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Today's chuckle Football coach: Things look so bad for the fall that I may have to use students on the team. Periods of rain, high in the 60s Complete weather, p. 2A A MEMBER OF THE GANNETT GROUP ROCKLAND COUNTY, N.Y., WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1972 I.V CONVENTION Yur team in Miami rMWrtS IK XI 1 II I HI .11 tfrf vW The Journal-News today begins extended coverage of the 1972 Democratic National Convention, which gets underway Monday in Miami. Your exclusive Gannett News Service, led by our veteran Washington news team, will provide on-the-spot coverage as well as colorful background and sidelight reports from Convention Hall. In addition you'll get exclusive daily reports on the activities of Rockland's delegation, provided through a direct line hookup with delegation chairman Alan Gussow.

series of questions and answers. The TV Tab in Sunday's Journal-News will give you a complete guide to television coverage of the convention along with profiles of the networks' anchormen and behind-the-scenes activities. Today, Gannett Washington Bureau Chief Jack Germond sets the stage for the convention in an analysis starting on page 1A, and residents around Convention Hall comment on the political onslaught, on page 6D. Continuing political developments are on 1A and 4 A. Augmenting these exclusive features will be the regular coverage of Associated Press, United Press and nearly a dozen more national news services from The Washington Post to the Christian Science Monitor.

Special Gannett News Service reports will look at the major contenders for the presidential nomination Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota, Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine and Gov. George Wallace of Alabama.

Their positions and strategems will be analyzed through a mi wjes: Only the hoopla is certain I it thy Hijacker gives up in Buffalo BUFFALO. Y. (API A man surrendered to an FBI assent early today after holding his 17-month-old daughter hostage at. knife-point threatening to kill her in an abortive attempt to hijack an American Airlines jet. Clarence Davit photoi Police cruisers stoned The FBI said the alleged hijacker, Charles Smith.

23. of Buffalo, agreed to give up after being assured that police would not harm him. According to the FBI and local police, the entire episode began with a stabbing incident in Buffalo's inner city during the early morning hours. Richard Ash. special agent in charge of the FBI office here, said Smith boarded the unoccupied jetliner as it stood near a terminal gate about 5 a.m.

at Buffalo International Airport. He demanded that the airline provide a pilot for the craft and said he would kill the child if his demands were not met. "He apparently decided he was not going to get out" of the airport, Ash said, describing how Smith put down the knife he was carrying and walked down the ramp of the plane 2Vj hours later carrying his daughter. He was accompanied by an unidentified FBI agent who had sneaked aboard the plane. The child, identified as Je-tuan Smith, was not injured.

Ash said. She was taken to a Buffalo hospital for observation. Ash said blood on the infant's clothing was Smith's from a wound he suffered earlier. Ash said Smith would face a charge of attempted hijacking. Buffalo police said Smith allegedly stabbed the child's mother.

Ethel Smith, 20. and a man identified only as Dennis Keeys, 23. during an incident on Riley Street, grabbed the child and fled. The woman was reported in critical condition, the man in fair condition at Deaconess Hospital Rescue workers move ladder into position ill Lonnmcadow Drive culvt-rl in New (ily pholo hows force of current as scuba divers probed, creek lor youth. Rain-swollen New City creek carries youth to his death By JACK GERMOND Washington Bureau Chief Gannett News Service MIAMI BEACH The Democratic National Convention that opens here Monday is certain to be noisy, turbulent and sweaty.

Very little else is certain. There is perhaps an even chance that the important decision, the choice of a presidential nominee to oppose President Nixon, will be made for all practical purposes in the opening session at the Convention Ctrter Monday night. That can happen if the delegates reverse the decision of the credentials committee that denied Sen. George S. McGovern 151 of the 271 California votes he thought he had won in a winner-take-all primary there June 6.

