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Monday, September 30, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Castro rips Ford's CIA defense
From the Associated Press
From the Associated Press.
HAVANA, Cuba—Cuban Premier Fidel Castro has cast a ball upon the visit here of two U.S. Senators with an anti-American
Draft dodger to refuse duty in amnesty test
From the Associated Press
NEW YORK -A young draft doper said he would confront President Ford's clemency officials Monday in Washington and refuse alternative service in an effort to win "total, unconditional and universal" recognition of the Vietnam-era draft resisters and deserters.
Bill Meis, 29, of Decatur, Ill., who returned to the United States last week from Canada with help from the Safe Return Amnesty Committee, based here, said Sunday he was worried that the confrontation might result in his arrest.
"But if you commit yourself to action," he said. "you have to be willing to take risks."
Meis, under indictment charging violation of the Selective Service law, is one of about 4,000 draft evaders the government considers fugitives—3,000 of whom are in Canada. The government says more than 6,000 Vietnamese deserters are now at large.
President Ford has offered clemency to draftoggers and deserters who return and work at public service jobs "promoting health, safety or interest" for up to 24 months.
The work would be considered acknowledgement of the draft evaders' allegiance to the United States. Deserters are required to reaffirm allegiance with an
"I have never been disloyal," Meis said. "The President demands that I perform involuntary servitude, even though the treatment I cannot accept, these proposals."
Meis and Mike Uhl, national coordinator of Safe Return, refused to say how or exactly where the Washington conference would address it. Meis would announce his intentions to refuse alternative service to officials directly responsible for civilian and military review and overseeing and implemmenting Ford's earned re-entry program.
"I urge President Ford, the Congress of the United States and above all the American people to support and declare a total, unconditional and universal amnesty," Meis said. "I urge that this be done not only for myself but for my wife and children, for my brothers in exile at home whose resuscitation for those men and women whose resuscitation within the armed forces earned them less than honorable discharges."
From Washington, Meis said he would go to Springfield, Ill., and surrender to U.S. forces.
A youth counselor and aspiring novelist, Meis fired to Montreal in 1986 to duck the draft after he was denied a series of appeals for status as a conscientious objector. His wife, Elaine, 29, accompanied him. They have two young children.
address reminiscent of the worst days of U.S.Cuban enmity.
In a major address Saturday night, Castro blasted CIA involvement in Chile and said the United States alone was responsible for the world economic crisis.
Hundreds of thousands of Cubans heard Castro launch an attack on President Ford's recent defense of CIA funding of groups that supported the late President Salvador Alendez of Chile.
"The new President of the United States, to the surprise and stupefaction of Latin American public opinion, has declared that we have no interest in the interests of the United States," Castro said.
Thus, the government of the United States is open to interrogation by any investigator a guardian of death.
illicit, dirty or criminal, in the internal processes of the nations of the hemisphere.
Castro, who in speeches over recent years has toned down his criticism of the United States, made his remarks on the same weekend that the first members of Congress were visiting here since relations were broken in 1961.
Senators Jacob Javits, R-N.Y., and Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., were not present for the address but were scheduled to meet with Castro before their departure Monday.
Only hours before Castro spoke, Javits told reporters after a meeting with Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Rao that it was his clear impression Cuba was prepared to discuss a more normal relationship with the United States.
The speech also was delivered on the occasion of the first visit to Cuba in many years of a group of American reporters. The foreign delegation was present for the address.
Castro's speech was unusually short, 45 minutes, but was devalued exclusively to his audience.
Half of the address dwelt on Ford's appeal to oil-producing countries for a lowering of oil prices to avert worldwide economic chaos.
But Castro said international inflation was a result of American policies. Alluding to the money the United States has spent on its war budget, Castro said, "In these years, we have only been among the roots of inflation, which emerged long before the oil price increases."
Mrs. Ford recovering after cancer surgery
WASHINGTON—First Lady Betty Ford, buoyed by visits from the President and family members, was reported yesterday to breast cancer satisfactorily from a breast cancer operation.
Ford reported that his wife had sat up.
Ford reported that his wife and sat up. As Mrs. Ford rested in the third floor presidential suite at the Naval Medical Corps Command, she was there were public prayers for her recovery from the minister of the church President Ford attended early Sunday morning.
President Ford spent almost two hours at the hospital around noon and reported that his wife was a little tired but otherwise doing very well.
