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Boston Evening Globe Friday, January 29, 1971 14 15.7 billion allocated Where it Where it comes INDIVIDUAL SOCIAL INCOME INSURANCE development hiked WxV 8 NATIONAL DEFENSE CORP. INCOME TAXES TAXES OTHERlg() INTEREST TAXES BORROWING 5t' OTHER EXCISE TAXES 4K I Am I to develop a fast-breeder atomic power "reactor "to help meet growing electric power needs." However, the AEC is ticketed for reduced all spending in both the research and development fields with estimates for 1 fiscal 1972 placed at $1.25 billion, compared with the current $1.3 billion. Referring to $43 million reductions in AEC's de-' veiopment area, a government report said: "These reductions are primarily in the underground testing of nuclear weapons, in the NERVA nuclear rocket engine development program, which will be reduced in scope; and in the development of small electric power systems for space the Smithsonian Institution. An analysis of the science and technology budget showed these items as examples of new efforts toward solving major national problems: A new $100 million program to speed cancer, research. A $28 million, 100 percent, increase in funds for highway research safety.

A $66 million increase in the National Science Foundation's support of a "broad range of environmental research" an increase amounting to 60 percent over the current level. $18 million in increased funds for the Atomic Energy Commission's program Navy, new weaponry get shot in arm in defense budget up $lb Research, Associated Press WASHINGTON The nation's vast research and development programs will get $15.7 billion in fiscal 1972 under President Nixon's proposed budget, a $400 million increase over the current level. The budget sought in fields of science and medicine was described by the Administration as reflecting "a further posi- tive and concerted effort to apply science and technology to assist in achieving a broad range of national goals" from a cure for cancer to improved highway safety. Among the budget's highlights: A "major growth" increase of 14.7 percent in total obligations for the support of research and development in universities and colleges a source of anxiety on many campuses. The proposed increase from $1.65 billion to $1.89 billion is almost double the 8.7 percent increase provided last year.

A larger role than heretofore for the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the total Federal support of research. The foundation's budget is increased from last year's $506 million to a record $622 million-with an administration call for NSF to channel much of the proposed increase into supporting research on pressing national problems. The budget requests sent to Congress today cover research and development funding for 18 major agencies, ranging from the Defense and Justice departments, the civilian space agency, the Health, Education and Welfare Department to HUMAN RESOURCES PHYSICAL RESOURCES Asia war for the coming year so as not to tip his hand on troop withdrawal plans. Pentagon sources said war costs had fallen to below $14 billion a year half the 1968-69 highwater mark when the war cost $28.8 billion. The number of men under arms will continue to decrease in fiscal 1972.

When Mr. Nixon took office there were 3.5 million men in uniform. Last month that number was down to 2.9 million and it will drop to 2.5 million by mid-1972 under Mr. Nixon's budget. The Administration apparently will make the target since it is already six months ahead of the draw-down schedule it prepared a year ago.

The men remaining in a trimmed down military will be better paid. The budget contains $2.4 billion for pay raises, already approved by Congress, in the new fiscal year. Nixon unveils def icit budget BUDGET Continued from Page 1 For example, an urban development fund would be created by combining the Model Cities Program ($450 million), urban renewal ($1.3 billion), grants for water and sewer facilities ($170 million), rehabilitation loans ($36 million) and $150 million in new money. The combined $2.1 billion total would be allocated by a formula yet to be announced. Administration officials have said the formulas for "special" revenue-sharing would fit the needs of the various state and local governments as compared to the "general" revenue-sharing which would be accomplished largely on a per-capita basis.

Other revenue-sharing funds proposed were for rural development, $1 billion; education, $3 billion; job training, $2 billion; law enforcement $500 million, and transportation, $2.6 billion. However, the Administration is not anticipating congressional approval before Jan. 1, 1972, which would mean that these full amounts would not be spent in the 1972 fiscal year which ends June 30, 1972. In the first six months of the fiscal year, the President proposes to continue the delivery of Federal aid through existing grant programs. Among the features of the budget revealed today: For the second consecutive year the Administration said defense spending would constitute less of the budget dollar (34 cents) than funds for "human resources" (42 cents), but the Defense Department's budget is up for 1972, from $74.5 billion in 1971 to $76 billion.

