September 20, 1972

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Dem Pres candidate McGovern endorses on Sept 19 tax-credit system of providing Fed aid to parochial and other nonpublic schools; says he favors proposal endorsed by Repr Mills calling for $200 annual tax credit for each child attending nonpublic school; Nixon Adm has also supported bill, but Cong sources say there is little chance of it passing this yr

Polish Deputy Min Trepczynski elected UN Gen Assembly Pres on Sept 19; speaks; illus

US Repr Rooney defeats former Repr Lowenstein on Sept 19 in ct-ordered special primary for Dem nomination for HR seat in 14th Cong Dist, Bklyn; final, unofficial returns give Rooney a 2,415-vote edge, over twice his winning margin in June 20 primary, which was invalidated by NYS Appeals Ct because of 'massive irregularities'; Rooney obtains 15,486 votes, Lowenstein 13,071 and 3d candidate I Gross 485; voter turnout is slightly below that of June 20 contest; Lowenstein, in bitter and rambling concession speech, charged primary was characterized by new irregularities; asserts voters were 'hysterically stampeded' by charges that he was anti-Semitic and anti-Cath; illus; earlier, Rooney also charged that irregularities occurred although contest was probably most closely supervised in city's history; some of major campaign issues revd; illus of Rooney and wife greeting supporters at campaign hq; Rooney charges that Off-Track Betting Corp chmn H J Samuels covertly helped Lowenstein; turnout is fairly heavy in Bklyn Heights, Lowenstein stronghold, but very light in Fort Greene, black and Puerto Rican area where Lowenstein hoped to amass big vote; Elections Bd pres Dinkins tours dist polls; Reprs McCloskey, Riegle, Jacobs and Waldie, who backed Lowenstein, are unofficial observers

US Sen, 60-18, on Sept 19 approves major environmental bill, aimed at meeting developing 'land crisis'; bill authorizes Fed Govt to help states develop long-range plans for use of land; legis, with its combination of Fed assistance and state planning, represents evolutionary departure from traditional practice of private and local control over use of land; under legis, state govts--with $170-million in Fed assistance over next 5 yrs-will be encouraged to develop programs and plans for long-range use of privately-held and; passage is achieved after substantial weakening of earlier bill--passed by Sen Interior Com--that called for 8-yr program with $800-million in Fed assistance to states, and after removal of proposed econ sanctions against states that failed to comply with new legis; major initiatives of legis discussed