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Conservatives Win Fight; Losers Threaten Suit TOP of the NEWS she would "strongly support a lawsuit to have it declared unconstitutional." After tfie amendment failed by a roll-call vote, Daniel Swillinger, national political director of the Ripon Society which had filed suit against the former plan, said a new suit would be filed against the new formula. The Pennsylvania delegation voted In caucus to direct its National committee members to file suit to protect the state's representation at the next convention, Sen. Hugh Scott said. Fred Scribner Republican National Committee counsel, said appeals courts may hold the federal courts have no right to interfere in party matters. But he said if a lower court ruling against the old plan is upheld and the new plan is legally challenged, "I would be greatly concerned as to its standing up." Support for the new apportionment formula came from Southern states, small states hich traditionally go Republican but have few electoral votes, and some large states which shared the conservative views of the smaller ones.

Under the plan, a state like Louisiana with no major Republican office holders would get Arizona stands to Increase its representation to the 1976 Republican National Convention by as many as 3 1 delegates under the new seating plan. Details on Page 7A. 11 bonus delegates in 1976 if it goes for Nixon as expected. A state like New York with 3 million GOP voters could get no more than four if it goes Democratic, as it did in 1968. California Gov.

Ronald iReagan was among several speakers defending the committee plan against challenge. The convention did accept a minor amend ment which adds a black party official to the party's Executive Committee. The decision to take the fight to the floor was made after last-minute efforts at compromise involving the White House and middle-ground Senate leaders fell apart. It was the first and perhaps would be the only public clash at an otherwise harmonious convention. "We could not find a middle ground," said Charles Lanigan, New York state chairman, as he prepared a floor amendment to a majority report that the convention Rules Committee approved after nine hours of debate Monday.

Michigan Gov. William G. Milliken said the White House entered the fray as a peace broker in predawn negotiations, but the effort fell apart when the smaller states, which had won every preliminary skirmish, rejected all compromise offers. Sen. Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, one of the big states in the dispute, said the negotiations "ran into a brick wall." "Every proposed compromise was rejected in favor of the committee report," Scott said.

Lanigan said the insurgents would offer a substitute plan from the floor and present their grievances to the convention. But he said they would not demand a roll call. The Rules Committee report also includes some reforms in party participation for women and minorities which produced some controversy but not enough to generate a floor fight. New rules adopted by the party open up the delegate selection process by guaranteeing open meetings and banning discrimination against minority groups. States also are required to seek 50-50 representation for women on their delegations.

TUCSON, ARIZONA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, mmmmmmmm FAIR AND HOT: The National Weather Service says the high today should be between 100 and 105, the low tonight near 75, and says there Is almost no chance of rain. Yesterday's high and low were 101 and 72. Arizona weather was warm yesterday while the Midwest and South were drenched with rain and had muggy, hot weather. Details on Page 4A. Global IOC EXPELS RHODESIA.

Bowing to pressure from black African nations, the International Olympic Committee expels Rhodesia from the Munich Olympic Games. Page 1C. CHESS MATCH. The Russian delegation hints that Bobby Fischer might be trying to sabotage Boris Spassky's chess game with ''some electronic devices and a chemical substance" in the playing hall. The game adjourns with Spassky in a good position for a win.

Page IC STATE OF EMERGENCY. Chilean Presi-dent Salvador Allende placed the provinces of Santiago and Magallanes under a state of emergency after a violent day and night of protests against food shortages. Page 22A. IRISH VIOLENCE. Two guerrillas die when a bomb they carried into a customs post in the Northern Ireland border town of Newry exploded prematurely.

Six other persons in the post also died. The discovery of a man's body, hooded and bound, brought the day's toll to nine. Page 20A. S. VIET DRIVE.