Expenditures on the military involvement in Indochina were hinted to be in the neighborhood of $10 billion or less, though officials said the President did not want exact figures released for security reasons. The Safeguard Anti-Ballistic Missile system, which officials said may be held back to stimulate the Strategic Arms Limitation talks (SALT), is due for expenditures of about $1 billion, or the same level as last year. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare plans to step up grants to needy college students by $643 million over last year and to double from $1 billion to $2.5 billion the funds for student loans. Defense spending, though $1.5 billion higher than last year, would be essentially the same as the fiscal year 1964 budget which preceded the Vietnam build-up when considered on the inflated value of 1972 dollars. Total Federal research and development would be up 7.6 percent to $16.7 million with research and development in colleges and universities rising 14.7 percent to $1,896 million.

Funds for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration would be reduced by $27 million. Large cuts would be made in the manned space program and research and development. Funds for the skylab space station and the Grand Tour exploratory shots would be increased. Water pollution control spending would be hiked from $535 million in 1971 to $1,131 billion in 1972. Authority will be sought to spend $6 billion on grants for municipal waste treatment plants through 1974.

The President followed through on his pledge to ask an additional $100 million to seek a cure for cancer O'Neill appoints Diehl to head office of Whip aeer he actuallv rjartici- pated in sports and once, J. when he was only 14, he pitched a 27-inning base- ball game from a sitting position. A native of Cambridge, United Press International WASHINGTON Proposing a big boost for the Navy and more research into weapons of the future, President Nixon asked Congress today to increase the defense budget next year by $1.1 billion to $77.5 billion. The increased budget request followed two years in which the President had sharply cut back defense outlays from a Vietnam War high of $81.2 billion in 1969. In addition to proposing to spend $1.1 billion more on defense in the fiscal year beginning July 1, the Administration asked Congress for permission to take on an additional $6 billion worth of new programs.

Since so many military programs take a long time to prepare, those funds would not actually be paid out for some years to come. A shot in the arm for the Navy is sought in the new budget after a two-year period during which one fourth of all its ships were taken out of service. This came while Russia's navy was growing. Mr. Nixon's budget asks Leo E.

Diehl, 57, of Belmont, former State Commissioner of Corporations and Taxation, will go to Washington to serve as secretary to Cong. Thomas P. O'Neill in the latter's capacity as House whip. A man of perseverance and bulldog courage, Diehl was struck down by polio when he was only six years old. Although deprived of the use of the lower half of his body, Diehl shunned a wheelchair as a youngster and has since got around on crutches.

Not only did he manage to get around on the crutches, but as a teen- Mr. Diehl has always been active in that city's poli- tics and has been, a close friend Congressman O'Neill since the two served in the Massachusetts House together some 35 years ago. In his new capacity Diehl, Congressman O'Neill explained, will be in charge of the House whip system. Diehl has submitted his resignation from the State i Tax Department to Gov. Sargent to take effect next week.

Highways get over half of transportation fund for $3.3 billion for new ship, construction in fiscal year 1972 more than double the average annual expenditure of shipbuilding from 1964 to 1969.. The military research program would be accelerated, working out technology for the weapons of the late '70s and for the '80s. Mr. Nixon's budget asks for almost $1 billion more for research. Only about one-fifth of that would be spent during fiscal 1972 when $7.5 billion, or about 10 percent of the defense budget, would go into research.

The increase would end a decline in effect since mid-1967. The budget also asks $1.1 billion to prepare for an all-volunteer force. Presumably the money would go into incentives for enlistment such as higher-pay and benefits but the budget message said the details would come in a bill Mr. Nixon would send congress later. "Vietnam" rarely appears in the budget and Mr.

