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mw ri 12 DakUnb2i(Tribuiie Jan. 29, 1973 Nixon Budget Calls for Cuts in Many Programs community development. Mayors, governors and local pressure groups who want to save a doomed day-care or health program, for instance, might be able to do so by using revenue-sharing money; they are likely to apply heat on Congress to provide such funds. The upturn in defense spending, to a total only half a billion dollars smaller than the peak of warfare and atom-bomD outlays of 1945, also is likely to strike sparks. The total includes military foreign aid, atomic energy and other indirect defense outlays, but the share for the Pentagon alone is up $4.2 billion from Continued from Page 1 30, largely because of military pay and price increases and what Nixon called uncontrollable items including a increase i interest costs on the climbing federal debt.

The $6.5 billion in cutbacks and withholding of funds al-ready appropriated throws down a challenge to Congress, where every program has its loyal supporters, and makes it doubtful that Nixon can make his ceilings stick. However, he gains extra leverage by insisting on the four special revenue-sharing plans for education, law enforcement, training and by directors William Chester, Nello Bianco, and Richmond Mayor Al Silva. BART Dedicates Richmond Line History's Second Biggest Budget Stokes. Obviously delighted that the Richmond segment was being opened only four months after the 28-mile Oak-land-Fremont line began, Stokes said the colorful stations on the line alone make it worth riding. He said passengers will be taken close to the wooden hills of Albany and El Cerrito and will have a sweeping view of San Francisco Bay, San Francisco skyline and the Golden Gate.

The Richmond-Oakland route is an extension of Oakland-Fremont line. Trains will run on the entire 39-mile Richmond-Fremont and stop at all 18 stations. Riders will not transfer from one line to the other. For the pioneering Southern Alameda County commuters, the only change will be the destination signs. Northbound trains will flash Richmond rather than MacArthur and the outside loading platforms will be used at MacArthur rather than the inside zones.

Ten-minute service with eight trains was provided on the Oakland-Fremont link. The Fremont-Richmond route will have 10 minute intervals but it will take an additional four trains to keep the schedule. The lines first test is expected tomorrow morning when commuters are able to use it. Stokes said he expected some sightseers to ride today. Continued from Page 1 in the redevelopment of Richmond.

Among those aboard the ceremonial train was Biancos wife, Betty, who spent half of her time peering through the cab door watching the speedometer. With her were Biancos sons, Robert and Gary, and Biancos father, Dominic. At 10:13 a.m., the train left the El Cerrito Plaza elevated station after picking up the persons who participated in ceremonies at that station among them about 50 school children representing the cities of El Cerrito and Albany. The ceremonial run ended at 10:35 a.m. at the MacArth-ur Station in Oakland.

One minute later, a four-car train from Fremont pulled into the MacArthur Station. The destination signs in the stations flashed: Richmond. And the Richmond line was opened to paying passengers. Trains were poised at Richmond and Hayward yards this morning to inaugurate the service. Before 5 a.m., a usual, trains were dispatched from Hayward yard to the Union City and Fremont stations where they began their runs to MacArthur station in Oakland.

Some people said we had so many troubles wed never open another line, remarked BART General Manager B.R. this year, to a total of $79 billiom he Defense Department said moreover that it ma have to ask Congress for more money to pay for mine-clearing, troop withdrawals, and other closing-out costs in Vietnam. Other sources said privately that funds for Vietnams reconstruction also are likely to be asked later on. But Secretary of the Treasury' George Shultz told newsmen that if new costs are put into the budget, something else will have to come out. The booming economy foreseen for calendar 1973 makes possible the curtailment of some work and welfare programs, the Nixon message said.

Shultz said the govern-m nt expects joblessness to decline from the present 5.2 per cent rate to 4.5 per cent by the end of the year. In a nationwide radio address from his Key Biscayne, home yesterday, Nixon made an appeal for support: Every member of the Congress gets enomous pressure from special interests to spend your money for what they want. And so I ask you to bac up those congressmen and those senators, whether Democrats or Republicans, who have the courage to vote against higher spending. They hear from the special interests, let them hear from you, he said. Nixon called for phasing out all federal hospital construction under the Hill-Burton act and some other health programs.

