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"Let's Comprom ise-You Don't Call Him Pop and He Wont Call You THE SUN A14 BALTIMORE, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1972 111 Convention Assembled Amid continuing and unprece- has been low ered to 18. It is safe to It is understandable because, as dented legal wrangling and ma- say that many of the new voters the court said, this is a complicated neuvering, the Democratic National wiI1 have their life-long convictions situation that cannot properly be v. hi reviewed in a few crisis-ridden days Wflud preferabIe to have Congress, not the courts, spell Convention opened last night in a spirit that may or may not have set a pattern for the rest of the week. A great many actors in this drama are unpredictanie new comers to politics. For instance, the overwhelming majority of the delegates in the audience on the floor at the convention hall are at- tending their first convention.

The process a state action, if only de real audience is the voter watching facto, so to speak. However, it is his television set or reading his understandable that the Supreme newspaper. That audience, too, con- Court was unwilling last week to tains many newcomers. Since last deal with the question of the legal the parties convened, the voting age status of conventions. The Thursday Meeting President Nixon and Dr.

Kissin- Union and China are more inter- 1- A ii tkm haye a speda obiga(ion () their country this year. They also have the traditional ob- ligation of choosing nominees for the highest constitutional offices in the land. This makes the convention ested in (1) their relations with the United States and (2) their re- lations with each other than they are in keeping the war going in Vietnam, and that factor, among others, may induce Hanoi to ex- plore terms of a settiement. other factors which presumably may in- fluence North Vietnam are the difficulty of supplying its mili- tary forces in South Vietnam with materiel needed for large-scale op- erations, the stalling of its spring offensive and the damage being rlnnn hv thp Ampriran bnmbin? in ft. UIC 11U1 111.

aoounne democratic proems ueep- ly affected by this, their first taste of citizenship. So for that reason if for no other. Democrats in conven- i 7t3ru, 'V mx mm )' mix psrww Brothers and Sisters in Politics lenges that racked the convention, The party's commitment to civil rights (remember that old-fash- ioned phrase?) is so accepted and routine that in the platform draft after Mrs. Chisholm's rip-roaring black caucus speech, she was at another caucus, this time of just ner sisters the women's delegates back and Th she ger have a calculated boost to hopes that serious talks on a peace settlement in Vietnam may be started at the meeting scheduled for Thursday in Paris. A news dis- patch last week sent hopes (and the New York Stock market) rising higher than apparently was war- ranted by the facts; the dispatch indicated that both the Soviet Union and China have been advising North Vietnam to make a peace settlement.

pud ihara ie cnmo ornnnri IOr SDHCUIdLlIlt! Uldb UlU iJVVlCt By the time Russian Chess Champion Boris Spassky makes the first move today, all the tempestuous antics leading to his 24-game match with Bobby Fischer, the American challenger, will have been forgotten. The two men will go on, one hopes, in silence. For that is the way good chess was meant to be played. Sven before the hoopla created when Mr. Fischer demanded and received larger prize money, the event drew international attention, especially among chess buffs.

But there were also a few political over- The Right Move at Reykjavik Maryland's Fussing Republicans tones. A succession of Russians has held the championship for 35 years; in fact, long before Mr. Fischer was born. In the Soviet Union, chess supremacy is an important fact of life; it is something akin to football at Notre Dame, or lacrosse at Johns Hopkins. Ever since Mr.

Fischer, one of 12 United States grandmasters, began competing internationally, he has accused the Russians of pro- tecting their champions from foreign challenge. The rules of chess still favor players who settle for a draw, and Mr. Fischer plays to Dr. Aris T. Allen, a black member of the General Assembly who was supported by the dissidents.

Not all casualties have been on the side of party regulars. Dr. Ross Z. Pierpont and others who helped engineer the palace revolt also were deposed from positions of delegation power during last week's meeting. Additionally, their choices for national committeeman and committeewoman face further challenges when the state delega- tion arrives at Miami Beach for the convention beginning August 21.

As matters now stand, fight for control of the Maryland delegation weighs ever so slightly in favor of out the legal status of conventions. 1 ne previously piannea senaie com- mittee study of presidential pri- maries would be a good place to start. Even though it is too late to do anything in 1972, even though 1976 is a long time off, now is the time to start. These things take time, and the history of Congress suggests that the pace in dealing with political-constitutional prob- lems is slow. in Paris Mr.

Nixon made a point of an nouncing the July 13 Paris meeting during his press conference June 29, and Dr. Kissinger, working with the President at San Clemente, made a point of telling reporters last Saturday that the Nixon ad- ministration has some reason to believe that North Vietnam may be prepared to begin serious negotia- tions this week. It doesn't take very much to raise hopes with respect to Vietnam, but hopes have been raised and dashed many times in the past. Dr. Kissinger, of course, is well aware of this, and he is not irivan tn Hio r-wtor nn this snhiort: 6-" ra w.

definitely to win. By maneuvering for draws among themselves; the Russians, Mr. Fischer said, could concentrate their best games on worthy challengers like himself. Well, all the charges, denuncia tions and counter charges are dearly beWnd Now fa the Iittle capital of Reykjavik, Iceland, the moment of truth has arrived. We hope the series goes smoothly, without questionable play.

