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'I THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION Fcr 104 Years the Sonfi's Standard 'Newspaper P.O. Box 4689 ATLANTA, GA. 30302, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1972 VOL. 103, No. 21 54 PAGES, 4 SECTIONS TEN CENTS California Dele gate NEWS THIS MORNING Are Restored to cGovern July 11, 1972 GOOD MORNING! Warm temperatures are expected across Georgia Tuesday, along with a few widely scattered showers or thundershowers most numerous in the southeastern areas.

Highs should be mostly in the 80s Tuesday after early morning lows in the 60s. Details on Page 2-A. By JEFF NESMITH and MILO DAKIN Constitution Staff Writer) MIAMI BEACH After a heated floor fight early Tuesday morning, the Democratic National Convention voted to restore 151 California delegates to Sen. George McGovern, putting the South Dakotan within about 20 votes of a first-ballot presidential nomination victory. Temporary convention chairman Lawrence O'Brien was compelled to rap for an-order repeatedly during the proceedings leading to the controversial California vote.

The first session got off to a sluggish start Monday night as Sen. George McGovern lost a 43-minute roll call vote aimed at adding nine women to the South Carolina delegation. Earlier, McGovern had suffered another reversal in his drive for the Democratic presidential nomination when Maine Sen. Edmund Muskie threw his support behind an anti-McGovern push. On the South Carolina question, delegates voted 1,366.05 to 1,555.75 against substituting female alternates for male delegates in the state's delegation.

The minority report was not a definite McGovern vote, but it came on a challenge under new party rules that were instituted by the South Dakotan to give women more voice in party affairs. The women who would have been added to the delegation were paired in the majority as McGovern supporters. By a voice vote, the convention approved early Tuesday morning a compromise settlement of the Georgia delegation seating dispute. Both state party Executive Secretary Zell Miller and state Rep. Julian Bond spoke in favor of the compromise, which Miller said proceeded from negotiations by a "diverse but representative group of Democrats from Georgia." In the Alabama vote earlier, the convention refused to unseat a delegation pledged to Gov.

George Wallace. The Alabama governor won on a challenge against his delegation by black political leader Dr. John Cashin of Hnuntsville, who heads the splinter National Democrats Party of Alabama. Cashin was trying to unseat the entire Wallace delegation or settle for a split dele-See DEMOCRATS, Page 12-A Associated Press Phots Lawrence O'Brien Gets Democratic Show on the Road Wants ace Constitution Editor Reg Murphy and reporters Jeff Nesmith, Milo Dakin and Ken Willis are in Miami Beach for the convention. Their reports appear on Page 4, 10 and U-A.

Here are the highlights of Monday's action: CREDENTIALS A bitter floor fight shaped up over 151 California delegate votes stripped from Sen. George McGovern by the Democratic Credentials Committee, and debate was expected over the seating of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's Illinois delegation, bumped by the committee. MCGOVERN The South Dakota senator, apparently confident of a first-ballot victory, spurned a conciliatory meeting of all candidates called by Maine Sen. Edmund Muskie. McGovern also apparently made inroads into the loose coalition of delegates trying to block restoration of his 151 California delegate votes.

HUMPHREY Sen. Hubert Humphrey released his 93 black delegates to vote for New York Rep. Shirley Chish-olm on the first ballot in an apparent effort to bead off an immediate McGovern victory, but none of the other candidates for nomination followed suit. WALLACE Gov. George Wallace of Alabama called for a vote of confidence for temporary convention Chairman Larry O'Brien after O'Brien boosted McGovern's California hopes by ruling that less than an absolute majority of convention delegates could vote on the California question as well as 120 unchallenged McGovern delegates from California.

MUSKIE The Maine senator threw his support behind efforts to keep McGovern from regaining 151 California delegate votes stripped from him by the credentials committee, and said the failure of his attempt to reconcile candidates' differences in a private meeting indicates a "potentially very divisive climate" at the convention. GEORGIA Gov. Jimmy Carter said he has widespread support for efforts to' reverse temporary Chairman O'Brien's ruling lowering the majority vote necessary, for action on the California delegation and on allowing the 120 unchallenged California-McGovern delegates to vote. TUESDAY'S TENTATIVE SCHEDULE Beginning at 7 p.m. to elect a permanent convention chairman; consider the Rules Committee report; delivery of keynote address by Florida Gov.

