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I1 tff Credentials Panel Battle Initiates Tucson Delegate hearings frequently started at 9 a.m. and lasted until after midnight. Sister Dunn said she was grateful for the opportunity to serve on the committee because she "gained insight into the real political process. I'm more convinced than ever that politics is the place where the power Is." The convention participation for Sister Dunn won't end with the Democratic National Convention. She said she is running for precinct eommitteewoman in her eastside Precinct 100.

She will also go back to work campaigning and working locally for McGovern. She said she would also urge as many young people as possible to run for precinct committeeman. Sister Dunn said she also wants to "really work locally for good reform-type Democrats. I was very outraged at the Pima County members of the Legislature who voted for the farm pressure put on people from the start, we were asked to talk to different people to find out what they were going to do on certain Issues. I was there four days before I had what could be considered one human conversation with another person." Being a strong McGovern delegate, she said Stories and Pictures on Paget 1 4-1 7 A.

it was a "particularly painful experience for me to serve on the credentials committee." Red-faced but laughing, the Catholic nun said she felt "really challenged to love those who persecute you." while she worked on the Credentials Committee, The fourth-year teacher at Salpointe said there were 150 members of the committee and the attendance was very good, usually averaging about 140 members a hearing. The DC, that ended just a week before the start of the convention. "It was a depressing experience," she said of the hearings. "The reason being that in the wake of the California challenge hearings, the other challenges weren't properly considered because the McGovern people were up tight and as a result, the other sides were really upset." She said many of the members of the committee were just too tired and too frustrated to properly hear many of the challenges. "I was very struck by the professional operations of the people connected with labor, Sens.

Hubert Humphrey and Henry Jackson," Sister Dunn said. "We were overpowered by them at first. But after the California experience, we grew up real fast." Sister Dunn also described the committee experience as "de-humanizing." There was By JOHN RAWUNSOX Star Political Writer MIAMI BEACH The Credentials Committee battle at the Democratic National Convention has been the highlight of the convention and one Tucsonan, Sister Clare Dunn, had been all through it once before the start of the convention. The Credentials Committee yanked 151 of California's delegates away from Sen. George McGovern.

The South Dakota candidate needed these delegates all committed to him from the California winner-take-all primary, for a first-ballot nomination and he won a floor fight Monday at the convention to regain them. Sister a teacher at Salpointe High School and a McGovern delegate, was one of the 150 members of the Democratic Credentials Committee that participated in the stormy credentials challenges in Washington, FIFTEEN Cents VOL 131 NO. 195 rvi i 71 VI rarv TUCSON, ARIZONA, THURSDAY. JULY 13. IP 1972 A1 UVJ (7 Kennedy Won't labor bill and I plan to take them to task foi it." Twenty-one of the 25 Arizona delegates voted for Sen.

George McGovern. Two Tucso, nans, Horace Bounds of 2838 N. Fontana, an uncommitted delegate and Raul Castro, 3701 E. River Ttoad a Muskie delegate, voted for Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash.

State senator E.B. Thode of Casa Grande also voted for Sen. Jackson. Robert Allen, of Thoenix, an uncommitted delegate, cast the remaining Arizona vote foi Terry Sanford. U.S.

Rep. Morris K. Udall, leader of the Arizona delegation told the Star from the floor of the convention Wednesday night that the word being circulated was that U.S. Rep. Wilbur Mills of Arkansas would be McGovern's vice presidential nominee.

FINAL Edition SEVENTY PAGES A VJ R. KAILS This was the official tabulation of a roll call that took more than an hour and a half even though the issue was settled at the stroke of midnight: McGovern: 1,864.95. Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington: 86.65.

Gov. George Wallace of Alabama: 377.50. i Rep. Shirley Chisholm of New York: 101.45. The balance of the delegate votes were scattered among eight other candidates, with a handful going to Kennedy although his name was not placed in nomination.

Even before the nominating roll call was complete, the unity moves began. Humphrey telephoned McGovern, an old friend and protege before they beceme political rivals, within minutes after the nomination was settled. Iicp. Chisholm told the convention she would work across the nation for the McGovern ticket. Shortly before the convention began the nominating process, McGovern left his hotel penthouse and went down to the lobby to meet with several hundred angry demonstrators who had invaded the building, demanding to see the senator.

He reassured them that he had not changed his position "on any of the fundamental stands I've taken." On Vietnam, he said: "I don't have any doubt that within 90 days of my inauguration every American troop and every American soldier will be home, and that's the pledge I make." The demonstrators had expressed concern about reports that McGovern planned to leave residual force in Southeast Asia. The noisy, milling protesters repeatedly interrupted each other and McGovern, who pleaded with them to let questioners speak and him answer. The Senator, who was flanked by Secret Service agents as he spoke, said later he de- (Continued on Page 16A, Col. 4) FOB TOP of the NEWS VARIABLE CLOUDINESS with a slight chance of afternoon or evening thunder-showers today and tomorrow are predicted for the Tucson area. The high today is expected to be near 100 and the low near 75.

