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TIMOTHY A Publisher MICHAEL CHANCE Editor Emeritus Tumm July 11 1972 THOMAS EHAYER Editor Editorial Page Associate Editor ROBERT A PRESTON Managing Editor MARSHALL WYATT Advertising Director JC FREEMAN Circulation Manager Nixon Moves Looking Good BRUCE BIOSSAT Demo Taints Reform MIAMI BEACH The Democratic party assembled here in convention is moving further each day into a time of anguished division which will endure whether or not it captures the presidency this November No healing words heard at this turn from its 1972 presidential nominee will purge it of its troubles There is no way to apply soothing balm to the wounds it is suffering Political scholar Walter DeVries has told me and on the evidence I believe him that there is an unbroken continuity in the life of a great political party cannot shake off bitter experience as if it never happened It cannot "get something out of its and start afresh Its future can only be created from all it has done in the past And what the Democrats are now doing is tormenting themselves with irreconcilable conflict With the world watching through eye they are tearing at the fabric which binds them The men who decided to try to stop the nomination of Sen George McGovern by political maneuver rather than delegate votes (which they did not have) gave the party its final thrust down this dark path Leaders in labor and many top party regulars made this choice lashing at McGovern through a convention committee which -for a turbulent few days cut away some of his huge delegate winnings from the California primary It cannot be rubbed from the record that this undertaking had the sanction of virtually all of McGovern's presidential rivals not just vocal Sen Hubert Humphrey but quiet Sen Edmund Muskie and a long list including even Rep Shirley Chisholm that supposed advocate of things new and different and better A twist of irony sure to be remembered too is the fact that adversaries donned the robes of reform as they struck hard at the man whose name is stamped on the sweeping party reforms of 1972 They invoked the glories of proportional representation or something for everybody though their real aim was to see that there was leu for McGovern than he had won Here in this setting I am still talking to party people I have sounded out all year It is unmistakably plain that many regulars have what they believe are legitimate fears and grievances relating to McGovern tt is going over old ground to say they see him too far-out on issues as the choice of too few Democrats for all his primary victories and his overwhelming delegate strength as a probable disaster for the Democratic ticket What I find interesting in their comment is how small a number of there regulars is willing to bow gracefully to the inevitable Only a handful tell me McGovern have it and see what he does with it" The rest stepped upon or shunted aside by McGovern's avenging angels (his young cadres) want revenge in their turn The consequences of their harsh response could be brutal An Illinois man shepherding some Muskie delegates says he is "pretty disgusted with the whole that is happeining to his party The mood of revulsion is widening steadily Even as its first fruits appear party reform among Democrats seems tainted and abused But as scholar DeVries says everything is linked The ferment and trauma of 1968 produced reform Reform brought some excess and revenge against the old And now here in convention we are watching the self-destructive impulse of 72- "It Wasn't a Sporty Model But It Always Got Us There!" KEVIN PHILLIPS Nixon On Income Redistribution shore up the North Vietnamese war effort planes are making a shambles of the transportation network which has carried their war supplies to South Vietnam for years The South Vietnamese Army has been holding the line The people of South Vietnam have shown no inclination to produce the that was supposed to greet the new Communist invasion Four years ago the United States stopped its bombing in the belief that in doing so we might encourage a change of attitude in the government at Hanoi All it produced was a propaganda charade in Paris and time for the North Vietnamese to refurbish their war-making potential and build up the forces which rolled across the Demilitarized Zone this spring to bring new terror and havoc to the South Vietnamese countryside The Nixon moves in Vietnam coupled with rapprochements involving both Red China and the Soviet Union may compel Hanoi to adopt a more reasonable stance at the Paris talks The end of the long frustrating Vietnam war now seems possible There are other signs on the international horizon which cannot but help the Nixon foreign-policy image: North and South Korea are