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nil ir CLOUDY, WARM Partly cloudy, showers. High today 90, low tonight upper 60's. Variable winds, 10 to 15. (Complete weather on Page 16) (Turn to Page 6) Thursday, July 6, 1972 10 Cents 67th Year, No. 188 32 Pages Florida's Capital Newspaper I Declare! Ki Age A ItltitififitirkAAA A A IU1 Th wart ni Demo Delegate Battles Taken To High Court jacking Russia Flight Foiled -4 which defends the committee as the proper body for deciding such matters arid wants the high court to declare the selection of convention delegates offlimits to the federal courts.

On the other hand, forces loyal to Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley argue that the courts should upset the committee once more and restore convention seats to Daley and 58 allies. McGovern's renewed hopes for a first-ballot presidential nomination ride on the verdict Whatever the outcome, said Democratic National Committee counsel Joseph A. Califano party leaders will "obey the law of the land." But commenting that "nobody controls a Democratic convention," he seemed to hint that the convention might flout a ruling it disliked. V- WASHINGTON (AP) -Democratic party forces are seeking a rare special session of the Supreme Court to determine which presidential candidate gets the California dele-gates George McGovern thought he had locked up.

The appeals to be filed today would go first to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger who would decide whether to call the justices back from vacation. THE ARGUMENTS revolve around constitutional guarantees of due process and the extent to which federal courts may inject themselves into partisan political processes. Two groups are appealing a U.S. Court of Appeals decision Wednesday which reversed the party's Credentials Committee in the California case, but upheld it in the Illinois case.

First is the party hierarchy 1 V. OX hJ WC-'y-' v. J. -K McGovern Welfare Plan Delayed Again By Malcolm Johnson How Private Are Political Parties? Now that reformists have leaned on the federal judiciary to settle one of the Democratic party's severest internal disputes, it will be fun to watch their announced effort to reconvert it into a dues-paying, private political organization. The court order which may hand the presidential nomination to George McGovern with all California's delegates, and Mayor Daley's too, seems incompatible with the plan to complete the reform movement started by McGovern.

Time was that our American political parties privately, outside both state and federal law, put forth their candidates in regulated government elections. They could choose their nominees any way they pleased. Even very recently, it would have been unthinkable that any branch of government would be allowed to dictate to a party's national convention on such matters as seating of delegates, writing platforms and rules of procedure. Indeed, the Democratic National Committee's own attorney argued in the California-Illinois delegate challenge case that the federal court ought to keep its hands out of party affairs. Why, the committee is so independent it has hired private officers to keep order at the convention and told the Nixon Department of Justice to keep certain agents out of the hall.

And there still is a question of whether the whole Democratic convention assembled at Miami Beach next week has to obey the federal court ruling on seating of those delegations. (It probably will, because it seems the politic thing to do at this point, but there will be those who'll insist it isn't necessary.) This concept of the privacy of American political parties is reasonable. Why shouldn't any group of citizens, be it the Ku Klux Klan or the Black Panthers, agree to a set of principles and submit a candidate to the electorate by any method of nomination it decides to follow? Our Constitution makes no mention of political parties. They didn't even arise until after Washington hc.d served his two terms. Since then, all the parties have come and gone, making their own rules and running their own internal affairs.

A court order directing the Democratic National Convention to seat one group of contested delegates over another is a distinct break with the (Continued on Page 16) Chuckle There are two kinds of people those who like to get up in the morning, and the rest of us. Reunited After Abortive Hijacking, Father and Son Embrace in San Francisco Phil Marcus greets son Aaron, 12, who was on plane when hijackers took over WASHINGTON (AP) -George McGovern's off-again, on-again welfare reform plan is off again. A spokesman said Wednesday McGovern has decided to wait until after the Democratic National Convention next week to unveil the second version of his plan to rewrite the nation's welfare laws. By that time, he hopes to be the Democratic nominee for president. George McGovern another delay Qffl SAN FRANCISCO (AP) wanted to stop the hijacking and stop it we did," said the FBI special agent in charge, describing how authorities stormed a pirated aircraft and killed two hijackers in a gun battle while passengers were still aboard.

Officials said shots fired by one of the hijackers killed a passenger and wounded two others after federal agents charged aboard an intrastate Pacific Southwest Airline Boeing 737 taken over by two hijackers for six hours Wednesday. "Certainly we're not pleased that three passengers were wounded," said Robert Geb-hardt, FBI special agent in charge. He made the comment before learning that one of the passengers had died. "BUT," HE said in response to a reporter's question, "somebody had to make a decision." Three FBI men who had sneaked up under the fuselage of the plane rushed aboard after the hijackers refused to release 81 passengers. Geb-hardt said.

The slain hijackers had demanded two parachutes, $800,000 and passage to Siberia shortly after taking the plane over in the air. The FBI men moved in on the plane only after the hijackers refused to release the passengers unti- the ransom was handed over. "I saw two FBI men enter the plane," said Dr. Manuel Alvarez, 58. of Sacramento.

a passenger. "The first came through with his hands on his head, and the second came up shooting, blasting away with a shotgun." THE HIJACKER "crumpled to the floor," said Alvarez. The FBI said the gunman had an automatic in each hand but did not open fire. In the rear of the plane, the other hijacker had another automatic and fired at least three shots, the FBI said. The second hijacker went down almost immediately from FBI gunfire, Gebhardt said, and like the other was dead on arrival at the hospital.

