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Airport Tax: Maybe It Will Just Get You Going SUNNY AND HOT mmnx Convention News sunny ana not today witn clear skies. Highs in the low 90s. Lows in the low to mid 70s. Tuesday's Pollution Index: 4 Average Summer Index: 4-6 Full Weather Report, Page 58 -TEN CENTS Drops Market; Tables, Pgs. 26 30 1 Oldest Daily Newspaper in the United States Founded 1771 WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 12, 1972 Vol.

287, No. 12 NAL CITY EDITION Wit II El II XL1 Old Guard Steps Aside Grumblingfor the New in American politics, watching on television the formation of a new Democratic Party in a new mold. Daley's demise came at; 4:35 A.M. He couldn't even get his funeral on prime time. A brassy 31-year-old Chicago lawyer, William Singer, with long hair, is sitting in the Illinois convention seat which Daley had occupied, with imperial aloofness, for a decade and a half.

But Daley and Meany are not alone as one-time party kingmakers who no longer courts. James Farley, the "Mr. Democrat" of an earlier time, did not make it to this -7- the first he has missed in anyone's 3memory. Col. Jacob Arvey, of Chicago, who put By JAMES McCARTNEY Inquirer Convention, Bureau, MIAMI BEACH.

The old bosses of the, Democratic Party are politically dead slain by ladies-'in slacks and youths in sideburns. Richard J. Daley, a man to whom Presi: dents have toadied, is sulking and distraught. He never even came to Miami Beach to witness the preparation of his epitaph as a party power. George Meany has locked himself behind chained rdoors- in his 'in Amerfijana kotel, puzzling -over craziest dnventiori, I THESE GRIZZLED veterans 'wlrS fstqod Tuesday -as'-symbils of -the past Daley in his seat of power and made the late Adlai Stevenson a national figure, rarely left his quarters.

LIKE DALEY, he was deprived of a convention floor seat in the Singer victory. Averell Harriman isn't here. Robert Wagner, one-time mayor of New York, sat on the sidelines. And many who reigned as big city bosses, like Daley, to help build the modern Demo-, cratic party, did not arrive for another reason. They have long since died.

They include Frank Hague, of New Jersey; Ed Flynn, of the Bronx; Jim Curley, of Boston and David Lawrence, of Pittsburgh. Continued on Page 14, Col. 3 The old pols are licking their wounds. The were out maneuvered, out-counted, out-stalled and out-fought by the women and the kids, by the bleeding heart liberals and the peaceniks. The story of how the young lions of the McGovern camp humiliated the old regulars of the Democratic party will probably be the biggest story of this convention.

It on Page 14. YottHK find the fall coreventrem story- on Pages 8, 10," 11; 1213; li 16, 25:, i MAYOR DALEY scene from '68 9 i1 It r- 1 i cibrovem t1 c. As Eival. Out run I vJ- Ay A vll v-v 1 1 1 a- lit i it 4V ihi i-. 'm l-- I 4 i -J jwsi? -o 4 1 Delegates Toss Out Anti-Busing Plank By WILLIAM MONTALBANO Inquirer Convention Bureau MIAMI BEACH.

The only serious rivals to George McGovern called it quits Tuesday, guaranteeing the insurgent South Dakotan a first ballot presidential nomination tonight. First Hubert Humphrey and then Edmund Muskie formally withdrew from the Democratic race. As the convention began lengthy debate on the party platform, the only suspense remaining was McGovern's vice presidential choice. GEORGE WALLACE, still an active candidate, flew by helicopter to Convention Hall to speak from his wheelchair on behalf of a minority platform plank against busing. His appearance triggered a noisy response from the -delegates.

After prolonged debate, the minority anti-busing plank favored by Wallace was rejected early today by a voice vote. Wallace's interest lay more in influencing the platform than in the nomination itself. Shirley Chisholm, Wilbur Mills and Henry Jackson remained active but token candidates. The last hopes of both Humphrey and Muskie died at the opening convention session early Tuesday when McGovern's crack organization gave him a resounding victory on a California credentials challenge. Winning the challenge and with it restoration of 151 disputed California delegates made McGovern unbeatable.

His delegate support soared well over the 1,509 level required for nomination. Florida Governor Reubin Askew appeared before the convention as the keynote speaker, urging the divided Democrats to embrace a new "coalition of protest" as a way to "join the wisdom of yesterday to the hope of tomorrow." "There is indeed a new coalition in this country a coalition of protest," Askew declared. "It includes black and white, young and old, north and south, right and left, some of the rich, most of the poor, and millions of overtaxed and overcharged middle income Americans as well." Such a coalition, Askew said1, could lead to the "dawn of the maturing of America" by cutting across "each of Julius Greenfield, Inquirer Convention Photosrapher A Rarity Among Political Chairmen Larry O'Brien uses tact and humor in convention hall. Story on Page 11 6 Sought Scheme UPI Teieptioto Indictments Against In Alleged Bribery Wallace Talks of Busing By KENT POLLOCK Convention gave him big welcome A Forceful Wallace Loses Busing Plea Lucchesi Offered City Job By PETE LAIXE Of The Inquiri Rlf'f Frank Rizzo offered Frank Lucchesi a job Tuesday because, said the mayor, "I hate to see a grown man cry." The deposed Ph Hies' manager said he was "flattered but I'll have to play it by ear." "Nothing like had "lengthy discussions" with the four policemen. The discussions led to an agreement whereby the officers would allow Fidelibus his freedom in exchange for the jury said.

