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SUNRISE tvotvti TO 1(0) Kyi rew tvotvtyti sew mo TI Trf I Pa Kemiedy Demos Stae Another CSIJNRISE EDTTK )' Eyed For 2nd Spot Marathon Of Debate TAMPA, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1972 78th YEAR No. 166 FOUR SECTIONS 56 PAGES PRICE TEN CENTS drive to turn the liberal, platform to the right. They backed a bundle of eight conservative planks which seemed certain to be defeated by the confident and liberal forces of Sen. George McGovern. Clearwater attorney Norman Bie, a prominent Wallace spokesman, assailed the platform, calling it an ornamented dream which did not reflect the needs and aspirations of the average American.

Wallace seemed strong and confident as he called for minority planks that would deemphasize "exotic" elements of the platform, and call for reduction of foreign aid, bureaucracy and pandering to criminal elements that "have taken over the streets of every major city." SAYING HE spoke for the little man, the quiet middle-and low-income American who Please See Page 14, Col. 1 From Tribune Reports MIAMI BEACH Debate swirled around a McGovern-oriented platform at the Democratic National Convention early today after Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace addressed the delegates in his wheel-chair from the speaker's podium last night. Despite his urgent appeal to adopt his' conservative-leaning minority planks on such issues at Vietnam, school busing and tax and welfare reform, the convention shouted down Wallace's proposals.

School busing, withdrawal from Vietnam, a share-the-wealth tax reform plan and other issues were hotly condemned and vigorously, defended by opposing factions of delegates and party officials. In the early hours of the morning it appeared the debate and voting could continue until past sunup. Wallace backers mounted a massive Reds Down 3 U.S. Copters MIAMI BEACH (fl Sen. George McGovern strode without major challenge toward the Democratic presidential nomination yesterday as Sens.

Hubert H. Humphrey and Edmund S. Muskie bowed to his show of towering national convention strength and quit. And so, politically, the Democrats' swarming, sweltering convention resort belonged to the senator from South Dakota, longest of long-shots when he began his White House quest 18 months ago. By midevening, an Associated Press count showed Mc-Govern's delegate commitments at 1,582.05, rising from the 1,507.75 he held earlier in the evening and far beyond the majority that will choose the Democrat to challenge President Nixon.

I SIMPLEST terms, McGovern had the votes: on delegate disputes, on the platform the convention completed last night, and on the nomination itself. After a night of tumultuous political infighting that kept the Democratic National Convention in session until near dawn, it was a day of political drama. First, Humphrey of Minnesota, a presidential campaign warrior for a dozen Please See Page 5. Col. 1 V5fVi i Nixon, Dobrynin To Meet Today SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.

UP) President Nixon plans to meet today with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin on substantive East-West questions left unresolved at the recent Moscow summit. Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said yesterday Henry A. Kissinger, the President's national security affairs adviser, knew that Dobrynin and his wife were on the Coast and asked him to visit the Western White House here. Ziegler, asked to characterize the planned Nixon Dobrynin meeting, replied: "I don't want to describe it aira courtesy call." Asked if substantive matters would be discussed, Jhe, Nixon spokesman said, "Yes." He declined to elaborate.

Former Space Of fieial Breaks Leg SAIGON If) Several hundred South Vietnamese marines were dropped behind enemy lines yesterday north of Quant Tri City in heavy ground firs that knocked down three American helicopters ferrying them in. Field reports said the marines came under immediate fire as they moved out of the clearing where the helicopters landed. "Initial a i on the ground was hot as the South Vietnamese marines moved off the helicopters and onto the offensive," a U.S. 7th Fleet announcement said. THE SAIGOK' command claimed 128 North Vietnamese troops were killed with support for U.S.

fighter-bomber, at a cost of 28 marines dead and 68 wounded, field reports said a fourth U.S. helicoj-may have been downed, but no confirmation. U.S. Marines from 7th Fleet carriers flew the ferry helicopters, landing under escort of U.S. Army Cobra helicopter gunships.

The crews of two of the downed helicopters were rescued uninjured, but two crewmen and a South Vietnamese aboard the third were wounded, the command reported. In a report delayed by search and rescue operations, the U.S. Command disclosed that a Marine A6 ps shot down last Friday 33 miles west-southwest of Quang Tri in the Khe Sanh near the Laotian border. The two crewmen were listed as missing. Radio Hanoi claimed in an earlier broadcast that one of them was captured, The area the marines as- Please See Page 4, Col.

1 1v ft. fry. i 1 'yr-f-'-y SEATTLE, Wash. () Dr. Gene Simmons, former chief scientist for the space agency's Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, was reported in satisfactory condition in a Seattle hospital where he was taken Tuesday after breaking his leg in a fall on an Alaskan icefield.

A hospital spokesman said Simmons will undergo tsnir; gery later for correction of the fracture of his upper leg. Simmons was airlifted to Seattle from Juneau after, accident. A spokesman said Simmons was a member of a research team working on the Taku Glacier near Juneau. The spokesman said the team was working on experiments in preparation for the December launching of Apollo 17. yr'-y iff I 4 J' If GfVl pii TTq Reds Level Chemical War Charge Features Astrology 12-IV Business 3-B Classified 6-19-C Comics 8, 9-IV Crossword 2-IV Editorials 12-A Financial 3-7-B Fishing 4-C Goren on Bridge 12-IV Graham 4-IV Landers 3-IV Sylvia Porter 11-A Sports 1-5-C Theaters 7-1V Television 6-IV Van Dellen 2-IV Wishing Well 2-IV Women 3-IV HONG KONG The Viet Cong accused the United.

