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REFORM TAKES OVER Moines Tribune Page 6 TW. July II, Around the Democrats I V35Jw--f ht Fill hm f- ,,,1 fZ 4 i- f.f 1 1 "rz, 4- I if tv xA 1 1 7, Turning By George Kpntora (Nrxrft American KfwoAppr Alliance) MIAMI BEACH. FLA. The Democratic National Convention now in session here is unlike any of the 35 party conventions that have preceded it since 1928. A single comparison with the convention of only four years ago tells the story: In 1972, 86 per cent of the approximately 3.100 delegates here are attending a party convention for the first time.

In 19fiS, prior to sweeping Democratic party reform, 45 per cent (almost half) of the delegates were repeaters from prior conventions. What this means is emphasized in the final report, just out. of the party's commission on party structure and delegate selection after 41 months of work: "Shifting the historic concept of a system from one of tight, central control to open participation by party rank-and-file members constitutes a virtual political revolution." This shift, and the subsequent revolution, were started in 1963 when the Democratic con-! vention voted two actions. One created the commission to study the party's system of se- lecting delegates, to develop Chess Giants Ready for First Game REYKJAVIK. ICELAND iAPj American challenger Bobby Fischer and Russian defender Boris Spassky finally were to begin play at noon.

Iowa time, in the richest and most publicized world chess championship of all time unless some new snag develops. Las t-minute adjustments were being made on the stage of Reykjavik's 2.500-seat sports hall. The playing table was shortened, the green-and-white marble chessboard constructed for the fourth time, and the overhead lighting changed. But these were small details compared to the tangled negotiations and war of nerves that preceded the encounter, originally set to start July 2. Spassky.

35, drew the white chessmen and with them the first move. Fischer, of Knwklyn. X.Y.. had Ihp black pieces. One game will be played each Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, after Monday's starting game.

National prestige was at stake for the defending Russian The Soviet Union subsidizes chess and has dominated the game for decades. Fischer is the first non-Russian to make it to the finals since 1943. For Fischer, it. is a question of money and personal prestige, of proving his claim that he is the best in the world. London oddsmakers rated the lanky American grandmaster the favorite to win the 24-game.

two-month competition and capture more than $180,000 of some at stake. The winner gets five-eighths' of the $125,000 put up by the Icelandic Chess Federation, or $78,125. plus another $75,000 of the $120,000 provided by London investment banker James Sla-ler to persuade Fischer to end his holdout last week. Organ-1 i.ers calculate Fischer and Xonsskv will divide at least $55,000 from the sale of television and film rights. What Will Spasshy Do With Prize? re "Hi if KENNEDY STAYS IN MASSACHUSETTS Senator Edward M.

Kennedy, remaining neutral in the Democratic party selection of a presidential candidate, and Ethel Kennedy, widow of Senator Robert Kennedy, head for the pier and an afternoon nf boating at Hyannis Port, Mass. They were joined by other members of the Kennedy clan, including 17 children, on an afternoon cruise. new and Democratic proce-wnose chief sopkesman, AFL-dures for such selection, and to CIO President George Meany. aid state party units to meet has little good to say of the new standards. The other McGovern.

required that party members This reflects the fact that the have a "full and timely" oppor- party, in its transition to re-tunity to participate in the se- form that is well on the way to lection of delegates. completion, is consciously Some of the results of these reaching toward a broad geo- VEVVVG FRE FIGHTERS Sheila Woods. 9. and her sisler, I'atly, 111. daughters of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Woods of Des Moines, watch firemen at work after being roused from their room Monday morning at the New Tower Hotel Courts in Omaha, Neb. Five persons sustained minor injuries in (he three-alarm blaze. Reprimand to Apollo 15 Crew For Deal on Moon Envelopes N. Ireland Rocked by Gun Battles BELFAST, NORTHERN IRE LAND (AP) Militant Prot- estants Tupsdav threatened to' Stake the offensive in Northern Ireland as gun battles and bomb explosions rocked the province.