The South Vietnamese counterthrust in the Que Son Valley continues with 54 of the enemy reported killed. The force is reported near Fire Base Ross, the major valley strongpoint lost in a North Vietnamese drive. Page 14A. FISHING WAR. Britishtrawlers are headed for Icelandic fishing grounds, prepared to resist Iceland's decision to bar foreign fishing vessels.

A new "Cod War" could result. Page 6C. Xj National McGOVERN AND LBJ. Former President Lyndon B. Johnson, an old adversary of Sen.

George McGovern, gives the Democratic presidential nominee his blessing personally. The two ate steaks and chatted about three hours in Austin, Tex. Page 7A. NARCOTICS FROBLEM. Administration officials have presented a rosy picture of the nation's war on international narcotics trafficking.

However, secret intelligence reports over the last 18 months have punched holes in that outlook. Page 9A. NIXON'S PERSONALITY. Columnist Jack Anderson says that GOP strategists believe there is only one obstacle to a Nixon landslide in November Nixon's personality. A documentary film firm has been employed to humanize him.

Page 10A. BINGO PROFITS. Several Phoenix area organizations question the use of proceeds from bingo game. The state law says the proceeds cannot be used to finance improvements of the organizations' own property and must be used for such purposes as educational, charitable or religious. Page 23A.

SCHOOL AID ROW. The school superintendent at Mesa says the State Board of Education has usurped the authority of his district by vetoing application for a federal grant. State Supt. Weldon Shofstall agrees. Page 16A.

GRIFFEN DIES. Horace Griffen, a man who rose from newspaper boy to within a step of the governor's seat, dies at 77. Griffen, who was born in Hillsboro, worked on the Arizona Republic for more than 40 years before he retired. He was candidate for governor in 1956 but lost to the incumbent, Ernest W. McFarland.

Page 7B. Local ANTI-MATTER HUNT. An experiment under way at the University of Arizona Cosmic Ray Laboratory seeks evidence that there is a world composed of anti-matter. The opposite electrical identification has been shown on the atomic level already. Page IB.

CREDITOR PAYMENTS. The receiver for the Gibson Products Co. of Arizona files five lawsuits in federal court, claiming that several owners of Gibson Discount Center gave preferential treatment in paying a total of $281,804 to creditors. Page 24A. INSECTICIDE BAN.

Two UA agricultural specialists say the Environmental Protection Agency may ban two more insecticides now widely used in cotton production. Page IB. STREET REGULATION. The Pima County Board of Supervisors yesterday approved a regulation requiring the paving of streets in new subdivisions, shopping centers and trailer courts. Page IB.

WOMEN CANDIDATES. Eleven women candidates for political office attend the American Legion Luncheon Club's tribute to the 58th anniversary of women's suffrage. Page 2B. Arizona By DON McLEOD AP Political Writer MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) The Republican National Convention adopted a delegate apportionment formula Tuesday favoring small and conservative states in future conventions.

Opponents immediately promised a court fight. The convention rejected by a vote of 910 to 434 an amendment to the Rules Committee report sought by large northern and midwestern states wanting a larger voice for moderate factions at the 1976 convention. William Cramer of Florida, Rules Committee chairman, argued that the plan approved by three committees before it reached the convention floor was fair and "clearly makes our party an all American party." But Brigid Shanley, 26-year-old delegate from New Jersey, called it "unconscionable, unacceptable and unconstitutional" and said FIFTEEN Cents VOL 131 NO. 236 Peace Plan Never Used: Ellsberg Program Secret In l.S. But Reds Knew Details By JIM ADAMS MIAMI BEACH, Fla.

