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Democrats Torn By Two Destructive Legal Battles wants to push the self-destruct button on these issues, that's its First Amendment right." The committee's decisions will be challenged when the convention meets, and Califano's remarks appeared to put him on the side of those who wish to see them overturned. But he declined to expand on it after the hearing, saying he would stick to what was already on record. McGovern and Daley forces prompted the Fourth of July litigation by appealing a U.S. District Court decision not to upset the committee's ruling. On Monday, Judge George L.

Hart Jr. ruled that the federal judiciary should not get involved in the party fight. In the California case, the committee chucked out the state law which gave all its 271 convention votes to the primary winner, McGovern, and spread the delegates out proportionally according to the percentage of vote received by each candidate. In Miami Beach, youthful protesters conducted a mock funeral for a slain Vietnamese hijacker outside the site of next week's Dejno-cratic Convention here Tuesday. About 40 demonstrators, representing several protest groups, left quietly after police refused to let them place a 3-by-5-foot piece of plywood strewn with hibiscus flowers in a canal as part of the funeral for Nguyen Thai Binh.

He was slain in Saigon Sunday while trying to hijack an American jetliner. Meanwhile, McGovern, who has forged to the front of the Democratic presidential race with little help from the normally influential leaders of organized labor, picked up the support of a union official who formerly backed Sen. Edmund S. Muskie. Jerry Wurf, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes, said in Washington he would urge delegates, including 25 who are members of his union, to back McGovern.

A second union leader, United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock, said in Detroit Tuesday he could "gladly endorse" either McGovern or Sen. Hubert Humphrey if nominated, but he said this did not amount to a formal endorsement. McGovern spent the Independence Day holiday at his farm on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Humphrey, one of his chief rivals for the nomination, was at his lakeside home in Waverly, Minn. In Washington, Humphrey's campaign manager, Jack Chestnut, demanded that McGovern fire or repudiate Rick Stearns, his top delegate counter, who was quoted as saying that if Humphrey wins the nomination, McGovern should organize a third party to "punish" Humphrey.

"Talk of punishment of the Democratic Party is irresponsible and childish blackmail and can't be tolerated," Chestnut said in (Continued on Page 2A. Col. 5) Rauh attorney for McGovern forces, arbitrarily ignored its own rules to take the action. The issue, Rauh said, is whether Democrats would nominate a presidential candidate "under the rule of law or the rule of the jungle." On Illinois, the committee found that the Daley Democratic organization violated numerous party guidelines in delegate selection. Jerome Thorshen, attorney for the Daley Related stories on Page 9B.

forces, attacked the procedure which pronounced the alleged violations and called the replacement delegates "new backroom bosses selected by losers" in the delegate elections. Daley forces go to court in Illinois today in an attempt to block the successful challengers from taking their seats at the convention. The tangle, Califano observed, could result in no Illinois delegation at all. TUCSON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1972 Viet Paratroopers Penetrate Quang Tri WASHINGTON (AP) The Democratic Party fought in U.S. Circuit Court here Tuesday to protect two hotly disputed decisions of its Credentials Committee while the party's lawyer had visions of self-destruction if those rulings stand.

The legal battle flowed from one committee vote to strip Sen. George McGovern of more than 150 California delegates pledged to back his nomination for president and from another to unseat Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and 58 other Illinois delegates. Late Tuesday, word came from the court clerk's office that the judges would not deliver a ruling until today at the earliest. Some would say it would be the shrewd political move both to seat Daley and give the South Dakota senator his delegates, Joheph A. Califano, counsel for the Democratic National Committee, told the appellate court.

But, Califano added, "If it (the party) FIFTEEN Cents VOL. 131 NO. 183 Symbol Of cJIONn -v 5 I 'A' TOP of the NEWS ANOTHER SCORCHER. Mostly fair skies and a little afternoon cloudiness are forecast for today and tomorrow. The high will be near 105 and the low In the 70s.

