European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 04, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday september 4, 1967 the stars and stripes Mcnamara s spending pruned by Congress Washington a Al though Congress is poised to approve the largest single appropriation Bill in history the $69.9 billion defense Money measure includes Sharp inroads into de sense Secretary Robert s. Mcnamara s spending authority. Military personnel costs category into which Mcnamara and key subordinates have dipped often in the past for funds for special projects bore the Brunt of the congressional pruning. $215 million Cuttle Senate appropriations committee chopped $215 million from the More than $21 billion asked for military personnel costs. The panel slashed another $30million from a special emergency fund and a separate Contin gency fund under the defense Secretary s direct  appropriations commit tee s formal report to the Senate said each of the military serv ices had been overstating need for personnel funds in recent years and then using the extra Money to meet later pay raises and for funding other  the shifting or trans Fer of funds voted for one de sense purpose to another is Rou Tine. Mcnamara or his subordinates ask for what the Pentagon terms reprogramming and then holds closed meetings wit congressional committees for Advance  such transfers Aren t publicized because they involve some major military policy or procurement which Pentagon officials classify As secret. The $25 million Cut in the emergency funds available to the defense Secretary was i Money for research and development. This has been $125 Mil lion in recent years and the president s budget and the House approved the amount. 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Critics crowds missing is Venice film Vest dead Venice a what has happened to the Venice film Festi Val As it dragged into its second week sunday the once glittering and action packed event seems to be having trouble convincing the movie crowd it still exists. Only a handful of critics Al most All italians have turned out for some of the afternoon previews reserved for them. At the Public showings at night non italian movies have trouble fill ing half the  glamorous crowd of stars and aspiring starlets was for the most part missing during the festival s laborious first  a bosom was bared to pop Ping flashbulbs on the Lido abroad strand. The closest to it was an explanation by actress Sylva Voscina the festival s patroness of Why she posed nude for Playboy recently. She called it an act of  a daily candidate for front Page space in the italia press the doings at the movie Palace have been mainly Rele gated to the inside movie Sec  festival does t even seem to be controversial any  year the French delegation stormed out of la Battaglia Cli Alger the Battle of Algier the italian film that eventually won the Golden lion award. This year festival director Luigi Chiarini s exclusion of two documentaries with opposing views on Vietnam caused some argument but no  the unusual absence of any films in the running for the top prize from the United states the soviet Union and Japan failed to drum up any serious polemics. What has happened to the festival is a major shift in the film selection process. For the firs time this year the festival re served the right to reject film submitted by countries As official  turned Down the russian films because the one it wanted was t submitted and the Japan Ese films because of alleged mediocrity. The american mov ies Chiarini claims Are out be cause big . Producers Are afraid to enter High budget films that might be embarrassingly beaten by Low Cost productions. Instead the festival has gone in for works by Novice directors and Avant Garde films dealing with deep social problems or  first works Are among the 15 competing for the Golden lion. They Are shockers dealing with White racism dutchman by briton Anthony Harvey immigrant smuggling of Salto by France s Christian de Chalone and ruthless financial pressure on Young people Mah Leiten by Edgar Reitz of West Ger Many. A common complaint of the critics was that the first week was filled with unexciting an sometimes amateurish attempts to Shock with some films Dis playing a clearly socialist tint. Baton Rouge la. Up former Alabama gov. George Wallace continuing his Battle for states rights said saturday that Alabama is considering using police Power to override fed eral courts and protect its , Here to address the . Junior chamber of com Merce Dixie Institute banquet said his wife gov. Lurleen Wal lace will ask other Southern governors to support the  m tired of political Hacks like Earl Warren and Hugo Lack running my life and my children s life said  Are sick and tired of fed eral judges. Playing god on the court benches he said. The fiery former governor said the term police Power was a theory and that political concepts can t Tell the visitors without a scoreboard Anadarko. Okla. Up publisher Wallace Kidd re ported a complaint about lie daily news dropping its list ing of drunks in police  Reader said lie could t Tell whether he had any rela Tives in town for the annual american Indian exposition. Would be used to enforce it rather than Law enforcement officers. It s the right of the state to protect the safety health and morals of its people he said. But Wallace did not spell out How Alabama would put the theory into operation. He said these of police Power would be sought because of the breakdown of state control Over Public Edu cation. Alabama is going to obey the court orders whether it likes them or not said Wallace but we Don t have to like them and i can Tell you we Don t like  nearing decision Wallace said he would be candidate for president in 1968 if the democrats and Republican continue their policy of what he called  said he would reach a final decision by the first of next year. He said if he ran he would have a vice presidential candidate with  be decide to run Wallace said we will  Wallace spoke briefly of riots across the nation of calling for a constitutional convention to revise re apportionment and of Domestic protests against the Vietnam War