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Ask about new low fares. Isn't it time you got away? liruiiri ii'iimi rim inriiii nil mi hi nun a. mee ts From a Staff Correspondent MIAMI BEACH, Monday The Democratic National Convention opens tonight with Senator George McGovern, of South Dakota, still favoured to win the party's Presidential nomination. MAURITIUS jtvwtvl UPI picture. The 150 foreign political observers, including an Australian parliamentary IT DURBAN lf I Senators McGovern (left), Humphrey and Muskie shake hands before appearing on television at Miami Beach.

Book with yon Travel Attnt or A 55 Hunter Street, Sydney. 2-0317. delegation, led by the Federal Minister for the Environment, Mr Howson, will be in the galleries. Among literary figures granted accreditation are 350 near-misses over Germany Norman Mailer, Allen TMT'mrr'r iimi iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiijiiiniiiinii mimm hiiiiimm''i'ii'mmijwpw in -m i nil! ii mi Drury, Theodpre White and Germaine Greer. Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman, one of seven people convicted for inciting the 1968 Chicago riot, will this time be in the press gallery as a humourist.

Fischer seated, set for Spassky gambit BONN, Monday. A Government-sponsored investigation had determined that there were 350 aircraft near-misses over West Germany a year, the newspaper "Welt am Sonntag" said yesterday. Most of them were the faults of military planes, it said. The newspaper quoted Mr Willy Schlieker, head of two commissions investigating air safety, as having said there were five or six "dangerous" near-misses each month. It was a "miracle" there had been no catastrophe "in view of the confusion on the ground and in the air," he said.

Mr Schlieker announced the findings after his reports on air traffic safety and control personnel had been put under wraps at the West German Ministry of Transport, (he newspaper said. Eight countries conducted military activities over West Germany in special corridors and restricted zones, he said. And 80 to 90 per cent of the near-misses involved military planes. Mr Schlieker said the Stuttgart control tower reported that it had once located on its radar screen 200 unidentified planes flying within 20 miles of the airport. (AAP-Reuter) Page 3 this week in The National Times The convention's opening session, which could last all night, will be devoted to deciding the fate of more than 400 delegates.

They include the 151 delegates disputed in the key State of California, which the party's credentials committee took from Senator McGovern following his win of 271 delegates in the State's winner-take-all primary. But three favourable developments yesterday edged Senator McGovern closer to victory, despite strenuous efforts by some party leaders to "stop McGovern," who, they fear, could not defeat President Nixon in November. The convention chairman, Mr Lawrence O'Brien, handed down two procedural rulings, which should aid McGovern in his fight to regain the 151 California delegates, who, he claims, could give him the nomination on the first ballot. The most important of these was that he would rule that Mr McGovern needed only 1,433 votes to win back the 151 MIAMI BEACH, Mon Australia's only quality national weekly newspaper 2C8C day. Senator Muskie, the favourite himself until his defeats in the primaries, is being cast the role ot a potential kingmaker.

He has not decided yet whether to support Sena REYKJAVIK, Monday. The world chess championship is ex tor McGovern in the fight over the California delegates. There is speculation that he may be Mr McGov- pected to get underway tomorrow now that a special chair for the US erns choice for running challenger, Bobby Fischer, has been flown in from New York. mate if he breaks away from the anti-McGovern coalition and delivers the necessary votes. Mr Muskie was the Democratic Vice-Presiden All that remains to irritate Fischer is the Icelandic stone chessboard which he apparently does not like, preferring a tial candidate when Mr Humphrey lost to Presi dent Nixon in 1968.

wooden one. Margin cut However, this is not And he was the party's seen as a major problem, Fischer, 29, has also commented on the over head lighting in the hall of play. cut Mr rrea Cramer, a vice-president of the US I On Thursday, July 6, a major fire destroyed the warehouse section of the 4-acre Greendale Lighting plant at Silverwater, Sydney. The huge Greendale complex at Silver-water before the fire. The destroyed area is circled.

It had been expected that to win the delegates issue, the senator would need 1,509 votes a majority of the total delegate strength. But, with the 151 disputed delegates barred from voting on the issue, the winning margin needed is reduced to 1,433. Mr McGovern increased his support ampng Negro delegates yesterday when an influential congressman, Mr Ronald Dellus, endorsed him and a Negro Caucus booed Senator Hubert Humphrey his chief opponent at a hearing in the Fontaine-bleu Hotel. There were signs, too, that many of Senator Edmund Muskies' delegates, and perhaps Mr Muskie himself, would support Mr McGpvern on the California delegates issue. The "stop McGovern" forces, headed by Senator Humphrey, will seek to overturn Mr O'Brien's parliamentary rulings Altpgether 50,000 people delegates, alternates, staffs, media representatives, VIPs and families have flocked to Miami Beach from 50 States and 39 other countries.

