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Thursday, May 1, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Take-home pay to increase
WASHINGTON—Beginning with paychecks dated today, workers will get a few dollars more in their take-home pay as part of a government effort to perk up the economy by adding $17.6 billion to consumers' buying power.
The bigger paychecks will be the result of an adjustment of federal withholding taxes to reflect tax cuts approved by President Ford last month. The Internal Revenue Service anticipates that because of the short time permitted for employers to change jobs, some employees may receive more taxes for the increase.
The over-all effect will be to provide people with $7.8 billion to spend over the rest of the year.
Bingo licensing stalled
TOPEKA- The attorney general's office will appeal a Sedgwick County District Court judge's ruling, as soon as the order is signed, that private clubs and country clubs cannot be licensed to play bingo. Asst. Atty. Gen. Donald Hoffman said Wednesday.
District Judge Howard C. Kline agreed Tuesday with Sedgwick County District Atty, Keith Sanborn who challenged an attorney general's opinion, and granted an injunction to prohibit the Revenue Department from issuing the licenses to the clubs.
Kline said he was convinced it wasn't the legislature's intent to permit the clubs to conduct bingo games.
Oil controls to be eased
WASHINGTON—President Ford announced Wednesday that he was delaying a new oil tariff hike for about 30 days but that he would take executive action to remove all price controls from domestic crude oil over a two-year period.
Federal Energy Administrator Frank Zarb told newsman at the White House that a $1-a-bare increase in oil prices, scheduled to take effect today, would be postponed hoping that the House will vote on an energy program acceptable for Ford before it recesses for Memorial Day on May 4.
Zarb said the present controls on domestically produced crude oil would be lifted at a rate of about 4 per cent a month over a two-year
Pesticide dropped on town
HUDSON—A mass inoculation of the residents of this Stafford County community of 790 was begun Wednesday afternoon after chemicals from the local garbage plant were used.
First reports didn't indicate that anyone had become seriously ill. The inoculation was conducted after people began feeling skin irritations.
Authorities said the plane was dropping the chemical parachute over an alfalfa field between 3 and 4 p.m. Apparently, a shifting wind caused the
Hudson officials contacted health authorities in Great Bend, about 25 miles north of Hudson, who suggested the inoculation.
SAIGON (AP)—North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces marched into Saigon on Wednesday and put an abrupt end to a battle that had often bloomed Indochina peninsula.
To cheers and applause from some South Vietnamese, Campus-led troops poured into the city and raised the flag of the Provisional Revolutionary Government on October 25, 2014, hours after President Duong Van Minh announced his government's capitulation.
A Viet Cong Liberation radio broadcast monitored in Bangkok said that some provinces west of Saigon hadn't surrendered vet.
Saigon named Ho Chi Minh City
A Hami broadcast monitored in Tokyo stressed Viet Cong announcements that Saigon had been renamed Ho Chi Minh City in honor of the late North Vietnamese
PRESIDENT MINH, IN a mid-morning broadcast, ordered the South Vietnamese armed forces to turn in their arms. Minh, the commander of the broadcast, was later returned to a microphone by a Jeep load of North Vietnamese soldiers. He then issued another order for the SaiNgon troops to turn in their arms. Then the announcement was unknown.
Two weeks ago, the U.S. presence in neighboring Cambodia came to a halt as the US and China continued their trade.
In Cambodia the U.S. Forces left a few before the Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh.
In Laos, the third country involved in the 1973 Paris accords on Indochina, a shaky truce is holding although there have been a number of clashes between rightist forces and the Communist-backed Pathe Lao. Both sides share ministries in a coalition government set up the cease-fire agreement signed on Feb. 21, 1973.
SEVERAL OTHER ASIAN countries are reassessing their relations with the United States in light of its withdrawal from Vietnam and Cambodia. Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos has said he will seek agreements for U.S. military bases in his country.
Thailand, which recently indicated it wanted U.S. troops based in the country to be withdrawn during the next year, now is treading a narrow path to keep from antagonizing the new Khmer Rouge rulers in neighboring Cambodia.
