}aturday, January 18, 1975

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SAIGON, South Vietnam (X)-'
A 2,000-man South Vienamese
force spearheaded by more than
50 armored vehicles launched a
counteroffensive along the Cam-
bodian border yesterday.
The operation is designed to
block a North Vietnamese divi-
sion from thrusting acros the
western Mekong Delta and cap-
turing another province, t h e
commanding general said.
In Cambodia, Comm nist-led
Influenze
epidemic.
reported
ALTANTA (AP) - An influenza
epidemic centered in the south-
eastern United States, is caus-
ing deaths exceeding the epi-
demic threshold for the first
time this winter, the National
Center for Disease Control an-
nounced here yesterday.
The center's Morbidity and
Mortality Weekly Report also
said that outbreaks of the Type
A Port Chalmers influenza
strain are spreading to t h e
Midwest and the New England
"states.
A center spokesperson said
the number of deaths expected
weekly for the first and second
weeks of January was approxi-
mately 530. An increase of
about 50 deaths above this de-
termines an epidemic level.

rebels ambushed a resupply
convoy to the besieged Mekong
River town of Neak Luong,
kiling or wounding 20 govern-
ment soldiers and badly dam-
aging three boats, military
sources said. They said the in-
surgents also shelled N e a k
Luong, 32 miles southeast of
Phnom Penh, killing or wound-
ing 15 civilians. The town has
been under siege since N e w
Year's Eve.
Field reports said the South
Vietnamese force met stiff re-
sistance as it sought to retake
one of three outposts overrun
by troops of a North Vietnam-
ese Division earlier this month.
A South Vietnamese A37
bomber and a helicopter were
shot down supporting the drive
55 miles west of Saigon and with-
in one mile of the Cambodian
border, field reports said. Heavy
South Vietnamese air and ar-
tillery strikes were reported in
the region.
Brig. Gen. Huynh Van Lac,
commander of South Vietnam's
9th Infantry Division, told news-
men that about 5,000 North Viet-
namese troops from the Sth Di-
vision operating from Cambod-
ian bases launched their cam-
paign last month.
He said their objective was
to seize Kien Tuong Province
and push farther south into the
western Mekong Delta to lank
up with another North Vietnam-
ese and Viet Cong division in
Dinh Tuong Province, collect-
ing the rice harvest along the
way. This would give them a
long supply corridor through the
western Mekong Delta.

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Protest!
Thousands of Greek Cypriot students protest the British decision to allow 10,000 Turkish
Cypriot refugees to be evacuated from a British base on Cyprus to Turkey. The refugees
would later return to the Turkish held portion of the island. One girl was killed during
the demonstration when she was struck by a British truck. The British used tear gas and
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Energy plan hits
windfall oil profits

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Volume LXXXV, No. 90
Saturday, January 18, 1975
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WASHINGTON (P) - Presi-
dent Ford's energy prog am
proposes to tax away most of
the windfall profits reaped by
U.S. oil companies from price
increases imposed by the inter-
national oil producers.
However, the companies woold
gradually get to keep more
and more of the windfall money,
under Ford's plan.
Since the Organization of Pe-
troleum Exporting Countries
(OPEC) quadrupled its oil
prices about a year ago, U.S.
oil companies have nearly mat-
ched the increase with nikes in
the charge for domestic oil
free of price controls, reaping
some $4.2 billion in urearned
before-tax profits. .
President Ford announced on
Wednesday he would erd federal
price controls on the remaining
75 per cent of U.S. oil on April!
1, unless Congress stops him.
Without a windfall profits tox,
the oil companies, unearned
benefits then could zoom to
around $17.4 billion be oe tax-:
es.
Ford has asked Coagress to
impose a windfall profits tax
by April 1 that would divert
most of the companies' sudden
new revenue into the U.S.
Treasury.
The administration figures its
tax proposal would recover

about 88 per cent of the wind-;
fall profits on oil, allwing the
oil industry some profit increase
to cover rising costs and to
stimulate investment in explora-
tion and development of Pew
posed to reduce the windfall
supplies.
The administration also pro-
tax, month by month, in a grad-
ual phase-out allowing the com-
panies to keep increasing por-
tions of the profits.
Eric Zauser, an assisvant ad-
ministrator of the Fede:al En-
ergy Administration, told re-{
porters Thursday the phas't out
would take a long time but thw
schedule has not yet boen de-
termined.
The proposal is similar to the
windfall tax propoied a y e a rj
ago, on which Congress failed to
act. Other promosals have sug-
gested allowing compnies to
keep windfall profits that are
plowed back into investment in
higher oil produztion, but Presi-j
dent Ford's plan includes no
such provision.
Seymour Kiekowky, deputy'
director of the Treasury D e -
partment's Office of Tax Pol-
icy, estimated that if oil now
under the $5.25-?er-arrel con-
trolled price is allowed to rise to
$11 per barrel, an oil company
would get to keep about 84
cents

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