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FIRST CALL MORNING Lehigh Valley's Greatest Newspaper ALLENTOWN, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1972 NO. 26,586 Ten Cents eudim Demos Battle Over Dele gates Muskie Joins Police Step In Fence Downed Move to Stop Youths By 500 Bid cGovern door: open the door!" as they stood outside the fenced hall in a light rain. "We are here to evict Richard Milhous Nixon from the White By TERRY RYAN MIAMI BEACH (AP) -About 500 demonstrators broke away from a rally Monday night and pulled down a portion of a fence on the perimeter of Miami Beach Convention Hall as the i House," said Abernathy, "but 1 just because we are against the MIAMI BEACH (AP) -Feuding Democrats battled for custody of contested national convention delegates Monday night with Sen. George McGov-ern bidding to recapture solid California support that would put him on the brink of first-ballot presidential nomination. exercise in self-destruction," said Chairman Lawrence F.

O'Brien. The convention spent a half-hour in the dark while O'Brien delivered an opening address, interspersed with films of rank-a d-file Democrats talking about the way they became Democratic National Convention! re-eiecuon 01 isixon ooesn opened inside. mean tnat we are lor tne Demo- A 60-foot section of chain-link Cratlc party-fence was ripped down by! "If the' seat us riSht youths who had been kicking at going to turn our backs on gates around the southwest sec- the Democratic party. Sen. Edmund S.

Muskie of delegates. Maine joined the forces arrayed I In its initial seating decisions, tion of the hall the convention: against McGovern, urging his ine jsoutnern unnstian Leaa-ership Conference, headed by Abernathv, the National Welfare supporters to vote to deny the front-runner a sweep of the 271 Related Stories, Photos On Pages 2, 3 About 300 police, armed with billy clubs, stepped into the breach when the fence fell and stood in a shoulder-to-shoulder wall as the protesters momentarily backed off. Minutes before, the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy of the Southern Christian LeadershiD Con Rights Organization and National Tenants Organization have demanded that the party allocate them seats as observers in Convention Hall. He addressed the crowd from the far side of a hibiscus- Took up the challenge of South Carolina women seeking seven to nine more seats on a 32-vote delegation.

Supporters of that challenge forced a roll-call vote on the issue. The South Carolina challenge was rejected, That issue did not involve can. didate preferences, but some of the delegations divided along chain-link fence as hurried toward the ference had promised that his i shrouded "nnnr neonlp" prniin wniilr) ni n-( delegates hall, most of them paying little attention to the demonstration. Mary Lou Burg, national committee vice chairman, takes the podium. (AP) Continued on Page 2, Column 1 Cohesive Bond Missing 1 I I 1 r- test peacefully until their request for 750 Convention Hall seats was ruled upon by the Democrats.

Abernathy later was admitted. However, as the crowd of about 2,000 began dispersing, the group of 500 most of them white youths began kicking; and clawing at the chain-link barrier around the convention center. Miami Beach Police Sgt. Joseph Spoto received a cut over the left eye when protesters tried to force open a gate, police! visions Different in 'New Party California delegates. That allied him with Sen.

Hubert H. Humphrey and McGovern's other rivals for the nomination. Compromise whittled away at the list of delegations under challenge at what promised to be a marathon opening session. Party officials said it could run up to 16 hours. But as the Democratic Credentials Committee put its findings before the convention, blocs of delegates from 11 states were under challenge.

And there was no compromising California. Even while the other disputes were being debated and dealt with, the floor managers were at work trying to pry loose every vote available on that test. Both McGovern and Humphrey forces claimed the votes to win. "I think we're ready," Humphrey said. "The first challenge we face is to decide whether party reform will in fact make the Democratic party better able to deal with also what the entire election will tended every party convention be about.

isince 1936. within the party are a fascinat-i ing phenomenon. It's been more ganized labor. George Meany of the AFL-CIO keeps threatening to watch this election from the sidelines. Nothing scares organization Democrats more than the prospect of their principal oil well drying up.

Few here are buying any of McGovern's talk about Leonard Woodcock of the United Auto Workers as a possible vice presidential candidate. Organized labor is said. One person was reportedly arrested during the one-hour assault on the fence. Convention Analysis By Edward 0. Miller ing up there, said another, pointing to the portraits of prominent Democrats suspended from the Convention Hall ceiling.

