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Delegate slice could be beneficial Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Fairbanks, Alaska, Friday, June WASHINGTON (AP) George McGovern said today the Democratic Credentials Committee's action slicing his California delegate strength may actually work in favor of his getting the party's presidential nomination. "In the sense that it's so flagrant and such an obvious inside deal to subvert the will of the I think it may rebound in our favor," the South Dakota senator said. McGovern, who was angry Thursday about the committee's decision to strip him of more than half of the 271 California delegates, appeared calm while being interviewed on the CBS Morning News. "I've had a short night's rest," he said. Thursday, McGovern had threatened to withhold support from the Democratic ticket if he loses the presidential nomination because of what he called "shabby back-room dealing." Today McGovern said he is sure the Democratic National Convention will overturn the Credentials Committee's decision.

The committee's 72-66 vote to apportion the 271 delegates among nine candidates, rather than awarding them all to McGovern, fueled the unrest simmering in a party searching somewhat uncertainly for har- says McGovern mony between regulars and reformers. That decision and another due today on a challenge to one of the pre-eminent old-liners, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, portended further acrimonious debate at the Miami Beach convention opening July 10. The full convention will vote on accepting or rejecting Credentials Committee decisions. In Ms initial burst of anger, McGovern called the committee decision "the rottenest political steal I've ever seen in my political career" and blamed Sen.

Hubert H. Humphrey, his nearest rival and chief beneficiary of the ruling, for engineering it. "I couldn't possibly support a convention that would sustain this kind of shabby back-room dealing," he declared. "I wouldn't have any part of any convention nominee who would support this." But he tempered the asser- analysis New Vietnam peace prospects vague WASHINGTON (AP) In reviving the Paris peace talks, President Nixon is vague about what evidence he may have that Hanoi will change its stand on the war. Nixon told newsmen Thursday night that "we will return to the negotiating table" July 12 "on the assumption that the North Vietnamese are prepared to negotiate in a constructive and serious way." But when asked "what took you back to the Paris peace (able?" he said it would not be useful to indicate what has taken place in various diplomatic discussions.

It is enough, he stated, to say that both sides considered it in Protestants barricading in Ireland BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) Militant Protestants announced today they are going ahead with plans to erect ba ri- cades around Roman Catholic strongholds in Northern Ireland despite a promise by the Irish Republican Army to tear down a few of its barriers. The Ulster Defense Association said the decision by the IRA's Provisional wing to remove three of the 40 barricades that close off the Roman Catho lie Bogside and Creggan districts of Londonderry was "too little and loo "The removal of a mere three barriers in no way affects our plans," a spokesman said. "We shall only be satisfied when the security forces are back in control of the Bogside and Creggan." However, a UDA spokesman told a BBC interviewer that "essential services" would be allowed to continue in the IRA strongholds. He gave no details, but it appeared the Protestants had reconsidered their original plan to try to cut off food, electricity and water from the Catholic areas. It was believed the UDA would begin putting up its barricades tonight.

William Whitelaw, Britain's head man in Northern Ireland, has said they would not be tolerated. The IRA meanwhile denied that the demolition of the three barriers in Londonderry meant it was preparing to relax its control of the area known as Krec Deny and the 35,000 Catholics living there. The other barricades will "definitely remain," an IIIA spokesman said. The ones coming down were infested with rats and had become a health hazard, he explained. The street barriers of concrete, steel and wrecked vehicles have become a symbol of Catholic rebellion against the discriminatory rule of Northern Ireland's Protestant majority.

To the Protestants, they are a hallmark of the IRA lawlessness that the British army has not been able to crush. their interests and "we thought the Paris parley begun 3'A there was a chance" for nego- ago. tiating progress. However, he acknowledged "we have been disappointed in the past" with "no significant results" from 149 meetings in Nixon may have had in mind, most recently, his April 26 announcement of resumption of the Paris sessions "with the firm expectation that productive talks leading to rapid prog- South Viet offense push to Quang Tri SAIGON (AP) Helicopters leapfrogged hundreds of South Vietnamese paratroopers over their supporting armor today and landed them within four miles of Quang Tri City as Saigon's forces pressed ahead i their offensive to recapture South Vietnam's northernmost province. Associated Press correspondent Holger Jensen reported that the assault zone was so heavily pounded by U.S.

