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| Henry off to Moscow
WASHINGTON — Presidential foreign affairs specialist
A Henry Kissinger will fly to Moscow Thursday for four to five
>• days of talks with Soviet officials cm “matters of mutual
interest," the White House announced yesterday Kissinger
V is expected to make preliminary diplomatic soundings for
v the visit to Washington in late June of Soviet Party Leader
$ Leonid Brezhnev Soviet American trade is expected to rank
high among the topics Kissinger will take up with Soviet
officials, in light of the Kremlin’s assurances it will begin
allowing Jews to emigrate to Israel without having to pay
stiff exit taxes Other items for discussion are further
•i; limitations on nuclear arms, proposed mutual troop
reductions in Europe, improved trade relations between the
•j: two countries, and continuing efforts on various other fronts
to fuither ease East-West tensions
$ Willy fishing in Capitol
WASHINGTON — West German Chancellor W’illy
A Brandt spent most of the day fishing and relaxing on
Chesapeake Bay yesterday in advance of his meetings with
A: President Nixon starting today. Brandt arrived quietly
Sunday , two days in advance of his official schedule Nixon,
who spent the past four days at his Camp David. Md., retreat.
:* is scheduled to welcome Brandt officially at 10 a.m. After an
A: afternoon session with the Senate Foreign Relations Com
£: mittee. the chancellor will be the guest of the President and
Mrs Nixon at a White House dinner Brandt also is to confer
with other high U.S. officials before ending his official visit
S Thursday morning
Train with Cambodia ammo explodes
ROSEVILLE. Calif. — Southern Pacific officials and
federal authorities Monday were investigating the possibility
someone tampered with the ammunition tram which blew up
Saturday R.D Spence Southern Pacific vice president in
charge of operations, said the small seal on the sliding door of
a boxcar, one of 21 making up the ammunition tram, easily
could have been removed He said that in addition to SP.
investigators for the Federal Transportation Safety Board
were checking into possible tampering The 250-pound
bombs, loaded 336 to a boxcar and destined for use in Cam
bodia. did not have fuses A military spokesman said they
could have gone off only in “intense heat,’’ making a fire
aboard one boxcar the mam point of interest for in
vestigators. The five-hour series of blasts were
felt 100 miles away. The state Capitol in Sacramento was
closed to the public for the weekend because shock waves
weakened the building's already fragile dome
Second thoughts on porno films
AUSTIN. Tex. — A Texas House committee that wants to
see the movies “Deep Throat” and “Last Tango in Paris” as
part of its study of pornography fears the screening might be
raided by vice squad officers. “If they show it, I want the
concession for overcoats, hats and dark glasses,” a
lawmaker who was not invited said Friday. Democratic
State Rep Billy Williamson of Tyler prompted the request
for the private showing with his bill that would let cities set
up their own movie review boards to determine what pictures
could be shown in their towns Williamson says movies like
Deep Throat,” a film which has already been confiscated in
many cities in Texas as well as New York, may be released to
drive-in theaters this summer Minors could sit outside the
fences and watch, he pointed out State Rep. James Raster.
an El Paso Democrat, chairman of the Committee on In
tergovernmental Affairs, said a private showing might
conflict with open meeting provisions in House rules
Nixon talks on Watergate
Continued from Page 1
Nixon said the Watergate affair
already had “claimed far too
much of my time and attention
. I must now turn my full at
tention. and 1 will do so once
again to the larger duties of my
office.”
He suggested that reforms of
the electoral process were in
order The government must deal
with "ugly mob violence and
other inexcusable campaign
tactics.” he said He referred to
actions to deal with “excesses or
expected excesses of the other
side" — an apparent reference to
belief by the persons involved in
the Watergate that they were
gathering intelligence necessary
to prevent a recurrence of the
1968 Chicago Democratic con
vention demonstrations.
“Two wrongs do not make a
right,” Nixon said
During Ihe speech he seemed
plaintive and even humbie, as he
asked his audience to pray for
him in his hour of trial
After his speech Nixon unex
pectedly walked into the White
House press center after leaving
the Oval Office and stepped up to
the podium where news
photographers took pictures As
the press gathered around Nixon
said in a poignant voice, “We’ve
had our differences in the past
and just continue to give me hell
when you think I’m wrong ”
“I hope I’m worthy of your
trust,” Nixon said
Nixon wins extension
of wage-price controls
WASHINGTON — The Senate
voted Monday to extend
President Nixon’s wage-price
control powers one year The bill
went to the House where it was
expected to pass before the
midnight deadline
The measure — extending
Nixon's discretionary powers to
April 30. 1974 — passed the Senate
by voice vote.