"About the only ones they can identify are the two Kennedys and Thomas Jefferson." Many of the Old Guard's judgments of those they see as rivals are unfair, but they are wide S'flrt The man arrested jumped! over the fence into a parking lot and was quickly cornered by of-1 ficers, handcuffed and taken' away. i At the spot where the fence! had been torn down, the Hare' Krishna protest organization pa-i raded with bongo drums and watching its strength being eroded by the tides of sweeping the party. change! our real problems or whether party reform turns out to be an LAWRENCE O'BRIEN spread. And the divisions are Call-Chronicle Executive Editoi Elects State Delegation than a century since a major political party seriously concerned itself with potent representation for the hitherto unrepresented. Women, the blacks and the young are the principal beneficiaries of that effort.

The Pennsylvania delegation, for example, has more than doubled the delegate count of each group compared to its numbers in Chicago. In the case of the under-30 set, representation has nearly tripled. But not without cost. The established politicians, the traditional party workers and the entire galaxy of individuals which used to be THE party are more than skeptical about the new tide. They're scared.

"These kids don't play by the rules. They don't even know the rules," commented one Pennsylvania traditionalist who has at- tamborines, dancing and chan-i ting between police and the; MIAMI BEACH The post-demonstrators, ers, bumper stickers and but-Wit 'in an hour, the demon- tons all talk about the "new poli-strators began to disperse as the-tics," the "new coalition" and demographic wilderness called Middle America. If the New Guard does indeed capture the party without de- ob- stroying the Democrats' tradi- rains came. A spokesman for! "the new way." A casual SCLC said most of the poor server might conclude that Ex-Governor as Chairman tneitionai power oase, it win De a bitter. Democrats have always loved a good brawl, but they have always done it with the basic understanding that they're all good party members who sooner or later will patch up their differences to do battle with the Republicans.

The current divisions are not quite the same. Many of the insurgents believe in the "system" but see the party as merely a means toward that end. They don't hold a deep allegiance. There is no cohesive people were back in is out. stunning achievement.

If, on the other hand, the coronation of the Far from it. Though the Dem tion City II in nearby Flamingo Park. ocratic partv is forging ahead new is clouded by the rejection Most of the participants in with reform through expanded Abernathv's Poor People's Co- representation, its fundamental of the old, the shambles after Chicago will look tame by comparison. That's what the monumental struggles in this convention are all about. That's alition stayed in the demonstra-1 strength still rests upon the old tion area in front of the hall.

blocs of organized labor, ethnic Behind Scenes "fir the voters and the vast but shifting They shouted, "Open vvim Mare Delegation bond between the new rank and file and the party as an institution. The Old Guard senses this. But so does the New Guard. A By Ben Livingood newly elected Democratic national committeeman and executive director of the General State Authority. But the former governor, who served as Humphrey's Pennsyl-v a i a campaign chairman, emerged as the unanimous choice after hours of behind-the-scenes negotiations between representatives of the various factions.

The key to the compromise appeared to be the decision to put together an executive committee representing all points of view. Serving on the panel in addition to Leader will be Philadelphia Democratic City Committee Chairman Peter J. Camiel and Allegheny County Register of Wills Rita Wilson Kane, representing the Muskie forces; State Rep. Gerald Kaufman and Call Harrisburg Bureau Chief new charter proposed for the party is in part a recognition of the need to build a binding loyalty even stronger than that of the past. Hence its proposals for more frequent party conventions, and expanded and more representative leadership, an executive committee with real powers to guide the party and a registration and dues-collecting effort to give the whole structure a financial base.

MIAMI BEACH -Pennsylvania delegates to the Democratic National Convention ended two days of intramural strife Monday night and united behind former Gov. George M. Leader as the Barcelona Hotel the Pennsylvania convention headquarters Sunday night and part of Monday that Shapp was about to change his mind and fly to the convention site in an effort to reconcile differences which had ripped the various their chairman. The 182-vote delegation unanimously selected Leader to factions into bickering disarray. However, aides close to the Molly Yard Garrett, coleaders of the 54-vote delegation com- Another radical idea? Democratic congressmen by a margin of two to one think so, but the reformers are serious.

The Old Guard element most vocal in its opposition to these and other changes has been or- serve as their chief spokesman I on the convention floor less than I two hours before the start of the to convention front-run- governor denied the rumors and mitted said they had advised Shapp notj ill I to come. Leader's path to the chair- mt a a if ir ner Sen. George S. McGovern; Northampton County Democratic Chairman Justin D. Jirolanio of Bethlehem, representing the state's 12 uncommitted delegates, and William Obricki, one of two Pennsylvania delegates a i was temporarily blocked when the caucus of 40 rj jrv v- delegates pledged to Maine Sen.

