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The Convention Scenario rfonbo Sentinel Brush Up On History, Senator Art fey? lieve he was not Interested in the nomination. O'Brien puts in a call to him. Everyone, In turn, gets on the phone and tells him he has to be the candidate. THE COMPROMISE candidate speaks to George McGovern, Humphrey, Muskie and Wallace, They urge him to run. The candidate finally agrees to a draft and says he will take the next plane to Miami.

And that's how Bobby Fischer, the U.S. chess champion, became the Democratic presidential nominee for 1972. McGovern Loopholes Analyzed Little by little the analysis rolls in, to the considerable disadvantage of Sen. George McGovern who, even as he has now embraced the cause of Israel more hawklshly than anyone since Gen. Dayan, will surely, sometime before Election Day, deliver a paean on the tax loophole.

A fortnight ago Mr. Stewart AIsop reported that a big McGovern backer from California, who had made a fortune in computers, consulted his computers, feeding them one of Sen. McGovern's formulas for bringing wealth to the needy, and discovered that $42 billion was missing. I.e., that just one of the redistributionist schemes proposed by Sen. McGovern was underfinanced by a mere $42 billion.

NOW THE Economics Division of the Mellon Bank in Pittsburgh, in its news letter, makes a few gentle comments about the loopholes Sen. McGovern is forever talking about. Do you remember the one about all the people who reported gross incomes in excess of $200,000 in 1970 who paid zero taxes? High indignation set in every time Sen. McGovern mentioned the matter. What he did not mention is that there were exactly 106 such cases, and that a study of them reveals that the overwhelming majority either a) paid taxes to foreign countries receiving the usual tax credit; or b) paid state taxes, or c) had deductions sanctioned by law.

Sen. McGovern also did not mention that there are in fact 15,000 American citizens who reported incomes in excess of $200,000 who did pay income taxes, at an effective tax rate of 44 per cent. NOR DOES Sen. McGovern stress the use of loopholes to people who are not necessarily rich. For instance, the joint return permitted husband and wife, in the absence of which loophole the government would realize $6 billion to $10 billion in additional revenue.

The, new tax law of 1969, regularly disparaged as a rich man's tax law, deserves to be criticized for any number of reasons, all of them however, more complicated than those Sen. McGovern comes up with. WASHINGTON Everyone has his own scenario for this week's Democratic National Convention. The way things have been going with the party, one scenario has as much validity, as the next. This is the one that I have written and if It comes' true, remember, you read It here.

It Is the fourth day of the convention and the Democrats have been unable to decide on a presidential candidate. The fight to seat delegations has taken up three days and those people who were ruled ineligible have refused to give up their seats to those who were officially designated as delegates to the convention. ALMOST EVERY state delegation has two people sitting jn every chair. No one dares leave the floor for fear that someone will grab his seat. When someone tries to speak he is hooted down by the opposition faction.

Larry O'Brien, the chairman of the party, has the podium ringed with the National Guard so no one can grab the microphone. The nomination speeches have not been heard, but the candidates have been nominated McGovern, Humphrey, Wallace, Chisholm, Jackson and Muskie. THERE HAVE been no demonstrations for the candidates in the hall because everyone is afraid if he gets up and marches they won't let him back in his section again. On the first ballot McGovern picked up 1,234 votes, well shy of the 1,509 he needed. The rest were split among the other candidates with the uncommitted refusing to vote for anyone.

The second and third ballot found no one budging. By the tenth ballot of Wednesday's all-night session, the convention was hopelessly deadlocked. THE STATE delegations caucused right on the floor, trying to get people to change their minds. But it was impossible. On NBC, John Chancellor and David i 1 became short-tempered and refused to talk to each other.

Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner on ABC were also not speaking to each other, and on CBS, Walter Cronkite wasn't talking to 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 whose name is proposed as the compromise candidate is a very famous, but controversial, figure on the American scene. He has announced many times that he is not a candidate for the presidency or the vice presidency and has said under no conditions would he accept a draft. Yet, the leaders argue he is the one person who can save the party. THIS YOUNG MAN, whose name Opinions erjiresscd on this jxirje ore not nee ewiarily those of the editor of the Sentinel. pion July 9, 1972 3 Youth Vote Should Be For Nixon If the Nixon administration loses thei youth vote in the November election, it will in a very large part be its own fault.

