European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes april 1977 Carter to push Gas tax if goal unmet continued Page 1 of Worth As insurance against a future embargo or Carter will meet in Geneva next month with syrian president Hafez Assad is he seeks some common ground for Middle East the administration has information that Nalangan insurgents fighting in Zaire were trained by i Nave no direct evidence at All that there Are cubans in he his formal news conference Carter insisted in conversation with news men that his figures on gasoline and crude Oil tax rebates were and that his program would mean refunds of for an average family to offset higher Oil and f 100 in refunds for each five cent Gas tax boost if that tax is the gasoline tax already stir ring Strong opposition in is to add gasoline taxes in five cent increments up to a maximum of so cents for each year would bypass new taxes in which consumption exceeds men set target the president dismissed speculation that his gasoline tax proposal May actually a be no More than a bargaining to dealt away in Congress in Exchange Tor other measures he he said he is deeply we melted to the standby gasoline tax As part of a comprehensive and Well balanced pro gop of offer ifs own Energy plan Washington republicans in the Senate Are ready to take on president Carter with an Energy saving program of their own that wont include All the pro posed new taxes that Are drawing so much criticism in what is being called the Republican alternative May be spelled out when spokes men for the opposition party get their equal time offered by the three television possibly next it will contain some of the same Conser vation incentive programs recommended by Carter in his televised address wednes Day such As tax Breaks for Home insula Tion but will allow Energy prices to Rise with tree Market Competition rather than through new Carter told reporters thursday that he Felt his proposal for a standby gasoline tax of up to so cents a perhaps the most controversial part of his would win congressional but Many key lawmakers were issuing gloomier assessments Over that portion of the Energy plan which Carter unveiled several hinted that it might be the first part of the package to be do Ted the Republican floor Leader in the said the party proposal will Call for restoring Market forces on he hinted this Means removing Price controls from Oil and natural Carters plan would raise crude Oil prices through a new tax on Domestic production and would set a new higher ceiling for natural Gas pegged to Oil leading to higher fuel prices without the necessity of Carters plan would also impose the standby gasoline tax if conservation efforts fall and a tax of up to by 1985 on Fuellin efficient Gas guzzler Stevens said he finds these options Unac he said such an approach is using the Power to tax to destroy a Way of Amin flies to offers troops Kinshasa Dpi ugandan president Idi Amin hew to embattled Zaire Friday and announced readiness to Send troops to Back a loyalist offensive which Zaire claims has recaptured a key town taken by rebel invaders six weeks if zairian president Mobutu sese Sicko wants me to assist him in crushing some in ready to Send him h there is we Are ready to come to Aires help Amin told reporters after conferring with Mobutu on a Surprise visit to Viets report finding body of a airman Washington a North Vietnam has found another body of a service Man missing from the Indochina state department spokesman Hodding Carter said although the family has been the spokesman said no details would be made Public until a positive identification is Carter would Only say the american was an airman whose body was found in North Vietnam to the Hanoi government has re turned the remains of ii they have promised to return the body of an american civilian in addition to the re Mains of the airman whose discovery was disclosed Carter said an arrangement made by North Vietnam to intensify the search for missing americans has been he gave no indication whether More bodies be expected to be recovered about servicemen Are listed As missing in action throughout indo North vietnamese cooperation is in line with a process which the expects to Lead to Normal Washington Hanoi rela the next step in that process will be a meeting in Paris May 3 Between assistant Secretary of state Richard Holbrook and ranking vietnamese Hanoi official Vietnam news Agency reported that the body was that of a Pilot killed 1972 during an air raid in North Vietnam by b52 Kinshasa official radio said a two pronged zairian offensive backed by moroccan troops and native retaking one of the first towns seized by the rebel invaders who poured Over the Border from Angola March the Border town is some 240 Miles North West of the Copper mining Hub of the next rebel target when massive West Emaid to Zaire plugged the invasions momentum earlier this echoing the official Amin told reporters the zairian forces