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THIRD MORN Lehigh Valley's Greatest Newspaper ALLENTOWN, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1972 NO. 26,586 Ten Cents Feuding Demos Battle Over Dele NG CALL Muskie Joins Police Step In Fence Downed Stoo ove to I fir I Pr IS ftfl- vcim 4 500 Youths Bid McGovern By TERRY RYAN MIAMI BEACH (AP) -About 500 demonstrators broke away from a rally Monday night 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 and pulled down a portion of a exercise in self-destruction," isaid Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien. The convention spent a half-hour in the dark while O'Brien i delivered an opening address, fpnrp nn the nprimPtAr nf Miami House," said Abernathy, "but Beach Convention Hall as the I Just because we are against the re-election of Nixon doesn't Democratic National Convention opened inside.

A 60-foot section of chain-link mean that we are for the Democratic party. MIAMI BEACH (AP) -Feuding Democrats battled for custody of contested national convention delegates Monday night with Sen. George McGovern bidding to recapture solid California support that would put him on the brink of first-ballot presidential nomination. Sen. Edmund S.

Muskie of Maine joined the forces arrayed against McGovern, urging his supporters to vote to deny the front-runner a sweep of the 271 "If they don't seat us right, fence was ripped down bv youths who had been kicking at gin to. turn our backs on gates around tne soutnwest sec-- tion of the hall. The Southern Christian Lead- About 300 police, armed with eArKshiP billy clubs, stepped into the bernathy, the National Welfare breach when the fence fell and lights Organization and Nation-stood in a shoulders-shoulder1 Tenants Organization have interspersed with films of rank-a d-file Democrats talking about the way they became delegates. In its initial seating decisions, the convention: 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 candidate preferences, but some of the delegations divided along Related Stories, Photos On Pages 2, 3 wall as the protesters momen-: uemanuea "iai me party ano I faro nom coare a fthcoruorc lr cate them seats as observers in tarily backed off. Minutes before, the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference had promised that his Convention Hall. He addressed the crowd from the far side of a hibiscus-shrouded chain-link fence as "poor DeoDle" eroiiD would Dro-i delegates hurried toward the test peacefully until their re-: hall most of them paying little quest for 750 Convention Hall I attention to the demonstration. Mary Lou Burg, national committee vice chairman, takes the podium.

(AP) Continued on Page 2, Column 1 seats was ruled upon by the Cohesive Bond Missing Democrats. Abernathy later was admitted. However, as the crowd of about 2,000 began dispersing, the group of 500 most of them 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 ivisions Different in 'New' Party white youths began kicking and clawing at the chain-link barrier around the convention center. also what the entire election will; tended every party convention be about. since 1936.

ganized labor. George Meany of the AFL-CIO keeps threatening to watch this election from the sidelines. Nothing scares organization Democrats more than the Miami Beach Police Sgt. Jo-! seph Spoto received a cut over: the left eye when protesters! tried to force open a gate, police rVhn rimir npc ctlrrtintr lln up mere, saia anotner, pointing to the portraits of prominent Democrats sus Vr 7 ing phenomenon. It's been more than a century since a major political party seriously concerned itself with potent representation for the hitherto unrepresented.

Women, the blacks and the Convention Analysis By Edward D. Miller 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 pos-j sible vice presidential candidate. Organized labor is! watching its strength being eroded by the tides of change sweeping the party. young are the principal benefi-iciaries of that effort.

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 our real problems or whether party reform turns out to be an said. One person was reportedly arrested during the one-hour assault on the fence. The man arrested jumped over the fence into a parking lot and was quickly cornered by officers, handcuffed and taken away. At the spot where the fence had been torn down, the Hare Krishna protest organization paraded with bongo drums and tamborines, dancing and chanting between police and the demonstrators.

LAWRENCE O'BRIEN Call-Chronicle Executive Editor The Pennsylvania delegation, for example, has more than doubled the delegate count of each group compared to its numbers in Chicago. In the case MIAMI BEACH The post-demographic wilderness called of the under-30 set, representation has nearly tripled. pended 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 widespread. And the divisions are 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 ers, bumper stickers ana put- Middle America.

