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The Tampa Tribune from Tampa, Florida • 61

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News and Classified Section TAMPA, FLORIDA, SUM)AY, MARCH 26, 1972 Mfiy Trigger Party Roiv I Cubans Fight Miami Reform Proposal. Over Red Ship THE TAMPA TRIBUNE AND Would Cop Elect Demo Unit olicy presidential candidate from among a 1 iff's officers and Miami police in riot gear set up barricades a good distance away from the Kurchatov. A small crowd of Cuban pickets were joined by some 100 other men, women and children. WITNESSES SAID violence erupted as five or six Russians, including a woman, were escorted from the ship by police to a place near the barricades. One Cuban attempted to spit on the visitors and was pushed back by police, the witnesses said.

Other exiles than began to push and shout, pounding on police cars with their fists and waving a large Cuban flag. When police tried to restore order, the pushing and shoving broke into fisticuffs and police used their long wooden clubs. The five men arrested were hauled into a police van where they sat until the port closed at 5 p.m. and the crowd dispersed. They were then taken downtown and booked.

MIAMI Cuban exiles demonstrating against the Miami visit of a Soviet oceanographic research ship clashed briefly with police yesterday. Five refugees were arrested and charged with assault and battery and obstructing police officials. THE INCIDENT took place at the Miami docks, about 200 yards from where the 404-foot Academician Kurchatov docked after its arrival earlier yesterday for a four-day stay. The vessel's 170-man crew and scientific staff are here to participate in a series of conferences with officials of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA. About the time Russian Professor Vladimir G.

Kort was welcoming newsmen aboard the sleek, modern vessel, a number of exiles were peppering the sides of the white ship with tomatoes. Shortly afterward, Dade County Sher mission on party structure and delegate selection. Both panels were established in 1968 to draft reforms that would avert a repetition of the turmoil that marred the last convention in Chicago. THEIR latest idea, which would require approval of this summer's convention at Miami Beach, contains the seeds of conflict for a convention already facing fights over delegate selection and nomination of a WASHINGTON (UPI-A new Democratic reform proposal yesterday for overhaul of the party's structure, centered on creation of an annual, elected policymaking conference, raises the possibility of yet another divisive battle at the Democratic National Convention in July. The proposal was made by Reps.

James G. O'Hara of Michigan, chairman of the party rules commission, and Donald M. Fraser of Minnesota, 'chairman of the com crowded field of contenders. They suggested that a policy conference attended by elected delegates, all Democratic members of Congress, governors and other state and party officials, meet annually to update the party platform, alternately on a regional and a national basis. In every fourth year, the conference Please See Page 28, Col.

1 4M Berlin Wall To Open For Western Visits DO 0 D' 4 iSi'. J. oaaaDaa 11 it'' oficer said, "he was a Com-; munist youth organization zealot." An East Berlin mother of. two born in the West, trapped by the wall and love in the East, recalled how a visit by her mother turned into a nightmare. "She lost her identity card at the border," she said.

"We spent most of the 24 hours she was with us try-; ing to find it." Despite the risk, the mother left her dancrhtpr SO marks in West By HUBERT J. ERB BERLIN The Berlin wall opens Wednesday and a flood tide from among West Berlin's 2.2 million is expected to flow East in the eight-day pass period over Easter. Not since 1966 have there been seasonal wall passes. West Berliners without blood kin among East Berlin's 1.1 million people have been shut out since 1961. All West Berliners have been barred from the East German countryside since 1952.

Their trip will mark the greatest get-together of East and West since Germany and Berlin were forcibly divided in 1961. Telephone lines ran hot, telegrams increased by more WbCKOM IP your nationality." This was considered a victory by West Berlin for integration within the German national whole, the city's people fearing they would be turned down unless they wrote "West Berliner." MANY WERE uncertain what awaits them once they get through the wall. Hardship passes, issued regularly for family emergencies in East Berlin, make it possible to chart what it is like when Easterner meets Westerner after years of separation. A journeyman Western chimney sweep told of finding long-haired youths, mod and pop culture-oriented like himself, in the East "I still like my old East Berlin neighborhood," he said. "I miss it and the people." His former schoolmates envied him most for his shiny new car.

A West Berlin police officer said his 21-year-old nephew besieged him to find a way for the youth to reach the West. "When I saw him last, before the wall," the Germany money with which to buy items in a special "in-tershop" that carries em goods for Western money only. Academician Kurchatov, Russian Ship, Set Off Cuban, Jewish Miami Protests five Cuban Exiles were arrested as fisticuffs broke out during demonstration (AP) A Communist party functionary, a soccer buff, tells colleague from West Berlin, in to cover a game: "There is not much difference in the way we live. I have a vision set, I sent the boy out for beer. We watch soccer.

The boy wants to play for the Volksarmee Club when he is." drafted, like I did. Maybe against a West German team. Why not?" than 100 per cent, the mails Hii were flooded in preparation for a reunion long desired. City officials, advising citizens on how to fill out Eastern application forms, said, "Write German where it asks U.S. Joins Russians See Church Role Guards Taiwan Clouded As Easter NEWSMAKERS Games hmmm mm long troubled the faithful in this country governed under a philosophy which condemned religion as an opiate.

Understandably, organized religion has lost ground under Communist rule. JUST HOW MANY believers the Russian church can now in the Soviet Union is unknown. Churchmen speak casually of 50 million. When pressed they admit there is no sure count and the figure could be half that many among the country's some 225 million inhabitants. Similarly, the number of operating churches is not off i-" dally reported.

