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OMC.CQL0R: 'I ,1 Saturday, July 15, 1972 15c Counrt setback JSoaifdl to MxoeiV Fay i'rr na Ai rait jiIm 1 1 I Is Unt'A tihn tirttA lahtr I ha Democratic drive aimed at winning first voters From Thf Star's Wirt St rvlco MIAMI BEACH, Fla. A new coalition has given new leadership to the Democratic Party and George McGovern and Thomas F. Eagleton today started their 100-day effort to shape it Into a national majority that can win the White House from Richard Nixon. They left here yesterday, buoyed by a Democratic National Convention marked by relative harmony, to wage a campaign they hope will t) A By JOHN AMPS WASHINGTON, D.C. Wi A federal judge, in the first successful court challenge of President Nixon's economic stabilization program, has ordered a relaxation of wage controls that could benefit 14 million workers.

U.S. District Judge William B. Jones ruled yesterday that the cost of Living Council was "in excess of agency authority" when it limited exemptions from wage controls to persons earning less than $1.90 an hour. The judge's ruling meant the council could no longer use $1.90 as the figure above which wage raises have been limited to S.S percent. The suit had been brought by several labor unions, including the AFL-CIO.

Jones did not set a new exemption figure. However, he cited a figure that is based on a Bureau of Labor Statistics study which holds this wage would provide the $6,960 considered adequate annual income for an urban family of four. The AFL-CIO estimated about 14 million workers are making between and and thus will be granted exemption from wage controls. The Cost of Living Council had no immediate comment on the decision, but is expected to appeal the case. Paul Jennings, president of the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, hailed the deci- 7c working poor a chance for equitable wage Increases' while food and other prices go unchecked." The lawsuit was based on amendments to the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970 which provide that "any individual whose earnings are substandard or who is amongst the working poor" should be exempt from wage controls.

Jones said the figure Is "without rational basis and frustrates the intent of Congress." He said Congress had decided that wage exemptions should be based on a salary of $7,000 a year, instead of the $3,000 figure used by the council. Quoting from a congressional report, Jones said Congress intended that wage control exemptions be given to "all persons whose earnings are at or below levels established by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in determining an income necessary to afford adequate food, clothing and shelter and similar necessities." Jones said the council's "alarm at the prospect of an exemption for over 50 percent of the nonsupervisory working force is less convincing in the light of its recent ruling exempting small businesses from both price and wage regulations." The $1.90 figure was set by the council after the Pay Board failed to provide a cutoff figure and rejected figures of $3.50 and $2.20. A council spokesman said at the time the $1.90 cutoff would exempt 21 percent of the nonsupervisory workers while $3.35 would exempt 50 percent. mm Associated Press REPORT COMPLETED President Nixon returns inside his Sap Clemente, home andftormer Treasury Secretary John B. Connally heads for a meeting with reporters.

Connally had just reported to the President yester- day on his 35-dayJfcround-the-worId trip. transform the American political scene. Already, its shape seems clear. The emphasis will be on the industrial Eastern and Midwestern heartland and the Pacific coast. Funds will be plentiful.

The organization that carried McGovern to the nomination is being geared for use where local Democrats are lukewarm or colder toward the national ticket. In addition, the Democrats plan what promises to be the most massive effort in history to register new voters, hoping to take advantage of relaxed registration procedures and the 18-year-old vote to enlist an additional 18 million by November primarily the young, the poor and the racial minorities. The choice of a woman and a black man to head the Demo-. cratlc National Committee symbolizes the new team's hopes for breaking traditional pat-. terns.

To succeed Democratic National Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien, the newly-enlarged Democratic National Committee selected a Utah hnsi. JSP 'Heroine9 whipped the pros for McGovern 's victory City and state Sports Muirfield, Scotland Lee Trevino won the British Open golf championship when he birdied the final hole. Jack Nicklaus was a stroke back and Tony Jacklin two strokes away. Details: Page 14A.

National nesswoman, Jean Westwood, a 47-year-old newcomer to national politics. Elected to serve with her as party vice-chairman was Basil Paterson, 46, a black former state senator The St. Paul City Council and probably Mayor Cohen are going to be poorer at the expense of the St. Paul treasury. The city attorney said yesterday they had to turn over fees they get for serving on various boards and commissions.

