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Moscow returnees agree Olympic boycott would hurt Reds By MARIE 00000 Mrs. Goldman and her husband, Mark, home while teaching Russian in the Mid- M1DDLET0WN - Th* ornate spires and spent two weeks touring the Soviet Union in dletown schools. domes of Moscow's Red Square are virtually September. President Carter's call last week It was Lukyanova, the Goldmans said, who all encased in wooden scaffolding, travelers for a U.S. boycott of the Olympics to protest first roused their interest in the Moscow Olym- report. the Russian Invasion of Afghanistan, and the pics. Back In October 1171, she gave them a Buildings throughout the city and In the U.S. Olympic Committee's vote Saturday to golden pin adorned with the Olympic symbol of Soviet Union's papular tourist areas are get- support the president, prompted the Goldmans five intersecting circles. ting facelifts from sandblasting. to ponder what the Olympic preparations they "The Russians have spent billions promot- Souvenir shops have sprouted even in the saw last fail mean to the Soviet people — and ing and preparing for the Olympics," Mrs. country's outlying provinces, and they sell Goldman said. "Almost every building you thousands of little golden pins, festive posters, Related stories, page* 2,9 . see Is scaffolded. Even the monuments in all pocketbooks and key chains touting the 1M0 the squares are being redone." Summer Olympics. And souvenir shops, she reported, seem to In fact, says Pearl Goldman, preparations the kind of blow it would be to them to have the proliferate everywhere — in the center of for the Moscow Olympics have pulled the games boycotted or moved out of Moscow. Although they disagree on whether to Moscow, of course, but also In far-off aeacoast Russian people together more than any event provinces. since World War II. And a U.S. boycott of the boycott the games — Mrs. Goldman supports a games, she asserts, would hurt the Russians boycott and her husband does not, they agree "The thing that Americans must re- both in their pocketbooks and in their hearts. that a pullout by the U.S. and other countries member," she said, "is that these souvenirs "The Russian people are ecstatic about the would be a tremendous blow to Soviet pride and shops and renovations are all being done games," says Mrs. Goldman, who is president and economics. with government money. If the Olympics were of the Middletown Chapter of American Field The Goldmans are quite familiar with Rus- moved out of Russia, the government will have Service. "The excitement is everywhere — sian culture. Mrs. Goldman was born In Vil- wasted all those billions." posters are everywhere, banners are strung up nius, Lithuania, once an independent nation And if the U.S. does boycott the games, and MOSCOW PREPARED — Mr. and Mr. Mark Goldman of Middletown display across the streets, this Olympic fever they but now a Soviet "republic." And for three American and other Western tourists do not go Olympic poster and souvenir they purchased during a recent trip to the Soviet have has pulled them together more than any- months in 1(78, the Goldmans were hosts to to Moscow to pour money into the new Union. The Goldmans report that preparations for the I960 Summer Olympics thing since World War II." Ada Lukyanova, a Russian who lived in their See Boycott, page 1 In Moscow have created "Olympic Fever" there. The Daily Register VOL. 102 NO. 181 SHREWSBURY, N.J. MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 1980 20 CENTS Defense is Carter budget priority WASHINGTON (AP) - President Carter today sends The J981 budget represents a reordering of the adminis- Carter did propose a new program to improve education Congress a 1981 budget totaling $616 billion that proposes tration's priorities, increasing defense outlays by $15.3 billion and job skills for 500,000 unemployed youths, and he asked _ .«ajor new spending Tor the military while putting a partial lid t: ' "- "*et military buildup and other global turmoil, Congress to provide funds Ki in •••— --"^ - t.^«<J3n the" on domestic spending, despite his own predictions of sluggish while proposing over-all restraint on domestic expenditures to number of subsidized housing units for low-income families. Budget synopsis economic growth and high unemployment. help control Inflation. But the bulk of that spending would be in future years, not in WASHINGTON (AP) — Here is an agency-by-agency The budget does not include any tax cuts, which Carter "The uncertain and sometimes hostile world we live in Ml. breakdown on spending as proposed by President Carter warned could worsen inflation, already projected at 10.4 requires that we continue to rebuild our defense forces," the He proposed defense outlays of $142.7 billion, a 3.3 in- in his fiscal 1981 budget plan: percent this year. He declared the budget is "prudent and president said in