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The Pharos-Tribune Prtu. Lonanaoort. Widnesdav, Auausl 23, 1972 TV Broadcast Of Nomination Colorful MIAMI BEACH (UPI)-For the briefest moment Tuesday night, the Republican National Convention was like an electronic hall of mirrors, a gigantic infinity game being played across a television screen. It always is easy to get sucked up in the excitement of a political convention. When the balloons come cascading down, the signs bob crazily and the noise rises like the wind ahead of a tornado, it is an effort of will to keep from being drawn into the scene.

But this convention has something added. More than any other in the two decades of full-scale television convention coverage, this one was tailored for the screen and all its uses. A fine thing for folks at home in front of the set, but strange if you're part of it. Political media managers have used film and various types of graphics in the past. But there never has been such a mix of the media before, such a blending of what is really happening before your eyes, what was filmed and edited in a darkroom and what is being broadcast to you, as they say, "live." In the first day of the convention, it was fairly easy to keep the ephemeral separated from the real.

After all, Dwight D. Eisenhower is dead, and the scenes of his widow seated in a comfortable living room could be seen to be from the cool hill country of Pennsylvania, not the warm noodle-soup sandiness of Miami Beach. Things started getting mixed up on Tuesday. First, in the midst of convention business, the huge triple screens dominating the rostrum suddenly began showing President Nixon arriving at the airport. Several thousand people who had been doing something themselves that was being broadcast as a newsworthy event found themselves watching someone else doing something even more important, and in fact, part of the point of it all.

Later, the fantasy of film became real when someone few persons had seen in the flesh, cowboy actor John Wayne, appeared in that condition before the convention to introduce something on movie about Nixon. And, of course, the scenes of the President breaking bread with Chou En-lai were about things that really happened earlier this year and practically everyone had seen on television. (If that last reference does not make sense to people who watched the convention on television Tuesday night, it is because they saw an entirely different Nixon film from the one shown delegates.) Putting that small goof aside, the convention proceeded to nominate Nixon to run for a second term as President. As each state was called, its delegation chairman announced the vote and was shown on those big screens in the front of the hall. From the galleries, delegates could be seen craning to watch the screens as their own chairman announced what they had done.

Superimposed across those "live" images was the running total of the votes, and when Missouri ran it past the required 675, the screens informed the delegates that the President was "NOMINATED." Finally, there was an honest- to-God, old-fashioned, carefully planned spontaneous convention demonstration, complete with people who had been patiently waiting in the wings to begin shouting, dancing and waving signs. When those balloons came down, the actual scene was even more exciting than it looked on the screens. But the chairman shouted instructions to stop the demonstration after about 10 minutes because Nixon was going to appear before a youth rally several miles away and it was going to be shown on the screens. Loud music from the ra from an unseen singing the convention hall celebration and the delegates and demonstra- tors soon were watching the President arriving at Marine Stadium. Then he spoke, explaining why he wasn't at the convention hall and offering an inspirational message to his young audience.

The sausage-shaped sea cucumber defends itself by twisting into several pieces, each of which will grow into a new animal as.lone as six feet. Jane Fonda, Ramsey Clark Called "Traitorous Meddlers MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UPI) Veterans of Foreign Wars have accused actress Jane Fonda and former attorney general Ramsey Clark of being "traitorous meddlers" in U.S. foreign policy and recommended they be prosecuted. The VFW's annual convention Tuesday adopted a resolution urging that "individual citizens such as Jane Fonda, Ramsey Clark and other so-called unofficial ambassadors for peace be classified as traitorous meddlers in official government security." The resolution also said that the "legal machinery of the federal government be utilized to investigate and prosecute any and all of such individuals." Miss Fonda and Clark both visited North Vietnam recently and criticized American bomb- "My wife was a World War ing of North Vietnamese dikes, nurse.

She'd like to join, but I The resolution and the tell her 'hell James E. Van general mood of the convention Zandt, a former Pennsylvania seemed to indicate that demo- congressman and World War cratic presidential nominee veteran said. "When I want to George McGovern's scheduled go to a post meeting, I want to to address the convention say what I want in my own Thursday, would receive a cool language." if polite reception-a sharp VFW delegates also adopted contrast to the rousing recep- resolutions: tion expected to be given vice President Nix- president Spiro Agnew when he on policies in Southeast Asia. addressed the convention on for humane treat- Friday. ment of Prisoners of War.

Women lost another round at hat the United the convention Tuesday, when complete withdrawal delegates voted to continue their "men only' membership policy. te A $110,000 suit has been filed in US. District Court in achieved. Washington, D.C. to force the -Opposing amnesty for draft VFW to admit women.

evaders and deserters. from resolution pQ issue has been Grab Balloons Trlcia Nixon Cox holds her balloon as Julie Nixon Eisenhower (C) and Mrs. Richard Nixon reach for another after President Nixon was nominated as the GOP's standard bearer for another term. Thousands of balloons were released on the convention floor after the nomination. (UPI) Convention Notebook Report MIAMI BEACH reporter's notebook from the Republican National Convention: President Nixon says he and Sammy Davis Jr.

have a lot in common. "We both came from poor families," the President said at a GOP youth rally at which Davis was an entertainer, "And we've both done pretty well." They also share a common desire, to get Nixon re-elected. to a Nixon for President banner as the Presidential roll call approached Ohio. King was chairman of a Democratic delegation that usually had to be polled before its votes were announced. Boycott Lettuce, an apparent Presidential favorite of delegates to the recent Democratic convention, is getting no more support at the Republican convention than George McGovern.