(AP) Daniel Ellsberg said Tuesday that President Nixon had a plan to end the war four years ago using frogmen in Haiphong harbor and marines in Laos to show North Vietnam he would escalate the war if necessary. Ellsberg told a news conference that the moves were kept secret from the public, but were clear to the North Vietnamese. He said they also were clear to the Soviet Union and that Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger, his foreign affairs adviser, believed the Russians could be pressured into convincing the North Vietnamese into ending the war. Ellsberg, a former Rand Corp.

analyst being tried by the government over public release of the Pentagon Papers, said Nixon's policy on the Vietnam war during his first 10 weeks in office was two-fold: demonstrate to the enemy he was ready to escalate the war up to full-scale bombing of North Vietnam and mining of Haiphong harbor, and reduction of U.S. forces in Indochina to a point that would never reach zero. "President Nixon acted in a canscious policy that precluded any chance of peace," Ellsberg charged. He said that sometime between Nixon's fifth and tenth week in office in 1969, the President: Sent Navy frogmen into Haiphong harbor ostensibly to chart it for future mining. Sent U.S.

Marines into Laos. Ordered B52 bombing in then neutral Cambodia. Ellsberg said he learned of the policy by mid-1969 through dealings with Kissinger's office on a Vietnam war options paper Ellsberg was in charge of preparing for consideration by the President and the National Security Council. "Nixon had made a credible threat to end the war secret from the American people but visual to the other side," Ellsberg said. "Maybe if he had disclosed that policy," Ellsberg said, "the American people may have supported it, knowing it meant indefinitely maintaining the war at a low level." Ellsberg's news conference was sponsored by Rep.

Paul N. McCloskey, an early challenger for the GOP presidential nomination who campaigned against Nixon's war policy. McCloskey said he called the news conference because "the issue of whether it is immoral or unconscionable to carry on this devastation is not even going to be debated" at the convention. McCloskey said Kissinger told him in 1969 that the President had had a plan that had not worked and that a second plan was being conducted. Ellsberg said that after May 1969 the President's efforts shifted from trying to obtain Soviet intervention with Hanoi to stop the fighting and turned to demonstrating to the North Vietnamese the U.S.

willingness to escalate the war. Ellsberg said Kissinger called Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin on May 14, 1969, to tell him the United States would escalate the war if necessary. From that time, Ellsberg contended, the Soviets knew that the bombing and harbor mining policy Nixon announced last May 8 was a possibility. Ellsberg said at the outset that speculation by Nixon's critics that he never had the secret plan he talked of during the 1968 presidential campaign wasfwrong. "At least by the time he came to office Richard Nixon did have a plan," Ellsberg said.

"And it was a secret plan not to the Russians, not to the North Vietnamese but to the American public." FINAL Edition SEVENTY-TWO PAGES Protesters Only Group Not Happy By MAX FRANKEL 0 1972 New York Tlmi News Srvle MIAMI BEACH The Republican party Tuesday formally and jubilantly proclaimed Richard Milhous Nixon here as its candidate for another term as president. In an atmosphere of celebration, even coronation, marred only by the harassment of delegates by antiwar demonstrators outside the hall, the party's 30th national convention designated Nixon as its leader for the third time in 12 years. It acted with only a murmur of opposition and with hardly a doubt that he would be re-elected by a huge majority in November. It acted after an afternoon session that brought the only open debate and the only contested roll call of the week's events over-party rules for the 1976 convention. But the dissenters were heard and then decisively voted down, leaving the delegates with nothing more to do than cheer.

Nixon, who flew here Tuesday afternoon from Washington, watched the ritual of nomination at his nearby seaside home in Key Bis-cayne, devoting his only public remarks to a special appeal to youth. Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, of New York, who had twice in the past failed to wrest control of the party from Nixon, rendered the ultimate tribute of placing the President's name in nomination. "We need this man of action, this man of accomplishment, this man of experience, this man of courage," he said.

"We need this man of faith in America." The seconding was done by 11 others. The seconding speeches included some by Democrats, symbolizing Nixon's appeal for defectors. Walter J. Hickel, who was dismissed from the President's cabinet because of a dispute two years ago, also gave a seconding speech. The convention moved Tuesday from the routine of the first three business sessions.