Estimates run around 8,000, for a country Please Turn To Page 28, Col. 1 name of a Nobel Prize laureate, author Alexander Sol-zhenitsyn. Addressed to Patriarch Pimen, it was circulated by Solzhenitsyn's sympathizers in the flimsy copies of the Soviet press. So far the Moscow patriarchate has not acknowledged receiving the letter. And the a i i n-minded Russian church continued without comment to hold Lenten services looking toward the rich liturgy of the Orthodox Easter on 9.

From small, golden-domed parish churches to the ornate Yelokhovsky Cathedral, believers chanted and prayed without indication they had ever heard of Solzhenitsyn's challenge to Pimen. The issues he raised have MOSCOW UP) An old controversy over the role of religion under communism has seized the Holy Russian Orthodox Church in the midst of its preparations for Easter. How far can the church submit to the controls of an atheist government and still remain a valid church? Do heavy restrictions on its teaching, publications and ability to reach out to the unchurched condemn it to eventual disappearance? Is martyrdom preferable to a ministry restricted by alien Communist authority? THESE QUESTIONS, never far beneath the surface for most Russian scholars, were raised this week by an eloquent letter bearing the i TAIPEI (DPD A special task force of the U.S. Army from Okinawa and National- 'ist Chinese soldiers has been engaged in a joint war maneuver in southern Taiwan, 'a nationalist military spokes- man said yesterday. He said the of American troops involved in the war game was less than 100, but he would not disclose the number of participating Nationalist soldiers.

The spokesman said this kind of joint maneuver has been held yearly for many years, but it was much smaller in scale this year. tPli llllif Pay Flap COLUMBUS, Ohio (UPI) -Guards at the Ohio Penitentiary and the Chilli-cothe Correctional Institute reported sick or left work after complaining of illness yesterday in a pay dispute with the administration of Gov. John J. Gilligan. "They can stay home until they are well enough to work for this administration," said Warden Harold Cardwell of the state penitentiary.

CARDWELL SAID 83 of 185 day guards and 50 of 135 night guards left their jobs. Gov. John J. Gilligan said Friday night he does not believe guards at the penitentiary should receive "hazard" pay if guards at other institutions do not. "They'll either have to accept what the governor said or find another job, Cardwell said.

At Chillicothe, pickets in front of the institution told guards to stay away. "WE HAVE ABOUT 40 guards on duty at this time," said acting Superintndent Michael D. Marsino. "Our normal complement is 50, but of the 40 on the job many are holdovers from last night. Cardwell said he could handle the 1,900 penitentiary inmates with the guards he had on duty.

The prisoners have been kept in their cells since Wednesday. She'll Join Daleys Margaret Ann Corbett of Pittsburgh shown radiantly happy prior to her marriage to Richard M. Daley, son of Chicago Mayor Daley, Ripon Society Picks Romney Top GOP Man GEORGE ROMNEY, Housing and Urban Development secretary, was named "Republican of the Year" yesterday by the Ripon Society, a Republican research and policy organization. The society cited Romiey's achievements in the areas of new housing, metropolitan planning and federal revenue sharing with state and local governments. "Most important, however, George Romiey has faced the crucial social problems of our generation the polarization between the poor black central cities and the affluent white suburbs," the society said.

Lionel TrIUiHg, New York literary critic, was awarded the Alexander Hamilton Medal by the Association of the Alumni of Columbia College yesterday at the Dean's Day convocation on the University's Morningside Heights campus. Trilling, author, critic, cultural historian and Columbia University professor, was cited as "one of the nation's foremost literary critics and one of the finest teachers of our time." He has been a faculty member at Columbia since 1931, and a full professor since 1948. His doctoral dissertation was his first published book, "Matthew Arnold," in 1939. BOBBY FISHER, U.S. chess champion, has informed Reykjavik, Iceland, offi- cials he will not play the second half of his world title match against the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky in Iceland, the president of the local chess association said yesterday.

Gudmundur G. Thorarinsson said the International Chess Federation should tackle the problem. Fischer had requested a changes in financial conditions for the match and was turned down by both Reykjayik and Belgrade, Yugoslavia. The two cities have been named as sites for the match. -y i -V.

l' Nixon Friend Says Foul In Airline Row SACRAMENTO, Cal. (UPI) A staff attorney for the state public utilities commission says the commission last year blocked him from trying to prove that San Diego financier C. Azrnholt Smith illegally controls Golden West Airlines. Staff attorney Bernard Peeters said he was prepared to prove that claim last fall but was not permitted to. do by the commission.

Smith, a millionaire entrepreneur who is a friend of President Nixon, has been subpoenaed to appear as a witness before the CivU Aeronautics Board. JOHN G. CHAFEE Secretary of Navy, said yesterday selection boards meetings next month will consider which Navy woman captain will become the first lady admiral. Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird said this week there will be a woman ad- miral within six months.

Asked about this, Chafee said he has ordered that the Navy "formulate plans for the selection of a woman admiral at the earliest pos- sible date." REP. HASTINGS KEITH, whose congressional district was carved up by a heavily Democratic legislature last year, announced yesterday he would not seek re-election. Keith, 56, a veteran of 14 years in the House, said in a brief statement, "I will not be a candidate for Congress in 1972. I am announcing this now so that others who might seek the seat will have sufficient campaign time." "Mm. ul i I i -1, Low Unemployment JERUSALEM LB A new program of unemployment benefits will hardly make a dent in the national budget.

A Labor Ministry spokesman said, "The problem in Israel is not unemployment, but finding enough people to fill the jobs." Chicks, That Airit Ma's Two baby chicks are bewildered ostrich at Lion Country Safari near by the size of their Easter egg. They Irvine, Calif. (AP) didn't know it was the work of an.

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