The hijackers also held the plane's five crew members. In previous U.S. hijackings no attempt has been made to board a hijacked airliner while the passengers were still aboard. However, on May 9 Israeli soldiers stormed a hijacked Belgian airliner in Tel Aviv, killing two Arab guerillas, wounding one and capturing a fourth. Three of the 95 passengers aboard were wounded and one died from a head wound eight days later.

On Sunday a Pan American Airlines pilot in Saigon over- Continued on Page 16) Near Quang Tri by Navy Planes Other paratroopers penetrated the city limits Tuesday but took up defensive positions on the southern edge. A spokesman in Saigon, Lt. Col. Do Viet, said two companies of paratroopers controlled the southern edges of Quang Tri south of Highway 1, including the railroad station. He said they had not moved since Wednesday.

Most of the city is north of the highway and is dominated by a 19th century moated fortress called the Citadel. Viet said no government troops had moved into the northern sector. Viet said South Vietnamese marines closing in from the (Continued on Page 16) (Atsoclatcd Prtn Wirephoto) Opening Switch of Working Hours To Avert Blackout Killed (Associated Press Wirephoto) Fischer Again Sorry; Match On Sunday? REYKJAVIK. Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer made a full and penitent apology to Boris Spassky today, and organizers of the world chess championship match said the two would meet for their first game Sunday night. The organizers said it had been agreed in principle to hold the drawing tonight to determine which player would have the white pieces and with them the first move.

The young American, in a letter delivered by hand this morning to the world chess champion from the Soviet Union, apologized for his "disrespectful behavior." Fischer, whose delayed arrival doubled the prize money for both him and Spassky but also started an avalanche of confusion, asked the Russian to "accept my sincerest apology." "I simply became carried away by my petty dispute over money with (Continued on Page 16) The Court of Appeals re- (Continued on Page 16) This makes at least the third time McGovern has postponed announcement of his revised plan. "WE DIDN'T think there was any sense in further cluttering up the convention," the spokesman said. 'There'll be enough going on to distract people as it is." But the new delay is also expected to lead to some criticism from McGovern's opponents who might have anticipated using it as ammunition against his nomination. McGovern's original plan, based on an annual guaranteed income in the range, was sharply attacked by Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota during the campaign for the Juny 6 California primary election.

Humphrey and other critics charged it would cost more than McGovern said it would and questioned whether new (Continued on Page 16) than can be provided. The peak use of electricity is between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. and by leaving workers out at 4 o'clock one huge source of demand would be eliminated. However, today, the gover-' office reported the change would cause more problems than it would cure and that the idea is "definitely out." Settle Down in Miami was given by city council Convention Peace Is Predicted With OK of Park Use Bunkers Bombed SAIGON (AP) U.S.

Navy fighter-bombers pounded North Vietnamese bunkers south of Quang Tri City today, trying to blast open a path for a task force of South Vietnamese paratroopers advancing on the enemy-held provincial capital. Associated Press correspondent Dennis Neeld reported from the northern front that the carrier planes bombed a line of bunkers about 2Mz miles from the center of Quang Tri City. The bunkers were concealed in a row of homes shaded by trees and flanking Highway 1. Two companies of North Vietnamese troops, perhaps 200 or more men, were reported entrenched in the bunk Beach Park to Await for use of Flamingo Park hi 1 flMn I i ers. One captured prisoner told interrogators that they had called for reinforcements.

An American adviser with the paratroopers, Capt. Gail Furrow, 32, of Urbana, Ohio, told Neeld he doubted that reinforcements could avoid the U.S. air strikes and South Vietnamese artillery bombardment. But despite the U.S. air attacks, the entrenched North Vietnamese were firing on the paratroopers.

FURROW SAID the battalion he is with could have pushed into Quang Tri City on Wednesday but it was essential to secure the highway before advancing. Democratic Convention A suggestion that working hours for state employes by changed from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. during the national political conventions at Miami Beach has been discarded. At Wednesday's Cabinet meeting Gov.

Reubin Askew suggested the change in hours to avoid a possible electric "blackout" caused by a demand for electricity greater Demonstrators permission MIAMI BEACH (AP) Police and demonstrators alike predicted next week's Democratic National Convention should be more peaceful as a result of a Miami Beach City Council decision Wednesday to let protest groups camp out in a public park. Within an hour after the council reversed an earlier ban on campsites, more than 100 young people moved into the 36-acre Flamingo Park just five blocks from where the Democrats will nominate presidential candidate. THEY IMMEDIATELY began to set up tents and roll out sleeping bags while some took their first showers in days at park facilities. "We believe that with a controlled site we will be better able to control law and order," said Miami Beach Police Chief Rocky Pomerance. He said the park is fenced to help provide crowd control, has a hedge on one side to give an "aesthetic screen" to the (Continued on Page 16) SEN.

GAMBKELL says he will not support Sen. McGovern. Page 6. MCGOVERN, WALLACE gain vote as Georgia revises delegation to Democrat convention. Page 6.

OVERALL CROP conditions in state reported improved. Page 6. Gambrell Crossword 19 Editorial Columns 4,5 Obituaries 16 Sports 21-24 Television 18 Theaters 20 Want Ads 26-31 Weather 16 Women's News 14,15 Bridge Comics 19 18,19 TrWOomocrari W1 Turn to Page I by Yppes and other protest groups.