He provided no more funds after June 30 for the $1-billion-a-year program of public service employment, now supporting 130,000 municipal jobs. The Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), centerpiece agency of the late President Lyndon B. Johnsons war on poverty, was ordered liquidated. Some programs were killed, some sent to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and other agencies. Another Johnson pet, the 1965 Aid to Education act, was earmarked for deep culs.

Nixon scuttled his own proposal for welfare reform; the plan, embracing family-assistance payments, was not mentioned. Nixon has pressed it Watergate Prosecution, Defense Rest WASHINGTON (AP) The defense and prosecution rested their cases in the Watergate trial today as the political espionage case which became an issue in the 1972 presidential elections neared the jury. Following closing arguments this afternoon, U.S. i Judge John J. Sirica was scheduled to deliver his instructions to the jury tomor-r morning and turn the case over to the panel of eight women and four men.

Attorneys for the two remaining defendants rested after calling 11 witnesses in 40 minutes, concentrating on character witnesses. The government had called 51 witnesses, including seven members of President Nixons White House and campaign staffs and two officials of the Democratic Party. The case grew out of the break-in and alleged bugging of the Democratic headquarters in the Watergate building complex last June 17. Cease-Fire Violations -Charged Continued from Page 1 the Communists are under instructions to keep fighting until the foreign observers are in place and to continue where there are none. But this problem is small compared to the question of how the adversaries are going to work out the political settlement as provided in the peace agreement and the role that the Viet Cong will play in the affairs of the Saigon government.

In other words, will there be a continuation of the hostile attitudes of the past that will sooner or later result in even more serious The prognosis Is in doubt but apparently most Americans feel relieved and satisfied that they are extricated from an endless and frustrating on Congress without success for four years. The President also announced that the 18-month freeze on approvals of subsidized low-income rental and sale housing will be broadened to apply to seven other housing programs urban renewal, model cities, water and sewer grants, rehabilitation loans for rundown housing, neighborhood-facilities grants, public-facilities loans and open-space grants. The long list of programs to be halted, revised or phased out includes the disappointments and failures among the governments human-resources programs, Nixon said; they were given the benefit of every doubt before the ax fell upon them. He added: But only by halting the unproductive programs here and now can we assure ourselves of the money needed to pursue those programs that will get results. Painting a grim picture of future tax boosts if spending goes unchecked, Nixon said that, if Congress exceeds his budget totals, it must find financing for the additional amount, otherwise the legislation will revive inflationary pressures.

And it will be subject to veto, the President added. I will do everything in my power to avert the need for a tax increase, but I cannot do it alone. The cooperation of Congress in controlling total spending is absolutely essential. The budget shows a scanty full-employment balance; that is, its outlays roughly match revenues the Treasury would receive if the economy were operating at the full-employment rate of about 4 per cent unemployment. Economists consider a full-employment balance noninflationary.

Nixon provided estimates of income and outgo two years hence a long-range budget projection never before provided and this shows a full-employment balance in fiscal 1975 also, with outlays reaching $288 billion and receipts $290 billion. With apparent intent to set a cost-cutting example, Nixon announced a shakeup of his executive office under which five of its agencies will be abolished or moved elsewhere and its staff will be cut from the present 4,250 to 1,686 in 1974. The five are the OEO, with 1.935 employes to be distributed among several agencies; Office of Science and Technology, whose duties go to the National Science Foundation; the Office of Consumer Affairs, shifted to HEW; the Office of Emergency Preparedness, whose functions will be shifted to other agencies; and the National Aeronautics and Space Council, eliminated. This was the budgets impact on some major segments of government: SPACE Instead of the expected cuts, the space program won a $74-million increase in funds for 1974, to a total of $3,133 billion. The reusuable space shuttle will get $475 million instead of the present $200 million.

Skylab, a three-man experimental space station, also is being pushed forward. It will test mans ability to live and work in space for up to 56 days. HEALTH The President invited a tjjfsle with Congress by calling' for an end to federal hospital construction under the Hill-Burton program, but his budget calls for an over-all increase of 14 per cent in outlays for health programs, mostly on Medicare and Medicaid. The program which helped finance establishment of 515 commumtyfhealtfi centers in recent years would be terminated. A $91-million increase i funds for cancer research and $28 million more for heart research-programs favored Nixon-are requested.

