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...unfamiliar to them but is rapidly becoming one of the most crucial areas of the war. To bolster South Viet Nam's defenses there, President Nguyen Van Thieu last week replaced two top military commanders in the Delta. The North, determined to discredit President Nixon's Vietnamization plan, has ordered two full regiments and possibly parts of three others into the area to confront Saigon's forces. The result has indeed posed a problem for Vietnamization- but for Hanoi's brand as well as Washington...
Equally controversial is Eliav's second suggestion-a declaration that Israel does not plan to annex territories. "We have annexed Jerusalem," he said. "That is a fact that cannot be undone. But we should not annex any more territories." To Israeli hardliners, who claim all of Palestine on the basis of historical rights, Eliav retorts: "True, our forefathers lived here and in Jordan. But so did the Arabs. The solution has to be that two states can live equally together. There is ample place for a Jewish state as big as Holland, with 10 million people, and an Arab...
...advantage of a tariff system is that it would allow the Government rather than the oil refiners to collect the difference between the price of imported and domestic oil. On the other hand, a possible disadvantage of the current plan is that it would be discriminatory: the tax would be higher for Middle Eastern oil than for Venezuelan or Canadian oil, largely because the Government does not want the U.S. to become dependent upon Middle Eastern sources of supply...
World Control Center. One articulate critic of the Task Force plan is Walter J. Levy, dean of oil consultants, who argues that Middle Eastern governments might well object to a tariff that discriminates against them. The tariff itself would involve mind-boggling complexity to cover varying costs of production and shipping. It would also require frequent adjustments to take account of the Defense Department's calculation of the reliability of supplies from each producing country...
BankAmericard's new plan will be available in California, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky. Cardholders will receive by mail 71-in. by 31-in. cards -actually bank drafts already made out to the IRS-to complete and attach to their 1040 forms. The IRS will deposit the drafts in banks participating in the plan. Cardholders can then pay BankAmericard in one lump sum or in monthly installments at a 15% annual interest rate...