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The Tampa Tribune from Tampa, Florida • 17

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A HEARTLAND Uniform Phase-Out date urged for Polk city courts, 1-B 50 Housing Units in Wales approved for occupancy, 1-B. tn 1 1 nmi imminil mm BUNE -ler THE-TAMPA TRI Heartland Days Home Delivery 85 Cen PRICE TEN CENTS: -v'V FOUR SECTIONS 84 PAGES TAMPA, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JUNE, 30 1972 78iH YEAR No. 156 I-, Both Decisions Split 5-4 OIK Pea rikes jq renai upreme Court Rules Newsmen ources "Must Divulge 4' I 'Free Press Amendment No Immunity Cruel And Unusual Punishment McGovern's Calif. Win Is 'Halved' Dissent On Executions hml From Tribune Wires WASHINGTON Newsmen, like all citizens, have an obligation to answer grand jury subpoenas and supply information and their sources in investigations, the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 yesterday. The decision, in three cases, flatly rejected the contention the First Amendment grants reporters a special immunity to protect them from disclosing material they have obtained from confidential sources.

Justice Byron R. White, writing for the majority, said: "The Constitution does not, as it never has, exempt the newsman from performing the citizen's normal duty of appearing and furnishing information relevant to the grand jury's task." WHITE WAS backed by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and Justices Harry A. Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

and William H. Rehnquist, the four Nixon administration appointees to the court. Justice Potter Stewart, in dissent, said the ruling "invites state and federal authorities to undermine the historic independence of the press by attempting to annex the journalistic profession as an investigative arm of government." Powell, one of the majority justices, disputed this contention in a separate opinion. He said: "The solicitude repeatedly shown Please See Page 9, Col. 3 WASHINGTON In a dramatic blow to Sen.

George S. McGovern, the Democratic Credentials Committee voted by a narrow margin yesterday to strip the front-running presidential contender of 151 of the 270 delegates he won in the California primary. Climaxing an often heated, three-hour debate that included charges of political arm-twisting, the credentials panel awarded 151 of the delegates McGovern won in the winner take-all California primary to candidates who trailed in the voting. The vote was 72 to 66. THE ACTION, which will be appealed on the floor of the party's national convention in Miami Beach next month, will probably make more difficult McGovern's search for support among uncommitted delegates.

The realignment, spearheaded by forces of Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, was on grounds that the California winner-take-all primary disenfranchised the 55 per cent of the state's electorate that voted against McGovern. The challengers also contended the primary violated in spirit a prohibition by McGovern's party reform commission against unit rule. After the ruling McGovern declared he would not support the nominee of the con- Decision hailed and blasted, 6-A.

(c) New Tork Times Newt Settle WASHINGTON The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that capital punishment, as presently administered in the United States was "cruel and unusual" punishment. The historic decision came on a vote of 5 to 4, in a two-page, unsigned opinion. Although the five justices in the majority issued separate opinions and did not. agree on a single reason for their action, the effect of the holding appeared to be to rule put executions' under any cfipijal punishment laws now in effect in this country. IT WILL ALSO save from execution 600 condemned men and women now on death rows in the United States, "although 'it did not overturn their convictions.

Most willbe held in prison for the" remainder of their lives, but under some states' procedures some of them may eventually gain their freedom. The decision pitted the five holdovers of the more liberal Warren Court against the four appointees of President Nixon, who dissented. Three of the majority justices, William O. Douglas, William J. Breenan Jr.

and Thurgood Marshall, concluded that executions in modernrday America necessarily violate the Eighth Amendment's pro- Please See Page 6, Col. 4 McGovern After Bad News vows fight at convention Please See Page 22, Col. 1 Inside 1 No Jubilation N. Viet, U.S. Agree To Renew Peace Talks OnDeathRow Hillsborough officials They said the law could see problems, 12-A; mean frwN for discipline.

Please See Page 9, Col. 3 From Tribune Wires Harness Flaw Forces Huge Ford Recall DETROIT (UPI) Ford Motor Co. yesterday announced the recall of four million 1970 and 1971 model sedans and station wagons to replace a faulty part on the shoulder safety belts. P. E.