It has received a prolific press, one that would have made the late Tex Rickard and Max Jacobs envious, There is nqthing left to say but let the play begin. the regulars. But given Dr. Allen's chairmanship plus the strength of Louise M. Gore, dissident choice for national committeewoman, the balance could shift again under the hot Miami sun.

Republicans engaged in the up- rising say they are not challeng- ing President Nixon, who owns sup- port from both sides. They are lacked instead in an effort to gain a larger role in state party affairs, including the deciding of policy and the spending of money. Intra-party bickering is a malady normally infecting Democrats. The fact that Republicans have caught it makes Maryland politics all the spicier. Hall should be favorable, the very person to avert that outcome.

One candidate, George Wallace of Alabama, indulged in no such dream. Knowing he cannot be nominated under any circumstances short of a combined earthquake and typhoon, Wallace, in his first press conference since the attempt on his life, concentrated on his current persistent theme, a warping of the planks of the platform to his wishes, if he is actively to support the Democratic party in the coming campaign. Wallace, who proclaimed himself physically able to campaign should his platform demands be r. mp ana inrtPPrt annearPfl Stmnff ri ana considering nis condition neal- thy, had not been expected to at- tend a grand mid-day conciliation meeting called by Muskie -to try to WOrk out compromises on the Cali- fornia and imnois credentials con- tests, and did not attend. Senator Humphrey, perhaps be- cause he was afraid not to, showed Up( as did Senator Jackson it might have been in a hope of stop- ping McGovern right there and so also did former Governor San-ford of North Carolina, the conven- tion's lowest-keyed candidate But McGovern did not, and so Muskie cancelled the gathering though not yet giving up.

Thus was a bitter fight on the floor apparently assured, and the wiser delegates went to their hotels to take those catnaps. section called "the right to be dif- ferent" covers the whole subject of racial discrimination. Not even the Georee Wallace neoole are ex- cited by it. How long ago and far ii- i m4(t away it is to 1948 in Philadelphia, where Mavor Hubert Humnhrev of Dixiecrats out of the hall (and the party went on to win anyhow); how far even from 1964 in San Francisco wherp th finldwater Re- publican convention voted down a namfniiw umrvW rmhtc ninir by more than 2 to 1. Just before Ms.

Chisholm sound- ed persecuted to create sympathy and advantageous solidarity among her brothers and sisters, Ralph Abernathy was demanding 750 seats in the convention hall for his non- delegate followers and instead of being greeted with derision he got a more than reasonable compro- mise number. Just after that, Rep- resentative Ron Dellums, from out in Fantherland, -was swing- ing his vote behind George McGov- em, and his friends cheered it as an influential move, i Then yesterday, tne morning the Editor Non McGovernites Sir: There seems to be a trend on the part of the new left and its followers toward creating black- lists consisting of those who re- Cnh fuse to see things their way. Such would seem to be the case with Charisma," that recently graced -jst-J-i the editorial page of The Sun. The author, however, left a few other groups of infidels off his blacklist of McGovern nonadmirers. He failed to include those of us in the Jewish community who do not wish for the destruction of Israel as do the McGovernites, There are those of us who do not Z'L TT.

LIL wish to see this nation disarmed. ineie axe muse oi us wnu uo iiui wish to see the middle class ground into the dust through cute and clever tax gimmicks. rinaiiy, mere are mose or us who have the misfortune to belong Finally, there are those of us iu iiuiudvuicu iiuiiuuiy giuups wiiu ao not wisn 10 De me victims oi left-wing discriminatory policies favored by the Senator. Yes, there are quite a few of us who are not impressed by the pseudo liberal phoniness of McGovern and his supporters. Paul L.

Brodsky. Baltimore. Rhodesian Chrome Issue men. And she ended by asking them to stay with her as a solid black bloc through the first ballot. It was a powerful performance for the audience she kept calling more emotional than the outspoken but polite way she comes on in interviews Of course it had as much politics in it as anv SDeech or any private deal her brother si r- I congressmen were making; it was iust her own nersonal variation on hp the theme.

