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i TODAY, Tuesday, 4, 1172 'fl A'i 3A U.S: Not to Cut Aid to Vietnam, Nixon Aide Says Unfair Advantage All those gals who haven't succumbed to the propaganda being disseminated by the women libbers are up to the old game. It's a Leap Year in 1972 and all bachelors are considered eligible prey for husband 'HONEST MISTAKES' TODAY AP Wlriphoto seeking females. Just to dramatize the hunt, Sonja Mathews of Atlanta advertises her game plan. In Sonja's case it appears the chase won't be fair for the man she singles out. TODAY Waihlnqton Poll Nwi Strvlct WASHINGTON President Nixon was "not dropping" his commitment to South Vietnam by tying total US troop withdrawals from Indochina solely to the release American prisoners, a White House spokesman said Monday.

That major qualification of the President's remarks in hour long television interview Sunday night was added by the White House Monday under questioning by newsmen It showed there was no new softening or narrowing of policy on the war, despite Nixon's complete concentration on the prisoner issue as the only barrier to full withdrawal of American forces from South Vietnam, or US support for anti CommunistCommunist forces fighting in Laos and Cambodia fNixon said in the interview Ineligible Welfare Recipients Cited WASHINGTON (AP) The government said Monday that about five percent of all wejfare families reviewed last April were ineligible "for payments, largely through errors by state and local agencies, The Department of Health, Education and Welfare said benefits should not have been paid to 4 9 pel cert of aged, blind and disabled recpients and 5 6 percent of those receivng Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). The review covered welfare recipients in 34 states. The report, released at a news conference, emphasized that fewer than one per cent of all recipients had been prosecuted for fraud. "Most of the errors were identified as honest mistakes by state and local welfare agencies or by those who received the payments," an HEW official said "More than half were agency erp fors' The principal reasons for ineligibility, the government Income Tax Data Published WASHINGTON (AP) The gov ernment cram course on filling out income tax forms goes on sale this" month at 15,000 post offices The Postal Service said the booklet, "Your Federal Income Tax," will cost 75 cents It includes a sample Form 1040 with explanations for filling in each line. Another 75 cent publication, "Tax Guide for Small Business," will be sold at a limited number of first class post offices.

Both booklets were prepared ty the Internal Revenue Service. said, were failure by recpients to report changes in family size or income, and agency errors such as inadequate determination eligibility, failure to follow up and misinterpretation policy. The Dreliminary survey also showed overpayments and underpayments in 24 3 percent of AFDC cases and 17 8 percent of adult welfare cases AFDC" overpayments per family averaged $44 92 and underpayments $18 32 a month; adult overpayments averaged $22 43 a of underpayments $14 23 SEN. McGOVERN Nixon deceives' that whether any American forces are still fighting in Indochina by election day, next November, "depends on one circumstance that is the situation with regard to our POWs Nixon also said Sunday" night that the North Viet a "totally rejected" attempts to gain release of American prisoners by setting a deadline for withdrawal of troops. The President created the impression that American officials took a lead in exploring that possibility, which he said "has been under discussion at vanous times in the Paris Peace Talks But Nixon also said the North Vietnamese told a U.

senator that setting a "deadline for prisoners was no deal Sen. George McGovern, saying he was the senator involved, charged Monday that Nixon "once again" had "deceived the American people." McGovern, a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, charged that: "The President says he is using the bombing to obtain the release of our prisoners, but in fact he is tising our prisoners to justify continuing the bombing McGovern said, "It Is simply not true and tyie President knows it is not true that our negotiators in Paris have ever discussed with the North Vietnamese the question of total American withdrawal from Indochina in conjunction th the release of our prisoners The senator added that "what I said last September In Pans and what I maintain today is that if we sera date for the complete withdrawal of our forces and the cessation of the bombing of Indochina, it would signal the end of support for the Saigoa regime, and our troops would; be allowed to withdraw safely and our prisoners freed "The "North Vietnamese did not reject this approach. But the Nixon Administration for all its talk of prisoners of war refuses to admit that we ate propping up the corrupt Thieu regime, and that is why the prsoners remain their cells, and that is why American troops remain in Indochina." 14. TOOAYAP Wlrwhoto CAPTURED Capt, tynn Guenther, 26, Eugene, Is one of seven American pilots the North Vietnamese claim as prisoners. They were shot down during recent heavy U.S.

air attacks on Red supply and missile sites. Laird Aide to U.S. Strength Critics: First' Fj Bi ffi SECRETARY LAIRD second to none' TODAY waihlnoton Pjt Nawi Sarvlu WASHINGTON The United States is "second to no one with respect to overall military power," an aide to Defense Secretary Laird said in response to the American Security Council drive to convince the American people that the Communists are overtaking them in armed strength The American security Council has no connection with the Government but is a private pressure group which focuses on national defense issues 4tF The council, with the support of Gen. Earle Wheeler (ret former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Har W. Pakistan Frees Bangladesh Chief TODAY L.

