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It Was stairs a Long Day Up 1 uauwn Vi no- o. it- '-v. --v 001 it -v ---y 1 m. I i I I "fs -J By a 8uff Writer MIAMI BEACH A. "long day! for Sea.

nomas S. Eagletoa ended at 4 01 n. wbea he stepped into the lobby of the Ivanhoe Hotel yesterday. A long evening began. "It's beea long day up-( a i Eagletoa told the crowded lobby of the hotel where Missouri's delegation to the Democratic National Con-veatioa has beea staying.

The delegate in the lobby broke faito wild cheering when Eagletoa and Ed Quick, one of his administrative assistants, stepped oft of the elevator that had carried them from, the sixth floor and a telephone call front George McGovera. Present in the room wbea the call from McGovera was received ere Eagleton, administrative assistants Ed Filippine, Doug Beanet, aad Marvin Made-son, of St. Louis, former. chair-i mad of the iew Cemorratie Coalition. "I recognised the voice," Eagletoa told the exuberant crowd and the ring of newsmen.

He said that be is confident that Sea. Henry at. Jaeksoa of Washington, who received 48V Missouri's votes in Wednesday night's balloting for the party's presidential nominee, will work for the JfcGov-ern-Eagletoa ticket "McGovera Eagletoa I sort of like the sound of that," said Eagleton, with a broad smile, The call from HcGovern came about 3:30 p.m. (edt) from the lobby of the Ivanhoe. Eagleton then left for a meeting with the South Dakota senator.

The reaction among members of the crowd fa the lobby was one of exuberance and surprise. The reaction from Southwest Missouri delegates was one of pleasure. "Oh, It's wonderful, ss said Mrs. Neva Penv-bertoa Ifaddox, of Crane. I am very pleased.

said Newton County chairman Ker-mit Lewie of Route 2 Neosho, "that so great as honor has been accorded to Missouri la that Senator Eagletoa has beea chosen as the party's vice presidential nominee. Be definitely will enhance our state and local tickets." www "Fantastic, said Springfield attorney Gerald Lowther. Two of the happiest Spring-flrlriiani in the lobby were Doe-tor and Mrs. Harold Larie, 2440 Skyline Drive, longtime supporters and friends of Eagleton. The best trip to Florida we ever made," said a beaming Mrs.

Larie. The delegates and alternates then started questioning a member of Sen. McGovem's national staff about whether the signs were ready. I got to have the signs, the. Eagleton signs," said one young woman.

The McGovera staffer told her that they were being made up. la the mezzanine Gold Boom la the Ivanhoe a typewriter was being borrowed for the typing of the first draft of Eagleton's acceptance speech. Copies of a biographical fact sheet on Sen. Eagletoa were being run off for distribution to delegates, alternates, the press, Missouri ans, non-Missourians. anyone who wanted to know about Tom Eagleton.

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Mo. Om.1 SPRINGFIELD, MO, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 14, 1S72 THIRTY-FOUR PAGES i rv pi v-i ri fVjr TOW tli n. It McGovern Notes In Prepared Talk Aftef 21 Hours Hijack Team Yields f. (- A 'r a tf rangements behind closed doors," McGovern said. "But in a sense, however, that is how my candidacy began.

I am here as your candidate tonight in large part because during four administrations of both parties, a terrible war has been charted behind closed doors. "I want those doors opened made on primary election campaign platforms in the race that vaulted him out of the field to Democratic command. "Within 90 days of my inauguration, every American soldier and every American prisoner will be out of the jungle and out of their cells and back home in America where they belong," w. i i. WALTER R.

MEARS MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern chose Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri to be his vice presidential partner, then keynoted his campaign against President Nixon early today, vowing: "American politics will never be the same again." "To anyone in this hall or beyond who doubts the ability of Democrats to join together in rnmmnn panA 1 snv npver lin. By JIM BARLOW LAKE JACKSON, Tex.

