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1-29-1969

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South Vietnam To Proclaim LeVanders 2-Year Budget Short Truce SAIGON (AP) _ The South Vietnamese government indicat- ed today tbat it would declare a truce for the lunar new year Feb. 17, but a far. shorter one Totals Nearly Billion than the seven-day cease-fire $2 announced by the Viet Cong ear- lier today. ¦ w " The Viet Cong's National Lib- eration Front broadcast an an- Income, Sales nouncement that the communist military command "will stop all military activities" from 7 a.m. Saigon time Feb. 15 until 7 a.m. Feb. 22. The period is known* as Tax Rates Will Tet, the festival of the lunar new year and the biggest holi- day in the Vietnamese calendar. The Viet Cong broadcast said Remain Same any -military operations by the United States, South Vietnam ST. PAUL (AP) — Gov. Harold LeVander presented a and their allies/ including air, two-year budget totaling nearly $2 billion today to the Minnesota naval and artillery bombard- Legislature, calling for higher taxes on cigarettes and liquor ment, would be considered a but no change in the income tax or sales tax. violation of the cease-fire and LeVander asked for a three-cents-a-pack boost in cigarette "must be punished." * taxes, from 8 to 11 cents, and a jump of 15 cents per fifth on Four hours after the broad- liquor. PROTEST HANGING . . . Students who started a 24- cast, a spokesman for the South The liquor tax would go from about 58 cents to about 73 hour fast Tuesday are shown with their placards on street Vietnamese government said: cents on a fifth of a gallon. The tax on wine would rise a opposite the Iraq embassy in London today as they protest "The Vietnamese government is lesser amount with no increase in beer taxes. the hanging of Jews in Iraq. One of the placards is in Arabic. willing to have a truce because The budget is a record, a jump of about 30 percent over The girl holds a newspaper -with a picture of two of the Tet is a solemn occasion and for the $1.5 billion set hy the 1967 legislature. hanged men; (AP Photofax) the happiness of the Vietnamese Almost all of the increase—$439 million—would be financed people." But he added that the by higher anticipated revenues for existing taxes. This is based truce "will not last very long if on the anticipation of economic growth in the national and there is any." state economy, with a rising economy bringing in more revenue U.S. forces will undoubtedly from sales and income taxes. Mass Spy Trial observe any cease-fire declared The budget also proposes a wholesale upward revision of by Saigon, as they have all such MONEY PIE . . . These graphs show delivered the message in noon adress to all state licenses and fees which have not been changed for the truces in the past. the spending proposals given to the Minnesota joint session of House and Senate. (AP Photo- past 10 years. This will net $3.5 million. A let truce last year had just Legislature today by Gov. Harold LeVander, fax) One example is the $l transfer fee for automobile sales, begun when the Viet Cong at- and how the money will be raised. LeVander which the governor wants doubled. Said Under Way tacked more than 100 cities and The budget proposes heavy towns including Saigon in their new expenditures for education, biggest offensive of the war. Al- Some Change crime lighting, industrial safety, though the gover