State Delegation Elects Ex-Governor as Chairman Within an hour, the demon- tons all talk about the "new poli-strators began to disperse as the tics," the "new coalition" and rains came. A spokesman for "the new way." A casual ob-SCLC said most of the poor server might conclude that the people were back in Resurrec-i "old" is out. If the New Guard does indeed! capture the party without without cos The essaying the democrats' tradi- tilSt tional power base, it will be Party wf stunning achievement. If, on theitire Jahx hlC5 other hand, the coronation of Ti! Far from it. Though the Dem- ocratic party is forging ahead new is clouded by the rejection VvT 3" ncih PvnanHpH nf thn nlrl tho chamh pc a lw expanded of the old, the shambles after with reform through i representation, its fundamental Chicago will look tame by com tion City II in nearby Flamingo Park.

Most of the participants in Abernathy's Poor People's Coalition stayed in the demonstration area in front of the hall. They shouted, "Open the "These kids don't play by the rules. They don't even know the rules," commented one Pennsyl- parison. That's what the monumental struggles in this con strength still rests upon the old blocs of organized labor, ethnic voters and the vast but shifting That's vania traditionalist who has at- vention are all about. Behind Scenes With State Delegation By Ben Livingood 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 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 Call Harrisburg Bureau Chief newly elected Democratic national committeeman and executive director of the General State Authority. But the former governor, who served as Humphrey's Pennsyl-vania 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 Molly Yard Garrett, coleaders of the 54-vote delegation committed to convention front-runner 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 MIAMI BEACH -Pennsylvania delegates to the Democratic National Convention ended two days of intramural strife Mon 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. 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 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 factions into bickering disarray. However, aides close to the governor denied the rumors and said they had advised Shapp not1 to come.

Leader's path to the chair-i a i was temporarily i blocked when the caucus of 40 delegates pledged to Maine Sen. Edmund S. Muskie insisted that; the chairmanship go to Robertj H. "Pop" Jones, the state's! day night and united behind former Gov. George M.

Leader as their chairman. The 182-vote delegation unanimously selected Leader to serve as their chief spokesman on the convention floor less than two hours before the start of the 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. Worth Repeating It is better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers.

Persian Proverb Demonstrator at Democratic convention tries to pull down chain-link fence. (AP) Continued on Page 2, Column 1 Politicians Warn of Civil War Explosions Rip Ulster; British Bolster Force "I will not tolerate unruly behavior and disorder," Leader 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 the second night in a row. It was a dispute in this area Sunday night over allocations for houses for Catholics and Protes- a a the IRA said I 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 Today's Index 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 warfare. The troop movements followed The fiercest fighting was in the drab postwar housing complexes of West Belfast. Gunmen pumped fire from house gardens and high-rise apartment blocks at army emplacements and 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 constantly raged since Ulster's 13-day cease-fire crumbled Sunday night. IRA men traded fire with Protestant guerrillas operating from the Springmartin housing complex across the noman's sparked its decision to end the cease-fire.

But William Whitelaw, Britain's secretary of state for Ulster, said the problem was deeper than that one incident. He disclosed that he had had a secret meeting with IRA leaders last Friday. He said the IRA men complained they had gained nothing in return for BELFAST (AP)-Gunfire and explosions raged across Northern Ireland's battered six counties early Tuesday. Britain rushed more troops to the province, and politicians warned of approaching civil war. British headquarters reported 109 separate snooting 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 Belfasfs east side, hospitalizing five persons to the hospital, in- i eluding a 4-year-old child. Other bombs exploded in Londonderry, Armagh and Strabane. I 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 Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey.

Shapp had been expected to lead the delegation but he decided to skip the convention and stay in Pennsylvania to concentrate on recovery operations from last month's disastrous floods. Rumors ran rampant through Our Own Gro. Black Raspberries Dan Schantz Farm Mkt. Emmaus 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 incidents were attacks on British army posts and patrols by gunmen identified as IRA guerrillas. The army claimed at least eight rebel marksmen were hit. In the evening, rioting youths in Belfast's Lenadoon housing estate attacked army posts for adv. NOW OPEN 24 HRS.

A DAY Lane's-2300 Lehigh, failure by British negotiators to "The soldiers are being brought in because of the IRA's express intention of resuming hostilities with the utmost ferocity," an army spokesman said. "The IRA's militant Provisional wing, which has been responsible for most of the guerrilla activity in Northern Ireland 1 during the last three 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. 25 TRB 14 Comics 22, 23 Lawrence 14 TV Keynotes 22 Considine 20 Porter 23 Wilson 20 ceasing hostilites, "Then made demands that I could not accept." Whitelaw said he hoped it was "not too late" to solve the Irish problem without violence, since violence would only lead to "total disaster." land of Springfield Road. Shoot adv.

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