Reubin Askew; and debate the party's platform. Second carter 10 I ire IIS WORLD ZRIFIN, Israel Japanese terrorist Kozo Okamoto went on trial Monday for his part in the massacre of 26 persons at Lod Airport. He pleaded guilty but his plea was re- Associated Press Photo MCGOVERN ADDRESSES NATIONAL WOMEN'S POLITICAL CAUCUS MONDAY Beside Senator, From Left, Are Feminist Gloria Sleincm and N.Y. Rep. Bella Abzug jected and the trial proceeded.

Page 2-A. Housin 2 Units Tenant 7 I By JEFF NESMITH Constitution Slnlf Writer MIAMI BEACH Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter has been asked to nominate a candidate for president at the Democratic Naitonal Convention and to second the nomination of another. Alabama Gov. George Wallace has asked Carter to second his nomination.

And Sen. Henry (Scoop) Jackson of Washington asked the Georgia governor to place his name in nomination before the convention Wednesday night. Carter has not announced how he will vote when the convention takes up presidential hopefuls, but reportedly is leaning towards Jackson. A reliable source said the governor had not decided whether he would nominate Jackson or second the Wallace nomination. But he has agreed to do one or the other.

Under reformed convention rules, candidates are limited to a single nominating speech and a single seconding speech. Wallace's nominating speech is to be delivered by Alabama State Sen. Bob Wilson of Jasper, one of the Alabama governor's chief floor leaders in the state legislature. Meanwhile, if Georgia's governor was uncertain Monday night over how he would vote at the convention, the state's delegation was uncertain about almost everything. During a lengthy caucus Monday afternoon, delegates and alternates feuded over a variety of matters, pausing intermittently to hear speeches from presidential aspirants.

A group of alternates, led by Mary Young of the Second Congressional District, attempted to get the delegation to reverse a compromise over credentials worked out Sunday night. That compromise, which was negotiated by Gov. Carter, party chairman Charles Kirb'o, state Rep. Julian Bond and others, allowed the delegation to be seated Monday night. It included election of new delegates whose known preferences essentially preserved the voting ballots of the original Georgia delegation.

The compromise also met the dictates of a See GEORGIA, Page 12-A Associated Press Photo WALLACE AT PRE-CONVENTION CONFAB Press Secretary Bitty Joe Camp Assists REYKJAVIK Bobby Fischer Monday visited the hall where he will play his championship chess match with Boris Spassky. He didn't like much of what he saw, complaining about the lighting, the board and the pieces, the location of the television cameras and some Ch Away Of icials ase miSE THREAT? Yell Louder, Democrats, I Can't Hear other minor details." But the match is still scheduled to begin Tuesday. Page 2-A. NATION DETROIT A federal judge has ordered Michigan to buy 295 school buses to get ready for cross-district busing of students in order to integrate Detroit area schools next fall. Page 2-A.

ers" at the projects and citing rumors that welfare mothers might be barred from public housing in the future. Mrs. Watley and Mary Williams, president of the Bowen Homes Tenants Association, said only persuasion was used to close down the offices. No use of weapons has been reported, Persells said. The latest office closed is at Bowcn Homes at 2820 Yates Drive NW, where protesters Monday hurled bottles, rocks, bricks and a baseball bat and broke out eight plates in a glass entrance.

"All the other managers cooperated," Mrs. Watley said. "This was the only trouble." About 200 picketers and onlookers gathered for the protest. Some of the picketers complained of roaches and rats in the proj- See HOUSING, Page 12-A BY ALEX COFFIN The management offices of six of Atlanta's 22 public housing projects have been shut down because a tenants group ran off the managers and employes with threats and intimidation, Atlanta Housing Authority director Les Persells said Monday. Three other projects are partially inoperative because of protests that began about 10 days ago with protesters padlocking doors and telling employes "to go away and not come back or they'll be dead," Persells said.