I don't believe the administration has done enough to toot its own horn in this respect. While the commentators tell us that Sen. George McGovern, the leading Democratic candidate for President, has captured the imagination of America's youngest voters, the fact remains President Nixon has the best record ever attained in this category. IT IS ironic that the President's main point in attacking what has rr 7 boldwater been called the generation gap is largely responsible for the little attention it has received among the youth. This is because the Nixon approach to the younger voters is aimed at not segregating them from the rest of the voting population.

It might be said that he has not condescended to the young people by treating them solely as a special self-centered interest group. Instead, Mr. Nixon has treated them as serious and capable citizens whose concerns range across the whole spectrum of social issues. IN FACT, Mr. Nixon has been creating a record of accomplishments while Sen.

McGovern and his backers have merely been talking about objectives. Under Nixon, the youth population between the ages of 18 and 21, for example, has been given the right to participate directly in the political process through the right to vote. Also under Nixon, draft calls have been steadily reduced and the transition to a voluntary military system has begun. The President and his advisers have also contributed importantly to the welfarei of our youth through programs aimed at controlling drug addiction, expanding educational opportunities and providing new jobs. IT SHOULD be noted that the Nixon program to create jobs includes new job-development tax credits, repeal of the automobile excise tax and measures aimed at reducing a competition from abroad which has reduced the market for American goods and consequently reduced the job opportunities.

In the last fiscal year, 2 million people took part in 11,000 manpower projects operated by the Department of Labor. Job banks, designed to bring the job and the job hunters together faster, have been installed in over 100 metropolitan areas. A major effort in this connection has been made to find jobs for returning veterans both on a long-term and a short-term basis. BUT PERHAPS the most important of the issues affecting young people has been the war in Vietnam that frustrating conflict which has drained so many young lives in the past 11 years. And in this connection it must be recorded that when Mr.

Nixon took office in 1969, the authorized troop ceiling in Vietnam was almost 550,000 and no U.S. troop withdrawal plan existed. But by May 1, 1972, our troop ceiling in Vietnam was down to 69,000, which means that in three years American troops have been cut 87 per cent. The most recent announcement of withdrawal plans calls for the return of 10,000 more men, and it is hoped that by Sept. 1 the ceiling will be only 39,000.

EVEN MORE important, however, American combat deaths have been reduced by 95 per cent as our ground combat role in Vietnam was brought to an end. There can be no doubt that President Nixon has made good also on his plans to bring more young people into the national government. In all the years that I have been in Washington, I have never known of so many important jobs beng held by people 30 years of age and under than there are today. In all events, the truth of the matter is that the President has been acting while his opponents have been merely talking. There is a vast difference.

ft WASHINGTON George Me. Govern was flying hih between San Antonio, and Little Rock, recently when he cut loose with another of his thoughtless, extreme itatements, this one comparing U. S. bombing In Indochina with "Hitler's 1930? to exterminate the Jews In the McGovern's mindless rhetoric has always been fierce, but when he put the Vietnam ordeal In the same league with the holocaust of people ordered by the mad race policies of the Nazi dictator, well, South Dakota's Junior senator reveals himself to be the ruthless lightweight he really Is. McGOVERN, once a professor, needs a history lesson.

McGovern, always righteous, needs to know the difference between a doctrine of deliberate, planned murders of millions, and the unplanned and regretted deaths of Vietnamese civilians by a U.S. bombing policy which has been restrained, to say the least. Hitler not only planned war, he planned the extermination of "inferior peoples," the Incurably sick, the infirm aged and children, gypsies, Slavs and Jews. Annihilation of Jewish people became an official state policy of the Nazis. HITLER'S program of human carnage was at its worst in the '40s, not in the '30s, as McGovern said, and was conducted all over Europe, Nick Lm Thimmesch not just in Germany as McGovern also said.

It came to include all those despised by Hitler Communists and other "political Catholic priests and nuns who wouldn't buckle under to Nazi policies; conquered people who refused to "Germanize," such as the Dutch, Luxembourgers and Danes. When the last body was burned, and the final blood spilled, Hitler's "'master race" policy yielded 12 million victims murdered, to say nothing of the 15 million military men who died and the millions of civilians who perished in the horrible war Hitler started. THOSE WHO survived Hitler's death camps and those millions of now middle-aged and older Europeans who suffered through World War II expect a better sense of history from an American presidential aspirant like McGovern, whose wild declarations are aimed at younger Americans who don't know what World War II really was. McGovern's remarks provoked one of the Senate's leading Vietnam Doves, Jacob Javits of New York, to respond because he knows his history. Javits deplored McGovern's comparison of the U.

