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r- PAGE 2, SECTION A THE TIMES HERALD Tuesday, July 11, 1972 Opening Session Lacked Fire OfManyDem Conventions ACK W. GERMOND Washington Bureau Chief r.K Gannett News Service MIAMI BEACH The missing element in the opening session of the Democratic National convention was passion. According to the advance billing, the debate over the pivotal California case was supposed to be all tumult and shouting, a brawl to end all brawls and revive the unpleasant memories of 19(58 at Chicago. But, by the standards of Democratic conventions, it proved to be a model of decorum. The two blocs exchanged chants at one point, there were a couple of heated individual confrontations on the floor and there was some mut tering when it was over.

But there was nothing to suggest 19(58. And the reason is that this is a one-candidate, no-issue convention. There is no alternative to George McGovern who can serve as a rallying point for those who oppose him. By contrast, four years ago there was Eugene J. McCarthy.

He had no more chance of defeating Hubert Humphrey then than Humphrey has now of defeating McGovern, probably less. But he had a devoted following. And the reason for that, quite obviously, is that there was a genuinely emotional issue in 1968 the war in Vietnam and the disorder at home it had provoked. This year the Democrats are talking only about pragmatic politics. The principal beef with George McGovern is that many of the regulars and the labor skates who are so important in the party believe he will be a disaster at the polls in November.

To be sure, many of them are genuinely unhappy with his positions on such issues as amnesty and prisoners of war. But they are most alarmed by their vision of a Democratic Goldwater burying their local candidates and assuring another four years of Richard M. Nixon in the White House. And few knowledgeable politicians here believe any of the options is much more promising. Ed Muskie was a disaster in primary after primary.

Humphrey showed weakness Tuesday after Tuesday. George Wallace was the most impressive, but he is still unthinkable as a presidential nominee. Even today nobody knows Scoop Jackson, Wilbur Mills or Terry Sanford. So there never has really been any choice to be made here. In the eyes of the professionals who give the clues to the amateurs, the best the Democratic party could hope for was to enter the campaign as a definite underdog.

It might have been different if Sen. Edward M. Kennedy had been in the picture. Carrying the burden of Chap-paquiddick, he might not have been any better a prospect than the candidates here. But Kennedys have always been able to inspire passion, and that was what was missing Monday night.

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The Michigan delegation, seated at far right, is 36th. IRoth Orders 295 jV JkJ ic 3t llWili 4t! till from an operational standpoint because the state did not have enough vehicles to transport students from school to school. Now, state officials say they don't have the money to pay for the buses, and Eugene Krasicky, assistant Michigan attorney general, said he's afraid the state will be stuck with 295 buses it doesn't need if Roth desegregation ruling is reversed by higher courts. But Roth said he feels he has a "50-50" chance of being upheld and even if he is reversed, the buses could be used in an integration plan for Detroit only one that excludes the suburbs and cross-district busing. relation to the size of the pieces.

Tombstone maker Sigurdor Helgason started work immediately on cutting smaller squares of Italian marble and green Lancashire slate. The new size of the squares is 2'4 inches, one-fourth inch smaller than those on the board that had been installed. The Icelandic organizers had rejected two earlier chessboards. One was too shiny, another lacking in UiliilJt'' i A'l'lti i'iri'i'i'iv' 1 i State Officials Prepare For Battle Buses Bought protests from state attorneys who argued the purchase request was unreasonable and that the state could not afford the $1 million it would cost for the buses. Instead, Roth indicated he and the 11-member panel he commissioned to devise a workable integration plan would move at a fast pace to integrate Detroit and its suburban schools.