talking again and the India-Pakistan border and refugee problems may also go to conference Could it be that these feuding nations sense they cannot at least for now play off the big powers one against the other? The overwhelming vote by the Conference of Mayors in support of President policy in Vietnam is part of a phenomenon widely evident in the United States of America A year ago the mayors took a stand critical of the President Now they and many others who originally had their doubts are realizing that Mr strategy for peace in Southeast Asia stands a remarkably good chance of succeeding Only six weeks ago the decision to meet the new North Vietnamese offensive in South Vietnam with the mining of Haiphong harbor and an intensified bombing campaign was denounced in liberal quarters as an of the war Now it is seen that what has really been escalated is the prospect that North Vietnam may well resume peace talks with a genuine desire to bring the war to an end The alternatives for Hanoi are bleak Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny returned to Moscow from a visit to North Vietnam with a statement reiterating support of the Communist cause but giving at least as much emphasis to the need to get peace negotiations back on the track As emissary Henry Kissinger ended a visit to Peking the Chinese Communists also were standing behind the principle of a negotiated settlement The two major Communist powers may at last see the hopelessness of attempting to WASHINGTON Thanks to Here are the groups that George wild-eyed would be most affected by the economics the issue of Nixon tax credit plan: 1) shifting Parents of the several million money from one group to children in the nation's Roman another promises to be a Catholic schools 2) Parents of central theme of political the several hundred thousand debate But income children in Lutheran schools redistribution is a double edged and 3) Parents of the children sword and by the time Richard taken out of public schools and Nixon finishes wielding it US put in private schools to avoid liberals may not be quite so cokamainie busing schemes enthusiastic Two June Obviously there are great developments suggest the potential benefits involved for though is the implication for American society The aim of the new Republican game is to strengthen and reward the productive forces in the US For example since World War Two farmers have been receiving less and less money for their produce As a result the typical farmer's taxable income has dropped below New York City welfare levels Now the Administration is openly committed to increasing the agricultural share of national affluence Middle-income families sacrificing to rend their children to private schools are also going to get I Arif ANDFRSON help And over the next four nlvtLlJVJn years the list will get longer During the the average American was squeezed to pay for unsuccessful poverty schemes and welfare doles cm (me hand and simultaneously insulted by tax gimmicks and lucrative programs for the rich Finally the tide Is starting to turn The Final MIAMI Jimmy the Greek Mike the No 1 oddsmaker George McGovern to win the Democratic presidential would nomination with either Sen Frank Church or Arkan- the Republican Party and President Nixon will doubtless be bitterly attacked by the antiethnic anti-Southern elite of the Left when he formally offers his plan in September But new political eras have been built on the effective npplication of federal power and spending to cement the new majority and Richard Nixon can survive the howls of the wounded elite just as well as did Thomas Jefferson Andrew Jackson and FYanldin Roosevelt What counts most of all Odds approach that can be expected from the President if as appears likely he wins a second term this autumn First of all in mid-June the President refused a liberal compromise that his chief aides deemed absolutely necessary to save the controversial program to-guarantee every family $2400 a year As officials privately admitted the maneuver represented a conscious decision to scuttle the Family Assistance Plan so that fresh legislation and a fresh concept could be offered in 1973 But the social philosophy behind the President's action is perhaps even more important than his legislative tactics White House insiders say that the President has come to realize that automatic income guarantees for the poor weaken society by breeding family disintegration and pauperism ART BUCHWALD Convention Scene BOYD Drunken lion Is Kittenish Gravel) 100 to 1 Any other dark horse corn-favors bination in book be a 50-to-l shot sas' Rep Wilbur Mills as his Senator George McGovern is running mate pondering whether to throw the The Las Vegas oddsmaker vice presidential nomination who prepares