But other research programs of the National Institutes of Health would be decreased or held even. WELFARE In tacitly conceding defeat for i welfare-reform plans, the budget says Washington instead will help states remove ineligibles from the welfare rolls and eliminate inequities in the system. A cutback of $1.2 billion in state-federal public-assistance programs is anticipate, for a total of $12.7 billion. Most of the decline will result from the transfer of aged, blind and disabled beneficiaries to a newly federalized program in the Social Security system next Jan. 1.

Long Wait Ends For Many Wives BART line opened Cong Balk In Talks At Saigon Continued from Page 1 first time the United States, North and South Vietnam and the Viet Cong met face to face across a conference table in Saigon. Two U.S. Air Force C130 transport planes landed shortly before noon at Hanois Gia Lam Airport, which American jets had bombed only last month. They picked up the 142 North Vietnamese officers and men who will beef the Joint Military Commission, then flew them back to Tan Son Nhut while members of the commission who arrived here yesterday were holding their initial meeting on base. But the second contingent of North Vietnamese did not disembark from the planes.

Sev-e hours after they landed they were reported still aboard. U.S. and North Vietnamese officials held several short conferences at planeside. The International Commission of Control and Supervision also held its first meet-i A Canadian delegate, Michel Gauvin, told a news conference that representatives from Hungary, Indonesia and Canada are ready to move out now. He said the fourth member of the supervisory force, Poland, will be ready by tomorrow and thus observers will be in the countryside within 48 hours of cease-fire, as provided by agreement signed Saturday in Paris.

President's Aide Chapin Is Quitting KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) Dwight Chapin, President Nixons appointments secretary whose name cropped up in the controversy over political has decided to leave the White House staff, a Presidential spokesman said today. Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler repeatedly stressed that Chapin was not asked to leave the administration. Ziegler said news accounts suggesting that are absolutely unfounded and absolutely untrue.

Responding newsmens questions, Ziegler said Chapin had received a number of fine offers in the business world from a number of very fine companies. Chapin has decided to accept of the offers and leave Nixons service sometime in the spring, Ziegler safd. The spokesman said Chapin's decision was made for the best interest of his familys and his career and was not influenced by the publicity about his purported role in alleged espionage activities by Republicans in last years campaign. Senate Votes For Richardson WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate today confirmed President Nixons nomination of Elliot L. Richardson to be secretary of defense.

The vote was 81-1, with only Sen. James voting against. Richardson, who has been secretary of health, education and welfare, succeeds Melvin R. Laird in the Pentagon Cabinet Earlier, the Senate Labor Committee approved without a dissenting vote the. nomination of Peter J.

Brennan, New York labor be secretary of labor. 10 Elderly Patients Die in Fire pleasantvillet (AP) Ten persons were killed early today when a fire raced through Streets Rest Home, a two-story wood-frame home for the elderly, fire officials said. Six other persons escaped, Fire Chief Walt S. Schlundt said. All the victims were believed to be elderly, he added.

Schlundt said a list of the homes residents and employes indicated that the 10 victims and the six persons who escaped were the only individuals in the bulding at the time of the blaze. The building, estimated to be at least 50 years old, was destroyed by the blaze. The homes fire alarm did not work, Schlundt said. He said it had been inspected recently as required by state law. The first alarm was turned i by Absecon Police Sgt James Mong, who spotted the blaze while patrolling a street that serves as the Pleasant-ville-Absecon border.

The dead were removed from the structure by several rescue squads. Although several bodies were burned, officials theorized all had died from suffocation. 5 Newsmen Still Listed As Missing WASHINGTON (AP) -None of the five missing American journalists has turned up on North Vietnams list of captured American civilians. Four of the journalists disappeared in Cambodia and 0 in South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese list doesnt include anybody from Cambodia.

The State Department lists these U.S. journalists as missing or captured: Welles Hangen, NBC, missing in Cambodia since April 30, 17.0 Dana Stone, photographer on contract with CBS, missing 1 Cambodia since April 6, 1970. Sean Flynn, on photo contract; to Time, missing in Cambodia since April 6, 1970. Terry Reynolds, UPI, missing in Cambodia since April 26, 1972. Alexander Shimkin, Newsweek, missing in South Viet-n a since July 12, 1972.