He also denied the state's request to delay further action on the Detroit case pending the outcome of appeals of his ruling last September that Detroit's predominantly black schools are deliberately segregated. The 295 buses, at about MS And looking down at the people on the floor who finally passed all this surveillance, one sees few who have looked out of place at their party's or even the Republicans' past conventions. Although the convention promises to produce some new departures in politics, the configuration as they say. in the aircraft industry of the 1972 delegates looks a lot like the old model. arrangement could be worked out to seat some of his delegates and some of the others, or seat them all and give them all a half-a-vote each I think our delegates were prepared to talk about that prior to the California situation.

If that was satisfactorily resolved, our delegates are willing to look at a compromise on Illinois. I wouldn't stand in the way of that." Weather? OiUlromNAllONAL WltlHtH StHVICl. MO A. $. Ovpl ul CumamrCB many areas of the Country trend was expected in the continue in southern climes.

Temperatures Port Huron Highest 88 at Noon Today Lowest 68 at 5 a.m. Today Yesterday Today 1 a.m 5 a.m 9 a.m Noon p.m. 5 p.m. 9 p.nv Midnight 85 89 81 70 69 68 81 83 Around The U.S. Albony cldy Albu'que, clear Amorlllo, rain Anchorage, clear Asheville, cldy Atlanta, clear Birmingham, clear Bismarck, cldy Boise, cldy Boston, clear Buffalo, cldy Charleston, rain Charlotte, cldy Chicago, clear Cincinnati, clear Cleveland, clear Denver, clear Des Moines, cldy Duluth, cldy Fort Worth, clealr Green Bay, cldy Helena, rain Honolulu, cldy Houston, cldy Ind'apolls, cldy Jocks'ville, cldy Juneau, Kansas City, cldy Little Rack, clear Los Angeles, clear Louisville, cldy Marquette, cldy Memphis, clear Miami, cldy Milwaukee, clear cldy New Orleans, cldy New York, clear Okla.

City, cldy 78 64 .05 92 68 89 6 5 75 52 80 54 83 67 85 1 84 47 85 55 83 9 76 65 79 71 82 64 90 74 89 69 84 69 .02 .05 .01 91 56 98 72 75 49 1.06 93 71 87 70 77 59 .01 86 77 83 72 87 86 68 .38 93 76 90 64 87 66 90 69 65 55 86 69 87 85 68 86 67 .10 .21 88 68 84 70 91 71 92 67 1.21 86 68 100 84 umana, ciay Phllad'nhla. rMj Phoenix, clear Pittsburgh, cldy pt'land. Ore. cldy pt'land, Me. clear Rapid City, clear Richmond, cldy St.

Louis, cldy Salt Lake, clear San Diego, clear San Fran, clear Seattle, cldy Spokane, cldy Tampa, clear Washington, clear 78 63 70 49 74 60 80 58 86 62 87 72 92 68 79 67 79 7 64 56 69 52 89 74 86 68 .33 .24 .12 .13 .07 By WILLIAM RINGLE Gannett News Service MIAMI BEACH Sure, an occasional delegate is wearing bib overalls without a shirt, or a stovepipe hat, or an African dashiki. Sure, a U.S. senator, Birch Bayh of Indiana, is roaming the red-carpeted floors of this Democratic National Convention as a humble page with the Indiana delegation. Sure, now any delegate can telephone any other delegate, or even the convention chairman, without ever leaving his seat. Sure, New York Mayor John V.

Lindsay, who was last seen on this same convention floor as a Republican when he was being pushed for vice president, is now prowling the aisles as a Democrat. Sure, Rep. Ogden Reid, whose forebears were among the movers and shakers of the Republican party, and who himself until this year was a Republican, was also welcomed as a Democrat. Sure, the picture of Lyndon B. Johnson, the man who rolled up, in 1964, the biggest plurality in the history of the Democratic party or the nation, has been relegated to a dark, rear corner of the cavernous auditorium.

Blow-up photos of Bobby and John Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson, Sam Rayburn, Alben Barkley, Harry Truman and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt are in the first rank. Sure, there are more blacks and women among the delegates and so many of the blacks are women that many states seem to have fulfilled two minority qualifications with the same person. Yet, with the telephone system that is the marvel of the convention, the delegates are as nomadic as ever, jamming the aisles and the doorways.