But the new state law that orders such action, also permits them to raise their own salaries. Details: Page 4A. A Minneapolis policeman testified that he carried his badge in his pocket at the May 9 University of Minnesota antiwar disorder because it had been ripped off his jacket earlier by a demonstrator. It was the first testimony for the defense, the Minneapolis and St. Paul police, in a U.S.

District Court case in which a citizen group is asking that police be required to show "numbers" at all times to allow identification in cases of brutality. Details: Page 9A. Duluth The Minnesota American Legion yesterday urged the state Legislature not to ratify the women's equal rights amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The legionnaire who drafted the resolution said the group is not opposed to women's rights, but to the specific content of the resolution.

not just a case of equal pay for equal work," he said. "A woman would lose status because she wouldn't Have the protection that by nature is extended to a woman." Details: Page 9A. from New York. Paterson, nominated by Mayor Charles Evers of Fayette, was chosen over Pierre Salinger, Govern's first choice for the No. 2 slot.

1 1 tion, an attempt the McGovern forces ostensibly supported, but one they provided the votes to defeat. That vote was the anti-McGovern forces' best chance to upset a ruling by party Chairman Lawrence OBrien that delegate challenges could be settled by a majority of those eligible to vote, rather than by an absolute majority of the convention Delegates under challenge were not permitted to vote. Had the anti-McGovern forces challenged O'Brien's ruling at the time of the South Carolina vote, McGovern would have needed 1,496 votes to sustain O'Brien. But they could only make that challenge if the majority vote on South Carolina were less than 1,509. So the McGovern forces made certain that the South Carolina challenge was defeated by more than 1,509 votes.

They began switching their own votes to the opposition, to provide an absolute majority and leave their opponents no grounds on which to challenge O'Brien's ruling. When the opposition finally did challenge that ruling, it was at the time of the California showdown vote itself, when their own 151 California anti-McGovern delegates couldn't vote. McGovern won hands down. "When Sen. McGovern told me to take over the California fight," Mrs.

Westwood recalled, "he told me, 'When it's over you'll be a heroine or a Nobody was calling Jean West-wood a bum in Miami Beach this week. the command trailer outside the convention hall, linked to 300 McGovern whips among the delegates by a special telephone network. National columnists later reported that the McGovern forces out-ma-neuvered, out-voted, out-thought and out-fought the best politicians in the party that night as they took back the California delegate votes McGovern needed desperately to save his first-ballot nomination later in the week. "Jean had everything organized from the bottom up," Weil recalled. "She was on top of every detail.

"It wasn't enough for her that we had whips in every delegation on the floor she wanted to know where in each delegation the whips were going to sit. She wanted them strategically located. She went from details like that to the question of whether McGovern should attend the peace-making meeting that Muskie tried to organize on -Monday morning. (McGovern boycotted the meeting after conferring with Mrs. West- wood.) "We started out on California with a hard count of 1,451 delegates in favor of our position, and a soft count of 187 more," he said.

"But if you depend on the soft count, you lose, so we built everything around the hard count." The McGovern forces won the California fight and clinched the nomination with votes to spare. The victory was set up by an earlier vote on an attempt to seat nine women in the South Carolina dclega- By MILES BENSON Newhouse News Service MIAMI BEACH, Fla. The young men around Sen. George McGovern got all the glory, but it was a diminutive, 100-pound grandmother from Utah who was calling the shots for the nominee at his most dangerous moment in the Democratic National Convention. "Jean Westwood is definitely the unsung heroine qf the convention," said Gordon Weil, the executive assistant who seemed glued to Mc-Govern's side through the past week.

"When we arrived in Miami Beach, the whole ball game was to get back the California delegates the credentials committee took away from us," he said. "The senator gave the job to Jean. She was the only one he trusted not to foul up. "The reporters didn't take it seriously, I guess, because she's a woman," Weill recalled. "But from that moment, Jean was the boss.

She ran the campaign." Mrs. Westwood, 47, an officer of two family businesses, one a mink ranch, was Democratic national committeewoman from Utah. An early McGovern supporter, she became the candidate's coordinator for all western states and personally commanded the senator's forces in the Oregon primary. Yesterday he picked her to be chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Monday night she was hidden in an part Paterson ner in the Democratic Party Tacoma, Wash.

