I PARIS-SAIGON On the peace front - Paris - an apparent spl it l;OE IIPI in the Commun! t camp· on whether to accept Sa 18o n's offer_ for direct, secret talks 1th the Viet c ng. The debate - if such it can be called - forcing another day's delay in the promised Red espo nse; as the Communist "hawks" and the Co unist "doves" - decide which will prevail. Meanwhile, 1n Vietna - the latest Red offensive entered its second month - still going strong. In one engagement t y - guer lla forces storming a U .S . outpost near Saigon - killing eight. However, the ene y 1s said to have suffered staggering losses - 1n a s1 u.ltaneous series of s irmishes from the D.M.Z. to the Mekong Delta. With the number of Co mun1st dead set at two hundred and seventy-five - ov r the last twenty-four hours alone. C PITOL HILL ~te-c:to,11e1M,4~4!Ja911-t;..._ President 1xon kes it official. As pro ised - asking Congress today for a one- year extension - of the present ten per cent 1nco tax surcharge. Coupling this request wtlh a promise to sub it to Congress by next onth - a ne set of proposals for long-a aited tax refor "Taken together" - said the President - "these actions will produce the strong budget Y surplus urgently needed - to meet the current inflationary threat." Administration sources later adding that the President's new tax plan - will be aimed first and fore ost at closing ex1stamg loopholes; especially those now enjoyed by certain foundations - also, certain conglo erat s - I as so called "hobby farmers." 1 ae well · ALTE' REED __ ......... ----- · ......... L te.t alter ed--a re rt t at f~T e Pre ·de t i eohower re ain 1n c ttical condition. D C or..,, n o in p h. Gen ral I --"in heren r , ,::I ina. 11 Ho ever , they d that "evidences of con e tive heart fai ure per i t--de ite the fact t a l l appr priHte therapeu ic mea ur re bein ut'lized . " KARACH I The new ruler o f P akistan barely a day - General , (Ya-hee-ya) Yahya Khan has already wrought a seeming 1racle 1n that country. Restoring law and rd r - where once there was East and est Pakistan - where once there was the threat of c1v11 war. How did he do it? According to those in the ow - by acting t e no-nonsense professional soldier he really is. } II -c. !( General Yahya , declaring a state of martial law - threatening to shoot any trouble-makers. But perhaps more important - pledging the nation free elections as soon as possible. Thereby winning the immediate . support - of rightists, leftists, even starving peasants. HAVANA-AMSTERDAM C l ~ t o h - another U.S. airliner hijacked this y ar. At the same tie - the International Federation of Airline Pilots - eeting 1n special session at Amsterdam Vot authorization for a twenty-four worldwide pilot strike - to dramatize the "very urgent proble ot security in the air." Also voting to lnstitute boycott - against • any co~y that fails to punish a hJJacker. tmll YORK The Duke and Duchess of Windsor - back: aga . in .for their annual visit. Arriving in New York to , d . ay - aboard the liner United States. '.t'he Duches . - as always - dressed 1n the height of fashion. For a change - the Duke, too, a vision 1n up-to-the minute sartorial splendor. Wearing a w1de--lapel . ~ double-bre , asted houndstooth · - a matching houndstooth t1e ... tied 1n a Windsor knot, of course - also, a ttfo-tone shirt with spread collar · . In short, the 4p1tome of the new "Windsor Looltn 1n men's fashions - a style the Duke himself has been wearing steadily for the past thirty years or so. By the way - the Duke .. at age seventy-five was 11ap1ng a bit. "The doctor called it tendon1t1s - but I t1 Addi 11 When vou get call it just a bum hip - said he. . ng: J 0 ·' _ L 1 " JIit old - yo I ve to have some pain somtff) ace • LONDON cros the Atlantic- Britain gets its first black peer. The former Sir Learie Constantine - now Lord Constantine - taking his seat for the fir t time today in the British House of Lords. A rntive of Trinidad - once a British possession - Lord Constantine was a crackerjack crick teer 1n his earlier years. More recently - serving as Trinidad's first High Com1ssioner 1n London. Finally elevated to the peerage via the Queen's latest New Year's Honors List. By virtue of his dual citizenship - a credit to both his countries. DUNKl1UC Fro Dunkirk, New York, comes a brief 1te11 today - telling of the , death of W1111a W. Cease. The venerable gentleaan - victim of a lengthy illness. Next q\lestion: Wbh he ? Answer: The man who probably I did more th an any other - to liberate th er1can wife trom he · r hollSehold chores. Also - a boon to hungry bachelors. William W. Cease -the n who ere ted the first frozen food pies - and later the fire t frozen TV dinners . He was seventy-6ne. Mose - the Kremlin tackles the proble of alcoholism. This in an article today - 1n Komso olskaya Pravda. Advising the Russian house ife to 'react very strongly - the first time she sees her husband in a drunken condition." 11 01ve him a good scolding" - says Komsomolskaya Pravada. Adding: "If this is done - we would not have so many l,; alco holies." suming, of course, it's not the wife - who drove him to dr1n~ 1n the first place. BURIIOS AIRE~ A freak accident - report d today from Buenos Aires. Wher one Nestor Bduardo Vallalba was racing to the bank - atte pting to ke a last-minute deposit. Except that he got there too late - the bank was already 1n the process of closing. With two giant steel shutters - weighing an estiutBd ten tons - just coming down over the entrance when he tried to slip in. Unfortunately - he didn't •ke 1t. lestor Eduardo Vallalba - still clutching his deposit when the ab tt rs were raised again - but it idn't matter by then. - l