PARIS On the peace front - Paris - another exercise in polemics today. For two-and-a-half llours - tlae Communist side saying 'no" to every America,a peace ~ propoJal,,sayiNg NO - in every coNceivable faslaioN - till _,,,,,_ - finally - oa,r turn. Henry Cabot Lodge telli,.g tlae Commu,.ists - there will ,.ever be peace uNtil they learra at last to say "yes". A,.d lie added - "10e have dorae all that 10e ca,a do by ourselves to bring a negotiated peace to Vietnam - no10 it is time for you to respo,.tl." VIETNAM Sojar though - the only apparent Communist response - in a series of new terrorist attacks in Viehaam. Including a bomb blast today - at an America,a operated school for South Viet,aamese service men in Saigo,a; killi,ag at least ,ai,ae - and woundi,ag scores more. This ht tl,e wake of that earlier attack - on a U S hospital complex at Cam Rania Bay; killi,ag at least two - wou11dirag fifty s e v e ,. o t la er s • HOUSE The biggest most comprehensive tax reform bill i,a US history - half way home to,aight. Wi,a,ahag speedy passage i,a the House after o,aly two• days of ~ JI l floor debate. ~aded 11104t for the Se11ate - a,ad perhaps the toughest :1..,, I n,:a leg of its jour,ae y. 1'1 a,ay case, tl1e bill as presently writte,a - coveri,ag tllree 11•,adred a,ad sixty eight pages; i11 effect, rewriti11g tlle e11tire i11come tax law - as filst adopted i,a Ni,aetee,a Tllirtee,a. Witli its main tlirust - an effo'f't at cloai,ag •P seve,a billio11 dolla,s wo,tll of tax loop laoles; •laile l,a,adi,ag bacll ,ai,ae billio11 - i,a tlie fo'f'm of t,adivld•al WHITE HOUSE For Chancellor Kiesinger of l' ' es t Germany - a warm, rulor/aa reception today at the White House. Including the pomp and circumstance befitti,ag a state isit - also, a homrly touch or two. Preside,at Nixon telli,ag his guest - tlle U,aited "'~ States will "probably sta,ad with you as frie,adsA.as allies." Further remarkhag that Mrs Nixon's mother - was a ,aative-bor,s German. The President addhtg: "Every place you go in tlie U•ited Slates - you will receive a war• welcome." TIie Cha11cellor, for his part - •oti•g tl,at two of his gra•d-daugllters are America,s citize•s_;i•deed, Washi11gto,s res ide,sts. A11d lie poi,ated them o"t - KJatclli,ag from a fro11t row position alo,tg with their mother. MOSCOW FOLLOW WHITE ROUSE Mea,uolrile, i• Mo cow, the subject of Berli,e was comi,1g to the fore agai,a . . , _ The tltree Ambassadors from the U S, 1 Brita;,,, !Hid FraNce - all malti,eg direct approaches today to the Soviet ForeigN MiNistry. Urgi,eg speedy talks ON ways and means of improvi,ag access to that divided city - while at the same time i,nprovh,g relations betwt 1N East aNd West I &Q Germa,ey. Tltis - as you k,aow - ;,. response to a·receNt speeclt by Soviet Premier Gromyko; who said tlle Soviet UNION is ready at last - "to excllange oplnio,as o,. llow to preve,at ,ao111 and In tl,e future - complicatio,as arou,.d 'lltst Berli,a." BUCHAREST B11charest again - second day of Ruma11ia's Te11th Comma,11ist Party Co,agress. Time for tle clttef in Soviet delegate - to ge~lais first two cents. Secretary Ko11stanti11 Kat•slaev of tlae Soviet Central Committee - war,ai,ag agai,ast a "go it alo11e" policy by R•ma,eia or _ . a,ay ot1,er Commu11ist cou,atry. Asserti,eg tlat R•••ia will use "a,ay effort· to cou,ater excessive i,adepe,ule,ace or dis•,aity witlrirt tlae &11• Sor:ialist rcnks. A,ad l,e added tlaat tlae US policy of "buildi,ag bridges" to Easter,a Europe - ts a "perfidious tactic" not to be tolerated. ,,. ca,rre,et ~ ADD BUCHAREST ~ However the Ruma,sia,a~quick to demo,sstrate - tlley're ,sot buyi,sg. Following Katushev's speecll - 11Jitlr tire readi,ag of a telegram from Red Clri,aa. A telegram wislai,ag Ruma,sia all success - i,s 'fuote, its defe,sse of ,satio,sal indepe,sde,sce." At which point - tire Soviet _.., delegate staged a brief walkout. TRANSPORT As predicted, President Nixon presented to Con gr e s today - - a new ten b ill ion dollar mass . . . trans i t program. In the President's own words - a plan that "would help lo r e placed, improve, and expand local bus and rail._. and subway systems"throughout America. Badly needed - said he - if we are ever to cope with "the increasing congestion of our roads - and, 1 seal.I strangulation of our cities." The President adding: "We will never be able to build highways fast enough - until we make public aa, transportation an attracttv ey propose the money, c me, instead - imilar levies. ahead , / MARS The question - one that has plagued the mind of man down through the ages. "Is there life on Mars?" And the answer today - a qualified "yes". This accordi,eg to Dr. George Pimentel of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Pasadena, California who bases his conclusio,e on .. infrared spectroscop'i:'expe-riments - car-ried out by Ma-riner Seven 011 its recent "fly-by" of Ma-rs. D-r. Pimentel saying th~ space 1IIIL craft clearly detected gaseous methane and ammonia - near the South Pola-r c a p of th a t mys t e ri o us Red pl a n e t. A n d he add e d : "We can't refrain from speculation - that they might be of biological origin." Dr. Norman Horowitz - another J P L scientist as - agreei,ig in part with Dr. Pimentel. Saying: "We have~ yet found no incompatible evidence - against some evolutiona-ry extension of life as we know it." The only thing - said he: "If there are inhabitants on Mars _ - - -- then these inhabitants must be microbes)" l ~ - WASHINGTON The nation's first "truth in packaging law" - set to take effect September Tenth. So annottnced today - by the Federal Trade Commission which added that the new law will cover virtually every type of packaged product - destined for human consumption or else personal care; everything from baby food to rutabaga - from peanut butter to pumpkin seeds; with only five exceptions - meat, dairy products, soft drinks, alcohol and tobacco. What will all this mean to the average housewife? Simply an exact measure - of the quantity of the product she is buying - or considering buying_; ~ to a,ad i,acludi11g weight and actual souare f o o t a g e ~ · n item such as tissues, ._,. ,. paper..._. • . , towels and so on. ,?---endt:ll::g_ o,ace ~ and for all th e confusion .af p, •P«, i q so- called "giant" :, ,ll "king sized" or "Jamil sized" products. Althtu,glt flu, fit's, je • .,, eeks, I stu,/H' ct - a s Ii 1 tztle might cam~ ic, -ha II dy.