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THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION
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THIRD AND A AVE., LAWTON, OKLA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1971
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Nixon Lifts Surcharge On Imports
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Bhutto Pledges To Build
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New, Stronger Pakistan
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a decision banning federal tax-
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months of monetary and trade
in refusing to review a decision
THE NORTH Vietnamese had
by a three-judge panel of the uncertainty.
tions to bar any speculation.
Today’s
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9 TILL CHRISTMAS
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Good News Coming In January For Most Taxpayers
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enforcement.
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amounts to a 4.7 per cent in-
crease in the value of the franc,
compared to the 4.61 per cent
toms were shot down.
AT LEAST one loss—and pos-
sibly three — were attributed to
MIGs. The last time a MIG
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
Supreme Court affirmed today
But after the court issued the
preliminary injunction, the gov-
ernment chose not to appeal.
And in July 1970 the Internal
Revenue Service announced the
exemptions would be cut off to
schools which discriminate.
India at the United Nations and
conferred with President Nixon
on Saturday. U.S. Ambassador
Joseph S. Farland was in the
large crowd that met him at
the airport in Islamabad.
BHUTTO SAID Sunday it was
premature to speak of the fu-
clear the way for wider talks
on international trade.
fin the Heath-Nixon agenda
also is a crash program of in-
ternational relief for East Paki-
stan.
The President's action on the
surcharge was in line with deci-
sions taken Saturday in Wash-
ington when the Group of Ten
of the world’s richest non-Com-
munist nations came to terms
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ed. France, West Germany and
other West European nations
are expected to join in to re-
duce Indian reliance on the So-
viet Union for relief.
Nixon's meeting with Heath
is the third in a series he has
arranged with allied leaders in
advance of his journeys to Pe-
king and Moscow. The Presi-
dent’s aim is to reassure Amer-
ica’s allies their interests will
see NIXON, Page 4, Col. 4
The government at first re- closing. In Zurich, it opened at
sisted efforts to overturn its $42,625, down 22% cents, and
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Tax Exempt In European Currency Dealings
school children in Mississippi dollar was strong in bank-to-
and their parents who charged bank dealings.
exempting the private schools
WORK RESUMES. A temporary drainage ditch is dug at the inter-
section of Sheridan and Lee Boulevards as work resumes on the
Lee Boulevard project. Construction on the Model Cities sponsored
LONDON (AP) - The Ameri-
— can dollar strengthened in
around the earth on a great el-
liptical path today as a ground
station prepared to send a sig-
nal to lock it in a stationary or-
bit above the Atlantic Ocean.
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that private schools benefitting end of uncertainty with the rea-
from the exemptions were lignment of currency values de-
draining away teachers as well cided late Saturday in Washing-
as white students from the pub- ton by finance ministers of the
were shot down over North
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project was to begin Nov. 24, but recent rains have postponed
major work until this week. Plans call for widening Lee Boulevard
and elimination of the curve where Lee intersects Sheridan.
government in seeking an in- $42,525 an ounce, down 17%
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price was fixed at $42.40, down
35 cents from Friday.
This was gold on sale to den-
tists, jewelers, industry and
HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) —
1 President Nixon arrived
here today for two days of sum-
mit talks with Prime Minister
Edward Heath and announced
he had just signed a proclama-
tion lifting the 10 per cent sur-
charge on foreign imports into
the United States.
The action, the President told
newsmen assembled before the
residence of Bermuda's Gover-
nor, Lord Martonmere, will
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to the old parity of 3.66 marks.
The dollar was quoted in lim-
ited trading in Zurich at 3.89
Swiss francs, up from Friday’s
closing 3.8775 francs. Swiss
SAIGON (AP) - North Viet-'
namese antiaircraft defenses,
including Soviet-built MIG21 in-
terceptors, shot down four
American fighter-bombers
along the border with northern
Laos in Hanoi’s biggest success
in the air war in more than
three years, the U.S. Command
disclosed Tuesday.
