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The Tampa Tribune from Tampa, Florida • 38

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39 Sarasota School Levies voted down, 1-B Courthouse Eyed for Sarasota, 2-B i 1 Oil tr. nn AMP A TRIB Partly Cloudy Data on Page 2-A Gulf 7 Days Home Delivery 85 Cents 78th YEAR No. 166 FOUR SECTIONS 56 PAGES TAMPA, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1972 PRICE TEN CENTS Sees Coalition Of Dissatisfied People Askew Tells Nation Demos Must Unite 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 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 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 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 young old. North and South, right and left, some of the rich, most of the poor, and millions of overtaxed and overcharged miriale income Americans as well." 1 iSsfc. Il.i 1 i miiiiiiii.iim 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 againand 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 DemocratsTo Nominate rm Ben. cGovere oiiight Demos Launch Bitter Mght Over Platform Kennedy Eyed For 2nd Spot i fcrr imfiiiinniniirrmiiimini Sen. And Mrs. McGovern Watch Marathon Convention Opening from hotel suite' before going to hall for clincher.

(AP) Reds Down 3 i I wt I (if U.S. Copters MIAMI BEACH (n Sen. George McGovern strode without major' challenge the Democratic presidential nomination yesterday as Sens. Hubert H. Humphrey and Edmund S.

Muskie bowed to his show of towering -national convention strength nd quit. And so, politically, Democrats' swarming, sweltering convention resort belonged to the senator Irom South Dakota, longest of long-shots when he his. White House quest 18 months ago. The Associated Press; cOunt of delegate commitments showed McGovern had surged far beyond the 'majority that will choose tonight the Democrats' man 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 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 years and the party's presidential choice in 1968, with- Please See Page 5. Col.Il MIAMI BEACH 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 plank3 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 Inside Apollo 15 astronauts reprimanded for stamp deal, 4-A. Labor chiefs may sit out the election, 10-A.

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 DeUen 2-IV Wishing Well 2-IV Women 3-IV SAIGON Several hundred South Vietnamese marines were dropped behind enemy lines north of Quang Tri City yesterday, ground fire was so heavy it knocked down three American helicopters that flew them in. The helicopters, flown by U.S. Marines from 7th Fleet carriers, made their landings under escort of U.S. Army Cobra helicopter gunships. "Initial action on the ground was hot as the South Sen.

Humphrey Announces He's Out on television in hotel suite last night. (AP) Vietnamese marines moved off the helicopters and on to the offensive," said a 7th Fleet announcement. THE CREWS from two downed helicopters were rescued, the U.S. Command reported but the fate of those aboard the third was not known. Field reports said a fourth ship may have been downed on the same mission.

It was not known here whether the helicopters had dropped off their loads of government troops before they were hit. A government military spokesman said he had no report the marines had ma-Je contact with the enemy, and no casualty reports were issued. The area the marines is about 2 miles northwest of Quang Tri. It is just across the Thach Han River from the Quang Tri corhbat base. The base is a former U.S.

Army installation tha'; served as the South Vietnamese 3rd Infantry Division headquarters before the division was routed by the North Vietnamese, who took Quang Tri on May 1. U.S. MILITARY spokesmen said two of the downed heli- Please See Page 4, Col. 1 Fischer Faces Uphill Battle Mandatory Filing Fees Abolished Court Opens Political Races To Poor 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 Play-by-play on U-1V. REYKJAVIK, Iceland (LTD World champion 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 4 hours of play. The adjournment until 5 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 filirrg fee system in Texas. Please See Page 14, Col. 4 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 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 tha he cannot pay the. fee without undue hardship, 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 Today's Chuckle don't mind men who kiss and tell," the girl said. "At my age I need all the advertising I can get.".

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