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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1973
Page
2
President Nixon outlines a trimmed budget with targeted cuts in health housing and education while pursuing a large defense allocation. The plan omits major new programs including welfare reform and the proposed Southeast Asia reconstruction.
U S officials say at least six airmen were taken alive in Laos while 311 Americans remain missing there amid decades of bombing. Congressional reaction grows if Hanoi withholds full accounting, with Senator Percy warning of massive resistance to aid to North Vietnam unless p rinted. Families express frustration over Pentagon handling of rescue efforts and delayed confirmations.
Jackson Mississippi report says Father Joseph Lawson Howe was ordained Sunday as auxiliary bishop of the Natchez Jackson diocese, becoming the third Black Roman Catholic bishop in the United States.
President Nixon announced plans to deliver about 100 messages to Congress detailing his program to shift power from the federal to state and local governments. He will skip a traditional State of the Union address this year, preferring issue specific reports issued late this week or early next. Nixon spoke in a radio address and traveled to Grand Cayman after a Florida stay, accompanied by friend Robert Abplanalp and neighbor C G Reboco.
U S helicopter pilot WO Anthony Dal Porza, 22, of Santa Barbara California, was killed by small arms fire while on a courier mission southwest of Can Tho in the Mekong Delta. He was wounded and died today, marking the first American fatality reported in Sunday morning action.
San Antonians listed as prisoners include Elian Clinnard Baker David E. Bakhi Bley ins Juling Skianer Jayrae and others with homes in Dallas Area POWs named Jose J Anzaldua Refugio Ronald G Bliss H C Copeland Robert N Daughtrey Thomas Gordon Storey Austin and Terry Jun Uyeyama Returnees to arrive at Kelly AFB for transfer to Lackland Fort Sam Houston Army POWs to be treated at Brooke Air Force Base seventh floor at Walford Mall repurposed Families of prisoners may use base facilities and will be reunited with returnees at the hospitals.
The defense budget aims to attract and retain a professional all volunteer force by funding more than 148.6 billion in tax revenue and public money. It plans 40 billion for new weapons and repairs, supporting 45 major programs that exceed cost estimates by 17 billion. The Navy Tomcat fighter bomber climbs toward 18 million per plane, while the F4 is favored to replace the F14. Nixon seeks 1.9 billion for Trident submarines and 650 million for the Cowrth carrier, amid broader cost pressures from wage controls and inflation. The plan forecasts no immediate base closures, with emphasis on maintaining strength during arms talks with the Soviet Union.
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