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t'kV-jv. 3 aWaw A RESPONSIBLE METROPOLITAN NEWSPAPER 100th YEAR, NO. 29 MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1973 15 DAILY, $3.75 A MONTH 1 Nixon Uses Lost' From List BART Line Sharp New Budget Hits A WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon demanded death for dozens of federal spending programs today, called on Congress for a rigid 1974 budget ceiling of $268.7 billion, and cautioned that greater spending would mean higher taxes, higher interest rates, renewed inflation, or all three. I oppose these alternatives; with a firm rein on spending, none of them is roup IP A T1 Defense Budget2nd Biggest MfCf Richmond Opened By HARRE W. DEMORO Tribune Staff Writer The Richmond extension of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District was dedicated this morning and a six-car ceremonial train began the first official run.

through Berkeley to Oakland. The train left Richmond three minutes after its scheduled 10 a.m. departure. In the cab was trainman Vernell Davis. The train picked up speed and rolled past the back yards of Richmond.

A few minutes before, BART Vice President Nello Bianco cut a blue ribbon across the front of the fare collection machines at Richmond. As he cut the ribbon, Bianco said: This is the greatest day for the city of Richmond. Bianco, a Richmond councilman, said the arrival of BART in the city was a major factor See Back Page, Col. 6 Education Grants in A Package WASHINGTON (AP) -President Nixon renewed his budget request to Congress today to tie together more than 30 elementary and secondary education forumula grants into a single special revenue-sharing package. The proposal, which quickly flunked the legislative test last year, would earmark money for disadvantaged children, the handicapped, vocational education, impact aid and support services.

States would be given greater flexibility in spending the money. Budget outlays for education in the Department 'of Health, Education and Welfare totaled $5.1 billion, or $182 million more than anticipated spending during the current fiscal year ending June 30. But the amount is $170 million less than was budgeted originally for fiscal 1973. The combined Labor-HEW budget for the current year was vetoed twice, and both departments are spending under lower levels through a continuing resolution. The education budget again proposed elimination of $336.5 million in so-called impact aid to districts for the schooling of children of federal employes who do not live on federal property.

In higher education, the new budget reflected a shift in emphasis from supporting colleges to directly assisting the students. A supplemental request of See Back Page, Col. 1 Ax in necessary, Nixon said in his fiscal 1974 budget message, sent to the new Congress as the foremost of the three major annual presidential message. The document lived up to advance billing as an ax job on many social, health, housing, education, and antipoverty programs of his Democrat-i predecessors programs Nixon said had failed after a fair trial. Despite the domestic cutbacks, the budget called for $81.1 billion of military outlays, the second biggest defense budget in history even with the peace agreement in Vietnam.

It provided no funds for reconstruction of South Vietnam. Nixon called his budget a turning point in national policy though still written in the familiar red ink a deficit this year and a deficit in fiscal 1974. But the President pointed to 113 program cutbacks and terminations, worth $6.5 billion in savings in this fiscal year alone, and told the lawmakers: The 1974 budget is the clear evidence of the kind of change in direction demanded by the great majority of the American people. No longer will power flow inexorably to Washington." The figures some of them leaked in advance by Nixon himself were: For fiscal 1973: Outlays $249.8 billion, receipts $225 billion. For fiscal 1974: Outlays $268.7 billion, receipts $256 billion.

Nixon invited an intensified power struggle with the Dem-ocratic-controlled Congress not only on spending but on two other old battle fronts. He urged the bundling of 70 federal a i programs into four broad special revenue-sharing programs for the states and cities, with less federal control. And he repeated his call for a drastic governmental reorganization which Congress has resisted for two years. A thorough overhaul of the federal bureaucracy is long overdue, and I am determined to accomplish it, the President said. Nixon proposed no new spending programs.

Yet the 1974 budget will bring an increase i spending over the year that ends June See Back Page, Col. 1 Wife Asks For Facts On Pilot The list of American prisoners in Southeast Asia is unacceptable and incomplete, according to a spokeswoman for a Bay Area POW organization. The list issued Saturday by the Communists does not account for a number of men who are known to have been prisoners, said Mrs. Bernice Smith, whose Air Force husband was downed over Laos in June, 1966. At a press conference in San Francisco today Mrs.

Smith pointed out, we were led to believe that there would be a list from Laos of prisoners and men missing in action. But their names were not on the list. Mrs. Smith also said that the official list of American POWs in North Vietnam contains 587 names, but there are only 555 on the list made public Saturday. There were 109 men known to be prisoners of the Viet Cong, she said, but only 99 names appeared on that list.

