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Thursday, April 13, 1972
University Daily Kansan
U.S. Opposes Demands To Renew Peace Talks
PARIS (AP) — France is pressing for an early resumption of the Vietnam peace talks, broken off by the United States three weeks ago. The Vietnamese Comrade Ngo Dinh Duc was Thursday of the conference meeting.
The U.S. and South Vietnamese delegations would not comment on the situation Wednesday but rejected the demands of the Noth Vietnamese delegation to support peace talks. The allies argued the Communists were not ready to meet.
The French position has long been that the United States should get out of Vietnam and let the Vietnamese decide their own
IN WASHINGTON, the State Department called in Emmanuel de Margerie, the French charge d'affairs, to express its displeasure over Frances O'Flynn, the officer charged. McCloskey said the United States objected to the timing and to "what we judge is a one-sided statement because it picks up demands of the North Vietnamese due to the threat to return immediately to the conference table."
President Nixon indefinitely suspended the talks March 23, saying he was trying to break "a three and one-half year filibuster
IRS to Aid Taxpayers
WASHINGTON (AP)—With only five days left before the filing deadline, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) assigned thousands of agents Wednesday to help taxpayers file their tax returns.
Johnnie M. Walters, IRS commissioner, said his agency will use 15,000 technical personnel, and the staff would be normal, to help taxpayers complete the job of filling out returns on Monday or midnight Monday. April 17.
Walters said that about one-fourth of the nation's 75 million taxpayers have yet to file.
He said the sharp expansion in the IRS service to taxpayers is being launched because of widespread evidence of a significant number of commercial tax preparers.
IRS offices throughout the country will be open at later-than-usual hours, including Christmas Sunday. Walters told newsmen.
The IRS' crackdown on tax preparers has resulted in directing 1,800 preparers investigated who have prepared fraudulent tax return forms.
IRS studies have shown that about half of all federal income tax returns are prepared by tax preparers.
If a taxpayer goes to an IRS office to have his return prepared, it apparently would expire on charges from fees. If the provider did not correct information, But Walters said that agents, like anyone else, were subject to human error and the provider would be liable for mistakes.
... on the part of the North Vietnamese."
Nixon said, "Whenever the enemy is ready to negotiate seriously, we are ready."
THE FRENCH pressure to get the conference under way again came in a statement from the French cabinet. Cabinet after a regular meeting.
The statement said: "The French government is more than ever convinced that a political solution must have a political solution and that such a solution remains viable."
It was one of the rare instances France has stated any position on the conference since it began in January 1969.
Both sides, particularly the Communists, have maintained close contact with the French, and France has sometimes privately acted as intermediary
The French statement followed a request last Friday by the North Vietnamese to have U.S. troops leave that U.S. bombing of the North.
THE NORTH Vietnamese and Viet Cong delegations, in similar statements, demanded that the United States held Thursday, the usual meeting day, and that the United States has been bombing of North Vietnam.
The U.S. delegation announced that Ambassador William J. Porter, head of the American mission to Iran, returned to Paris Thursday after a 13-day trip to the United States for consultations. There was no question his return would mean an end resumption of the conference
News Briefs By The Associated Press
U.S. Greets Chinese Team
DETROIT—A 14-member table tennis team from Red China arrived in Detroit Wednesday with the goal of "friendship first, competition second" on a two-week tour of this country. Twenty members of the U.S. Table Tennis Association squad which visited Red China last year stood in line and applauded vigorously as the Chinese stepped out of a plane at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. In keeping with Chinese custom, the visiting squad returned the applause of the American hosts.
Astronauts Rehearse Blastoff
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla.—U.S. astronauts rehearsed blastoff and orbital earthmaneuvers as the countdown proceeded smoothly toward Sunday's beginning of the Apollo 16 moon mission. Civil servants on the massive traffic jam expected to be caused by the launch.
Brezhnev Issues Summit Plea
MOSCOW - Kremlin leader Leonid L. Brezhnay has given a U.S. cabinet member a personal message for President Nixon proposing "a minimum of ceremony and a maximum of sub-committee discussions" during their summit meeting in Moscow next month.