No rain is predicted for today, but a few thundershowers are expected tomorrow in the high mountains. The high yesterday was 106, compared to the high a year ago of 101. The low yesterday was 73 and a year ago It was 76. Details on Page 4A. Global BRITISH CRIMINAL LAW.

Britain's Criminal Law Revision Committee has proposed many major changes that would make conviction of criminals easier, and the proposals have aroused considerable opposition from groups concerned with civil liberties. Page 11A. MONEY AGREEMENT. French President Georges Pompidou and West German Chancellor Willy Brandt end two days of talks and reaffirm their desire for a Common Market summit and steps leading to European monetary unity. Page 12A.

TROUBLE IN PERU. Constitutional guarantees are suspended in a isolated state in Peru after new acts of violence. Disturbances there last week left three persons dead and 12 injured. The Peruvian military government did not say what the new disturbances are. Page SB.

CHILEAN ELECTION. The Chilean government and anti-Marxist forces confront each other in a special congressional election in a province scarred by earthquakes and torrential rains. This will be the fourth special election since Salvador Allende's leftist government came to power. Page 2B. CHESS MATCH.

The off-again-on-again world chess championship match is off again. This time it is due to a demand for a two-day postponement by Soviet grandmaster Boris Spassky. American grandmaster Bobby Fischer arrives in Iceland after his delaying tactics forced an increase in the winner's purse. Page 7A. IRISH JUSTICE.

The citizen's army that now controls much of Protestant Belfast has followed the example of the Irish Republican Army in setting up courts-martial and dealing out rough justice. Page 2A. National TOTAL ECLIPSE. The extreme northeast of the United States will be the best place in the nation to view the full effect of the eclipse of the sun that will take place next Monday. Oth-eres parts of the nation will be able to see some of it, but Maine will be closest to the part of total darkness.

Page 19B NATURE STUDIES. Many inner-city children in the Bronx are being given the opportunity to study nature first-hand, particularly as it is seen in the Hudson River. The program is sponsored by an environmental studies center. Page5C. FOOD PRICES.

The stoiy is the same across the nation. The price of meat, already very high, is going up. Staples like milk, canned goods and eggs stay the same in an Associated Press survey, while some meat prices go up as much as 50 cents a pound. Page 5A. NAACP CONDEMNATION.

An emergency resolution is unanimously passed by 2,500 delegates to the NAACP's annual convention, condemning President Nixon for his antibusing views and calling on all of America to reject the "attempts at perpetuating dualism in American society." Page 7A. TAX GAP WIDENS. Brookings Institution economists report that the American tax structure has failed to reduce the gap between rich and poor and that this is what the McGovern tax protest move is all about. Page 3A. FACT OR FICTION? A former Briton, now director of the Maryland Historical Society, disputes the tradition that Francis Scott Key saw the Star Spangled Banner wave over Fort McHenry.

He also doubts that Key wrote the original version on the back of an envelope because, he says, envelopes were not in use at that time. Page 5C. Local SKY PATROL. The Tucson Police Department has used the helicopter Sky Patrol for two months and officials are pleased with the operation. Plans are under way to make the program a permanent part of the department.

Page IB CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCED. Dr. Eugene A. Savoie, a dentist, will campaign for the 2nd Congressional District seat now held by U.S. Rep.

Morris K. Udall, a Democrat. Savoie is the first GOP contender to announce his candidacy in the district. Page 4B PROBE SOUGHT. Demonstrators, protesting the fatal shooting last Saturday of a 19-year-old Papago Indian in Ajo, meet with Sheriff W.

Coy Cox, then vote to ask a Superior Court judge to conduct an investigation. Page IB Index Ask Andy 16C Horoscope 3B Bridge 6A Movies 7D Comics 8-9D Pub. Rec. 2B Crossword 16A Sports 1-4D Editorial 10D TV-Radio Good Health 14A Women 1-4C I i-mii The committee, maintained Joseph L. Liberty The governments' top leaders, President Chung Hee Park of South Korea and North Korean premier and Communist Party chief Kim Il-sung, took part.

