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Snow Accumulating Read By More 3 to 5 Inches; than 90,000 Continued Mild People Every Day 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 government is ex- economic devel- The man who used to put Financing Plan highway safety, In Baghdad pected to call some sort Of Rocky Asked opment and human rights. cease-fire, it undoubtedly will a rubber band around his bankroll now uses a paper ST. PAUL (AP) — Here is the financing proposed by Gov. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on Beirut International try to avoid the wholesale relax- Bnt it carries no new finan- Airport clip to hold his credit cards Harold LeVander in his 1969-71 budget: local might start another full-scale ation which left its forces at 50 cial aids to cities or other A sew mass spy trial was re- together ... A cynical poli- SURPLUS AND EXPECTED REVENUES LeVander men- war,- . 7 per cent strength or less when To Serve in $1,060,470,000 governments. ported under way In Baghdad tician describes an uncomit- Income tax school fund ......: —.... briefly, and will spell out : State Department spokesman the enemy struck a year ago. General revenue fund .....A..................... 368,083,000 tioned today as Iraq accused Israeli The anniversary of last year's ted voter as one whose wife later, a plan to let local gov- Robert J. McCloskey told a forgot to tell him which lev- Property tax relief fund ............ 486,352,000 troops of massing to attack the news conference in Washington: offensive comes this Friday, ernments use tax sources other er to pull . They tell of than the property tax. 20,000 Iraqi troops stationed in "The position every American and there has been speculation Latin America Total ........................................... W,914,905,00O that the Viet Cong may attempt the tight-fisted character — In his noon address to a joint Jordan. administration has taken re- it took him a year to find WASHINGTON (AP) — New garding the cycle of provoca- some action within the next few York Gov. kelson A. Rockefel- Governor's budget ... '......................... .$l,952,261,0OQ( session of the House and Sen- Egypt's Middle East News out he'd lost his Diners Club - ' 000 said he tions and reprisals has been a days to mark the occasion. But ' ' ler, passed over for a place in Difference ... ........ V....... ...............$ 37*356, ate, the governor Agenpy reported the new trial in Ho major enemy activity was card • . Only uncomfort- NEW REVENUES trimmed $80 million from rec- consistent one* It should be able chairs become an- the Nixon Cabinet, has been Baghdad began Tuesday , night avoided. repotted today. asked by his former presidential Cigarette tax increase ........$24,000,000 ord money requests submitted behind closed doors. It said '' tiques; the comfortable ones ..............;............ „-. -. ^ 14,800,000 state agencies. tbe Iraq banged the 14 alleged The U.S. Command an- are worn out in one genera- rival to head a fact-finding mis- Liquor tax increase . by defendants were accused of spies sion to Latin America. Licenses and fees 3,500,000 LeVander did not repeat his Monday despite clemency nounced that-three more Ameri- tion. W: ' :-- • —-: working for the'U.S. Central In- appeals from the United States, can helicopters have been shot The White House confirmed "no major new taxes" theme of telligence Agency Britain, pope Paul VI and ILN. doWn and destroyed, but only (For more laughs see Tuesday night that Rockefeller Total new revenue .........................,.;..;.$42,300,000 two years ago but he came ) had been contacted on the sub- 18-page SeCretary-Generial U Thant. three crewmen were wounded. Earl Wilson on Page 4-A. ,946,000 close. Concluding an It did not mention the number ject in recent days. Balance, end of biennium ..$ 4 the governor said: of defendants, but London speech, But news secretary Ronald L. "It gives us the tools to com- sources had reported earlier Ziegler said no firm decision that 35 persons, 13 of, them bat crime, enhance our en- has been made yet on whether IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA vironment, provide health serv- Jews, would be tried by Iraq's to even send such a mission. revolutionary court on charges ices, increase job opportunities NixonySecurity Council Rockefeller, whose family has and safety, promote human of spying and sabotage. In Baghdad, Information Min- extensive interests in Latin rights, help our senior citizens, ister Abdullah Salloum Samer- America and worked on some of guarantee quality education and rai told a news conference Is- the area's problems in the ad- Fear Pro-Soviet relieve overburdened schools. raeli forces were preparing to ministration of Franklin D. "And most importantly, we attack Iraq's forces io Jordan in Discuss Nuclear Treaty Roosevelt, said he was "serious- can do all this leaving the reprisal for the public banging WASHINGTON (AP) _ Presi- The President, however, fa- tion at an appropriate time, ly considering" the offer. property tax exclusively to the Monday of nine Jews and ' five dent Nixon summoned the Na- vors ratification of the treaty al- and, I would hope, an early "We have budgetary difficul- Communists on local government and without t other Iraqis convicted of spying though during the campaign time," he said Monday. ties and other problems in the expanding the sales tax and tional Security Council to the he state for Israel. White JHouse today to talk over urged delay to dramatize U.S. Nixon's visit to tie Senate ," Rockefeller said. "We, without raising the already high The Israelis were enraged by timing of an administration displeasure over the Soviet-led where he served from 1950 to must appraise the request and income tax." the executions, and their gov- push for Senate ratification of invasion of Czechoslovakia.