A knife-wielding man who attacked four fellow passengers and a bus driver in the Greyhound station here last night remains listed in critical condition today after being shot by another driver. The stabbing victims are described as in satisfactory condition. Police say they have no explanation for the rampage. Washington The FAA has "suggested" that U.S. airlines check and mark all hand baggage passengers carry on board.

And if they do not take the suggestion, an FAA official implied, the government may force them to take the added step against hijackings. Details: Page 2A. Washington More than 18,000 East Coast families have asked for the temporary use of federal shelters because their homes were destroyed by Tropical Storm Agnes last month. The government says that 1,362 have been given temporary dwellings, but the rest are on waiting lists. Tallahassee, Fla.

Six members of an antiwar veterans' group have been charged with plotting violence at the Republican National Convention next month. A federal grand jury says the six conspired to start riots and attack police with firebombs and automatic Details: Page 2A. for four decades and the prime organization force, remains unreconciled to the candidate who humbled its influence in many states. I. W.

Abel, president of the powerful United Steelworkers, has vowed to sit out the campaign, and the course taken next week by the AFL-CIO's Executive Council will influence the labor leadership of many states. But other unions the United Auto Workers, the Electrical Workers and the Government DEMOCRATS Turn to Page 5A Weather International 1 -'ZS IT- Hanoi's Tho ready to see Kissinger secretly --'if Tokyo Typhoon Phyllis is bearing down on the main Japanese island of Honshu today, carrying not only the threat of destructive winds but of more rains and landslides. The new danger came as the death toll after two weeks of downpours and slides from unrelated storms rose to 354 by official count. Cool weather under fair to partly cloudy skies is expected in the Twin Cities through tomorrow. The extended outlook predicts slightly warmer with a chance of a few showers and thunderstorms Monday through Wednesday.

The low tonight is expected to be 52, the high tomorrow 78. The precipitation probability is 5 percent tonight, 10 percent tomorrow. MINNEAPOLIS TEMPERATURES B52 raids kill 300 at Quang Tri: Page2A PARIS, France Iff) Hanoi Politburo member Le Due Tho returned to Paris today and said he is prepared to hold new secret talks with Dr. Henry Kissinger if Kissinger has "something new" to discuss. ri ii 1 7 3 ft Midnite .64 .63 1 a.m.

2 a.m. ...61 Reykjavik, Iceland Bobby Fischer seems to have won one battle even though he has won no games. Officials of the world chess championship agreed to remove motion picture and TV film cameras from the hall. But it may cost him money and his insistence on another issue could keep the tournament from resuming tomorrow. Details: Page 2A.

Belfast Clashes between troops and guerrillas left three more persons dead today. A bomb killed another man, bringing Northern Ireland's three-year toll to 440 killed. Hundreds of Roman Catholic families are reported fleeing their homes as rumors spread of greater weekend violence. Details: Page 2A. Hong Kong A Viet Cong broadcast monitored here claimed today that U.S.

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5 a.m. 6 a.m. Tho said he' had no other statements to make beyond what was said earlier this week by Xuan ThuV, head of the North Vietnamese delegation to the peace talks. Thuy has reiterated that the Communist seven-point" plan is, the cor-. rect basis for settlement of the.

conflict. The plan calls, for the United States to announce a total troop withdrawal date, the Immediate resignation of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thicu and the setting up of a coalition government In Saigon. The semipublic plenary sessions of the Vietnam peace talks resumed Thursday after, a 10-week break and will continue next Thursday. The' Communists have always insisted that the scssions'tmist go on before any secret talks can be held. 1 mi, IClUlllliifc Hum noiiui uy of Peking and Moscow after an absence of about two months, spoke briefly with reporters at Le Bourget Airport.

Tho has held private talks with Kissinger In the past. He was asked if he is ready to meet with President Nixon's national security advisor again. He replied, "If Mr. Kissinger has something new to say and shows an interest in seeing me, I am ready to see him to discuss a correct solution to the Vietnam problem." Pressed by reporters as to whether have been any developments on the Vietnam question, Tho told them to wait "several days." TOMORROW: LITTLE CHANGE 2 Sections xciv No. 200 STAR TELEPHONES News, General 372-4141 Want Ads 372-4242 Circulation 372-4343 Associated Press CHAIRWOMAN JEAN WESTWOOD, McGOVERN irst woman to head either party nationally i hi.