Ellsberg Says Nixon Shot Door To Peace Missouri Republicans, whose votes put President Nixon over the top in his renomination Tuesday night, took advantage of the national exposure this gave them to get in a crack at Democrats for having dropped Missouri Sen. Thomas Eagleton from their ticket. Delegation Chairman Lawrence K. Roos, who had rewritten and touched up his 30- word speech as the roll call of states proceeded, told the GOP convention and a nationwide television audience: "Missouri, the 'show me' state, shows its regard for Sen. Tom Eagleton by proudly casting all its 30 votes to assure the renomination and ultimate re-election of President Richard Nixon." Republicans this time want everybody, including the Indians.

At the urging of Ann Coleman, a 22-year-old blonde Choctaw from Oklahoma, the convention rewrote a platform plank on Indian matters to promise priority for Indians in jobs government agencies handling Indian affairs. Unlike their Democratic counterparts here last month, Ohio Republicans had no trouble making up their minds how to cast their votes. "Frank King, we are ready," read a hand drawn sign affixed Olympic Film Seen By Kiwanis A film preview of the summer Olympics which will begin Friday in Munich, Germany, was given by Jerald Miller during the Tuesday noon meeting of the Kiwanis Club at the Captain Logan Hotel. Following the film presentation, Miller quizzed club members about the Olympic games. Frank Delia gave a report on the club's travelogue program held last year.

He urged members to support the coming travelogue series which will begin this fall. Max Brandt spoke about the Indiana Kiwanis Clubs' $250,000 fund drive for Riley Children's Hospital, Indianapolis- He asked members who hadn't already done so, to pay their $15 per capita assessment as soon as MIAMI BEACH" (UPD- President Nixon in the early months of his administration carried out a "deliberate" plan that precluded any chance for peace in Vietnam, Daniel Ellsberg has charged. Ellsberg, who is under indictment for revealing the secret Pentagon papers study on the origins of the Vietnam war, also said at a news conference Tuesday that he was told by a military adviser to Nixon after the 1968 election that unilateral U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam was "not a military option." James Buckley Shoved Around By Demonstrators MIAMI BEACH James L. Buckley of New York and two of his aides were roughed up by a gang of obscenity-shouting demonstrators Tuesday night as they were walking to the Republican National Convention.

Buckley, who was walking to the convention hall to second the renomination of President Nixon, was recognized by someone in the crowd of antiwar protesters marching on the hall. Neither Buckley nor his aides Jones, his executive assistant, and Len Saffir, his press hurt, "but they shoved us around quite a bit," Jones said. Screaming obscenities and shouting Buckley's name, several dozen demonstrators ran after the three. One of them grabbed Buckley and another threw himself at Jones. "God, I was scared," Jones said, telling how he hurled the demonstrator back only to be hit by another.

"I really let him have it," Jones said. Buckley pushed the protester off and the three began walking quickly across the convention parking lot to the hall, with the demonstrators on their heels, Buckley later explained, "I wasn't really afraid. A number of the demonstrators took our side to protect us and then the police closed in and pushed them back with night sticks." "It was really a weird experience," Saffir said. "Hocked arms with the senator and we just kept pushing our way toward the hall while they screamed in our ears." Ellsberg disclosed for the first time the contents of a report he prepared in December, 1968, for President-elect Nixon. Ellsberg was working at the time as an analyist for the Rand Corporation, and he said the report listed seven options the President could pursue in his Indochina policy.

The options ranged from military escalation and resumption of the bombing of North Vietnam to unilateral U.S. withdrawal. Ellsberg contended that during the first 10 weeks of the new administration Nixon escalated the war through bombing in Cambodia and sending Navy frogmen into Haiphong harbor in North Vietnam. Nixon intended to demonstrate "that he was not going to be constrained by the ground rules of the previous administration's war policies," Ellsberg said. Ellsberg said Nixon acted "on a deliberate and conscious plan that precluded any chance for peace." "It seems to me wrong that the delegates to this convention are being asked to endorse Richard Nixon without ever being told of his secret plan to end the war," Ellsberg said.

Also appearing at the news conference was Rep. Paul N. McCloskey, who said Republican convention delegates should know what Nixon intended to do before they renominated him. He complained that a floor debate on the issue "has been denied." Copeland Tells Of Disney World A talk about his visit to Disney World, Florida, was given by Richard Copeland at a meeting of the Knights of Columbus in the local council hall. John Mucker and William I-ehmann gave a report on a meeting of Knights of Columbus program chairmen from central Indiana, The chairmen convened Sunday in Indianapolis to discuss service activities of the councils.

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