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2 B THURSDAY. JUNE 6. 1963 MEDFOt D MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORO, OREGON machine Oomis cairod Dynamite Shower Veimezylci IPecoce By DAVID KNOTT United Press International Caracas, Venezuela - (UPt -In this un-bright, oil-rich and politically turbulent country, it i I becoming increasingly common for a peaceful day or night to be shattered by machine-gunning and dynamit ings. The terrorism is directed at the government of President R o m u 1 o Betancourt and, amazingly, it seems to be guided by a former Venezue lan nsval cutUir who Is lock ed up in Caracas' forbidding San Carlos military prison. Broadcasts and messages in the name of Capt. Manuel Ponte Rodriguez, addressed to Congress, political leaders and to the nation as a whole, claim credit for the scries of guerrilla raids, dynamitings of public buildings and side street gun fights. In his last message, published in the na tional press several days ago, Capt, Rodriguez offered the nation a two-week morator ium on terrorism while peace talks are held. Diracts Army Just how this former Navy officer, who is serving a 16 year sentence for directing an anti-government Marine up rising, directs a "national army of liberation" from his prison cell is not known. But the "troops" of his armed forces of national liberation (FALN) make their presence abundantly clear. It boas is its responsibility for acta of terrorism and in their wake, the letters "FALN" are scrawled on walls from Maracaibo, in the west, to the Orinoco river. When a congressional com mittee investigating condi tions of political prisoners vis ited the desert island of Or chlla off the coast last month, the 26 guerrillas interned there appeared in smart kha ki, black ties and FALN arm bands. When a Venezuelan freight er was high-Jacked a few weeks ago, it sailed into a Bra zilian port with Its nine-man pirate crew in the same uni form, plus neat blue berets of the type worn by Cuban Premier Fidel Castro in his Moscow May day appearance with Khrushchev. Until the beginning of this year, it was automatic to lay responsibility for all terrorist activity at the door of Vene zuela's Communist party and the Communists did nothing to disavow it. Communists made no bones about sponsoring an aggressive, well-trained mili tary operation, consisting of roving guerrillas, tactical combat units (urban guerril las) and saboteurs. Now, Communists tends to back away from the blood shed and sabotage and ascribe the blame, publicly at least, to the FALN. The govern ment claims this turn by the Communists is a "patently phoney peace offer, part of the Red campaign against the decree, last October, suspend ing them from public political activity." Wherever the t.'uth lies, the FALN-claimcd toll of death and destruction is mounting. In one recent week, four police and two passersby wre shot dead, five police and two civilians were wounded, two OPPOSE COMMUNISTS A loyalist soldier drags a dead companion from the fighting in a Puerto Cabello street during military . JaaWHMuiwWiiliX action against Communist - backed rebels during uprising in northern Venezuela In this photo. (UPI) Tax Collecting More Civilized, Says Curator Bltburg, Germany -IUPI1- If It's any consolation to any body, people have had to pay taxes for at least 4,000 years, according to Dr. A 1 f o n s Pausch. Pausch ought to know. The Bitburg tax official is director of Germany's only tax muse um. The museum started as a private collection of the av erage taxpayer's constant cause of grumbles. Last fall when Pausch was transferred to Bltburg, his pri vate museum moved with him to find a new home in the former Benedictine Abbey of this town near Bonn. 11 now Is aonroDrlatcly lodged In the former tax barn of the Abbey Pausch prnudly shows his collection. The oldest docu mentation of tax-paying is replica of a bus-relief dUng back to 2,300 B.C. U shows the tomb of ancient Egyptian Vizier Mercruka In Sakkura near Memphis, with two men kneeling before the tax col lector, while a third man, who refused to pay, is being clob bered by the lax collector i aides. 