If McGovern gets the full California vote, he is home free either over the top or so close it won't matter. You can look then for a rush of odd blocs to supply the last delegates to give the 49-year-old South Dakotan the 1.509 needed for the nomination.4 As a practical matter, there are likely to be two floor votes involved in the test of McGovern's strength Monday night. Even before the balloting on whether to uphold the credentials committee decision against him. Democratic National Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien will have to rule on whether the Californians not being challenged that is.

the 120 McGovern would get anyway can vote on the question. And that ruling, however it goes, is almost certain to be contested. McGovern is favored to win the crucial vote whether or not the California delegates are allowed to participate, but it is by no means certain. His prime advantage is that he can expect the backing of supporters who are committed by primary election results to vote for someone else on the firt ballot but are free to do as they wish on the credentials question. Michigan is an example.

McGovern won only 38 of the state's 132 votes in the primary, but in the credentials test he expects to get 'some of the 67 who are committed by state law to Gov. George C. Wallace. Similarly, about half of Tennessee's primary-bound Wal-: lace votes are likely to support McGovern on the California question. If McGovern does reclaim all 271 California votes, it's almost impossible to see him being denied the nomination.

His total then would be. by any estimate, within 50 votes of the required 1.509. The delegations to follow at that point would include: Illinois. There are about 30 nominally pro-Muskie votes in this delegation that may swing to McGovern if they can make the difference. Kansas.

Gov. Robert Docking probably can deliver about 15 of the state's 17 uncommitted votes and was inclined to do so before the California credentials decision halted McGovern's momentum. New Jersey. McGovern could get 20 of the state's uncommitted on top of the 76 he has been expecting all along. Connecticut.

Former Democratic Na-; tional Chairman John M. Bailey reputedly holds the key to 15 to 20 uncommitted votes here and. although he is not enthusiastic about McGovern. he is notoriously realistic. The uncommitted blocs considered most hostile to McGovern are those from Delaware, 36 votes; Kentucky.

36; Missouri, 61; Oklaho-I ma, 26. and Texas. 32. If any of them start moving in substantial numbers to McGovern, the ballgame is surely over. Although a McGovern victory on the Cali-; fornia question probably would assure his nomination, a defeat wouldn't necessarily deny him the prize.

(Turn to page 5A) Bv FRANK LEONARD Staff Writer Renewed unrest along Main Street in Haverstraw's Spanish-speaking section marred that community's Fourth of July holiday. Village police commissioner Henry Courtney was pelted with eggs and two patrols cars were stoned. Police arrested one man following the reported outbreak of holiday stoning and egg throwing but. unlike Monday's melee in the same district, there were no injuries. Three men, including two village policemen, had been injured following Main Street brawling Sunday night and early Monday morning and nine people were arrested in those disturbances.

Tuesday's egg and stone throwing came after what village police described as a "quiet" Monday night. Haverstraw Mayor Anthony Bosico, who was joined at the scene by trustee Dr. George Girling, announced there will be a special village board meeting Friday at 8 p.m. in the Municipal Building to learn what caused the disturbances. Bosico urged anyone who can shed light on the incidents he included participants to "come forward." Rockland police departments were alerted shortly after Haverstraw's latest unrest broke out at 10:20 p.m.

Officers from the Haverstraw and Stony Point town departments joined off-duty village patrol- men, and 20 men stood by at the Maple Avenue police headquarters. Courtney said about 16 egg-throwing youths including girls pelted him from across the street as he stood at the corner of Main and Rockland streets Courtney said he feels the youth had been sister, Patricia Coyle. all at home; and his maternal grandmother. Mrs. Rita Calla-ghan of West Milford, N.J.

A Mass of the Resurrection will be offered at St. Augustine's Church. New City, at 10 a.m. Friday. Interment will follow in St.

Anthony's Cemetery, Nanuet. Visiting hours will be at the Higgins Funeral Home, 321 S. Main New City, today and Thursday from 2 to 5 and 7 to 10 p.m. downstream from the waterfall. The Coyle youth was born in New City and lived in the Bronx before returning to New City 11 years ago.

He was a student at Clarkstown Junior High School and a member of both the Little League and the Clarkstown Recreation Basketball League in New City. In addition to his parents, he is survived by three brothers. Daniel Duffy, John Martin Coyle. and James Coyle, and a Mahwah Monday. He had disappeared in a canoeing accident over the weekend.