The most blatant part of it may have been her complaints about be- ing "persona non grata." Every- body in Miami Beach and every- bodv who turns on his television anywhere else this week knows she and all her brothers and sisters are i i i at I A aim aui er uiouieisnnuMMw.aie in fact the most grata personae in the Democratic party right now. They are in this convention in numbers not merely equal to but greater than their proportion of the population which is as it should be, since their proportion in the Democratic, party is greater than it is in the country at large, That is such a familiar item now it no longer needs remarking on. The point is tnat nere among tne delegates, it is taKen lor granted, The incidental fact of any dele- gate's color had nothing at all to do witn tne great credentials cnai- Letters to in most towns and counties. While the state, cities and counties are looking for more tax money', we are many years behind other states in our roads and transportation cuctomc TnoooH nf iroon na with systems. Instead of keeping up with the dire needs to move along with the future that is facing us in an ominous way, we give officials 50 per cent increases in pay! Our public schools and libraries are in difficulties.

Our excuse is the fact we are short of money! What a wonderful example it would be if Commissioner Pomer-leau refused to accept this absurd increase in pay. The plain and truthful fact is that the officials of our state and a. i-i" i i i- city should set a better example for us taxpayers to follow. If this were done, we would be able to stand a. little more easily the burden of taxes that cut deeply into our pay.

Jim Versace. Baltimore. An Eying for an Eyeing Sir: I have been reading the Sunpapers all my life. I am curious: why do the Sunpapers insist on spelling certain words wrong? For instance, eye is eye, eyeing is eyeing not eying. When I went to school, bus was bus, bussing was spelled bussing, not busing.

Adding "ing" made the word bussing; "busing" gives the word a long sound. What do you think? Albert Bernstein. Baltimore. A In both cases either spelling is accepted by the dictionary. The Editor.

THE Ernest B. Furgurson Miami Beach. Shirley Chisholm told it so much like it is that I won't even try to get her best line into print. Forcing her voice past her slight lisp, rising and falling in evangelical rhythm, she lifted the black caucus onto its feet. Delegates rammed their fists toward the curlicued nlastic ceilin? of the Fontainebleau ballroom and shouted "Right on." i juv She shoved it not only to "the iif oicnovon horWtn other black Doliticians "doing the tZ same thing to us that The Man has been doing all along." Youngsters yelled back to encourage her "Name them, name them." "Be quiet so I can finish," the schoolteacher from Brooklyn snapped, snd liko cn manv first-urnHprs thpv shut up immediately.

But not for long. She talked about her rivals' play ing "kingmakers and queenmakers and a few in-between makers," and that drew greater applause and some laughs at the expense of a broad-shouldered gay delegate with bleached hair and a tie-dyed dun- garee suit who took his seat just as she said it. She repeated over ana over tnat she was "persona non grata in proper party councils because she did not play the game the same way as the other black congress- Skeptical Sir: Now that our noble Supreme Court has ruled that capital punish ment is "cruel and unusual" pun- ishment some 600 or more con- victed felons will be eligible for parole within 15 or so years of their f. conviction of murder or rape. Any kid can buy a firecracker if he wants to.

Any thug can get a gun if he wants to. So who's kidding whom? Delano Ames 3d. Baltimore. Stand on Marijuana Sir: In response to the article "Trustees urge A.M.A. to liberalize marijuana stand," I feel that they should try to liberalize their stand or legalize marijuana, but only with the intent that the people who smoke marijuana would keep it in their homes and not in public places nor carry it in their cars.

I don't think that because someone smokes marijuana he should be arrested for having marijuana pn his person, but, as with alcohol, if anyone is caught intoxicated or under the influence of marijuana while driving, he should be held equally responsible and should lose his privilege to drive. Gloria Hudson. Baltimore. Pomerleau's Raise Sir: I have never seen a local news story that created as much furor as the story about Police ao Cnrnmlccinnor PnmoHooti'o vvuiiniaoiuiibi, ututiinu a uu ut.i cent raise in pay. Virtually every- one I met was astounded at the fact this is happening at a time when, everyone is being asked to curb inflation.

Pointing out the fact he would be then paid more than the Governor and Mayor of Balti- more, added fuel to the fire of anger. I agreed with my friends. I think this is one of the most hypo- critical and brazen things I have ever experienced. To begin with, the President is asking labor and industry to try and curb inflation by not demanding a small raise in pay or prices. Millions of workers are deprived of a 10 per cent or less increase in pay.

As for our state, ths taxpayers are being taxed out of their homes by the ever-increasing property tax more or less agreed on as the wom- en's candidate for vice president, ana sne saia II uiey leei tnis IS direction they would like to move me 1 ave no objection.1 11 a suaae iiaooy Ti J.J SW only hours earUer Zr the bIack solldarity candidate for No" But thinSs snift fast dunng convention week. An American can rt hAtn eitn 4 a hawho'a spend seven months running for President and end up being ad- vanced for Vice President, which is just what he or she had in rnind 311 alon8- 1S known as politics, a pastime at which any number-can play, and in 1972 any color, too The black congressional cancus has learned it well. So has Ron Dellums, and so has Ralph Abef-' nathy. So, most conspiciouslyi--of all, has Shirley Chisholm. There was a time not long ago when the cliche about that would, be that she is a credit to her race, as we.

used to say about Joe Louis, or to her sex. Now it will do to call her a damn smart politician, with con fidence she will take that for the compliment it is. quantities. The world applauds as Nixon seeks better relations and increased trade with Russia because such a mood heralds peace. The i f.

