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SECOND ING CAI "P7- MORI Lehigh Valley's Greatest Newspaper ALLENTOWN, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1972 NO. 26,589 Ten Cents TTft0 ietofi tor ticket overn ncK! McG No Plans to Run Wallace Goes To Sidelines ii mmjm)mumtimlm, yijaqwrnawu non win iiniiiwi.iuim.iii.. immi it mm- "i if 'J i ''x4 1 'iww tjA I xi 1 vi MIAMI BEACH (AP) Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace said Thursday that he has no plans for any further presidential campaign at this time." But he said: "I don't say I won't ever have any." Wallace, preparing to return to Alabama Friday from the Democratic National Convention, chatted with Alabama newsmen in his hotel suite for more than an hour.

"I don't have any plans now politically except to go back to Alabama," the governor said. He flies Friday from Miami to Birmingham where he will undergo intensive physical therapy for probably "a few weeks." He is paralyzed in both legs from a bullet wound received in an assassination attempt May 15. Wallace was asked if that ruled out the possibility of a third-party campaign after losing the Democratic nomination. "As I said," he replied, "I don't have any political plans at this time and that would include that (a third party race), of course." His campaign manager, Charles Snider, had said Wednesday the prospects for a third-party move were "growing stronger and stronger every minute." 6 Others Nominated For Post Speeches Delay Ratification By WALTER R. MEARS MIAMI BEACH (AP) Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern chose Sen.

Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri Thursday to be his vice presidential candidate in the campaign for the White House, and the Democratic National Convention met in its final session to ratify that selection. Eagleton's name was placed in formal nomination by Mayor Kenneth Gibson of Newark. But six other Democrats had their names placed in nomination for the vice presidency, too. That led to a series of nominating speeches that delayed the inevitable nomination of McGovern's choice.

Related Stories, Photos on Page 2 In addition to Eagleton, former Massachusetts Gov. Endi-cott Peabody and Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska, the candidates who filed petitions to get themselves placed in vice presidential nomination were S. Frances Farenthold, who lost a bid for Democratic nomination for governor of Texas; Rep. Peter Ro-dino of New Jersey; Clay Smothers, a black newsman from Dallas, and Stanley Arnold, a New York marketing consultant.

Eagleton said he was flabbergasted. He also said yes. It remained only for the Democratic National Convention to ratify McGovern's selection Thursday night. That, and the triumphant entry of the presidential nominee from South Dakota, last season's political nobody, were the final act in a convention drama stage managed from the beginning by the McGovern majority. McGovern first offered the vice presidential spot to Sen.

CHOICE FOR NO. 2 SPOT Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri emerges from his Miami Beach hotel after Sen. George S.

McGovern, nominated for the presidency by the Democratic party had selected him for the No. 2 spot on the party's ticket. (AP) the Felt Impact ven cGovern Shock Waves When they finally woke up, the train had already passed them by. The gloom is as much em barrassment at exposure as it is clear prophecy. The shock waves resounding Convention Analysis through the party regulars are even being f.elt by some Republi MIAMI BEACH If history has shown us one thing about presidential elections, it is that the early predictions are usually wrong.

Much has been written and broadcast about the difficult task ahead for George McGovern. The candidate's cause has not been helped by the prophets of doom within the party, whose heads are still spinning from the defeat at the hands of McGov-ern's skilled kiddie corps. The party pros were licked because they were asleep at the switch. cans. One conservative column By Edward D.

Miller Call-Chronicle Executive Editor ist cautioned in writing Thursday that if the Republicans take the McGovern phenomena for granted the same way the Democratic regulars did, they may suffer the same fate. It's doubtful that the Republicans will be able to put together the ort of grass roots organization that brought McGovern the nomination. The GOP simply doesn't have the front line troops nor the sense of urgency to do so. But the administration is not without resources. NEW FIXTURE FOR PODIUM An enlarged portrait of Sen.

George S. McGovern goes up on the podium in Miami Beach's Convention Hall shortly before Democrats met in their final convention session to ratify the selection of Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri as the vice presidential candidate, and to hear McGovern's acceptance speech. (AP) Shapp Urges Delegates To Unite for Victory Edward M.