Nixon refused, as he did a year ago, to estimate the cost of the Southeast search and grant program, which includes 11 new projects to cope with the problem of drinking drivers. He requested $281 million for the Supersonic (SST) which still faces a tough battle in Congress. Opponents' last month managed to block action on President Nixon's 1971 request for funds to build two prototypes of the 1800 mile an hour hplane. 1800 mile an hour plane, sought to continue operation of the government's two high speed train' demonstrations the metro-liner between Washington and New York and the turbo train between Boston and New York. to quit in '72 the Harvard house system with house masters, tutors and deans living in former Radcliffe dormitories.

As a member of the advisory boards of the Harvard School of Education and its Medical School, she has exerted a powerful voice for full participation of women at Harvard. As the first woman scientist appointed to the Atomic Energy Commission in 1964, she put into practice her beliefs that "our greatest waste of talent is women." Nixon did not say who the prospective customer might be but they presumably would be offered to the State of Virginia. The Highway Trust Fund took the biggest slice from the transportation budget $4.6 billion for continued construction of the interstate highway system. Mr. Nixon told Congress in his budget message that he wanted $327 million for Mass transit grants in 1972.

"A comprehensive and efficient urban transit system is essential to the revi-talization of our cities," he said. He asked $17 million for continued financing of the newly-formed rail passen United Press International WASHINGTON A $7.7 billion transportation budget was proposed today by President Nixon, with emphasis on helping to revi talize urban mass transit systems, get the drunk driver off the road, and keep the passenger train from highballing into oblivion. To cut government expenses, however, he proposed in his fiscal 1972 budget to sell two government operated airports Washington National, one of the busiest in the nation, and ultra-modern Dulles International. Both airports are located in the Virginia suburbs outside Washington. Mr.

MRS. BUNTING i ger corporation, a quasi-government agency set up by Congress last year to operate a nationwide rail passenger network. The passenger train, down in numbers to less than 300 from a high of in 1929, has been threatened with extinction by railroad cutbacks. Mr. Nixon singled out the drunk driver for special attention.

"Federal highway safety efforts will be greatly expanded with an attack on the problem of drunk drivers, who cause half of all fatal accidents," he said. The President asked for $37 million to finance the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's re Mrs. Bunting Harvard merger are being worked out. Her leadership has covered the controversial student sit-ins of 1969, the beginning of co-residential housing, and the evolution of six successive plans for merger with Harvard. Major contributions have been Mrs.

Bunting's establishment of The Institute for Independent Study, to allow girted women to resume or launch new careers. She also led the drive for a new library (Hilles) and for instituting -W( 1 'II fr Raclcliff e's By Phyllis W. Coons Globe Staff Radcliffe's fifth president, Mrs. Mary Ingraham Bunting, has announced that she plans to retire as of June, 1972. She voiced her decision at a meeting of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees yesterday afternoon.

Mrs. Bunting said that she planned to resign after ten years but that she will remain for one more as details for the Radcliffe- FBI agent By Robert Walsh Globe Staff FBI Agent Robert Shee-han today in Suffolk Superior Court refused to disclose the name of an informant in the Brink's armed robbery trial on the grounds that it was confidential information. Sheehan's refusal to answer a question directed to him by defense counsel Usher Moren came in the third week of Suffolk Superior Court trial in which three men are charged with the half million dollar armed robbery of a Brink's truck in Boston's North End in 1968. mum on Brink's tipster Ever notice how only rich old guys at S.S. Pierce Scotch? the Club sip Space program cut again, but 3 shots still on Associated Press WASHINGTON President Nixon cut another $217 million from the space program today for fiscal 1972, but stuck with plans to follow Sunday's Apollo 14, launching with three more moon landings.

He asked Congress to spend $3,151 billion in the year beginning July 1, including substantial amounts to get work started on the next tech-nologicl breakthrough, the space shuttle. A A fourth defendant is charged with being an accessory before the fact of the robbery. Atty. Moren asked Shee-han to give him the name of the person who telephoned the FBI and later Sheehan made a call about this to Sgt. Frank Walsh of the Boston Police Department.

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