his political odds wide open if he is nominated for exclusively for us rates a president Me ver n-Church or Most of his political managers McGovern-Mills ticket evenly such veteral professionals as as an Wo-5 favorite Frank Mankiewicz Myer Hubert Humphrey with Feldman Fred Dutton and Ted tempered and refused to talk to McGovern as his running mate Van Dyck are opposed each other Howard Smith is given only an 8-to-l chance But young idealists in the and Harry Reasoner on ABC And Ted Kennedy with Mills in McGovern camp are urging him were also not speaking to each the second spot is a 10-to-l bet let the Democratic con-other and on CBS Walter Like most other experts vention choose the running Cronkite talking to Jimmy the Greek in his first mate for the first time since the ratings for us 11 months ago stormy 1956 convention in made Sen Ed Muskie l-to-2 Chicago favorite to win the nomination Then with the party in Jimmy rated McGovern's disarray Adlal Stevenson let chances as remote the delegates choose They But over the months the picked the late Sen Estes amazing Greek has been for Kefauver over his dashing ahead of the pundits and rival Sen John Kennedy pollsters in detecting the voting trends He called the key Florida Wisconsin Ohio and California primaries almost on the nose himself It was obvious to everyone in and out of the convention hall that a compromise candidate had to be found one who had not already been nominated But who? The Democratic Party leaders call a recess behind the podium They argue and thrash it out for several hours The only man whore name is proposed as the The move helped unify the party but keep Stevenson from being swamped by Dwight Eisenhower With party unity again in WASHINGTON Everyone has his own scenario for this Democratic National Convention The way things have been going with the party one scenario has as much In his second term therefore' validity as the next This is the Mr Nixon will not try to find his one that I have written and if it niche in history as a latter-day comes true remember you Disraeli cementing a Tory read it here alliance between rich and poor It is the fourth day of the Instead the President will try convention and the Democrats to strengthen America by have been unable to decide on a strengthening the vital presidential candidate The productive mid-section of fight to seat delegations has America the majority of taken up three days and those whom he privately refers to as people who were ruled ineligible the nation's "builders" have refused to give up their Only a week after the seats to those who were of-President tacitly abandoned the fidally designated as delegates Family Assistance Plan one of to the convention his aides Caspar Weinberger Mmwt every itate dllegatojl TM tiuciiM Pmi Today is Tuesday July 11 the 193rd day of 1972 There are 173 days left in the year highlight in history: On this date in 1804 Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded the American statesman Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel at Weehawken NJ On this date: In 1767 the sixth American president John Quincy Adams was born in Braintree Mass In 1810 the Napoleonic Empire annexed Holland In 1814 a British fleet captured the town of Eastport Maine compromise candidate is a very famous but controversial Roosevelt announced he was available for an unprecedented fourth term Another African animal known to get drunk intentionally on fermented berries is the lion As previously reported the elephant does too And the baboon more notoriously than any An inebriated baboon reportedly turns belligerent And elephant just staggers around But a lion in this unwholesome condition is said to become kittenish Among my numerous money-making notions is a plan to film at some distant future date a television wildlife special featuring a drunken lion with a one-ton ball of yarn A MARRIAGE hereabouts today Is nine times more apt to end in divorce than was a marriage 100 years ago ANOTHER PROFESSIONAL type who tends to become immune to sea-sickness said is the house painter AGAIN THIS year's statistics indicate the red car is that automobile most likely to be in an accident QUERY it Will Rogers who wrote suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself'?" A No that was Mark Twain Twain also said: "More than one cigar at a time is excessive And: helps the scenery like ham and SHE DESCRIBED her husband as "a bore" did this San Antonio wife who filed for divorce what is a bore?" inquired the judge She thought about it then quoted "A person who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company" The record shows the judge regarded that as grounds sufficient POLITICS Political candidates are notoriously bad credit risks Take the 1968 campaign Almost