A TIrim Nm Strvlc KARACHI Pakistan President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto announced to a roaring mass rally here Monday that he is releasing East Pakistan political leader Sheik Mujibur Rahman unconditionally. Bhutto indicated he will jmeet Mujibur once more toward the end of this week; and that League leader will leave Pakistan aiter that. Some people said the sheik was my trump cara ana i uld use him to get con a 1 said, why should we try to get concessions? I agree with themVlont want any bargaining on the sheik." Mujibur, who was arrested last March in Dacca, has been imprisoned since then and was tried here for treason. The end of the trial was announced abruptly after the surrender of East ry Treleaven, President Nixon's former television adviser, is trying to raise $450,000 to publicize the allegedly adverse position of the S. "It is this administration's objective to ensure that we never fall "into second place," William J.

Baroody special assistant to Laird, wrote several congressmen in a letter the Pentagon released Monday The Baroody letter represents Laird's views, a Pentagon spokesman said Besides declaring that "today" the US is second to none in military power, the letter made these points. The US "still has a substantial numerical advantage" over the Soviet Union in the number of nuclear warheads that can be delivered. "We are confident that the Soviet Union does NOT have an effective 'first stnke' nuclear attack capability against our strategic forces today." First strike in that context means the ability to destroy the other power's long range weapons before they can be fired. Laird, shortly after taking office, told Congress that there was no question about it i the Soviet Union ft going for first strike capability. The Baroody letter steps back TODAY AP Wlrephoto OFFENSIVE EXPECTED N.

Viet's Supplies Reach New High TODAY Wire StrvlCM SAIGON The buildup of Communist supplies in South Vietnam has reached "historic proportions," indicating a major offensive early this year, senior military sources said Monday. According to intelligence reports, the sources said North Vietnam is gearing up for large scale military action in the first months of 1972 in an effort to make a political impact in the United States perhaps before President Nixon leaves for Peking in February. RARE AND ENDANGERED PAIR OF BLACK FOOTED FERRETS animals were photographed in South Dakota wilds Female Stall Extinction Fight Pakistan to Invading Indian from that position by declar forci Under the green and white crescent flag of Pakistan and red banners bearing slogans of his Pakistan Peoples Party, Mujibur asked him at their first meeting one week ago; "Am I free? If I am not free, tell me," A Let an export doltS HI FI REPAIRS I ntHOMCOhoCM U0IO WO10 MCI0M MTHMBEI CIIUM BREVARD ELECTRONICS UU PHOTO JUHMCUttlVICIt, Ml COimiMAT i 7 ing the Soviets have no such capability today "but that we must ensure against this possibility developing or even the of it developing in? the future." WASHINGTON (AP) The sudden and unexplained deaths of four female black footed ferrets the only females knoyvn in captivity have set back efforts to save this branch of the weasel family from extinction The females died 21 days after they were live trapped on a South Dakota prafrie dog town, said Dr. Ray C.J Enckson, assistant director of the Patuxerfl Wildlife Research" Center. Two males taken at the same time I appear robust and healthy in their KiWW SMUfiZ'ilX pens laf ihe center in Maryland, he added.

The small predators are one of the world's rarest mammals The females' deaths temporarily blocked any hopes wildlife biologists had of raising the ferrets in captivity for later release into the wild as part of its endangered species program Death apparently was distemper, Enckson said, even though "all possible care was exerted in trapping and holding the "The enemy has never stockpiled as much stuff up there (in the highlands) as he has now," one general officer said. "He's in a frame of mind to make a push, and that's what we're going to see." The sources said the military supplies brought down the Ho Chi Minh trail from North Vietnam over the last few months were already in place before last week's US bombing raids on supply depots above the demilitarized zone They gave no location for the supplies, but they are presumably in the mountainous area around Pleiku and Kontum, where the borders of South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia meet Two South Vietnamese fire support bases near Kontum were gargets last spring for furious assaults by the North Vietnamese, who were repulsed in several weeks of bloody fighting South Vietnamese troops in the highlands were placed on alert last week, following reports that. two North Vietnamese divisions were moving into position to the west ot Pleiku, across the border in Laos and Cambodia Two brigades' of South Vietnam's airborne division, assigned to operations Cambodia, were to be reassigned soon to the Pleiku area, it was disclosed here. mm kong TAILORS MR. HARRY MAHTANl HERE FOR A LIMITED TIME SHQWIND EXCLUSIVE FASHIONS FOR MEN iNO WOMEN.

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