'You must agree that our methods have become more civil with the years of exper ience." said tax collector Pausch. Among other documents Pausch also displays a tax list of the medieval city of Trier, listing the habitants of Engcls- rhssc (Angels Street) in 1363 A.D. Another document proves tax exemption also was known for ages, although It was harder to get. The docu ment atatcs that fathers of 12 legitimate children were granted an exemption In 1628 A.D. A tux declaration form of 1704 undoubtedly would cle light today's taxpayer. The form listed only four ques tions. The museum also shows a picture of the lust tax soldier ot the Black Forest city of Freudcnstadt. The grlnvfaced, Advrtlinni moustached warrior used to pause at inns while making the rounds of the city's tardy taxpayers, thundering at them: "Do not booie, go pay your taxes!" Pausch's collection, now kept up by the government at a cost of $23,000 a year to tax payers, has items which do not please curator Pausch. "litis Is the black sheep in my collection," Pausch said, pointing at the photograph of a Roman sculpture, showing Emperor Trajan announcing that the people of ancient Rome are tax-free. FAT OVERWEIGHT A.,iilhla to vou without S doC tor's prescription, our drug, called ODRINEX. You la ugly til in 7 divi or vour mootv back. 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Hydrogen Gas Costs Cut Almost a Million Louisville, Ky. - ttlPO - As much as $1 million may be cut from the cost of typical large plums producing hydro gen gas, the lightest and one of tlie commonest and must necessary o f chemical e 1 e mcnls. A new catalyst converts carbon monoxide o effi ciently, that costly multiple purification stages can b e fucilitea that usually cost about $4 million for an annual capacity of eight lo nine bit lion cubic feet, say Chemctron corporation specialists. Nashville Is Burl Ives' Hollywood Hollywood - (m - While some singers select their nunv bers in Hollywood or N e w York. Burl Ives credits much of his success to using Nash ville, Tenn., as his once-a- year liratltirtera. Ives considers Nashville the capital of country music Each year he sets up shop in a hotel suite and listens to the wares of song writers. new and old. He selects about 12 songs he likes and records them in Nashville, then heads to the Bahamas for a round of fishing. EXECUTIVE-WORK New York - ICTU - Top ex ecutives of manufacturing concerns spend an average of one-fourth their time In sales and marketing activities, ac cording to a survey by the Na tional Industrial Conference board, LATEST MEDICAL ADVANCE: Babies for Barrtn Marriages At least one out of 10 married couples in the U.S. have difficulty in hnvinR children. To these 8,000.000 people, infertil ity, and miscarriages, are baffling and heartbreak ing deprivation. iVon a new hormone pill permits one out of three couplet who seem to be "permanently" childless to have youngsters of their own. I e ! ttin Him Medxal Noil la the JUNE TH hive tl Family Weekly with your copy ol the Mtdford Mail Tribune Dolice kidnapped, two radio stations were attacked, two schools raided and a fire did $340,000 damage to a U.S. owned printing plant. There also were two long and noisy gun battles which caused no casualties but further alarmed the citizens of this capital city. It was not a particularly re markable week. Since Jan uary, four U.S.-connected businesses have been burned with damage totalling S3 mil lion, three pipelines have been dynamited, a freighter was seized on the high seas and a S600.0C0 collection of French impressionist paintings was heisted in broad daylight There has been a virtually un interrupted series of attacks on police and armed forced personnel. Basically, the long-term ob jectives proclaimed by the FALN are these: -"A revolutionary, nation alist and democratic govern ment." (Their meaning of "democratic" is unclear since the present government was chosen by the people in free and honest elections.) -"Political and economic independence for Venezuela." (That is a catch-all phrase tra ditionally used by far leftists in Latin America to exploit nationalist sentiment.) -"Development of the coun try's resources for the benefit of all the people." Reorganise Army -"Reorganization of the armed forces to meet the threats to national sovereignty which would follow the total liberation of the country." (This presumably means to stand ready to repel any U.S. intervention, which the FALN expects in the event of seizure of huge U.S. investments in Venezuela.) The FALN claims it repre sents every shade of opinion from Catholic to Marxist, united only in deadly opposi tion to the present govern ment, and every economic class, from peasant worker to the affluent. (It should be noted that Betancourt's strongest source of power is the 1,200.000 -member Vene zuelan labor federation.) About its connection with the Communists, the FALN's manifesto states emphatically that it owes no allegiance to any political party. Or. 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