all the presidential candidates chartered commercial jets But most couldn't afford them A lot of those airlines couldn't collect so ultimately shrug settled for half price THAT NO 1 Spaniard Francisco Franco ought to erect a monument to the martini he ought Exactly 49 out of every 50 green olives are grown in Spain and this country'y sundry merchants including bartenders buy 75 per cent of them A SCHOLAR who has made a study of the matter contends no synonym for the word stutter turns up In any American Indian language IT IS ALSO a statistical fact that women have more missing filled or decayed teeth than do men PAIN Say you hurt yourself Maybe burn your hand on the stove Or hit your thumb with a hammer You know how you bite your lip sometimes when that happens? The medicoes say there's a reason One pain tends to deaden another Your brain puts in the fix automatically evjn wait for you to figure It out MISTER how do you stay in shape? When newsmen put the query to Vida Blue he said "I chased a girl around the lake the other day" Try It you'll etc He was alone in forecasting tatters McGovern spoke to correctly that Humphrey Mankiewiez recently about Management and Budget rent ir" the American scene would come within five per cent following Stevenson's example In 1944 President Franklin letter to Wilbur Mill the has announced many times of upsetting the favored Mankiewiez brought up the wv and Mn fcar Mmeone wU1 that he is not a candidate for the Presidency or the Vice Presidency and has said under program ho is hooted down by the op- no conditions would he accept a A Weinberger's request: Give position faction Larry O'Brien draft 2131 Kiamtf families earning less than the chairman of the party has jwpw JHWg $18000 8 year tax credits of up the podium ringed with the PM8UM Miy aacapt to $200 for each child paying National Guard so no one can Saturday taiH'aaftamaaa by iha such an amount to attend grab the microphone oilier County PuWiMnf Co private of parochial school The nomination speeches To get an Idea of the impact of have not been heard but the EaMamr this iJoposed tax credit take a candidates have been Toioahono 649-3161 for oil hypothetical $9000-a-year nominated McGovern dopeSwrti "Jones family" with four kids ln Humphrey Wallace Chisholm parochial schools (at a tuition Jackson and Muskie suascaiPTioNaans rate of each)i Afler six There have been no exemptions (four children two demonstrations for the can- wookiy 4S1 parents) and a standard didates in the hall because 2-oo deduction the present everyone is afraid if he gets up Federal income tax worksout to and marches they won't let him 7 77 about $800 a year Thus with back ln his section again income tax credits of up to $200 On the first ballot McGovern Mi SubKripiioni: per private school pupil a picked up 1234 votes well shy family like the Joneses would the 1509 he needed The rest have their Federal Income tax were split between the other wiped out under the candidates with the un- Mombcr new proposal committed refusing to vote for Audit Burau of emulation educational terms the any one iho ahocmimI Prt credit is a device to help private The gecond and third ballot iy eongumeP which i miiM Mciuuvtiy totiw and parochia schools without found one budging By the Wallace They urge him to run SJJ SdSTsTE runnnf- af0U 1 01 tenth ballot of Wednesday's all- The candidate finally agrees to iSScISm fwlth Itami hrev well ut oiap mwi ditpaidhwi night session the convention a draft and says he will take the Harold H5gheJ' courts But In socio-economic waa hopteMy deadlocked next plane to Miami 1 Maroia Enlsrsd a tocond clan matter terms the NiXOn program is A-J Ihat'a tiAui Bnhhv oi iho Poii Office at Nopiei one of the first Indications of a The state delegations And that how Bobby Florida uidcr Ad of March 3 mw to redistribute caucused right cm the floor Fischer the US chess l897 income back to the productive bring to get people to change champion became the middle rather than to indigent their minds But it was Im- Democratic presidential bottom or parasitic top possible nominee for 1972 Sunday School service if their hero George McGovern is denied the Democratic nomination The veteran radical Abby Hoffman founder of the Yippies told us about his Miami convention battle plans Hoffman says he hopes to assemble an army of 300000 protestors outside the Miami convention hall They will go into full cry he says if the party regulars block McGovern POW Protest Senator George supporters are planning a dramatic press conference ln Miami Thirty relatives of POWs missing in Edwin Ed- Vietnam will publicly line up Br ookly 's behind his nomination Three of them are POW wives who are also alternates or delegates to the convention and will pledge their votes to the senator.