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nhnn r-- Mill. t. 1 'lift A Friday, Jiily 1972 Miami Beach streets quiet mm By TERRY RYAN i AiMClata Prat Wrltar MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) No one wanted another Chi-J cago. It's almost as simple as that.

So everyone gave a little-the protesters, the police, the city, the party and Its candidate and the streets were quiet during the Democratic National Convention. 4 Convinced that violence would their 'individual "i'' causes, these diverse forces worked together this week to-'f produce peaceful protests far different from the turbulance that swept the streets of Chicago when the Democrats con vened there four years ago. The box score tells the story: Chicago: 680 arrested, 1,381 injured. Miami each: .1 arrested, 4 injured. The memories of Chicago in 1 1 7 -7 hi 'a v- .1 5.

I and tear gas, were replaced this week by a motorcycle cop leading a protest march to Convention Hall with an antiwar button pinned to his chest. By the "Jesus Freaks" and ice cream vendors wandering through the crowd just after a -j-i small section of the fence around the hall was torn down, the 4 destructive highpoint of the week. By the jam in front of' Convention Hall when the Yippies and Zippies came from one direction, the Cuban anticommunists from another and the Gay activists from yet another. Demonstration marshals linked arms to keep everyone apart. There was no violence, hardly a hint of destruction.

Disruptions, but not disturbances. Tense moments, but not confrontations. And in the one moment when things might have taken a different turn, George McGovern took a chance. Against the advice of, the Secret Service, McGovern faced and pacified 300 chanting, shoving demonstrators in a hotel lobby just hours before he received the Democratic presiden- tial nomination. "I think the symbolism is noipviikUf 11? oaiu unci tion of Chicago in J968." When it was all over and done, police were congratulating protesters, protesters were thanking police, and Mayor Chuck Hall and Police Chief Rocky Pomerance had emerged almost as heroes of the counter culture generation.

City officials had prepared themselves "for an influx of tens of thousands of so-called nondelegates, but at most only 3,000 gathered at any one time. SHOW OF UNITY Sen. between Rep. Shirley Chisholm demonstration of party harmony early Friday. With him, too, from left, are his running mate, Sen.

Thomas F. Eaglcton, and two other senators he defeated for the presidential nomination, Hubert H. Humphrey anddmund S. iluskie. lacing delegates to the Democratic National Convention in a Color, confusion Several months ago, Hall began meeting with leaders of the groups that planned demonstrations during the convention.

He also led the fight that opened a city park for camping .5 during the Convention. "There would have been a lot of trouble, if they had not 5 Convention called happening Vision 9 4 4 given us the park," said Yippie leader Bruce Fried. "They showed they were listening to us and were willing to give us a chance." Pomerance organized the 800-man security force that surrounded Convention Hall, but at the same time instructed his men not to hassle people in the park about smoking marijuana or skinny dipping in the pool. "The police were Just beautiful," said Fred a member of the Peoples Coalition for Peace and Justice. "There would have been a blood bath, our blood, if they wanted to do anything." For the demonstrators, the Democratic convention was just a warm up, a dress rehearsal for the Republican National Convention six weeks from now in Miami Beach.

They had a good thing going with the police and the city, and trouble would only spoil it. "We showed the people of Miami Beach that we could con The abundance pf nomination, CBS1 Dan dates' tof ice president and Bather reported from the the apparent rebellion of some Gravcl had had dif" McGrfvcrn over his selection frpm the McGovern of Sen. Thpmas T'Eagleton of NBC's John Chancellor, not-Missouri as, bis running, mate lfn8 that Smothers had been a pushed the candidates ac-. i i personality in ccpianee pecches into the said he was adamantly early hours. aqainst the entrv of TV per-.