Police said the canoe which Jones and his 19-year-old daughter were paddling capsized after negotiating a 3-foot-high waterfall. Jones pushed his daughter to safety, but was swept under when he swam back to-mid-river to recover his canoe. A spokesman said Jones' body was discovered in a whirlpool area of the river just A rain-swollen creek in New City claimed the life of a 13-year-old boy Monday. Robert J. Coyle, son of Mr.

and Mrs. John M. Coyle of 11 Wilton Circle, drowned when he was sucked into a culvert at Longmeadow Drive as he was playing in the unnamed creek with two other boys Monday evening. Louis Nardone and Denis Dooley, with of Alan Drive, pulled the other two youngsters to safety. Divers from the Piermont Underwater Rescue Team and Clarkstown police recovered the body at the Salem Road culvert about 100 yards' downstream about an hour later.

The rescue teams used ladders in the underwater operation. The New City Fire Department also assisted at the The creek was swollen from torrential rains which caused extensive flooding in Clarkstown Monday. The unusual storm was hardly felt in other parts of the county. In another holiday drowning incident, search crews recovered the body of 42-year-old John Paul Jones of Pomona from the Ramapo River in Pawn to King 4 to Thursday The 35-year-old Soviet champion read a prepared statement calling the American's conduct insulting and intolerable. It said the opening ceremony last weekend had insulted Spassky personally and the Soviet Chess Federation and had jeopardized his right to play for the title.

The statement demanded that Fischer be punished. However. Max Euwe, president of the international federation, said the Soviets had not formally requested punishment. "What should I do?" he asked. "Put him in the corner?" Fischer was staying away from newsmen and did not comment on the Soviet statement.

In New York. Col. E.B. Edmondson director of the U.S. Chess Federation, called the dispute a charade and said it had "gone far REYKJAVIK.

Iceland (AP) The world championship chess match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky now is scheduled to start Thursday afternoon following another postponement, this one demanded by the Soviet champion. After holding out for more money and getting it, the American challenger came to Iceland for the postponed opening match Tuesday. But Spassky walked out of the noon drawing to decide who would move first because Fischer was not present. He had sent his second, a Roman Catholic priest. Fischer arrived in Reykjavik early Tuesday.

The Icelandic Chess Federation had rejected his demand for 30 per cent of the gate receipts, but he agreed to come after a London investment banker doubled the $125,000 purse which he and Spassky wilj divide. Turn to bark pugel this section HATIQj Gourf reverses delegate ruling INDEX ITTTTTU sons who disagreed with the committee majority, have been filed from South Carolina. Georgia. Hawaii. Michigan.

Alabama, California. Connecticut and Oklahoma, with no disserts from Rhode Island and three from Illinois. Many of the dissents concern issues raised by the mandate from the reform commission originally headed by McGovern: that women, young people and minorities be represented at the convention in Ann Landers Comics Vn iin Classified Editorial pages lOA.llA 6A Meanwhile, the Credentials Committee completed its pre-convention agenda and passed ort to the convention the job of settling 13 contests over the seating of hundreds of delegates. The fights the committee could not resolve including the politically explosive ones from California and Illinois-will almost inevitably provoke at the convention the bitterness that marked committee debates between McGovern supporters and backers of his opponents. Minority reports, from per place in the debate over delegates from the two states.

The Credentials Committee had issued decisions that stripped Sen. George S. McGovern of 151 California delegates and told Mayor Richard J. Daley and 58 other uncommitted Chicago delegates to stay home. Party counsel Joseph A.

Cal-ifano told the three judges that federal courts had no business in the party's business. His argument echoed the decision of a U.S. District Court which prompted the Fourth of July appeal. WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. Circuit Court here today reversed a District Court's decision to uphold the controversial Democratic Credentials Committee decisions on Cali-.

fornia and Illinois delegations to the party convention and ordered the lower court to conduct further proceedings. The brief orders of the Appeals Court carried no reasons for the action. The judges were expected to file opinions later in the day. This District Court on Monday ruled that the federal judiciary had no 1 rauMijr Food 1C-12C 3B Leisure Movie clock Obituaries Sports Television Theater Turn to bark page this section Democratic Convention mu(.