Kennedy of Massachusetts, who declined. Indications were that scenario had been understood in advance by both men. After a long day of conferences and deliberations in his penthouse suite, McGovern set The last time an incumbent tled on Eagleton, a 42-year-old freshman senator from St. Louis. Eagleton is a Roman Catholic.

And so, shortly before the deadline set by Democratic rules for the entry of candi president was defeated for reelection was in 1932 when Herbert Hoover fell victim to the Depression. last example before that was 1892, when Gro-ver Cleveland, an incumbent victim himself four years before, defeated Benjamin Harrison. The conclusion is that it is terribly difficult to defeat an incumbent president, particularly dates, McGovern telephoned Behind Scenes With State Delegation By Ben Livingood MIAMI BEACH Gov. Shapp challenged battered and divided Pennsylvania delegates to the Democratic National Convention Thursday to bind up their wounds and unite for victory in the fall. "I know you've had problems down here," the governor told delegates weary from their weeklong ordeal of all-night convention sessions and intramural brawling.

"But," he added, "this is nothing new with Democratic conventions." He pointed to differences that had split past conventions in 1960 and 1968, reminding the delegates that in Continued on Page 2, Column 1 Call Harrisburg Bureau Chief FIRST CALL the man he Eagleton's version of the conversation varied a bit in hasty sessions with reporters at his hotel and later at McGovern's Doral Beach headquarters, where he conferred with the nominee. A composite of what Eagleton recounted read this way: ''Tom, this is George McGovern. Tom, I'd like you to be my running-mate." "You must be kidding," Eagleton said was his first reply- "I told him I accepted before he changed his mind." Frank Mankiewicz, a top McGovern strategist, announced the vice presidential selection. He said McGovern picked Eagleton after concentrating "almost entirely on the question of whether such a man would complement and be an addition to the ticket." both instances Pennsylvania Democrats were able to reunite and carry their state for the ticket in the fall. Shapp, who gave up his delegate's credentials to tend to re Shapp said he was cognizant of the sometimes bitter brawling which drove a splintering wedge between the McGovern delegates and the forces of organized labor and old-line party-regulars within the 182-vote Pennsylvania delegation the convention's third largest.

But, he said he is confident that the difference can be resolved. "The major elements of labor will be supporting McGovern this fall," Shapp predicted. "There will be a unity of pur- covery operations in his flood-ravaged state, came to the convention in its twilight hours at the beckoning of the party's presidential nominee, Sen. George S. McGovern.

He stopped first at the Pennsylvania convention headquarters in the Barcelona Hotel to hold a press conference and ad- dress the delegation, then rushed off to a meeting with McGovern. Calling attention to the fact that he had backed the candidacy of one-time front-running Sen. Edmund S. Muskie right up toi the moment of his withdrawal from the race, Shapp told the delegates, "McGovern is our candidate, and by golly when I get back to Pennsylvania, and I hope when you get back to Pennsylvania, we roll up our sleeves and we start. "This is not the end," he added, "This is just a wayward place on the path to victory in November." At his press conference, the governor lauded McGovern's choice of a running-mate Sen.

Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri. "I met him on two occasions," he related. "I found him to be a very alert and articulate senator." NOW LET ME SEE Five-year-old Oscar de la Fuente (right) shows all the composure of a champion as he goes down the boards during chess matches with 10 opponents in Granada, Spain. How did he do? One win, seven draws and two losses.

(AP) 'Hi Jack Continued on Page 2, Column 3 3P irates Give Up After Seizin 2 Jets Philadelphia. He said the aircraft was virtually out of gas, and he feared subjecting the Hp caiH Hip MpHrworn-'FacTlp- passengers to a crash if forced itnn fn ransom money in exchange for a private getaway plane piloted by an agent. The airport at Lake Jackson, was too small to safely handle a replacement aircraft the size of their tri-motored 727. A black FBI agent was flown in from Baltimore to aid in the; negotiations as the two Negro! hijackers kept altering their de By ARTHUR EVERETT Associated Press Writer Two armed hijackers forced a National Airlines jet to fly from Philadelphia to a out-of-the-way Texas airport Thursday after releasing its 113 passengers. The airliner was' disabled in landing and the pair later freed three hostage stew-' ardesses and surrendered.