I leading contender before he was knocked out of the primary election campaign this year. Reports that Mr McGovern was considering Mr Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Auto Workers' Union, as his Vice-Presidential running mate, were denied by McGovern headquarters yesterday. While the California issue may turn out to Senator McGovern's eventual advantage, he still has room for concern over what happens to the other big credentials fight, involving the seating or ousting of Chicago's Mayor, Mr Richard Daley, and 58 other Illinois delegates. The Credentials Committee voted to oust them in favour of a McGovern group, but Senator McGovern admitted yesterday that Mr Daley and Illinois, with its large electoral college vote, could be important to him if he won the nomination to oppose President Nixon in November. He will thus probably seek a compromise which would satisfy Mr Daley and ensure his help in the election campaign.

(AAP) FILL PI Chess Federation and a lighting expert, says it is probably the best Fischer has ever seen. Satisfaction Fischer demanded a chair of the same type he used to beat Tigran Petro-sian of Russia in the final match of the candidate series in Buenos Aires last year. The crisis was overcome when a chair was flown in from the United States. Fischer's opponent, world champion Boris Spassky, 35, inspected the hall of play today and expressed satisfaction with the arrangements. The organisers breathed a sigh of relief and said it looks as if the series would get underway tomorrow, more than a week late.

Spassky will open in the first match, which begins at 2 am (Sydney time) Wednesday. (AAP-Reuter) ODUCTIOft 3 4 PAYS Plans had been finalised to re-establish production within a few hours of the commencement of a fire which caused over a million dollars worth of damage in the destruction of raw materials and finished goods in the Warehousing section. Within two days, the Greendale plant at Silverwater, Sydney was back in full production of their range of industrial, commercial and domestic light fittings both fluorescent and incandescent and the increased support from the Melbourne factory ensured that delays in the delivery of goods to customers were kept to a minimum. Guilty plea at massacre trial tence. The fourth carries a maximum penalty of 10 years imprisonment.

Okamoto looked on impassively, his face betraying no signs of emotion or remorse as Colonel Frisch read out the names of the 24 people killed at the airport (two later died in hospital). It is believed highly unlikely that the death penalty will be imposed, if Okamoto is found guilty. Only one person the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichman has been executed in Israel since the State was established 24 years ago. Okamoto has asked to be allowed to commit suicide or be executed. arms with two other persons I forget their names I do not know how many people I killed.

"1 have many things I want to say in court I fired arms not only at tourists but at a policeman as well Then he pleaded guilty. Okamoto is charged on four counts membership of a group which discharged firearms and threw grenades, discharging a firearm, throwing a grenade, and performing a service for an unlawful organisation (the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine). The first three counts carry a possible death sen OUR APPRECIATION Greendale wishes to sincerely thank all their friends and customers in the industry for all their offers of help and co-operation in the emergency. TEL AVIV, Monday. Kozo Okamoto pleaded guilty today to shooting in the Lydda Airport Customs Hall on May 30.

Okamoto, 24, is the sole survivor of a three-man Japanese) Red Army suicide squad which killed 26 people and wounded more than 70 others in a hail of hand-grenades and bullets at the airport. But the military court rejected his plea of guilty. Its decision was based on emergency legal regulations, under which it is authorised either to convict the accused when he recognises the charges or refuse to accept the plea of guilty, thus apparently enabling a full trial to take place. The president of the three-man court. Lieutenant-Colonel Avraham Frisch.

said he believed that only certain facts had been admitted and therefore the prosecution was authorised to bring evidence to prove all charges. A legal adviser later explained, that, as Okamoto had only accepted certain parts of the charge sheet and not all. the court rejected his nlea of euilty. Protest on jail roof 7 Greendale lighting I I GREENDALE ENGINEERING CABLES PTY. LIMITED 210 Silverwater Road, Silverwater, N.S.W.

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Prison officials said the men had demanded reforms in the Italian criminal code, as well at changes in prison regulations. (AAP-Reuter) Okamoto had told the court: "I discharged fire 4V.