The command first reported
that MIG interceptors appar-
ently engaged the American
planes but later confirmed this,
saying that several of the inter-
ceptors were observed crossing
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stantly to the surcharge and
oi her American trade dis-
criminatory measures as "ob-
noxious.”
On the Heath-Nixon agenda
also is a crash program of in-
ternational relief for East Paki-
stan.
Authoritative sources said the
British leader was certain
American aid on a multimil-
lion-dollar scale is essential for
two reasons:
aboard the F4 Phantoms were
rescued in a massive search
operation by scores of planes.
The other six Americans are
listed as missing.
The U.S. Command said
heavy rains and high winds
hampered the search over the
mountainous jungles 240 miles
north of the demilitarized zone.
opening rate
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quickly dropped another 10 marks for a dollar, compared
cents an ounce. In London, the
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In its final ruling the panel eral deductions from paychecks tax exemptions and allowances sonal exemptions next year and tion will be 15 per cent or $2,-
be offset by higher state should boost American spend-
school desegregation.
The court made no comment Washington accord ending four
1 serve as switch- positions on the plain over the United States, where he had ar-
the boards to relay telephone, tele- weekend. The government gued Pakistan's case against
franc’s new parity. vision and other commercial forces were reported to have
The London foreign exchange communications signals be- suffered heavy losses, and U.S.
was tightly shut and interbank tween North and South .Amer- air strikes were increased in ef-
dealings were forbidden. But ica and Western Europe. forts to avoid a rout.
There were no indications Vietnam. He said the two-day
that surface-to-air missiles loss of four planes was the
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exempt status for private white European currency dealings to-
schools set up to avoid public day as foreign exchange opera-
tors studied implications of the
eign exchange was closed pend- Cabinet this morning on the telstat 4 launched last January,
ing formal approval by the Washington talks in advance of They will serve as switch-
lie schools their children at- Group of Ten richest non-Com- west German government of an official decision on the hnerde t —i-- telerk— tel
tended. munist nations, the realignment agreement
In other actions today, the The Swiss government set the calling for a 13.57 per cent in-
court: new dollar parity for the Swiss crease in the value of the
—Agreed to decide whether franc at 3.84. This was a 6.4 pei Deutschemark. This would
California can shut down bars cent increase over the dollar make the new i
that feature nude dancers and rate set last May when the
sex films. franc was revalued upward in
—Denied a hearing to the terms of gold. There was no
Texas Gul Sulphur Co., and change in the franc>s relation,
nine officials and employes in a ,. ... ..... ..
case that may set precedent ship)with.gold this time,, only
governing the stock market with the dol Today s chance
trading of corporate insiders, meant a total change of 13.9
-Ruled that the con- per cent, upward from the pre-
stitutional guarantee of a May parity.
speedy trial applies only after a There was no official gold fix-
person has been accused of a ing in Frankfurt but trading
crime and not to delays by the was going on at the rate of
on the realignment of their cur-
rencies.
Its timing, however, was un-
expectedly sudden.
Nixon made his announce-
ment after entering Govern-
ment House and chatting brief-
ly with Heath. He strolled back
into the garden and onto the
lawn and told newsmen he felt
it best to release word of his
action at once.
"I have today made the first
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP)
— A new international commu-
nications satellite whipped
speculators. Monetary gold banks were limiting transac-
backing currencies is excluded
decision implementing the
agreement,” he said in a refer-
ence to the Group of Ten settle-
ment.
“I have signed a proclama-
tion removing the 10 per cent
surcharge ... This first step
having been taken we can now
move to trade and monetary
matters.”
The move pleased Heath and
his colleagues mightily. In pri-
vate, Heath has referred con-
—With their food dwindling
and their communications shat-
tered the Bengalis need help
direly.
—The United States must
move fast to reverse the con-
sequences of having backed the
regime of President Agha Mo-
hammed Yahya Khan.
Heath is ready to pledge full
British participation in an
emergency program, a high-
ranking British source report-
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U.S. District Court here issued American stocks improved from this market and is traded
last June 30 and affirmed the sharply in the stock exchanges exclusively between state
lower court’s decision. banks.