Yesterday's high was 102, three degrees lower than the high a year ago. The low yesterday and a year ago was 79. A weak tropical storm spread drenching rain in the middle Atlantic states yesterday. Details on Page 4A. Global CHESS DEFEAT.

Bobby Fischer, U.S. contender in the world chess championship, returns from a 30-minute break to lose the first game to Boris Spassky, the Russian title-holder. In the meantime, one of the backers of the prize money finds he cannot get his money out of England. Page 1C. ROGERS ASSAILS PULL-OUT PLAN.

Sec. of State William P. Rogers says that United States withdrawal from Vietnam, as proposed in the Democratic Party platform, would give the enemy "exactly what it wants." The incentive for a negotiated settlement would be lessened, he says. Page 12A. PROTESTANT POWER.

Nearly 100.000 men march through Northern Ireland in a display of Protestant power as part of the annual "Orange" marches. Explosions shake Londonderry and three youths are shot dead. Page 1C. AIRPORT MASSACRE. Kozo Okamoto, a 24-year-old Japanese, testifies at his military trial in Lod, Israel, that he and two accomplices machine-gunned crowds at Lod Airport on May 30.

He saw many persons fall, but no one returned the fire, he testifies. Page 5B. WAR AND PEACE. North Vietnamese troops force a retreat of South Vietnamese and remain entrenched in Quang Tri, while peace talks resume for the first time since May 4, when the United States suspended them. A feeling of optimism is reported in Paris.

Page 8A. fC National WAR ON CANCER. The Soviet Union agrees to furnish the United States three new experimental anti-cancer drugs which are chemical cousins of nitrogen mustard, a poison gas used during World War I. In exchange, the U.S. will send three of the four best drugs being tested in this country.

Page 7A. INFLATION BLAME. A Gallup poll shows that most people blame the government for inflation, although sizable groups place the biggest share of blame on business or labor. Page 17A. PENTAGON PAPER.

The issue of the capacity of jurors to read and understand the voluminous Pentagon Papers becomes an issue when the judge leaves an elderly immigrant on the prospective panel, after he says he completed only grammar school in Italy. Page 5A. WATER STUDY. The Army Corps of Engineers announces it will use a satellite to collect data in a water resources study. The satellite hopefully will send information on such conditions as snow cover, stream flow and changes in vegetation.

Page 4A. SAN CLEMENTE VISITOR. President Nixon meets with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin the day before resumption of the Paris peace talks, but the White House says the diplomat's visit to San Clemente is purely coincidental and that the U.S. proposals to end the Vietnam war are flexible. Page 8A.

TRAIN CREWS. The bankrupt Penn Central Raildroad gets permission to reduce its freight train crews from four men to three. The United Transportation Union has said it is prepared to strike if the plan is implemented. Page 3B. HURRICANE RELIEF.

President Nixon proposes that homeowners and businessmen in six states that were damaged by Hurricane Agnes be granted $5,000 outright and be offered 30-year loans at one per cent per year to restore their property. Nixon says 128,000 homes and businesses were destroyed by the storm in June. Page 4A. CRIME REPORTS. The FBI reports that Tucson's crime rate increased by 7.5 per cent in the first three months of 1972.

Phoenix's rate is reported to have jumped by 4 per cent, and the national rate is one per cent higher than reported in the last three months of 1971. Page 9A. NAVAJO-HOPI LAND. Officials of the Hopi Indian tribe and Bureau of Indian Affairs testify that the Hopis are still being denied use of most of the tend to which they were given a half 10 years ago. Page IB.

Local AJO SHOOTING. A one-man grand jury probe headed by Judge Richard N. Roylston enters its second day today after conflicting testimony is heard on the July 1 fatal shooting of 19-year-old Phillip Celaya by a sheriff's deputy outside an Ajo tavern. Page IB. Index Bridge 10A Movies 5C Comics 6-7E Crossword 6E Editorial 8E Financial 2-4C Good Health 6C Horoscope 11A Pub.

Rec 7D Tucson Today 8B Sports 1-6D TV-Radio. 7E Want Ads 9-18D Women 1-5E Tolce Bv WALTER MIAMI BEACH (AP) George McGovern swept to the Democratic presidential nomination Wednesday night to climax an incredible campaign that carried him from the back row of the Senate to the pinnacle of party power. He offered the vice presidential nomination to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, a spokesman said, but the Massachusetts senator declined to run.