S. military in Vietnam and the extermination of Jews, said it "is just too simplistic" for such a terrible crime as genocide. HE ALSO noted: this comparison by clear implication, would accuse our own flyers of crimes against humanity, and might be exploited by North Vietnam to support the so-called "war crimes" charges against them that have resulted in these American prisoners of war being held so long and so barbarously incommunicado." As a presidential contender, McGovern's words influence the North Vietnamese, and Javits makes a good point. One reason that the North Vietnamese Communists feel McGovern is their pal, is that he rarely criticizes them. In South Carolina last week, one Democratic delegate pressed McGovern as to why he wants the United States to do all the giving in to North Vietnam, and McGovern responded that "begging is better than bombing.

I would go to Hanoi and beg if I thought that would release the boys one day earlier." IF HE EVER gets to Hanoi, McGovern might also beg the Communists to stop their merciless shelling of South Vietnamese villages, part of their deliberate, long-standing campaign to kill and terrorize civilian residents. And therein lies a difference. In World War II, the air forces of Germany, England and the United States deliberately bombed civilian populations, and hundreds of thousands of people were killed in Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, Hamburg, Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Though McGovern and New Lcfters would have you believe otherwise, U. S.

bombing in Vietnam, enormous as it has been, has been directed at military targets. FOR McGovern to characterize the military conduct of the United States as akin to that of Nazi extermination of the Jews, is sick business indeed. And for The Washington Post, which shills for McGovern, to not print the AP account of McGovern's farfetched comparison is also pretty sick. But McGovern and his elitist allies are so desperate for that Democratic nomination that they had been associated with a very embarrassing Incident, is a household word now, Because of the deadlock at the convention, he is the only one who can possibly beat Nixon In November, The compromise candidate Is not at the convention. He has purposely stayed away so people would be Chess Makes TALLAHASSEE Imagine.

Chess getting front page space in American newspapers and not being played, yet, in Reykjavik. But that off-and-on world title match between our Bobby Fischer and Russia's Boris Spassky has all the elements of news international competition, suspense, big cash pot, human contrariness. Everything, but the pretty girl, and don't bet one of them won't get into the act before it ends. Some will sneer that newsmen are accentuating negative here. But reader demands make news, not newsmen.

They only know what Victor Zorza Mr. Nixon thus seemed preferable to the Kremlin even before the Moscow summit, when another of its leading experts on the United States was quoted in this column as saying that a Republican president could afford to make concessions to the Soviet Union more easily than a Democrat. Arbatov himself, however, reserved judgment. Before the summit he saw two trends in American "ruling circles." There were those who wanted "change" only in order to adapt old methods to the new search "for more refined and more cunning ways of bringing about the Poiitmnc Fever By PAT MAHAN The U.S. agreed to lower the salt content of Colorado River water flowing into Mexico.

That's one salt talk that won't raise the defense budget. The FDA advised U.S., physicians not to prescribe Indochlorhydrox-yquin for "summer complaint" because it could cause eye problems. For anybody trying to read the prescription. Federal agents seized 5 0 0 0 0 0 women's panties because they didn't meet flammability standards. Leave it to the government to have a surefire excuse for thei biggest panty raid in history.

A lot of big businessmen say McGovern's proposals for making America green aren't original he got them from Sherwood Forest. In order to curtail alcoholism, the Russians are manufacturing new soft drinks. Hoping that things will go hotter w'tb imitation Coin- 3 5n Kremlin Avoids U.S. Election Stand Front Page tm maiLUiui u. Johnson folks want to read (or we suppose we do.) Anyway, this U.S.

USSR standoff makes more sense than most of the diplomatic impasses we've had with them for the past quarter century. It would be odd if an obscure chess player should turn out to be the one American who could beat them at their waiting game. same reactionary policies" on both the home and the foreign fronts. BUT OTHERS were prepared to make some adjustment "of the policy itseif," and even to make "partial concession" in order to preserve the "domination of the bourgeoisie" over the country. One way in which this could be done by the American "ruling clique," in his view, was by diverting money from arms to domestic programs, and generally adopting a more friendly policy towards the Soviet Union.