U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim announced in Geneva that he acted as a go-between. Waldheim said he made contact with North Korean representatives during a visit to Vienna last March. "They informed me of their position and mentioned a number of suggestions," he said. "I informed the South Korean government." The top-rung negotiations were the first such contact reported between the two governments since the 1950-53 Korean War that took two million lives, Including 33,629 Americans killed in action and 20,617 Americans who died of other The conflict ended in an armistice July 28, 1953, and the two Koreas still are officially at war, wMih even mail exchange severed.

A Japanese colony from 1910 through World War Korea was divided into U.S. and Soviet occupation zones after the defeat of Japan. The zones became separate republics in 1948. FINAL Edition FIFTY-TWO PAGES founded after the seizure of the U.S. Navy vessel Pueblo by North Koreans in 1968 to press for the release of the 82 crew members.

In 1969 it expanded its activities to seek to secure the release of any U.S. citizen "illegally imprisoned" in any foreign country. Lindstrom is visiting Scandinavia to win support for the Douglas MacArthur Brigade a group of U.S. Vietnam veterans and mercenaries recruited to rescue American prisoners. Lindstrom said influential military men in Saigon wanted to organize raids to free the prisoners, but were denied permission by Washington.

The brigade of 150 men is ready to liberate the war prisoners soon, Lindstrom said. The planned raids would be aimed at North Vietnam, northern Oaimbodia and northern Laos, he said. At a later news conference in Jonkoping, Sweden, Lindstrom said about 200 U.S. prisoners had been taken in Laos by the Pathet Lao. He said he did not need any more volunteers for the Douglas MacArthur Brigade and he was not recruiting on his Scandinavian tour.

Premier sharp contrast to his opponent, Fukuda, a longtime bureaucrat born into wealth. Though the general electorate had no hand in the voting, popular opinion favored Tanaka as the man most likely to carry out an independent foreign policy, ease relations with the United States and seek Closer ties possibly ending in diplomatic recognition with Peking. Though Fukuda said he would give priority to Chinese and U.S. relations, his close ties to Sato and Ills generally cautious policies worked against him. Also, in view of bitter Chinese attacks on Sato and his government, Tanaka is considered more acceptable to iti ii "Wrz- SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese paratroopers penetrated the southeastern city limits of Quang Tri Tuesday, killed at least 20 North Vietnamese defenders and recaptured a dozen artillery pieces lost when the country's northernmost province fell to the enemy more than two months ago.

Allied sources said several hundred airborne troops staged a lightning assault against enemy defensive strongholds and set up their own defensive positions at nightfall, a half mile from the city center. The government announced two towns in the area were reoccupied. The government flag was raised during the afternoon at Mai Linh a district headquarters 1.2 miles southeast of Quang Tri, but considered within the city limits. Mai Linh and Hal Lang, six miles southeast of Quang Tri, were the first of 14 towns that fell during the three-month-old enemy offensive to be recaptured by government forces. Associated Press correspondent Dennis Neeld reported that South Vietnamese marines on the eastern flank of the government drive were within four miles of the city.

Their officers predicted they could be in Quang Tri in a day if so ordered. Elements of the airborne troops moving up Highway 1 toward Quang Tri encountered the first bunkers in what was believed to be a heavy line of fortifications around the city. One U.S. airborne adviser, Capt. Gail Furrow, 32, of Urbana, Ohio, said: "The enemy appears to be pulling back, but we're encountering resistance from nearly every treeline, every village "If they decide to put all their people in Quang Tri and stand and fight, it's going to be rough," he said.