A mighty roar sounded from the Democratic National Convention as Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien pronounced the from South Dakota the presidential nominee. McGovern had it won long before the first ballpt was completed. His final delegate vote after switches: far past the 1,509 majority he needed. Before the switches his total was 1,728.35.

Even as McGovern partisans cheered, waved state standards and the blue placards of their candidate, word came that Sen. Edward M. Kennedy had spurned the OTI2" Mill vice presidency. After 119 delegate votes from Illinois assured McGovern's nomination, Kennedy telephoned him from Hyannis Port, with congratulations. It was then that McGovern offered Kennedy the vice presidency.

Richard Dougherty, a McGovern spokesman, said Kennedy declined "for very real personal reasons." Dougherty said the two men walked for about 15 minutes. McGovern already had been looking to others, for Kennedy has repeatedly renounced any candidacy for national office in 1972. And so the only question left for the Democratic convention was the selection of a No. 2 man to run with McGovern. The delegates, were sure to ratify whomever McGovern chooses at the closing session Thursday night.

McGovern watched on television in his penthouse suite two miles away as the convention voted him triumph in an 18-month nomination quest that he began as a lonely political 2nd McGovern Nomination Cheered Members of California's 27 1 -member delegation, led by ac- mated Wednesday night to be the party's presidential candidate, tress Shirley MacLaine, right, join in the demonstration at the Demo- McGovern received all of the 271 California votes. (AP Wire-cratic National Convention as Sen. George S. McGovern was nom- photo) Two Men With Guns Seized Near McGovern Penthouse i i I limp i ii i i mi I in II ii i ip MIAMI BEACH (AP) Federal agents rushed to the Doral Beach Hotel Wednesday and seized two men on concealed weapons charges shortly after Sen. George McGovern wound up a meeting in his penthouse suite.

The Secret Service said later it had no evidence the men intended to harm the South Dakota senator or any other Democfatic presidential candidate. The Secret Service said the two black men identified themselves as Malek Sonebeyatta, 32, and Ahmed Obateni, 33, both of Jackson, but said that positive identification had not been made. Both carried multiple identification, authorities said. (Picture on page 14A.) Two handguns were found under the seat of a car occupied by one of the men. The arrested men were taken to the Dade County Jail and bond was set at $100,000 apiece on identical charges of carrying concealed weapons, police said.

"We have no information at this time to connect the activities of these men with any intended harm to the protectees of the Secret Service," agents said in a news release. One police source said the two belonged to a black separatist organization called the Republic of New Africa. Shortly after the arrests, McGovern canceled a scheduled trip to attend a Democratic National Convention caucus of 151 Latin delegates at the Deauville Hotel. McGovern's press secretary, Kirby Jones, said the visit was canceled so that the senator could work on a nomination acceptance speech. Jones said, however, that aides had urged McGovern not to go because of the incident.

Secret Service, FBI and Florida Law Enforcement Department agents arrested one man as he sat in a mustard-colored sports car parked on the ramp of the hotel. The Secret Service said two pistols were found under the car's front seat. The second man was taken into custody in the hotel's interior lobby minutes later. Both were frisked, handcuffed and taken away. It was not immediately clear which of the two men was inside the hotel.

The arrests occurred just after a meeting between McGovern and six governors in the senator's 17th floor suite broke up. Two of the governors, Patrick J. Lucey of Wisconsin and Marvin Mandel of Maryland, were holding a news conference in the lobby at the time of the incident. Car attendants at the hotel said a man had been sitting in the parked Capri sports car for 20 to 30 minutes. The vehicle had Michigan license plates.

Detroit, radio station WJR said law enforcement officials had traced the car's registration to a Republic of New Africa member who once lived in Detroit. However, the man was not one of the two arrested. Minutes after the incident, Kathleen Kennedy, oldest daughter of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, stepped off an elevator and into the Doral lobby, where several men quickly hustled her back into the elevator.

The Radcliffe College senior has been campaigning for McGovern. Both men arrested wore denim trousers and jackets. The one brought from the lobby was wearing a green knit skull cap. The man pulled from the car shouted angrily at the agent who searched him. On the dashboard of the car was a tabloid newspaper with a headline reading, "We Accuse the U.S.

Govt, of Genocide." Scattered about the car was a satchel, pieces of cardboard and handwritten notes on Democratic Party platform proposals advanced by minority groups. The Republic of New Africa was founded in Detroit in 1968 with the goal of establishing a separate black nation in five Southern states. It moved to the Jackson area in 1971. RNA officials claimed the arrests were made to "frame the Republic." Faces In The Crowd Two young delegates look tired and pensive as the time draws near for picking a candidate at the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach. Unlike other delegates, whose candidates had withdrawn earlier, they still sport their decorative hats.

(AP Wirephoto).