But Louise Watley, vice president of the Georgia Tenants Association, claimed 12 offices were closed and said her group eventually would get all 22 to shut down. She denied the death threats. Mrs. Watley said a detailed list of grievances against the housing authority would not be announced until Tuesday. But picket-ers carried signs protesting "outside work ATLANTA AN AGED grocer on Gordon Road SW thought the holdup man's gun wasn't loaded, so he reached for his own.

He was shot in the stomach and seriously wounded. Th bandit fled. Page 8-D. THE BROTHER of an American prisoner of war was in Atlanta Monday, wearing the red pajama-suit that the North Vietnamese issue their p-Lsoners, drumming up support for a free-the-PWs movement. Page 3-A.

THE PASTOR of Atlanta's Peachtree Presbyterian Church Monday called on voters to start mixing our politics and religion," to put "service to country above self-interest. Page 13-A. Counties Ister ocks Fighting CHICAGO (API CAUTION: The Democratic National Convention may be hazardous to health. And if it were engaged in interstate commerce, it could be in violation of federal law, says Theodore Borland. Chicago antinoisO campaigner and author of the book.

Pight for Quiet." The fight fa- quiet on the convention floor will probably be a losing battle. Berland said. Starting against a background of noise, he said, the delegates will shout to be heard. That will increase the noise and they'll have to shout louder, until they reach the point where the ear begins to stop hearing the frequencies of soeech, Berland said. He predicted the convention will hit a sound level of at least 90 decibels the level Berland recorded at a Communist outdoor rally in Milan.

Italy and may go as high as 100-110 decibels in some parts of the hall. By comparison, a quiet telephone conversation runs 30-10 decibels while a passing truck chu-ns out about 83. he added. That doesn't menr, the truck is twice as loud as the telephone. Decibels increase by powers of 10.

Berland said the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Act. passed last year, limits the amount of noise exposure to 90 decibels over an eight-hour day, for businesses engaged in interstate commerce. INDEX ing complex across the no man's land of Road. Shooting crackled in the Catholic Ardoyne and Lower Falls precints. Six hundred British commandos flew to Northern Ireland Monday night.

The army said 1.200 more men were preparing to leave early Tuesday, bringing military strength to 16,800 men the highest in more than three years of sectarian warfare. The troop movements followed failure by British negotiators to reach an agreement with the IRA. "The soldiers are being brought in because of the IRA's express indention of resuming hostilities with the utmost ferocity," an army spokesman said. the hospital, including a 4-year-old child. Other bombs exploded in Londonberry, Armagh and Strabane.

The fiercest fight'ng was in the drab postwar housing complexes of West Belfast. Gurmen pumped fire from house gardens and high-rise apartment blocks at army emplacements and each other. In the Catholic Ballymurphy zone, gunmen of the outlawed Irish Republican Army shot it out with British troops in a fight that has raged practically without respite since Ulster's 13-day cease-fire crumbled Sunday night. IRA men traded fire with Protestan guerrillas operating from the Springmartin hous- BELFAST Gunfire and explosions raged across Northern Ireland's battered six counties early Tuesday. Britain rushed more troops to the province, and politicians warned of approaching civil war.

British headquarters reported 109 separate shooting incidents by midnight Monday and claimed its troops cut down 13 gunmen. Some of the shootouts were strictly between rival Roman Catholic and Protestant Two powerful bombs wrecked shops and damaged homes near the center of the capital. An incendiary device razed a house in Belfast's east side, sending five persons to Good Hoalth 4-B Goren on Bridge Movies, Amusements 7-B Reg Murphy 4-A Sports 1-C Television 8-C Want Ads 7-C Weaker 2-A Women, Family 3-B Astrology 2-B Eob Harrell 6-A Business, Industry 2-D Celestine Sibley 3-B Comics, Jumble 6-B Crossword Puzzle 6-B Dear Abby 3-B Deaths 6-C Editorials 4-A.

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