Which of these two trends would prevail in the United States? The answer, he said, would be given not in the "pre-election politicking and the candidates' declarations," but in the administration's actions He apologized for concluding his analysis on this "vague" note, but promised his readers that things would be clearer after Mr. Nixon's visit to Moscow. AFTER THE summit, the Kremlin mobilized Arbatov to reply in the press to the "skeptics" who suspected that it was the Soviet leaders rather than Mr. Nixon who had made the bigger concessions. The summit agreements, he argued, were a major success for the Kremlin in that they proclaimed the departure by the United States from the cold war, from policies based on positions of strength, from insistence on military supremacy.

They were also, he said, a "major success" for Mr. Nixon, who needed them for the election, but this was not the main thing. The fundamental question was whether the changes brought about by the summit "are durable." His answer was a qualified "yes." Although the struggle between the two systems would continue, he said, the changes "can be regarded as natural and firmly rooted." In other words, the whole thrust of i analysis and he certainly represents the Kremlin's best judgment was that Mr. Nixon represents the forces of stability and progress, and that he has a better chance of carrying out the policies desired by the Kremlin than Mc- Covern William Buckley That tax law reduced the rate of income taxation by 82 per cent for those earning $3,000 or less; by 43 per cent for those earning by 27 per cent for those earning and so on, with a reduction of 1.7 per cent for those earnings and an increase of 7 per cent for those earning $100,000 and over. BUT THE figures are tiresome, when put beside the principal point, which is that over the years Congress and the executive have done what they thought best to affect the allocation of resources.

The Mellon Bank's economic newsletter sums it up: "For example, it (the tax law) is used to encourage home ownership, to lower the cost of borrowing to state and local governments, to increase the value of retirement and unemployment benefits, to lower the cost of medical care, and to encourage private philanthropy. Reasonable men can disagree on whether or not the individual income tax law is the proper vehicle through which such objectives should be accomplished. But it is clear that proposals to abolish the existing set of tax preferences, unless accompanied by other positive measures, imply a repudiation of the objectives which originally led to the establishment of the preferences." IT IS quite literally that simple: Should Congress, or should it not, encourage married couples, homeowners, the sick, the economically venturesome? Candidate McGovern will in due course need to face up to the consequences of his rhetoric. When he does so, I for one, wish that he might say something truly radical. Namely that it is not the proper business of government to attempt to manipulate human economic behavior by a tissue of built-in biases in the tax law.

The trouble with the idea of making justice via tax laws is that one never really knows what it is that one is accomplishing; who it is that one is hurting. PROF. FRIEDMAN has over and over again demonstrated that efforts by the government to give the little man a break by this or the other welfare subsidy end by hurting him. A true break with economic i entionism would see McGovern coming out against rinky-dink tax laws, against all deductions (except obviously justified deductions), Jn favor of the elimination of the progressive feature of the In come tax, and in favor of a maxi, mum tax rate of 20 per cent. 9pv The Kremlin has ordered the Soviet press not to commit itself in any way to Sen.

George McGovern, although at first sight his stand might appear much closer to Moscow's than does the political philosophy of President Nixon. The Kremlin's orders may be deduced from the taciturn wariness of the Soviet press which, by the time this stage of the campaign was reached in previous elections, commented with considerable abandon on the "goodies" and the "baddies" on the American political scene. Soviet praise of Sen. McGovern could no more help him to win the election than it could get him the nomination, but this is not the issue. SOVIET FOREIGN policy moves during the election campaign could, in certain circumstances, help either of the main candidates particularly during the crisis situations that blow up suddenly and inevitably in every pre-election period.

The attitude of the Soviet press now makes it clear that the Kremlin's influence, to the extent that its own moves may have any bearing on the election, will be exerted on Mr. Nixon's behalf. Why should this be so, when it is McGovern's call for cuts in the arms budget, and for ending the Vietnam war on teirms favorable to the Communists, that should appear so much more attractive to the Kremlin? One answer Is to be found in the Soviet belief that American elections are not really a serious political contest between two competing parties which espouse different philosophies, but merely a struggle for power between two "ruling cliques." THE KREMLIN'S leading expert on the United States, Georgi Ar-batov; who heads the Soviet Institute for the Study of the U.S.A., says that the differences between the election platforms of the two parties and their presidential candidates are only "relative." What is left if one disregards the "pre-election rhetoric," he says, are minor differences on how best to pursue "the uniform bipartisan policy of the ruling alau." a out tick nhnut it at limps. t. 1.