Shimkin was not on the North Vietnamese list of captured civilians, either alive or dead, in South Vietnam. Shimkin is believed to have died, a State Department spokesman said. ftATO Allies OK Talks on Troop Cuts BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) The United States and 11 of its North Atlantic allies decided today to go to Vienna for the opening of talks with the Communist bloc mutual and balanced force reductions in central Europe. The talks in the Austrian capital begin Wedneday. The decision of the NATO group was announced in a statement after a meeting of the North Atlantic Council, where all 15 members of the alliance are represented.

France, Portugal And Iceland will not take part in the talks. The Western countries had invited East Germany, Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovak'-. f-k- he talks. mothballing and scrapping older planes and ships which are costly to operate and of marginal value. Continuing the phaseout of B52 bombers, the Air Force will retire two squadrons of about 30 earlier-model planes.

This reflects fact-of-life retirements of B52s that have reached the end of their structural life, the Pentagon said. The Navy, meanwhile, will lay up or junk a net of 53 surface warhsips which have outlived their usefulness. Most are destroyers and diesel-powered submarines. The Navys carrier force will be reduced to 15 by decommissioning two elderly ships, the Intrepid and the Ti-conderoga, and adding the new Nimitz nuclear-propelled carrier to the fleet. The Ticonderoga was the first carrier to launch a i strikes against North Vietnam, in August 1964 during the Tonkin Gulf incident.

Offsetting the layups of over-age ships will be construction of new ships and upgrading of others. There are 22 such modernized vessels in the new budget. Additions and subtractions will leave the Navy with a net of 335 surface warships, attack submaries and amphibious assault vessels. The basic combat structure of the Army and the Marine Corps will remain unchanged next year. The Army will hold on to its 13 divisions, the Marine Corps to its three divisions.

Tactical airpower also will remain unchanged with a total of 38 combat wings injhe Air Force, Navy and Marines. The Navy and Marines together will $25.6 billion next year, followed by the Air Force with $24.9 billion and the Army with 21.8 billion. The remainder will be distributed among a variety of defense agencies. For the Navy, the budget provides funds to five more nuclear-powered attack submarines, modernize three guided missile frigates and to start on the first of a new class of sea control ships which will be relatively small vessels capable carrying vertical-takeoff planes and helicopters. Nixon said the Navy will deploy its new F14 fleet fighter, a plane being built under a contract that Grumman Aircraft Corp.

is challenging on grounds the price is too low. The Air Force will buy more of the new F15 fighter planes which Nixon said has combat performance and maneuverability designed exceed any other lgjewn aircraft." The Marines will buy nearly 140 of the latest F4 Phantom jets starting next year, and A4 bombers and a British built Harrier vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft to support is ground forces. For the Army. Nixon proposed purchase of more modern M60 tanks and antitank missiles, as well as additional Hawk antiaircraft missiles to defend combat troops in the battlefield area. The planned force of men for fiscal 1974 represents a decrease 560,000 from this year.

The major cutbacks in military manpower have been made already as the United States gradually withdrew from the Vietnam War. The new level will be more than 1.3 million men fewer than at the Vietnam War peak in June 1968. Nixon responded to congres- sional charges that military manpower was not being used to its greatest effect. He said intensive efforts have been made to increase the efficient use of available personnel. Continued from Page 1 strategic missiles, but involves few brand-new weapons.

Nixon asked for money to begin development of a submarine-launched cruise missile which defense officials have said is needed as a hedge in the current round of nuclear -arms limitation negotiations with the Russians. He proposed continuing the development of a new class of ballistic missile submarines called Trident, which will be armed with 6,000 mile range weapons. The 1974 plan includes funds to build the first of a 10-sub Trident fleet. Also included is money to continue conversion of land-based Minuteman missiles and present missile submarines to multiple warhead systems, an advance the Russians have not yet achieved. In line with the first phase of the U.S.

Soviet nuclear-arms limitation agreement, the United States will complete only one Safeguard antimissile complex, located at Grand Fords, N.D. The Nixon budget omits any request for money to buld anABM defense for Washington, which is permitted under SALT agreement. Congress refused funds last year. However, Nixon said the Pentagon will continue to plan for the deployment of a defense of the capital. In addition to strategic nu-clear striking forces, Nixon proposed further modernization of conventional Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force elements with improved weapons.