"It looks like the stock market down there," wailed Miami Beach Mayor Chuck Hall. Yet, with a new device of interlarding a speech with color movies shown on two screens at once, there are also the same old speeches and some of the same old speakers. There was Rep. Claude Pepper, who was a U.S. Senator when Franklin D.

Roosevelt was president. And from other speakers there were the usual exhortations for putting the shoulder to the wheel. In short, this band of Demo-cratic delegates who have, for the most part never attended a national convention before, look and act, in their off-business moments, much like the bands of Democrats who have attended innumerable conventions. But in other respects, not apparent to television viewers, this convention is a tough one on delegates. Stringent new security practices imposed to avoid the party's traumatic 1968 experience in Chicago have caused countless delays.

For many delegates who arrived for the opening session, this meant taking as long as an hour from the time they ar- The President himself joined the chorus of criticism against the "do-nothing" Congress in signing a bill Monday to tighten controls against seaway oil spills. He said he had submitted more than 20 other environmental measures to Congress, and the ports and waterways safety act was the first one approved. "Time is not on our side on any of these fronts," Nixon said in a special message. "The trends and forces which contribute to environmental degradation continue apace, even in a political season." The act requires the Coast Guard to conduct more rigid safety inspections of oil-carrying tankers and oil and chemical storage areas. It also directs the secretary of transportation to establish rules and regulations governing the design, construction, repair, maintenance and operation of ships carrying polluting liquid cargoes.

The President said the act, which he first proposed almost 26 months ago, "provides a firm basis for the safeguards we will need to handle increased tanker traffic with minimum environmental risk." support Mickey Mouse if they nominated him." McGovern also said he was "perfectly willing to see some kind of compromise worked out" ir. the dispute over the seating of Mayor Richard J. Daley and 58 Chicago machine delegates. "The mayor does have a point when he says those people were elected," the South Dakotan said. "If some What's The PfvrM Stow Uw TnMrMvrM IipacMd Until Wi-dnmioy MHtg Showers were forecast for today and tonight.

A cooling northern sector with warm to SOUTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN Fair and warm tonight, with lows of 63 to 68. Wednesday mostly sunny and continued warm and humid, with highs of 85 to 90. Winds south to southwest 7 to 15 miles an hour today and southwesterly 5 to 12 miles an hour tonight, increasing to 10 to 17 miles an hour Wednesday. Chances of rain: Tonight, 10 per cent, and Wednesday, 20 per cent. EXTENDED FORECAST, lower peninsula (Thursday through Saturday) Partly cloudy through Saturday with a chance of showers Friday.

Warm through Saturday with minor temperature changes. Lows in the mid 50s to mid 60s. Highs mainly in the 80s. Around The State High Low Pr Alpena, ptly cldy 77 55 Detroit, fair 85 63 Flint, fair 85 65 Grand Rapids, fair 86 65 Houghton, rain 70 53 Houghton Lake, Tstorm 81 61 .12 Jackson, cldy 85 67 Lansing, fair 85 60 Marquette, prly cldy ..65 55 Muskegon, fair 67 Pellston, cldy 74 60 .01 Sault ste. Marie fair 65 50 Traverse City Tstorms 77 61 .49 70 -rJ Q-Tfair All Problems Resolved? First Move Is Spasskys WASHINGTON Sen.

George S. McGovern said today that Senator Edward M. Kennedy is "probably the strongest" potential candidate for vice president on the Democratic ticket, but apparently is unwilling to run. "The more I talk to people around him the more I've become convinced over the past year that he won't consider the presidency this year and, although I haven't offered it, he has the same reluctance concerning the vice presidency," McGovern said. "He almost has that door slammed shut," he added.