We find these lists unacceptable and incomplete. We demand a full accounting of those men still alive and held prisoner in Southeast Asia, Mrs. Smith stressed. We cannot allow the American people to let these men remain anonymous, forgotten and unaccounted for, she said. Mrs.

Smiths husband, Col. Harding E. Smith, has been listed as missing in action for 6 years. He was piloting a C-47 gunship when he was shot down over Laos. Mrs.

Smith says she has no confirmation as to whether her husband is a POW. The allegations of an incomplete POW list are made, Mrs. Smith said, based on photographs of men captured in North Vietnam and on names given over Radio Hanoi. These names, she added, did not appear on the list released Saturday. Although it will be impossible to account for all the 1,300 Americans missing in action, Mrs.

Smith said, it does not appear that any great efforts will be made by the Communists to determine the fate of these men. Hussein's U.S. Trip AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -Hussein and Queen Alia will visit the United States next week. The Royal Palace announced yesterday that the king is scheduled to call on President Nixon at the White House next Tuesday. Despair Turns Info Joy Mrs.

Beatrice Williams of Memphis, first was told that her husband. Air Force Capt. James Williams, was not on a list of pris-. oners of war scheduled for release. Mrs.

Williams, was frantic, but later the Air Force unsnarled its own error and informed her that her husband was on the list. This is how she reacted (AP) U.S. Seeks Word on Laos Men WASHINGTON, (AP) The Defense Department said today 56 American servicemen previously carried by the United States as prisoners of war remain unaccounted 0 by North Vietnam. Pentagon spokesman Jerry Friedheim said their names are not on the two lists we have received so far. These lists, handed to U.S.

officials in Paris Saturday by the North Vietnamese, identified 555 U.S. fighting men held in Communist prison camps in North and South Vietnam as well as the names of 55 POWs the Communists said died in captivity. In turning over these lists, the Communists also failed to furnish information on Americans taken prisoner in Laos or provide clues to the fate of more than 1,300 Americans still missing in action throughout Southeast Asia. The United States is pinning hopes on an expected account ing of those GIs lost in Laos to swell the total of U.S. fighting men known to be prisoners of the Communists.

Friedheim said the Laotian problem i being discussed with the North Vietnamese through diplomatic channels in Paris. We do expect to receive a list, Friedheim said. We hope to have it shortly. If necessary, he said, Maj. Gen.

Gilbert H. Woodward, chief U.S. representative to the temporary four-power joint military commission supervising the cease-fire, would raise the issue at the groups first meeting. The question, of the missing, Friedheim said, will be pursued in coming months with the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong by going over the list of missing, name by name, to obtain information on their whereabouts. In identifying by name the 555 American POWs in North and South Vietnam to be released by Communists within the 60-day period following the cease-fire, the Pentagon said North Vietnam also reported that 55 POWs died in captivity.

He said every effort will be made to learn the cause of death in each case. The dead include 22 Army men, 9 Navy, 16 from the Air Force and 8 Marines. The 555 Americans awaiting freedom include 76 Army, 135 Navy, 318 Air Force and 26 Marines. Notification of relatives of the living, the dead and those still missing was completed by casualty assistance officers yesterday within 24 hours List of POWs, Page 32 after the POW list was received by the Pentagon from Paris. The Defense Department previously listed 591 American servicemen held as prisoners.

Few of the 1,334 previously carried as missing were on the list 0 living provided by North Vietnam. This was a bitter disappointment to Pentagon and families of the missing, many of whom waited for as long hs eight years with the slim hope that their men would turn up as prisoners and some day return home. The largest organization of POW-MIA families says it is gravely concerned that Hanoi has provided no list of those captured in Laos. Phyllis Galanti, board chairman of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia, told a news conference in Washington yesterday: At this stage, we confidently expect that Hie list of names will be forthcoming soon. Cong Delegates Stall at 4-Party Talks in Saigon Reds Refuse to Present Papers SAIGON (AP) The Viet Cong delegation refused at two sessions today to present its credentials to the four-party ioint military commission, stalling the entire peacekeeping apparatus, a.

source close to the. talks said. A third meeting was called for tonight in efforts to resolve the presentation of credentials and another diplomatic snag. Nearly 150 additional North Vietnamese delegates flown from Hanoi to Saigon aboard 0 U.S. Air Force C130 transports staged a plane sit-in at a Son Nhut air baser apparently refusing to fjp out customs and immigra tion forms.