A morning hospital bulletin said she was alert and more aware of fatigue, but was progressing to the point that she would be able to rest more easily.
"Her post-operative course continues to be satisfactory," the doctors said.
From the Associated Press
As for himself, Ford said "I feel a lot better today."
Aides reported many calls from women who had undergone similar mastectomy operations for removal of a breast, who offered their hope and best wishes for Mrs. Ford.
Keeping a White House appointment with the Brazilian foreign minister, the President told his visitor it was very fortunate that his wife had gone Thursday for a checkup because she had not been home and he have another exam for four or five months.
"We were very fortunate. Everything has
the circumstances," the President said.
A White House economist said a 10-cent increase in the gasoline tax would raise about $2 billion annually in extra revenue. The tax would be discussed during a 15-cent and a 20-cent increase.
Ford may ask gas tax increase
"IF IHAD to make a political decision, "if WO could for a 10-cent tax," this source said. However, the final decision on the tax and its amount rests with Ford. he said.
Mrs. Ford underwent what doctors described as a standard radical mastectomy Saturday morning after a biopsy that lump in her right breast was cancerous.
The attending doctors expressed optimism that Mrs. Ford's chances for full recovery were good.
The federal tax on gasoline is now about four cents a gallon. States also impose a tax averaging about eight cents a gallon on gasoline.
From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON—The Ford administration is considering asking Congress to raise the federal tax on gasoline from 10 cents a gallon, a White House source has said.
"We know the public won't be happy about this, and we can't be sure Congress
However, they have to wait until Tuesday or Wednesday for results of pathological examination of the tissues that were removed.
But the source said the administration feared a public outcry if such a tax plan was announced and was unsure whether Congress would approve it.
SEN. HUBERT HUMPHREY, D-Minn., said after Ford's economic summit conference Saturday that he expected the next administration would predicted would be highly controversial.
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batteries in your backpack. Back to
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The purpose of the higher gasoline tax is to discourage gasoline consumption and to raise new tax revenue for financing federal government programs. The service unemployment compensation.
will go along, but we think it's something that would help," the source said.
The gasoline tax increase would be submitted to Congress as part of Ford's new economic policy. The tax is understood to be a measure of the Treasury Secretary William E. Simon.
Ford said Saturday that his economic program would go to Congress within 10 months.
Congress, which plans a recess from Oct. 11 until after the November elections, is under increasing pressure to work the rest of the year on economy measures.
IT IS EXPECTED to include help for the housing industry in the form of mortgage interest subsidies, budget cuts, a public health grant and other relief for groups hit by inflation.
At the summit conference, Ford announced three steps he has taken:
--APPPOINTMENT of Princeton economist Albert Rees to lead the Council on Wage and Price Stability recently authorized by Congress.
—Consolidation of the government's domestic and foreign economy efforts under an Economic Policy Board, to be led by Simon.
- Establishment of a White House labor management committee to advise Ferdon on the implementation of his plan.
Ford urged all Americans "to join in a real effort—because we become inflation buffers."
VOTE GENESIS OCT. 2 & 3
MARK ALLEN, Pros.
RITA STUCKY, V. Pros.
Humphrey said the bipartisan steering committee that planned the summit would have the first look at the program. He indicated that the committee could advise against some portions of the program if it considered them unacceptable.
DOUG SHAPIRO, Oliver
GREG MORRIS, Oliver
MARK ANTHONY, Contenial
JOHN BUSH, Contenial
SABRINA LARGEN, Centennial!
GAIL SIMPSON, Treas.
KATHY LAMB. Sec.
As for the higher gasoline tax, Humphrey said he wanted to withhold judgment for the tiniest amount.
KATHY SIMPSON, Lib. Arts
BELLA YOUNG, Fine Arts
TIM DOWLING, Pearson
CARLA KITTEN, Nunemaker
DEBBIE MORROW, North
A number of speakers at the summit called for a new program of energy conservation to reduce the nation's reliance on fossil fuels, as well as to attenuate atled reducing petroleum consumption.
THERE COULD be even higher gasoline prices in the future if the government decides to release the rest of the domestic oil industry from price controls.
About 60 per cent of the nation's domestic production—referred to as old oil—is held to a top price of about $5.25 barrel, and the rest is used for transport or world market price of about $10 a barrel.
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