had made great Progress in their drive to Chase the rebels from the Shaba whose Mineral riches provide the Lions share of Aires Export there was no immediate word of eight missionaries held under House arrest at the beginning of the but last reports reaching the embassy in Kin Shasa said the eight were in no danger and had been backtracking on earlier claims zairian troops had encircled the rebel stronghold of some go Miles due West of zairian spokesmen now said the loyalists were driving toward the abortion defies Legal moves a unmarried woman has spurned her boyfriends pleas and had an abortion despite a new Jersey supreme court order forbidding Justice Robert Clifford issued a Tempo Rary injunction thursday barring Wendy from having an abortion until the full court could consider the John of father of the unborn was scheduled tit on Legal pleas for the right of the child to Alvin an attorney representing a stub no at Trenton slate col said Friday the woman was not aware of the court order temporarily bar ring her from having an he said who was six weeks was aware of attempts by the father an unemployed construction save the unborn Clifford was satisfied the woman did not know the order had been issued when she had the according to a court ill my ciuu1iu1i Pic Blu iriv v i Carter he said it will help lies that Cut their gasoline because the proceeds would be rebated to asked Why he did not ask for authority to impose gasoline rationing As a Means of reducing Carter said he has that Power under existing Law of there should be a National emergency such As another Oil the president also indicated he would consider vetoing a tax Bill now being de bated in the Senate it it contains a business tax credit Carter asked Congress to delete along with the the Senate deleted the rebate but rejected a move on thursday to drop the Busi Ness credit from the during the news conference Carter also made these Points he pledged his administration will not ignore rapid transit systems but said they would be handled by the department of transportation instead of As part of his slowing Only to defuse Large quantities of mines and to seize soviet made arms dropped by the panic stricken there has been no Independent confirmation of the nor of persistent Zai Rean charges the invasion was led by cuban and angolan troops armed by All three countries have denied involve the soviet on one and on the both hinted Friday the fighting might Widen to involve other Afri can the soviets implied Angola might be while Amin said Tanzania was backing unidentified troops massing to Aires Amin said he had urged Mobutu to keep an Eye on that peking envoy walks out on Kremlin critic Moscow up chivas envoy to the soviet Union walked out of official celebrations marking the anniversary of lenins birth Friday when a communist party speaker accused peking of attempting to build up International the attack on China was the strongest since the soviet Union abandoned attempts to improve relations with postman China by hailing propaganda attacks on it came at a ceremony attended by soviet Leader Leonid the known position of in there have been no changes in recent inflicts direct damage on the anti imperialist struggle and the cause of Central committee Secretary Mikhail Zim Yanin attempts Are continuing in peking at building up International tensions and at striking a alliances with the most reactionary this policy clearly runs coun Ter to the vital interests of All especially the interests of the chinese people chinese embassy counsellor Wang representing his country at the birthday Celebration in the packed Seal Kremlin Palace of Rose in response and left the his embassy China has not had an ambassador in Moscow for a number of How he could meet his goal of increased Coal production without causing further air the president said in some areas where the air pollution is extremely then we will consider making exceptions and let utilities continue to Oil rather than but that would be a rare the president acknowledged that his proposed Energy program will have some inflationary Impact but said u probably would be less than on half of a per cent a he said computer studies indicate the program would rather than in the informal Exchange with report Carter expressed his feelings on near ing the end of his first 100 Days in i feel Good about he claiming to have put White House relations with Congress on a sound basis since Gerald Fords i think Ive solidified As Best i could the Trust of the american people in me and in my own Carter Page i intelligence Bear bombers have been flying Between Russia and Cuba at irregular intervals since but always have kept their Dis Tance from the the soviet reconnaissance with an operating Range of about have been reaching More widely Over the Pacific As for two bears flew last 11 from Vladivostok to within so Miles of where the unite states has vital naval 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