The Protestant Ulster De tense Association (UD A), which it can put 40,000 armed1 mfm intn fh hn pmrl if (hn uitu hum mc itciu, acuu 11 uic British do not crush the Roman i Catholic guerrillas of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), the! association will take the offen-; sive against the IRA and do its! "level best to eliminate and de-i stroy it." lne British government pushed 1,800 more troops into the province in preparation for the traditionally explosive summer season of Protestant parades 1 i i i act. are detailed by Robert Nelson, staff director of the nAmmn ah "Tm 10CO IS rf tUn states nao no one unner in their delegations. This time around, every single delegation even including the tiny ones tu of 30. "In 1968. lfi of the 50 states had no blacks.

This time, you'll find only six. and in every such case the black population (nf the state involved) is less than one per cent." The final report of Nelson's commission, once headed try Senator George McGovern, the ot a single Georgia district, front-running candidate for the: "in Arizona. 37.000 Demo-presidential nomination, and (0k part in legislative now headed by Representative! district caucuses, as con-Donald Fraser of Minnesota, trasted with five persons in shows that 38 per cent of the that state who chose the dcle-1972 delegates are women, 21 per cent are under 30, 15 per i ui nont And 20 million people partic- cen are black, four pel cent 1 1 tpa ed in the Democratic presi- celebrating historic events in out when this is over." the centuries of Protestant-' "He's in a tough job. a posi-Catholic warfare in Northern i tj0n where he can't please any-Ireland. The first parade is body," Ribicoff said Monday.

Wednesday. "Larry indicated to me that, rpu iL i.i.il i i- i llle lennoiceineiiis onug me nnA "soo io io.mm men. uie oig- gest it has been in the three years of communal turmoil. In the wake of the collapse Sunday night of the IRA cease-fire, army headquarters reported 232 shooting incidents in Belfast between 8 a.m. Monday and 4:40 a.m.

Tuesday. British troops were involved 146 of the shoot-outs and claimed they killed or wounded 15 gunmen. Protestants and Catholics fought in the other clashes. The hooded body of a murdered man in his 20s was found near the center of Belfast, shot Wirephoto (AP) in the chest and head. He was the 414th confirmed fatality in the three years of communal warfare, the seventh since the cease-fire ended and the twenty-third since it began two weeks ago.

Most of the latter were murdered similarly, apparently settling old scores. Bombs damaged stores, of- fi.rtc onH linir-c in thmp of Belfast. Hying glass mjuren five persons. Other explosions wrecked property in Londonder- rVi strahane, Maghersfclt and nn nlll O'Brien to Ollit Dpmnrrat Post MIAMI BEACH. FLA.

(API Senator Abraham Kibicott ot Connecticut says Democratic National Committee Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien has had enough "and would like to get ne a naa enougn ana wouia iik i. i 10 gei oui arier inis is over. Senator George McGovern, leader in the race to be the presidential nominee of the party in convention here, has said he would keep O'Brien on if the chairman wanted to continue. i O'Brien has said only that he I has made no commitments.

1977 Church Parley MEMPHIS, TENN. (API -Memphis has been selected by the more than 10,000 registered messengers of the Southern Baptist Convention for its 1977 meeting which will be the 115th annual convention. DEMAND FF SET AT SALE PRICE 50 OFF) (if available with set) or your Across The Tracks To Elm .90 Days No Interest WASIIINGTON, C. iAPi -The space agency disciplined the three Apollo 15 astronauts a for carrying 4110 unauthorized postal covers to the moon and hack last July and then fuming 100 of them over to an acquaintance in West Germany. The I IK) moon-stamped envelopes later apparently were sold to stamp collectors for $1,500 each, said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

The other unauthorized envelopes were confiscated and are impounded at NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. "Stress" NASA said after an investigation that astronauts David Scott. Alfred Wordcn and James Irwin "exercised poor! judgment in their action." "Therefore they will he Cosmos 500 Up-Russia Tells Feats MOSCOW, RUSSIA (AIM -The Soviet news agency Tass Tuesday listed sonic of the scientific projects undertaken by its 10-year-old series of Cosmos unmanned space flights. Cosmos 500 was launched Monday. Missions have included gathering design ideas for manned spaceships, testing space communications systems and meas uring the hazards of radiation and meteors to long manned llights, Tass said.

