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Silent On Running Mate SUNRISE clover "TTVTi ft 9 1 1 Kennedy Rejects 2nd Spot JVb Solution Seen In Worst Water Crisis w- If if. 'f TTsnmnipa TFirnlbmimcB TAMPA, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1972 8th YEAR No. 166 EIGHT SECTIONS--112 PAGES PRICE TEN CENTS By JAMES MANNING Tribune Staff Writer What Mayor Dick Greco called "our worst water crisis ever" plagued Tampa with mass inconvenience and the possibility of disaster yesterday, and officials saw no certain solution in sight. Greco renewed a plea made Tuesday that Tampans reduce water use "to es- S'l State Demo Leaders Not Ver Happy Hue Hit By N. Viet Rockets SAIGON (UPI) Thirty Communist rockets slammed into the old Imperial capital of Hue at dawn today, most of them falling into a South Vietnamese marine position in the city's citadel, field reports said.

There were no reports on casualties from the first shelling of Hue, 400 miles north of Saigon, since July 8 and field reporters said five of the 122mm rockets were duds. Swiss Air Car Crash Kills 13 BRIG, Switzerland (P) A snapped cable sent an aerial excursion car crashing at 60 miles an hour against the concrete wall of an alpine ground station last night: Thirteen persons were reported killed and two were critically injured. Officials said the dead included at least one of several persons seen jumping from the car before impact, when it was 100 feet above the ground. Witnesses said the cable snapped when the car was more than 900 yards from the ground station at Bettmer Alp. The emergency brake apparently failed.

The car had a capacity of 50, but only about 20 persons were aboard. The aerial cableway links Bettern, northeast of here, and Bettmer Alp, a popular tourist spot in the valley of Valais. Italian To Fight For Abortion MILAN, Italy (UPI) The man who brought divorce to Roman, Catholic Italy said 'today tie will fight to legalize abortion. Socialist Lons Fortuna, sponsor of a divorce bill passed by parliament in 1970 despite sharp opposition from Pope Paul VI, told the magazine Panorama he would introduce an abortion bill soon. He said the measure would permit any woman to have an abortion, provided two doctors certify there are "serious physical or psychological reasons making childbirth unad-visable." Fortuna said he also planned legislation which would do away with restrictions on pornography and recognize conscientious objection.

sentials," and that tney especially" not water lawns or wash cars. "It's our only hope outside of rain," he added. MEANWHILE, Greco said he had discovered a S2 million "emergency" water contract intended to solve crises in the immediate future "would not really help to any considerable extent this problem we're having now." The mayor planned steps to amend the emergency contract, and said he had taken a "tough" new stance toward engineers under consideration for a contract involving a vast, long-range improvement of Tampa's water situation. Greco also said he would refuse the press admission to an 8 a.m. session scheduled with engineers today.

Broiling temperatures and little rain have been causing Tampans to use more water than the city can treat, store and then distribute. The result is poor water pressure. THE CITY'S ability to treal water has been reduced an estimated 10 million gallons a day because of the need also to treat heavy water discoloration which, in this season, begins to infiltrate the Hillsborough River, the city's main water source. With continued heavy demands for water yesterday, air conditioners went out; water fountains went dry; toilets would not flush; and industries moved to the brink of what one spokesman termed "a catastrophe." "Some people have called and said they're not going to comply with the voluntary ban," Greco said. "I'd like to say to these people that this is a serious problem." GRECO SAID other residents are reporting violations Please See Page 8, Col.

1 m- JNs' 'W Iff -i J10 MIAMI BEACH (UPI) -George S. McGovern, the master of "new politics" who beat the old pros at their own game, won his deeply divided party's presidential nomination on the first ballot early I-today. Weary, squabbling delegates leaped to their feet with a roar shortly before midnight when Illinois put McGovern over the magic number of 1,509 ballots he needed to win' the nomination. BUT THE South Dakota senator's triumph after an arduous 18-month campaign was '-already tarnished by the opposition of most organized, labor leaders and by new skepticism among some of his youthful supporters. At the end of the first complete ballot, before changes by the states began, McGovern had piled up a total of 1,728.35 votes.

After tha final ballot, his vote stood at 1864.95. The convention recessed until tonight. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, turned down the Democratic Vice Presidential nomination this morning short-.

Sen. McGovern talking to Yippies ly after McGovern won the nomination, an aide to McGovern reported. Only, four hours before his smashing floor victory, McGo-' vern left the seclusion of his Doral Hotel suite to reassure antiwar demonstrators camped in its luxurious lobby who accused him of a "cyni; cal sellout" on Vietnam. McGOVERN'S claim to the nomination was reinr forced before the balloting with the withdrawal of Rep; Wilbur D. Mills of Arkansas and former Sen.

Eugene. J. McCarthy the youth movement hero of the tumultuous 1968 convention in Chicago. McGovern then swamped the surviving contenders, Alabama's crippled Gov. George C.