Worth Repeating It is better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. Persian Proverb Edmund S. Muskie insisted that the chairmanship go to Robert 1 Demonstrator at Democratic convention tries to pull down chain-link fence. (AP) H. "Pop" Jones, the state's 'Continued on Page 2, Column 1 Politicians Want of Civil War Explosions Rip Ulster; British Bolster Force convention's opening session.

Leader immediately took steps to prevent a reoccurrence of the chaotic name-calling furor that had characterized the delegation's caucuses in two days of preconvention maneuvering. He formed a seven-member executive committee from among representatives of each of the delegation's five separate factions and pledged that no action would be taken on the convention floor without their written consent. "I will not tolerate unruly behavior and disorder," Leader told reporters after accepting the chairmanship. "I don't intend to shout at them. I will simply adjourn the proceedings until they quiet down." Leader was first recommended to serve as delegation chairman in the absence of Gov.

Shapp by the 74-vote bloc of votes committed to Minnesota BELFAST (AP) Gunfire and! The fiercest fighting was in explosions raged across North-! the drab postwar housing com-ern Ireland's battered six coun-jplexes of West Belfast. Gunmen ties early Tuesday. Britain rush- pumped fire from house gardens ed more troops to the province, and high-rise apartment blocks Inside The Call Special Edition News Today Pages 5, 14 Israeli Court Rejects Guilty Plea in Airport Massacre Trial Page 6 Fischer, Spassky Meet Today for Chess Title and Rich Prize Page 12 Shapp Vetoes Bill to Give Legislature Control of Welfare Department Regulations Page 12 The Weather Sunny and Warm Today and Tomorrow; For Details See Page 5 at armv emplacements and ing crackled in the Catholic Ar-doyne and Lower Falls precincts. Six hundred British commandos flew to Northern Ireland Monday night. The army said 1,200 more men were preparing to leave early Tuesday, bringing military strength to 16,800 men the highest in more than three years of sectarian called a sudden end to the brief cease-fire Sunday.

In an immediate outbreak of violence, six civilians died and scores of troops, gunmen and civilians were injured in nine hours of night-time violence. The gun battles resumed at noon Monday. More than 60 violent exchanges terrorized Belfast during the afternoon. Most of the the second night in a row. It was a dispute in this area Sunday night over allocations for houses for Catholics and Protes-tants that the IRA said sparked its decision to end the ce3SGf ire But Wiiliam Whitelaw, Britain's secretary of state for Ulster, said the problem was deeper than that one incident.

He disclosed that he had had a each other. In the Catholic Ballymurphy zone, gunmen of the outlawed Irish Republican Army shot it out with British troops in a fight that has almost constantlv Hubert H. Humphrey. secret meeting with IRA leaders Sen Shapp had been expected to last Friday. He said the IRA and politicians warned ot approaching civil war.

British headquarters reported 109 separate shooting incidents by midnight Monday and claimed its troops cut down 13 gunmen. Some of the shootouts: were strictly between rival Rman Catholic and Protestant guierrillas. Two powerful bombs wrecked shops and damaged homes near the center of the capital. An incendiary device razed a house in Belfast's east side, hospitalizing five persons to the hospital, in-, eluding a 4-year-old child. Other bombs exploded in Londonderry, Armagh and Strabane.

raged since Listers 13-day The troop movements followed incidents were attacks on Brit-cease-fire crumbled Sunday failure by British negotiators to ish army posts and patrols by night. I "The soldiers are being 'gunmen identified as IRA guer- IRA men traded fire with brought in because of the IRA's rillas. The army claimed at Protestant guerrillas operating express intention of resuming least eight rebel marksmen from the Springmartin housing hostilities with the utmost feroc-1 were hit. Today's Ind ex men complained they had gained nothing in return for ceasing hostilites, "Then made demands that I could not ac- complex across the noman i ity," an army spokesman said. lead the delegation but he de-cided to skip the convention and stay in Pennsylvania to concentrate on recovery operations from last month's disastrous floods.

Rumors ran rampant through adv. Our Ow Gro. Black Raspberries Dan Schantz Farm Mkt. Emmaus In the evening, rioting youths icept." in Belfast's Lenadoon housing Whitelaw said he hoped it was land of Springfield Road. Shoot-1 The IRA's militant Provi- Baker 14 Deaths 7, 15, 25 Sports 17-20 Bridge 22 Editorial 14 Television 22 Chamberlain 14 Familv 10, 11 Theaters 21 Classified 25-31 Financial 24.

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