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Nixon Will Not Seek New Taxes WASHINGTON (AP)--President Nixon pledged yesterday that he will not seek a tax increase if he wins a second term but left open the possibility that he will propose revisions in America's tax structure. The President's views were relayed to newsmen by two Republican Congress- ional leaders and by White House Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler. They were expressed amid continuing GOP charges that Democratic nominee George McGovern's proposals could result in a 100 per cent tax hike. Emerging from a two-hour meeting Nixon held with 12 Republican Congress- ional leaders, Senate GOP Leader Hugh Scott declared: "A vote for McGovern is a vote for higher taxes,.higher spending. higher unemployment,.higher everything." House Republican Leader Gerald Ford then reported, "the President said this morning that there will be no tax increase proposed by this adminis- tration." Later, Ziegler told newsmen, "we plan no tax increase and we contemplate no tax increases.in the second term." Ambassador Porter Attacks Viet Cong 4-A PARIS (AP)--U.S. Ambassador Wil- A liam J. Porter labeled the Viet Cong's U. Provisional Revolutionary Govern- ment yesterday as "the southern branch of Hanoi's war machine." He got a prompt, angry reaction from the Communist side at the Paris Friday, September 8, 1972 Peace Talks. "Fallacious allegations and empty lies" said the Viet Cong's chief delegate, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh, to newsmen at the end of the 158th session. "An escalation of provocation," said Nguyen Minh Vy, deputy North Vietnam negotiator, still replacing Minister Xuan Thuy, who is said to Renewed Wiretap Charge be resting on doctor's orders. Saying the peace conference must WASHINGTON (AP)--Lawrence F. O'Brien said yesterday his telephone was deal with facts, Porter objected to tapped for several weeks when he was Democratic National Chairman, and that the "pretentiousness of the titles" an abortive attempt was made to bug the pre-convention campaign headquart- used by the Viet Cong. ers of Sen. George McGovern. "It would simplify matters here O'Brien, now national chairman of McGovern's campaign as Democratic Pres- please see TALKS page 2 idential nominee, told a news conference the five men arrested June 17 at party headquarters in the Water- gate Office Building were in fact trying to repair a defect in the tap on his line, and install new listen- ing equipment. WATER CRISIS: Figures for Thursday, Sept. 7 Ile said at least two telephones were tapped at Dem- ocratic Headquarters, his and that of Spencer Oliver, WATER PRODUCED: 1,334,000 liaison man with Democratic state chairman. O'Brien said an attempt was made to bug the capitol WATER CONSUMED: 1,143,000 campaign headquarters of the McGovern organization on May 27, but was abandoned at 3 a.m. because the pre- WATER GAIN: 191,000 sence of passersby prevented the men involved from en- tering the offices at 410 C St. in southeast Washington. WATER IN STORAGE: 17,616,000 O'Brien said conversations on his office telephone were monitored by eavesdroppers in a room on the seven- LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN th floor of the Howard Johnson Hotel, across the street. Page 2--LATE NEWS ROUNDUP Guantanamo Gazette Friday, September 8, 1972 TALKS- from page one /00 GAZETTEER were you to abandon ridiculous pretenses and accept the fact that the world perceives the Viet Cong as the .a digest of late news southern branch of Hanoi's war machine--for it is no- thing more than that," he asserted. At a press briefing, later, Viet Cong spokesman Ly Van Sau snapped that Porter "should make another tour of duty in Vietnam to learn the reality, but naturally in certain regions he will need the permission of the Provisional Revolutionary Government." The State Department yesterday said it hoped Porter said the Viet Cong are not provisional "for the plans by South Korea to pull its remaining troops they are only the latest embodiment of a conspiracy out of South Vietnam next year are not inflexable and beginning with the Indochinese Communist Party 40 years could be changed if developments warrant in the South- ago." east Asian war. Charles W. Bray, a State Department spokesman, said the U.S. has been informed of Seoul's "Nor are they revolutionary, for nothing could be decision to withdraw its 37,000 men from South Vietnam more reactionary than to persist in Asia's old miseries by June, 1973. He spoke in grateful terms of the con- of war and oppression," Porter continued. tribution made by the Korean troops in the fighting. The U.S. chief delegate said the Viet Cong's problem West "is its lack of representivity. No one elected it into German police hunted yesterday for 15 offices. It doesn't fulfill, it administers nothing, and Arabs suspected of complicity in the Olympics massacre, the only programs it carries out are mobilization and and the government expressed fear that Jews in West combat under external orders." Germany may be the targets of mailed bombs during the Porter told the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong dele- Jewish new year this weekend. "Possible attacks may be gations that their military and political efforts have directed against Jewish associations as well as Euro- failed in South Vietnam and urged them to discuss pean associations connected with Israel," the Interior President Nixon's May 8 cease-fire proposal. Ministry said in Munich. A group of African nations at the Olympic Games yesterday protested the linking by IOC President Avery Brundage of a black boycott of Rhodesia and the McGovern Aide Resigns murder of 11 Israeli competitors by Arab terrorists. WASHINGTON (AP)--Another fissure opened in Sen. George Brundage linked the two events in his speech to a huge McGovern's Presidential campaign organization yesterday memorial service for the slain in the Olympic Stadium with the abrupt departure of Rep. Frank Thompson Jr., in Munich Wednesday. who headed a natioanl voter registration drive. Thompson's politely worded letter of resignation The Black September Palestinian commandos ended a month long running battle he had conducted with threatened yesterday to "deal Germany a heavy blow" if other top campaign officials over control of the drive. their three comrades held in Munich are not released. "We will show the German imperialists, who dragged the The congressman, who headed a similar registration honor of the great German people in the mud, what a campaign for John F. Kennedy in 1960, telephoned Mc- heavy blow we can deal them if our comrades are not Govern in Dallas, Texas, shortly after midnight yes- released and the bodies of our dead fighters are not terday to tell him of his decision, cleaned out his returned to us," said a Black September statement desk at Democratic National Committee headquarters broadcast by the Palestinian radio based in Cairo. this morning, and took a noon plane to New Jersey. The U.S. Consulate in Munich said yesterday Thompson aides said when he took over the registra- it had received no request from Israel for American tion drive August 4 he had McGovern's assurance that he athletes to pull out of the Olympic games. American would have total control of it, including the financing athletes were competing normally, as the games resumed of the operation. after a day of mourning for 11 murdered Israeli compet- itors. Stateside Temperatures R Ad. - 8. "cooddio Q *t."' d08 Local Forecast comandr caanin office JOSN Vin Hicky. mitor Boston clear 76 JOd Had Stith . Assistt Edito Partly cloudy with late after- JOW Keith ndler. sdvisor New York clear 84 noon showers and thundershowers, Jo Bob Pai.tr . Bet.li Man. Miami clear 84 JO2 J.y Pred.Ns Directo becoming mostly clear after Lt.Wr. W. _rII J-ard tte. Chicago cloudy 78 sunset. Visibility unrestricted. NteS Mfaire. Offic ChIte Pe.y Offlcr 1n bre. St. Louis .- Iisbn 00.~oao . oo. .d cloudy 81 nh.he Canttum- _.aoo tooette .0 olus .010b. accad aro00e100. at Winds N 3-5 knots becoming SE reUtion for ship a sttin nmptrs a atl0M to New Orleans clear 85 MAS P-35 and - th.ditatit of -e 1has lic- 8-12 knots gusting to 20 knots .ffairs offi. 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