The tax.exemnt status was and prices of Eurodollar bonds w
the tax-exempt status was With the devaluation of the
taken away initially by a pre- soared. dollar deride in woshic
limunary snunctioneeranted Foreien exchanges were dhe new pice for monetar revaluation proposed for the 350
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ounce over the price prevailing Switzerland is not a member at Andover, Maine, sends a ra-
since the last devaluation of the of the Group of Ten but is rep- dio signal to fire a small on-
Matching improvement of the dollar in 1934. resented at its meetings by oh- board motor to kick the 3 094.
The dollar opened in inter- servers. Edmond Stopper and pound payload into stationary
claimed bulion markets, reflecting the bank dealings in Frankfurt at Fritz Leutwiler, president and orbit 22,300 miles above the
3.28 marks, up from Friday’s director-general of the Swiss equator.
closing 3.2580 marks. The for- National Bank, reported to the There, it will join the first In-
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policy of granting exemption to
the all-white private schools
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parity 3 223 American Express and other Each Intelsat 4 is capable of
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un •L ~L . changing dollars at the rate of telephone calls or 12 color TV tured following the downing of
Vnite LnriStmOS $2.62 for one pound. Within an programs. A total of eight In- the American planes are:
A , A, A . _ hour the pound declined to telstat 4 satellites are to be Lt. Kenneth Roth Wells, 34,
Uut Of Question: $2.6025. Tourist agencies were launched to form a global net- Maj. Leland Louis Hildebrand, 1/8
changing dollars Friday at the work to replace the Intelsat 3 33, Lt. Samuel Richard Vaug-
Clear skies and mild tempera- rate of $2 55 to one pound payloads, which can handle han, 36, and Maj. Kenneth R.
tures today and Tuesday dun American Express said busi. only 1,200 phone circuits or four Johnson, 33.
hopes of a white Christmas for ness was normal and all tourist TVprograms. , Info . , They were reported 10 have
col . mi l j 1 .1 The 82-national international been presented at a news con-
Southwest Oklahomans. needs were being satisfied. Telecommunications Satellite ference in Hanoi.
The weatherman said today's Money markets were closed Corp, paid the National Aero- U.S. spokesmen said there
high would be in the upper 50s in Paris also as the French nautics and Space Adminis- were indications that one of the
with warmer temperatures to- state bank announced the tration $16 million to launch the Phantoms was engaged by
night and Tuesday when the aft- franc’s new parity of 5.1157 to $13.5 million payload. The North Vietnam's soviet-built
ernoon high should reach the the dollar. This represented an launch fee included the cost of MIG jets,
mid 60s. See American dollar. Page 4, coi. 1 the rocket. “At least one MIG was sight-
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planes went down,” said one along the border in the past 10
spokesman, Maj. Robert days. Two jets were downed by
O’Brien. “All of a sudden one surface-to-air missiles Dec. 10
of our planes was not there. In- and Dec. 17 Three of the four
dications are that it mixed it up crewmen were rescued and one
with a MIG, but we have noth- was listed as missing.
ing to confirm it. The crew of. ...
that plane was not recovered.” 0 Brien said the three planes
shot down Saturday were the
THE COMMAND said the biggest one-day loss since Dec.
fourth F4 was downed by anti- 17, 1967, when three aircraft
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ture of Sheik Mujibur Rahman,
PAKISTAN'S President Zulfi- the political leader of Paki-
kar Ali Bhutto pledged tonight to Stan’s now independent eastern
build a “new” and “strong” province of Bangla Desh, who
Pakistan. is a prisoner of the Pakistani
In a nationwide broadcast government.
over Radio Pakistan only hours He told newsmen in Rome
after becoming head of the that President Nixon, at their
country following the resigna- meeting in Washington Satur-
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„„EMIKESHANAHAN and local taxes. There’s also an ing power to levels never seen so will take out a smaller pared with 13 per cent or $1,500 wage earner in the house, be-
WasHpioM (AP) —Cuts in increase in the income lid for before, according to internal chunk of each paycheck. this year. cause of an attempt to find a
federal income taxes that Social Security taxes, though Revenue Service officials. Then there’s the standard de- Poor people also get a break, more equitable tax rate for
take effect Jan. 1 will put more the 5.2 per cent rate of deduc- A generous 92nd Congress duction for taxpayers who The government is in the third single persons.
