December 14, 1972

NYC Council on Dec 13 unanimously approves bill requiring all future city employes to pay full city resident income tax; measure, which Mayor Lindsay's office says will be signed into law, would require future job applicants from outside city to agree to pay full resident tax as condition of employment; Lindsay hails bill as 'fair taxation' measure; munic union leaders have opposed bill as discriminatory because suburbanites working for city would pay full taxes for services they use only partially; as of next Jan, job applicants would have to agree to pay full tax, which would go into effect in '74; no present employe would be affected by bill; Councilman M Merola estimates that about 30% of present city work force of 300,000 resides outside city

Dec 14: Kissinger, Dec 13, leaves Paris for US, ending round of cease-fire talks with Le Duc Tho; says he will exch messages with Tho as to whether a further meeting is necessary; says he is leaving Deputy Asst Sec W H Sullivan and 2 staff members in Paris to meet under the direction of Amb Porter with experts of the other side; sources in Paris say there has been some progress in talks on details, clarifying language and assuring a simultaneous cease-fire in Laos, though not in Cambodia; say the central issue, pol power in S Vietnam, remains unsettled; Kissinger or Gen Haig is expected to go to Saigon for another round of talks with Pres Thieu; Kissinger and Tho met for 6 hrs, Dec 13, longest session in current series of talks; conviction grows among those who have watched talks that only chance US has of getting Thieu to approve accord acceptable to Hanoi will come if Nixon decides to sign on a fixed date, regardless of Saigon; Le Duc Tho illus saying good-by to Kissinger; Hanoi delegate Nguyen Phuong illus

NYC and NYS are expected to show decline in number of welfare recipients in Oct after some clients are ruled ineligible because of 20% increases in Soc Security benefits

Pres Pompidou, in J Reston int, Paris, discusses US relations with Eur in terms of Eur security; says France, along with other Eur nations, welcomes better US-USSR relations but says there are fundamental questions in Eur about all this; says Eurs wonder whether US and USSR will not be tempted to reach agreements between themselves that would minimize the influence of Eur, to organize a peace that might be in their own interests, leaving Eur in a secondary position; says Washington and Moscow deny any such intention; says this is another reason why it is important for nations to consult; says there is suspicion in W Eur that US and USSR might be tempted to negotiate some kind of demilitarized zone in heart of Eur that might seem reasonable to them but raise fundamental questions for security of Eur; says Eur security, after all, is more fundamental to W Eur nations than to either US or USSR

IATA officials rept on Dec 13 that negotiations by 40 airlines in Geneva, seeking to set new trans-Atlantic airline fares, have collapsed; say difficulty stems from CAB ruling, which allows any traveler to fly low-cost nonscheduled charters, and effort by BOAC to offer very low round-trip trans-Atlantic fares to compete with charter flights