Cosmic Kays The purpose of the Cosmos series up to now has been described vaguely as exploration of outer space and scientific observation. Tass said nothing aboul espionage missions (hat Western experts believe are carried out by Cosmos satellites. The Cosmos program "includes a study of cloud systems in the Earth's atmosphere, short wave radiation of the sun, concentration of charged particles in the ionosphere, the reprimanded and their actions will be given due consideration in their selection for future assignments," the agency said. Dr. George Low.

NASA deputy administrator, commented: "Astronauts are under extreme stress in the months preceding a flight to the moon, and their poor judgment in carrying the unauthorized covers must be considered in this light. "Nonetheless, NASA cannot condone these actions." NASA said it had learned that the Apollo 15 crew had agreed at one time to provide 100 covers to the acquaintance in return for establishment of a "trust fund" for their children. "After the covers had been! given to the acquaintance, how ever, they realized on their own that this was improper, and declined to accept cither Earth's radiation hell, cosmic rays and the magnetic field of this planet," Tass said. "It also provides for the! study of the effects of meteorite material on spacecraft de-! sign and characteristics of radio-wave propagation. Special sections of the program deal with medical-biological problems and improvement of spacecraft design." 1 Dogs Aboard Listing achievements of indi-! vidnal satellites, Tass said Cos mos 97 helped test a molecular quantum generator making il possible to contact and control other spacecraft and transmit informal ion over great dis- lances.

The "biological satellite," Cosmos 110. carried two dogs, Veterok and Ugolyok, to observe the effect of weightlessness and high radiation levels on living things. Cosmos 15fi and 2.10 were described as "automatic obscrv- alories" orbited lo study the sun's X-ray and ultraviolet radiation to develop a method for forecasting solar radiation i dangers. Cosmos 2til studied the Earth's upper atmosphere and polar lights in co-operation with observatories in several friendly countries. mum I til l.

iljOIIIOII '(- Corresponding figures for four years ago were 13 per cent women, four per cent youth, 5.5 per cent black and virtually no Spanish-speaking delegates. "What we've done is turn it around," says Nelson. "It's the democratic process for the first time the way this has attracted kids is fantastic. It has given the party a legitimacy it didn't have before." And Representative James OTIara of Michigan, chairman of the party's commission on rules that was a major factor in the reforms, observers: "I wouldn't be surprised that the Republicans will be forced to do the same thing." One result of the reforms and the concomitant effort to elect delegates from the con-gressinnal district level or smaller is that few members of the party's office-holders are delegates. Nelson says 41 members of the House of Representatives, 17 senators and "18 or 20" governors are delegation members.

(rumbling These numbers have caused some grumbling from Democrats in Congress, for example, and also from organzied labor, a traditionally effective ment of the party and one 3 MORE DAYS" CONTINUED BY Wireohoto (AP) jthe trust fund or the alternative offer of stamps in exchange for the 100 postal covers," NASA said. I Souvenirs The Apollo 15 crew, like those on earlier moon missions, had i NASA's permission, within established procedures, to carry personal souvenir-type items, including some postal covers. The permission was granted I with the condition that the articles be retained by the astronauts or be given to personal I friends. They were not lo be 'used for commercial or fund-raising purposes or personal gain, NASA said. On Apollo 15.

the astronauts were authorized to carry 2.12 of 'the specially stamped envelopes with markings showing they had made the round trip to the 'moon. The 400 unauthorized (overs were carried in addition to the approved envelopes. Smoking Costs Railroad $500 ST. PAUL, MINN. (AP) -Smokinc brought a $500 fine Monday in Municipal Couil at St.