B52 bombers before the dawn lift that some of the helicopter pilots couldn't see through the clouds of dust and smoke. They had to land several hundred of the troops at alternate sites. Officers said they encountered no heavy organized resistance; but the troops clashed sporadically with small groups of Vietnamese soldiers and five enemy tanks were repotted knocked out. South Vietnamese tanks and armored personnel carriers advanced up Highway 1 behind the paratroopers, about three miles north of the My Chanh River. They found the shattered hulks of four enemy tanks which South Vietnamese marines had knocked out when Quang Tri Province fell on May 1.

I a witli the armor collected a number of abandoned heavy weapotis. Small groups of North Vietnamese snipers still lurked in bombed areas behind the paratroopers' front lines, and several South Vietnamese positions along Highway 1 took sporadic artillery fire. President Nguyen Van Thieu flew to Hue and conferred for an hour and a half i his senior commanders in the drive to retake Quang Tri, now in its third day. lie was smiling as he came out of the conference. Government military spokesmen reported more a 250 North Vietnamese killed in fighting on the Quang Tri front and southwest of Hue on Thursday.

South Vietnamese casualties were 29 killed and 93 wounded, they said. Heavy clashes were reported by paratroopers and marines who made a pair of large-scale helicopter landings on the coast east of Quang Tri City on Thursday. Spokesmen said 90 Communist troops were killed in one of the battles and 73 in another. On the An Loc front north of Saigon, meanwhile, a Soutli Vietnamese regimental commander once accused of killing two American military policemen was killed by an enemy rocket that made a direct hit on his bunkered command post. Lt.

Col. Nguyen Viet Can and two other officers were tried for murder in 1969 after the two MPs were killed in a Shootout in a Saigon night club. The court withheld its verdict and ordered a new investigation. A second trial was never held. The North Vietnamese made four shelling attacks and one assault Thursday against the South Vietnamese troops trying to reopen Highway 13 to An Loc, the Saigon command said.

Spokesmen said South Vietnamese troops initiated two more engagements. The U.S. Command said more than 210 strikes were flown against North Vietnam Thursday. Mideast deadlock break seen CAIRO (AP) Soviet leaders have a plan--possibly in agreement with the United States--to break the Arab-Israeli deadlock, a confidant of President Anwar Sadat reported today. Mohamcd Hassanein Haikal devoted a full page of his semiofficial newspaper Al Ahram today to the role of Russia in the middle east.

He wrote: "The Soviet Union is not in a rush, at least for the coming six months, to break the present state of no-war-no- peace in the Middle East, in such a way as to affect its new relations with the United States. "It is clear that the Kremlin leaders have gambled on the success of President Nixon in the coming American elections on the basis he is the best enemy at the White House. "Undoubtedly the Soviet leaders have a vision oti how to break the present state of no- war-no-peace which they have discussed with Nixon. Let me not say it was point of agreement among them." Supporting his conclusion, Haikal said: "It is illogical that the Kremlin leaders would exert that much of an effort to reach an understanding with the United States only to face a sharp crisis a few weeks after Nixon is re-elected and returns to the White House." ress will follow through all available channels," But, after two public sessions April 27 and May 4 and a May 2 secret meeting between presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger and North Vietnam's Le Due Tho, Nixon reported that "all we heard from the enemy was bombastic rhetoric and a replaying of their demand for surrender." Administration sources have been saying that North Vietnam now is reviewing its policy, as evidenced by the return from Paris to Hanoi of Politburo member Le Due Tho and chief negotiator Xuan Thuy.

These sources say that: --North Vietnam's all-out spring offensive has failed to U.S. chess champ Fischer threatened with listing AMSTERDAM (AP) The president of the World Chess Federation has threatened American champion Bobby Fischer with blacklisting following reports he is holding out for a cut of the gate receipts from his World Series with Boris Spassky of Russia. Dr. Max Euwe, the world federation president and veteran grandmaster, said Thursday night that if the 29- year-old American fails to appear Sunday for the start of the world chess championship in Reykjavik, Iceland, he stands to low his rights to play for the world title "not only this time but perhaps forever." Fischer was seen Thursday night at New York's Kennedy airport, but Icelandic Airlines said he did not board its flight to Reykjavik. When newsmen tried to question him, his bodyguards fended them off.

The next flight from New York to Iceland is tonight. But Fischer in the past has refused to fly on the Jewish Sabbath, between sundown Friday and sundown Saturday. Informed sources in Reykjavik said that Fischer informed the Icelandic Chess Federation that he wouldn't play unless he got 3D per cent of the gate receipts. This would be in addition lo his share of the (12,000 purse and 30 per cent of the receipts from the sales of tele- vision and film rights already agreed to. The Icelandic federation was reported seeking a compromise in negotiations with Fred Cramer, former president of the American Chess Federation, who is acting as Fischer's advance man, The Icelanders said they have already spent about (200,000 on preparations, and if they meet Fischer's demand they can't break even.