The Senate quickly defeated a
move by Sen Clifford Case (R
N.J.) to send the bill back to a
conference committee with in
structions to tack on a rent
control amendment that
previously had passed the
Senate. Case acknowledged he
did not have the votes to win. and
Administration
tax plan has no
loophole plug
WASHINGTON — The ad
ministration yesterday proposed
a modest increase in the income
taxes paid by wealthy citizens
who benefit from lax
"loopholes ’’
But Treasury Secretary
George Schultz, presenting
President Nixon s tax reform
plans to the House Ways and
Means Committee, did not ad
vocate eliminating any of the tax
preferences for high income
earners
Existing provisions which
exempt some sources of income
from taxation or tax them at
lower rates are tax incentives
vital to economic growth. Shultz
said
He proposed creation of a new
one a tax credit of up to 12 per
cent for those who invest suc
cessfully in exploring for new
domestic sources of oil and gas
The White House plan, which
would increase the taxes paid by
the rich by an estimated $800
million, fell far short of tax
reforms proposed by liberals
Sen Edmund Muskie, D
Maine for example, has ad
vocated reforms which would
extract $18 billion from wealthy
individuals and business The
AFL-CIO has called for $28 billion
worth of reforms
Acting FBI chief
quits EPA post
WASHINGTON OIPI) — Act
ing FBI director William
Kuckelshaus resigned Monday as
head of the Environmental
Protection Agency and named
Robert Fri to succeed him as
acting administrator
Fri, a career government
employe, says he is not interested
in becoming permanent director
Ruckelsha's was named by
President Nixon to head the
nation’s top law enforcement
agency following the abrupt
resignation Fnday of L. Patrick
Gray, III Kuckelshaus said he
was only taking the job tem
porarily.
A telegram was sent to Nixon
Monday by top career officials at
the FBI asking Nixon to consider
a career man for the top job The
telegram was issued by the office
of L M Walters, assistant
director of the inspection
division
allowed his motion to die without
asking for a roll call vote
Nixon’s discretionary power to
fix wage and price controls was
to expire at midnight Monday,
and there were fears that any
congressional failure to act would
add confusion to Nixon’s Phase
III programs
Without passage of the bill,
Nixon’s meat price ceiling and
controls on health, construction
and other industries would have
expired until Congress finally
acted
Republicans originally refused
to sign the conference committee
report and vowed to kill the
compromise bill on the floor
because it included several
unacceptable amendments The
chief objection was an amend
ment to make public the in
formation major companies give
the government to justify
significant price increases
However, the White House
passed the word that the com
promise bill was acceptal*
GOP opposition evaporato
Four major amendments,
added to the bill
- The gov ernment woui^
to make public inforaj
submitted by companies^
$250 million a year or men
business to justify pna
creases on major productsrf
per cent or more
— Nixon would have autto
to allocate petroleum produca
an emergency He could ag,
which distnbutors get petrr,
products and how, much ihev
and could shift petrol
products to different parts o' a
country
— The bill makes cleat j
Nixon may not use the actasj
excuse to impound funds
— Substandard earnings i
redefined at $3.50 an hour ora
instead of the present tj
Workers earning substana*
u ages are exempted from
controls
US might not assist
North Viet rebuilding
WASHINGTON (UPI) —
Secretary of State William
Rogers raised the possibility
Monday that the United States
may drop its offer to help pay for
reconstruction of North Vietnam
Rogers promised the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
once again that no aid “of any
consequence" would be given to
North Vietnam without
congressional consent
“And as you know, we’ve
opened up the talks in Paris,” he
added “It may be we won’t have
to ask for it at all.”
Rogers' remark, which was not
pursued by the committee, in
dicated the administration may
be considering some other in
centive to the North Vietnamese
for peace in Indochina rather
than postwar reconstruction,
which has drawn overwhelming
opposition in both houses of
Congress
Envoys from Hanoi and
Washington reopened talks in
Paris Sunday to review the Jan.
29 cease-fire agreement, which
contains a provision for U.S.
postwar assistance The talks are
preparatory to negotiations in
May between W^hite House envoy
Henry Kissinger and North
Vietnamese representative Le
Due Tho
Rogers presented the com
mittee a generally optimistic
picture of the Indochina
situation, while expressing
concern over “the repeated and
serious violations by the
Communist side,”
Rogers handed the committee
a 14-page constitutional
justification for continued U.S.
bombing in Cambodia, and
promised to come back iaterfsri
thorough discussion
Members of the comma
continued to assert that s
bombing, which has reachesi
level of nearly 250 sorties a a;
meant an unconstitutioaif
commitment to the defenseofi
Lon Nol government in a cni
war
But Rogers insisted no m
mitment to the government aa
been made and no m
congressional authority for a
bombing was needed.
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