It was learned that U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker had personally intervened for the second time in two days in efforts to resolve the haggling. The four parties the Unit-e States, South Vietnam, North Vietnam and the Viet Cong met for a total of three hours in morning and afternoon sessions but accomplished absolutely nothing, the source said. It was jabber, jabber, jabber, he added. The United States, South Vietnam and North Vietnam presented their credentials at the first commission meeting attended by all parties in the morning, the source said, but the Viet Cong refused, without citing a reason.

The protocol on the joint commission makes no mention of credentials. The stalled conference the four parties marked the By FRED S. HOFFMAN WASHINGTON (AP) The first peacetime national defense budget in 12 years will be the second biggest in history. President Nixon today outlined an $81.1 billion spending program for national defense in the next fiscal year starting July 1. This will rank second only to the record $81.6 billion for fighting around the globe and developing the first atomic bomb in 1945, the last year of World War II.

The fiscal 1974 spending plan marks a jump of $4.7 billion over the current year, even though the United States will be out of the Vietnam war and the 2.2 million Americans in uniform will be the smallest number in 24 years. Personnel costs, including pay, housing, medical care, education and other services, account for about 56 per cent of the defense budget, Nixon said. Nixon said that despite var-i reductions in over-all weapons economies the spending curve will go up next year because of pay boosts for an all-volunteer force and what he called normal price increases. Furthermore, the President forecast a-still bigger defense budget totaling $85.5 billion in fiscal 1975, the year after next, for the same reasons. Carried through Nixons arguments for his defense budget was the theme that military strength is needed to promote successful negotiations with the Russians and Chinese looking toward a more peaceful and secure world.

In the past four years we have demonstrated that there can be meaningful negotiations only if we maintain adequate military strength and effective partnership with our allies, Nixon said. In implementing our strategy for peace, we have significantly improved ouMfe5'' lations with the Soviet Union and the Peoples Republic of China. At the same, time, in accord with the Nixon Doc- trine, our allies have assumed a greater share of the burden0 for theirbwn defense. These developments, togeth- 5 er with what Nixon said was increased effectiveness of i weapons, have enabled the 1 United States to reduce our military forces without jeopar- dizing our strength or abando- 5 ning our commitments. Any further reductions the size and composition of the armed forces, Nixon add- ed, depends upon achieving effective arms-limitation agreements.

The budget contemplates spending $79-billion by the Defense Department next year and $2.4 billion by the Atomic Energy Commission which produces nuclear warheads for missiles and other weapons. Although the $81.1 billion earmarked for defense spending next year is $500 million below the 1945 figure, there has been considerable inflation since. 1116,1945 defense budget, at todays dollar values, would run more than $180 billion. The new budget contemplates improvements U.S. See Back Page, Col.

1 On the Inside Violations of Peace Charged By RAYMOND LAWRENCE Foreign News Analyst In defiance of the Vietnam cease-fire, violations of agreement on both sides are widespread and continuing. South Vietnamese military reported nearly 500 violations Communist forces since the cease-fire went into effect Saturday morning. The Viet Cong charged the South Vietnamese with unceasingly violating the ceasefire agreement by military ac-t i 0 throughout South Vietnam and contended its own forces have completely carried out the agreement. As the international peacekeeping forces began arriving in Saigon, its officials express hopes of getting teams of observers into the field by tomorrow. The Associated Press said reports of sharp fighting all over the South came into Saigon.

In Quang Tri province near the demilitarized zone artillery barrages like those before the truce continued. Small but bloody battles were Umbrellas To Blossom All Week another rainstorm in what is already the wettest season in many a year brought some moisture to the Bay Area today. The current precipitation began about 2 a.m. and by sunrise about .21 of an inch had fallen, bringing the seasons total to 19.50 inches. (The normal total rainfall to date is 9.91 inches; last year on this day 6.38 inches had fallen in Oakland.) More rain was expected tonight and tomorrow, and the Weather Service was predicting that th rainfall could be heavy at times.

The weather front hit the Northern California coast during the night and is one of two fronts threatening-t area. The second front, the U.S. Weather Service said, is still some 600 miles out to sea but moving this way. The violations of the ceasefire only illustrate one of the arduous tasks pertaining 1 0 the execution of the peace agreement. The post-truce fighting is inspired by the intent on both sides to seize as much control of villages and hamlets as it can before the international observer teams are deployed.

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49ers dicker for No. 1 draft pick. Page 33. Orville Moody feels Page 35. Anniversary of gold discovery celebrated at Coloma.

Page 13. Lily Alberts, poet-artist, treasures life. Page 4. Camanche Park debt tops $250,000 mark. Page 7.

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