Wallace, Terry Sanford of North Carolina, Shirley Chi-sholm of New York and Sen. Henry Jackson of Washington the late hour favorite of a desperate AFL-CIO. The only suspense left in the Democrats' 36th quadrennial convention was over the liberal South Dakota senator's Please See Page 8, Col. 1 Pundits By BOB TURNER Tribune Staff Writer MIAMI BEACH George McGovern has an uphill if not impossible election battle ahead of him in November, some top Florida Democrats say. The Republicans will defeat him but McGovern shouldn't be taken lightly or regarded as a pushover, top Florida figures in the GOP declare.

IF THERE is one thing that Democ-atic apd Republican Party spokesmen agree on in the wake of the South Dakota senator's nomination, it's that McGovevtl doesn't stand to run at all well in Florida. Sen. Lawton Chiles, said that "it's too early to tell" how McGovern will fare against President Nixon this fall, but Chairman Bill France of the Florida convention delegation said the nomination of McGovern will "tear the Democratic Party wide open." Florida's Republican national committeeman William C. Cramer said in Washington that he is convinced the majority of Americans will support the reelection of President Nixon. But Cramer said it would be "a great mistake" to take McGovern or any other Democratic nominee for granted "not to go full steam, regardless of" whether the nominee had been Hubert Humphrey, Edmund Muskie or McGovern.

THE EXECUTIVE director of the Florida Republican Committee, Bill David, said in Tallahassee he didn't think McGovern "stands any kind of chance in Florida," However the party spokesman said he didn't consider "any election a writeoff." Chiles, who gave the convention welcome address and earlier at least nominally leaned to Muskie, said McGovern had surprised him and many others who didn't think McGovern could get the nomination. "He's turned loose a force completely new to politics," Please See Page 8, Col. Polls, Too Mayor Greco 'tough' stance After March two civilians and a soldier died in renewed violence after the parade. The death toll stood at six for the "Glorious Twelfth," which marked the 282nd anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne where William III defeated the Catholic legions of James II in 1690. AT LEAST 423 persons have died in Ulster's three years of sectarian warfare, 50 of them British soldiers.

While British troops concentrated on a huge security operation to keep the Protestant display irom starting trouble, gunmen and bombers worked in the background across the British province's six bloodstained counties. A powerful bomb blasted shops and offices in the center Please Soe Page 8, Col. 1 Today's Chuckle Sleeping outdoors will care insomnia. So will sleeping Tribune Photo by Mike Moats John Benitez Pours Sterile Water For Dr. Rex Caslleson trickling faucet slows action in St.

Joseph's scrub room Two Jetliners Skyjacked Six Die Before, Irish Protestant By The Associted Press A National Airlines plane en route from Philadelphia to New York and an American Airlines plane headed from Oklahoma City to Dallas were hijacked last night in separate incidents a couple of hours apart. In both cases, the hijackers demanded money and parachutes. The air piracy came only a week after two planes on tha West Coast were hijacked within 24 hours. S'ricter searchers on all commuters flights were ordered by President Nixon after last week's events. THE NATIONAL jet, which carried 113 passengers, was hijacked by two men who reportedly demanded $600,000 in American currency, $20,000 in Mexican pesos and three parachutes.

The 'hree-engme Boeing 72 7 was approaching Kennedy Airport in New York when the hijacking Please See Page 17, Col. 8 Features Armed Forces 20-E Astrology 10-IV Business 3-B Classified 10-23-C Comics 8, 9-C Crossword 5-IV Deaths 9-IV Editorials 20-A Financial 3-7-B Fishing 10-C Goren on Bridge 2-IV Graham 2-IV Landers 4-IV Sylvia Porter 10-A Television 8-IV Theaters 7-IV VanDellen 5-IV Wishing Well 2-IV Women 3-IV Fooled Pros And EELFAST UP) Thousands of Orangemen marched yes- terday to commemorate the 17th Century battle that es- Fischer Boycott REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) The unpredictable Bobby Fischer, one game down in his bid for the world chess championship, threatened early today to stay away from the second game unless all television cameras were removed from the auditorium, international chess sources said, Fischer, who lost the opening game to world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Please Sm Page 8, Col. tablished Protestant power in Northern Ireland. British troops kept the marchers and Roman Catholics apart, but Might Match Jl" lN Boris Spassky goes one-up '4, McGovern Made A Mockery Of Labor rejected him. The Democratic Party establishment ignored him.

He was dismissed as a one-issue candidate he did concentrate on opposing the war. They said he appealed only to the small, fringe left of the Democratic Party. Everyone laughted at his temerity in announcing a full year ahead of anyone else. To say that almost everyone underestimated McGovern is an understatement. Please See Page 18, Col.

1 municator with the voters, McGovern projected a blandness that amounted almost to negative charisma. AT A TIME when the cost of political campaigns soared, McGovern started out with no money and no angels. His ratings in the national polls were so low, there was some question if there was a George McGovern outside his home state of South Dakota and the U.S. Senate. By STEVE GERSTEL MIAMI BEACH (UPI)-In a miracle of modern politics, George S.

McGovern's masterful campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination made a mockery of the pros, the pundits, and the polls. By every yardstick that the practicing politicians have used for generations, McGovern had no business winning. In fact, he had no business running. In an age where television is the instant com.

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