The officers also agreed to substitute an- ported the drug find to narcotics headquarters. According to the jury, Fidelibus' father went to the Chancellor Apartments, 13th and Chancellor to contact Dennis Virelli and ask him to be the substitute. The jury said Fidelibus' father told Virelli he would those barriers which have been used for years and years to keep the people divided against themselves." As Askew spoke, the most reluctant of the vice presidential possibilities Kennedy went camping for the night with his children on a Cape Cod beach. McGovern had apparently ruled out any direct talk with Kennedy until alter his formal nomination. Demonstrators again flocked to Convention Hall Tues- vention to make a case for six separate minority planks that he had sponsored in Continued on Page 14, Col.

3 By JAMES McCARTNEY Inquirer Convention Bureau MIAMI Gov. George Wallace took the school busing issue to the other person to be arrested Continued on Page 14, Col. since they had already re- Continued on Page 4, Col. 1 In Today's ever came across my mind," said Lucchesi. "I've been strictly a baseball man all my life.

The first thing to do is to get back to man- Jack Nicklaus He's Ready For. Golf's Grand Slam 'J''4 SiBmf ag ng a big-letgue club." FRANK LUCCHESI Of The Inquirer Staff Four Philadelphia policeman and two civilians were recommended for indictment Tuesday for their involvement in an alleged bribery scheme to free the civilians after one of the city's largest seizures of illegal amphetamines. The officers all narcotics detectives at the time of the February 1971 incident are Hugh McNichol, Michael San-tivasci, Lawrence Gerace and Nicandro Iannacone. Recommendation for indictment came from the new special investigating corruption grand jury which began deliberating early last month. "THE CRIMINAL conduct of the four policemen in this case is shocking beyond words," said the jury's presentment.

"For a price, they (the police officers) corruptly set free the guilty party in one of the largest seizures of meth ever made in Philadelphia." The civilians recommended for indictment were Michael Fidelibus, of Society Hill Towers on Locust and his father, Nicholas Fidelibus. According to the grand jury presentment, the four officers searched young Fidelibus' apartment and found more than $10,000 worth of metham-phetamine in the arm of a sofa. THE JURY said Fidelibus called his father who then came to the apartment and floor of the Democratic Convention Tuesday night in a wheelchair. And he lost. In his first major political speech since he was shot, the governor asserted: "Any party that doesn't confront this issue and confront it in the right manner-is going to be in trouble as far as success is concerned in the November election." Wallace drew a chorus of boos from the convention floor apparently emanating in large part from the huge New York delegation when he said polls have shown that 75 to 85 percent of the nation is "against the senseless, asinine busing of little school children to achieve integration." DESPITE HIS personal appeal, the Democratic convention early today overwhelm- -ingly rejected the busing pro-, posal.

Dominated by backers of Sen. George McGovern, the -TKftft'. liiif'i li mil iiiiii Miriifiiiriiirfmri Wirephoto Champion and Challenger Display Form at Chess Table in Iceland Boris Spassky, left, took early advantage in match with Bobby Fischer Fischer in Trouble in 1st Chess Match See Page 60 Ask Your Doctor 58 Bridge 59 Business News 26 to 30 Classified Ads 38 to 51 Comics 58, 59 Corr's Column; 25 Death Notices 24 Dixon Horoscope 59 Shirley Eder 18 Editorials 20 Entertainment 17 to 19 Food Guide Ht27 Ann Landers 19 LivingWomen's 12, 1 Obituaries 24 Opp-Ed Page 21 Puzzle Corner 39 Sports 53 to 57, 60 Talk Page 25 Television and Radio 8, 9 Weather 58 Lucchesi has said he will remain in the Phi lies organization in some capacity unless he is offered another big-league managing job. RIZZO WASN'T specific about the job or the salary but said Lucchesi would have "a lot to offer" to the city's recreational progn ms. And Lucchesi, reached at the Veterans Stadium, admitted he had a real interest in working with kids: "I would never back off frcm any kid ever." The mayor said he made Lucchesi the offer because "I feel sorry for Lucchesi.

He's a good man. He tried the best he could. "And hate to a grown man cry." to have trouble making a draw. I don't see how Spassky can lose." Svetozar Gligoric, the Yugoslav grandmaster, commented: "It is doubtful whether black can save a draw." Spassky made his first Continued on Page 3, Col. 4 Reykjavik time).

WHEN PLAY was called off for the night, there was little left on the board: a king and five pawns for Fischer; a king, three pawns and a bishop for Spassky. U. S. grandmaster Robert Byrne said: 'jTischer is going From Our Wire Services REYKJAVIK, Iceland. Bobby Fischer made his opening assault on the Soviet Chess fortress Tuesday night, but world champion Boris Spassky repelled it and left the American with a tough fight for a draw when their first game was adjourned.

Spassky, playing white, capitalized on Fischer's error and held the only chance of victory after 3 hours and 34 minutes of play. The first game of history's richest world chess title match was called after 40 moves. It will resume at 1 P.M. EDT today (5 P.M. convention gave Wallace and his supporters a polite one-hour hearing, but refused to heed their pleas to rewrite the platform for November's campaign.

Wallace came to the con 1 1 0.

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