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I ir-AnTl AMH yynwi.g -a a trm. jftA'w WM.w.qjj fir: A' I Polk Delays Action on creating health planning council, 1-B. Wales Housing Project units to get first tenants Monday, 1-B. TAMPA TRIBTO TH Partly Cloudy Data on Page 2-A Heartland 7 Days Home Delivery 85 Cents PRICE TEN CENTS 78th YEAR No. 166 FOUR SECTIONS 60 PAGES TAMPA, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1972 Sees Coalition Of Dissatisfied People Askew Tells Nation Demos Must Unite ft III III 'in 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 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 per-.

son 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 By JACK GREENE Tribune Staff Writer MIAMI BEACH Florida Gov. Reubin Askew tdld 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 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 Tribune Photo by Bill Lamneck Gov. Askew Talks With Newsman at convention hall in Miami Humphrey, Muskie Drop Out Democrats rip ate oimm nn Sen. cjrovern i oama 1 -1 rl Kennedy Eyed For Demos Launch Bitter Fight Over Platform 2nd Spot fc III I 'S MIAMI BEACH Wl Democratic National Convention delegates headed into a second turbulent, marathon session last night to endorse a McGovern-oriented platform urging immediate withdrawal from Vietnam and spread-the-wealth tax reforms. A major clash was over school busing for racial balance.

This and other potential roll-call votes seemed to guarantee a 12-hour or longer session lasting until breakfast time today. Backers of Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace mounted a massive drive to turn the liberal, platform to the right. They backed a bundle of eight conservative dissenting planks.

These seemed sure to be defeated by the confident and liberal forces of Sen. George McGovern. WALLACE'S campaign manager said the governor will appear at the convention and will personally urge the convention to accept his views. Wallace has been paralyzed from the waist down since he was shot by a would-be assassin on May 15 and will enter the convention hall in a wheel chair. The Wallace package alone guaranteed almost three hours of abrasive debate.

And the platform proceedings did not even begin until after the 1972 keynote address by Gov. Reubin Askew of Florida and a report on the convention Rules Committee. Already-weary convention staffers were relieved, some conceded, that the party's squabbles over such sensitive dissenting planks as full rights for homosexuals and the right of women to decide for themselves about abortions would be delayed until after the prime-time television-viewing hours. A FIGHT WAS assured over the Platform Committee's draft plank on Vietnam, which pledges "as the first order of busi- Please See Page 14, Col. 1 MIAMI BEACH U) 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 abd quit. And so, politically, 'ithe Democrats' swarming, sweltering convention resort belonged to the senator irom 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. IN 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 the Democratic National Con-vention in session until near lawn, it was a day of political irama. First, Humphrey of Minnesota, a presidential campaign warrior for a dozen Please See Page S. Col.

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Labor chiefs may sit out Lf a JL Ihe electioD, 10-A. t7. 0. ijODieVS Astrology 12-IV Business 3-B Classified 6-19-C ctTrt Comics 8 9-IV AI00N Several Vietnamese marines moved Crossword 2-IV hundred South Vietnamese off the helicopters and Editorials 12-A marines were dropped behind to the offensive," said a 7th Financial Z-7-B enemv lines north of Quang Fleet announcement. Fishing 4-C Tri Citv yesterday, and Goren on Bridge 12-IV ground fire was so heavy it THE CREWS from two Graham 4-IV knocked down three American downed helicopters were re-Landers 3-IV helicopters that flew them in.

scued, the U.S. Command Sylvia Porter 11-A The helicopters, flown by reported but the fate of those Sports U-S- Marines from 7th Fleet aboard the third was not Theaters 7-IV carriers, made their landings known. Field reports said a Television 6-IV under escort of U.S. Army fourth ship may have been Van Dellen 2-IV Cobra helicopter gunships. downed on the same mission.

Wishing Well 2-IV "Initial action on the It was not known here Women 3-IV ground was hot as the South whether the helicopters had dropped off their loads of government troops before they were hit. 1 "I I .1 A government military 1QO PT spokesman said he had no re- XOvXJ.JL JL W-VVO port the marines had made contact with the enemy, and no casualty reports were I ITl ill i 1 I ne area the marines as VJ LfxXXXX A-FCXlLXV saulted is about Vh. miles northwest of Quang Tri. It is just across the Thach Han Play-by-play on U-IV. p.m.

(1 p.m. EDT) today River from the Quang Tri rcwi.vn came after 40 moves of the combat base The base is a MYKJAVIK, Iceland on the former U.S. Army ins allation (UPI) World champion matchnd gave Spassky, 35, tha; served as the South Viet- Boris Spassky of the Soviet 6 namese 3rd Infantry Division Union capitalized on an error See Page Co1' headquarters before the divi- by U.S. Grand master Bobby sion was routed by the North Fischer and gave him only Vietnamese, who took Quang hope for a draw last night Today's Chuckle Tri on May 1. when the opening game of the world championship chess "I don't mind men who kiss U.S.

MILITARY spokesmen match was adjourned after an! tell," the girl said. "At said two of the downed heli- 4 Mi hours of play. my age I need all the adver- The adjournment until I can get." Please See Page 4, Col. 1 Sen. Humphrey Announces He's Out on television in Miami Beach hotel suite.

(AP) Mandatory Filing Fees Abolished Court Opens Political Races To Poor 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 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, 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 tha1 he cannot pay the fee w.thout undue hardship, 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 ROGERf 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 Ai. its- u.i.

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