(AP) Two air pirates surrendered at a small airfield here Thursday, ending a 21-hour marathon hijacking that began with the forced flight of a jetliner to Philadelphia where the men received a ransom, parachutes and a new plane, The two men released tare derestimate the power of Rich- a he said. UcGovern also pledged military strength, in a rebuttal to critics who have charged that his plans for defense spending cuts would weaken the nation. give you my sacred pledge that if I become president of the United States, America will keep its defenses alert See McGOVERV, Page 1 and that brutal war closed. And I make these pledges above all others the doors of government will be opened." In an acid reminder of the Republican campaign that put President Nixon in the White House, McGovern told the convention: "I have no secret pU.n for peace. I have a public plan." He then recited the pledges he hostage stewardesses, the only if Businesslike Session Held atru rsutuu oring narniuiiy ij Democratic ranks," McGovern said in his prepared speech formally accepting the nomination.

He said his was the most remarkable political organization in American history, his nomination "the gift of the most open political process in our national history." "This is a nomination of the people, and I hereby dedicate this campaign to the people," said the nominee from South Dakota, last season's political next January we will restore the government to the people. American politics will never be the same again." Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, to whom McGovern first offered the vice presidential nomination, was Paris TcDi ks Peace ieopein) jl 'A I urn a.s laiimiisiiiini is- i atak Freas Wirephota Sen. Thomas F.

Eagleton, picked by Sen. George S. McGovera to be his running mate on the Democratic ticket, waves www to applauding Missouri delegates he leaves his Miami Beach hotel Thursday. ouiCT persons sun aboard the National Airlines Jet, and left the plane holding. their hands over their beads.

The flight engineer and copilot, one suffering a gunshot wound and the other badly beaten, had left the plane esrlier. The men hijacked the first National Jet as it approached New York's Kennedy Airport Wednesday evening-: They diverted it to Philadelphia where they demanded $600,000 In U.S. currency and $20,000 in Mexican currency, as well as parachutes. They received the parachutes and an undisclosed amount of ransom, and the 113 passengers were permitted to leave the Boeing 727. But the three-engine Jet lost its electric power and a second 727 was brought to the runway for the hijackers.

They ordered that plane to Lake Jackson, 50 miles from Houston. There they were trapped. The Jet was out of fuel and two of its tires were blown out from the impact of landing. The little airport had ns jet fuel and its runway was too short for a 727 to take off from. The men made repeated demands for a small plane to fly them out One man carried a shotgun, the other a pistoL In the meantime, the FBI flew See HIJACK, Page flying to Miami to present By DAVID MASON PARIS (AP) The Vietnam McGovern to, the Democratic National Convention in a show of party solidarity.

peace conference reopened Stun Eagleton said he was flabber- Thursday after a 10-week break, with both the Communists and allies clinging to old positions. But the U.S. delegation spokesman termed the session McGovern phoned gasted the vice presidency. to offe; only eal Jsiness left for ion Jras to ratify businesslike. And the negotia visible as it was four years ago.

But it is deeper." "The second issue on which conve, nomination and nan agleton upon which Eagleton's voice will be heard. Eagleton came to Miami Beach with one of the state's at-large votes. On the critical issue of the convention he cast it the Nixon administration the iiominee whose in person political solution to the war slightly rephrasing the old Communist demands without fundamentally changing them. He insisted that the United States end support for the South Vietnamese president, Nguyen Van Thieu to permit establishment of a coalition government to be followed by a cease-fire. The U.S.

delegate, William J. Porter, reiterated the allied position fhat a cease-fire should be put info effect first and that then "political issues can be dis-cussed by the Vietnamese among themselves." "I am sure, I hope, we will be discussing this matter more," he added. See TALKS, Page 3 tauea to keep faith with thftflia- evf emblazoned in name wa tors agreed to hold a new meeting next Thursday. This reinforced speculation that a new round of secret and possibly more fruitful talks may be pending. Politburo member Le Due Tho of North Vietnam, tion is 'the economyietfl um two-foot-h ojfange letters on a with McGovern on theMorni brella term thaLrfers a range sifn hel By STEVE HILTON Staff Writer MIAMI BEACH, Fla.

