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Connally sees
biggest deficit
By MICHAEL L. POSNER
WASHINGTON (UPl)—Trea
siry Secretary John B. Connal
ly predicts the administration
may run up a budget deficit of
up to S2B billion this fiscal year
—the highest one-year red ink
spending since World War 11.
Connally made his estimate
as the focus on economic
developments turned to Capitol
Hill where President Nixon was
scheduled to address a joint
session of Congress at 12:30
p.m. EDT.
The fiscal year that ended
June 30 saw a deficit of $23.2
billion. Connally gave his
outlook for the current business
year to the House Ways and
Means Committee Tuesday as
the panel opened its hearing on
Nixon’s tax plans for stimulat
ing the economy.
During his appearance Con
nally urged Congress to ap
prove the tax reduction plans
intact, likening the individual
and corporate tax cuts as
needed like “fingers on a
hand.”
Nixon has proposed eliminat
ing the 7 per cent auto excise
tax; advancing to 1972, instead
of 1973, previously scheduled
increases in the personal
exemption and standard deduc
tions; implementing a 10 per
cent investment tax credit; and
granting tax deferrals for U.S.
exporters.
Nixon’s tax plans would
reduce government tax receipts
by $5.8 billion in the govern
ment year ending next July 1.
On a calendar year basis, the
reductions total $9.5 billion.
In other developments:
—The stock market continued
to move up, with the Dow Jones
Industrial Average picking up
4.46 to 920.93 Wednesday.
—Sen. Robert J. Dole of
Kansas, the GOP national
chairman, said Democratic
presidential contenders, who
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economic action Nixon took, are
now attacking the President out
of ambition and partisanship.
—The Justice Department
told a federal court that there
would be a massive dislocation
of the administration’s econom
ic plan if the nation’s 650,000
postal workers were exempted
from the wage freeze. Unions
representing the postal workers
have gone to court against the
freeze.
Law ford
to wed
Mary Rowan
HOLLYWOOD (UPl)—Peter
Lawford, 48, and Mary Rowan,
21, daughter of comedian Dan
Rowan, will be married Oct. 31,
the actor announced Wednes
day.
Lawford said his son, Chris,
16, would act as best man. The
wedding date is Miss Rowan’s
22nd birthday.
Lawford was divorced by
Patricia Kennedy in Gooding,
Idaho, in 1966 ending 11 years
of marriage. Mrs. Lawford,
aster of the late President
John F. Kennedy, was granted
custody of their four children.
Rowan, of television’s “Row
an and Martin’s Laugh-In,”
said of the planned marriage,
“I’ve known Peter for a
number of years and found him
to be a gentleman. He and
Mary have been going steadily
for a year now and seem to
know one another very well. I’d
rather see her marry a man
closer to her own age than
mine. But they are in love.”
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Kennedy Center rings
with bravos, applause
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Overwhelmed,
Mrs. Rose Kennedy stood proudly in the
red velvet Presidential box taking her
bows. Bravos and applause rocked the
rafters at the brilliant opening of the John
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts.
“I’m thrilled,” said the 81-year-old
matriarch of the Kennedy family. “I know
the President—my son—would have been,
too.”
Mrs. Kennedy led a joyful procession to
the new S7O million center on the Potomac
Wednesday night to hear the much
heralded opening performance—“ Mass”
by composer Leonard Bernstein.
The late President’s widow, Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis, who had commissioned
“Mass”, remained at her home on the
Greek Island of Skorpios “for personal and
private” reasons.
Mrs. Kennedy and her family were
ecstatic in their praise of the unorthodox
dramatic religious theatre piece. She
thought it was “beautiful...lovely stu
pendous.”
“I was overwhelmed,” she told
reporters. “I’d like to see it two or three
times.”
Mrs. Kennedy, a devout Catholic, was
one of the few persons who stood when the
celebrant on stage, said: “Let us rise and
pray.”
But her reaction was not unanimous.
Tart-tongued octengenarian Alice
Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of
President Theodore Roosevelt, said: “I
enjoyed it enormously. Next to ‘Hair’ it
was my favorite maudlin thing.”
Asked what impressed her the most, she
smiled and said: “Nothing.”
The Rev. Gilbert Hartke, chairman of the
Drama Department at Catholic
University, questioned the composer’s
knowledge of Catholic liturgy. Not even a
believer,” said Father Hartke. “He
doesn’t know anything about the mass.”
Bernstein is Jewish.
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Army wins round
FT. MEADE, Md. (UPI)—
The prosecution has won a
preliminary legal round in its
effort to prove that Col. Oran
K. Henderson received reports
of atrocities at My Lai in 1968
but failed to follow up with a
thorough investigation.
The military judge at Hender
son’s court-martial, Col. Peter
S. Wondolowski, ruled Wednes
day after a round of arguments
by the government and Hender
son’s chief defense attorneys
that a witness could describe
the angry complaints of a
helicopter pilot about operations
he said he found on the ground
in the sweep during which an
estimated 50 to over 100
unarmed civilians were killed.
The witness, Maj. Thelmar A.
Moe, now stationed at Ft.
Leavenworth, Kan., then told
Thursday, September 9
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the jury that he heard Wo Hugh
Thompson, the pilot, report
heatedly to his commanding
officer on at least two incidents
which he said disturbed him.
Moe testified Thompson twice
confronted Maj. Frederic
Watke, his commanding officer.
One time, Moe said, Thompson
told of a sergeant who was
going to wound a child
Thompson was evacuating.
Moe said that at another
point Thompson told Watke how
he talked to a lieutenant about
“women and possibly old men”
and how he “wanted to get
them out of there.”
“I would say Mr. Thompson
was angry, indignant and
emotional,” Moe said when
questioned about Thompson’s
attitude and demeanor at the
time.