Paul. The fine was paid by! the Milwaukee Road, accused of excessive smoke from locomo-; live stacks. The railroad had been charged with two counts of air pollution, The complaint was signed by liichard Chinander of the Paul Public Utilities Depart-j ment, who issued fags to two engineers June 19 after hoi checked on operations of diesel engines in a switching yard. A representative of the railroad entered guilty pleas to both counts, and Municipal Court Judge J. Clifford James levied the $500 fine.

Pulitzer Winner Dies BRIDGEPORT, CONN. iAPi Lauren D. Lvman, Rl, a re- tired vice-president of United I Aircraft Corp. and a Pulitzer i Prize winner, died Tuesday. He! won the prize for a study on the i Charles Lindbergh lamily fol-! lowing kidnaping and killing of the Lindbergh's infant son.

IN AND 1 A.M.-8 P.M. i POPULAR graphical representation that to reduce the influence of lt sucn oia "crnocraiic guPs as iabnr and the south and party hierarchy, Georgia 1U i Some further remarks tnei by Nelson are pertinent to mat, point. "In 28 convention no nv. says, we had an estimated 600.000 people participate in mass meeting caucuses. In 196R.

one person (the governor, through the state chairman) chose all Georgia delegates. This year, there were 6,000 per- iing yan incv.aui.ua dential primaries in some! 1 cases, twice 1968 the numbers in "The basic thing we are trying to do is bring together the three elements we think have to be brought together if you're going to have a national party elected public officials, elect- ed party officials, and grass-: roots representation." So far, that basic effort has been entirely successful. Iti; will have to be, many Dcmo-' crats feel, if they are to have a chance of deposing President Nixon in November. Hunt Clues In Girl's Death NAPERV1LLE. ILL.

(AP) -Police continued to sift meager clues Tuesday in the slabbing death of a former Iowa girl, 15-vear-old Julie Hanson of Naper-viile. Miss Hanson's body was found Saturday in a cornfield near the outskirts of the city. Will County Coroner Willard Blood said after an autopsy that the girl had been stabbed several times i in the back, neck and chest. The girl's parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Jerome Hanson, safd they last saw her alive when she left home on a bicycle Friday. The Hansons formerly lived in Perry, Iowa. GORDON VonM L.liiiUTiil; GORDONS half-gallon. wKBm I I III i i I 1 rr-n I 3 II I MOSCOW, RUSSIA (AP) -What can Boris Spassky do with the money he gets in the chess championship fight? The winner in Reykjavik. Iceland, will get something in the neighborhood of $180,000, including a cut on television and movie rights.

The loser will take home around $120,000. The normal procedure for a Soviet citizen who comes into a wad of dollars is for him to exchange them for certificates that enable him to buy in special Soviet stores. He also can open a foreign bank account or import Western commodities. Cellist Mslislav Rostropovich bought a Mercedes Ben, car with some of his earnings from playing abroad. Viktor liaturiiisky, director of the Chess Club of the Snviel Union indicated that some of Spassky 's money would go to the club.

Sparse Data On Red Session MOSCOW, RUSSIA (AP) -The top-level meeting of Communist-bloc premiers of I lie Council for Mutual Kconomic Assistance- Comccon- went into its second day Tuesday at the council's Moscow headquarters. The Soviet media issued only sparing reports on Monday's opening session that was conducted in a "businesslike, comradely atmosphere, according to I'ravda. Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin opened the session. For the first lime the premier of Yugoslavia. Dzemal Bijedic.

attended Ihe session an indica lion of closer Soviet-Yugoslav lies following President B. Tilo's visit to the Soviet Union in June. Reagan Hopes Viet Not Issue MADRID. SPAIN' iAPi Cov. Ronald Reagan of California said Tuesday he hopes the Vietnam war will not be an issue in this year's U.S.

elections and that "before Nov. 7 comes around, it is closer to an end." Calling Vietnam a tragedy President Nixon inherited. Reagan said he saw no conflict in the administration's policy of reducing ground forces In South Vietnam while bombing North Vietnam. Reagan is on a Fiiropenn lour for Mr. Nixon and will deliver a personal message from The President to Cm.

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