McGovern said that, if he is nominated as he expects to be, he intends to discuss the vice presidency with Kennedy but "not necessarily to offer him" the nomination. "I don't have any commitment of any kind to offer it to him first," McGovern said. In an interview with Gannett News Service, the South Dako-tan mentioned a dozen governors and senators, and a worn-a member of Cogress, Rep. Martha Griffiths of Michigan, as vice presidential possibilities. But he indicated he will make no decision until he sees how the convention develops and where he needs help.

"You know those things are always decided at the last minute," he said. McGovern said the controversy over the seating of the California delegation has "exacerbated the anger and resentment" of some of his supporters at the convention. But he professed to expect a unified party after the decision is made on a nominee. "I don't have any doubt the Democratic party will present a united front because of the central issue of 1972 is not Hubert Humphrey or George McGovern or George Meany or George Wallace," he said. "The central issue is Richard Nixon and how he has governed the country.

And on that question, I have yet to find a Democrat who has any real quarrel with the others. I think Nixon is going to unite the Democratic party once that nomination has been decided." McGovern said he made his threats to leave the party if denied the California delegates in an attempt "to let people know where I stand." "I don't want the people to. be shocked or surprised if this California steal were allowed to stand, if I were to leave the party. Obviously I wouldn't have anything to do with a party that would permit that kind of injustice to stand." Asked if there were any circumstances other than the California case that might cause him to bolt, McGovern replied: "No, if the party functions according to the rules, I would THERE'S A DIFFERENCE MADRID (UPI) Pepe, like many other residents of Al-munecar in Southern Spain drinks and smokes. The difference is that Pepe is a rooster.

Pepe lives in a bar, has a little beer in the morning, then stays off the booze till evening when he drinks as much wine as customers care to offer, the Spanish Daily Ideal said. According to Ideal, Pepe has also been smoking for a while now. A lighted cigarette is put in his beak and he keeps it there, breathing out smoke until it is finished. Joe Ruiz, Pepe's owner, says he has turned down several offers to sell him. $10,000 apiece, could be used to transport approximately 20,000 students to an interim desegregation plan for Detroit and 52 predominantly white suburbs.

The purchase of the buses was recommended by the panel created to draw up a city-to-suburb desegregation plan involving only elementary schools this fall and a "full and complete plan by September 1973." The plan would involve a huge metropolitan district of about 800,000 students one-third of the state's student enrollment in Detroit and its suburbs. The judge's order put a stop to claims that the desegregation ruling was inconceivable tain his title. A player vets one point for winning a game and a half point for a draw. Spassky, 35, drew the white chessmen and with them the first move. Fisher, 29, of Brooklyn, N.Y., had the black pieces.

One game will be played each Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, starting at 5 p.m. 1 p.m. EDT. National prestige was at stake for the defending Russian. The Soviet Union subsidizes chess and has dominated the game for decades.

Fischer is the first foreigner to make it to the finals since 1948. For Fischer, it is a question of money and personal prestige, of proving his claim that he is the best in the world. London oddsmakers rated the lanky American the favorite to win the 24-game, two-month competiiton and capture more than $180,000 of the estimated $300,000 at stake. The winner gets five-eighths of the $125,000 put up by the Icelandic Chess Federation, or $78,125, plus another $75,000 of the $120,000 provided by London investment banker James Slater to persuade Fischer to end his holdout last week. Organizers calculate Fischer and Spassky will divide "at least another $55,000 from the sale of television and film rights.

The American's lawyer, Paul Marshall, told a newsman on the eve of play, however, that "the money's not important. Bobby wants respect on his own terms." Both players stayed in secul-sion. Spassky was reported nervous and upset. Fischer, who favors sleeping in the daytime, was last seen at 1 a.m., Monday, when he visited the sports hall. He demanded that the mahogany playing table be shortened and that the overhead lights be changed.

