stayed aboard to be flown, presumably by a fresh crew, to Dallas. -- : . Hijacked Jet, Wonder is the basis of worship. ThomcitCarlyle In his special tax message to the House and Senate, Nixon also said scheduled reductions in telephone and passenger car excise taxes also would have to be postponed. The federal excise tax of 10 per cent on telephone calls and 7 per cent on automobile sales were due to fall in a few House Speaker John W. McCormack told reporters: With President Nixon recommending it, my opinion is that it will pass. lie said the present inflationary situation of the economy justifies the President's recommendation. Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield said that the surtax extension would be approved but said it should be See NIXON on Page A-- 8 Applauds Thieu Offer Of NLF Talks By United Press International rain and snow, Heavy After Ayubs declaration whipped by gale force winds, Tuesday that he was stepping sent rivers coursing out of down, Yahya suspended the their banks, triggered power dissolved the failures and snarled transporconstitution, general and provincial assemtation from the Midwest to blies and disbanded all politiNew England, with frost forecal parties. He also fired West cast as far south as the Gulf Pakistan Gov. Yusuf Haroon Coast today. and East Pakistan Gov. M. N. York City had more . New Hilda. than two and a third inches of UPI correspondents in varirain by late Tuesday night, ous parts of Pakistan reported causing power failures lasting today that the majority of the as long as 11 hours. of commuters big cities were calm. Thousands In Rawalpindi, a few army were temporarily stranded in trucks w'ere patrolling the Boston as more than an inch streets. In Lahore, there were of rain triggered a short cirno noticable incidents. cuit, shutting down all trolley, trackless trolley and rapid There were no disruptions In Karachi, Pakistan's largest transit service in the city. Mass., Mayor Brockton, city, w'here troops guarded Radio Pakistan and other key John E. Sullivan declared a See NEW PAKISTAN, Page A8 state of emergency as more Today's Thought months but Nixon asked that they be kept in full force. The House and Senate Democratic leaders predicted that Congress will today extend the surtax as requested by President Nixon. U. S. plans ome-plate- 26, 1969 ' Yahya, 52, the tough army commander in chief, assumed power Tuesday after President Mohammad Ayub Khan resigned because of continued riots against his regime. He imposed martial law and declared death to persons caught rioting, looting or burning. The armed forces could not remain idle spectators when the country was being driven to the edge of an a b y s s, the mustachioed Yahya said in the radio broadcast today. REFORM PLANS to continue Hq pledged for constitutional reform promised by Ayub after five months of violence in both East and West Pakis-tan. The country is divided by 1,000 miles of India. My sole aim is to protect the life and liberty of the people and to put the administration back onto the rails. Yahya said. I wish to make it absolutely clear I have no ambition other than the creation of conditions conducive to establishment of constitutional government. Ibis is my firm belief that a sound and honest adminis- snub-nose- d exten- sion together will produce the strong budget surplus urgently needed to meet the inflationary threat. permit. t - reform and the surtax The chief executive, in call, ing for a continuation of the 10 per cent federal income tax surtax beyond its scheduled June 30 expiration, declared: "As I have said before, the surcharge is a temporary tax that must be ended as soon as our commitments in Southeast Asia and economic conditions Radio. Let every member of the administration take serious note of my warning. I will not tolerate any agitation. CEDING CALL Reports from West Pakistan Indicated the population was heeding the new leaders call for calm. tration is a prerequisite for sane, constructive political life and. transfer of power to representatives of the people elected freely and impartially on the basis of adult franchise." FIRE GOVERNORS MARCH WEDNESDAY, k Fo5D kefonro rfcDH Pledges Chaos End I have had enough laxity and chaos and will see that they are not repeated in any form or manner, Yahya said in a broadcast over Pakistan -5- 24-2840 Information Sports Scores Classified Ads Only 5 Editorial Offices 34 E. 1st South -5- 24-4445 B-1- 6. VOL. 371 -5- 24-4400 nights bulletin and again today meant that Elsenhower was near death. Doctors replied "not necessarily. But in reply to another question they said it was a how uncertain long patient in Eisenhowers general physical condition and not treatment to responding could be expected to endure severe congestive heart failure. COMPARE CONDITION to compare the Asked generals condition at the present fme with his condition last August at the time of his seventh and most recent coronary heart attack and when doctors described it as very critical, they reis concondition His plied: sidered to be critical. attributed Eisenho"remarkable ability to recover from so many major illnesses" to his inherent stamina. They wers CONVERSE EASILY The physicians also said Ei- senhower is always conscious except when sleeping" and Added he is lucid enough to converse easily with those ardAd him. in private talks, they must be not to say when, private where, what, why or how," comNixon said in ments on the war before a meeting of the National Association of Broadcasters. Fast MIAMI (UPI) The mail Is piling up at the home Mike Levesque and the Clean Teens are trying to figure out how to make the most of it. We hope to set up a nationwide organization, said the football player who heads to New York Friday for an appearance on a television show. Levesque, a student at Miami High School, attained overnight fame as originator of the idea for a decency rally", which drew 35,000 enthusiastic teenagers to Bowl Sunday. The Miami teens hit upon the idea to counteract the publicity surrounding a performance by The Doors, which led to the leader of the rock group being charged with exposing himself on stage before about 12,000 young- sters. - Asks Asylum Tuesday that lg e . , work, t Levesque said, Radio stations in Boston, New York and Phoenix" interviewed me on the telephone, asking how they could he added. I told get things going in their communities, them how we got started here and how the thing seemed to snowball. I sure hope the movement spreads." , . S. Viet Air Force To Control Base - SAIGON (UPI) The United States plans to transfer control of Nha Trang Air Base to the South Vietnamese air force within the next few informed U.S. sources said today. The base, manned by 5,000 American airmen, would be See Inside Report, Page A-- 6 them in a program to upgrade their air force. Sources described the transfer a part of the nationwide program to expand South Vietnams role in the war, leading to an eventual American withdrawal. INSIDE THE the first major U.S. facility released to the South Viet- namese in the war. It was celt confirmed I Letter and telegrams are coming in from all over . the place,"- - Levesque said "All across the country. I even got a telegram from a senator in Puerto Rico. A Birmingham, Ala., ycuth called Mke to ask about; how to go about organizing a decency rally in that city. ' Most of them are just saying keep up the good -WASHINGTON (UPI) scheduled to be followed by The State Department is pther major turnovers later. recommend that to expected ; , Under the plan, the South Vsevolod Soviet would assume Lezhnev, who abandoned the Vietnamese Moscow State Symphony control of the bases facilities, Orchestra, be allowed to including hangars and mahte-nanc- e remain permanently in the shops, as well as the mission now bring fulfilled by . United States. U.S. warplanes. 37, Lezhnev, disappeared The sources' said the 5,000 from tne orchestra which has been touring the United States U.S. airmen on the base shortly before the group was would be reduced to a small to return to Moscow. advisory staff. The rest would be transferred to other bases State Department spokesman Robert J. McCloskey for the remainder of their Lezhnev has requested the Immigration and Naturalization Service to grant an extension of his visa so that he may remain in the United term. 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