North Vietnamese troops to the rear of the advancing forces kept up pressure on the western defenses of Hue, 30 miles southeast, and shelled the former imperial capital for the third day in a row. Four 122 mm artillery rounds crashed into the city and military spokesmen in Saigon said three civilians were killed and seven wounded. About 1,000 more shells blasted government positions on Hue's western front and two outposts were reported attacked by North Vietnamese ground troops. Officials claimed 46 enemy killed and put South Vietnamese casualties at seven killed and 17 wounded. Far to the south, a major battle was reported at Kompong Rau in the Parrot's Beak area of Cambodia.

South Vietnamese spokesmen reported 123 enemy killed at a cost of 18 government troops killed and 56 wounded. Saigon also claimed 59 enemy were killed along Highway 13 north of the capital and 100 more by air strikes in a new battle area around Phuoc Binh, a district town 75 miles to the northeast. Field reports said five South Vietnamese Air Force helicopters were hit by enemy fire near Phuoc Binh. In the air war over North Vietnam, the U.S. (Continued on Page 2A, Col.

2) Bathing Time For Tanks South Vietnamese soldiers give their tanks a bath by driving them into a shallow river bed, south of the northern front, Tuesday. The tanks provide road security for convoys traveling to the northern defense line. (AP Wirephoto) POWs Being Transferred From Vietnam To China The Statue of Liberty, standing silhouetted against the afternoon sky in New York Harbor, was visited by many tourists to mark the Fourth of July. Elsewhere, Americans celebrated the nation's 196th birthday in traditional ways. Story on Page 2 A.

Pictures on Page 6C. (APWirephoto) Seoul, Pyongyang Activate Hot Line COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) The Rev. Paul A. Lindstrom, national chairman of the Remember the Pueblo Committee, said Tuesday he had "positive information" that American war prisoners were being transferred from North Vietnam to China. Lindstrom gave a news conference during an airport stopover on his way to Sweden.

He said that transports of American prisoners to China mainly by boat had been speeded up since April 20. He said that as recently as June 4-6, nine American pilots had been transferred from North Vietnam camps to China. He claimed that Henry A. Kissinger had tried, but failed, to get these or any other prisoners released. Kissinger, President Nixon's special adviser, was in Peking last month.

Lindstrom complained that no one ever thought of the American posoneirs in the hands of the Pathet Lao in Laos. The Remember the Pueblo Committee was Former Foreign Ministers Takeo Miki and Masayoshl Ohira were eliminated on the first ballot and threw their support to Tanaka. The voting on the first round was Tanaka, 156; Fukuda, 150; Ohira, 101; Miki, 69. The Diet, Japan's parliament, will confirm Tanaka Thursday for a three-year term as prime minister. He will be Japan's youngest prime minister since the war.

Tanaka overcame the handicaps of poverty, a scanty education and lack of social position to fight his way to the top of the Japanese poetical heap. Ebullient and ruggedly handsome, he is a Tanaka Is New Japanese SEOUL (AP) South and North Korea opened a hot line between their capitals Tuesday in a move for reconciliation between two governments that have been sworn enemies for the past quarter-century. North Korea called for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the South. The direct phone link between Seoul, South Korea's capital, and Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, was the outcome of a recent round of secret high-level negotiations.

Simultaneous announcements in both cities said the accord provides for a joint political committee to open exchanges in many fields and to promote unification of North and South through peaceful means without outside The two governments also agreed to refrain from armed provocations and from slandering or defaming each other. The two sides agreed to install the hot line "in order to prevent the outbreak of unexpected military incidents and to deal directly, promptly and accurately with problems" arising between them, the announcement said. The agreements were reached at meetings in Pyongyang May 2-5 and Seoul May 29-June 1. TOKYO (AP) The ruling Liberal-Democratic party Wednesday elected Kakuei Tanaka, 54, its president and new prime minister of Japan in a break with past policies of dependence on the United States and aloofness to China. Tanaka, who made his way in politics as a maverick in the establishment, defeated a protege of retiring Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda, 67, on the second ballot of the party convention by 282-190 votes.

Tanaka needed a majority of 239 of the 476 party delegates voting. Four ballots were declared invalid. Tanaka currently Is minister of international trade and industry. I.

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