The challenger also agreed with the Russian's complaints that the squares on the chessboard were too large in DETROIT (UPI)-State officials rallied today for a fight gainst a federal court ruling -requiring them to buy 295 "fcuses for possible cross-dis--trict busing to achieve racially balanced metropolitan -schools. Attorney General Frank J. Kelley called an abrupt halt to -his stay at the convention in IMiami Beach and flew back to -Michigan to take charge of the 5tates's legal response to the ruling issued by U.S. District Court Judge Stephen J. 'I In his ruling, Roth ignored Two Detroit Men Indicted Jn Hijack i ST.

LOUIS (AP) Two Detroit-area men have been indicted on two counts each of sir piracy by a federal grand jury in connection with the hi-fdcking of two American Airlines jets here June 23-24. Martin J. McNally, 28, of Wyandotte, and Walter Petlikowsky, 31, of Ecorse, were indicted Monday. Both are in the custody of Michigan authorities under 10,000 bonds. They are scheduled to appear for a removal hearing in U.S.

District Court In Detroit today to determine whether they should be brought to St. Louis for trial. McNally was accused by federal authorities of hijacking a jet en route from St. to Tulsa, June 23, -and a second plane early the 7ext morning after the first aircraft was disabled by a car rammed its landing 'pear at Lambert Airport in St. 'Louis.

McNally was arrested at his 'home about five days after the Ifi i jacking. Authorities recovered most of the $502,500 in transom which had been given io the hijacker. The money Ivas found in a field near Peru, where the hijacker out of the plane. Petlikowsky is accused of driving McNally to St. Louis before the hijacking and then picking him up in Peru after the jump.

The government Islso has accused him of helping plan the hijacking and providing the weapon used in it. The penalty on each air ipiracy count is 20 years to life -imprisonment. Hum MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) During the Democratic National Convention roll call on -seating a disputed Illinois delegation, about 4:15 a.m., the Kentucky delegation's vote i "The Kentucky vote is 36 jes, 10 no, one asleep and not oting." Nixon No Avid Fan Of Dem Miami Activities REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) American Bobby Fischer and Russian defender Boris Spassky finally squared off today for the world championship of chess the richest and most publicized match of all time. Spassky had the first move.

Las t-minute adjustments were made on the stage of Reykjavik's sports hall. The playing table was shortened, the green and white marble ehessboard constructed for the fourth time, and the overhead lighting changed. But these were small details compared to the tangled negotiations and war of nerves that preceded the encounter, originally set to start July 2. The match is 24 games and could last two months. Fischer needs 12 points to win; Spassky 12, or a draw, to re- McCracken Named To State Economy Board LANSING, Mich.

(AP) -Paul W. McCracken, who resigned last year as chairman of President Nixon's Council of Economic Advisors to return to teaching at the University of Michigan, has been appointed to the Michigan Eco-n i Expansion Council, Gov. William Milliken announced today. McCracke, who also served as economic advisor to presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson, was one of the first members of the Michigan Economic Expansion Council when it was formed in 1963 to advise the governor and the Michigan Commerce I SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (UPI) President Nixon had a television set installed in his office but looked at it only sporadically as the Democrats went about the business of picking his opponent.

"The President doesn't plan to lose any sleep this week' over the convention," Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler told newsmen. He said Nixon will follow developments on television "as time permits" but will get most of his news from the newspapers. Nixon, who has been quietly planning his own re-election strategy with top aides during a two-week working vacation here, scheduled a session today with his budget manager, Caspar Weinberger, to talk about what surely will be one of the issues in the forthcoming political debate spending by the Democratic-dominated Congress which the White House feels aggravates inflation problems. Several ranking administration officials last week accused the Congress of engaging in an election-year spend-ig spree without regard for the inflationary consequences, and failure to act on much needed domestic reforms. HIDE-A-WAY BAR Neiv Home of Country Music Terry Tucker Band featuring Debbie Lyn (Straight from Nashville) Starting July 12 Wed.

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