In keeping' with the "tele--- tonalities into politics. "There vision vice presi- have 50016 Pretjy dential votes -were ast for Ar-- rom the country that have chie Bunker, Martha Mitchell, WPPI up and have been de-Ralph NackT and CBS report-' 1 1 say 1 m.sor er Roger was a in of lhe he By JERRY BUCK Aiioclatttf tm Wrlftr HOLLYWOOD (AP) In' the words of author Theodore H. White on CBS, the Democratic National Convention at Miami Beach Thursday night was a "television happpninn It vias "a spectacle of color and confusion, emotional at times and chaotic at others. Massive Si t'f 1968, of riot sticks and blood 'j more important than anything I watUi vv uiyiii nam itpuii 4 Dcfore. but I th nk we Droved I oocned its ranks to rt linnrw.

I when ma antiwar activist Jerry Rubin. National CbnvrnHnn tH iu. session In Maimi Beach early IPlttfKalt Mtwi-AP WlrtatHiftl LAI 9 1 i ii 1 1 1 a I'VE NEVER been one to harbor feelings for the Ruskicv I funny squat dances leave me a little coldWcitdyou know. But the our boy Bobby Fischer is conducting himself in Iceland, I'm pulling for' the Before you holler defect, let me explain. 2 Chess is a maddening game.

Lonely and powerful. It takes great Intellect to Iread on theory and when you are of the qualityof Fischer and Russian World Champion Boris Spassky you are supposed to be innovative. They write in books aboirt your pjay and later the moves will become classic In duct a nonviolent demonstration," said Zippie leader Dana oiai. incy aia noi Dcneve us In Review There was the sight of Clay Smothers of Texas nominating himself for vice president and Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska secondjng himself.

PENSACOLA AND VICINITY: PtrlW Cloudy and warm Ihrouqn Saturday moM Willi cnnc ef ftfrnoon and vtwina triundtrshoweri. M'OH today and luntay naar 0 -wii lew toniqM tn tht low 70i. Variable but nvnllv atr Iv winds trtt iMn iMM rrr hnvr, bwom.nq toulharly mit pr hour rly- Salumay. Profc.bllily inn JO pt cent today and Saturday. EXTENOFO OUTLOOK Partly 'Cloud.

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Fair Forecast 1 weather, Much was made over the fact, particularly by CBS, that there so JitMn control over the proceedings thit McGovern and Eacleton did not appear until Jong after television prime time. ABC's Frank ReynoHs questioned McGovern rim-paign i Gary Hflrt about this and Hart "Perhaps with some arrange something to them. We got our message across without hurting anyone or thrashing anything." After the section of Convention Hall fence was torn down on the first night, protest planners organized a group of marshals to keep people in line. When demonstrators marched to the hall the next night, a line of people from the Vietnam Veterans Against the War separated them from the fence. "Our own planning made a lot of difference in keeping things quiet," said Patrolman Stephen Groves, "but the marshals in their own ranks had a lot to do with it.

We were able to maintain a low profile and not get anyone out there up-tight." But perhaps more than anything else, it was the Democratic party that kept things quiet. Many people who were on the streets in Chicago were inside the convention this time. ft11 George McGovcril stands and Sen. Henry M. "Jackson A Fred Brown iim hiiiv is of tfiC fhess tr Pge 3A) i I I I i' 1 YOU ARE supposed to be a gcnlleman and act in the manner of all t-Z known to be haro to handle and eccentric, has conducted himself in any manner other than the mold of good nwnwrs.

i He has ranted and raved. He was offered a model home in Iceland, far removed from the madding crowd," tut he rejected iUHo then jsked to be put in Reykjavik's swankiest hotels, at $63 a day. He was. But again this wasn't good enough. Too many people and Fischer is a He was then placed on a U.