It was one of two widely sep-i by the hijackers to take it aloft; hard hitting team and produce aain" i "a lively campaign." A copilot, Norman Regan, captained a substitute 727 jetliner which carried the sky- Worth Repeating You can hardly make a friend Inside The Call Special Edition A'eits Today Pages 5, 18, 19 Vietnam Peace Parley Reopens in Paris With Both Sides Clinging to Old Positions Page 6 Okamoto Tells Israeli Court He Has No Regrets About Airport Massacre Page 9 Price Commission Persuades Chrysler to Trim Increases on 1973 Models Page 9 Fischer Fails to Show and Forfeits 2nd Game With Chess Champion Spassky Page 10 The Weather Possible Thundershowers, Warm and Humid Today and Tonight, For Details See Page 5 Bridge 40 Family 29-31 Sports 32-36 Buckley 22 Financial 42 Television 40 Classified 43-51 Furgurson 22 Theaters 20 21 Comics 40, 41 Hart 22 Deaths 7, 16, 44 Porter 42 TV Kenotes 40 Editorial 22 Reston 22 Wilson 20 Second Class Postage Paid at AHentown, Pa. 1105 jackers on a meandering route in a. year, but you can lose one Between them, the hijackers demanded $1 million in ransomalthough they settled for less than that. Boith planes involved were Boeing 727s, with a rear exit from which it is possible to parachute in relative safety. Before their release, 164 passengers in the two planes were at the mercy of the three gunmen.

In both cases, passengers complained of lax security that enabled the skyjackers to walk aboard with their weapons. One reportedly concealed a sawed-off shotgun in a cast and sling on his arm. Another apparently wore a gun holster. One of the passengers aboard National' Flight 496' which was forced down at Philadelphia along its Miami-to-New York route was Gene Burroughs, 48, of Los Angeles. He said of the shotgun-carrying hijacker and pistol-waving companion: "Anybody that would have checked with any type of metal detecting device would have found something of that size.

I jsaw them before they got on. One had a cast and his arm was in a sling. Later, looking back, I wondered why no one checked ihim out. Apparently, he had a gun in his cast." I Deputy Marshal Sarge Glenn of Philadelphia, where the skyjackers boarded the National flight before forcing its return, said the airline had no metal detector there. 1 Some National passengers also complained because the pilot, Elliott Adams, abandoned his aircraft by diving to freedom through a cockpit window while the plane was on the ground at mands.

Also brought in was Dallas psychiatrist, an expert; on the thought processes of aerial hijackers. Earlier, a man in a pink shirt with an empty pistol lost his nerve after commandeering an American Airlines New York-to-San Diego jet on an Oklahoma City-to-Dallas leg. He sur-rendered'himself and $200,000 in ransom and was held in $100,000 bail after a tearful court appearance in Oklahoma City. that eventually brought them an nour- down at a small airport in Lake! -Chinese proverb Jackson, about 50 miles adv. south of Houston.

They found NOW OPEN 24 HRS. A DAY themselves trapped their jetli-l Lane's -2300 Lehigh, ner out of gas, two tires blown, on a runway too short for a 727 FREE McDONALD'S HAND to take off. Puppets. McDonald's 1 721 Cedar Crest Boulevard Regan was badlv beaten by his captors before being re-Paying Bills the Costly Way? leased, and his flight Without a no charge checking Gerald Beaver, was shot and account? Kick the habit, friend, wounded. Tri-County State Bank instead.

arated skyjackings that began almost simultaneously along the nation's air lanes Wednesday night. Both ended with the sky pirates giving up, and with no loss of life. Two male crewmen on the National plane were injured by the hijackers, however. Prior to their surrender, the National hijack team sought to make a deal with the FBI the hostages and a small fortune in.

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