Benton general manager of the Ford Customer Service Division, said only a small percentage of the belt assemblies are faulty. THE FAULTY part, called a grommet, is a plastic locking device which holds the stud of the shoulder belts to the lap belts. Benton said some of these plastic locks "have Please See Page 9, Col. 7 Senate passes anti-poverty Mil, 18-A. U.S.

chess champloi Bobby Fischer wages war of nerves, 7-A. South Vietnamese press attack in Quang Tri, 3-A. Astrology 16-IV Canada Newsletter 10-A Business 11-B Citrus 11-B Classified 8-24-C Comics 12, 13-IV Crossword 14-IV Deaths 15-IV Editorials 20-A Financial 11-15-B Fishing 6-C Goren on Bridge 14-IV Graham 10-IV Landers 4-IV Morning After 1-C Sylvia Porter 16-B Sports 1-7-C Television 8-IV Theaters 11-IV Van Dellen 14-IV Wishing Well 6-IV Women 3-IV I yr tl siA its were broken off in April. And a few minutes later he spoke of a July resumption. "I've already indicated that we will be returning to negotiations in July," Nixon told a nationally televised and broadcast news conference.

"That is the important area to watch." ASKED ABOUT Pentagon requests for new weapons after his Moscow arms-control agreement, Nixon said "the problem in regards to arms control is that we do not deal with it in a vacuum." He said without the ABM arms-control agreement, and Please See Page 19, Col. 3 WASHINGTON iff) President Nixon said last night the United States and North Vietnam have agreed to resume the Paris peace talks. He said the administration agreed to resume the suspended Vietnam negotiations Thursday July 13 "on the assumption that the North Vietnamese are prepared to negotiate in a constructive and serious way." NIXON apparently misspoke himself as to the date of the resumption. He said the talks would be renewed on April 13, but evidently meant July 13, a Thursday, and the normal meeting day before the negotiations TALLAHASSEE The 97 condemned Florida prisoners, whose lives were spared by the U.S. Supreme Court, could turn into "very dangerous" people if kept behind bars with no hope of parole, State Corrections Director Louie L.

Wainwright warned yesterday. "When you take away hope from a man, you have a dangerous man. He has nothing to lose," Wainwright said shortly after the court's 5-4 decision invalidating capital punishment was handed down in Washington. THE CONDEMNED prisoners tended with him. Although there, was shouting and yelling when they first learned of the court ruling, their joy was clouded i by thoughts they would have no hope of parole.

President Nixon may veto again Retail, Wholesale Prices Frozen Clamps Put On Some Food Markups try to put wholesalers and retailers under the same profit restraints and markup provisions that apply to processors. The retail cost of meat is covered by controls. The Price Commission's regulptions limit wholesalers and retailers to price increases that can be justified by allowable costs. In addi- Please See Page 18, Col. 1 reduce the supply of meat and other fresh foods.

As for the impact on inflation, the items put under price controls yesterday make up about 2.5 per cent of the government's Cost of Living Index. The items comprise about 11 per cent of the food component of the index, or about $12 billion worth of transactions. The effect of the action is to Hijacking Suspect sought to put the pressure of controls on profit margins and price markups on fruits, vegetables and seafood sold primarily at wholesale and retail. Donald Rumsfeld, director of the Cost of Living Council, said Nixon's action "cannot drive j6d prices down. Only increased supply or reduced demand could do that LAST WEEK, Nixon decid WASHINGTON W) President Nixon extended price controls yeaterday to fresh fruits, vegetables, eggs and seafood after the first sale by the producer.

The move was expected to have little immediate effect on soaring food-costs. In removing the current exemption on raw agricultural products at all levels except the farm, the President ed to lift meat import quotas for the remainder-of this year in order to increase beef and pork supplies and put downward pressure on the retail cost of meat. Nixon backed off from extending controls to the farm, an action that would require many additional Price Commission employes and could, according to administration economists, cut off or sharply Today's Chuckle Santa Claus ldn't make it back to the North Pole last Christmas. He's still iown at the Internal Revenue office trying to explain the $7 billion he put dow for gifts. FBI agents escort 28-year-old Martin McNally to an arraignment in Detroit yesterday after the man was arrested in connection with the June 22 $502,000 hijacking of an American Airlines -H.

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