Tom Eagleton leaned back in his chair. "It was mentioned, in a very general way as a possibility," said the Missouri's junior senator. A smile spread slowly across his face. It was Sunday the day before the 36th quadrenniel convention of the Democratic Party platform. credentials charonEeT in fav 5iiesjfre sail On Thursday, he would receive a telephone call from George McGovera.

"I'm flabbergasted, George," he would say. "Let ma hasten to say yes before you change your mind." www But today was Sunday. The vie e-presidential nomination was "a possibility," something that had been discussed in a "very general way." -i And so, the conversation moved to other things. It focused on national issues, issues acceptance speecn, In his McGover seise ot tne issue on who has held a series of secret which hi- g-shot presidential founded: the candidal Vietna r. meetings in the past with Henry A.

Kissinger, left Peking on Thursday en route to Paris. North Vietnamese Ambassador Xuan Thuy laid new stress "In a mocratic nation, no one lit to say that his in was to open in Miami Beach, the linkup of a military and spirati convention that would name came from secy Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton of There remains, of course, the issue of the war in Southeast Asia. "The Democratic Party must speak with a united voice on the issue of the war.

I feel confident that it will." As it turns out, it is Eagleton's voice that will be speaking more loudly than anyone else's except McGovem's. As one of the party's "new delegates," Eagleton expressed confidence that the much heralded party reforms will increase popular participation, will give the party a broader base of WEATHER OZARKS Variable cloudiness and warm with a chance of afternoon and evening than-dershewers today through Saturday. High today and Saturday near M. The low tonight te 7s. PredpiUtion probabilities 20 per cent today and 30 per cent tonight.

Missouri as a running mate for McGovern. t-i-Eagleton, relaxing in his room isclTer Lets 33i! on the 6th floor of the Ivanhoe Hotel in North Miami Beach was between a morning that In own Drain ARKANSAS eka4 cluded a media interview and an afternoon that would, include a staff meeting. imally warm, ud humid, with owns the three promoter He returned to the reporter's By STEPHENS BROEN REYKJAVIK, Iceland vcauerea inunaernower touy utrauRn Saturday. Low tonisht fct tin middle tw to low 70. High today and fiauirdaj St ttw mtdrtK SM to low KH.

KANSAS Incraaiu dosdhM weat Friday momtnK with arattcrod abowers central by afteraooB. Warmer south, cooler aortheaat with hiaha appar 10a aoath lower Sna aaat and upper SOa uortlnnet. Wiada ehtfriar ta northerly weat by lata afternoon. id they were out of meras, and hearing. O'Brien to Quit Post on Friday MIAMI BEACH (UPI) -L a O'Brien said Thursday night he had made an ust knowing they of a minority report that would have seated Chicago Mayor Richard J.

Daley, and 58 supporters and for George McGovern as the party's presidential nominee. "This is a new experience," he said, the smile returning. 'Tm one of the 'new Thomas Eagleton, then, came to his first political convention as a voting delegate during his first term in the United States Senate. Eagleton, a Roman Catholic, was elected St. Louis City circuit attorney in 1956.

He was elected Missouri Attorney General in i960. He was elected Lieutenant Governor on a ticket with Warren E. Hearnes in 1964. He became the state's junior senator in 1968. He and bis wife, Barbara, have a son, Terry, who is 13, and a daughter named Chrirtin, who is nine.

On this Sunday Eagleton's vote still was committed to Sen. Edmund' Muskie: He would be released from his commitment on Tuesday, when Muskie withdrew. The telephone call from George McGovern was still four days in the future, still "a possibility." What are the issues that could defeat Richard Nixon, the issues upon which Eagleton's voice will be heard? r. WW "The divisivenesa that characterizes so much of American life is deeper than it was In 1968," he said. "Perhaps It is not as Bobby Fischer forfeited Thursday's chess game with world champion Boris Spassky.