his budget message to Congress. "I cannot crease over 1980, which includes funds for a Rapid Deploy- DEFENSE: responsible" and "will prepare America for the new dec- ignore the major increases in Soviet military spending that ment Force for emergency dispatch to crisis areas like the —Outlays of $142.7 billion, up $15.3 billion; Carter's ade." have taken place inexorably over the past 20 years." Persian Gulf, as well as increased spending for NATO forces, major budget change, aimed at strengthening U.S. mili- It provides for a deficit of $16 billion, making it the 12th The budget also includes increased spending for in- the new MX ballistic missile, the bomber-launched cruise tary might to counter Soviet threats. Funds for' Rapid consecutive budget to show red ink. telligence activities, one official said, but the amount was not missile and a new super-tank Deployment Force for use in crisis areas; stronger Charles L. Schultze, the president's chief economic ad- made known as outlays for intelligence purposes are secret. See Carter budget, page I NATO force; bomber-launched cruise missile. Doubles funding for development of MX mobile intercontinental ballistic missile. Budget effects, page 3 EDUCATION: Defense cut of pie: 24 cents —Outlays of $13.5 billion, up $600 million. Includes viser, said the Carter budget foresees a mild recession in 1980, increase of $400 million to $7.8 billion to aid low-income making it the first presidential budget ever "to forecast a By The Associated Press in his budget, but over-all fed- the 1980 budget to individuals plan. students. Aid to college students cut $200 million to $5 recession." The recession is expected in the first half of the President Carter's budget eral spending is projected to in the form of Social Security Likewise, individual billion. year, followed by a slow economic recovery continuing for fiscal 1981 calls for spend- grow so much that the checks, welfare benefits, vet- Americans will contribute ENERGY: through 1981. ing 24 cents out of every fed- amount spent proportionally erans' pensions and the like. the most to paying for the -Outlays of $8.7 billion, up $1 billion. Includes $1.71 Total spending in the budget Is equal to $2,775 for each eral dollar on defense, the on defense, emergency pre- Those benefit payments will federal budget. Forty-five billion to increase coal and other fossil production, in- American, an increase of $239 in per capita spending over same level as in his past two paredness and related items take up 43 cents of every fed- cents of every dollar will crease of $209 million; $330 million to convert coal to fiscal 1980, for which total outlays are estimated at $564 budget plans. will not change. eral dollar in 1981, up from 39 liquid fuel, $656 million for solar energy research and come from individual income development. Page 3 billion. Carter said virtually all of the increase is due to .Carter has called for an Carter's budget will pro- cents in the 1980 budget and taxes, up from 43 cents in the inflation. increase in defense spending vide the largest increase over 37 cents in the 1979 spending fiscal 1980 budget and 38 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY: cents in fiscal 1979. —Outlays of $5.2 billion, up $200 million. Plan to establish $1.6 billion Oil and Hazardous Waste Superfund Social Security taxes still to clean up chemical dumps, oil and chemical companies will provide 30 cents of each required to put up most of the money. After 8-day search dollar the government takes Page 3 in — the same as in the cur- HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: rent fiscal year — although —Outlays of $219.3 billion, up $25.5 billion, the biggest tax rates and the maximum increase for any department. Most of the increase is Dog sprung from trap personal income subject to required by law; 36 million retired or disabled Americans the Social Security tax will go then eluded them on a two-mile chase to receive Social Security increases. The average month- By MARIE COCCO up. ly benefit will rise to $350 from $315 Page i TINTON FALLS - Eight days of chas- through the woods. For the next seven Taxes on business profits ing and waiting ended successfully yester- days, the employees put out bait and a will kick in 12 cents of each HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT: day morning when employees of the As- harmless box trap and stalked the animal. dollar the government col- —Outlays of $11.8 billion, up $200 million. Carter sociated Humane Societies rescued a 10- Finally, about 11 a.m. yesterday, they lects — down from 13 cents, seeking increase of $5.3 billion in budget authority — to month-old dog from a leg trap that captured it in a fenced-in yard near the which had remained un- $34 billion — to support 50,000 additional subsidized snapped its right paw and severely injured housing units to total 300,000.Pag* 5 school.