Uphill Battle Play-by-play on H-1V. P.EYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) World champion Excited Lec Wallace, 11, Watches Proceedings her father appeared at the convention last night. (AP) Mandatory Filing Fees Abolished Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union capitalized on an error by U.S. Grand master Bobby Fischer and gave him only hope for a draw last night when the opening game of the world championship chess match was adjourned after AVz hours of play. The adjournment until 5 p.m.

(1 p.m. EDT) today came after 40 moves of the first game on the 24-game match and gave Spassky, 35, Please See Page 4, Col. 4 States today of using lethal "toxic chemical" bombs and ar-; tillery shells that "killed hundreds and sickened in Communist-occupied areas of Quant Tri and Thua Thien provinces in northern South Vietnam. The charge, made by the Viet Cong's Foreign Ministry' and broadcast by Radio Haoi, said the "toxic bombs and shells were used July 8-10 in bombing supporting South Vietnamese attempts to recapture Quang Tri and, siuV rounding areas. Pitcher Relieved, Bolts Prison KINGSTON, Ont.

(i Five of 14 convicts who escaped; from maximum security Millhaven prison were back in cus-; tody last night leaving nine escapees at large. All were! described as dangerous. Police used tracking dogs and spotter planes to scour dense bush north of the prison in one of the biggest manhunts in Ontario history. The prisoners cut their way through? a double chain-link fence and escaped Monday night after a softball game in the prison yard. 'C Among the escapees was the Millhaven pitcher, who jvas relieved after five innings in the 10-2 loss to the Portsmouth Petes of the Circle Softball League.

He was still at large last night. A Portsmouth player who touched the Millhaven pitcher, 32-year-old Richard Smith, for a home run and two singles, said after the game: "I wouldn't say he was jittery. However, I don't think he was himself." The Portsmouth player, Murray Black, said he remarked to Smith that he'd see him at the next game and "He didn't answer, but sort of grinned." Court Opens Political Races To Poor ing for upcoming elections, followed arguments in four cases pending before the court, challenging the assessment of five per cent of one year's salary for the office sought. THE DECISION is expected to have far-reaching effects on elections in the state and By TERRY ROGER? Tribune Staff Writer A three-judge federal court in Tampa ruled yesterday that Florida's filing fee system for office seekers is unconstitutional in cases involving indigent candidates. The decision, which came during the first day of qualify may be appealed to the U.S.

Supreme Court. The court said that the filing fee was "reasonable in all respects," but only for those who could afford it. An alternative procedure, requiring an indigent to sign an affidavit stating under oath he cannot pay the fee thout undue hardship, would be required before the office seeker could circulate a petition. Statewide office seekers would be required to collect 10,000 signatures on a petition, while other candidates would be required to collect between 100 and 3,000 names. The alternative procedure was supplied to the court, under court order, by Deputy Attorney General Barry Richard, who argued the state's case before the court.

MUCH OF THE argument centered around a Supreme Court case which overturned the filing fee system in Texas. Please See Page 14, Col. 4 Today's Chuckle "I don't mind men who kiss and tell," the girl said. "At my age I need all the advertising I can get' Sees Coalition Of Dissatisfied People Askew Tells Nation Demos Must Unite A ti "Pfriiff 7111 By JACK GREENE Tribune Staff Writer MIAMI BEACH Florida Gov. Reubin Askew told the nation last night the Democratic Party must take the lead in a coalition of protest that is sweeping the nation.

Askew said in his nationally televised keynote address to the Democratic National Convention the coalition includes "black and white, young and old, North and South, right and left, some of the rich, most of the poor, and millions of overtaxed and overcharged middle income Americans as well." SUCH A COALITION has the potential for unity and progress if it holds together, Askew said. And he suggested some goals for it: "We can do away with dollar democracy and government by the few and fight again and again for public financing of presidential election campigns. "We can do away with those secret documents and secret meetings which only serve to protect the politician, and close the public out of the public's own affairs. "We can work for a day in which the only political favors are those between the elected and the electors. "We can fight the battle for tax reform as it's never been fought before, and let others talk of waiting until next year.

"We can pursue the right of every person to decent health and medical care, regardless of economic condition. "We can remind those in power, and remind ourselves as well, that the people don't exist for the economy; the economy exists for the people." ASKEW ALSO told the Democratic delegates they should share in the blame for the country's ills and go after the causes and eliminate "political hypocrisy" from the party in the 1970s. "But we can do more than that. We can give this coalition of protest a leader, and we can stand by that leader, whoever he or she might be time has come to stop talking about an American dream, and start listening to the dreams of Americans." Among those "dreams" Askew ticked off were peace abroad and at home, a shift of emphasis from gross national product to human happiness, less work for some and Please See Page 14, Col. 6 Tribune Photo by Bill Lamneck Gov.

Askew Exhorts Democratic Delegates greeted by many rounds of applause. (AP).

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