While the strategic nuclear power of the United States and the Soviet Union is in approximate balance, Nixon said, it is unrealistic to expect that the risk of escalation to strategic nuclear war will deter either aggression with conventional forces or against smaller countries, Nixon said. Documents distributed by the Pentagon show that the Trident missile-submarine program was allotted $1.7 billion, the biggest single amount for any weapons system in the next budget. This is a jump of $917 million from the current year. While buying advanced equipment, the Pentagon is Education Grants Tied Together Continued from Page 1 $622 million and the full authorization of $959 million in fiscal 1974 was recommended for student grants, based upon need. A student would be eligible for up to $1,400 a year, less his or her family's ability to pay.

More assistance would available for black colleges to develop programs, bilingual education for Spanish-speaking students and Indian education. Outlays to aid school districts under federal court or-d to desegregate would make a whopping jump from $69.3 million to $202.4 million. In a projected phaseout by 1978 of Follow Through, designed help Head Start graduates keep up once they are in school, no new children would enrolled in fiscal 1974 but no youngsters now in program would be dropped. Federal spending would be cut back or eliminated in the areas teacher education, school and college libraries, interest subsidies on new college loans, drug abuse educa-t on and drop-out prevention. By LEE GOULD Associated Press Writer James Kasler, of Indianapolis, who was shot down over Hanoi in 1966.

The relatives of men captive or missing in North and South Vietnam were notified by military assistance officers, with a chaplain present and in person when possible. Yesterday was five years long, said George Lyon, of Indianapolis. The Lyons wait ended with news that their son, Air Force Capt. James Lyon, wasnt on the list. Theres still a flicker of hope because we know there are men whose names arent on the list.

Weve got to stay with it, he said, expressing a faint hope shared by others. You just keep hoping, thats all, said'1 Mrs. Craig McDonald, of San Mateo, Cal-i Her son, Maj. Kurt C. McDonald, was shot down in December of 1964 and is the A i Force officer missing longest in action.

His name was not on the list. We have hope we were told there was a possibility he could be out there in the jungles, cr maybe some family had taken him in, said Mrs. W. E. Williams, Clearwater, of her son, Army Sgt.

Edward Williams, 22. His helicopter was shot down last Easier Sunday and he is listed as missing inaction. Only God knows how I feel, said Mrs. Joanne Flora of Frederick, when, after more than 5 years, she learned that her husband, S. Sgt.

Carroll E. Flora was on the list of POWs. She had not heard from him since he was declared missing in the jungles of South Vietnam July 21, 1967. The long hours of waiting ended in happiness for the family of Air Force Capt. David Mott.

The kids wanted me to waJyvthem when I got any news, said Phyllis Mott, of Moorhead, of children. Andres, 7, and David 6. They just smiled and laughed when I told them daddy would be coming home. For many of the American families who waited, the final hours were the longest of their lives, ending in a gamut of emotion from jubilance to bitterness. The relatives of American soldiers believed held prisoner by North Vietnam learned Saturday' and yesterday whether their men were on the list released Hanoi.

Great, great relief, is the way Mrs. Richard Stratton, Palo Alto, put it after learning her POW husbands name was on the list. It was finally over, she said. It was an emotion shared by some who did not celebrate. By those who learned their husbands or fathers or sons were not on the list.

Its been seven years and I was told at the beginning it would have to be a miracle for him to return, that there was really no hope, said Carol Reitman, who was told that her husband, Air Force Maj. Thomas Reitman was not included. Its just bke we finally really believe it. Many talked of making new lives, of rebuilding old relationships. I was in the sixth grade when he left and Im a senior in high school now, said Robert Byron Fuller, 17, of Jacksonville, after hearing tht his Navy commander father was returning.

It will take a lot of getting used to. Mrs. Stratton, 38, has not seen her husband for six years and three months. Navy Cmdr. Stratton was on the list.

It isnt easy to raise children alone and Im so very thankful that Dick will back to share the joys and the difficulties of raising a family of boys. Their three boys are ages 11, 9 and 7. All I can say is weil take the rest of our lives getting caught up on everything if we have to. We have the rest of our lives, said Martha Easier, wife of Air Force Col..