"caJ "mate, there- al oiuieu IW UUVUlg mOM RUSgian chrome but to th of world oofaton and iTnitf mh! face Nations lh? myfl inep" tltude of America in actually ex- panding trade with the racist Smith. Why? Charitably one might suppose iporance. Less charitably, and this is what is alarming, it makes America appear as a country which hopes' at heart that a tiny band of white men will meet success in their efforts to dominate nfflioM of Africans in their i -u iuu. vyiuwai commercial lactors have been allowed to override moral obligations to millions of Africans who seek no more'than u. freedom ch we already en- J0" til, seek to be reearded benevolent power by all the inde-.

pendent African states and by other developing countries throughout the world. Is- all the effortand money we spend to that end now to be erased. The United States joined the rest of the world in opposing Smith's repressive regime when he broke away from Britain and our government spoke out against him-. wnose respect we demand. Betty Leslie Melville.

Nairobi, Kenya. Voter's Query Sir: As a naturalized American citizen, I have been looking-forward to selecting with my vote a person who obviously is a decent man and the one chosen by the people. To my surmise welWn. iL-flj Weu-OB- leatea people make corrupt power manipulations to overcome their unpopularity. Why can this bei Vol- erated? (Mrs.) M.

VUIacrt. Baltimore, to the Convention Maryland delegates to the Republican National Convention are engaged in a sort of political shootout. Every time they gather a quorum and take a vote somebody gets winged. It began last month when dissident delegates carried enough votes to temporarily knock off party regulars in a fight for control of the delegation. Beaten then was Alexander M.

Lankier, the state party chief, who failed to, take the challenge seriously. 'After a series of futile attempts to raise another quorum, the fight continued last week and one of the latest to bite the dust was Senator J. Glenn Beall, Jr. He lost a close election for delegation chairman Miami Beach. Before they were massively bused to the hall in last evening's subtropical twilight, delegates to the Democratic National Convention had been instructed rather, thor- oughly in the ABC's of such occasions.

The lessons, provided in schoolrooms called "orientation workshops," were considered necessary because for eight out of ten of the students this was a new subject and a new line of work. They had never been delegates before. This unusual statistic, along with two other little less remarkable a 22 per cent delegate membership i tit under tne age oi ju and a DiacK membership of 15 per cent is one reason for high unpredictability here, and for the worry of the mi- nority of veterans that they, not the neophytes, might be the ones surprised by developments in the hall. Besides being told about house- keeping arrangements such as transportation, tickets and so on, and about a formal program of fun and games, the orientees were advised to take catnaps on the afternoon before the opening ses- sioa, so as to be prepared for a prciable all-night argument over the reports of the Credentials Cttrramittee. They did not need to be told that If they should have to meet all night they might watch the sun rise By Bus Sir: The United States has agreed Now' hypocritically, we reverse to uphold last year's decision to ourselves because it suits a power-buy chrome from the illegal white ful industrial lobby in Washington minority government of Rhodesia, to purchase chrome at a more fa-and by so doing has nullified much vorable price.

of the positive effect which our ex- Despite Nixon's "triumphs" In pensive foreign-aid programs might Peking and Moscow, the recent de-have had throughout Africa. over the Rhodesian chrome America needs chrome. Russia issue reveals an underlying cal- and Rhodesia have it In suitable lousness which is not lost upon the millions throughout world By TRICE DAY from the Atlantic knowing pretty much for sure who their presidential nominee would be; either that, or who he might not be. Those delegates who attended the national committee's briefings, naturally conducted in a ball room, were informed at a more porten-tious level that, whatever happened, their foremost task was to see that when the convention is finally over, as it one day will be if the credential problems can be settled, the Democrats leave Miami Beach a united party, "mindful of the alternative" in November. The same concern was uppermost uiuu ji in uianv minus.

Mime wc new ucic- rroTftc? ti7tta rrarrinrT thnir hnoHa s01" stuffed with data and exhortations, Senator Muskie in particular had grown so troubled about the au- turnnal perils of party division that he was changing his posture from that of indecisive Hamlet to that of grand conciliator, without however relinquishing his own presidential candidacy. Muskie seemed to be saying that for him party unity had become even more important than stopping McGovern, though the two were not necessarily unconnected. But this conditioned attitude found lit- tie agreement among the more dedicated stop McGoverners who still saw in the South Dakotan the very man to lead the Democrats to doom, and most of whom saw in themselves, if fortune this week Published Every Weekday By THE A. S. AB ELL COMPANY William F.

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