At the last of these this afternoon, it approved the platform the White House had wanted, recounting a "saga of exhilarating progress" since 1968 and condemning Nixon's Democratic challenger, Sen. George S. McGovern, as the leader of a "radical clique." But the controversy over delegate apportionment in 1976 brought at least a brief time of open argument and the convention's only contested roll-call. Liberal and urban delegates argued with some heat for a compromise that would give the more populous states a larger share of the vote when Nixon's successor as party leader is chosen four years hence. Their cause was lost, however, on the floor as in the rules committee.

The party's establishment, including most southerners and all conservatives, outvoted the challengers 910 to 434 despite the threats of younger delegates to take their case to the courts. It was at all times a contest with decorum (Continued on Page 6A, Col. 6) His Cup Runneth. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) A Nashville postal employe was seated on the steps of the post office Tuesday enjoying a cup of coffee.

He placed the cup beside him and closed his eyes against the glare of the hot sun. At that point, an elderly woman passed by, paused and dropped a quarter into the astonished man's half-filled coffee cup. 1972 BEARD Writer County Superior Court, said yesterday she wasn't sure what she would do about accepting applications but said, "Since this ruling came from the attorney general, I should think he would have the say-so." She said she would have to discuss the situation with her staff. Mrs. Gibbons has been home ill and doesn't expect to return to work until Monday.

Nelson's ruling came at the request of Alexander, who had received several complaints from Pima County officials and residents this month about the extent of the information needed to get the cards. "The department has no authority," said Nelson, "to require Social Security numbers, places of employment, telephone numbers or parents' telephone numbers." The only information needed, according to a recent amendment in the state law, is the applicants' name, address, whether the address is permanent or temporary, the date of his or her 19th birthday and a birth certificate or other proof giving reasonable satisfaction of the date of birth. Moore had been requiring two additional Identification items besides birth certificates, but Nelson ruled that this was illegal. FCi Nominee Welcomed Fresxe: vith his wife, Pat, at his side waves to the Miami. The President made a short speech, appealing to the assembled at the airport to greet him upon his arrival In ful supporters who were on hand to meet him.

(AP Wirephoto) ID Card Change Refused By Moore Cost Of Living Rises .4 Pet. (t) 1972 Washington Star-Nwi WASHINGTON Consumer prices rose 0.4 per cent last monli the sharpest increase since February primarily because of surging food prices, the Labor Department reported Tuesday. Almost two-thirds of the Increase In the over-all consumer price index resulted from a 1 per cent rise in food prices, led by meat. The Nixon administration had predicted that an acceleration of retail price increases would follow earlier rises at the wholesale level. However, wholesale meat prices have passed their peak, so retail food prices should stabilize or decline within a couple of months, officials have said.

In another report, the department said the purchasing power of rank-and-file workers nationally as measured by after-tax weekly earnings adjusted for price increases in July was 0.3 per cent above June and 4.3 per cent above July, 1971. Nationally, the consumer price index in July rose 0.4 per cent on both an absolute basis and computed to discount seasonal Influences. By BETTY Star Staff Arizona Atty. Gen. Gary Nelson yesterday agreed with Sen.

Scott Alexander R-Tucson, that 19-year old applicants for liquor age cards shouldn't have to fill out such detailed forms. However, Col. Harold H. Moore, state liquor control superintendent, said he did not agree with the ruling and was not compelled to go along with it. Sen.

Alexander later said, "I don't know what my next move will be, but I'll see that the department will comply with the law." In a written opinion released yesterday, Nelson said that an applicant should be able to get a card by supplying the minimum information required by state law and that Moore did not have the right to require additional data. Moore said that, because "the attorney general only gives legal opinions, I'm not compelled to go along with them," and he said he would not consider any age card applications unless they are filled out completely, including places of employment, parents' telephone numbers and other background information. Moore defended his forms by saying the information was needed to check for fraudulent applications and also helped law enforcment agencies track down criminals. Mrs. Francis Gibbons, clerk of the Pima ff Index Movies 7C Pub.

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