S. Navy base in Reykjavik. In the admiral's quarters. jiow, V. S.

taxpayer! are paying for his room and Ward. But our diplomacy is getting a black eye from a one-sided Individual. The Democratic party had dented number of young people, blacks and women and wai seriously considering stands on abortion, drug laws and the Vietnam War not all that different from th nrnnna.i. k.i,i 1 ment on our part we could nsked that the rules be set aside so that McGovern (could have happened earlier." McGovern did not betin his acceptance sncech until ncar a.m. CDT midnight on the West Coast and there could be little doubt that some viewers had given tip' and gone to bed by then.

called it a 1'bencdicflon' for our Friday sunrise TT shorter? tt seen for weekend here on polio is set TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) State health officials say a massive polio Immunization 1 'campaign will begin in Lee County starting Sunday to guard against a possible out- break of the highly contagious disease. The announcement came Mer Florida Health Director Dr. Wilson T. Sowder confirmed a case of poliomye- litis in a 3-year-old Fort-" Myers boy the first reported case of the disease in Florida in three years.

Sowder said some emergency doses of liquid antipolio vaccine had been! 1 Tsent to Lcc County on da's southwest coast, where would be made available free to anyone between the ages of two months and 4() years old who had not received the vac- cine within the past Tides U.S. Oapartmaat af Cammart Caatl and Oeodatic twrvav lun and Tia tar Saturday, July II Sunrina a m. 4unt 1 m. Hi II m. Low St' 10'M pm.

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were simply voting-for them selves, "i McGovcrn's political dirce- tor, Frank Mankiewlcz. told CBS' Mike- Wallace, "This is like the last day of school, everybody is writing things on the blackboard." The CBS coverage of the fi-. nal' night of the convention' was admirable, the best the network turned' in. The report-. Ing was "aggrcssNe and and several 'times the network nvaS' first or alone with key A'flertJravcl seconded his poitnded inro Winner? S.D: The locally violent storms occlirrecT where' warm ahd humid air, streaming up from the Gulf came in corvUict with i a cooler air' uiass pashirg down from the Temperatures I I.I Di A'bunv Ainu'oiia Amarillo Anrnorao Ahoviila AHanla irmino4m I P.

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The pressure wa.i there all along on Spassky. He is the world champion. He.comes from a country in which chess is the national game. And he didn't bocome world champ by beating the boys In the backroom. He won because he is truly a genius.

If he should losfi ta Fischer there Is always Siberia. a L- at me pcopie in me sireeu. "There are times in history unite with the liberals," said "This is one of those times." the Democratic climactic final Friday. ir.0": 1 -Its Weather conditions have changed little in the past 24 hours. A.

high pressure ridge extends over the Florida Panhandle and will continue to bring partly cloudy; skies, mild temperatures nd a few wattered thundersho'wers. Winds' will be light and Va-rl able' this afternoon and tonight becoming southerly IS miles per hour on-Saturday. At 8 a.m. In PrnKacola, the kirs wi-rc partly cloudy; temr perature 77: dew point 71; festive humidity 82 per cent; winds calm: hvel Drcs-'. iucc 30.09 and Violent thunderstorms Ac-' rompanicd by tornadoes and hedvy whipped ichi.4 the north-ctTitral "states late? Jhursd.iv and early today.

One tornado touched' tlowh jiorth of St. Cloud, smashing a barn.ind several trees, while another ws re- 'pofled at Grcnora. N. wht-re polite savv fiv or' six junci ciuuus ii me air. i Mail (hn nl, NOW, THAT'S pressure.

I i Fischer knew all along that movie rights had been sold for the 24-game match, the confrontation of the century as far as chess is Television rights were purchased before he left New York I for the matches. He didn't in cold on this fact, for i was his ranting, inal the most money ever offered for a chess tournament vras It was through his efforts that ineanie tippca, own djt iceiann ana an tngiixn "rights sweetened the prtt, and he agreed LMMrf" na0- a nil" and unworthy nf rmast.ct i( onlinufH THEY'RE THE TICKET Sen. Thomas F. Eaglcton, the lce presidential nominee, and Sen. George S.

McGovern the presidential candidate, stand before the delrgatct to.

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