The Justice Department en cash into the pockets of most tion probably will remain the has sped up the impact of tax- choose to claim an estimate of stage of an effort to lift the fed- Here's what happened,
asked the court to row ou Americans. same. reform laws passed in 1969 and items like medical expenses, eral tax burden from their The IRS this vear tried to as.
the suit as moot, but the 1 e- Families with just one wage The ceiling goes from $7,800 raised the standard exemption moving costs and local and ed A un. on income sure that single people would
groes said the new policy was earner will benefit the most, this year to $9,000 in 1972, far individnale ona thai-da etata +-n wtle- -- nlin "I e . .• -
only “paper compliance” and but there’s good news
asked the court to order tough most all taxpayers.
for al- meaning deductions will contin- pendentsy“droms s xx’S standard deduction built into xxx than txs
$750 in 1972. That means the item by item. the tax tables goes up from $1,- in the same income bracket It
Next year’s standard deduc- 050 in 1971 to $1,300 in 1972. succeeded, but in the process
. .. IRS officials say there is a took out too little money from
000, whichever is lower, com- married taxpayers with one potential snag developing for
tion of Agha Mohammed Yahya day, had reaffirmed U.S. sup-
The second in a series of In- reported the downing of four Khan, Bhutto appealed for the port for the principle of Paki-
telsat 4 satellites was launched planes earlier, but the U.S. help of his countrymen, stan’s sovereignty and unity,
from Cape Kennedy by an Command delayed its admis- “I need your help and cooper- “Pakistan is one single
Atlas-Centaur rocket Sunday sion of the losses because the ation,” he said, “I’m no magi- thing,” Bhutto said “The na
night and achieved a prelimi- search for the crews was still cian.” tion’s unity must be safe
nary orbit ranging from about on., YAHYA KHAN resigned be- guarded. India has forcefully
the K million supersonic jets cause or his army’s defeat in onaupiedasPakistani territories
were shot down Saturday and a the two-week war with India. and Jasting, peace cannot be
W ere shot down aturaay ana a resignation ended 13 vears achieved if New Delhi fails to
fourth Sunday while supporting m15 resugnauon enaed 13 years give back pone-a
Laotian government forces on of military rule in Pakistan, <e . , What, it. conquered
th “ Kain of Jaro but the retention of martial law withits tanks. We do not want
North Vietnamese and Pathet indicated that the army would tovbeminyn vedain.a war every
Lao troops and tanks overran continue to play a key role. , c,
the town of Muong Suoi and at- Bhutto was sworn in shortly p , , ” ° s leftist Pakistan
tacked all Laotian government after he returned from the , Pes Part IS the largest in
the National Assembly, with 82
of the 138 seats allotted to West
Pakistan. Sheik Mujib’s Awami
League won 167 seats, all in
East Pakistan, and that gave it
a majority in the assembly, but
Yahya Khan canceled most of
the Awami victories when he
ordered his army to crush the
league last March.
YAHYA KHAN put Mujib on
trial before a military court on
charges of treason; sources in
Rawalpindi said the trial has
ended, but there was no word
of a verdict. They added that
Sheik Mujib had sought a meet-
ing with Yahya after the two-
week war started, but the pres-
ident refused to see him.
After Indian forces invaded
East Pakistan on Dec. 4, Yahya
Khan named a minor East Pak-
istani political leader, Nuril
ter and foreign minister.
Since the army’s surrender in
East Pakistan last Thursday
and Yahya’s proclamation of a
cease-fire on Friday, there
have been demonstrations
throughout West Pakistan
against his conduct of the war.
Mohammed Asghar Khan, the
air force chief when Yahya
took over in March 1969, told a
news conference Sunday that
Yahya should be put on trial
for conducting the war in a
manner “which humiliated the
army.” He called on the
present air force chief not to
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