He stayed in his hotel room, sulking because of movie cameras thered him. Fox were said add ter: "I pity the Clearing aad cooler aorthweat Partly cloudy with cutter ed abowers or Urap-der bowers central and east Friday aliht and early Saturday. Partly (toady, leas host and cooler Saturday with Ufht aorta-arty winds. High in the mid We. OKLAHOMA Fair to partly etondy ad poor guy.

question, perhaps not satisfied that the exact nature of the initial approach by the McGovern staff was clear. "A highly-placed member of Sen. McGovem's staff mentioned the possibility of my nomination as the vice-presidential candidate. There were no promises, no commitments. The next day.

during after attel get Fischer to "unalterable" decision not to in the playing hall. His balk for the seconi chesi where he lost lot throturh Satarday with isolated lata at-fcminna and veniaa tbanderstonna. Low the first Spassky on continue ai Democratic national chairman after the end of the party's convention. Friday aieht 7S. Hifha Friday aad Wednesd ed futile.

The nUl tempera nl lerican chess Republic annexation proposal draws opposition. Page 18 Quang Tri fighting uei for third day. Page 11 Reggie Cleveland pitches Cards to 2-0 win over O'Brien, who led the debt-rid whizx eve turnedVdown an ap- noon caucusing of the Missouri den Democratic party through would be a game on Sunday as scheduled. Dr. Max Euwe, president of the chess federation FIDE said in Amsterdam that Schmid remained in charge of the match and should decide how to handle Fischer.

"Of course, if this situation continues, FIDE will consider whether to step in," he added in a television interview. "The limit has been reached and is even transgressed." The row over the cameras began early Thursday when Fischer said he couldnt play alongside them in the 2 Sports Palace. Fox, whose purchase of television and film rights for the match allowed the Icelandic chess federation to offer a record $125,000 in prize' money, said the camerai had to stay. In an attempt at compromise. peal basi responsl- delegation.

Eagleton would tell bilities ero of the ajaaraay to wa. Wnlher iata lar SprtaffleM: TEVPERATT KKS: Hishert yesterday St; lowest yesterday Ml highest this date la years 11 la 1K4! krwast thai data SB years hi 1967. PRRnPlTATION: Rata from 100 p.m. Wednesday to m. yesterday, J4; heaviest rant thai data an yaars, I Sim "os tWa momma, seta aa.

Uht I M. Leasta of aayliiht 11 hours. some of its most turbulent years and its greatest reforms, said he America! the delegates to the Democratic National Convention that he would be voting for the seating The fi re of the. would step down when the Na tional Committee meets Friday. latch, said Schmid, chief ree LotJ Braves.

Page 23 of 151 McGovern committed now dei ids on hether Fis- By tradition, the new Democratic presidential nominee, has go. oilnuKSJ. resssTaayi lemaerasara rasaamipi i 24-game schedule left score 2 to 0 in the RussaiVs favor. This' gave Spasskv powerful psychologicjorrtage over Fischer, JfMi has never beaten the chajftnon. JitpWei, one of Spassky's as-sijjfants, said Fischer's failura to appear was "a grave insult not only to the Soviet people but to the whole world." "The world champion," he added, "cannot dance to Fischer's tune." "WW Fischer knew before he came to Iceland to play for the world title that the match would be filmed.

And Chester Fox, the cher its in hist delegates from California. On the California credentials alkout a.n we right to choose his party chairman and there was specu I a.m. I a.m I a.m. I a.m. Schjsnd said th International 1 pm.

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Stuart Symington mignt oe a woman disqualify the Ameri- challenger, allowing Russia found themselves oqHhc other side of the fencs from Gov. War 7 p.m. 75 I p.m. TS p.n. a.a,.e.a 75 0 It pm.

T5 Among those mentioned were Jean Westwood, national committee worn an from Utah, and a.m. 11 am. Mooa Magazine Market, Sports ren E. Hearties and the majority a Mtan.xm to keep the world title It has held for 24 years. But at the end of the day, Schmid said there 26, 27 23, 24 Darts twrwH of the Missouri delegation.

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