- TREASURY ----- - -- From Mt. Tremblant, highest in eastern Canada again tonight. From a realm of sunshine and glistening snow, let's take a look at the world. A big survey of tax reforms coming up. As promised yesterday by President Nixon - the Treasury Department announcing today a three-fold tax reform Plan. First - to insure that "all America,as i,a similar circumsta11ce pay approximately the same amoN11t of income taxes." In other words - to close existi,eg loop- ltol es. Second - to f ac ili tate tire use of bus i11ess l•x credits - "lo leelp solve the problems of the cities ••d of our dtsadva11taged." A11d tlrird - to revise feder•l- state relationships - hopefully to ease the tax burde,e for all. Elsewhere in Washington - the President ltimself was already bllsy with a half-dozen other cltores: Meell,eg with his cabinet - also, a number of y outh groups; TREASURY - 2 visiting the Commerce Department, conferring with Roy Wilkins of the N.A.A.C.P. Consu . lting with Air Force General George Brown just back from Viet,aa>n. Then the President fl J departed tonight for Key Biscay,ae - for a brief working vacation. PARIS ---- On the peace front - Paris - a report tonight of secret contacts between opposing negotiators. These - we are told - separate and apart from formal meeting. Supposedly a continuation of earlier secret contacts that led finally to N ~ ~ t d to be an attempt~ expanded peace talks. IL- to head offl\prolo,aged deadlock} althe11gh results as yet - appare,atly ,ail. SAIGON . FOLLOW PARIS .-- ..... ---- · -- -------------- - ---- ----- M e anwhile Alli?d troops in Vietnam - were se • zing some fi v e tons of enemy war sttPPlies. These in a secret cache - some /orly miles north of Saigon. Appa · rently i-ntended to support a s · neak attack - on . . U S Army headquarters at nearby Long Binh. At the time ... back in the ~ i t a l South Thieu wa1 hnposing a crack- down and prt~sts. Ordertng the arrest re Hgi ous leader w ht> delivers a "Poli ti cal s er• o• '' solely t o ''stir up th ,, people • " JER U SALEM-CAIR 0 ---------------- In the tense Middli? East - another in the recen t series of demonscrations threatening a full scale conflagration. More than a thousand Arabs ~ % marchingA..through the streets of Occupied Jerusale"'} ~outing slogans in support of Egypt's Colonel Nasser - In Cairo, for example, the semi-official newspaper Al Ah?'a~?'edictfjff a change in U S policy unde?' the new Nixon Administrati'on ' . The U.S. will still favor Israel - said Al Ahram; adding, hoioever, that any change will be for the better - "simply because it can't be worse." tough. The new Secretary of the Interior. former Governor of Alaska reversing himself overnight. Today ordering an i mmediate . halt to all drilling operations - in California's oil polZuted San ta Barbara channel. The ban to continue - said he - until we can determine "with some certainty - tlaat we ar e ftOI risking another blow-out in tlae area." 1/ BALTIMORE FOLLOW SAN7'A BARBARA A somewhat related item from Baltimore - where tlie U S Tustice Department today filed an historic suit for the first time ever - demanding the closing of an industrial plant for reasons of air pollution. Alleged offender - an animal renderi,.g pla,.t/'-" own~d and operated b, the Bishop P:rocessing compafly at Bishop Maryla,.d. Sai~ to be i•••.,,. po1,riflg malodoro s air pollutants a ross the State Border into nearby TYLER ------- A new boom for oil rich Arabs and other desert dwellers is reported today from Tyler, Texas. Howe-Baker engineers announcing development of a miniature oil refinery - for use in conjunttion with another device called a "hydrostill." Tlie latter - an oil powered water con . verterr ,,tflPable 'f-turnlng S"1lt water or desert alkali water into fresh water - at the rate of a hundred thousand gallons a day. The process one that requires or u /sf lot of oil. Indeed, the cost · rvould be prohibitive If here ~~. in the states...\ But not so in S oil producing couatries such as Libya - where a numb er of hydrostills are already in use. Company officials adding that their market "lies in the ironic fa ct - that areas containiag eighty percent of the world!s known petroleum reserves are areas lacking in good water." An added bonus: The water maker is said t o be s o simple in de sign , s o nearly fool - Pr o of l ha t TYLER - 2 any•ody can operate it. Just set it up - we are told - and pre stol "lnslant oasis." In Ital Y , th is we e k - a s e r i es of s trikes idling a bo u t ten m ill ion w or k er s . And now, th is late s t: A strike of Italy's Association of Musicians - also "worll•rs of t It e o cc u l t ; " b o th demanding government rec o g,a it ion as a professional body - with all the rights aad privileges, accruing thereto. Leader of the strike movement - oxe Victoria Scifo - otherwise known as "tlae Sage of Tobrull;" Kilo threatens to ''lty pnotia e" tit e police a,id tlte Cari bixieri" uftless his demands are met. Anotlaer mystic mogul - the so-called "Sage of A11dalusia;" wlao off•rs to prov• the magicaa,s 's rigltt to recognition - by solvi,ig Rome's seemingly unsolvable traffic problems do it "in ten days." How - he did,i't say, Warren. Could lie be co.,,ati11g, you suppose, on "that old - hocus pocos - abacadabera - now-you-see-it-now-you -don't?" SOUTH BEND - ______ , _____ _ From the University of Notre Dame - South Bend, Indiana, comes news today of an anti-pornograplty conferen · c ~ , different'f to say tlte least. Delegates including members of a -JoN'I Citizens for Decent Literature group - also, county official8; /atlaered together to see a documentary on the problem of pornography - or so they thought. Except that tlae film that flashed on tlte screen - was a hot little ••mber called "Flamh1g creatures." A movie recently declared - objectionable - even by the Sa,preme Court. (official~ Conferenc~ JP 12 later blaming tlle 111i~-ut, A -- on a mis-labeled film can. They never the less cancelled the scheduled showing of four more so-called "avant garde" films. "Flaming creatures" provi,ag - - the flaming end.