PHU BAI, Vietnam (AP)—About 101 GIs reluctantly moved into a forward defensive position outside an important American air base Wednesday after first encountering a weapon believed it was too dangerous.
GIs Balk at Orders
They took up the assigned position about three miles west of Phu Bai, the northernmost point of the country now occupied by Americans.
The battalion commander, LL Co. Frederick P. Mitchell and other journalists who were present when the incident took place.
An electronics communications facility and a key air strip are there.
"All you press are bastards," he said. "I blame you for this and you can quote me on it."
In Sagon, the U.S. Command said, "A rumor to the effect that the Army's helicopter was loaded with booby traps circulated among some
The unit involved is Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry, 190h Brigade.
No soldier actually disobeyed orders or refused to go into the field, the command said. No disciplinary action was taken.
The command statement, without offering any direct criticism of newsmen said that some members of the media in the area interviewing soldiers.
The men at first refused to board trucks waiting to take them to the position, but after a lieutenant called for volunteers and a handful stepped forward, they climbed above an armoured climped穿 around an arm.
The remaining platoon of about 45 men, agreed a short time later to go.
Firce fighting is in progress about 13 miles further west, near the border of Thailand, which is surrounded by North Vietnamese troops. Although often shelled in the past, Phu Ba intends to target the current offensive.
Combat refusals have become a not infrequent occurrence in the West. In the past two and one half years, the American withdrawal began.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)—Secretary of Transportation John Hickenloose there is a new sense of impact concerning the impact of
Volpe Asserts New Urgency In Danger of Drunk Drivers
"If that process involves arrest, then we must give him treatment and rehabilitation," he said. "I will not happen again." he said.
"We must get the drunk off the road, off the road before he kills himself," others. "Volpe in a talk prepared for delivery before the raid."
Volpe said three reformed alcoholic beverages D-Howa, and Anders Mercedes McCambridge and Maryland department safety programs tremendously in speeches, television appearances and social events.
"We estimate," Voele said, "that there are nearly 7 million abusive drinkers on our streets and highways each year.
"They represent about 6 per cent of the driving population.
"At least 800,000 of them are involved in highway accidents, and we have about 2 million crashed annually.
"Each year we license $3\frac{1}{2}$ million new drivers." Volpe said.
"Two and one-half million of them are tenth graders—just learning to drive, and just learning to drink," he said.
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Mabon's departure and that of
The first test of Labor's new position will come early next
7 British Laborites Resign Over Commom Market Vote
It was the question of a referendum that brought about the resignations from the party leadership of these favoring the Common Market. They were led by Roy Jenkins, the deputy party leader.
six other pro-Europeans led the deep split Jenkins underlined the deep split the Common Market and the Labor party was inflicted on the Labor party.
Left-wingers are now expected to step up their campaign to help voters who lack confidence in the market in principle, a fear voiced by jenkins when he
LONDON (AP) - Despite the decision to allow the divided Labour party demanded Thursday a national referendum on British entry into the European Union.
Correction On Kansan
While antimarket left-wingers hailed the result as a triumph, another advocate of British entry into Europe claimed leadership, the seventh in 48 hours. He was the Laborite for the British affairs, Dr. Dickson Mabon
The third place award went to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for their exhibit on clean air cars.
Under the leadership of Harold Wilson, Labor has moved from opposition to rejection of market membership on the terms negotiated with the government.
It was incorrectly reported in Monday's Kansan that 3rd place in the Engineering Exposition was the University Society of Chemical Engineers.
An angry meeting of Labor legislators endorsed the party leadership's policy switch in favor of a referendum 129-96.
week when Parliament votes on an amendment by Conservative antimark rebels, which also calls for a referendum.
With Jenkins and his lieutenants now free to abstain or vote with the Conservatives on crucial Common Market legislation government officials are confident the amendment will be defeated.
Antimark member have been pressing hard for an official party commitment to a referendum in the belief that a majority in Britain would reject it and that were approved by parliament.
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