The gate receipts probably will be considerable. Matches will be played three to six days a week in a sports palace with seats at (5 each. And the series is expected to last two months. collapse the Saigon government or even to hold on to much of the South. --Moscow and Peking are displeased with Hanoi's heavy- weapons, conventional-warfare assault, and Hanoi is unhappy with the lack of more forceful Soviet and Chinese support in the face of the new U.S.

bombing and mining of Vietnam. -The U.S. air and sea attacks are effectively curbing North Vietnam's outside supplies and severely damaging her war potential internally. They note, loo, that Nixon took up the Vietnam issue in Moscow, that Soviet President Nikolai V. Podgorny has just been to Hanoi and Kissinger to Peking.

lion Utter when he told a news conference in Atlantic City, that his initial outburst "doesn't reflect what 1 want to say about this matter." "I don't want to make any threats," he said, and added that, "if the Democratic nominee Is nominated according to the rules in a way I think is fair, I'll support him." Humphrey, calling the decision "only fair," said his own chances "have markedly Imp and criticized McGovern's reaction. "Anyone who would bolt or rush off in a huff has, may I say, very little regard for the convention and its procedures," he said. The challenge, filed by supporters of Humphrey and other candidates who ran behind McGovern in the June 6 primary, contended that the winner-take-all California taw violated the spirit of party reforms. The California vote seemed certain to solidify McGovern's committee supporters behind a challenge to Daley and 58 other uncommitted Illinois delegates he controls on grounds they were selected improperly and underrepresent women, youth and blacks. The challengers include several McGovern supporters.

The situation was further clouded by an Illinois circuit court ruling Thursday prohibiting any but the Daley delegates from taking those seats. The immediate impact of the California vote was to trim McGovern's first-place delegate total and increase his difficulty in wooing uncommitted delegates. A new Associated Press tally, taking Into account the committee vote, put MeGovern's first-ballot strength now at 1,226.9, or 282.1 votes away the needed 1,509, McGovern's own tally dropped to 1,333.75, or 175.25 short of a majority. --In Philadelphia, a hearing examiner decided that 40 per cent of Humphrey's and Mus- kie's Pennsylvania delegates were chosen in violation of the reform rules, a challenging group said. --In New Orleans, state Hep.

Dorothy Taylor announced that 15 of the 19 Louisiana black delegates have thrown their support to McGovern, giving him at least 24 of 44 Louisiana delegates. -At Homestead Air Force Base, 25 miles south of Miami Beach, soldiers spent the day Thursday building an encampment for the regular Army troops who will be assigned to duty during two presidential nominating conventions. --Humphrey satd earlier Thursday he fears "a highry educated elite" is gaining control of the party to the detriment of blue-collar workers, the elderly, noncollege youth and even many Democratic elected officials. --McGovein promised, if elected president, to create a federal department of education and appoint a woman to run it. He spoke at the National Education Association convention In Atlantic City.

--Vice President Spiro T. Agnew blanketed all the Demo- cratic presidential candidates with criticism as "political shuttlecocks--feathery lightweights who bounce from position to position at the slightest sensing of outside pressures He spoke at a Republican dinner in Uniondale, N.Y. Won't antagonize press says Nixon WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon says the delicacy of setting up arrangements for his summit trips to China and to the Soviet Union influenced his decision against any live-broadcast news conferences over a 13-month period. Here is how the point was developed at his broadcast session with reporters Thursday night: Q. Mr.

President, this is kind of an in-house question, but I think it is of interest. A. You would not ask an "outhouse" question, would you? Q. I am not sure what an outhouse question is. A.

I know. Q. What is your feeling about these types of press conferences? A. I have to determine the best way of communication and also I have to use the press conference--1 don't mean use tlie press--but use the press conference when I believe that a is the best way to communicate or inform the people 1 concluded that in the very sensitive period leading up to the Peking trip and the period thereafter and in the even more sensitive period, as it turned out to be, leading up to the Moscow trip and the period immediately thereafter, that the press conference, even "no- commenting" questions was not a useful thing for the President of the United States to engage in It is essential for a president to communicate with the people, to inform the press who, of course, do talk to the people, either on television or radio or through what they write. Tune rom Bell Howell Hear your favorite music in full stereo.

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