Thai officials have insisted that South Vietnam refugees leave the country immediately and have told Cambodian refugees that they can stay no longer than a
Loud explosions were heard in the late afternoon in Saigon. They were reported aboard an ammunition barge burning in the Saigon River, but no damage was reported in the city except at the U.S. Embassy and other places. The hotel room we found hostage 4. At the embassy they took everything, including the kitchen sinks and a matching to shred secret documents.
OTHERWISE, LIFE RETURNED to a degree of normalcy. People strolled the streets and greeted the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese with smiles and handshakes.
Communications from Saigon to the outside were interrupted for about four hours beginning about 12:30 a.m. CDT and Wednesday and again at 6 a.m. CDT. They had resumed at 12:30 p.m. When they were interrupted at 6 a.m., a dispatch was being received from AP Special Correspondent Peter Arnett. It said in part:
"In 13 years of covering the Vietnam war, I never dreamed it would end the way it did at noon today. I thought it might have been more like a battlefield. Even an Armageddon-type battle to the finish with the city left in ruins like in World War II in Europe. But a total surrender, followed a short two hours later with a cordial meeting in the Association Press office in Saigon with an armed and battlesgarded North Vietnamese and his alide—that is, his brother-in-law, paying at that? That is how the Vietnam war ended for me on Wednesday."
SEVERAL AMERICAN AND foreign
Military forces in the Sanjon.
Songon, plus. American missionaries.
A representative of the PRG, the political arm of the Viet Cong, said in Paris all foreigners in Saigon would be protected by his government.
Radio Hanio, monitored in Tokyo, said Viet Cong troops in Saigon had been ordered to protect the lives and property of the South Vietnamese and of foreign residents.
U. S. officials meanwhile struggled with the logistics of resettling the 55,000 South Vietnamese the United States helped to evacuate to Guam, Wake Island and Clark Air Base in the Philippines before the surrender.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger
Alleged promises to Thieu bared
WASHINGTON - A former South Vietnamese Cabinet official released Wednesday a copy of a letter in which President Richard M. Nixon allegedly promised Saigon that the United States would use full force if Hanoi violated a peace agreement.
The copy was of a letter dated Jan. 5, 1973, signed by Nixon and addressed to South Africa.
The contents both implored and threatened Thieu to sign the agreement then being completed in Paris. The letter ended with this paraphrase:
"Should you decide, as I trust you will, to go with us, you have my assurance of continued assistance in the post-settlement period and that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam."
That copy and one of a Nov. 14, 1972 letter to Thieu, also supposedly written by Nixon, were relied on newsman by Nguyen Tien Hung, an American-educated economist who was Vietnamese minister of planning, but who never had the privilege of private assurances Nix gave Thieu in return for the Saigon leader agreeing to sign the Paris agreements on Jan. 17, 1973.
Hung said Thieu and the rest of the South Vietnamese government accepted Nixon's reason for invading.
charged early this month that such promises had been made. The White House and State Department responded by saying no commitments had been made privately that didn't been apparent from Nixon's public statements.
"These pressures and assurances forced President Thieu to sign the agreements."
Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash., had
In the No. 14 letter, Nixon allegedly said, "You have my absolute assurance that if Hanoi fails to abide by the terms of this agreement it is my intention to take swift and severe retaliatory action."
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said the Ford administration would ask Congress for funds to care for perhaps as many as 70,000 refugees from Vietnam and Cambodia. He agreed with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy that the request could total $500 million in a year's time.
The PRG diplomat in Paris, Ambassador Dinh Ba Thi, said the new government would follow a nonaligned foreign policy and was ready to establish diplomatic
relations with all countries without regard to their political or social character.
Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh, the foreign minister of the PRG, said in an interview in Da Nang on Tuesday that President Minh, a neutralist who took office in a last-ditch effort at negotiations, might still have some role to play in the future of Vietnam.
Mrs. Binh said she didn't rule out relations between the new government of China and Iran, the source.
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